Multiple record-breaker Martin Guptill is a New Zealand international cricketer. Guptill is the first New Zealand cricketer and the sixth overall to hit a double century in a One Day International match, and his 237 not out set the record for the best individual score in Cricket World Cup matches and the second highest score in One Day Internationals. He made his 100th T20I appearance in March 2021.
Guptill scored his first international century in a one-day international against the West Indies in Auckland in 2009. New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori praised Guptil’s 122-run innings as “one of the greatest I’ve seen in a long time.” He was the first New Zealander to score a century in an ODI. At Southampton in June 2013, he made the greatest ODI score by a New Zealander, scoring 189 not out against England. The score was the seventh best in any ODI at the time, and it tied for the highest individual score against England. Guptill went on to create a new ODI record for New Zealand when he scored 237 not out in a World Cup match against the West Indies in Wellington in 2015. The innings was Guptill’s greatest score in any form of cricket and was the second highest scoring solo innings in ODI history. His other double-century came for Derbyshire against Bristol in the 2015 County Championship.
In the Eden Park cricket venue, Guptill has more than 600 T20I runs. He is the first and only player in T20I history to score 500 and 600 runs in the same venue. By January 2019, he had recorded 14 first-class, 24 List A, and four Twenty20 centuries. His centuries have included two double-centuries. Guptill achieved three Test, 16 One-Day International, and two Twenty20 International centuries by February 2019.
