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Kyle David Mills (born 15 March 1979) is a New Zealand cricket coach and former international cricketer who is the former bowling coach of the Kolkata Knight Riders. He was also a former captain of the New Zealand cricket team in limited-overs matches. Mills played top-class cricket between 1998 and 2015 as a bowler. He featured in three World Cup tournaments for New Zealand in 2003, 2011 and 2015. He was a member of New Zealand's first ever T20I team. He also topped the ICC ODI bowling rankings in 2009 and also occupied in the top ten bowling rankings among bowlers in ODI cricket for a considerable period of time.He is the second leading wicket-taker for New Zealand in ODI cricket with 240 wickets just behind Daniel Vettori's tally of 297 wickets and he has also taken the most number of wickets by a New Zealand seamer in ODIs. He is also the all-time leading wicket-taker in ICC Champions Trophy with 28 scalps in 15 matches. He was sidelined for consistent injury concerns in his playing days. He underwent surgeries and rehabilitation to recover from knee and shoulder injuries during his early and latter stages of his international career. His continuous injury concerns took a toll on his test career which ended prematurely in 2009 after appearing in just 19 test matches. However, he served a white ball specialist and emerged as a lead strike bowler for New Zealand. Early life and education Born in Auckland in 1979, Mills is of Ngāi Tahu descent. He was educated at Murvale (now Macleans) Primary School, Bucklands Beach Intermediate and Macleans College. Domestic career Mills played domestically for Auckland. He made his first-class debut for Auckland in the 1998/99 season. He was picked by Kings XI Punjab for the inaugural edition of the Indian Premier League in 2008, but did not play in any of the matches. He was later bought by Mumbai Indians for the 2009 Indian Premier League but he was used only as a net bowler by Mumbai Indians for the 2009 IPL season. He ruled himself out of 2010 Indian Premier League as he was recovering from knee injury.He was also picked for the inaugural edition of the Sri Lanka Premier League by Uthura Rudras in 2012. He signed a contract with the English county cricket for Middlesex to play in 2013 Friends Life t20.Mills announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on 1 April 2015. He announced his retirement a day after Daniel Vettori had announced his retirement from all forms of cricket. International career He made his ODI debut against Pakistan on 15 April 2001 against Pakistan during the 2000–01 ARY Gold Cup and took his first ODI wicket on his debut by dismissing Imran Nazir. He delivered a match winning spell in his second ODI match which also eventually came during the ARY Gold Cup Tri-nation series where he picked up 3/30 against Sri Lanka and shared the man of the Match award along with Mathew Sinclair.He made his maiden ICC Champions Trophy appearance during the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy campaign which was held in Sri Lanka. He ended the 2002 Champions Trophy tournament with three wickets in two matches. He made his debut World Cup appearance at the 2003 Cricket World Cup. However, he featured in just one group stage match at the 2003 World Cup and went wicketless. He made his test debut against England on 10 June 2004, three years after his ODI debut. His test debut came at Trent Bridge only after the injury concerns to Shane Bond and Daryl Tuffey. However, he picked up a side strain on his test debut where he only managed to bowl six overs in England's first innings and couldn't bowl in the second innings. He was subsequently ruled out of the remainder of the test series.He was part of the world's first T20I match which happened on 17 February 2005 between New Zealand and Australia. Although New Zealand lost the inaugural T20I by 44 runs, Mills made an impact picking up 3/44 on his T20I debut after opening the bowling with Tuffey. He made his mark in international cricket as a lead pacer during the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy which marked a turning point in his career where he finished the tournament as the leading wicket-taker for Kiwis with 10 wickets in just four matches.Having been injured in Australia in February 2007, Mills was forced to withdraw from the 2007 Cricket World Cup. He was also not selected for 2007 ICC World Twenty20, which was the inaugural edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup. He was initially out for at least 12 months but after an operation on a patella tendon and a winter of rehabilitation, he worked his way back to fitness to take part in New Zealand's tour of South Africa in November–December 2007. Called into the test side, Mills was forced to withdraw from the second and final Test due to a stomach bug. Coming fresh into the three match one day series, Mills was the pick of the New Zealand bowlers in all three matches, taking career best figures of 5/25 in the series opener. Despite New Zealand losing the series 2–1, Mills was named man of the series. Due in part of the absence of Shane Bond, who signed to play in the Indian Cricket League, and Mills' continued good form, he maintained his place in the ODI side. Mills became a frontline bowler for New Zealand in limited-overs matches from 2008 in and was groomed to fill the void left by Bond. During a test match against England in March 2008, he ran through the English top order with his spell of 4/16 which was also his career best test figures. His bowling helped the home side New Zealand to a comfortable crushing win by 188 runs. He dismissed Alastair Cook, Michael Vaughan, Andrew Strauss and Kevin Pietersen within his first seven overs of his spell on the final day of the test match whereas England were given a brisk target of 300. He was selected for New Zealand's 2009 ICC World Twenty20 campaign which was also his maiden appearance in a T20 World Cup. He was also a member of the New Zealand side which emerged as runners-up in the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy Final, after losing to Australia in South Africa.He achieved his highest career ODI ranking in 2009 as he was ranked as no 1 bowler in the ICC rankings for bowlers in ODIs after taking nine wickets against Australia in the 2008-09 Chappell-Hadlee Trophy and for his performances during the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy where he ended up as the leading wicket-taker for New Zealand with nine scalps in five matches. He was selected to the New Zealand squad for the 2011 Cricket World Cup as an injury replacement for Hamish Bennett. However, after featuring in just three group stage matches he was ruled out of the remainder of the 2011 World Cup tournament due to an injury. He sustained a quadriceps strain during a group stage match against Canada and was subsequently replaced by Andy McKay for the remaining World Cup matches.He was the most successful bowler for New Zealand during the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy whereas he ended the tournament with six scalps at an average of 10.5 in 3 matche.... Discover the Kyle Mills popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Kyle Mills books.

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  • Code Red synopsis, comments

    Code Red

    Vince Flynn & Kyle Mills

    Mitch Rapp returns to make a mortal enemy of Russia in this highoctane and uptotheminute installment in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from “one of the best thriller writ...

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    Rising Phoenix

    Kyle Mills

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp SeriesSpecial Agent Mark Beamon is a maverick. His open disdain for the FBI's rulesand Directorshas exiled...

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    Burn Factor

    Kyle Mills

     From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Vince FlynnBright, young, and ambitious, Quinn Barry desperately wants to be an FBI agent, even as she programs databases in ...

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    The Survivor

    Vince Flynn & Kyle Mills

    The #1 New York Times bestselling novel that picks up where the “tight, right, and dynamite” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) The Last Man left off, The Survivor is a noholdsbarred race...

  • Free Fall synopsis, comments

    Free Fall

    Kyle Mills

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp SeriesIt's bold. It's dangerous. It's the kind of maverick operation that has made Mark Beamon both the FB...

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    Wolf Trap

    Connor Sullivan

    “A mustread thriller from a brilliant new talent in the genre.” Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling authorThis “adrenaline rush of a novel” (Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times be...

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    Oath of Loyalty

    Vince Flynn & Kyle Mills

    Named the Best Thriller of 2022 by The Real Book SpyMitch Rapp confronts a very different kind of killer in this explosive “and entertaining from the first page to the last” (The P...

  • Order to Kill synopsis, comments

    Order to Kill

    Vince Flynn & Kyle Mills

    In the next thrilling novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series, the antiterrorism operative heads to Pakistan to confront a mortal threat he may not be prepared...

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    The Fisherman

    Vaughn C. Hardacker

    After tracking down a crazed sniper last year, homicide detective Mike Houston opted to leave Boston for the isolated mountains of Maine. He adjusted nicely to chopping his own fir...

  • Total Power synopsis, comments

    Total Power

    Vince Flynn & Kyle Mills

    “One of the best thriller writers on the planet.” The Real Book SpyIn the next thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series, it’s a race against the clock when I...

  • Trust But Verify synopsis, comments

    Trust But Verify

    Karna Small Bodman

    "Bodman's hardwon information and sheer storytelling talent make this a book to remember.” LEE CHILD, #1 worldwide bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series  "Karna B...

  • Deadline synopsis, comments

    Deadline

    Terence J. Quinn

    The truth can be a deadly weapon … An incendiary political thriller set in the dogeatdog world of tabloid journalism. Journalist Jonno Bligh is headhunted to London by Russian...

  • Sphere of Influence synopsis, comments

    Sphere of Influence

    Kyle Mills

    “Mills is fast becoming the new master of gripping and intelligent pageturners.”Tom Clancy The videotapes arrive at television stations across the nation. Their chilling message: A...

  • Transfer of Power synopsis, comments

    Transfer of Power

    Vince Flynn

    This “rollercoaster, edgeofyourseat thriller” (StarTribune, Minneapolis) in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series follows the CIA’s top operative as he must stop a ma...

  • Enemy at the Gates synopsis, comments

    Enemy at the Gates

    Vince Flynn & Kyle Mills

    Mitch Rapp, the CIA’s top operative, searches for a highlevel mole with the power to rewrite the world order in this riveting thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Vin...

  • Term Limits synopsis, comments

    Term Limits

    Vince Flynn

    Politics and riveting suspense collide in this whiteknuckled thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of American Assassinsoon to be a major motion picture.In one blo...

  • Separation of Power synopsis, comments

    Separation of Power

    Vince Flynn

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the electrifying Mitch Rapp series “knows how deliver action in his novels” (St. Paul Pioneer Press) and does so again with this thrilli...

  • Extreme Measures synopsis, comments

    Extreme Measures

    Vince Flynn

    #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon Vince Flynn delivers a whiteknuckled rollercoaster ride of a novel featuring “the best hero the thriller genre has to offer” (The Real Book...

  • Pursuit of Honor synopsis, comments

    Pursuit of Honor

    Vince Flynn

    Mitch Rappthe “mainstay of the modern technothriller” (New York Journal of Books)returns in this exhilarating political thriller as he fights for the sake of his country and the pu...

  • Storming Heaven synopsis, comments

    Storming Heaven

    Kyle Mills

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp SeriesPunished for his maverick ways, FBI agent Mark Beamon has been exiled from Washington, D.C., to a sl...

  • The Last Man synopsis, comments

    The Last Man

    Vince Flynn

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn “has never been better” (The Providence Journal) in this highoctane thriller following Mitch Rapp as he searches for a missing CIA ...

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    Inauguration Day

    Claude Salhani

    One step behind a chameleon Islamic terrorist known only as Omar, Laura Atwood, a beautiful CIA agent, teams up with journalist Chris Clayborne. Together they race across three con...

  • Red War synopsis, comments

    Red War

    Vince Flynn & Kyle Mills

    This instant #1 New York Times bestseller and “modern technothriller” (New York Journal of Books) follows covert operative Mitch Rapp in a terrifying race to stop Russia’s gravely ...

  • The Third Option synopsis, comments

    The Third Option

    Vince Flynn

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of American Assassin comes a pulsepounding thriller that “is an old school spy story…updated with heavy helpings of international intr...

  • Enemy of the State synopsis, comments

    Enemy of the State

    Vince Flynn & Kyle Mills

    “In the world of blackop thrillers, Mitch Rapp continues to be among the best of the best” (Booklist, starred review), and he returns in the #1 New York Times bestselling series al...