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Dewald Pretorius

South Africa

Full name Dewald Pretorius

Born December 6, 1977, Pretoria, Transvaal

Current age 31 years 215 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	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	4	4	1	22	9	7.33	41	53.65	4	0	0
First-class	68	72	19	509	43	9.60					18
List A	55	21	6	38	7*	2.53					8
Twenty20	11	7	3	59	22	14.75	29	203.44	7	3	9

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Tests	4	8	570	430	6	4/115	4/135	71.66	4.52	95.0	1	0
First-class	68		11569	6413	232	6/49		27.64	3.32	49.8		7
List A	55		2664	2033	93	5/32	5/32	21.86	4.57	28.6	3	1
Twenty20	11	9	140	196	8	2/22	2/22	24.50	8.40	17.5	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.

Andrew Miller

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