Courtney Kruger

Personal information

Full name

Courtney Keith Kruger

Born

18 February 1988
South Africa

Batting style

Right-handed

Role

Batsman

International information

National side

Hong Kong

ODI debut

24 June 2008 v Pakistan

Last ODI

25 June 2008 v India

Career statistics

Competition	ODIs	List A	T20
Matches	2	9	9
Runs scored	3	44	36
Batting average	1.50	4.88	6.00
100s/50s	0/0	0/0	0/0
Top score	3	18	20
Balls bowled	–	–	–
Wickets	–	–	–
Bowling average	–	–	–
5 wickets in innings	–	–	–
10 wickets in match	–	–	–
Best bowling	–	–	–
Catches/stumpings	0/–	2/–	0/–

Source: CricketArchive, 01 February 2014

Courtney Keith Kruger (born 18 February 1988) is a South African-born batsman who has played two One Day Internationals for Hong Kong.

Kruger made his One Day International debut in the 2008 Asia Cup, playing in Hong Kong's games against Pakistan and India, but scored just 0 and 3.

Cricket career

International

Courtney Kruger made his Hong Kong debut in 2004, aged sixteen, after finding moderate success in the ACC Fast Track Tournament,^[1] playing only one of Hong Kong's matches as they finished second behind the United Arab Emirates. He had to wait almost two years for his next cap, which came to him in the 2006 Trophy,^[2] where he played in all of Hong Kong's matches in their run to the final, earning Hong Kong their second Asia Cup appearance. Kruger himself had little impact with the team but he was being talked about as a leadership prospect already.

His World Cricket League debut came in the 2007 Division Three tournament^[3] in the north of Australia. He scored his first, and so far only, international half-century against Italy in Darwin,^[4] anchoring his team's winning total of 195. In the next edition of Division Three, 2011, Kruger began to realise his potential with a brace of 40s against Oman and Denmark^[5] in victories that contributed to their promotion to Division Two, which carried List A status.^[6]

Appearances

Appearance	Date	Opposition	Score	Match Type
1	29, 30, 31 October 2004	Nepal	0 (2), DNB	Non-first class^[7]
2	15 August 2006	Bhutan	DNB	Limited overs^[8]
3	17 August 2006	Myanmar	DNB	Limited overs^[9]
4	19 August 2006	Nepal	5 (13)	Limited overs^[10]
5	22 August 2006	Singapore	12* (11)	Limited overs^[11]
6	24 August 2006	Afghanistan	11 (36)	Limited overs^[12]
7	26 August 2006	United Arab Emirates	0 (2)	Limited overs^[13]
8	24 May 2007	Italy	13 (26)	Limited overs^[14]
9	27 May 2007	Uganda	4 (8)	Limited overs^[15]
10	28 May 2007	Cayman Islands	7 (13)	Limited overs^[16]
11	30 May 2007	Tanzania	7 (26)	Limited overs^[17]
12	31 May 2007	Italy	50 (96)	Limited overs^[18]
13	2 June 2007	Tanzania	32 (50)	Limited overs^[19]
14	27 October 2007	Singapore	5 (7)	Twenty overs^[20]
15	29 October 2007	Saudi Arabia	15 (19)	Twenty overs^[21]
16	30 October 2007	United Arab Emirates	9 (16)	Twenty overs^[22]
17	31 October 2007	Kuwait	5 (4)	Twenty overs^[23]
18	24 June 2008	Pakistan	0 (4)	One Day International^[24]
19	25 June 2008	India	3 (16)	One Day International^[25]
--	9 January 2009	Sri Lanka Colts	7 (17)	Limited overs^[26]
--	12 January 2009	Sri Lanka Colts	29 (52)	Limited overs^[27]
--	14 January 2009	Sri Lanka Colts	1 (7)	Limited overs^[28]
20	22 January 2011	United States	1 (4)	Limited overs^[29]
21	23 January 2011	Oman	40 (65)	Limited overs^[30]
22	25 January 2011	Denmark	40* (61)	Limited overs^[31]
23	26 January 2011	Italy	9 (17)	Limited overs^[32]
24	28 January 2011	Papua New Guinea	2 (24)	Limited overs^[33]
25	29 January 2011	Papua New Guinea	8 (25)	Limited overs^[34]
26	8 April 2011	Uganda	18 (48)	A-List^[35]
27	9 April 2011	Bermuda	4 (11)	A-List^[36]
28	11 April 2011	United Arab Emirates	1 (2)	A-List^[37]
29	12 April 2011	Papua New Guinea	2 (6)	A-List^[38]
30	14 April 2011	Namibia	15 (70)	A-List^[39]
31	15 April 2011	Papua New Guinea	1 (7)	A-List^[40]
--	22 April 2011	MCC	15 (?)	Limited overs^[41]
--	25 April 2011	MCC	38 (?)	Limited overs^[42]
--	23 July 2011	Stragglers of Asia	44* (?)	Limited overs^[43]
--	26 July 2011	MCC	42 (?)	Limited overs^[44]
32	3 December 2011	Nepal	2 (7)	Twenty overs^[45]
33	5 December 2011	Saudi Arabia	38 (47)	Twenty overs^[46]
34	6 December 2011	United Arab Emirates	9 (10)	Twenty overs^[47]
35	7 December 2011	Kuwait	7* (12)	Twenty overs^[48]
36	9 December 2011	Oman	5 (9)	Twenty overs^[49]
37	11 December 2011	Afghanistan	17 (14)	Twenty overs^[50]
38	13 March 2012	Nepal	2 (7)	Twenty20^[51]
39	14 March 2012	Bermuda	9* (10)	Twenty20^[52]
40	15 March 2012	Canada	1 (3)	Twenty20^[53]
41	16 March 2012	Papua New Guinea	0 (1)	Twenty20^[54]
42	18 March 2012	Denmark	DNB	Twenty20^[55]
43	19 March 2012	Afghanistan	4 (10)	Twenty20^[56]
44	20 March 2012	Netherlands	20 (15)	Twenty20^[57]
45	22 March 2012	United States	DNB	Twenty20^[58]
46	23 March 2012	Uganda	0 (1)	Twenty20^[59]
47	26 March 2013	Malaysia	0* (0)	Twenty overs^[60]
48	27 March 2013	Nepal	0 (2)	Twenty overs^[61]
49	29 March 2013	Maldives	20* (13)	Twenty overs^[62]
50	30 March 2013	Singapore	DNB	Twenty overs^[63]
51	2 April 2013	Afghanistan	2 (4)	Twenty overs^[64]
52	3 April 2013	United Arab Emirates	2 (5)	Twenty overs^[65]
53	10 January 2014	Kenya	11 (17)	Limited overs^[66]
54	28 January 2014	Namibia	0 (5)	A-list^[67]

Statistics

In his Hong Kong career, Kruger has represented his country in 54 internationals, as well as seven non-internationals against historic English club sides, and the Sri Lanka colts. He has a total of 466 international runs, with a highest score of 50 against Italy in 2007.^[68]

	Mat.	Inn.	N.O.	Runs	Balls	Average	S/R	100s	50s	Best
Multi-Day	1	1	0	0	2	0.00	0.0	-	-	0

	Mat.	Inn.	N.O.	Runs	Balls	Average	S/R	100s	50s	Best
One Day International	2	2	0	3	20	1.50	15.0	-	-	3
List A	9	9	0	40	169	4.88	26.0	-	-	18
Limited Overs	28	26	2	294	643	12.25	45.7	-	1	50
Non-international	7	7	1	176	-	29.33	-	-	-	44*

	Mat.	Inn.	N.O.	Runs	Balls	Average	S/R	100s	50s	Best
Twenty20	9	7	1	36	47	6.00	76.6	-	-	20
Twenty overs	25	22	4	172	216	9.56	79.6	-	-	38

Youth

As well as 54 full internationals, Kruger was also a regular in the Hong Kong Under-17 and Under-19 teams.^[69] He made his Under-19 debut before representing the Under-17s^[70]^[71] and was only fifteen years of age at the time. He was a part of the same group of players that contained Hong Kong mainstays Irfan Ahmed, Nadeem Ahmed and Jamie Atkinson, a golden generation of Hong Kong home-grown talent.

Appearances

Appearance	Date	Opposition	Score	Age Group
1	19 July 2003	Kuwait	19 (33)	Under-19^[72]
2	21 July 2003	Thailand	45 (56)	Under-19^[73]
3	13 January 2004	Bhutan	4 (18)	Under-17^[74]
4	19 July 2003	Saudi Arabia	47 (80)	Under-17^[75]
5	19 July 2003	Maldives	10 (18)	Under-17^[76]
6	8 November 2005	Malaysia	5 (20)	Under-19^[77]
7	12 November 2005	Maldives	32 (61)	Under-19^[78]
8	14 November 2005	Saudi Arabia	8 (24)	Under-19^[79]
9	16 November 2005	Kuwait	28 (44)	Under-19^[80]
10	20 August 2007	Qatar	4 (13)	Under-19^[81]
11	21 August 2007	Kuwait	46 (56)	Under-19^[82]
12	23 August 2007	Malaysia	44 (71)	Under-19^[83]
13	24 August 2007	Afghanistan	21 (54)	Under-19^[84]
14	28 August 2007	Oman	10 (20)	Under-19^[85]

Statistics

As a batsman for Hong Kong's youth sides, he found more success than in the first decade of his full international career - although four times he managed to fall within ten runs of posting a half-century.

	Mat.	Inn.	Runs	Balls	Average	S/R	100s	50s	Best
Under-17	3	3	61	116	20.33	52.6	-	-	47
Under-19	11	11	262	470	23.81	55.7	-	-	46
Youth internationals	14	14	323	586	23.07	55.1	-	-	47

Illness

In November 2007, Kruger was travelling home from representing Hong Kong at the ACC Twenty20 when he complained of debilitating headaches.^[86] When he returned to Hong Kong, doctors discovered an abscess in his brain.^[87] To relieve the pressure, half of Kruger's skull had to be removed for three months; he was bedridden for six. Incredibly, he recovered to make his ODI debut against Pakistan in June 2008.

References

External links

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