Dwaine Pretorius

South Africa|Bowling Allrounder
Dwaine Pretorius
INTL CAREER: 2016 - 2022
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Full Name

Dwaine Pretorius

Born

March 29, 1989, Randfontein

Age

34y 356d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Medium fast

Playing Role

Bowling Allrounder

A late-blooming allrounder who swapped pace for precision because of knee injuries, Dwaine Pretorius offered awayswingers and lower-order runs to South Africa in the post-Kallis era.

He missed the 2008 Under-19 World Cup after tearing a cartilage in his right knee, and chose to pursue an accounting degree for the next three years. After he returned to the game, Pretorius was named the T20 Amateur Cricketer of the Year in 2011-12 and was included in the Lions squad for the 2012 Champions League T20, but the knee flared up again and he required surgery.

Following his second comeback, Pretorius stopped striving for speed and shelved the idea of bowling 140-plus. Instead, he operated in the mid-130s and tried to emulate Vernon Philander's accuracy. He earned a franchise contract in the 2014-15 season and was named the South African Cricketers' Association's MVP in 2015.

He made his ODI debut in 2016 and got a fifty in his second innings, in Christchurch in February 2017. He picked up figures of 3 for 5 three days later in Wellington. In his first T20I innings, in March 2019, Pretorius hit an unbeaten 42-ball 77 to score a comfortable win over Sri Lanka. He went on to play the 2019 ODI World Cup and made his Test debut later that year, at home against England. In 2021, he took 5 for 17 - the best figures by a South African bowler in men's T20Is - against Pakistan in Lahore.

Having worked on a number of slower balls and on varying his length, Pretorius found himself playing as a death-overs specialist in the 2021 T20 World Cup, and finished the tournament with nine wickets and the best strike rate - 9.7 - among bowlers who had bowled at least five overs.

Dwaine Pretorius Career Stats

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests3648025272/263/8236.003.1568.5000
ODIs27261144947354/364/3627.054.9632.6100
T20Is3027504696355/175/1719.888.2814.4010
FC61108935142631736/3810/7524.642.7354.0561
List A102100454636371194/354/3530.564.8038.2400
T20s222194335446771845/175/1725.418.3618.2210

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests360833713.8316350.920013120
ODIs271311925016.0022485.7101145110
T20Is3017526177*21.75159164.1501221560
FC61878280517735.50421566.5451635959180
List A1026913163811529.25175193.5411112251260
T20s22217240262277*19.861910137.2705176139470
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Dwaine Pretorius took two middle-order wickets
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Dwaine Pretorius struck twice inside powerplay to dent Jamaica Tallawahs
Dwaine Pretorius' triple strike in his first two overs made captain Imran Tahir's job easier
Dwaine Pretorius smashed a 29-ball 48
"I've got him," says Dwaine Pretorius after dismissing Tim David