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Full name | Gideon Jacobus Kruis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Pretoria, South Africa | 9 May 1974||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1993/94–1996/97 | Northern Transvaal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1997/98–2003/04 | Griqualand West | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2003/04–2004/05 | Eagles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2005–2009 | Yorkshire (squad no. 5) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FC debut | 24 November 1993 Transvaal B v Free State B | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last FC | 23 September 2009 Yorkshire v Hampshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LA debut | 31 October 1997 Griqualand West v Natal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last LA | 30 August 2009 Yorkshire v Sussex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,13 October 2009 |
Gideon Jacobus Kruis (born 9 May 1974),popularly known as Deon Kruis,is a South African first-class cricketer who played in England with Yorkshire County Cricket Club for five seasons from 2004 to 2009. [1] His South African cricket has been for Northern Transvaal,Griqualand West and Eagles. [2]
He is a right-handed batsman,and bowls right-arm fast-medium. At the end of the 2006 season he was one of Yorkshire's more successful bowlers helping them stay in Division 1 of the County Championship.
Kruis retired at the end of the 2009 season. [1]
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