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| Full name | Grove Anton Venter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 April 1993 Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Groovy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013– | KwaZulu-Natal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 10 October 2013 KwaZulu-Natal v Namibia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| List A debut | 29 September 2013 KwaZulu-Natal v Griqualand West | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,26 August 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grove Anton Venter (born 14 April 1993) is a South African first-class cricketer who plays as a wicket-keeper/batsman for the KwaZulu-Natal provincial side. He made his debut for the team against Griqualand West on 29 September 2013 in the CSA Provincial One-Day Competition;he took one catch to dismiss Kagiso Mohale off the bowling of Daryn Dupavillon and was unbeaten on 5 runs as KwaZulu-Natal recorded a three-wicket victory. [1] His first-class debut came 11 days later against Namibia;he took two catches for the first two Namibian wickets,but scored just one run in each innings as Namibia won by an innings and 94 runs. [2] His top scores in both List A and first-class cricket came in successive games,first scoring 54 not out in a 129-run victory over Easterns in the one-day competition on 24 November 2013, [3] before hitting 26 in the first innings of a drawn match against North West on 12–14 December 2013. [4]
Before breaking into the KwaZulu-Natal senior side,Venter spent a season with St Asaph in the North Wales Premier Cricket League,scoring 900 runs in 18 innings at an average of 60.00 with a high score of 155 not out at home to Northop on 26 May 2012. [5] [6]