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Scott Bernard Styris born Brisbane, Australia 10 July 1975 is a New Zealand cricketer. An allrounder, Styris is an aggressive right-handed middle order batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler.
Educated at Hamilton Boys' High School, Styris has represented Auckland and Northern Districts since 1994/95. He was originally just a seam bowler and only started to concentrate on his batting after a knee injury. Nicknamed "The Pig", he has become a crowd favourite, especially at Eden Park.
Styris has played for Hamilton in the Hawke Cup.Scott Styris was bought by the Deccan Chargers for the IPL 2008 season. He went for $175,000 in the player auction on February 20, 2008.
At the 2011 IPL Auctions Scott Styris was brought by the Chennai Super Kings for $200,000 and will represent the side in the forthcoming tournament.
Contents
* 1 International career
o 1.1 Debut
o 1.2 Continuation in the Excellency
o 1.3 A struggle with Injuries
o 1.4 Continued success in the 2007 World Cup
o 1.5 Struggle with form in test cricket and subsequent retirment
o 1.6 Continued Participation in ODI's
o 1.7 A return to the team 2010
* 2 County Cricket
* 3 Retirement from Test cricket
* 4 References
* 5 External links
career
Debut
Styris made his debut for New Zealand in a One Day International at Rajkot in 1999/2000. His maiden wicket was that of Sachin Tendulkar, one of 3 wickets for the match.
He had to wait until mid 2002 to play his first Test Match, against the West Indies at Grenada. His debut had almost come at Karachi 2 months earlier but the match was abandoned due to bomb blasts near the team hotel. In the Test at Grenada he batted at number 8 and top scored with 107. When it was New Zealand's time to bowl Styris came on and took 2 for 88. The first of his wickets was that of Brian Lara which gave him impressive maiden scalps in both formats of the game. He made an unbeaten 69 in the second innings to complete a dream debut but missed out on the man of the match award which went to Chris Gayle who scored a double hundred.
Continuation in the Excellency
In the ODI series after the Tests he continued his form but this time with the ball, taking 6 for 25 at

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scott styris best cricketr