Rilee Rossouw

Rilee Rossouw
Personal information
Full name Rilee Roscoe Rossouw
Born 9 October 1989
Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa
Batting style Left-handed
Bowling style Right arm off break
Role Allrounder
International information
National side
ODI debut (cap 112) 21 August 2014 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI 24 March 2015 v New Zealand
ODI shirt no. 27
T20I debut (cap 63) 5 November 2014 v Australia
Last T20I 14 January 2015 v West Indies
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2007–2013 Free State
2010–present Knights (squad no. 9)
2012 Basnahira Cricket Dundee
2014–present Royal Challengers Bangalore
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA
Matches 17 6 73 109
Runs scored 544 160 5,470 3,911
Batting average 35.86 32.00 44.83 37.91
100s/50s 2/3 0/2 18/22 8/24
Top score 132 78 319 137
Balls bowled 30 – 42 30
Wickets 1 – 2 1
Bowling average 30.00 – 18.00 30.00
5 wickets in innings 0 – 0 0
10 wickets in match n/a n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 1/17 – 1/1 1/17
Catches/stumpings 12/– 3/– 99/– 62/–
Source: CricketArchive, 7 March 2015

Rilee Roscoe Rossouw (born 9 October 1989 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State) is a South African cricketer who plays for the Knights and Free State. He is a left-hand batsman and a right arm off-spin bowler.

Domestic cricket

Rossouw made his first-class debut in November 2007 for Free State against Easterns, batting at number three he topscored in the match with 83, an innings that included 13 fours.[1] At the end of his maiden season he made the step-up to franchise cricket playing three Twenty20 matches for the Eagles.[2]

Rossouw was a regular in the Eagles team during the 2008/09 season, in the SuperSport Series he was the team's leading scorer with 765 runs including three centuries.[3] His maiden first-class century came against the Titans in November 2008, he made 106 including 20 boundaries.[4] In the return fixture in March 2009 he scored 109 in a team total of 178, no other batsman passed 16.[5] Again the innings was in vain as the Eagles lost to the league champions. In the one-day format he also scored a maiden century, he struck 131 off 108 balls against the Warriors.[6]

Rossouw scored 1,261 runs at 57.61 in the 2009/10 season, this included a score of 319 off 291 balls against the Titans. The innings was the fastest triple century in South African domestic cricket and included 47 fours and 8 sixes. Alongside Dean Elgar he shared a second wicket partnership of 480 in 84 overs, the largest South African partnership for any wicket.[7]

Rossouw played in the IPL 2011 for Royal Challengers Bangalore and replaced Nic Maddinson in IPL 2014 for Royal Challengers Bangalore.

International cricket

While attending Grey College in Bloemfontein Rossouw was selected to represent a South African schools team.[8] He made his debut for South Africa under-19s in the second 'Test' against Bangladesh in December 2007.[9] He also played against India prior to the 2008 U/19 Cricket World Cup.[2] At the World Cup he played all six matches scoring 136 runs at an average of 34.00 as South Africa reached the final.[10]

Roussow was selected in the South Africa A squad for the tours of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in 2010, on the latter he scored 131 from 151 balls against Sri Lanka A, sharing century stands with Dean Elgar and Jonathan Vandiar.[11]

He made his One Day International debut against Zimbabwe in August 2014He was run out on without even opening his account.He couldn't open his account in the second match as well.He scored his first fifty in his 9th ODI.[12]

He made his Twenty20 International debut for South Africa against Australia on 5 November 2014.[13] He was the man of the match for his score of 78 off 50 balls.

International Centuries

One Day International Centuries

Rilee Rossouw's One Day International centuries
# Runs Match Against City/Country Venue Year Result
1 128 11  West Indies South Africa Johannesburg, South Africa New Wanderers Stadium 2015 Won
2 132 14  West Indies South Africa Centurion, South Africa SuperSport Park 2015 Won

References

  1. ↑ Free State v Easterns, South African Airways Provincial Three-Day Challenge 2007/08 (Pool B), CricketArchive, Retrieved on 11 April 2009
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Player Oracle: RR Rossouw, CricketArchive, Retrieved on 11 April 2009
  3. ↑ SuperSport Series 2008/09 – Batting and Fielding for Eagles, CricketArchive, Retrieved on 11 April 2009
  4. ↑ Titans v Eagles, SuperSport Series 2008/09, CricketArchive, Retrieved on 11 April 2009
  5. ↑ Eagles v Titans, SuperSport Series 2008/09, CricketArchive, Retrieved on 11 April 2009
  6. ↑ Warriors v Eagles, MTN Domestic Championship 2008/09, CricketArchive, Retrieved on 11 April 2009
  7. ↑ Rilee Rossouw enters record books with triple ton, Cricinfo, Retrieved on 25 March 2010
  8. ↑ SA schools cricket team announced, iol.co.za, Retrieved on 11 April 2009
  9. ↑ South Africa Under-19s v Bangladesh Under-19s, Bangladesh Under-19s in South Africa 2007/08 (2nd Test), CricketArchive, Retrieved on 11 April 2009
  10. ↑ ICC Under-19 World Cup 2007/08 – Batting and Fielding for South Africa Under-19s, CricketArchive, Retrieved on 11 April 2009
  11. ↑ Rossouw century puts South Africa in command, Cricinfo, Retrieved on 9 October 2010
  12. ↑ "South Africa tour of Zimbabwe, 3rd ODI: Zimbabwe v South Africa at Bulawayo, Aug 21, 2014".
  13. ↑ "South Africa tour of Australia (November 2014), 1st T20I: Australia v South Africa at Adelaide, Nov 5, 2014". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 5 November 2014.

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