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| Full name | Thomas William Maxwell Latham | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1992-04-02)2 April 1992 (age 33) Christchurch, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-armmedium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicketkeeper Batter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Rod Latham (father) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 263) | 14 February 2014 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 1 November 2024 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 170) | 3 February 2012 v Zimbabwe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 17 November 2023 v Bangladesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI shirt no. | 48 (previously 23) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut (cap 55) | 30 June 2012 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 24 April 2023 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I shirt no. | 48 (previously 23) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010/11–present | Canterbury | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Durham | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Surrey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thomas William Maxwell Latham (born 2 April 1992) is a New Zealand internationalcricketer who is the Test captain ofNew Zealand cricket team. He is the son of former cricketerRod Latham. He is 8th New Zealand player to score 10000 international runs and currently their 7th highest run scorer. He has the most Test centuries for New Zealand opening batsmen. Latham was a member of the New Zealand team that won the2019–2021 ICC World Test Championship. He was also a part of the New Zealand squads to finish as runners-up in twoCricket World Cup finals in2015 and2019 and the2025 ICC Champions Trophy.
He is primarily a batsman who also plays as awicket-keeper. Playing forCanterbury, he made hisfirst-class cricket debut againstCentral Districts in 2010 in thePlunket Shield. He was selected for theOne-Day International series againstZimbabwe in 2012[1] and made his ODI debut on 3 February 2012.[2] He made hisTest match debutagainst India in February 2014.
Latham made his debut forCanterbury in the2010–11 Plunket Shield season, scoring 65 in his maidenfirst-class cricket innings.[3][4] He had played youth cricket for Canterbury, captaining the under-19 side, and played for the Canterbury A team from the 2008–09 season.[5][6] During 2010 Latham had been a member of theDurham County Cricket Club academy in England. He played matches for Durham Second XI and aNorthumberland development XI as well as playing club cricket in theNorth East Premier League in England for Gateshead Fell.[6][7][8][9]
Latham has appeared in all formats of the game for Canterbury. He spent the 2013 English summer playing in north-east England again, playing for South Shields in the North East Premier League andScotland in the2013 Yorkshire Bank 40 competition, the major EnglishList A competition in 2013, as well as making two further appearances for Durham's second XI.[7][10][11][12][13] He was selected for thetouring New Zealand Test squad during the summer[14][15] and for the T20 squad, playing in both T20 internationals on the tour.[16][17]
Kent signed Latham as an overseas player for the 2016 English season.[18] He made hisCounty Championship debut againstGlamorgan atCanterbury in May, scoring half-centuries in both innings, the first Kent batsman in history to do so on debut.[19][20] After playing in all three formats of the game for the county, Latham left Kent in mid-July to join theNew Zealand team in Zimbabwe.[21]
In 2017 Latham signed as an overseas player with Durham for the second half of the2017 English cricket season.[22] In 2023, he signed forSurrey, making his debut against Kent at Canterbury.
In November 2024, he signed forWarwickshire County Cricket Club for the 2025 season.[23]
Latham scored 24 runs on debut, batting at number five, in anODI againstZimbabwe in 2012. He made hisTwenty20 International debut against theWest Indies on 30 July, making 15 and 19 in the series. Latham also played in the tour's ODI series but failed to contribute significantly, his highest score being 32. He was recalled againstBangladesh, where he played a bright innings of 43 while opening the batting, and scored a match-winning 86 off 68 balls during the following tour of Sri Lanka.
He made hisTest match debut against India in February 2014, with scores of 29 and 0. He then toured the West Indies with New Zealand in June, playing in all three Tests and two T20s. He had a highly successful Test series, scoring three half-centuries and 288 runs in total, finishing second in the series list of top run scorers, just behind teammateKane Williamson. In doing so he helped his side to an overseas series victory. By July 2014 he had claimed the spot ofopener after a run of poor form for incumbentsHamish Rutherford andPeter Fulton. His first Test century was achieved againstPakistan inAbu Dhabi, on 11 November 2014; he scored 103.
Despite his position as an opening batsman in Test matches, Latham was named as a middle-order batsman and backup wicket-keeper toLuke Ronchi for the2015 Cricket World Cup. He also shared Test wicket-keeping dutiesagainst England withBJ Watling, keeping for New Zealand in the first Test atLord's following an injury to Watling. When he is not a keeper he generally fields close to the wicket or in the slips.
Latham was selected totour Zimbabwe in 2015 as an opening batsman. During the second ODI of the series, he scored his maiden ODI century of 110 not out as part of an unbeaten partnership withMartin Guptill of 236 as New Zealand won the match by 10 wickets to level the series. In the third Test against Australia inthe 2015-16 Trans–Tasman Trophy, the first ever day-night Test match, Latham became the first man to score a fifty in a day-night Test. During the tour he took the only wicket in his high level playing career, a caught behind to dismissRyan Carters who had scored 209 alongsideAaron Finch's 288 not out in a game that was abandoned due to pitch conditions shortly after the wicket.
InOctober 2016, while playing againstIndia atDharamshala Latham became the tenth batsman and the first New Zealander tocarry his bat in an ODI.[24]
In January 2017 Latham was named as the New Zealand wicket-keeper for theChappell-Hadlee series.[25] In the first ODI of that series he equalled New Zealand's record of five dismissals as a wicket keeper in an ODI innings.[26] Due to poor form with the bat,[27] however, he was dropped from the ODI side on 1 March during the series against South Africa.
In May 2017 Latham was recalled and named as captain for theIreland Tri-Series against Ireland and Bangladesh in Ireland with a number of regular players playing in the2017 Indian Premier League.[28]
In October 2017, Latham was given the wicket-keeping duties against India and moved down to no. 5 due to his ability to play against spin.[29] He scored an unbeaten 103 from 102 balls in the first game of the 3-match series.[30]
In December 2017 Latham resumed his role as acting ODI captain against West Indies with Kane Williamson and Tim Southee rested.[31]
In May 2018, he was one of twenty players to be awarded a new contract for the 2018–19 season byNew Zealand Cricket.[32] In December 2018,against Sri Lanka, he made the highest score whilecarrying the bat in Test cricket, with 264not out.[33] In April 2019, he was named inNew Zealand's squad for the2019 Cricket World Cup.[34][35] In July 2019, in New Zealand's semi-final match againstIndia, Latham played in his 150th international match for New Zealand.[36]
In January 2020, in the third Testagainst Australia, Latham captained New Zealand for thefirst time in Test cricket, afterKane Williamson was ruled out of the match due to flu.[37] In February 2020, in the first and second ODI against India, Latham captained New Zealand[38] to win by 4 Wickets and 22 runs afterKane Williamson was ruled out of the match due to a shoulder injury.[39]
In December 2022, during thefirst Test against Pakistan, Latham scored his 13th century in Test cricket,[40] the most by a New Zealand opener in Tests.[41]
Latham was named New Zealand Test team captain in October 2024.[42][43]
Latham has scored 13centuries in Test cricket and 7 in One Day Internationals matches. His highest Test score of 264not out came againstSri Lanka at the Basin Reserve in December 2018 and his highest ODI score of 145 not out was made againstIndia atEden Park inAuckland in November 2022.
| No. | Score | Against | Date | Venue | Result | Ref |
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| 1 | 103 |  Pakistan | 9 November 2014 | Sheikh Zayed Stadium,Abu Dhabi | Lost | [45] |
| 2 | 137 | Pakistan | 17 November 2014 | Dubai International Stadium,Dubai | Drawn | [46] |
| 3 | 109* |  Sri Lanka | 10 December 2015 | University of Otago Oval,Dunedin | Won | [47] |
| 4 | 105 |  Zimbabwe | 28 July 2016 | Queens Sports Club,Bulawayo | Won | [48] |
| 5 | 136 | Zimbabwe | 6 August 2016 | Queens Sports Club,Bulawayo | Won | [49] |
| 6 | 177 |  Bangladesh | 12 January 2017 | Basin Reserve,Wellington | Won | [50] |
| 7 | 264* | Sri Lanka | 15 December 2018 | Basin Reserve,Wellington | Drawn | [51] |
| 8 | 176 | Sri Lanka | 26 December 2018 | Hagley Oval,Christchurch | Won | [52] |
| 9 | 161 | Bangladesh | 28 February 2019 | Seddon Park,Hamilton | Won | [53] |
| 10 | 154 | Sri Lanka | 22 August 2019 | Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium,Colombo | Won | [54] |
| 11 | 105 |  England | 29 November 2019 | Seddon Park,Hamilton | Drawn | [55] |
| 12 | 252 | Bangladesh | 9 January 2022 | Hagley Oval,Christchurch | Won | [56] |
| 13 | 113 | Pakistan | 26 December 2022 | National Bank Cricket Arena,Karachi | Drawn | [57] |
| No. | Score | Against | Date | Venue | Result | Ref |
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| 1 | 110* | Zimbabwe | 4 August 2015 | Harare Sports Club,Harare | Won | [59] |
| 2 | 137 | Bangladesh | 26 December 2016 | Hagley Oval,Christchurch | Won | [60] |
| 3 | 104 |  Ireland | 21 May 2017 | Malahide Cricket Club Ground,Malahide | Won | [61] |
| 4 | 103* |  India | 22 October 2017 | Wankhede Stadium,Mumbai | Won | [62] |
| 5 | 110* | Bangladesh | 23 March 2021 | Hagley Oval,Christchurch | Won | [63] |
| 6 | 140* |  Netherlands | 2 April 2022 | Seddon Park,Hamilton | Won | [64] |
| 7 | 145* | India | 25 November 2022 | Eden Park,Auckland | Won | [65] |
| 8 | 118* | Pakistan | 19 February 2025 | National Stadium,Karachi | Won | [66] |
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