STEPHEN FLEMING BIOGRAPHY

Stephen Fleming will go down as his nation's best skipper and a standout among their best batsman after a global vocation that spread over 15 years. He possesses a progression of records, including the main New Zealander to breeze through 7000 Test runs, a milestone came to amid his last arrangement against England in 2008. Amid his last innings, in Napier, he did sufficiently only to lift his profession normal more than 40. Nine Test hundreds of years is a poor return for such an ability, however Fleming was worth more than his measurements.

FULL NAME : Stephen Paul Fleming
Father : Gary Kirk
Mother : Pauline Fleming
BORN : April 1, 1973
HEIGHT :6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
NATIONALITY: New Zealand
ROLE : Batsman & Coach
Spouse : Kelly Payne
Children : Copper

Stephen Fleming Early life

Stephen Paul Fleming, (brought into the world 1 April 1973) is a New Zealand cricket mentor and previous cricketer, and skipper of the New Zealand national cricket group in every one of the three arrangements of the amusement.

Fleming's introduction to the world was a consequence of a short connection between his mom Pauline Fleming and Gary Kirk. Pauline raised him as a single parent, and he didn't meet his dad until he was 16. Gary Kirk had constantly kept up a distinct fascination for his child's advancement. Both Gary Kirk and Stephen Fleming played senior rugby and captained Cashmere High's first XV.

Domestic career

Fleming has played district cricket in England for Middlesex, Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. He captained Nottinghamshire to County Championship triumph in 2005, their first Championship title in 18 years.There was hypothesis in 2007 that he may join disputable Indian dissident Twenty20 association, the Indian Cricket League. Anyway it ended up being unwarranted and he has since joined the 'official' Indian Twenty20 group, the Indian Premier League, and played for the Chennai Super Kings in the association's underlying manifestation.

International career

He made his introduction on March 1994 at Hamilton, against India, and quickly stole the spotlight with a studious 92, in the wake of strolling in to bat at No. 5. The way that he was encompassed by players the bore of Ken Rutherford, Mark Greatbatch and Shane Thomson betokened well, for in the following three years, he scored 1463 keeps running in 23 Tests at a normal of 38.50. In 1995 he endure contention when he was gotten and confessed to smoking pot with partners Matthew Hart and Dion Nash while on visit at their inn.

Captaincy

Fleming turned out to be New Zealand's best skipper in September 2000 with a triumph over Zimbabwe. This was the twelfth win under his captaincy overwhelming Geoff Howarth. Fleming was viewed by some as an underperformer with the bat, with one of the most noticeably bad 50 to 100 transformation proportions in world cricket. Be that as it may, since the 2003 voyage through Sri Lanka, Fleming began to pick up structure, with 274 not out against Sri Lanka – when he announced as opposed to remaining to achieve 300 which would have been a record in New Zealand cricket history.

On 24 April 2007, Fleming surrendered as the ODI skipper of the Blackcaps. The declaration was made in a post-coordinate public interview held after the Semi-Final thrashing to Sri Lanka in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. In the wake of Fleming's last match as commander, Mahela Jayawardene included a tribute. "Stephen's been an extraordinary pioneer for New Zealand for quite a while, and you could gain so much from him". Over a time of driving the side he completed with 218 diversions, 98 wins, 106 misfortunes.

Indian Premier League

Fleming played for the Chennai Super Kings in the 2008 Indian Premier League subsequent to being marked for US$350,000. He played 10 coordinates and scored 196 keeps running at a normal of 21.77 with a most elevated score of 45. He was designated as Coach of the Chennai Super Kings in 2009 and resigned as a player from the group. He has had a fruitful stretch with the group winning the IPL 2010, CLT20 2010 and IPL 2011.

In IPL 2016 he turned into the mentor of Rising Pune Supergiants. In IPL 2018, he returned as Coach of Chennai Super Kings after the Two Years Suspension of Team by Justice RM Lodha Committee. The Chennai Super Kings additionally won the IPL 2018 with him instructing and dealing with a side with a decent rapo between the Chennai Super Kings chief MS Dhoni and him.

Retirement

In 2008 Fleming retired from all formats of the game and post his retirement, he has served as a coach for various T20 teams around the world, most notably the Chennai Super Kings, with whom he has achieved mind boggling progress.

International records

Second most topped ODI Captain (218 matches starting at 24 April 2017) simply behind Ricky Ponting

The most gets in Tests by a defender in a schedule year with 28 out of 1997

First batsman to score apprehensive 90 on ODI debut

He holds the record for the most noteworthy batting strike rate in a test innings(281.81)

National records

Most Test runs and matches by a New Zealander (7172 and 111)

Most ODI coordinates by a New Zealander (279)

Most gets by a New Zealander in Test and ODI cricket (171 and 132)

Most topped Test Captain for New Zealand (80 matches)

Most topped ODI Captain for New Zealand (218 matches)

Career Batting Stats

Left-Handed Batsman

Format	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s

Test 1994–08	111	189	10	7172	274*	40.1	15652	45.8	9	46	917	26

ODI 1994–07	280	269	21	8037	134*	32.4	11242	71.5	8	49	823	63

T20I 2005–06	5	5	0	110	38	22.0	85	129.4	0	0	20	0

IPL 2008	10	10	1	196	45	21.8	165	118.8	0	0	27	3