Lance Klusener

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Lance Klusener

Personal information
Full name	Lance Klusener
Born	4 September 1971 (1971-09-04) (age 38) Durban, South Africa
Nickname	Zulu
Batting style	Left Handed
Bowling style	Right Arm Fast Medium
Role	Allrounder
International information
National side	South Africa
Test debut (cap 265)	27 November 1996 v India
Last Test	8 August 2004 v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 40)	19 January 1996 v England
Last ODI	19 September 2004 v West Indies
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1991-2004	KwaZulu Natal
2002	Nottinghamshire
2004	Middlesex
2004-2007	Dolphins
2004-2008	Northamptonshire (squad no. 4)
2006-2008	Royal Bengal Tigers
Career statistics
Competition	Test	ODI	FC	OD
Matches	49	171	197	323
Runs scored	1906	3576	9521	6623
Batting average	32.86	41.10	42.69	39.89
100s/50s	4/8	2/19	21/48	3/34
Top score	174	103*	202*	142*
Balls bowled	6887	7336	31735	13433
Wickets	80	192	508	332
Bowling average	37.91	29.95	30.40	31.63
5 wickets in innings	1	6	20	8
10 wickets in match	0	-	4	-
Best bowling	8/64	6/49	8/34	6/49
Catches/stumpings	34/-	35/-	99/-	82/-
Source: Cricinfo, 1 October 2009

Lance Klusener (born 4 September 1971 in Durban, South Africa) is a cricketer, more specifically an all-rounder. He is known for his aggressive batting and his fast-medium swing bowling. He is nicknamed "Zulu" because of his fluency in that language. Following his exploits at the 1999 World Cup, he topped the ICC ODI Batting rankings. His peak rating put him 28th on the ICC all-time ODI Batting rankings, and his career ODI batting average of 41.10 placed him among the ranks of South Africa's most accomplished one-day batsmen.

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Domestic career 1.2 International career 2 Style of play 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] Domestic career

Klusener played for Kwazulu-Natal (Nashua Dolphins) in the domestic level in South Africa between 1991 and 2004. In 2004, Northamptonshire County Cricket Club signed him on a contract running until late 2008. At Wantage Road he impressed with his fired-up seam bowling and his hard-hitting in the low middle-order. Due to family beareavements back home, it was announced that his contract with the county will not be renewed at the end of the 2008 season. In late 2007, he started playing in the Indian Cricket League Twenty20 tournament in India for the Kolkata Tigers team.^[1]

[edit] International career

Klusener made his Test match debut for South Africa against India in Calcutta during the second Test in 1996/97. Klusener, at the time playing primarily as a bowler, took some fearful hammering at the hands of Mohammad Azharuddin, who at one point hit him for five consecutive fours, in his first innings of his debut but returned career best figures of eight for 64 in the second.

Klusener will be remembered mainly for his contributions in One Day Internationals, in which he became feared as a hard hitting batsman and was voted as Man of the Tournament during the 1999 World Cup. He was also voted as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2000.

His international career has tapered off since then, due mainly to persistent ankle injuries, as well as a public dispute with the current South African captain Graeme Smith, who at a breakfast meeting shortly after his appointment to the captaincy described Klusener as a "disruptive force" to the younger players within the South African national cricket team, with the quote ending up in the South African press.^[2] However it seems that Klusener and Smith have patched up their differences.^[3][4]

[edit] Style of play

Klusener's batting averages are particularly notable for the peculiar fact that his ODI average is considerably higher than his Test average. This is a fair reflection of his aggressive temperament.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Cricinfo Player Profile
• Cricket Archive Player Profile

v • d • e South Africa squad – 1999 Cricket World Cup Semi-Finalists 1 Kirsten • 2 Gibbs • 3 Kallis • 4 Cullinan • 5 Cronje (c) • 6 Benkenstein • 7 Pollock • 8 Rhodes • 9 Boucher (wk) • 10 Donald • 11 Crookes • 12 Dawson • 13 Klusener • 14 Elworthy • 15 Boje Ntini was named in the original squad, but was replaced on 23 April 1999 by Dawson

v • d • e South Africa squad – 2003 Cricket World Cup 1 Pollock (c) • 2 Boucher • 3 Boje • 4 Dippenaar • 5 Donald • 6 Gibbs • 7 Hall • 8 Kallis • 9 Kirsten • 10 Klusener • 11 Langeveldt • 12 Ntini • 13 Peterson • 14 Rhodes • 15 Zondeki • 16 Smith Repalcement for Rhodes

Persondata
NAME	Klusener, Lance
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Cricketer
DATE OF BIRTH	4 September 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH