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Full name Dillon du Preez
Born November 8, 1981, Port Elizabeth, Cape Province
Current age 26 years 296 days
Major teams Eagles,Free State,Leicestershire
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
First-class
39
54
6
875
122
18.22
1
3
9
0
List A
49
35
16
685
107*
36.05
547
125.22
1
2
9
0
Twenty20
19
14
6
167
40*
20.87
112
149.10
0
0
7
12
6
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
39
7095
3210
137
7/108
23.43
2.71
51.7
7
5
1
List A
49
2327
1856
53
4/22
4/22
35.01
4.78
43.9
1
0
0
Twenty20
19
19
336
411
15
2/2
2/2
27.40
7.33
22.4
0
0
0
Career statistics
First-class debut
2003/04
Last First-class
Leicestershire v Essex at Leicester, Aug 27-28, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2004/05
Last List A
Leicestershire v Derbyshire at Leicester, Aug 25, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Eagles v Lions at Bloemfontein, Jan 22, 2006 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Nottinghamshire v Leicestershire at Nottingham, Jun 19, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Dillon du Preez had one of the more interesting entries into the first-class game when he was forced to bowl for two days for Free State against the West Indies as the tourists amassed 618. The Port Elizabeth-born fast bowler didn't lose faith, however, picking up 3 for 75 in 29 overs including Shivnarine Chanderpaul as his maiden wicket, bowled for 245. He also scored 56 and took 2 for 34 in the second innings. Du Preez had moved to Bloemfontein from the Eastern Cape in 1989 and attended a coaching academy run by internationals Corrie van Zyl and Rudolf Steyn. "I was hooked on cricket after that and applied myself more to cricket than my studies," he admits. He made slow but steady progress through the ranks of the South Africa Under-17 and Free State Academy teams before his meeting with the West Indies in December 2003. Du Preez was far from a permanent fixture in the Eagles team in the first three seasons of franchise cricket, but he burst into prominence by taking 55 wickets in the Eagles' triumphant 2007-08 campaign. An accurate bowler of slightly less than extreme pace, Du Preez also contributes useful runs in the lower-order, making his maiden first-class century in 2007-08. He signed with Leicestershire as a Kolpak player in 2008. Ken Borland May 2008
