John Rennie

Zimbabwe

Full name John Alexander Rennie

Born July 29, 1970, Fort Victoria (now Masvingo), Masvingo

Current age 47 years 269 days

Major teams Zimbabwe, Matabeleland

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast

Relation Brother - GJ Rennie

Explore John Rennie's performance

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	4	6	1	62	22	12.40	228	27.19	0	3	0	1
ODIs	44	27	12	201	27	13.40	391	51.40	0	16	0	12
First-class	40	62	14	1045	67*	21.77			6			10
List A	66	46	18	389	33	13.89			0			21

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Tests	4	8	724	293	3	2/22	2/57	97.66	2.42	241.3	0	0
ODIs	44	43	1965	1564	34	3/27	3/27	46.00	4.77	57.7	0	0
First-class	40		6463	3180	96	9/76		33.12	2.95	67.3		6
List A	66		2908	2296	52	3/27	3/27	44.15	4.73	55.9	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	Pakistan v Zimbabwe at Karachi, Dec 1-6, 1993 scorecard
Last Test	Zimbabwe v New Zealand at Harare, Sep 18-22, 1997 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	South Africa v Zimbabwe at Bengaluru, Nov 10, 1993 scorecard
Last ODI	West Indies v Zimbabwe at Chester-le-Street, Jul 16, 2000 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span	1992/93 - 2000/01
List A span	1992/93 - 2000

Profile

John Rennie is a prime example of a cricketer of moderate ability who was able to achieve success at international level through sheer hard work and dedication. As a fast-medium swing bowler, selected mainly for one-day matches, he always played with the utmost heart and enthusiasm, and often took early wickets for Zimbabwe. He was also a useful batsman and good fielder. He was never selected for any of the national age-group teams, and it took him some years to become a regular in his school first team, but he progressed steadily through club cricket to the national side. Born in Masvingo, he grew up in Harare but later moved to Matabeleland for business reasons. Business and family pressures, as well as disillusionment with the situation in Zimbabwe cricket, eventually caused him to fade out of the game in about 2002.
John Ward (July 2004)

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