nic pothas Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
nic pothas is a cricketer(sportsman) from South Africa. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Nic Pothas
Born
November 18, 1973, Johannesburg, Transvaal
Age
49 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Fielding Position
Wicketkeeper
Playing Role
Wicketkeeper Batter
Height
6ft 1in
Education
King Edward VII High School, Rand Afrikaans University
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | - | 3 | - | - |
Inn | - | 1 | - | - |
Runs | - | 24 | - | - |
Avg | - | 24.0 | - | - |
SR | - | 58.54 | - | - |
HS | - | 24 | - | - |
NO | - | 0 | - | - |
100s | - | 0 | - | - |
50s | - | 0 | - | - |
4s | - | 0 | - | - |
6s | - | 0 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | - | 3 | - | - |
Inn | - | - | - | - |
Balls | - | - | - | - |
Runs | - | - | - | - |
Wkt | - | - | - | - |
BBI | - | - | - | - |
BBM | - | - | - | - |
Eco | - | - | - | - |
Avg | - | - | - | - |
5W | - | - | - | - |
10W | - | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- South Africa
- Greece
- Delhi Giants
- Gauteng
- Hampshire
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
A regular in the first-class and List A arenas while in South Africa, he was a consistent wicket-keeper batsman, averaging in the mid thirites with the bat and keeping tidily behind the stumps.
Pothas was representing South Africa A in Barbados when he was drafted into the South Africa squad for the 2000 Singapore Challenge as cover for Mark Boucher, who was injured. With Boucher not fit for their next One Day International against Pakistan in Singapore, Pothas made his international debut. He marked his debut by taking two catches and making a single stumping, while scoring 24 runs with the bat.
In 2002, he made his debut for Hampshire in the English county. Since making his debut for Hampshire, he has been at the forefront of one of the county's most successful periods.After his retirement from International Cricket, Pothas took up a role with the Guernsey Cricket Board, where he became the Channel Islands’ first Director of Cricket and first full-time cricket specific coach. It was the presence of Boucher in the South Africa team that acted as a barrier to Pothas representing Proteas more often and indeed progressing to playing Test cricket.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
A versatile wicketkeeper-batsman, who has became a more accomplished batsman as his career progressed to the extent he opened the batting at times for Transvaal in
the Castle Cup in the absence of a genuine opening batsman. He is, however, better suited to the middle order where he can play his shots freely and without pressure. He joined Hampshire in 2002 and quickly became a consistent performer in front and behind the stumps. He also appeared for the Indian Cricket League's Delhi Giants team in March 2008. Although he never crossed 1000 runs he was close on a few occasions. Returns started to slip, due to injury, in 2010 and he suffered appendicitis part-way through the 2011 campaign which was the beginning of the end for his Hampshire career. He was released at the conclusion of the season having scored more than 10,000 runs in all cricket and taken more than 500 catches.
ESPNcricinfo staff