Background
McCullum is the son of former Otago representative Stuart McCullum and the older brother of current Otago and New Zealand international cricketer Brendon McCullum.
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McCullum is the son of former Otago representative Stuart McCullum and the older brother of current Otago and New Zealand international cricketer Brendon McCullum.
He and Brendon attended King"s High School.
McCullum made his first class debut for Otago in the 1999–2000 season. His first List A match came in the 2000-2001 season and his first Twenty20 domestic match was against Canterbury at Christchurch on 13 January 2006. Later that year, McCullum was selected as part of the 30-man preliminary squad for the Champions Trophy alongside fellow Otago team-mates Warren McSkimming and Bradley Scott but ultimately missed out on the final squad.
He made his Twenty20 International debut for New Zealand against South Africa on 19 September 2007 at the Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa.
His highest score of 10 not out came against Australia on 15 February 2009. He made his One Day International debut against Sri Lanka on 8 September 2009 at Colombo.
In an ODI against Sri Lanka at Hambantota in 2013, Nathan McCullum hit 22 runs from spinner Rangana Herath’s final over of the match when New Zealand required 21 in the last over. McCullum is building a reputation as a travelling Twenty 20 player, having played in Twenty 20 tournaments since 2010 for Lancashire, Pune Warriors India, Sydney Sixers and Glamorgan as well as still turning out for his native side Otago.
In 2015, McCullum announced he will retire from all forms of cricket at the end on the 2015/16 Southern Hemisphere summer season.
He was not named in the Sri Lankan ODI series due to his back issues, so his ODI career is over, but he was named in the 2016 Interstate Commerce Commission World Twenty20. Brendon McCullum also announced he would only retire from international cricket at the end on the 2015/16 Southern Hemisphere summer season. He scored two goals for the club in the 2003 New Zealand National Soccer League, at that time New Zealand"s premier club league competition.
He left the club in 2004, playing briefly with Mosgiel before turning his sporting attention completely to cricket. best performances
as of 26 March 2016.
A right hand lower-order batsman and right arm off break bowler, he is a member of the Otago Volts, competing in the State Championship, State Shield and State Twenty20 competitions and represented New Zealand in Twenty20 Internationals and One Day Internationals.