Nigel Grant Brouwers (4 September 1976 – 3 July 2021) was a South African

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er. He played in 31 first-class and 30

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matches from 1998 to 2009. Brouwers attended Gelvandale Secondary School and played for Eastern Province Schools in 1991. He made his first-class cricket debut in the 1998/99 season for Eastern Province, before going on to play for Northerns in 2000/01. In the 2006/07 season, Brouwers made his debut for South Western Districts. On his debut for South Western Districts, he made his highest score in first-class cricket, with 63 runs against Kei. In his maiden List A match for the team, he also scored his highest score in the format, with 94 runs. In his first-class career, he took 75 wickets, with his best figures of 6/57 coming against

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in the 1998/99 season. His best figures in List A cricket came in his final match, against

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, where he took three wickets for sixteen runs. In February 1999, Brouwers was found guilty of stealing the wallet of fellow cricketer

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. The incident occurred during Eastern Province's match against Griqualand in the 1998/99 season, with Brouwers taking the wallet from the changing rooms. Brouwers was given twenty hours of community service. In the 2006/07 season, Brouwers and Sammy-Joe Avontuur set a new opening partnership record for South Western Districts in a List A cricket match. The pair made 109 together against Kei. Brouwers died in July 2021 from

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, with his mother dying on the same day and his father a week later. South Africa former international cricketer

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said that Brouwers was "one of the most talented cricketers I have known".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brouwers, Nigel 1976 births 2021 deaths South African cricketers Eastern Province cricketers Northerns cricketers South Western Districts cricketers Cricketers from Port Elizabeth Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa