Tim Seifert

Some Lesser Known Facts About Tim Seifert

• Tim Seifert got interested in sports during his childhood. He played cricket during the summers and hockey in the winters.

  

• His parents took him to Scotland and other countries where he gained confidence in life, which helped him in sports as well.

• He later represented New Zealand in the 2014 Under-19 World Cup.

• He tested positive for COVID-19 in 2021 and had to miss the first leg of the 2021 Indian Premier League (IPL).

• He later played for New Zealand and scored 16 runs in the 2021 T20 World Cup held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

  

• He was the highest run scorer in the 2024 Lanka Premier League (LPL), with 400 runs in 10 innings at an average of 57.14 and a strike rate of 135.13.

• In 2024, he joined the Saint Lucia Kings team in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) as a replacement player for Heinrich Klaasen.

• In 2024, he signed a sponsorship deal with the cricket equipment manufacturing brand SS.

• In the 2025 Indian Premier Legaue (IPL), he went unsold for his base price of Rs 1.25 crore.

• He made headlines during the T20 series against Pakistan in March 2025. In the 2nd T20I match, he hit Shaheen Afridi for 4 sixes in one over. In the final match of the series, he hit 97 runs in 38 balls.

• He is a supporter of many charities, including Squad Deep, an organization that works to protect marine habitats for sea creatures.