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Brendon McCullum
India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder
BB McCullum is a batter who represented New Zealand Cricket across all three international formats and went on to play franchise T20 cricket around the globe. Across 532 career matches he has scored 18,097 runs at a batting average of 33.58 and a strike rate of 93.47. His primary competition by match volume is the One-Day International, where he played 186 games and scored 5,157 runs for New Zealand. On recent form, his last ten appearances came in the 2018-19 Big Bash League season for Brisbane Heat, a sequence containing four half-centuries alongside several low scores.
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Wickets
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Bat Avg
33.6
Bowl Avg
88.0
2026 Season Context
Current team & role
Kolkata Knight Riders · All-Rounder
Recent form
McCullum's last 10 appearances were all for Brisbane Heat in the Big Bash League during early 2019, yielding scores of 51, 3, 3, 13, 27, 0, 69, 50, 56 and 14. Four of those innings cleared 50 and thre
Strongest format
One-Day International — ODIs are McCullum's primary competition by volume, with 186 matches and 5,157 runs at a strike rate of 96.45. His ODI record represents the broadest s
Career stats overview
89 Test · 186 ODI · 257 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.
Test
89 matches
5,778
Runs scored
1
Wickets taken
Where his legacy was forged — the format that rewards patience and precision.
ODI
186 matches
5,157
Runs scored
0
Wickets taken
The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.
T20I
257 matches
7,162
Runs scored
0
Wickets taken
Brief but impactful — quality over volume in the shortest format.
Format-aware deep dive
Where he dominates
Home record
215
wickets
Average 21.4 on Indian soil — better than any active spinner of the era.
Fourth-innings force
112
wickets
A third of his Test wickets come on day five, when bowlers decide outcomes.
Lower-order resilience
38.4
batting avg
At No.7 his average beats every Indian specialist in that slot since 2015.
Elite opposition
198
wkts in 48 M
Combined record vs Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa.
Consistency
14
five-wicket hauls
Third-most by any Indian bowler since his Test debut.
WTC presence
2
finals played
In the conversation every cycle. Central to this India red-ball side.
Career threads
Beyond the numbers
18,097 runs across 532 career matches
McCullum has accumulated 18,097 runs at a batting average of 33.58 across all formats and competitions. His 532 appearances span international cricket and franchise T20 leagues on multiple continents, making him one of the most widely travelled batters of his generation.
Exceptional Test average of 39.04
Across 89 Test matches, McCullum averaged 39.04 with 5,778 runs from 8,809 balls faced. That return sits comfortably above his overall career average and reflects his ability to adapt his game to the longest format.
T20 Blast strike rate of 164.99
In 21 T20 Blast appearances McCullum scored 622 runs at a strike rate of 164.99, the highest across any of his major competitions. His average of 32.74 in the Blast shows he was not sacrificing consistency for aggression.
Averaging 54.46 against India across 34 matches
Against India Cricket, McCullum averages 54.46 from 34 matches with 1,906 runs. That figure is comfortably the highest of any opponent he has faced more than ten times, placing his record against India in a separate bracket from his overall numbers.
Seddon Park his most productive venue at 55.23
At Seddon Park, Hamilton, McCullum has scored 1,436 runs across 25 matches at an average of 55.23. No other ground where he has played more than 15 times comes close to that return, making it his most reliable hunting ground across any format.
Head-to-head
Vs opponents
Career totals broken down by the teams BB McCullum has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.
Australia
- Matches
- 57
- Runs
- 1,987
England
- Matches
- 53
- Runs
- 2,127
Sri Lanka
- Matches
- 46
- Runs
- 1,399
South Africa
- Matches
- 43
- Runs
- 1,319
India
- Matches
- 34
- Runs
- 1,906
Pakistan
- Matches
- 31
- Runs
- 1,287
- Wickets
- 1
West Indies
- Matches
- 31
- Runs
- 1,021
Bangladesh
- Matches
- 23
- Runs
- 866
Grounds played at
Home & away grounds
The venues where BB McCullum has turned out most often.
Eden Park, Auckland
- Matches
- 34
- Runs
- 1,203
Seddon Park, Hamilton
- Matches
- 25
- Runs
- 1,436
The Gabba, Brisbane
- Matches
- 22
- Runs
- 608
McLean Park
- Matches
- 18
- Runs
- 890
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka
- Matches
- 18
- Runs
- 402
Westpac Stadium
- Matches
- 18
- Runs
- 481
Basin Reserve, Wellington
- Matches
- 17
- Runs
- 1,015
Dubai International Cricket Stadium
- Matches
- 16
- Runs
- 476
- Wickets
- 1
Official profile
Elsewhere on the web
ESPNcricinfo
BB McCullum's profile
Historical aggregates derived from Cricsheet (cricsheet.org) under ODC-BY licence. 2001/02–2026 IPL seasons. Batting average uses dismissals as the denominator; bowler wickets are credited only for bowler-kind dismissals (bowled, caught, lbw, caught-and-bowled, stumped, hit wicket). Venue and opposition splits are rebuilt after every ingest from the Cricsheet archive.