Dirk Nannes

Dirk Nannes

Personal information
Full name	Dirk Peter Nannes
Nickname	Diggler, Dirty Dirk
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Batting	Right-hand
Bowling	Left-arm fast
Role	Bowler
International information
National sides	Australia Netherlands
Only ODI (cap 177)	28 August 2009  Australia v Scotland
ODI shirt no.	11
T20I debut (cap 15)	5 June 2009  Netherlands v England
Last T20I	16 May 2010  Australia v England
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2006–present	Victoria
2008	Middlesex
2009–2010	Delhi Daredevils
2011	Royal Challengers Bangalore
Career statistics
Competition ODI FC List A T20 Matches 1 21 23 67 Runs scored 1 108 18 20 Batting average 1.00 6.75 3.60 6.67 100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 Top score 1 31* 5* 6 Balls bowled 42 4,139 1,224 1522 Wickets 1 93 32 98 Bowling average 20.00 25.02 30.89 17.76 5 wickets in innings 0 2 0 0 10 wickets in match n/a 1 n/a n/a Best bowling 1/20 7/50 4/38 4/11 Catches/stumpings 0/– 7/– 0/– 11/–
Source: CricketArchive, 24 October 2009

Dirk Peter Nannes (born 16 May 1976) is a Dutch Australian cricketer. A left-arm fast bowler, he plays for the Australian cricket team, the Victorian Bushrangers, the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League, and Fitzroy-Doncaster in Victorian club cricket. He has also represented the Netherlands cricket team.

Early career

Nannes was previously a skier. In 1995, he made his debut as a mogul skier, and went on to compete at Alpine skiing World Cup events until 1999. He then turned to playing cricket for club side Fitzroy-Doncaster.

Progression to first-class cricket

Nannes was eventually called up to the Victorian Bushrangers side in early 2006, where he made his first-class and List A debuts.

In his second first-class cricket game he played in the 2005/06 Pura Cup final in which the Queensland Bulls amassed a record 6 for 900 declared. Nannes took three wickets in the innings and when it came Victoria's time to bat he was the last wicket to fall in the match.

He signed for Middlesex during the 2008 English Domestic season, qualifying as a non-overseas player due to his Dutch passport. Nannes struggled with injury the 2008 season however he was a member of Middlesex's Twenty20 triumph, and took 20 wickets at 19, including a haul of 6/32 in the county championship.

In the 2008 Sheffield Shield, Nannes took his career best figures of 7/50. In his first innings against Western Australia in Perth, he produced highly unusual figures of 1/2 off 0.1 overs, bowling a wicket then two beamers in succession and being banned from bowling for the remainder of the innings.

In February 2010 Dirk Nannes retired from first class cricket. He said, "Having been able to play just one game in the longer format this season due to injury, this decision will allow me to concentrate on 50 over and Twenty20 cricket and extend my career with Victoria and Australia". The news was generally well received by fans as Dirk had battled through many injuries in his short career.

He played for Delhi Daredevils in the IPLII and III, where he led the bowling attack. The team kept Glenn McGrath in the benches to play him. But in the auctions for IPL IV,he was purchased by Royal Challengers Bangalore for $650,000, where he is expected to open the bowling along with Zaheer Khan. In 2010, Nannes played for the Nottinghamshire in the revamped domestic T20 tournament in England.

International career

Netherlands

On Wednesday 11 November 2008 it was announced that Nannes was selected for the Netherlands cricket squad to play the ICC World Cup Qualifier tournament in South Africa. However Nannes subsequently signed with the Delhi Daredevils for the 2009 IPL season, which was to be played in April at the same time as the ICC Trophy causing him to withdraw from The Netherlands' squad.

Victoria & Delhi Daredevils coach Greg Shipperd, when asked about Dirk's non selection for the Australian Twenty20 team, said that "I would have thought he would be first pick". Following this omission from the Australian team, Nannes now confirmed his allegiance to the land of his parent's home country. He made his international debut for The Netherlands in the first match of the 2009 ICC World Twenty20, opening the bowling in their surprise win over England.

Australia

In a strange turn of events, Nannes was called up to the Australian T20I team in August 2009, just two months after making his debut for the Netherlands. A one-day international debut followed that same month where Nannes picked up 1/20 against Scotland. Nannes played for Australia in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 in the West Indies; Nannes played against Pakistan on 2 May 2010 at St Lucia and he took 3 wickets for 41 runs in his allocated overs, he was unbeaten batting for 0 runs facing one ball. He also played against Bangladesh on 5 May at Barbados and he took 4 wickets for 18 runs in his allocated overs, he did not bat.He bagged highest number of wickets in the T20 World Cup in 2010 with 14 wickets at 13.07

Personal life

In addition to being a former skier, Nannes is the director and founder of 'Global Snow Tours', an independent snow tour operator. He studied the saxophone at university. He was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne. Though it is often claimed that Nannes speaks Japanese fluently, in an interview with the BBC, Nannes refuted this.

Highest Number of wickets in 2010 T20 World Cup