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Full name | Christoffel Viljoen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa | 28 September 1987|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ODI debut(cap 24) | 27 April 2019 v Oman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 17 September 2019 v United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I debut(cap 11) | 20 May 2019 v Ghana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 2 November 2019 v Ireland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2015/16–2018/19 | Otago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,6 July 2020 |
Christoffel"Christi" Viljoen (born 28 September 1987) is a cricketer who plays for the Namibia national team. He bats right-handed and bowls right-arm medium-fast. He has also played for Otago in domestic cricket in New Zealand. [1]
Viljoen made his first-class debut for Namibia in the CSA Provincial Three-Day Challenge competition held in South Africa on 21 January 2010 against KwaZulu-Natal. [2] He also made his T20 debut (along with 9 other players in Namibia) against Zimbabwe on 13 February 2010. Opening the bowling with Louis Klazinga,Viljoen took a single wicket (that of Sikandar Raza) for seven runs. [3] He played six matches in the tournament,scoring 61 runs from three innings with a highest of 41, [4] and took six wickets at an average of 16.83. [5]
After experimenting with a two-division format the International Cricket Council decided that the 2011–13 ICC Intercontinental Cup would feature eight teams,including Namibia who were previously in the Shield competition,playing first-class cricket. [6] Namibia played their opening fixture of the Cup in September. Batting at number three Viljoen scored a four-ball duck in the first innings but in the second managed 87 from 136 balls,in the process passing 500 first-class runs in his career and beating his previous highest score in the format. [7]
A side made up of some of the leading players from Associate and Affiliate teams was put together to face England in Dubai in January 2012. The three-day match was part of England's preparation for a series against Pakistan later that month. Along with Craig Williams,Viljoen was one of two Namibia players included in the 12-man squad. [8] Coming in to bat at 90/6,Viljoen top-scored with 98 runs from 189 balls against a bowling line-up including James Anderson,Stuart Broad,Steven Finn,and Graeme Swann. [9]
The UAE hosted the 2012 World Twenty20 Qualifier in March. Namibia progressed to the preliminary finals where they lost to Ireland. [10] With 14 wickets from 9 matches,Viljoen was Namibia's leading wicket-taker in the tournament (equal fourth overall), [11] and scored 48 runs from 5 innings. [12] Shortly after the tournament concluded,Namibia hosted Canada in the Intercontinental Cup. Namibia won by eight wickets and in the second innings Viljoen finished with career-best bowling figures of 7/61. [13]
In January 2018,he was named in Namibia's squad for the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament. [14]
He was the joint-leading wicket-taker for Otago in the 2018–19 Super Smash,with thirteen dismissals in seven matches. [15]
In March 2019,he was named in Namibia's squad for the 2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament. [16] Namibia finished in the top four places in the tournament,therefore gaining One Day International (ODI) status. [17] Viljoen made his ODI debut for Namibia on 27 April 2019,against Oman,in the tournament's final. [18]
In May 2019,he was named in Namibia's squad for the Regional Finals of the 2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier tournament in Uganda. [19] [20] He made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut for Namibia against Ghana on 20 May 2019. [21] In Namibia's third match of the tournament,against Botswana,Viljoen took his first five-wicket haul in a T20I match,finishing with figures of five wickets for nine runs from his four overs. [22] [23] He finished as the leading wicket-taker in the Regional Finals,with nine dismissals in three matches. [24] However,following the conclusion of the tournament,the International Cricket Council (ICC) suspended Viljoen for four matches,after he breached the ICC's Anti-Racism Code during the match against Uganda. [25]
In June 2019,he was one of twenty-five cricketers to be named in Cricket Namibia's Elite Men's Squad ahead of the 2019–20 international season. [26] [27] In September 2019,he was named in Namibia's squad for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates. [28] Ahead of the tournament,the International Cricket Council (ICC) named him as the player to watch in Namibia's squad. [29]
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