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Full name Thami Lungisa Tsolekile
Born October 9, 1980, Cape Town, Cape Province
Current age 28 years 2 days
Major teams South Africa,Cape Cobras,Western Province
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
3
5
0
47
22
9.40
177
26.55
0
0
3
0
6
0
First-class
93
129
15
2711
101*
23.78
1
15
295
22
List A
92
55
14
594
44
14.48
0
0
148
14
Twenty20
18
12
7
266
52
53.20
225
118.22
0
1
24
2
17
3
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
3
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First-class
93
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List A
92
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Twenty20
18
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Career statistics
Test debut
India v South Africa at Kanpur, Nov 20-24, 2004 scorecard
Last Test
South Africa v England at Port Elizabeth, Dec 17-21, 2004 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class debut
1999
Last First-class
Griqualand West v Western Province at Kimberley, Mar 13-15, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1998/99
Last List A
Western Province v Border at Cape Town, Feb 16, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Western Province Boland v Dolphins at Cape Town, Apr 7, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Eagles v Cape Cobras at Bloemfontein, Feb 19, 2006 scorecard
Profile
Wisden overview
Thami Tsolekile was a prodigy as a youngster. Although known as "Mara" by
his friends on the dusty streets of Langa township in Cape Town, principally
for his skills with a football at his feet, it was his scholarship to nearby
Pinelands school which put him on a path to cricket stardom. At Pinelands, Tsolekile broke almost every existing Cape Town schoolboy cricket record, many of them set a few years previously by Jacques Kallis, and at the same time proved himself a superb hockey player. He went on to play hockey for South Africa at full international level, scoring on his debut, but concentrated on cricket as it offered the chance to make a genuine career from the sport. After making his first-class debut as a 19-year-old in 2000, he captained the South African team at the Under-19 World Cup the following year. Tsolekile has been first-choice wicketkeeper at Western Province for the past two seasons, winning the domestic championship with them in 2001-02. Although his glovework is sound and impressed the selectors on the 2003 A tour of Australia enough to earn him elevation to the full squad for the tour of England which followed, Tsolekile considers himself a batsman first and a wicketkeeper second. Neil Manthorp
