Zak Foulkes

Zakary Glen Foulkes (born 5 June 2002) is a New Zealand international cricketer, who plays as a right-arm medium pace bowler. He made his international debut for the New Zealand national cricket team in 2024 and plays for Canterbury in domestic cricket.^[1]

Zak Foulkes

Personal information
Full name	Zakary Glen Foulkes
Born	(2002-06-05) 5 June 2002 (age 23) Christchurch, Canterbury
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium
Role	All-rounder
International information
National side	New Zealand
Only Test (cap 291)	7 August 2025 v Zimbabwe
Only ODI (cap 219)	19 November 2024 v Sri Lanka
T20I debut (cap 102)	21 April 2024 v Pakistan
Last T20I	26 July 2025 v South Africa
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2020/21–2022/23	Canterbury Country
2021/22–present	Canterbury
2024	Warwickshire
2025	Durham
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC Matches 1 1 13 20 Runs scored – – 59 544 Batting average – – 19.66 19.42 100s/50s – – 0/0 0/3 Top score – – 27* 75* Balls bowled 150 – 276 3.012 Wickets 9 – 15 66 Bowling average 8.33 – 24.46 24.59 5 wickets in innings 1 – 0 3 10 wickets in match 0 – 0 0 Best bowling 5/37 – 3/20 5/37 Catches/stumpings 1/– 0/– 1/– 14/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 9 August 2025

Early life

Foulkes was born at Christchurch in 2002 into a cricketing family; his father, Glen Foulkes, and two brothers, Liam and Robbie Foulkes, have all played for Canterbury Country.^[2][3][4] Foulkes was educated at St Andrew's College in Christchurch^[5] where he played cricket, and played for Cantebury age-group sides and the New Zealand development team.^[6]

Whilst at school, Foulkes was part of the St Andrew's College side which won the 2019 Gillette Cup, a national secondary school competition. He was the team's leading run scorer and wicket-taker in the competition, taking nine wickets and scoring 267 runs, including a century against Rosmini College.^{[7][8][9][10]}

In October 2021, he was called up to the Canterbury A team for the 2021–22 season Provincial A matches,^[11] before playing for Canterbury Country in the Hawke Cup, scoring 92 runs and taking six wickets on debut.^[6][12]

Professional cricket

Foulkes made his representative debut for Canterbury in February 2022 in the 2021–22 Ford Trophy,^[13] before making his first-class debut the following month against Auckland in the Plunket Shield.^[14] He was awarded his first professional contract in July 2022,^[15] and the following month played for Wynnum-Manly in the T20 Max competition in Queensland.^[16][17]

He made his Twenty20 debut for Canterbury on 8 January 2023 against Auckland in the 2022–23 Men's Super Smash.^[18] He was the team's joint highest wicket-taker with 12 wickets from ten matches as the team reached the competition's final.^[19] In 2024 he played Twenty20 cricket for Warwickshire County Cricket Club in England, before playing for Durham the following season.^[6]

International career

Foulkes was selected for the New Zealand tour of Pakistan in April 2024 as a replacement for the injured Adam Milne,^[20] making his international debut and playing in two Twenty20 Internationals. In November, he was selected for the tour of Sri Lanka and played in a further two T20Is before making his One Day International debut in the third ODI of the series; he neither batted or bowled as the match was rained off midway through the first innings. He made his Test match debut during New Zealand's tour of Zimbabwe in August 2025, taking nine wickets, including a five-wicket haul, on debut, the best bowling figures by a New Zealander on Test debut.^[21]