Mandy Yachad
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| Mandy Yachad | ||||
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 South Africa |
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| Personal information | ||||
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman | |||
| Bowling style | Leg-break | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Tests | ODIs | |||
| Matches | - | 1 | ||
| Runs scored | - | 31 | ||
| Batting average | - | 31.00 | ||
| 100s/50s | -/- | 0/0 | ||
| Top score | - | 31 | ||
| Overs | - | - | ||
| Wickets | - | - | ||
| Bowling average | - | - | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | - | - | ||
| 10 wickets in match | - | n/a | ||
| Best bowling | - | - | ||
| Catches/stumpings | -/- | 1/- | ||
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As of 17 January 2008 |
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Mandy Yachad (born 17 November 1960 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a former South African cricketer and field hockey player who captained his country at the Maccabiah Games in hockey[1] and represented his country at cricket once, in a solitary One Day International in 1991. Yachad, who had Jewish origins[1], played most of his sport in the 1980s, when South Africa were banned from international sport. He was a specialist batsman who bowled a total of seven first-class overs, but scored 14 centuries and 32 fifties in his 16-year first class career, which spanned 109 matches, mostly for Transvaal and Northern Transvaal.
In hockey, Yachad played at least 21 Test matches, and also represented his country at indoor hockey[1].
Yachad was named among the South African Cricket Annual five Players of the Year both in 1985 and 1991, and 1991 was also the year when Yachad made his international debut. He had been selected for the tour of India, and after Andrew Hudson made a duck opening the innings during a three-wicket loss in the first ODI in Calcutta, Yachad replaced Hudson for the second match at Gwalior. Yachad held the catch to dismiss Kris Srikkanth, the first wicket to fall in the match, but his batting was too slow to win the match; with the required run rate slightly above five, Yachad's 31 off 77 balls slowed the team down. He was eventually lbw to spinner Venkatapathy Raju, and South Africa lost by 38 runs. Yachad was replaced by Hudson for the third match, and never played international cricket again, though he turned out for an Invitation XI against India during the 1992–93 season.
[edit] External links
- Player Profile: Mandy Yachad from Cricinfo
- Player Profile: Mandy Yachad from CricketArchive
[edit] References
- ^ a b c S African plays hockey, cricket at internat'l level, by Derek Fattal, the Jerusalem Post, published on Cricinfo on 25 January 2001
