Most Runs
Players	Mat	Runs	HS	Ave	SR
Tillakaratne Dilshan(SL)	9	500	144	62.50	90.74
Sachin Tendulkar(India)	9	482	120	53.55	91.98
Kumar Sangakkara(SL)	9	465	111	93.00	83.78

Most Wickets
Players	Mat	WKts	BBI	Ave	Econ
Shahid Afridi(Pak)	8	21	5/16	12.85	3.62
Zaheer Khan(India)	9	21	3/20	18.76	4.83
Tim Southee(NZ)	8	18	3/13	17.33	4.31

Group A	Group B
	Australia		India
	Pakistan		South Africa
	New Zealand		England
	Sri Lanka		West Indies
	Zimbabwe		Bangladesh
	Canada		Ireland
	Kenya		Netherlands

Group A
Teams	Mat	Won	Lost	Tied	N/R	Pts	Net RR
Pakistan	6	5	1	0	0	10	+0.758
Sri Lanka	6	4	1	0	1	9	+2.582
Australia	6	4	1	0	1	9	+1.123
New Zealand	6	4	2	0	0	8	+1.135
Zimbabwe	6	2	4	0	0	4	+0.030
Canada	6	1	5	0	0	2	-1.987
Kenya	6	0	6	0	0	0	-3.042

Group B
Teams	Mat	Won	Lost	Tied	N/R	Pts	Net RR
South Africa	6	5	1	0	0	10	+2.026
India	6	4	1	1	0	9	+0.900
England	6	3	2	1	0	7	+0.072
West Indies	6	3	3	0	0	6	+1.066
Bangladesh	6	3	3	0	0	6	-1.361
Ireland	6	2	4	0	0	4	-0.696
Netherlands	6	0	6	0	0	0	-2.045

ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 / Players / Albert van der Merwe

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Albert van der Merwe

Ireland

Full name Albert van der Merwe

Born June 1, 1979, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa

Current age 33 years 357 days

Major teams Ireland

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
ODIs	9	6	2	15	8	3.75	25	60.00	0	0	0	1	1	0
List A	14	9	3	31	8	5.16	56	55.35	0	0	1	2	3	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
ODIs	9	9	432	323	11	5/49	5/49	29.36	4.48	39.2	0	1	0
List A	14	14	605	474	12	5/49	5/49	39.50	4.70	50.4	0	1	0

Limited Overs Career Statistics

ODI debut	Netherlands v Ireland at Amstelveen, Jul 9, 2010 scorecard
Last ODI	Ireland v Canada at Dublin, Sep 20, 2011 scorecard
List A debut	Ireland v West Indies A at Belfast, Jun 23, 2010 scorecard
Last List A	Ireland XI v South Africa A at Belfast, Aug 23, 2012 scorecard

Profile

A tall, lanky offspinner, Albert van der Merwe could have an important role to play as George Dockrell's partner on what should be spin-friendly pitches at the World Cup. As his name suggests, van der Merwe's background is South African and he captained captained Potchefstroom University to their first SA University title before emigrating to Ireland in 2004. An allrounder at Club level, van der Merwe put himself into the reckoning for an Ireland debut with some outstanding performances in 2009 and made his senior debut the following year.

Strengths

Van der Merwe's main strength in limited-overs cricket is his accuracy and discipline with the ball - in the 62 overs he's sent down in ODIs he's not conceded a single wide.

Key Stats

As his accuracy suggests, van der Merwe usually manages to keep batsman quiet and his economy rate stands at a reasonably inexpensive 4.61. Only once has he gone at more than a-run-a-ball in an ODI - and Ireland won that game anyway.

His Ireland selection came after van der Merwe had made his name in Club cricket. In 2009 he won the Samuels Cup as the leading allrounder in Leinster. In 16 matches in the season, van der Merwe scored 570 runs at an average of 40.71 including a top score of 123 not out off just 125 balls. He also took 26 wickets at an average of 20.45 including best figures of 5 for 7.

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This will be van der Merwe's first World Cup campaign.

Expert view

"Albert is a relative new comer to the side. A useful off-spinner, who also offers a bit with the bat. He could play a role depending on conditions."- Kyle McCallan, former Ireland allrounder

Andrew McGlashan

Best Performances

5 for 49 v Canada, Toronto, 2010
- His best performance with the ball in national colours helped Ireland level their one-day series against Canada in September 2010. With Canada chasing a mammoth 326, van der Merwe ripped the stuffing out of their chase with 5 for 49.