neil mckenzie Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
neil mckenzie is a cricketer(sportsman) from South Africa. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Neil Douglas McKenzie
Born
November 24, 1975, Johannesburg, Transvaal
Age
47 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Medium
Playing Role
Opening Batter
Education
King Edward VII, RAU
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 58 | 64 | 2 | - |
Inn | 94 | 55 | 1 | - |
Runs | 3253 | 1688 | 7 | - |
Avg | 37.39 | 37.51 | 0.0 | - |
SR | 42.01 | 69.41 | 87.5 | - |
HS | 226 | 131 | 7 | - |
NO | 7 | 10 | 1 | - |
100s | 5 | 2 | 0 | - |
50s | 16 | 10 | 0 | - |
4s | 409 | 142 | 0 | - |
6s | 22 | 8 | 0 | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 58 | 64 | 2 | - |
Inn | 6 | 5 | - | - |
Balls | 90 | 46 | - | - |
Runs | 68 | 27 | - | - |
Wkt | 0 | 0 | - | - |
BBI | 1 / 0 | 0 / 0 | - | - |
BBM | 1 / 0 | 0 / 0 | - | - |
Eco | 4.53 | 3.52 | - | - |
Avg | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - |
5W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- KA McKenzie
- South Africa
- Barbados Tridents
- Durham
- Gauteng
- Hampshire
- Lions
- Northerns
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
He also struggled to convert the starts he got into something more substantial. South Africa refused to be content with just impressive fifties. Thus he soon fell out of contention in 2004. People were also questioning his technique against quality spin bowling. All these resulted in a three year exile from the International arena.
He made a return to the Test side in 2008 after Gibbs' loss of form. He returned as an opener and quickly made it count. He forged a potent opening combination with Graeme Smith. The duo in fact put on 415 runs, opening against Bangladesh in 2008. McKenzie got a career best 226 in the same innings. He moved from strength to strength in 2008 and also got more then 1000 runs in the calendar year. His achievements were recognized when he was named as one of the five cricketers of the year by Wisden in 2009.
His return to the ODI squad was not so sweet though. He struggled in Australia managing just one fifty after his return in 2009 and was soon dropped from the side. Age was not on his side and with form deserting him in 2009, he was soon dropped from the Test side too after a string of poor returns. With South Africa, looking to build a team for the future, Neil McKenzie's career was cut-short but he will always be remembered as a gutsy cricketer who gave it his best every time he walked out on the field.
In January 2010, he signed for Hampshire and has been playing County cricket in England. He also plays for Highveld Lions in the domestic competition and acts as the mentor for them as well. He has dedicated his time in grooming youngsters like Quinton de Kock, Chris Morris to name a few.
Interesting facts: His younger sister, Megan, is an international model and was recently voted the sexiest woman in South Africa by readers of FHM magazine (hence the 'where's your sister' jibes from spectators whenever McKenzie fields near the boundary).
McKenzie can afford to take this in good humour: he has been dating his sister's close friend, Kerry McGregor, the 22-year-old Wonderbra model, for some years and eventually married her.
By Ganesh Chandrasekaran and Akshay Maanay
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Popular, mildly eccentric and unassuming, Neil McKenzie was a stalwart in South Africa's middle-order for four years in the early 2000s, despite a less-than-promising start as an opening batsman in Sri Lanka in 2000. From good cricketing stock - father Kevin was a carefree middle-order batsman who represented South Africa during the rebel era - Neil captained both the South African Schools and Under-19 teams before falling under the influence of former New Zealand captain Ken Rutherford at Gauteng. He made his maiden Test and ODI centuries against New Zealand and Sri Lanka respectively during the summer of 2000-01 and was able to take advantage of the confusion over the roles of Daryll Cullinan and Jonty Rhodes to establish himself as a more-or-less permanent fixture in both teams. Questions were asked of his ability to cope with the very best spinners, but not enough to warrant his three-and-a-half year exile from the side from March 2004, at a time when he ought to have been at the height of his career. He was eventually recalled to face West Indies at Cape Town in January 2008. Neat and economical at the crease, McKenzie is particularly strong on the leg side. On the tour of Bangladesh which followed, he was involved in a world record opening stand of 415 with his captain Graeme Smith. Prior to South Africa's tour of England, he signed for Durham for the early part of the 2008 season.
Peter Robinson and Cricinfo staff June 2008