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Born | Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa | 4 January 1956|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm off-spin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1981–82 to 1990–91 | Boland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,31 May 2020 |
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An off-spin bowler and useful lower-order batsman,Anker took 50 wickets at an average of 14.62 when Boland,captained by Eddie Barlow,won the SAB Bowl for the first time in 1981–82. No other bowler in the competition took more than 31 wickets. [1] He took 3 for 40 and 5 for 73 when Boland beat Western Province B in the final. [2]
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