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Stephen Paul Fleming, ONZM (born 1 April 1973) is a former New Zealand cricketer, and captain of the New Zealand national cricket team, known as the Black Caps, in Test and one-day cricket. Known for his astute tactical abilities, he is New Zealand's second-most capped test player with 111 test appearances, longest-serving and most successful captain, having led the side to 28 victories and having won Test match series' against India, England, West Indies, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. He retired from international cricket on 26 March 2008. Fleming played in the 2008 Indian Premier League for the Chennai Super Kings after being signed for US$350,000 and became the team's coach from 2009. In February 2015 he was signed as coach of the Melbourne Stars of the Big Bash League.
He was particularly noted for his captaincy, having been praised from the likes of Shane Warne as the "best captain in world cricket" and most recently, Graeme Swann who said that Fleming is one of the two true leaders that he's ever seen, alongside Andrew Strauss.
Stephen Fleming 134* vs South Africa 2003 World Cup
Super Stephen Fleming innings 106 off 57 balls, 9 sixes!
Stephen Fleming 262 vs South Africa 2nd test Cape Town 2006
Stephen Fleming lets fire at Mark Richardson
Stephen Fleming 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4 vs South Africa 2003
Stephen Fleming 108 vs South Africa 2004
Stephen Fleming 116* vs Australia 1997/98 MCG
Excellent Captaincy by Stephen Fleming !
*NZ GOLD!* Stephen Fleming 274* vs Sri Lanka 2003 - 80 minute video!!!!!
Stephen Fleming welcomes India to NZ for the Cricket World Cup