Full name William Frederick Stelling
Born June 30, 1969, Johannesburg, Transvaal
Current age 39 years 6 days
Major teams Netherlands,Berkshire,Boland,Leicestershire,Western Province
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Education Michaelhouse, St Stithian's, UCT
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
ODIs
15
11
5
180
44
30.00
272
66.17
0
0
8
2
7
0
First-class
19
29
2
508
53
18.81
0
1
8
0
List A
63
50
25
856
76*
34.24
0
3
25
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
ODIs
15
15
699
567
22
3/12
3/12
25.77
4.86
31.7
0
0
0
First-class
19
2419
1068
33
5/49
32.36
2.64
73.3
1
0
List A
63
2806
2039
74
5/30
5/30
27.55
4.35
37.9
0
1
0
Career statistics
ODI debut
Netherlands v Sri Lanka at Amstelveen, Jul 4, 2006 scorecard
Last ODI
Netherlands v Scotland at Belfast, Jul 13, 2007 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut
1991/92
Last First-class
Netherlands v Bermuda at Pretoria, Nov 21-24, 2006 scorecard
List A debut
1991/92
Last List A
Netherlands v Scotland at Belfast, Jul 13, 2007 scorecard
Profile
Known as something of a rebel in his younger days, Billy Stelling, a Cape Town-born allrounder, mellowed after a spate of injuries threatened to derail his career altogether. He played for Western Province and the Boland, but from the mid 1990s his career was based in Europe. He had a spell with Leicestershire, making only one first-class outing when he took 5 for 49 against Kent in 2000. He turned out for Berkshire in the Minor Counties Championship and also had spells with East Lancashire and Rawtenstall in the Lancashire League.
He first played for Netherlands in 1995 and was on the fringes of the one-day side for much of the next decade, never quite able to hold down a regular place.
A good finisher in the one day game, coming in at No. 6 or 7, he was considered a placer of the ball but was capable of playing big innings.
He announced his retirement from the first-class game after the 2007 World Cup - hardly earth-shattering news as he had played only one such match in seven years - but while he expressed a desire to continue playing ODIs, at 38, time appeared to be against him.
Alan Curr May 2007
