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Full name | Mario Wickus Olivier | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Pretoria, South Africa | 3 November 1982||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2010–2012 | Northerns | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2010 | Titans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2004–2009 | Warriors | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2004 | Boland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:cricinfo.com,18 April 2008 |
Mario Wickus Olivier (born 3 November 1982 in Pretoria) is a South African cricketer who played first-class cricket from 2005 to 2012.
In December 2007 he became the third South African to take 10 wickets in a first-class innings when he took 10 for 65 for Warriors against Eagles. [1] Eagles nevertheless won by 10 wickets,so Olivier took all their wickets that fell in the match. Five of his victims were out leg before wicket. [2]
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