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Full name Nico Boje
Born March 20, 1973, Bloemfontein, Orange Free State
Current age 32 years 115 days
Major teams South Africa, Eagles, Free State, Nottinghamshire,
Orange Free State
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox
class mat inns no runs hs ave bf sr 100 50 4s 6s ct
st
Tests 35 47 8 1023 85 26.23 2154 47.49 0 4 137 4 12 0
ODIs 110 68 17 1407 129 27.58 1576 89.27 2 4 135 13 33 0
First-class 146 213 40 5791 116 33.47 5 34 85 0
List A 226 154 41 2994 129 26.49 2 11 68 0
Twenty-20 6 6 3 102 38* 34.00 97 105.15 0 0 1 0
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
Tests 35 6895 3299 88 5/62 8/134 37.48 2.87 78.35 8 3 0
ODIs 110 4373 3293 93 5/21 5/21 35.40 4.51 47.02 2 1 0
First-class 146 30199 12916 391 6/31 33.03 2.56 77.23 16 1
List A 226 9750 6891 210 5/21 5/21 32.81 4.24 46.42 8 1 0
Twenty-20 6 102 149 6 2/35 2/35 24.83 8.76 17.00 0 0 0
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Test debut India v South Africa at Mumbai - Feb 24-26, 2000
scorecard
Last Test West Indies v South Africa at St John's - Apr 29-May 3,
2005 scorecard
ODI debut Zimbabwe v South Africa at Harare - Oct 21, 1995 scorecard
Last ODI South Africa v Zimbabwe at Port Elizabeth - Mar 2, 2005
scorecard
First-class span 1990/91 - 2004/05
List A span 1993/94 - 2004/05
Twenty-20 span 2003/04
Such is the sporting gene-pool in the Boje family
that mother, father and all three children have played at least one
sport at provincial or international level. Nicky Boje captained
South Africa Schools and was selected for three successive years as
a middle-order batsman. He opened the bowling for his own school,
and then switched to left-arm spin on the coach's command - because
nobody else could turn the ball. He was equally pivotal on the rugby
field and tennis court. Boje spent four long years after his initial
squad selection quietly desperate to be regarded by the national
selectors as a middle-order batsman who bowled usefully, but a
spinner he remained. He worked furiously on his bowling as a result,
and matchwinning analyses in both India and Sri Lanka finally
established him as the Test No. 1 in 2000-01, a position he briefly
surrendered to Claude Henderson in Australia in 2001-02, and then to
Robin Peterson and Paul Adams in 2003. However, he had a big role to
play in the final Test of the New Zealand tour of 2003-04, when his
eight-wicket haul helped South Africa to a series-levelling win. His
batting ability remains untarnished, as a pair of one-day hundreds
and a Test-match 85 testify. One of the bright, inquisitive breed of
internationals who prefers a cameraman's long lens to a boring
dressing-room and a craft market or temple to a hotel room
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