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Full name Dewald Pretorius
Born December 6, 1977, Pretoria, Transvaal
Current age 30 years 276 days
Major teams South Africa,Durham,Free State,Warwickshire
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
4
4
1
22
9
7.33
41
53.65
0
0
4
0
0
0
First-class
68
72
19
509
43
9.60
0
0
18
0
List A
55
21
6
38
7*
2.53
0
0
8
0
Twenty20
11
7
3
59
22
14.75
29
203.44
0
0
7
3
9
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
4
8
570
430
6
4/115
4/135
71.66
4.52
95.0
1
0
0
First-class
68
11569
6413
232
6/49
27.64
3.32
49.8
7
0
List A
55
2664
2033
93
5/32
5/32
21.86
4.57
28.6
3
1
0
Twenty20
11
9
140
196
8
2/22
2/22
24.50
8.40
17.5
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
South Africa v Australia at Cape Town, Mar 8-12, 2002 scorecard
Last Test
England v South Africa at Leeds, Aug 21-25, 2003 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class debut
1997/98
Last First-class
Griqualand West v North West at Kimberley, Feb 9-11, 2006 scorecard
List A span
1998/99 - 2005
Twenty20 debut
Warwickshire v Somerset at Birmingham, Jul 2, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Surrey v Warwickshire at The Oval, Jul 18, 2005 scorecard
Profile
Wisden overview
Dewald Pretorius was brought up in an orphanage and has a hunger to succeed. He bowls with a high rhythmic action from close to the stumps, and in March 2002 he was called into the South African squad for the second Test against Australia. The circumstances could not have been more testing. South Africa had just been trounced by an innings and 360 runs at Johannesburg - the second-largest margin of defeat in Test history - and Pretorius himself was stepping into the vast shoes of Allan Donald, who had announced his retirement after limping off the field in tears. In 2003, his second coming was more auspicious, however. After a spell with Durham in the County Championship, Pretorius joined South Africa's Test squad for the series against England, and picked up four wickets at Edgbaston to hasten the resignation of England's captain, Nasser Hussain.
