Full Name

Pumelela Matshikwe

Born

June 19, 1984, Johannesburg, Transvaal

Age

39y 274d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Medium

A busy right-arm seamer, Pumelela Mathsikwe is a hard-working provincial cricketer, who received few franchise breakthroughs. Matshikwe's career was ended when he as implicated in the match-fixing scandal in South Africa's T20 tournament in the 2015-16 summer.

Matshikwe was schooled at St David's Marist College and attended the University of the Witwatersrand. He made his provincial debut in the 2008-09 season for Gauteng but could not break into the Lions franchise.

In the 2011-12 season, Matshikwe was picked to be part of the Impi squad - a seventh franchise team added to South Africa's T20 competition, which was a composite team comprised of the best provincial players who could not nail down franchise spots. He was their leading wicker-taker with 11 scalps at 23.27 and 11th overall.

Despite that, he remained on the fringes of the Lions outfit until the 2015-16 season when he was a regular in their victorious one-day campaign. Matshikwe was the second-highest wicket-taker for the team with 11 wickets at 29.36 in the tournament.

On August 1, 2016 Matshikwe was banned for ten years for receiving a payment to fix in the 2015-16 Ram Slam tournament. Three years of his sentence was suspended.
Firdose Moonda

Pumelela Matshikwe Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
FC77803438942*8.45105536.8700533220
List A5717741154.109344.080040110
T20s2453221.00450.00000020

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
FC771391078953431786/179/19230.012.9760.6850
List A575320971745494/284/2835.614.9942.7200
T20s2423462593234/174/1725.787.7020.0100

Recent Matches of Pumelela Matshikwe

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
LIONS vs Warriors1 & 50/4207-Apr-2016GqeberhaFC
LIONS vs Titans300/35 & 6/5831-Mar-2016CenturionFC
LIONS vs Dolphins--0/1918-Mar-2016PietermaritzburgFC
LIONS vs Knights0 & 42/36 & 0/1110-Mar-2016JohannesburgFC
LIONS vs Cape Cobras--2/40 & 1/2603-Mar-2016PotchefstroomFC