Personal Information

Full Name James Edward Charles Franklin
Born November 7, 1980 Wellington
Age 43 Years, 10 Months, 28 Days
National Side New Zealand
Batting Style Left Handed
Bowling Left-arm medium
Sport Cricket

Ranking

Test ODI T20
Batting - - -
Bowling - - -

Man of the Match

Test ODI T20 World Cup CL
0 3 2 0 1

Career Information

Teams Played New Zealand, Essex, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, NZ Academy, North Island, Nottinghamshire, New Zealand A, Wellington, Mumbai Indians, Middlesex, New Zealand Under-19, Adelaide Strikers, Uva Next, Tridents, Guyana Amazon Warriors, Lahore Qalandars, Rajshahi Kings
Career Span

James Edward Charles Franklin Overall Stats

Batting & Fielding Performance

M I N/O R HS 100s 50s 4s 6s AVG S/R CT ST Ducks R/O
Test
31 46 7 808 122* v SA 1 2 82 5 20.71 37.35 12 0
ODI
110 80 27 1270 98* v IND 0 4 97 17 23.96 76.92 26 0
World Cup
15 9 5 147 34* v IRE 0 0 9 5 36.75 106.52 4 0
T20I
38 31 8 463 60 v ZIM 0 2 28 23 20.13 118.41 13 0
IPL
20 16 5 327 79 v KXIP 0 1 25 8 29.72 108.63 6 0
CL
9 9 2 165 42* v NSW 0 0 11 6 23.57 103.12 3 0

Bowling Performance

I O M R W Best 3s 5s AVG E/R S/R Mtc
Test
54 794.3 143 2786 82 6/119 v AUS 5 3 33.97 3.50 58.13
ODI
97 641.2 34 3354 81 5/42 v ENG 6 1 41.40 5.22 47.50
World Cup
13 79.2 7 410 11 3/74 v AUS 1 0 37.27 5.16 43.27
T20I
26 54.3 0 417 20 4/15 v ENG 1 0 20.85 7.65 16.35
IPL
15 25.1 0 220 9 2/18 v DC 0 0 24.44 8.74 16.77
CL
5 10 0 60 4 2/16 v SOM 0 0 15.00 6.00 15.00

James Edward Charles Franklin Profile

In a country where patience runs low, especially when it comes to fast bowlers, it is no surprise that despite toiling for over a decade, James Franklin still continues to remain a fringe player in the New Zealand set up.

Franklin debuted for Wellington in the 1998-99 season before a hurried call-up to the ODI side in 2001 when an injury crisis robbed the Black Caps of several of their key pace men. He had an average debut in the shorter format with two wickets in his five overs against Zimbabwe and just months later he made a forgettable Test debut against Pakistan. Not impressed by his abilities in the longer format, selectors continued playing him in ODIs, but following a poor 2002 Sharjah Cup in which he failed to pick even a single wicket, he was sacked, only to return in 2004 as a replacement for the injured Shane Bond.

During this period, the speedster worked both on his batting and his swing bowling and the efforts were visible. His fine returns for both club Glamorgan and country - including a Test ton against the South Africans - earned him a place in New Zealand’s 2007 World Cup side. Over the past few years, Franklin has been in and out of the side with the axe always seeming to following him like a shadow. However, failures haven’t deterred this left-arm seamer who continues to come up with performances which keep him in the loop of New Zealand cricket. He was roped in by the Mumbai Indians for the third IPL edition in 2010, after he displayed flashes of his talent on New Zealand’s tour of India earlier that year.