Kosie Venter

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Kosie Venter
Personal information
Full nameJacobus Francois Venter
Born (1969-10-01) 1 October 1969 (age 51)
Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight-arm off break
Relations Everhardus Venter (brother)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1989/90–2003/04 Orange Free State/Free State
1990/91 Transvaal B
1999 Worcestershire Cricket Board
Career statistics
Competition First class List A
Matches108100
Runs scored5,0662,459
Batting average 30.1529.27
100s/50s5/321/13
Top score193118*
Balls bowled15,7692,752
Wickets 24171
Bowling average 33.0029.70
5 wickets in innings 01
10 wickets in match00
Best bowling7/835/21
Catches/stumpings 60/–36/–
Source: Cricinfo, 5 February 2011

Jacobus "Kosie" Francois Venter (born 1 October 1969) is a former South African cricketer. Venter was a left-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born at Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.

In a professional career that lasted from the 1989/90 to the 2003/04 South African cricket seasons, Venter played both the first-class and List A formats of the game with no fewer than six different sides. Debuting in the 1989/90 season for Orange Free State, he proceeded to play first-class and List A cricket for Orange Free State, Transvaal B and Free State. [1] He later played List A cricket in England for the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1996 [2] and the Worcestershire Cricket Board in the 1999 NatWest Trophy. [3] Venter also played Second XI cricket in England for the Leicestershire Second XI in 1994. [4]

In his first-class career, he played 108 times scoring 5,066 runs at a batting average of 30.15, with five centuries and thirty-two half centuries and making a high score of 193. An all rounder, Venter took 241 wickets at a bowling average of 33.00, with eight five wicket hauls and best figures of 7/83. An able fielder, he took 60 catches. Venter played nearly an equal amount of List A matches, playing exactly 100. In these he scored 2,459 runs at an average of 29.27, with a single century score of 118* and thirteen half centuries. With the ball he took 71 wickets at an average 29.70, with a single five wicket haul which gave him best figures of 5/21. In the field he took 36 catches.

His older brother, Everhardus, represented Orange Free State at first-class and List A level.

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