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Highveld Lions
DP World Lions is a professional cricket team in Johannesburg, Gauteng. The home venue is the DP World Wanderers Stadium. The team plays in the CSA 4-Day Series first class cricket competition as well as in the Momentum 1 Day Cup, CSA Provincial T20 Knock-Out Competition and CSA T20 Challenge limited over competitions. Honours since the 2004/2005 season * CSA 4 Day Domestic Series (3) : 2014–15, 2018–19, 2019–20 *Momentum One Day Cup (3) :2012–13 ''(shared with Nashua Cape Cobras),'' 2015–16, 2020-21 (''shared with the Hollywoodbets Dolphins'') 2021-22 CSA One-Day Cup * Betway T20 Challenge (4) :2006–07, 2012–13, 2018–19, 2020-21 * Champions League Twenty20 :Runners-up: 2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ... Squad * Bold denotes p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temba Bavuma
Temba Bavuma (born 17 May 1990) is a South African international cricketer who currently is the captain of the South African cricket team in white-ball cricket. He also vice-captains South Africa in Test cricket. He is a right-handed batter and was the first black African cricketer to make a Test century for South Africa and the first to captain the side. Bavuma is only the second South African cricketer to score a century on ODI debut, scoring 113 runs against Ireland in September 2016. Early life Brought up in the intense cricket culture of Langa – Bavuma, Thami Tsolekile and Malusi Siboto are all from the same street – Bavuma was educated at South African College Junior School in Newlands, and St David's Marist Inanda, a boys high School in Sandton. Domestic career Bavuma made his debut in 2008 in Gauteng against Eastern Province. Batting in the middle order, he made four runs in the first innings in which he batted, briefly partnering teammate Dane Vilas to his fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018–19 CSA T20 Challenge
The 2018–19 CSA T20 Challenge was the sixteenth season of the Ram Slam T20 Challenge, CSA T20 Challenge, established by Cricket South Africa. It took place from 5 April to 5 May 2019. Titans cricket team, Titans were the defending champions. In April 2019, Cricket South Africa announced that this would be the final edition of the T20 Challenge, due to austerity measures and a restructure of domestic cricket in the country. Rain played a factor during the tournament, with several matches ending in a result (cricket)#No result, no result or being abandoned, including all three matches scheduled to be played on Easter Monday. Following the conclusion of the group stage matches, Highveld Lions, Lions, Warriors (cricket team), Warriors, Cape Cobras and Dolphins (cricket team), Dolphins had all progressed to the semi-finals of the tournament. Lions and Dolphins played each other in the first semi-final, with Warriors and Cape Cobras playing each other in the second semi-final. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiaan Mulder
Pieter Willem Adriaan Mulder (born 19 February 1998), known as Wiaan Mulder, is a South African first-class cricketer. He made his One Day International (ODI) debut for South Africa in October 2017 and his Test debut in March 2019. In domestic cricket, Mulder plays for Imperial Lions (formerly Highveld Lions) and Gauteng. He was born in Johannesburg and educated at St Stithians College. He played age-group cricket for Gauteng from under-13 level onwards. Domestic career Mulder made his first-class cricket debut at The Wanderers for Highveld Lions against Cape Cobras in the 2016–17 Sunfoil Series in October 2016 whist still at school. He took seven wickets on debut, including 3/10 in the Cobras first innings.Moonda F (2016Keshav Maharaj bowls Dolphins to innings win CricInfo. Retrieved 8 May 2019. Prior to his debut, he was part of South Africa's squad for the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He made his Twenty20 (T20) debut for Highveld Lions in the 2016–17 CSA T20 Challe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rassie Van Der Dussen
Hendrik Erasmus "Rassie" van der Dussen (born 7 February 1989) is a South African professional cricketer who represents the South Africa national cricket team and plays for Gauteng in domestic cricket. In the 2018 ''South African Cricket Annual'', he was named as one of the five Cricketers of the Year. In August 2019, van der Dussen was named the International Men's Newcomer of the Year at Cricket South Africa's annual award ceremony. Later the same month, Cricket South Africa awarded him with a central contract for the 2019–20 season. Domestic career In August 2017, van der Dussen was named in Cape Town Knight Riders' squad for the first season of the T20 Global League. However, in October 2017, Cricket South Africa initially postponed the tournament until November 2018, with it being cancelled soon after. van der Dussen was the leading run-scorer during the 2017–18 Sunfoil Series, with 959 runs in ten matches. He was the joint-leading run-scorer in the 2018–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fast Bowling
Fast bowling (also referred to as pace bowling) is one of two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket, the other being spin bowling. Practitioners of pace bowling are usually known as ''fast'' bowlers, ''quicks'', or ''pacemen''. They can also be referred to as a ''seam'' bowler, a ''swing'' bowler or a ''fast bowler who can swing it'' to reflect the predominant characteristic of their deliveries. Strictly speaking, a pure swing bowler does not need to have a high degree of pace, though dedicated medium-pace swing bowlers are rarely seen at Test level in modern times. The aim of pace bowling is to deliver the ball in such a fashion as to cause the batsman to make a mistake. The bowler achieves this by making the hard cricket ball deviate from a predictable, linear trajectory at a sufficiently high speed that limits the time the batsman has to compensate for it. For deviation caused by the ball's stitching (the seam), the ball bounces off the pitch and deflects ei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Dadswell Shane Dadswell (born 18 November 1997) is a South African cricketer who plays for North-West University in South Africa. In November 2017, he scored 490 runs in a 50-over game, setting a club cricket record for the highest individual score in the format. He made his List A debut for North West in the 2017–18 CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge on 26 November 2017. In September 2018, he was named in North West's squad for the 2018 Africa T20 Cup. He made his Twenty20 debut for North West in the 2018 Africa T20 Cup on 14 September 2018. On debut, he scored 98 not out from 34 balls, which Cricket South Africa described as "the performance of the day". He made his first-class debut for North West in the 2018–19 CSA 3-Day Provincial Cup on 8 November 2018. In September 2019, he was named in North West's squad for the 2019–20 CSA Provincial T20 Cup The 2019–20 CSA Provincial T20 Cup was a domestic Twenty cricket tournament that took place in South Africa in September 20 ... |
