Ryan McLaren

Ryan McLaren
Personal information
Full name Ryan McLaren
Born 9 February 1983 (1983-02-09) (age 29)
Kimberley, Cape Province, South Africa
Nickname Ryan
Height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Batting style Left-handed
Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast
Domestic team information
Years Team
2009–2010 Mumbai Indians
2007–2009 Kent (squad no. 23)
2003–present Eagles
2011–present Middlesex
2011–present Kings XI Punjab
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 1 10 85 115
Runs scored 33 37 2,950 1,702
Batting average 6.16 28.64 32.73
100s/50s –/– –/– 2/16 0/8
Top score 33* 12 140 82*
Balls bowled 78 432 13,658 4,357
Wickets 1 8 274 124
Bowling average 43.00 45.75 24.89 29.95
5 wickets in innings 11 1
10 wickets in match n/a 1 n/a
Best bowling 1/30 3/51 8/38 5/46
Catches/stumpings –/– 5/– 43/– 38/–
Source: CricketArchive, 22 February 2011

Ryan McLaren (born 9 February 1983, Kimberley, Cape Province, South Africa) is a South African cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler.[1]

He made his first-class debut for Free State (now called Eagles) in October 2003, taking two wickets and scoring 25 runs.

He had also appeared eight times for South Africa Under-19's, during the 2001–02 Under-19 World Cup.[2]

He agreed to join Kent on a Kolpak deal for the 2007 season. In the 2007 Twenty20 Cup Final against Gloucestershire, McLaren took a hat-trick to help Kent win the Twenty20 Cup for the first time.[3]

He had been called up for the South African One-day side for the Kenya and Bangladesh series, but had to withdraw, because Kent did not release him from his Kolpak contract. After renouncing his Kolpak status, he was called up by South Africa to play against Zimbabwe and England in the 2009–10 season.[4]

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IPL

He signed a contract with Mumbai Indians to play in the Indian Premier League T20. Although he did not feature in the 2009 edition, he played a bigger role in making his team reaching the finals. He also won man of the match against Royal Challengers Bangalore on the 17th of April; he scored 40 while opening with Sachin Tendulkar and took 1 for 21 with the ball.

After not being bought during the auction in 2011, Ryan McLaren was chosen by Kings XI Punjab as a replacement player after Stuart Broad and Dimitri Mascarenhas pulled out due to injury.

Middlesex

It was announced on 18th February 2010 that he had signed to play for Middlesex in the 2011 Friends Provident Twenty20 Cup competition.

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