Craig Cumming

Who is Craig Cumming?

Craig Derek Cumming is a New Zealand cricketer. He has played for the New Zealand cricket team in One Day Internationals and Tests. He is the current captain of the Otago cricket team, competing in the State Championship, State Shield and State Twenty20 competitions in the 2006/2007 season.

Cumming is a right-handed opening batsman who had played 99 First Class games, 103 "List A" or limited overs games and 9 Twenty20 games at the end of the 2006/2007 season. He played for Canterbury early in his career and debuted in First Class and "List A" cricket for them.

Cumming has played for South Canterbury in the Hawke Cup.

On 5 March 2005 against Australia, he was the recipient of, what is called the fastest over ever in New Zealand, bowled by Brett Lee, in which he clocked 160.8 km/h at Napier as the fastest delivery of the over.

Currently he is a broadcaster for Newstalk ZB in Dunedin hosting local sports shows and is one of the domestic Sky Sport commentators for the HRV Cup.