Top 10 New Zealand fast bowlers of all time

3 Tim Southee

Tim Southee

New Zealand's right arm fast bowler Tim Southee has been a rock of the team's bowling unit in all formats of the game for close to a decade now and he is one of the few players who made the big leap from Under-19 World Cup success to international acclaim.

Southee can bowl quickly when he wants, but he is quintessentially a swing bowler and in addition, he is extremely accurate. In limited-overs cricket, he is well known for his variations and is currently one of the best exponents of the yorker outside off-stump.

In 58 Test matches, he has picked up 208 wickets at an average of 31.45, while in one-dayers he has claimed 166 wickets in 122 games at an average of 33.22 and an economy rate of 5.41. In the modern era, such an economy rate is excellent.

In T20Is, Southee has proven to be quite a wily bowler but since he bowls during the most frenetic overs, his economy rate of 8.74 in 41 games is not to be sniffed at.