rilee rossouw Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
rilee rossouw is a cricketer(sportsman) from South Africa. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Rilee Roscoe Rossouw
Born
October 09, 1989, Bloemfontein, Orange Free State
Age
34 years old
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak
Playing Role
Top order Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | - | 36 | 29 | 14 |
Inn | - | 35 | 27 | 14 |
Runs | - | 1239 | 767 | 262 |
Avg | - | 38.72 | 34.86 | 21.83 |
SR | - | 94.36 | 159.79 | 136.46 |
HS | - | 132 | 109 | 82 |
NO | - | 3 | 5 | 2 |
100s | - | 3 | 2 | 0 |
50s | - | 7 | 3 | 1 |
4s | - | 131 | 69 | 20 |
6s | - | 22 | 39 | 14 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | - | 36 | 29 | 14 |
Inn | - | 3 | - | - |
Balls | - | 45 | - | - |
Runs | - | 44 | - | - |
Wkt | - | 1 | - | - |
BBI | - | 17 / 1 | - | - |
BBM | - | 17 / 1 | - | - |
Eco | - | 5.87 | - | - |
Avg | - | 44.0 | - | - |
5W | - | 0 | - | - |
10W | - | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- South Africa
- Basnahira Cricket Dundee
- Dambulla Giants
- Delhi Capitals
- Eagles
- Free State
- Hampshire
- Khulna Tigers
- Los Angeles Knight Riders
- Melbourne Renegades
- Multan Sultans
- Oval Invincibles (Men)
- Pretoria Capitals
- Quetta Gladiators
- Royal Challengers Bangalore
- South Africa A
- South Africa Under-19s
- Sydney Thunder
- Trinbago Knight Riders
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Rossouw made his First-Class debut a few months prior to the Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia, top-scoring for Free State against Easterns in Bloemfontein. Catapulting his powers to an all new level, the southpaw cracked the hitherto fastest triple ton in the history of South African domestic cricket in an exhibition of enterprising batsmanship in March 2010. The purple patch got even better that season as Rossouw ended up with 1,261 runs at a stellar average of 57.61.
The young batter also created a splash in the Champions League T20 when he smashed a 19-ball 44 against T&T in 2009.
Rossouw's performances at the domestic level did not go unrewarded as he was called up to the national side in 2014. He made his ODI debut the same year against neighbours Zimbabwe and his T20I debut came a few months after against Australia.
However, like many South African players on the fringes of the national team, Rossouw decided to sign a Kolpak deal with Hampshire in 2017, a decision that drew a lot of scepticism and one that rendered him unable to turn up in national colours. Rossouw's county stint wasn't remarkable and when the United Kingdom exited the European Union, Kolpak deals came to an end and so did Rossouw's time at Hampshire. By then, however, Rossouw had transformed himself into a destructive T20 batter reputed across the globe and that paved the way for him to return to South Africa's T20I side in 2022.
His return to South African colours after a 6-year absence was a resounding success. In just his 2nd comeback innings, Rossouw struck an unbeaten 55-ball 96 against England in a T20I. It didn't take long for him to bring up his first T20I hundred as he struck 100* off just 48 deliveries against India less than a month later. A spot in South Africa's squad for the 2022 T20 World Cup was inevitable and Rossouw stamped his authority with another century, this time against Bangladesh, in his first innings of the tournament.
Rossouw was first bought by the Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2011 but it wouldn't be until 2014 that he would feature in a game after he was re-enlisted by the franchise as a replacement for Nic Maddinson. Rossouw only played 2 games in that season and 3 in the following one before a long hiatus. It was only in the 2022 IPL Auction, on the back of some stellar performances in leagues like the PSL and BPL and after returning to play some match-winning knocks for his country, that he was bought by the Delhi Capitals for INR 4.6 crore.
By Deivarayan Muthu and Anurag Hegde
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
A stylish top-order player with an elegant and authoritative drive, Rilee Rossouw has been a high-impact batter for South Africa in limited-overs cricket.
He first came to attention in the 2008 Under-19 World Cup, after which he was the leading run-scorer in the South African first-class competition in 2009-10, with 1189 runs at 66.05. But though he went on to average over 40 in first-class cricket in 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14, he was unable to break into to the Test team.
Eventually, in August 2014, Rossouw was included in a South Africa ODI squad, but he had a nightmarish start in international cricket, racking up four ducks in his first six innings. The selectors, though, stuck with him and he was included in the T20 squad for the Australia tour in November 2014, where he scored 78 in his first match.
Two months on, Rossouw made his first international century, against West Indies in Johannesburg, in the match where AB de Villiers broke the record for fastest ODI hundred, and he averaged 52 in the six games he played in the ODI World Cup that followed.
In October 2016 he hit a sensational 122 to secure a 5-0 ODI series win over Australia, but he announced early the next year that he had signed for Hampshire as a Kolpak. He made an immediate impact in England, smashing a career-best 156 against Somerset in the Royal London Cup.
Rossouw became a man in demand on the franchise T20 circuit at the tail end of the 2010s and into the next decade, finishing the 2018-19 Bangladesh Premier League as the leading run-scorer, with 558 runs. He won the Pakistan Super League with Quetta in 2019 and two years later with Multan Sultans; in 2022 he made 275 runs as Sultans made it to the final again and lost.
Later that year, the UK having exited the European Union, Rossouw, no longer able to qualify to play county cricket other than as an overseas player, returned to South Africa colours. He did so with a bang, making an unbeaten 96 and two back-to-back T20I hundreds as their No. 3 in his first few innings back, against England, India and Bangladesh - the last of those in the World Cup, where South Africa eventually endured a shock exit at the hands of Netherlands.