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Full name Gideon Jacobus Kruis
Born May 9, 1974, Pretoria, Transvaal
Current age 34 years 76 days
Major teams Eagles,Griqualand West,Marylebone Cricket Club,Northern Transvaal,Yorkshire
Nickname Kruisie
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Height
6 ft 3 in
Education St Alban's College, Pretoria
Relations Brother-in-law - PJ Koortzen
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
First-class
115
163
49
1592
59
13.96
0
2
43
0
List A
114
52
19
407
31*
12.33
0
0
27
0
Twenty20
14
2
1
6
5*
6.00
6
100.00
0
0
0
0
3
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
115
23236
11531
373
7/58
30.91
2.97
62.2
18
1
List A
114
5293
4111
135
4/17
4/17
30.45
4.66
39.2
3
0
0
Twenty20
14
14
289
317
13
2/15
2/15
24.38
6.58
22.2
0
0
0
Career statistics
First-class debut
1993/94
Last First-class
Kent v Yorkshire at Canterbury, Jul 11-14, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1997/98
Last List A
Yorkshire v Scotland at Leeds, May 26, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Eastern Cape v Eagles at East London, Apr 18, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Leicestershire v Yorkshire at Leicester, Jun 22, 2007 scorecard
Profile
Deon Kruis was born in Transvaal and joined Yorkshire under the Kolpak ruling in 2005. In his first season with the county he was the top wicket-taker in the second division of the County Championship with 64 wickets, and was voted Yorkshire's Player-of-the-Year. In 2006 he was again Yorkshire's top wicket-taker. He is a handy lower-order batsman and previously represented Northern Transvaal, Griqualand West and Goodyear Eagles in South Africa between 1993 and 2005. Sam Collins April 2008
