Matches (22)
WI vs AUS (1)
ENG vs IND (1)
MLC (2)
ZIM vs SA (1)
TNPL (1)
ENG-U19 vs IND-U19 (1)
Vitality Blast Men (8)
Vitality Blast Women (4)
Blast Women League 2 (3)

Full Name

Colin Alexander Ingram

Born

July 03, 1985, Port Elizabeth

Age

40y 4d

Also Known As

Bozie

Batting Style

Left hand Bat

Bowling Style

Legbreak

Fielding Position

Wicketkeeper

Playing Role

Top order Batter

Colin Ingram, a blond, bestubbled, bruising left-hander, is among the crispest hitters produced by South Africa's Eastern Cape. His nickname of Bozie came from "bulldozer" because his grandmother observed that he was in the habit of bulldozing around. He has done that to good purpose both for South Africa and, latterly, Glamorgan, where he has gained a reputation as a destructive one-day hitter, the most potent figure by far in their T20 side.

His 31 ODIs for South Africa came with three centuries (one on debut against Zimbabwe, two against Pakistan) and he played 9 T20s but he lacked consistency at an average of not much above 30 meant that by the end of 2013 he had fallen out of favour. He also bowled six balls in his ODI career and conceded 17 in one over against Pakistan. "Misbah-ul-Haq was on strike and I tossed one of my leggies up and he clubbed it for six," he said later. "I turned round and said, 'Let's see if you can do it again' - and he did."

He signed a Kolpak deal with Glamorgan for the 2015 season, combining that with captaincy of the Eastern Cape-based Warriors. Justification was not hard to find: here was a player with 31 ODIs and nine T20Is spaced out between 2010 and 2013, who batted in every position across the top seven. "I definitely feel I held my own at international level and put in performances," he said. "Unfortunately I ran into a few really good bowlers when I ended up opening, which wasn't my preferred position. It was an unsettling period because I did move around, I was in and out of the side and I didn't feel backed."

The move to Glamorgan was cathartic. His menace was obvious in all competitions in 2015, but his 2016 season was inhibited by a knee injury, suffered at the start of the season, which restricted him to white-ball cricket. He had surgery in South Africa at the end of the season, insisting that his appetite for red-ball cricket remained, only to become a limited-overs specialist a year later.

His limited-overs cricket, though, was formidable. He scored 502 runs in the 2016 T20 Blast season, hitting 29 sixes to share the record with Chris Gayle, and also topped Glamorgan's One-Day Cup averages with 367 runs at 61.1. His legspin was another useful weapon: he took a career-best 3 for 20 against Somerset to get Glamorgan into the last eight of the NatWest Blast, but an improvement on that figure as he took 4 for 32 in the quarter-final against Yorkshire in Cardiff could not prevent Glamorgan's elimination.

He stood out, too, in 2017. With three hundreds and two fifties, he made the most runs in this year's Royal London Cup - 564 - and followed up with two T20 hundreds as Glamorgan reached NatWest Blast Finals Day. His IPL experience had amounted to only three games for Delhi Daredevils in 2011, but as he became a limited-overs specialist, at 32, his form was eye-catching enough to deserve interest among T20 leagues worldwide.
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Colin Ingram Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
ODIs3129384312432.42102482.32338210120
T20Is9912107826.25162129.620123720
FC142248229736257*43.07--2643--1010
List A20619823850115548.57934590.962153--770
T20s373360468892127*28.316435138.184528083911240

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
ODIs3116170---17.00-000
T20Is9------------
FC142-38962351564/165/5041.983.6269.5300
List A206-16201522434/394/3935.395.6337.6100
T20s3737310011319404/324/3232.977.9025.0100

Colin Ingram T20 Stats

Batting & Fielding

TournamentTeamsMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Vitality Blast2 teams12211916340111433.012213153.68320312169490
SA202 teams211702034311.94197103.040021590
ILT20ADKR44023155.753762.16003010
CPL3 teams1212220452*20.40182112.080117820
BPLSYS9913339041.62242137.6003361220
Men's 100OI-M87112081*20.0092130.43019540
PSL2 teams37358819127*30.33558146.77136940120
BBL2 teams353558687528.93642135.2006674080
IPLDC151532054717.08180113.880022510
APLKZ99120683*25.75148139.180123980
CLT20WAR101002596125.90225115.110120830

Bowling

TournamentTeamsMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Vitality Blast2 teams1223861779626 4/32 4/3230.617.7423.7100
SA202 teams21224371 1/16 1/1637.009.2524.0000
ILT20ADKR4------------
CPL3 teams1216101 1/10 1/1010.0010.006.0000
BPLSYS9------------
Men's 100OI-M8------------
PSL2 teams371680 - --8.00-000
BBL2 teams359721031 1/20 1/20103.008.5872.0000
IPLDC15------------
APLKZ916320 - --32.00-000
CLT20WAR10------------
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Andy Gorvin and Colin Ingram exchange high fives
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Colin Ingram's unbeaten 69 was vital for the visitors
Colin Ingram after scoring a century as team-mate Eddie Byrom looks on
Colin Ingram held the Glamorgan top order together