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| Born | May 1997 |
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Luke Philander (born May 1997) is a South African cricketer. [1] He made his Twenty20 debut for Western Province in the 2017 Africa T20 Cup on 25 August 2017. [2] Prior to his Twenty20 debut, he was part of South Africa's squad for the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. [3] He made his List A debut for Western Province in the 2017–18 CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge on 26 November 2017. [4] He made his first-class debut for Western Province in the 2018–19 CSA 3-Day Provincial Cup on 17 January 2019. [5]
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 20-metre (22-yard) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at the wicket with the bat, while the bowling and fielding side tries to prevent this and dismiss each player. Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails, and by the fielding side catching the ball after it is hit by the bat, but before it hits the ground. When ten players have been dismissed, the innings ends and the teams swap roles. The game is adjudicated by two umpires, aided by a third umpire and match referee in international matches. They communicate with two off-field scorers who record the match's statistical information.
Twenty20 cricket or Twenty-20, is a shortened format of cricket. At the professional level, it was originally introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game the two teams have a single innings each, which is restricted to a maximum of 20 overs. Together with first-class and List A cricket, Twenty20 is one of the three current forms of cricket recognised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) as being at the highest international or domestic level. A typical Twenty20 game is completed in about three hours, with each innings lasting around 90 minutes and an official 10 minute break between the innings. This is much shorter than previous forms of the game, and is closer to the timespan of other popular team sports. It was introduced to create a fast-paced game which would be attractive to spectators at the ground and viewers on television.
The 2017 Africa T20 Cup was the third edition of the Africa T20 Cup, a Twenty20 cricket tournament. It was held in South Africa from 25 August to 25 September 2017, as a curtain-raiser to the 2017–18 South African domestic season. Organised by Cricket South Africa, it featured thirteen South African provincial teams, as well as national representative sides of Kenya, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
In September 2019, he was named in Western Province's squad for the 2019–20 CSA Provincial T20 Cup. [6]
The 2019–20 CSA Provincial T20 Cup is a domestic Twenty cricket tournament that is scheduled to take place in South Africa in September 2019, as a curtain-raiser to the 2019–20 South African domestic season. It will be played between the thirteen South African provincial teams, along with Limpopo and Mpumalanga. With only domestic teams from South Africa taking part, the tournament replaced the Africa T20 Cup.
