Stephen Fleming
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Stephen Paul Fleming (born 1 April 1973) is a New Zealand cricket coach and former cricketer, as well as the New Zealand national cricket captain in all three formats of the game. Known for his outstanding tactical skills, he is New Zealand's second-most cap Test player, longest-serving, and most effective captain, having led the team to 28 victories and winning Test match series against India, England, West Indies, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Zimbabwe. He is also the winning captain of the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy, New Zealand's only ICC trophy to win up to date.
Fleming captained New Zealand in the inaugural first Twenty20 International of the world, which was played against Australia in 2005 and 2008 as well.
Fleming joined the Chennai Super Kings in 2008 after being paid US$350,000 and becoming the team's coach from 2009.
He was hired as coach of the Melbourne Stars of the Big Bash League in February 2015.
After the team was banned from participating in the tournament for two seasons, he resumed his duties as head coach of the Chennai Super Kings in the 2018 Indian Premier League season.
During this period, he worked with the Rising Pune Supergiant.
Personal life
Fleming is the son of Pauline Fleming and Gary Kirk. Pauline raised him as a single parent and did not meet his father until he was 16, although Kirk had always been involved in his son's development. Both Kirk and Fleming played senior rugby and captained Cashmere High's first XV.
Fleming married Kelly Payne, his long-time partner, in a Wellington-style ceremony on May 9th. The couple had a daughter and a son in 2008 and a daughter who was born in 2006. He had to return to New Zealand just before the second child's IPL tournament semifinals.
In the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours, Fleming was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to cricket.
Domestic career
Fleming has played county cricket in England for Middlesex, Yorkshire, and Nottinghamshire. In 2005, he guided Nottinghamshire to their first Championship title in 18 years.
In 2007, there was rumors that he might play in the Indian Twenty20 league, which is also known as the Indian Cricket League. However, it was discovered that it was unfounded, and he later joined the Indian Premier League's 'official' Indian Twenty20 league, the Indian Premier League, and played for the Chennai Super Kings in the league's inaugural iteration.
International career
Fleming, a left-handed batsman who made his Test debut in March 1994 against India, winning the Man of the Match award on debut after scoring 92 runs. He dodged the controversies in 1995 when he was caught and confessed to smoking marijuana with teammates Matthew Hart and Dion Nash while on tour at their hotel. In England's tour of New Zealand in 1996-97, he scored his maiden Test century in the First Test at Auckland. He took over the captaincy from Lee Germon in the third Test of the tour, becoming New Zealand's youngest captain in 23 years and 321 days.
He was particularly well-known for his captaincy, having been praised as the "best captain in world cricket" by Shane Warne and more recently, Graeme Swann who said that Fleming is one of the two true leaders he's ever seen alongside Andrew Strauss.
Fleming became New Zealand's most admired captain in September 2000 after beating Zimbabwe. This was his 12th victory under his captaincy overtaking Geoff Howarth. Some believe Fleming had been rated as an underperformer with the bat, with one of the worst 50-to-100 conversion rates in world cricket. However, Fleming returned to form against Sri Lanka in 2003, with 274 not out against Sri Lanka – when he announced rather than aiming for a record in New Zealand cricket history.
In the 2003 Cricket World Cup, Archie Fleming's best ODI innings was his unbeaten 134 to help New Zealand defeat South Africa. Fleming scored 134 out of 132 deliveries as New Zealand cruised to a 9-wicket victory over a team they had struggled against in the past, with a rain adjusted target of 229 off 39 overs.
Fleming earned his third Test double-century in Cape Town, New Zealand's first New Zealander to achieve this feat. As he and Wellington teammate James Franklin put 256 runs on the 8th wicket, the highest Test match to date between New Zealand and South Africa, Fleming scored 262 runs. It's also a New Zealand record for the 8th wicket against any country.
Fleming captained his country for the 194th time in an ODI, beating Arjuna Ranatunga on October 25, 2006. He was consistent during the 2007 World Cup, scoring 353 runs at an average of 39.22 and was New Zealand's second best run scorer in the tournament. As New Zealand went on to lose the match and dropped out of the tournament after losing by just 1 out of 4 balls in the semi-final against Sri Lanka. Fleming resigned as the Blackcaps' ODI captain on April 24, 2007. The announcement was made during a post-match press conference held after Sri Lanka's semi-final loss in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. Mahela Jayawardene expressed appreciation after Fleming's last match as captain. "Stephen has been a great leader for New Zealand for a long time, and you will learn a lot from him." He finished with 218 games, 98 victories, 106 losses, after a decade of leading the team.
Fleming had captained New Zealand in 80 Test matches as of April 2007, a New Zealand record and the second highest number worldwide. Fleming caught over 170 runs, his third best Test number for a non-wicketkeeper.
Daniel Vettori, the New Zealand Test captain, took over Fleming in September 2007. After three years as captain, he resigned from English County Nottinghamshire. Fleming announced in February 2008 that he had sparked rumors and announced his departure from the New Zealand team at the end of England's 2008 tour of New Zealand to spend more time with his family and play for the Indian Premier League.
He did a good job in his last series, scoring 297 runs in six innings. In the first innings of his second test against England, he scored his 7000th run in his 110th match. He scored half-centuries in both innings to ensure he finished with a Test match average of over 40 (40.06).