| Personal information | ||||
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| Full name | Marchant de Lange | |||
| Born | 13 October 1990 Tzaneen, Limpopo, South Africa |
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| Nickname | Langy, Chant, Chana | |||
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||
| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast | |||
| Role | Bowler | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | South Africa | |||
| Only Test (cap 312) | 26 December 2011 v Sri Lanka | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 2011–present | Titans | |||
| 2010–present | Easterns | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Test | FC | LA | T20 |
| Matches | 1 | 15 | 14 | 1 |
| Runs scored | 9 | 176 | 125 | 4 |
| Batting average | 4.50 | 9.77 | 15.62 | – |
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 |
| Top score | 9 | 35 | 29 | 4* |
| Balls bowled | 218 | 2,632 | 648 | 24 |
| Wickets | 8 | 63 | 27 | 2 |
| Bowling average | 15.75 | 24.74 | 20.37 | 19.00 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 1 | n/a | n/a |
| Best bowling | 7/81 | 7/81 | 5/67 | 2/38 |
| Catches/stumpings | 1/– | 8/– | 5/– | 0/– |
| Source: CricketArchive, 30 December 2011 | ||||
Marchant de Lange (born 13 October 1990) is a South African cricketer. He is a tail-end right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler and was called up to the South Africa squad from relative obscurity and little first-class experience for the series against Sri Lanka. de Lange was drafted as a late replacement for Vernon Philander in the second test match against Sri Lanka and returned figures of 8/126 on Test debut, including 7/81 in the Sri Lankan first innings.[1] The figures are the best for any bowler in Test cricket in 2011.[2]
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de Lange was born in Tzaneen, Limpopo in South Africa on the 13th of October in 1990.
de Lange is a tall right-arm fast bowler with an ability to gain swing and accuracy. Prior to his cricketing career, de Lange was a javelin thrower hence his ability to attain such impressive pace from a short run-up.
de Lange, at the age of 19, made his first class debut in 2010 for Easterns against Free State and returned match figures of 4/99. He was called up to the South Africa squad from relative obscurity and little first-class experience for the series against Sri Lanka and impressed in the second test with pace and bounce claiming 7-81 in the Sri Lankan first-innings and capturing 1-56 in the second.
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