Zak Foulkes
Zakary Glen Foulkes is a New Zealand international cricketer, who plays as a right-arm medium pace bowler. He plays for Canterbury in domestic cricket and Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League.
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. Foulkes was educated at St Andrew's College in Christchurch where he played cricket, and played for Cantebury age-group sides and the New Zealand development team.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.
In October 2021, he was called up to the Canterbury A team for the 2021–22 season Provincial A matches, before playing for Canterbury Country in the Hawke Cup, scoring 92 runs and taking six wickets on debut.
Professional cricket
Foulkes made his representative debut for Canterbury in February 2022 in the 2021–22 Ford Trophy, before making his first-class debut the following month against Auckland in the Plunket Shield. He was awarded his first professional contract in July 2022, and the following month played for Wynnum-Manly in the T20 Max competition in Queensland.He made his Twenty20 debut for Canterbury on 8 January 2023 against Auckland in the 2022–23 Men's Super Smash. He was the team's joint highest wicket-taker with 12 wickets from ten matches as the team reached the competition's final. In 2024 he played Twenty20 cricket for Warwickshire County Cricket Club in England, before playing for Durham the following season.
In December 2025, he was bought by the Chennai Super Kings in the auction for the 2026 Indian Premier League tournament for his base price of.