Neil Wagner

Neil Wagner

Personal information
Full name	Neil Wagner
Born	13 March 1986 (1986-03-13) (age 25) Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
Batting style	Left-hand bat
Bowling style	Left-arm medium-fast
Role	Bowler
	New Zealand
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2006–2007	Northerns
2008–	Otago
Career statistics
Competition	FC	List-A	Twenty20
Matches	44	45	23
Runs scored	851	220	20
Batting average	21.27	11.57	2.50
100s/50s	0/3	0/0	0/0
Top score	70	38	13
Balls bowled	7834	2183	478
Wickets	189	72	25
Bowling average	22.75	26.44	27.12
5 wickets in innings	8	1	0
10 wickets in match	1	0	0
Best bowling	6/36	5/34	3/21
Catches/stumpings	12/0	7/0	5/0
Source: CricInfo, 6 April 2011

Neil Wagner (13 March 1986 – ) is a South African-born New Zealand cricketer for who played for Northerns and then Otago cricket teams. He is a left-handed batsman and left-arm medium-fast bowler who has toured Zimbabwe and Bangladesh with Academy sides and appeared in two Test matches as twelfth man. In June 2009 he was awarded a place in the New Zealand Emerging Players team under Peter Fulton.

World record

On 6 April 2011 Wagner achieved a "double" hat-trick against Wellington when he dismissed Stewart Rhodes, Joe Austin-Smellie, Jeetan Patel and Ili Tugaga with the first four balls of the 70th over, his 14th. He then took the wicket of Mark Gillespie with the sixth ball of the same over: five wickets in one over (6 balls—a world first). His bowling figures for the innings were 6/36, his personal best ^{[1] [2]}

Notes

1. ^ http://www.espncricinfo.com/nzdomestic-2010/engine/current/match/475472.html
2. ^ "Fulton to lead New Zealand Emerging Players". CricInfo. June 12, 2009. http://www.cricinfo.com/ept09/content/story/408593.html. Retrieved 26 March 2010. 

External links

• Player profile: Neil Wagner from ESPNcricinfo

Persondata
Name	Wagner, Neil
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1986-03-13
Place of birth	Pretoria, Transvaal
Date of death
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