Full Name: Scott Bernard Styris
Born: 10 July 1975, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Major Teams: Northern Districts, New Zealand
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium
Test Debut: New Zealand Vs West Indies at Queen's Park, St George's, Grenada, 2nd Test, 2002
ODI Debut: New Zealand Vs India at Rajkot, 1st ODI, 1999/00

• Durham ropes in Scott Styris
• Kiwis walk their way into the Semis
• Black Caps come a cropper against Lanka
• Kiwis cruise to a seven-wicket win over a listless Windies
• Styris sees Black Caps home against a careless England

A special feature by Karthik Narayan


New Zealand have always managed to scramble down town for some bowlers who bowl as straight as an arrow from one set of stumps to another with the precision of a bullet. When Scott Styris broke into the team in the most traditional way after so many years of working out in the domestic team, it was thought that he was the perfect replacement for Gavin Larsen. That he resembles that great Kiwi is just the beginning of it all. Scott Styris started off in the very same mould, sticking to the basics and shuttling the ball with minimum fuss and maximum accuracy percentage – operating stump to stump!

But soon everyone realized that he was middling the ball, unlike his peer, who was not known for his heroics with the bat. Rather than being ham-fisted as he was thought by many to be – he turned out to be a hammer head with his hammer and tongs version of batting in cricket. Read More

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