Brendon attended King’s High School from 1995 to 1999.

Brendon was Head Boy at King’s in 1999. He was winner of the prestigious Sportsman of the Year Award, the Salter Trophy. He gained a Sports Blue in Football, Cricket and Rugby. He was Captain of the 1st XV Rugby and 1st XI Cricket teams. While still at school he was selected for the NZ Youth World Cup Squad for the under 19 Sri Lankan Tour.

Brendon has been a New Zealand Cricket Coach, commentator and former cricketer, who played all formats. He was also a former captain in all forms. He took quick scoring to Test matches as well, notably recording the fastest test century of all time. Brendon is considered one of the most successful batsmen and captains of New Zealand Cricket. He retired from all forms of Cricket in August 2019.

Brendon is the former leading run-scorer in T20 Internationals Cricket and is the first and so far, only one of two players to have scored two T20 international Centuries and 2000 runs in T20 Internationals (apart from Martin Guptill). 

He became the first New Zealander to score a triple hundred in a Test, 302 runs against India on 18 February 2014. In 2014, he also became the first New Zealander to score 1000 test runs in a calendar year (1164). The record was bettered by Kane Williamson with 1172 runs in 2015. In his last Test outing on 20 February 2016, Brendon posted the fastest ever Test century, at the time, in 54 balls, beating the 56 ball record jointly held by his hero, Vivian Richards, scoring a total of 145 off 79 balls.

As the captain of one of the strongest New Zealand Cricket teams of all time, Brendon understands the importance of team spirit, and the ability of a like-minded collective to achieve great things. Now retired from the Black Caps, Brendon is providing invaluable support to the Maia Health Foundation as an ambassador.

Brendon is currently in India, working as head coach of Kolkata Knight Riders in the 2022 IPL. He had previously coached Trinbago Knight Riders to the 2020 Caribbean Premier League title.

Brendon has just been appointed as England’s Men’s Test Coach. Best wishes to Brendon McCullum from the King's High School community.