Tim Southee

Timothy Grant Southee, is a New Zealand international cricketer who plays for New Zealand cricket team in all formats of the game, captain in Tests and vice captain in T20Is. He is a right-arm medium-fast bowler and a hard-hitting lower order batsman. The third New Zealand bowler to take 300 Test wickets, he was one of the country's youngest cricketers, debuting at the age of 19 in February 2008. On his Test debut against England he took 5 wickets and made 77 off 40 balls in the second innings. He plays for Northern Districts in the Plunket Shield, Ford Trophy and Super Smash as well as Northland in the Hawke Cup. He was named as New Zealand's captain for the first T20I against West Indies in place of Kane Williamson, who was rested for that game. The Blackcaps won that match by 47 runs. Southee was a member of the New Zealand team that won the 2019–2021 ICC World Test Championship. Southee currently has the highest (international) test batting strike rate among the batsmen with a minimum of 2000 test runs. His (batting) career strike rate is 83.12. He was also a part of the New Zealand squad to finish as runners-up at the 2015 Cricket World Cup.

11 December 1988

Born on the same birth day (11 December): Abbi Grant • Bess Armstrong • Brad Bryant • Christina Onassis • Frank Tarrant • Grigoris Bithikotsis • Heo Mok • J. Frank Wilson • Jean Marais • Kamehameha V • Karla Souza • Michael Lang (producer) • Rebekkah Brunson

Born in the same month (December 1988): Adam Eaton (outfielder) • Andrew Goudelock • Brianne Theisen-Eaton • Craig Sutherland • Emily Browning • Emily Head • Jorge Gutiérrez (basketball) • Lukas Hinds-Johnson • Mohamed El Shenawy • Nathan Adrian • Neven Subotić • Perri Shakes-Drayton • Peter Winn (footballer) • Rick Porcello • Tyler Joseph • Vanessa Hudgens • Yeng Constantino