Hamish Duncan Rutherford (born 27 April 1989) is a New Zealand

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er who plays first-class cricket for

Otago Otago (, ; mi, Ōtākou ) is a region of New Zealand located in the southern half of the South Island administered by the Otago Regional Council. It has an area of approximately , making it the country's second largest local government reg ...

and represents New Zealand in international cricket. A left-handed batsman, occasional left-arm spin bowler and Twenty20 specialist, Rutherford is the son of former New Zealand Test captain Ken Rutherford and nephew of

Ian Rutherford Ian Alexander Rutherford (born 30 June 1957) was a New Zealand cricketer who played for Central Districts and Otago between 1974 and 1984. In 1978-79 in the Shell Trophy Final he batted for 625 minutes for his highest first-class score of 222 ...

Domestic career

He was the leading run-scorer in the

2017–18 Plunket Shield season The 2017–18 Plunket Shield was the 89th season of the Plunket Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition in New Zealand. The competition started on 23 October 2017 and finished on 5 April 2018. Canterbury were the defending champions ...

for Otago, with 577 runs in ten matches. In June 2018, he was awarded a contract with Otago for the 2018–19 season. He was also the leading run-scorer for Otago in the

2018–19 Ford Trophy The 2018–19 Ford Trophy was the 48th season of The Ford Trophy, the List A cricket tournament in New Zealand. It was the eighth in a sponsorship deal between New Zealand Cricket and Ford Motor Company. Originally scheduled to take place betwe ...

, with 393 runs in seven matches, and the leading run-scorer for the team in the 2018–19 Super Smash, with 227 runs in nine matches. In June 2020, he was offered a contract by Otago ahead of the 2020–21 domestic cricket season.

International career

He scored a century (171) on his Test match debut against England, which is the seventh-highest score on debut. It is also second on the list for a left-handed debutant and a test opener on debut, in both cases behind Jacques Rudolph.

Concussion

Rutherford has suffered a number of concussions playing cricket. The most recent occurred in December 2020 during training resulting in him missing several games for Otago. He has previously been hit while batting by Jofra Archer in 2019 while negotiating a bouncer. Lockie Ferguson also struck him on the helmet with a lifting delivery during the 2019/2020 New Zealand domestic one-day final. He had scored 36 runs off 25 balls at the time. In 2015, Scott Kuggeleijn also bowled a ball that hit Rutherford resulting in Rutherford taking three months off cricket to recover.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rutherford, Hamish 1989 births Living people New Zealand cricketers Otago cricketers New Zealand One Day International cricketers New Zealand Test cricketers New Zealand Twenty20 International cricketers Cricketers from Dunedin Cricketers who made a century on Test debut Essex cricketers Derbyshire cricketers Worcestershire cricketers Glamorgan cricketers