colin ingram Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
colin ingram is a cricketer(sportsman) from South Africa. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Colin Alexander Ingram
Born
July 03, 1985, Port Elizabeth
Age
38 years old
Also Known As
Bozie
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Bowling Style
Legbreak
Fielding Position
Wicketkeeper
Playing Role
Top order Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | - | 31 | 9 | 15 |
Inn | - | 29 | 9 | 15 |
Runs | - | 843 | 210 | 205 |
Avg | - | 32.42 | 26.25 | 17.08 |
SR | - | 82.4 | 129.63 | 113.89 |
HS | - | 124 | 78 | 47 |
NO | - | 3 | 1 | 3 |
100s | - | 3 | 0 | 0 |
50s | - | 3 | 1 | 0 |
4s | - | 82 | 23 | 22 |
6s | - | 10 | 7 | 5 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | - | 31 | 9 | 15 |
Inn | - | 1 | - | - |
Balls | - | 6 | - | - |
Runs | - | 17 | - | - |
Wkt | - | 0 | - | - |
BBI | - | 17 / 0 | - | - |
BBM | - | 17 / 0 | - | - |
Eco | - | 17.0 | - | - |
Avg | - | 0.0 | - | - |
5W | - | 0 | - | - |
10W | - | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- South Africa
- Abu Dhabi Knight Riders
- Adelaide Strikers
- Delhi Capitals
- Eastern Province
- Free State
- Guyana Amazon Warriors
- Hobart Hurricanes
- Islamabad United
- Karachi Kings
- Oval Invincibles (Men)
- Pretoria Capitals
- South Africa A
- St Lucia Zouks
- Sylhet Sunrisers
- Trinbago Knight Riders
- Warriors
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
The 2009-10 season turned out to be the breakthrough phase that Ingram was looking for, as he excelled both in the First-class as well as in List A cricket. Adding to this was his prowess in the shortest format of the game as shone in the first-ever Champions League T20 tournament held in 2010. Debuts in ODIs as well as T20Is for South Africa followed within a month and Ingram started with a bang in 50-overs cricket, racking up two centuries in his first five innings including one on debut. He was picked the 2011 World Cup as well but his form started dipping after the initial fizz.
Ingram's international career started to go downhill due to his inconsistent performances. A major reason that could be mentioned for this was the constant shuffling of his batting position. He hardly got a stable slot to bat at and whenever it came, the role would be of an opener - something he wasn't comfortable in at all. The presence of more established performers in the South African side and the heavy competition meant that he had no choice. By the 2012-13 season, he more or less faded out from the selectors' radar. Frustrated at the lack of backing, he decided to sign a Kolpak deal in 2015 for Glamorgan - a move that was to change his career graph in a big way.
The Glamorgan deal was followed by leadership duties and Ingram rose to the challenge with aplomb. His initial season was fairly good and that was followed by a knee injury in 2016. It seemed like the break would hinder his form and progress but Ingram returned stronger than before. Both in 2016 and 2017, he was in stunning form in Natwest T20 Blast as well as in the Royal London One-Day cup. He topped the run charts in the latter during both years while his T20 form also spiked with over 500 runs in 2016 and a fine 2017 season that was capped by two centuries.
Apart from his batting, Ingram has also improved his part-time leg spin which has proved handy quite a lot for Glamorgan. During his initial days, he was a reluctant bowler and wasn't much effective either. However, as they say, when things are going your way, everything just seems to click. Ingram's redemption post his Kolpak deal has made him an attraction for T20 leagues across the globe. He barely played any matches in the IPL back in 2010 but the 2017-18 BBL season will see him showing his wares for the Adelaide Strikers. More T20 leagues might show their interest in him, should he continue in the same vein.
By Hariprasad Sadanandan
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Colin Ingram, a blond, bestubbled, bruising left-hander, is among the crispest hitters produced by South Africa's Eastern Cape. His nickname of Bozie came from "bulldozer" because his grandmother observed that he was in the habit of bulldozing around. He has done that to good purpose both for South Africa and, latterly, Glamorgan, where he has gained a reputation as a destructive one-day hitter, the most potent figure by far in their T20 side.
His 31 ODIs for South Africa came with three centuries (one on debut against Zimbabwe, two against Pakistan) and he played 9 T20s but he lacked consistency at an average of not much above 30 meant that by the end of 2013 he had fallen out of favour. He also bowled six balls in his ODI career and conceded 17 in one over against Pakistan. "Misbah-ul-Haq was on strike and I tossed one of my leggies up and he clubbed it for six," he said later. "I turned round and said, 'Let's see if you can do it again' - and he did."
He signed a Kolpak deal with Glamorgan for the 2015 season, combining that with captaincy of the Eastern Cape-based Warriors. Justification was not hard to find: here was a player with 31 ODIs and nine T20Is spaced out between 2010 and 2013, who batted in every position across the top seven. "I definitely feel I held my own at international level and put in performances," he said. "Unfortunately I ran into a few really good bowlers when I ended up opening, which wasn't my preferred position. It was an unsettling period because I did move around, I was in and out of the side and I didn't feel backed."
The move to Glamorgan was cathartic. His menace was obvious in all competitions in 2015, but his 2016 season was inhibited by a knee injury, suffered at the start of the season, which restricted him to white-ball cricket. He had surgery in South Africa at the end of the season, insisting that his appetite for red-ball cricket remained, only to become a limited-overs specialist a year later.
His limited-overs cricket, though, was formidable. He scored 502 runs in the 2016 T20 Blast season, hitting 29 sixes to share the record with Chris Gayle, and also topped Glamorgan's One-Day Cup averages with 367 runs at 61.1. His legspin was another useful weapon: he took a career-best 3 for 20 against Somerset to get Glamorgan into the last eight of the NatWest Blast, but an improvement on that figure as he took 4 for 32 in the quarter-final against Yorkshire in Cardiff could not prevent Glamorgan's elimination.
He stood out, too, in 2017. With three hundreds and two fifties, he made the most runs in this year's Royal London Cup - 564 - and followed up with two T20 hundreds as Glamorgan reached NatWest Blast Finals Day. His IPL experience had amounted to only three games for Delhi Daredevils in 2011, but as he became a limited-overs specialist, at 32, his form was eye-catching enough to deserve interest among T20 leagues worldwide.
ESPNcricinfo staff