Pieter Seelaar

Netherlands

Full name Pieter Marinus Seelaar

Born July 2, 1987, Schiedam

Current age 30 years 25 days

Major teams Netherlands, Hermes DVS

Playing role Allrounder

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox

Explore Pieter Seelaar's performance

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
ODIs	37	21	10	97	34*	8.81	184	52.71	0	0	8	2	11
T20Is	39	17	4	74	12	5.69	83	89.15	0	0	5	1	17
First-class	23	41	10	751	138*	24.22	1538	48.82	1	2	80	6	6
List A	107	62	23	582	68	14.92	890	65.39	0	2	36	13	35
T20s	59	28	11	163	25	9.58	164	99.39	0	0	11	4	23

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
ODIs	37	37	1685	1329	42	4/15	4/15	31.64	4.73	40.1	1	0
T20Is	39	30	504	551	26	4/19	4/19	21.19	6.55	19.3	1	0
First-class	23	32	2450	1434	35	5/57	5/57	40.97	3.51	70.0	0	1
List A	107		4184	3368	99	4/15	4/15	34.02	4.82	42.2	2	0
T20s	59	49	834	905	33	4/19	4/19	27.42	6.51	25.2	1	0

Career statistics

ODI debut	Netherlands v Sri Lanka at Amstelveen, Jul 6, 2006 scorecard
Last ODI	Canada v Netherlands at Mount Maunganui, Jan 28, 2014 scorecard
ODI statistics
T20I debut	Kenya v Netherlands at Belfast, Aug 2, 2008 scorecard
Last T20I	Hong Kong v Netherlands at Dubai (DSC), Jan 18, 2017 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut	Netherlands v Bermuda at Pretoria, Nov 21-24, 2006 scorecard
Last First-class	Hong Kong v Netherlands at Mong Kok, Feb 10-13, 2017 scorecard
List A debut	Netherlands v Warwickshire at Rotterdam, May 3-4, 2005 scorecard
Last List A	Hong Kong v Netherlands at Mong Kok, Feb 18, 2017 scorecard
T20s debut	Kenya v Netherlands at Belfast, Aug 2, 2008 scorecard
Last T20s	Hong Kong v Netherlands at Dubai (DSC), Jan 18, 2017 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
31	Netherlands	v Hong Kong	Mong Kok	18 Feb 2017	LA
50*	Netherlands	v Hong Kong	Mong Kok	16 Feb 2017	LA
0/9, 29, 138*	Netherlands	v Hong Kong	Mong Kok	10 Feb 2017	FC
1	Netherlands	v Hong Kong	Dubai (DSC)	18 Jan 2017	T20I # 584
0/12, 12	Netherlands	v Scotland	Abu Dhabi	17 Jan 2017	T20I # 582
-	Netherlands	v Oman	Abu Dhabi	15 Jan 2017	T20I # 579
0/8, 1	Netherlands	v Nepal	Amstelveen	15 Aug 2016	LA
-	Netherlands	v Nepal	Amstelveen	13 Aug 2016	LA
38*, 1/0, 1	Netherlands	v Afghanistan	The Hague	29 Jul 2016	FC
-	Netherlands	v Ireland	Dharamsala	13 Mar 2016	T20I # 533

Profile

Nurtured by the Dutch youth system from Under-15 level, Pieter Seelaar made his debut as a canny 18-year-old left-arm spinner but found fame, momentarily, for his penguin dance after dismissing England captain Paul Collingwood in Netherland's historic win in the opening game of the 2009 World Twenty20. Seelaar is not a great spinner of the ball but his economy rate is good and, despite being just 21 years old, knows his game well. He missed out on the World Cup in 2007 but was impressive in India four years later, dismissing both Kevin Pietersen and Sachin Tendulkar and finishing as Netherlands' leading wicket taker. Seelaar's favourite player is another left-arm spinner who started young - Daniel Vettori.
Sahil Dutta May 2011

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