Neil Wagner – Profile, Stats & Recent Form

Personal details

Born13 Mar 1986

Age40 Years

NationalitySouth African / New Zealand

RoleBowler / Left-arm Fast-medium, Left-handed Batsman

BattingLeft hand Bat

BowlingLeft Arm Medium Fast

Height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Career at a glance

Format	M	Runs	Avg	SR	Wkts	Econ
Test	64	875	14.58	51.86	260	3.13
T20	94	279	9.96	122.90	103	8.65
List A	122	693	12.37	83.19	185	5.39
First-class	213	3834	17.42	55.78	851	3.19

Debuts

TestWest Indies vs New Zealand, Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound, Antigua25 Jul 2012

First ClassNortherns vs North West, Sedgars Park, Potchefstroom22 Jan 2006

List ANorth West vs Northerns, Sedgars Park, Potchefstroom19 Jan 2006

T20Otago vs Canterbury, University Oval, Dunedin4 Feb 2009

Family

RelationsLana (Spouse)

Batting

Format	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
Test	64	84	24	875	66	14.58	1687	51.86	1	96	36	19
T20	94	47	19	279	36	9.96	227	122.90	0	20	12	15
List A	122	69	13	693	45	12.37	833	83.19	0	54	17	21
First-class	213	282	62	3834	72	17.42	6873	55.78	11	0	112	70

Bowling

Format	M	Inn	Overs	Runs	Wkts	BBI	Avg	Econ	5W	10W
Test	64	122	2287.3	7169	260	9/73	27.57	3.13	9	0
T20	94	90	315.5	2732	103	4/33	26.52	8.65	0	0
List A	122	118	993.1	5360	185	5/31	28.97	5.39	3	0
First-class	213	389	7210.4	23041	851	11/111	27.07	3.19	37	2

By tournament

Tournament	M	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	Wkts	Econ
The Ford Trophy	16	115	45	14.38	91.27	20	5.08
Plunket Shield	36	786	59	19.17	67.64	138	2.86
Super Smash Men's	65	160	36	7.27	108.11	79	8.30
Vitality Blast	3	43	16	21.50	215.00	3	10.71
County Championship	27	579	72	19.30	63.28	85	3.64
English One Day Cup	11	79	35	13.17	94.05	16	6.08

Against teams

Batting vs	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	50
South Africa	12	189	49	21.00	77.46	0
West Indies	12	185	66	16.82	46.48	1
England	21	182	27	12.13	46.79	0
Bangladesh	6	99	47	24.75	60.37	0
Pakistan	8	63	21	7.88	43.75	0
India	10	57	21	9.50	30.98	0
Sri Lanka	7	55	27	9.17	59.14	0
Australia	8	45	18	11.25	63.38	0

Bowling vs	Inn	Wkts	Runs	Avg	Econ	SR
England	25	57	1788	31.37	3.40	55.42
West Indies	20	40	1124	28.10	3.48	48.40
Bangladesh	14	39	821	21.05	3.09	40.82
South Africa	16	27	958	35.48	3.46	61.48
Australia	8	24	553	23.04	2.66	51.92
India	12	21	597	28.43	3.25	52.48
Sri Lanka	12	18	680	37.78	5.19	43.67
Pakistan	11	17	461	27.12	2.30	70.65
Zimbabwe	4	11	187	17.00	2.31	44.09

Last 10 innings · batting

24 & 33vs SOM

25 & 27*vs OV

0 & 10vs WF

18vs CK

10vs CK

2*vs CK

7vs CS

20vs CNT

11vs AUK

26*vs OV

First Class vs SOM22 Jul 2025 · c J Davey b JT Ball & lbw b A Vaughan 24 & 33(23 & 49) First Class vs OV28 Mar 2025 · Not out & Not out 25 & 27*(11 & 11) First Class vs WF20 Mar 2025 · c TA Blundell b LR Dudding & c Michael Snedden b L Beek 0 & 10(7 & 15) T20 vs CK1 Feb 2025 · c Mitchell Hay b WO Rourke 18(14) T20 vs CK28 Jan 2025 · c & b CE McConchie 10(9) T20 vs CK19 Jan 2025 · Not out 2*(2) T20 vs CS6 Jan 2025 · c Brett Randell b JCT Boyle 7(7) First Class vs CNT10 Nov 2024 · c CE McConchie b M Henry 20(30) List A vs AUK19 Oct 2024 · c S Keene b J Neesham 11(21) List A vs OV19 Oct 2024 · Not out 26*(39)

Last 10 innings · bowling

2/47vs SOM

3/33vs OV

0/32vs CK

0/31vs CK

1/25vs OV

1/31vs CK

2/31vs OV

2/20vs AA

0/39vs CS

2/40vs WF

First Class vs SOM22 Jul 2025 2/47 First Class vs OV28 Mar 2025 3/33 T20 vs CK1 Feb 2025 0/32 T20 vs CK28 Jan 2025 0/31 T20 vs OV25 Jan 2025 1/25 T20 vs CK19 Jan 2025 1/31 T20 vs OV16 Jan 2025 2/31 T20 vs AA13 Jan 2025 2/20 T20 vs CS6 Jan 2025 0/39 T20 vs WF1 Jan 2025 2/40

About Neil Wagner

Neil Wagner Biography

Neil Wagner was born in Pretoria, Transvaal South Africa on March 13, 1986. He is a professional cricketer who plays for New Zealand. Wagner is a left-arm medium pace bowler, he has the ability to swing the ball in both directions and has a few tricks up his sleeve with reverse swings which he developed later on his career and applying the short ball technique to good use.

Background

Wagner started his cricketing career playing in the first team of Afrikaans High School. After touring Zimbabwe and Bangladesh with Academy sides, he finally moved to Otago in 2009 aiming to set his cricketing career there.

Debut

Wagner made his Test debut against West Indies in July 2012, he was able to pick a single wicket in the first innings but unfortunately couldn't manage any in the second.

Rise to Glory

Wagner had a shaky start in his debut and the game after that against South Africa was not a dream one too.

However, he had a phenomenal beginning to 2013, taking 19 wickets in 5 Tests against England.

This performance was the sole reason of his establishment in the New Zealand test side.

Wagner showed great promise in late 2015 against Sri Lanka and later produced a 7 wicket haul against Australia including 6 wickets in the first innings and became a prominent member of the team.

In 2016, New Zealand toured Zimbabwe and Wagner proved to be a great threat to them, taking a total of 11 wickets in two tests including a five wicket haul in the first test match he won the man of the series award.

Club Career

Wagner started off his domestic cricket with the Northerns in 2006-07 , he also had a noticeable two four wicket hauls with the side.

In 2008 he went down to join Otago a first class New Zealand team, he had a great opening season taking 21 wickets and continued to better his record in the coming years, leading the wicket’s chart in the Plunket Shield in 2010-11 and snowballing with 46 wickets in the next season.

Wagner still continues to play for Otago and is a regular in the New Zealand test side. His next challenge being getting into the short formats of the game on the international level.

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