Louis van der Westhuizen

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Louis van der Westhuizen
Personal information
Full name
Louis Petrus van der Westhuizen
Born (1988-03-31) 31 March 1988 (age 36)
Windhoek, South West Africa
BattingLeft-handed
Bowling Slow left-arm orthodox
International information
National side
Career statistics
Competition FC LA T20
Matches398845
Runs scored1,5551,400917
Batting average 23.5618.6621.32
100s/50s0/100/82/4
Top score85* 97145
Balls bowled2,5782,174791
Wickets 366547
Bowling average 38.1127.4918.87
5 wickets in innings 100
10 wickets in match000
Best bowling5/904/143/11
Catches/stumpings 13/–37/–7/–
Source: CricketArchive, 10 October 2019

Louis van der Westhuizen (born 31 March 1988) is a Namibian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a slow left-arm bowler. He has played first-class cricket for the senior Namibian cricket team since 2006, having previously lined up for the Under-19s. He made his first-class cricket debut on 11 May 2006, for Namibia against Scotland in the 2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup. [1]

Van der Westhuizen played for the Namibians in the Under-19s World Cup in 2006. Generally speaking, van der Westhuizen occupies the position of opening batsman for the Namibian side in limited-overs cricket. He was also part of the Namibian Under-19 team which won the Under-19 African Championship in 2007.

Van der Westhuizen has had success as a batsman in the Twenty20 format of the game. Playing against Kenya in a Twenty20 match, he scored 145 runs from 50 balls, then the third-highest individual score of all time in top level Twenty20. [2] [3] He also scored an innings of 159*, with 16 sixes, against Kenya in Kampala during the 2011 ICC World Cricket League Africa Region Twenty20 Division One tournament (which is not considered a top-level Twenty20 tournament). [4]

In January 2018, he was named in Namibia's squad for the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament. [5]

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