Daryl Raymond Tuffey (born 11 June 1978) is a former
New Zealand
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cricketer
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who represented New Zealand in all formats internationally. Tuffey was born in
Milton
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,
Otago
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, and played domestic
first-class cricket
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for
Northern Districts Knights
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. Tuffey retired from all forms of cricket on 14 September 2012.
International career
Cricinfo journalist Lynn McConnell described Tuffey as a bowler with "an amazing penchant for taking wickets in the first over he bowled". Tuffey made an uninspiring debut, conceding 127 runs for no wickets against
Australia in 1999–00, but took his first Test wickets in his next match, ending with three for 38 in the final innings as opponents
South Africa
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chased down 101 on the final day.
Tuffey played his first full Test series
at home against Pakistan in 2000–01. Tuffey got sixteen wickets in the series, including a
Man of the Match
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-performance with seven wickets for 77 in the final Test, which New Zealand won by an innings and 185 runs to tie the series 1–1.
He also played all five ODIs against Pakistan, ending with thirteen wickets in the ODI series to become New Zealand's leading wicket-taker in the series. The series against Pakistan included a career-best four for 24 at
Napier, which won him another Man of the Match award.
Injury and comeback
Tuffey played a number of ODIs over the Northern summer of 2001 before straining a hamstring during the
2001–02 tour of Australia. He didn't play again on tour of Australia, but returned for the ODIs against
England
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in February, before taking match figures of nine for 116 on his return to Test cricket in March 2002. The figures were enough to secure Man of the Match honours once again, as New Zealand won the third Test against England by 78 runs and tied the series 1–1.
Following this, Tuffey was a regular in the New Zealand Test team for two years, with his best performance in this time coming with eight for 53 against
India
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in the
2002–03 home Test series. The pitches in this series were described as "hardly beyond reproach" and as "greentops", by
Wisden Cricketer's Almanack
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writer Lawrence Booth, but Booth had some fine words for Tuffey regardless, describing him as "irrestisible". During this period, Tuffey also played regularly in the ODI team, only missing six matches – all at the
2003 World Cup after a spell of 5–0–36–0 against
Sri Lanka
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in the opening match, which included a "thin edge" off
Sanath Jayasuriya
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's bat which was not seen by the umpire.
Tuffey missed his first Test in one and a half years when a bruised thigh forced him to withdraw from the third Test
against South Africa in 2003–04, but he was back in the team that toured England in the
2004 season. Before that series, his last three Tests had yielded three wickets, and Tuffey did not improve in the next two; a total of three wickets at a bowling average of 82 saw him dropped from the Test side. He also missed much of the ODI season in England, playing in two of the seven matches New Zealand played from June to September 2004, but returned for the home ODIs against
Sri Lanka in December and
Australia in February. He had success against Sri Lanka, taking the wickets of
Saman Jayantha and
Marvan Atapattu
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for figures of 8–1–17–2, but the next four ODIs were cancelled out of respect for the victims of the
tsunami that struck Sri Lanka, and when the Chappell–Hadlee came around Tuffey could only take one wicket in the first three matches, conceding 25 runs in two overs in the last one.
He made his T20I debut in the first ever T20I, held in New Zealand on 17 February 2005, in which
Ricky Ponting
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hit four sixes and a four to register a 30-run over against Tuffey. Tuffey's run of bad form continued several days later, when he conceded fourteen runs before the first legal delivery of an ODI against Australia, in an opening over that lasted fourteen balls.
Out of the squad
Tuffey was dropped on 1 March 2006, with New Zealand coach
John Bracewell
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saying that Tuffey suffered "from a complete lack of confidence".
[Early exits for Tuffey and Papps](_blank)
from Cricinfo, retrieved 3 February 2006 Nine days later, he had to answer charges of
misconduct
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in a
New Zealand Cricket
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inquiry, and he was eventually fined
$1,000 after the incident. Tuffey was still in the selectors' minds, however, as he was selected for the
New Zealand A team to tour Sri Lanka in September and October 2005.
2007 World Cup
In a surprise twist Tuffey was reselected for the New Zealand one day squad for the
2007 World Cup in the West Indies. Many questioned his selection as he had considerably worse figures than other possible candidates for the spot, notably Auckland seamer
Chris Martin
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.
Domestic career
Tuffey was due to play for the
Auckland Aces
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for the 2007–08 season but he turned it down to play club cricket in Sydney.
Controversies
In September 2007, Tuffey was convicted of drunk driving, fined $420 plus $303 in court costs and disqualified from driving for 6 months.
It was revealed in December 2013 that Tuffey was under investigation by the
International Cricket Council
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, along with two other New Zealand cricketers, for
match fixing
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. Tuffey professed shock at the investigation and said he was seeking legal counsel. Tuffey announced in September 2014 that he had been cleared by
Metropolitan Police
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of any involvement in match fixing.
See also
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List of Auckland representative cricketers
References
External links
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1978 births
Living people
Cricketers at the 2003 Cricket World Cup
Cricketers at the 2007 Cricket World Cup
Cricketers at the 2011 Cricket World Cup
New Zealand One Day International cricketers
New Zealand Test cricketers
New Zealand Twenty20 International cricketers
New Zealand cricketers
New Zealand Māori cricket team players
New Zealand Māori sportspeople
Auckland cricketers
Northern Districts cricketers
ICL World XI cricketers
Chandigarh Lions cricketers
People from Milton, New Zealand
People educated at Manurewa High School
North Island cricketers