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Full name Makhaya Ntini
Born July 6, 1977, Mdingi, nr King William's Town, Cape Province
Current age 28 years 7 days
Major teams South Africa, Border
Also known as George
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast
class mat inns no runs hs ave bf sr 100 50 4s 6s ct
st
Tests 59 61 17 455 32* 10.34 833 54.62 0 0 70 6 16 0
ODIs 115 26 14 144 42* 12.00 208 69.23 0 0 11 5 24 0
First-class 116 129 40 869 34* 9.76 0 0 29 0
List A 166 44 20 194 42* 8.08 0 0 32 0
Twenty-20 7 2 2 6 6* - 4 150.00 0 0 0 0
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
Tests 59 12349 6457 221 7/37 13/132 29.21 3.13 55.87 12 9 2
ODIs 115 5778 4183 183 5/31 5/31 22.85 4.34 31.57 6 2 0
First-class 116 21287 11485 387 7/37 29.67 3.23 55.00 13 2
List A 166 7956 5742 243 5/31 5/31 23.62 4.33 32.74 7 3 0
Twenty-20 7 162 174 7 2/26 2/26 24.85 6.44 23.14 0 0 0
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Test debut South Africa v Sri Lanka at Cape Town - Mar 19-23, 1998
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Last Test West Indies v South Africa at St John's - Apr 29-May 3,
2005 scorecard
ODI debut New Zealand v South Africa at Perth - Jan 16, 1998
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Last ODI West Indies v South Africa at Port of Spain - May 14, 2005
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First-class span 1995/96 - 2004/05
List A span 1995/96 - 2004/05
Twenty-20 span 2003/04
Makhaya Ntini has had a fair bit to contend with
during his young life. A product of the United Cricket Board's
development programme, Ntini was discovered at a cattleherd in the
Eastern Cape, given a pair of boots and packed off to Dale College,
one of the country's best regarded cricketing nurseries. With an
action consciously modelled on that of Malcolm Marshall, Ntini found
himself touring Australia at the end of 1997 when Roger Telemachus
failed a fitness test. He made his South African one-day debut at
Perth in early 1998, bowling well in helpful conditions and his Test
debut came against Sri Lanka in the same year. In 1999, however,
Ntini was charged and initially convicted of rape. He steadfastly
maintained his innocence and was subsequently acquitted on appeal.
It was, though, a harrowing ordeal for the first black African
cricketer to play for South Africa and it is to his credit that he
has been able to rebuild his career. He was not chosen for South
Africa again until the Sharjah tournament in 2000 where he both
surprised and impressed observers with greater control than had been
evident previously. He carried his Sharjah form over to the three
one-dayers against Australia in April this year, again bowling
impressively. Quite obviously, Ntini has bounced back from his
troubles. Although he is a little short of the genuine pace of a
Brett Lee or a Shoaib Akhtar, he is steadily improving and became
the first South African to take ten wickets at Lord's in 2003 before
devestating the West Indies in Trinidad in 2005 with 13 for 132, the
best-ever match figures by a South African bowler
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