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Full name | Craig George Williams | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Oshakati, South-West Africa | 25 February 1984|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Top order batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ODI debut(cap 25) | 27 April 2019 v Oman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 14 March 2022 v Oman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I debut(cap 13) | 19 August 2019 v Botswana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 24 May 2022 v Zimbabwe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 24 May 2022 |
Craig George Williams (born 25 February 1984) is a Namibian cricketer. [1] He also currently runs a cricket shop in Namibia and also works as a quality/quantity surveyor writing reports for insurance companies as well as loss adjusting. [2]
He also opened a cricket academy in Windhoek which is also eventually regarded as Namibia's first state of the art indoor training facility. [3] [4] [5]
He was born in South West Africa in 1984 and grew up in Pretoria, South Africa. He moved to his native country Namibia at the age of 23. [6]
Williams made his first-class debut for the Namibian cricket team in 2007, in a Three-Day South African Provincial Challenge match against North West. Williams bowled four overs in the first innings of the match, conceding 23 runs. He scored a half-century in his debut first-class innings. [7]
He scored twin centuries in the final of the 2009–10 ICC Intercontinental Shield against the United Arab Emirates to guide Namibia to Intercontinental Shield triumph in Dubai. [8] [9] He was also the leading runscorer of the 2009-10 ICC Intercontinental Shield with a tally of 498 runs in 4 matches. [10]
Williams has since played for the Namibia A team, scoring a century against Canada in his first appearance in this side. In January 2018, he was named in Namibia's squad for the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament. [11]
In February 2018, he retired from cricket, after playing for Namibia against Free State in the 2017–18 CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge. [12] [13] He was the leading run-scorer in the 2017–18 Sunfoil 3-Day Cup for Namibia, with 687 runs in eight matches. [14] He initially retired with the intention of focusing on his family commitments and business. However, he was convinced by the head coach of Namibia, Pierre de Bruyn to come out of retirement given his experience at the highest level. After having discussions with the coach, Craig made comeback return to the national team in 2019. [1]
In March 2019, he was named in Namibia's squad for the 2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament. [15] Namibia finished in the top four places in the tournament, therefore gaining One Day International (ODI) status. [16] Williams made his ODI debut for Namibia on 27 April 2019, against Oman, in the tournament's final. [17]
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. [18] [19] He made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut for Namibia against Botswana on 19 August 2019 during Botswana's tour of Namibia. [20] In September 2019, he was named in Namibia's squad for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates. [21]
On 8 January 2020, in the 2020 Oman Tri-Nation Series match against Oman, Williams scored his first century in an ODI, with an unbeaten 129. [22] In September 2021, Williams was named in Namibia's squad for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. [23]
In October 2021, during the 2021 Summer T20 Bash, he became only the third batsman ever to score four consecutive half-centuries in T20Is after Brendon McCullum and Chris Gayle. He also set the record for joint most fifties in consecutive T20I appearances. [24]
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