Gerhard Erasmus

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Gerhard Erasmus
Personal information
Full name
Merwe Gerhard Erasmus
Born (1995-04-11) 11 April 1995 (age 28)
Windhoek, Namibia
Height1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm off break
RoleAll-rounder
International information
National side
ODI debut(cap  18)27 April 2019 v  Oman
Last ODI19 February 2024 v  Netherlands
T20I debut(cap  4)20 May 2019 v  Ghana
Last T20I30 November 2023 v  Nigeria
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA
Matches42523899
Runs scored1,6141,1941,2553,031
Batting average 43.6232.2720.2437.88
100s/50s2/121/71/32/23
Top score125100*192125
Balls bowled9125711461,119
Wickets 2835235
Bowling average 23.1414.1752.022.97
5 wickets in innings 1001
10 wickets in match0000
Best bowling5/283/122/465/28
Catches/stumpings 23/–34/–24/266/
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 19 February 2024

Merwe Gerhard Erasmus (born 11 April 1995) is a Namibian cricketer, [1] and the current captain of the Namibia cricket team. [2]

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Career

Erasmus first played at senior level for Namibia in February 2011, aged 15, against a touring Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) side. [3] He made his international and first-class debut against Ireland in September 2011 in the 2011–2013 ICC Intercontinental Cup, [4] and at the age of 16, became the youngest player in the team's history. [5] He was a member of Namibia's squad for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier. [6]

Erasmus was included in the Namibia under-19s squad for the 2012 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Australia. [7] He captained the team at the 2014 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in the United Arab Emirates. [8]

Erasmus played in Namibia's squad for the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament. [9] In August 2018, he was named in Namibia's squad for the 2018 Africa T20 Cup. [10]

In March 2019, Erasmus was named as the captain of Namibia's squad for the 2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament. [11] Namibia finished in the top four places in the tournament, therefore gaining One Day International (ODI) status. [12] Erasmus made his ODI debut for Namibia on 27 April 2019, against Oman, in the tournament's final. [13] In May 2019, he was named as the captain of Namibia's squad for the Regional Finals of the 2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier tournament in Uganda. [14] [15] He made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut for Namibia against Ghana on 20 May 2019. [16]

In June 2019, Erasmus was one of twenty-five cricketers to be named in Cricket Namibia's Elite Men's Squad ahead of the 2019–20 international season. [17] [18] In September 2019, he was named as the captain of Namibia's squad for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates. [19] [20] He was the leading run-scorer for Namibia in the tournament, with 268 runs in nine matches. [21] Following the conclusion of the final, he was named as the player of the tournament. [22]

In September 2021, Erasmus was named as the captain of Namibia's squad for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup, [23] with the International Cricket Council (ICC) later naming him as the key player in Namibia's team. [24] In a warm-up match against Scotland before the tournament, he broke a finger while fielding. However, he decided to continue playing in the tournament and captain his team in spite of the injury. [25]

In March 2022, in the second match of the 2022 United Arab Emirates Tri-Nation Series, Erasmus scored his first century in ODI cricket, with 121 not out. [26] The following month, in the second match against Uganda, Erasmus also scored his first century in T20I cricket, [27] with an unbeaten 100 against Uganda. [28]

In January 2023, Erasmus won the International Cricket Council's Associate Cricketer of the Year award. [29] Erasmus scored 956 ODI runs at an average of 56.23 and took a dozen wickets in 2022, and scored a century in both ODI and T20I formats. [30]

Personal life

As of 2018, Erasmus was a fourth-year law student at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. His father Francois runs a family law firm in Windhoek and is a former president of Cricket Namibia and associate director of the International Cricket Council (ICC). [3]

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