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Full name Jacobus Andries Rudolph
Born May 4, 1981, Springs, Transvaal
Current age 27 years 12 days
Major teams South Africa,Africa XI,Eagles,Northerns,Titans,Yorkshire
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak googly
Relations Brother - GJ Rudolph
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
35
63
7
2028
222*
36.21
4721
42.95
5
8
288
6
22
0
ODIs
45
39
6
1174
81
35.57
1725
68.05
0
7
109
5
11
0
T20Is
1
1
1
6
6*
-
7
85.71
0
0
0
0
0
0
First-class
125
217
16
8613
222*
42.85
24
39
108
0
List A
141
131
20
4754
134*
42.82
6
30
44
0
Twenty20
26
25
7
625
71
34.72
543
115.10
0
4
66
10
10
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
35
19
664
432
4
1/1
1/1
108.00
3.90
166.0
0
0
0
ODIs
45
1
24
26
0
-
-
-
6.50
-
0
0
0
T20Is
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
125
4047
2250
57
5/80
39.47
3.33
71.0
3
0
List A
141
377
346
10
4/41
4/41
34.60
5.50
37.7
1
0
0
Twenty20
26
9
133
172
10
3/16
3/16
17.20
7.75
13.3
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
Bangladesh v South Africa at Chittagong (MAA), Apr 24-27, 2003 scorecard
Last Test
Sri Lanka v South Africa at Colombo (PSS), Aug 4-8, 2006 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
India v South Africa at Dhaka, Apr 13, 2003 scorecard
Last ODI
Australia v South Africa at Sydney, Feb 5, 2006 scorecard
ODI statistics
Only T20I
Australia v South Africa at Brisbane, Jan 9, 2006 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut
1997/98
Last First-class
Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire at Leeds, Apr 30-May 3, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2000/01
Last List A
Lancashire v Yorkshire at Manchester, May 11, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Titans v Lions at Centurion, Apr 8, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Eagles v Lions at Bloemfontein, Apr 4, 2008 scorecard
Profile
With an unbeaten 222 in his debut Test innings, Jacques Rudolph vindicated those who believed that he had been a victim of reverse discrimination in South Afrian cricket. His record-breaking, unconquered 429-run stand for the third wicket with Boeta Dippenaar in Chittagong was a delivery of promise long after he had forced his way into the South African squad in November 2001 by sheer weight of runs in domestic cricket. A left-handed batsman who stands tall at the point of delivery with an upraised bat, Rudolph has pleasing footwork, balance and favours the cover drive. His Test debut was balm to the wounds Rudolph suffered leading up to his first entry to international cricket. Twice he was in line for his Test debut, and twice politics intervened. His first international experience came during the unofficial match at Centurion against India in 2001-02, in the aftermath of the Mike Denness affair. And two months later he was named in the side to face Australia at Sydney, but the UCB Board president Percy Sonn vetoed his selection on the grounds of racial discrimination, and Justin Ontong made his debut instead. He fought back strongly, if undemonstrably - an unbeaten 102 saved South Africa from defeat in a classic at Perth at the end of 2005, but 125 runs from six further innings, against the same opposition in a 3-0 whitewash at home, did little to boost his claims. In January 2007, he decided to move to Yorkshire on a three-year Kolpak deal, suspending his international career with South Africa in the hope of redeveloping his game. At the end of his first season with the club, he extended the contract to keep him at Headingley until 2011 - opening up the possibility of one day playing for England.
Andrew Miller October 2007
