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Isaac Daniel "Izak" Buys (born 4 February 1895, death date 9 October 1946 in the Grootte Schuur Hospital, Cape Town (after his death his body was donated to the medical school of the University of Cape Town ) was a South African cricketer. A left-arm fast-medium bowler, Izak Buys was born in
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, on 4 February 1895. The date of his death is unknown and there was no obituary in ''
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from 1921–22 to 1923–24, and also played one
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, the First Test against England in 1922-23 at Johannesburg. He scored 0 and 4 not out and failed to take a wicket. A few weeks earlier he had taken 5 for 121 and 2 for 22 for Western Province against the tourists; all seven wickets were of noted batsmen. He also played for South Africa in the third match of the five-match series against S. B. Joel's XI in 1924-25, taking the first three wickets in the first innings. It was his last first-class match. His batting was poor – in 19 visits to the crease in his 12 first-class matches he never reached double figures – but he was an effective opening bowler. Three times he took five wickets in an innings, once per season from 1921–22 to 1923–24. His best figures were 6 for 49 at
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match against
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in December 1923, when he also took two catches in the first innings and 3 for 87 in the second innings.


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Sources

* ''World Cricketers - A Biographical Dictionary'' by Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Oxford University Press (1996) * ''The Wisden Book of Test Cricket, Volume 1 (1877-1977)'' compiled and edited by Bill Frindall, Headline Book Publishing (1995) ° https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G5N4-9R3Z?i=3765&cc=1779109


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* * 1895 births 1946 deaths Year of death missing South Africa Test cricketers South African cricketers Western Province cricketers Sportspeople from Somerset East Cricketers from the Eastern Cape {{SouthAfrica-cricket-bio-1890s-stub