Scott Styris

Scott Bernardo Styris (born 10 July 1975) is an Australian-born New Zealand cricketer. An allrounder, Styris is an aggressive right-handed middle order batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler.

Educated at Fairfield Intermediate and Hamilton Boys' High School, Styris has represented Auckland and Northern Districts since 1994/95.

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 20 February 2008.

At the 2011 IPL Auction Scott Styris was bought by the Chennai Super Kings for $200,000 and represented the side in the 2011 Indian Premier League.

International 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.