2) Brendon McCullum grew up in a cricketing household. Not only is his brother Nathan McCullum a cricketer, but their father Stuart McCullum played 75 First-Class games for Otago from the late 1970s to the early 1990s
3) Brendon McCullum was first included in the New Zealand ODI team for the 2001/02 season, where he played his first game against Australia. His Test debut came against South Africa in the 2003/04 season
4) On Feb. 18, 2014 McCullum became the first Kiwi batsman to hit a triple century when he scored 302 runs against India. He has also made more double centuries (four) than any of his countrymen
5) Brendon McCullum made his representative Cricket debut in 1996 for Otago U-17s. However, he bagged a pair in the debut game against Northern Districts
6) Brendon McCullum recorded the fastest fifty in a World Cup game when he scored a 20 ball fifty against Canada in 2007. Later, he improvised it by scoring fifty in just 18 balls against England
7) In ODIs, New Zealand have won 30 out of 55 games under Brendon McCullum’s captaincy, which is superior to all his predecessors. Under his leadership, the Kiwis also reached their maiden World Cup final
8) New Zealand have remained unbeaten in 13 tests at home under McCullum
9) Brendon McCullum represented New Zealand at the ICC under-19 World Cup 2000 in Sri Lanka. In that tournament, he featured alongside his brother Nathan, Jamie How, James Franklin and Ian Butler, his future New Zealand teammates
10) Brendon McCullum holds the record for the most runs scored by a New Zealand batsman in an under-19 Test match. He scored 186 against South Africa under-19 at Lincoln in 2001
11) Brendon McCullum, who played for Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League (IPL), set the tournament on fire after scoring 158* runs in the first ever match of the league. The score is also his personal best in the T20 format of the game
12) In 2014, Brendon McCullum faced 559 balls and scored 302 runs in 775 minutes during a Test series against India in Wellington, New Zealand. It was to become the eighth-longest individual Test innings and the longest by a New Zealander
13) In 2008, Brendon McCullum shared a 274 run stand for the opening wicket with James Marshall against Ireland which is a record for New Zealand. His 166-run stand for the 6th wicket with Craig McMillan was also a record for New Zealand
14) Under his captaincy, New Zealand reached the World Cup final for the first time in 2015
15) With a total of 6,311 runs, Brendon McCullum stands at number 3 in the list of highest scorers in the T20 format. The other two batsman before him are Chris Gayle (8,726) and Brad Hodge (6,993)
16) McCullum wicket-keeping skills are just as good as his batting. McCullum is credited with 194 catches in Test cricket, 262 in ODIs, and 36 in T20 International
17) McCullum was only one of two New Zealand players to be named in the ICC World XI 20-man probables for the Super Series One-Day Internationals (ODIs) against Australia in 2005. McCullum and Daniel Vettori made it into the ODI list alone
18) In 2014, McCullum’s house in Christchurch was sold for over USD 3 million. TVNZ reported that the house contained six bedrooms, four living rooms and a “heated pool
19) In December 2015, Brendon McCullum announced that he will retire from cricket after the second Test against Australia in February 2016, and on Feb. 18, 2016, he won the Sport New Zealand Leadership award during the 2016 Halberg Awards at Vector Arena in Auckland, New Zealand.
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