Adam Marc Bacher (born 29 October 1973) is a South African

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er. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He is the nephew of former South African captain and cricket chief

Ali Bacher Aron "Ali" Bacher (born 24 May 1942) is a former South African Test cricket captain and an administrator of the United Cricket Board of South Africa. Personal life Bacher was born in May 1942 in Roodepoort to Lithuanian-Jewish parents who had m ...

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Bacher entered South African cricket in 1995/96 in the Under-24 side which toured

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and made his Test debut against

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at the back end of the following year. Having had a mostly unsuccessful start to the season, his form picked up in Australia where he put in an innings of 96. He continued to impress for the next two years, but after poor form against

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and the

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, he spent seven years out of one day cricket. He is best remembered for a spectacular catch he took while fielding deep to remove

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in the 1997 test series against India. Bacher was picked once again in 2005 for an English

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, but he only played the first game of the one day series, and was dropped thereafter.

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