mark vermeulen Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
mark vermeulen is a cricketer(sportsman) from Zimbabwe. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Mark Andrew Vermeulen
Born
March 02, 1979, Salisbury (now Harare)
Age
44 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak
Playing Role
Top order Batter
Education
Prince Edward High, Harare
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 9 | 43 | - | - |
Inn | 18 | 43 | - | - |
Runs | 449 | 868 | - | - |
Avg | 24.94 | 21.7 | - | - |
SR | 47.77 | 70.74 | - | - |
HS | 118 | 92 | - | - |
NO | 0 | 3 | - | - |
100s | 1 | 0 | - | - |
50s | 2 | 6 | - | - |
4s | 58 | 110 | - | - |
6s | 2 | 2 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 9 | 43 | - | - |
Inn | 1 | 1 | - | - |
Balls | 6 | 5 | - | - |
Runs | 5 | 5 | - | - |
Wkt | 0 | 1 | - | - |
BBI | 5 / 0 | 5 / 1 | - | - |
BBM | 5 / 0 | 5 / 1 | - | - |
Eco | 5.0 | 0.0 | - | - |
Avg | 0.0 | 5.0 | - | - |
5W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- RD Vermeulen
- Zimbabwe
- Mashonaland A
- Matabeleland
- Matabeleland Tuskers
- Mid West Rhinos
- Mountaineers
- Southern Rocks
- Westerns
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Vermeulen was arrested in August 2006 on charges of setting fire to the offices of the Harare Sports club, but was subsequently cleared after a trial in January 2008, on the grounds that he was suffering from psychiatric problems and partial epilepsy on account of the blow on that fateful day. Vermeulen never came out of that episode and declared his retirement from all forms of the game in 2011, preferring instead to start a fresh career in golf. However, he made a U-turn, signing up for the Southern Rocks Zimbabwe cricket franchise, for the 2012 season.
As a cricketer, Vermeulen was a naturally positive player with a wide range of strokes and was one who was pleasing to the eyes. His favorite shots were the cut and the pull which he used to great effect. He was drafted into the squad at the expense of Guy Whittal in 2002. He had a lone century, a patient innings of 118 against West Indies at Bulawayo. He had more success in the shorter format of the game though and represented Zimbabwe in the 2003 World Cup.
Being a gritty player, Vermeulen did make one final comeback in 2009. He marked his return with a fine knock of 92 against Bangladesh.
Vermeulen was also noted for his petulant behaviour and had several off-field disciplinary issues. Two incidents in particular stick out. He was sent home from Zimbabwe's tour of England in 2003 after ignoring management instructions to travel with the rest of the squad. Then in 2006 he was banned from all cricket played under the auspices of the England and Wales Cricket Board after a violent altercation with spectators at a match between Ashton and his club, Werneth in the Central Lancashire League. The original ban imposed was ten years, but on appeal it was reduced to three years, two of which were suspended.
By Pradeep Krishnamurthy
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Mark Vermeulen's life and career changed forever on January 20, 2004, when he was struck a sickening blow on the head by Irfan Pathan during Zimbabwe's VB Series campaign in Australia. Two-and-a-half erratic years later, in October 2006, he was arrested after setting fire to the offices of the Harare Sports Club and the National Academy, but was cleared at his subsequent trial in January 2008, on the grounds that he had been suffering psychiatric problems, including partial complex epilepsy, ever since the injury. That seemed to signal the end of his career, but he refused to accept that and his perseverance was rewarded in 2009 when the Zimbabwe board agreed to offer him another chance.
During his career he was attacking and naturally athletic, and was first drafted into the Zimbabwe team for the second Test against Pakistan in November 2002, at the expense of Guy Whittall. At his most comfortable against pace bowling, Vermeulen was a back-foot player by inclination, particularly strong on the cut, pull and hook shots, although he was also a sweet timer of the ball through the covers. A former captain of Zimbabwe's Under-19 team, Vermeulen had a desire to succeed that - even before his injury - could spill over into petulance and worse. In 1996 he was banned from representing his school, Prince Edward High in Harare, for walking off with the stumps after receiving a poor lbw decision and locking himself in the changing room. That was a sign of things to come. He was sent home during the second Test of the 2003 England tour when, after becoming only the 13th man in Test history to record a pair on the same day of a match, ignored a management instruction to travel with the rest of the squad on the coach, instead choosing to leave the ground on his own. He had earlier refused to stop a ball at Hove because "it was too cold" and had also had run-ins with the team manager.
On the pitch he made a few decent scores in one-day internationals and played three matches in the 2003 World Cup. He was an excellent slip fielder, an occasional offbreak bowler, and a former national junior javelin champion.
Despite his troubles Vermeulen had an excellent 2004-05 season in which he averaged 43.60 in domestic cricket but the rise in his numbers coincided with economic decline and political turmoil and he did not immediately have the opportunity to see if that could translate on the cricket field.
In 2009, Vermeulen made a brief comeback for ODIs against South Africa but then disappeared off the radar again while he made his way around Zimbabwe's domestic circuit. He spent time at the Tuskers, Mid-West Rhinos, Mountaineers and Southern Rocks and completed a full house of playing for all the teams in the country when he returned to the Eagles in his home-town of Harare.
Although he had a side career in golf, Vermeulen decided to make the 2013-14 season his final go at trying to be an international cricketer. The domestic season was stalled by a player strike but once it got underway, Vermeulen made good on his commitment. He was the second-highest run scorer in the Logan Cup with 580 runs in seven matches at an average of 64.44.
In July 2014 he was given hope that his international career would be resurrected when he was picked for the Zimbabwean A side to play Afghanistan. He scored a century in the first four-day match and could not be overlooked for the one-off Test against South Africa which followed. Brendan Taylor described him as "calm, for a change". A decade after last playing in whites for Zimbabwe, Vermeulen made a comeback in August 2014.
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