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Dale Benkenstein

South Africa

Full name Dale Martin Benkenstein

Born June 9, 1974, Salisbury (now Harare), Rhodesia

Current age 35 years 30 days

Major teams South Africa, Delhi Giants, Dolphins, Durham, KwaZulu-Natal, Natal

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm medium, Right-arm offbreak

Relation Father - MM Benkenstein, Brother - BN Benkenstein, Brother - BR Benkenstein

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
ODIs	23	20	3	305	69	17.94	463	65.87	0	1	20	0	3
First-class	200	304	37	12214	259	45.74			30	63			133
List A	264	237	57	6418	107*	35.65			1	38			97
Twenty20	53	51	11	1089	56*	27.22	837	130.10	0	3	91	39	17

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w
ODIs	23	4	65	44	4	3/5	3/5	11.00	4.06	16.2	0
First-class	200		6377	3142	87	4/16		36.11	2.95	73.2
List A	264		3029	2541	83	4/16	4/16	30.61	5.03	36.4	3
Twenty20	53	18	282	352	14	3/10	3/10	25.14	7.48	20.1	0

Career statistics

ODI debut	England v South Africa at Dhaka, Oct 25, 1998 scorecard
Last ODI	South Africa v Bangladesh at Benoni, Oct 6, 2002 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut	1993/94
Last First-class	Durham v Worcestershire at Chester-le-Street, Jun 30-Jul 3, 2009 scorecard
List A debut	1992/93
Last List A	Durham v Gloucestershire at Chester-le-Street, May 20, 2009 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Western Province Boland v Dolphins at Cape Town, Apr 7, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Leicestershire v Durham at Leicester, Jun 28, 2009 scorecard

Profile

Dale Martin Benkenstein, born in Zimbabwe but educated at Michaelhouse in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, comes from a serious cricketing family. His father Martin represented Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia); his brothers Brett and Boyd both played for Natal B, but it was Dale who first played for and captained both Natal Schools and South African Schools before making his debut for Natal in 1993/94 and the national team in 1998. At an early stage Dale showed his captaincy skills and was at one stage earmarked as the successor to Hansie Cronje as South Africa's captain. Benkenstein played 23 ODIs, the last against Bangladesh in Benoni in 2002, but was never a regular member of the national side and for some reason was never selected to play Test cricket. Dale agrees that he never took advantage of the chances that did come his way. Perhaps wrongly regarded as solely a limited overs specialist Benkenstein has scored over 4,000 runs and has one hundred as a middle order batsman. He is also more than useful with the ball as a third change bowler. His first class career speaks volumes for his ability. He has scored over 8,000 runs at an average of 45 and has scored 21 hundreds with a best of 259. He also boasts 70 wickets with his seamers and has the reputation of being a partnership breaker. Having captained Natal and the Dolphins, Benkenstein was made Durham's captain for the 2006 season. He is married to Jacquiline and enjoys golf and fishing when not on the cricket field.
Keith Lane, September 2006

Notes

Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2009