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Full name Matthew Hendrik Wessels
Born November 12, 1985, Australia
Current age 22 years 292 days
Major teams Marylebone Cricket Club,Nondescripts Cricket Club,Northamptonshire 2nd XI
Nickname Blood
Batting style Right-hand bat
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
Height
5 ft 11 in
Relations Father - KC Wessels
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
First-class
48
78
7
1950
107
27.46
3321
58.71
3
11
97
10
List A
56
52
6
1291
100
28.06
1327
97.28
1
7
43
0
Twenty20
33
26
6
407
49*
20.35
308
132.14
0
0
29
16
9
9
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
List A
56
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Twenty20
33
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Career statistics
First-class debut
2004
Last First-class
Gloucestershire v Northamptonshire at Bristol, Aug 19-22, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2005
Last List A
Northamptonshire v Glamorgan at Northampton, Aug 25, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Northamptonshire v Gloucestershire at Milton Keynes, Jun 22, 2005 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Essex v Northamptonshire at Chelmsford, Jul 7, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Rikki Wessels is the son of the former Australia and South Africa player and former Northants coach Kepler Wessels. He is an extremely talented gloveman who also possesses a decent range of strokes. Northamptonshire have high hopes for him, and he scored his maiden first-class century for them in 2005 against Somerset. He played ten times in the Championship in 2006, consolidating his position in the side. September 2006
