Hylton Deon Ackerman

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HD Ackerman South Africa (RSA)
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm medium
	Tests	First-class
Matches	4	185
Runs scored	161	12112
Batting average	20.12	42.79
100s/50s	0/1	31/66
Top score	57	309*
Balls bowled	-	102
Wickets	-	-
Bowling average	-	-
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	-
Best bowling	-	-
Catches/stumpings	1/-	153/-
Test debut: 26 February 1998 Last Test: 27 March 1998 Source: Cricinfo

Hylton Deon Ackerman, also known as HD Ackerman, (born 14 February 1973 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a South African cricketer.

Ackerman has four test appearances for SA all made in 1998. He made a gutsy 57 in his first test innings but after that failed to really trouble the scorers. It was thought that Ackerman had a weakness against top class spin as Mushtaq Ahmed and Muttiah Muralitharan were particularly successful against him in successive series.

He joined Leicestershire in 2005 under the Kolpak ruling which allowed him to play for an English county without being registered as an overseas player. He was the captain of Leicestershire in 2005, having some success in one day cricket.

In the 2006 season, Ackerman stepped down to concentrate on his batting. This move seems to have paid off as Ackerman scored 309 not out against Glamorgan at Sophia Gardens, the highest ever first class score by a Leicestershire player.

Ackerman's father, Hylton Michael Ackerman, played first-class cricket for Border, Natal, Northern Transvaal and Western Province in South Africa, and for Northamptonshire in England. He was picked for the World XI that played Australia in 1971-72, but did not play Test cricket because of South Africa's exclusion from international cricket on account of apartheid.

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• Cricinfo Page

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