lance klusener Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
lance klusener is a cricketer(sportsman) from South Africa. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Lance Klusener
Born
September 04, 1971, Durban, Natal
Age
52 years old
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Fast medium
Playing Role
Allrounder
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 49 | 171 | - | - |
Inn | 69 | 137 | - | - |
Runs | 1906 | 3576 | - | - |
Avg | 32.86 | 41.1 | - | - |
SR | 59.81 | 89.92 | - | - |
HS | 174 | 103 | - | - |
NO | 11 | 50 | - | - |
100s | 4 | 2 | - | - |
50s | 8 | 19 | - | - |
4s | 236 | 293 | - | - |
6s | 20 | 76 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 49 | 171 | - | - |
Inn | 84 | 164 | - | - |
Balls | 6887 | 7336 | - | - |
Runs | 3033 | 5751 | - | - |
Wkt | 80 | 192 | - | - |
BBI | 64 / 8 | 49 / 6 | - | - |
BBM | 139 / 8 | 49 / 6 | - | - |
Eco | 2.64 | 4.7 | - | - |
Avg | 37.91 | 29.95 | - | - |
5W | 1 | 6 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- South Africa
- Dolphins
- Kolkata Tigers
- KwaZulu-Natal
- Middlesex
- Mountaineers
- Natal Country Districts
- Northamptonshire
- Nottinghamshire
- Rest of the World XI
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
An accomplished batsman, Klusener made a name for himself thanks to his exploits in the shorter forms of the game. His ability to clear the ropes with nonchalant ease and his never say die attitude towards batting helped South Africa establish themselves as one of the super-powers of the game in the late 90's.
A fiery pace bowler, Klusener was the ideal foil to the deadly duo of Donald and Pollock. His bowling skills were showcased in his debut Test at Kolkata where he dazzled the Indians with terrific figures of 8/64. As aggressive with the ball as he was with the bat, his ability to take his side home even in the most hopeless of causes was the stuff of folklore. His best moment was obviously the 1999 WC where his super-hero acts nearly took South Africa to their first ever finals. It was a small consolation that he won the Man of the Tournament award.
Klusener is one of the few players who had a better ODI batting average as compared to Tests. Injury forced Klusener to cut down on his pace and he developed several other skills to bamboozle the batsmen. The off-cutter was one such weapon used to unsettle the batsmen. Klusener's form began to fade on the tours to West Indies (2000-01) and Australia (2001-02). His prolonged poor form cost him his place in the side for some time but managed to get back into reckoning for the 2003 WC. A poor WC resulted in his omission from the touring squad to England subsequently.
It did not help that new South African skipper Graeme Smith termed him as a disruptive force to the younger players of the squad. Klusener did make a comeback of sorts for the ODI series against West Indies in 2003-04 and earned a Test comeback for the Sri Lankan tour in 2004. It did not last too long though and Klusener bid good-bye to international cricket after he linked up with his African mates under Kepler Wessels at Northamptonshire.
Klusener was one of the high profile signings in the ICL for the 2007 season and enjoyed reasonable success. He quit the ICL in 2009 to embark on a coaching career. Klusener was tipped as the bowling coach of Bangladesh, which he subsequently declined. He has now been appointed as the coach of South African domestic side, Dolphins.
Klusener was named as the Wisden Cricketer of the year in 2000.
By Pradeep Krishnamurthy
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Lance Klusener broke into first-class cricket as a fast bowler - mentored by Malcolm Marshall at Natal, no less - and went on to be of the most feared allrounders in the game at the turn of the 21st century, leaving his stamp on the 1999 World Cup, where he was Player of the Series for his 17 wickets and 281 runs.
Klusener was driven in his early days by a straightforward approach to bowling: hit the batter's head if you can't hit his stumps. A serious ankle injury in 1998 forced him to drop his pace and develop additional skills. He was a revelation in his debut Test, in 1996, ending with match-winning figures of 8 for 64 against India in Calcutta. In the time between then and the next World Cup, he showed glimpses of his prowess. In the 1997 Wills Quadrangular Tournament in Pakistan, he made a barnstorming fifty and took 6 for 49 against Sri Lanka, and then followed it up with 99 and a wicket in a crushing win for South Africa in the final, against the same opponent.
Klusener's baseball-style backlift and thunderous hitting have become emblematic of the 1999 World Cup, and his heroics nearly took South Africa to the final. The image of him and a hapless Allan Donald at the end of the tied Edgbaston semi-final against Australia will always be one of the most poignant in cricket.
Later that year he produced a Test-best 174 against England in Port Elizabeth. Around that time he began fulfilling the role of South Africa's second slow bowler in ODIs, bowling medium-pace cutters off just six paces of the sort that many batters found it impossible to score off. His batting began to fall away, though, and he lost his place in the side. A recall for the home 2003 World Cup failed to resuscitate his career - he was at the crease again as South Africa were infamously knocked out, having misread the Duckworth-Lewis table in a rain-affected must-win game.
Klusener's subsequent omission for the 2003 tour of England put his international career in doubt, and led to a bout of legal wrangling, but following a reconciliation he was recalled for the one-day series against West Indies in 2003-04, kept his place for the following series in New Zealand, and earned a Test recall to the tour of Sri Lanka in 2004. It was a short-lived comeback, though, and he left international cricket for good to join the African influx at Northamptonshire under Kepler Wessels.
After he quit playing, Klusener served in various coaching roles, with Dolphins in South Africa, Zimbabwe, the BPL, Afghanistan, the IPL, and elsewhere.