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