Mfuneko Ngam
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |
| Bowling type | Right-arm fast | |
| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 3 | 46 |
| Runs scored | 0 | 329 |
| Batting average | - | 7.31 |
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 0/0 |
| Top score | 0* | 35 |
| Balls bowled | 392 | 7059 |
| Wickets | 11 | 115 |
| Bowling average | 17.18 | 32.08 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 0 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 0 |
| Best bowling | 3/26 | 4/20 |
| Catches/stumpings | 1/- | 15/- |
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Test debut: 8 December 2000 |
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Mfuneko Ngam (born 29 January 1979 in Middledrift, Cape Province) is a South African cricketer who has played three Tests for South Africa in the 2000–01 season. However, injuries caused him to play a total of five matches from January 2001 to October 2003, and since his return he has not played representative cricket for the national team. The cricket news site Cricinfo have reported that these injuries may be due to genetic disorders or a dietary deficiency at a young age [1]. Whenever Ngam is not injured, he plays as a specialist fast bowler for the Warriors.
Ngam played his first five first class matches for the Eastern Province B team, but in his third season he was selected for the South Africa A tour of the Caribbean[2], where the team's co-coach, Shukri Conrad, said he was an "outstanding performer"[3]. Three months later, Ngam was called up to the squad in the third Test against New Zealand in 2000–01, as fast bowler Allan Donald struggled with injury, and he made his debut on 8 December 2000[4], taking two for 34 in a match cut down to two days by the rain[5].
A week later, Ngam was offered a Category C contract[6]. He played South Africa's two next Test matches in the home series with Sri Lanka, taking nine wickets in the two Tests[7] before the first of a series of "stress fractures in his legs"[1] struck. When he eventually returned to the South African Test setup for a tour of New Zealand in 2003–04, he suffered another stress fracture four days after being called up to the side [8].
After returning from injury, Ngam moved from Eastern Province (who by now had been renamed the Warriors) to play for the Dolphins, based in neighbouring KwaZulu-Natal. He got 22 wickets for them in the 2004–05 season, his best seasonal haul in first class cricket to that date[9], but still moved back to the Warriors before the season ending Pro20 Series[10], and came to the final with that team, but bowled two overs for 40 in the final as the Warriors failed to defend a total of 121[11]. As of 2006, Ngam still plays for the Warriors, but was not selected for that season's South Africa A tour of Sri Lanka, indicating that he's not ranked among the top ten bowlers in South Africa by the South African selectors.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Player Profile: Mfuneko Ngam from Cricinfo
- ^ First-Class Matches played by Mfuneko Ngam (35) from CricketArchive, retrieved 21 January 2006
- ^ 'A' team back after successful Calypso tour, by Bronwyn Wilkinson, published on Cricinfo on 29 September 2000
- ^ Ngam in Test side as Donald withdraws by Peter Robinson, published by Cricinfo on 7 December 2005
- ^ 3rd Test: New Zealand v South Africa at Johannesburg, 8-12 December 2000, scorecard from Cricinfo, retrieved 21 January 2006
- ^ National contract for Ngam, published by Cricinfo on 14 December 2000
- ^ Sri Lanka in South Africa, 2000/01 Test Series Averages, from Cricinfo, retrieved 21 January 2006
- ^ Ngam's return put back on hold and Boje and Ngam return for NZ tour, from Cricinfo, published 6 February and 2 February 2004 respectively
- ^ First-class Bowling in Each Season by Mfuneko Ngam from CricketArchive
- ^ Ngam to play for Warriors by Keith Lane, published by Cricinfo on 31 March 2005
- ^ Titans v Warriors in 2004/05, scorecard from CricketArchive, retrieved 21 January 2006
