Full Name

George Fredrik Linde

Born

December 04, 1991, Cape Town

Age

31y 111d

Batting Style

Left hand Bat

Bowling Style

Slow Left arm Orthodox

Playing Role

Allrounder

A left-arm spinner from the northern suburbs of Cape Town, George Linde's started off a seam-bowling schoolboy cricketer before changing his mind as a teenager. After he was selected in the Western Province under-13 team, he switched to spin and never looked back. Still, batting took precedence through his school years but an interested coach coaxed him to focus more on spin as his game developed.

Linde spent a season playing club cricket in the UK after finishing school, before returning to South Africa, where he worked his way into the West Province amateur team and eventually into the Cobras franchise team. Competing against Dane Piedt meant Linde was often confined to the limited-overs teams, where he made his name.

He was sixth in the 2017-18 domestic one-day cup wicket charts with 15 scalps and his star continued to rise as a white-ball bowler. He was contracted to the Cape Town Blitz for the Mzansi Super League in the 2018-19 season and took five wickets in as many matches. A bigger break came when he was selected as part of the South African A team that toured India in August-September 2019 and was the joint second-highest wicket-taker in the unofficial ODI series.

Linde was called up as a replacement to South Africa's T20 squad to tour India in September 2019 when Jon-Jon Smuts was withdrawn from the squad for failing to meet fitness standards and was then added as a stand-in to the Test squad when Keshav Maharaj was ruled out of the last match of the series through injury.

Firdose Moonda

Career Averages
Batting & Fielding
FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Test3601353722.5025552.940019200
ODI221271827.002993.10003030
T20I141111112911.1085130.58006660
FC73104112911148*31.30447565.0551434056380
List A807214155693*26.82157298.9801110949320
T2013811131152863*19.101144133.56038772400
Bowling
FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Test3547325295/645/6828.003.1952.5110
ODI22907232/322/3224.004.8030.0000
T20I1414288340153/233/2322.667.0819.2000
FC731211306064352477/2911/13126.052.9552.89153
List A8078359931571096/476/4728.965.2633.0320
T20138133267832741294/194/1925.377.3320.7300
George Fredrik Linde
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Test
ODI
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Recent Matches - Player
MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
W Province vs Warriors63 & 243/92 & 3/2512-Mar-2023Cape TownFC
W Province vs North West32--19-Feb-2023PotchefstroomFC
Strikers vs Victorians91/1416-Feb-2023MirpurT20
Strikers vs Riders21*0/3314-Feb-2023MirpurT20
Strikers vs Victorians130/2112-Feb-2023MirpurT20
Photos
George Linde celebrates dismissing Wihan Lubbe
George Linde was the only half-centurion in the first innings
George Linde plays the flick shot
George Linde is thrilled after taking a wicket
The ball evades a leaping George Linde
George Linde appeals