Colin Ackermann

Netherlands|Batting Allrounder
Colin Ackermann
INTL CAREER: 2019 - 2023
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Full Name

Colin Niel Ackermann

Born

April 04, 1991, George, South Africa

Age

31y 357d

Nicknames

Ackers

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Offbreak

Playing Role

Batting Allrounder

Education

Grey High School, Port Elizabeth

Having relinquished his South African qualification to sign a contract with Leicestershire, taking advantage of an EU passport, Colin Ackermann was part of the late-2010s exodus that rocked cricket in his home country. Although less heralded at the time, Ackermann was a former South Africa U-19 who had topped the Sunfoil averages in 2016-17, and might have been in contention for a Test call-up had he not taken the well-trodden English county route.

His returns in county cricket were mostly solid rather than spectacular, and when he did grab the headlines it was with his occasional offspin - figures of 7 for 18 in a T20 Blast game against Birmingham Bears making him the first man to take a seven-wicket haul in the format. He captained the T20 team in his first season at Leicestershire, taking on the job full-time the following year, and in 2019 stepped up to lead the 50-over side; as well as topping the run charts in both limited-overs formats. The following summer he was unveiled as club captain, a sign of his growing importance to the county, and in 2022 he made history as his career-best 277 not out helped Leicestershire to their highest first-class score, 756 for 4 dec, and a Championship-record fifth-wicket stand of 477 with Wiaan Mulder (235 not out)

Ackermann had previous experience in the county of Leicestershire after enjoying a successful season for Kibworth in 2012. He is a product of Grey High School in Port Elizabeth, with whom he toured England. He was the leading run-scorer in the CSA Under-19 three-day competition in 2009, where he averaged 200 with two centuries.

However, when his international debut did arrive in late 2019, it was in the orange of Netherlands, and he went on to help secure qualification for both the 2020 T20 World Cup (postponed to 2021) and the subsequent event in Australia in 2022, at which his unbeaten 41 was instrumental in one of the biggest shocks of the tournament's history, as his former countrymen South Africa were eliminated in a 13-run defeat in Adelaide.
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Career Averages
Batting & Fielding
FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
ODI7602118135.1628075.350218250
T20I222244656225.83402115.6701341160
FC152266309472277*40.131919949.3320571276431540
List A9082142471152*36.33315078.4421722638600
T201631562236458527.203000121.5002029798780
Bowling
FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
ODI7726421742/512/5154.254.9366.0000
T20I221421021671/61/630.856.1730.0000
FC15212863923483785/696/9944.653.2681.9010
List A906423291880464/484/4840.864.8450.6100
T2016311117382090757/187/1827.867.2123.1010
Colin Niel Ackermann
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Colin Ackermann plays a shot
Colin Ackermann made 41 not out off 26 balls
Colin Ackermann took two sixes off Wayne Parnell in the final over
Colin Ackermann gave the Netherlands innings a good finishing kick
Colin Ackerman hits one through covers
Colin Ackermann got his first fifty at a T20 World Cup