Sven Gaetan Koenig (born 9 December 1973 in

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) is a South African

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. Koenig was educated at Hilton College and the

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. He played representative cricket for Ntl Nuff (1989–1991) and South African Schools (1991). He represented Easterns, Gauteng,

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, MCC (2004) and

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(2002–2004) as a dogged left-handed opening batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. He played English county cricket as an Italian EU passport holder, before retiring from first-class cricket at 30 to launch a banking career in his native South Africa.

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