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Jacques Rudolph

South Africa

Full name Jacobus Andries Rudolph

Born May 4, 1981, Springs, Transvaal

Current age 28 years 202 days

Major teams South Africa, Africa XI, Eagles, Northerns, Titans, Yorkshire

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Legbreak googly

Relation Brother - GJ Rudolph

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	35	63	7	2028	222*	36.21	4721	42.95	5	8	288	6	22
ODIs	45	39	6	1174	81	35.57	1725	68.05	0	7	109	5	11
T20Is	1	1	1	6	6*	-	7	85.71	0	0	0	0	0
First-class	164	277	19	11502	222*	44.58			33	53			150
List A	173	161	24	6201	134*	45.26			8	42			64
Twenty20	45	41	8	982	71	29.75	843	116.48	0	6	106	14	11

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	35	19	664	432	4	1/1	1/1	108.00	3.90	166.0	0	0	0
ODIs	45	1	24	26	0	-	-	-	6.50	-	0	0	0
T20Is	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	164		4331	2440	58	5/80		42.06	3.38	74.6		3	0
List A	173		395	365	10	4/41	4/41	36.50	5.54	39.5	1	0	0
Twenty20	45	10	151	194	10	3/16	3/16	19.40	7.70	15.1	0	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	Bangladesh v South Africa at Chittagong (MAA), Apr 24-27, 2003 scorecard
Last Test	Sri Lanka v South Africa at Colombo (PSS), Aug 4-8, 2006 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	India v South Africa at Dhaka, Apr 13, 2003 scorecard
Last ODI	Australia v South Africa at Sydney, Feb 5, 2006 scorecard
ODI statistics
Only T20I	Australia v South Africa at Brisbane, Jan 9, 2006 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut	1997/98
Last First-class	Titans v Warriors at Port Elizabeth, Nov 12-14, 2009 scorecard
List A debut	2000/01
Last List A	Lions v Titans at Johannesburg, Nov 6, 2009 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Titans v Lions at Centurion, Apr 8, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Yorkshire v Derbyshire at Leeds, Jun 28, 2009 scorecard

Profile

With an unbeaten 222 in his debut Test innings, Jacques Rudolph vindicated those who believed that he had been a victim of reverse discrimination in South Afrian cricket. His record-breaking, unconquered 429-run stand for the third wicket with Boeta Dippenaar in Chittagong was a delivery of promise long after he had forced his way into the South African squad in November 2001 by sheer weight of runs in domestic cricket. A left-handed batsman who stands tall at the point of delivery with an upraised bat, Rudolph has pleasing footwork, balance and favours the cover drive. His Test debut was balm to the wounds Rudolph suffered leading up to his first entry to international cricket. Twice he was in line for his Test debut, and twice politics intervened. His first international experience came during the unofficial match at Centurion against India in 2001-02, in the aftermath of the Mike Denness affair. And two months later he was named in the side to face Australia at Sydney, but the UCB Board president Percy Sonn vetoed his selection on the grounds of racial discrimination, and Justin Ontong made his debut instead. He fought back strongly, if undemonstrably - an unbeaten 102 saved South Africa from defeat in a classic at Perth at the end of 2005, but 125 runs from six further innings, against the same opposition in a 3-0 whitewash at home, did little to boost his claims. In January 2007, he decided to move to Yorkshire on a three-year Kolpak deal, suspending his international career with South Africa in the hope of redeveloping his game. At the end of his first season with the club, he extended the contract to keep him at Headingley until 2011 - opening up the possibility of one day playing for England.
Andrew Miller October 2007