dale benkenstein Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
dale benkenstein is a cricketer(sportsman) from South Africa. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Dale Martin Benkenstein
Born
June 09, 1974, Salisbury (now Harare), Rhodesia
Age
49 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Medium, Right arm Offbreak
Playing Role
Allrounder
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | - | 23 | - | - |
Inn | - | 20 | - | - |
Runs | - | 305 | - | - |
Avg | - | 17.94 | - | - |
SR | - | 65.87 | - | - |
HS | - | 69 | - | - |
NO | - | 3 | - | - |
100s | - | 0 | - | - |
50s | - | 1 | - | - |
4s | - | 20 | - | - |
6s | - | 0 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | - | 23 | - | - |
Inn | - | 4 | - | - |
Balls | - | 65 | - | - |
Runs | - | 44 | - | - |
Wkt | - | 4 | - | - |
BBI | - | 5 / 3 | - | - |
BBM | - | 5 / 3 | - | - |
Eco | - | 4.06 | - | - |
Avg | - | 11.0 | - | - |
5W | - | 0 | - | - |
10W | - | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- MM Benkenstein
- BR Benkenstein
- BN Benkenstein
- LM Benkenstein
- South Africa
- Delhi Giants
- Dolphins
- Durham
- KwaZulu-Natal
- Marylebone Cricket Club
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
He was a solid middle-order batsman who racked by runs at will in the domestic circuit. Dale was also a more than useful seam bowler, who has 100 first-class wickets to his name. His ODI debut came against England in 1998, but he could never cement his place in the side. After playing his last game for South Africa in 2002, he moved to England to play County cricket.
Dale is regarded as one of the legends at Durham, he became their all-time leading run-scorer and achieved that feat in the 2010-11 season when he went past Jon Lewi's 7854 runs. He also captained Durham and led them to plenty of trophies. The noticeable ones being the Friends Provident Trophy in 2007 and the County Championship in 2008. Dale is married to Jacquiline and enjoys fishing and golfing in his leisure time.
by Akshay Maanay
As of May 2014
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
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 Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe); 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 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.
Wrongly regarded as solely a one-day specialist for a time, Benkenstein has scored close to 10,000 limited-overs 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 15,000 runs at an average around 45. He also boasts over 100 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 had arrived at the county the season before, after Durham had finished bottom of the Championship for the fifth time in their 13 years as a first-class county. Benkenstein's arrival was an important factor in Durham's coming of age, and in 2007 they won the Friends Provident Trophy and were runners-up in the Championship - and Benkenstein ceased to be a Kolpak as he acquired a British passport. In 2008, the Championship was won for the first time after an innings victory over Kent.
Benkenstein stepped down as captain at the end of that season, handing the reins over to Will Smith, but remained as a valuable member of the side in all three formats and was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2009. His 2011 season was the most productive of his career in England, yielding 1,366 runs at 59.39, including four centuries and a further nine half-centuries. He became Durham's all-time highest run-scorer having overtaken Jon Lewis's mark of 7,854 during the 2011 season. He is married to Jacquiline and enjoys golf and fishing when not on the cricket field.
ESPNcricinfo staff