| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Neil Wagner | |||
| Born | 13 March 1986 Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa |
|||
| Batting style | Left-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | Left-arm medium-fast | |||
| Role | Bowler | |||
| New Zealand | ||||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 2006–2007 | Northerns | |||
| 2008– | Otago | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | FC | List-A | Twenty20 | |
| Matches | 44 | 45 | 23 | |
| Runs scored | 851 | 220 | 20 | |
| Batting average | 21.27 | 11.57 | 2.50 | |
| 100s/50s | 0/3 | 0/0 | 0/0 | |
| Top score | 70 | 38 | 13 | |
| Balls bowled | 7834 | 2183 | 478 | |
| Wickets | 189 | 72 | 25 | |
| Bowling average | 22.75 | 26.44 | 27.12 | |
| 5 wickets in innings | 8 | 1 | 0 | |
| 10 wickets in match | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Best bowling | 6/36 | 5/34 | 3/21 | |
| Catches/stumpings | 12/0 | 7/0 | 5/0 | |
| Source: CricInfo, 6 April 2011 | ||||
Neil Wagner (13 March 1986 – ) is a South African-born New Zealand cricketer for who played for Northerns and then Otago cricket teams. He is a left-handed batsman and left-arm medium-fast bowler who has toured Zimbabwe and Bangladesh with Academy sides and appeared in two Test matches as twelfth man. In June 2009 he was awarded a place in the New Zealand Emerging Players team under Peter Fulton.
On 6 April 2011 Wagner achieved a "double" hat-trick against Wellington when he dismissed Stewart Rhodes, Joe Austin-Smellie, Jeetan Patel and Ili Tugaga with the first four balls of the 70th over, his 14th. He then took the wicket of Mark Gillespie with the sixth ball of the same over: five wickets in one over (6 balls—a world first). His bowling figures for the innings were 6/36, his personal best [1] [2]