makhaya ntini Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
makhaya ntini is a cricketer(sportsman) from South Africa. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Makhaya Ntini
Born
July 06, 1977, Mdingi, nr King William's Town, Cape Province
Age
46 years old
Also Known As
George
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Fast
Playing Role
Bowler
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 101 | 173 | 10 | 9 |
Inn | 116 | 47 | 4 | 2 |
Runs | 699 | 199 | 10 | 11 |
Avg | 9.85 | 8.65 | 5.0 | 11.0 |
SR | 48.58 | 66.78 | 90.91 | 61.11 |
HS | 32 | 42 | 5 | 11 |
NO | 45 | 24 | 2 | 1 |
100s | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
50s | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4s | 104 | 16 | 2 | 2 |
6s | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 101 | 173 | 10 | 9 |
Inn | 190 | 171 | 10 | 9 |
Balls | 20834 | 8687 | 192 | 210 |
Runs | 11242 | 6559 | 298 | 242 |
Wkt | 390 | 266 | 6 | 7 |
BBI | 37 / 7 | 22 / 6 | 22 / 2 | 21 / 2 |
BBM | 132 / 13 | 22 / 6 | 22 / 2 | 21 / 2 |
Eco | 3.24 | 4.53 | 9.31 | 6.91 |
Avg | 28.83 | 24.66 | 49.67 | 34.57 |
5W | 18 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
10W | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Teams he has played for:
- T Ntini
- South Africa
- Border
- Chennai Super Kings
- ICC World XI
- Kent
- Morrisville Unity
- Warriors
- Warwickshire
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
However, Ntini suffered an early setback in his career. His career seemed poised for an early end when he was charged and convicted of rape in 1999. Ntini maintained his innocence and was finally acquitted of all charges. He returned to the South African team in 2000 and never looked back. In 2003, he became the first South African to take 10 wickets at the prestigious Lord's ground. However, his best performance came in a Test against West Indies in Port of Spain, where he took a match haul of 13 wickets, which remains the most number of wickets taken by a South African in a Test match.
Ntini's bowling was characterized by his wide of the crease angle and never ending energy. He would often bowl marathon spells whenever his side needed them. In ODI cricket, he would often be expensive but had the ability to be deadly on his day, as the Australians found out in 2006 when Ntini destroyed them with a 6 for 22 performance, which is the best by a South African in ODIs.
Ntini established himself as one of South Africa's and the world's premier fast bowlers in the years to come. He became only the third South African behind Shaun Pollock and and Allan Donald to pick up 300 Test wickets and also rose up to 2nd in the ICC Test rankings. His 100th Test, against England in 2009, was celebrated across his country but it turned out to be his penultimate match. He was dropped for the rest of the series against England and never returned. He announced his retirement from international cricket after playing a T20 match against India in 2011.
Ntini played county cricket for Kent and Warwickshire, and represented the Chennai Super Kings for the first three seasons of the IPL.
By Karthik Lakshmanan
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Makhaya Ntini seemed to possess few of the standard attributes of the successful fast bowler. He packs neither express pace, nor the drip torture of infallible accuracy, nor a quiver brimming with variation. What he does have, though, is almost 400 Test wickets.
Ntini relies on relentlessness, which requires him to strive for levels of fitness not previously countenanced by cricketers, and an unfailingly ebullient character, which buoys him with hope and aggression long after bowlers of lesser body and mind have conceded defeat. These fine qualities made him the heart of the South African attack and the soul of the entire team.
Mainstream cricket in South Africa was under pressure to prove itself worthy of attention beyond its hitherto largely white niche when Ntini emerged from the backwaters of the Eastern Cape in 1993. The script was straight out of Hollywood. Ntini was discovered by the then United Cricket Board's (UCB) development programme. His next stop was Dale College, a prestigious school where cricket's roots run deep. Dale was not far from Ntini's home village of Mdingi, but it was a place beyond youngsters of his humble station.
By the southern summer of 1997-98 season, Ntini was South Africa's first black African international cricketer. But his career seemed over, or at best hanging by a thread, when he was convicted of rape in 1999. He protested his innocence vehemently and consistently and, with the support of the UCB, was acquitted on appeal.
Ntini returned to action after almost 20 months in the wilderness, and was a fixture in the national team for the next 10 years. In 2003, he became the first South African to take 10 wickets in a Lord's Test. Five years later he owned the best Test match figures by a South African: Ntini's haul of 13 for 132 against the West Indies under Port-of-Spain's blazing sun and on a not particularly lively Queen's Park Oval pitch was the perfect précis of his career.
His 100th Test, against England at Centurion in December 2009, was celebrated with gusto across the country. But it proved to be his last hurrah. Ntini was ineffective, and he was dropped for the last two Tests of the England series. He insisted he would give his all, as he always did, to get back into the side but the team had moved on. Eleven months later he announced his international retirement, but his place in South Africa history had long-since been secured.
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