Andre Nel

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Andre Nel
South Africa
Personal information
Batting style	Right-handed batsman
Bowling style	Right-arm Fast Medium
Career statistics
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	28	65
Runs scored	235	61
Batting average	9.03	7.62
100s/50s	0/0	0/0
Top score	33	22
Balls bowled	6169	3190
Wickets	101	89
Bowling average	31.09	27.62
5 wickets in innings	3	1
10 wickets in match	1	n/a
Best bowling	6/32	5/45
Catches/stumpings	14/-	17/-
As of October 5, 2007 Source: Cricinfo

Andre Nel (born 15 July 1977, Germiston, Transvaal) is a South African cricketer who plays Test cricket and ODIs as a fast bowler.

Contents 1 International career 2 County Cricket 3 Indian Premier League 4 Controversies 5 References

[edit] International career

In January 2005 against England he took 6/81 in the first innings of the Test^[1]. These remained his best innings bowling figures until South Africa's tour of the West Indies in April 2005 when in the 3rd Test at Kensington Oval he took 6/32 to go with his first innings 4 wickets.^[2] This gave him his first 10 wicket haul in Test cricket and he was subsequently named man of the match.

Nel went on to take 14 wickets during his side's tour of Australia later in 2005, finishing the year with 36 victims at 20.72.^[3]

He has constantly troubled Brian Lara in Test cricket, having dismissed him on no fewer than 8 occasions.^[4]

In the first test^[5] of the Bank Alfalah Test Series versus Pakistan in Karachi, Nel became the 11th South African to reach the milestone of 100 dismissals in test cricket^[6], when he dismissed the Pakistani nightwatchman, Mohammad Asif on October 5, 2007.

[edit] County Cricket

After the 2007 World Cup, carrying a highly aggressive and respected reputation, Nel joined the English County of Essex, making his debut for the 2005 and 2006 Pro 40 Champions against the side he first experienced the English game with, Northamptonshire.

[edit] Indian Premier League

Andre Nel has been signed by Mumbai Indians, an Indian Premier League franchise. He joined the Mumbai Indians as a replacement to West Indian cricketer, Dwayne Bravo, who returned home for national duty after the game against Deccan Chargers on May 18, 2008.

[edit] Controversies

Nel has been involved in a number of controversies both on and off the field, as he has been fined for obscene language and for ICC Code of Conduct breaches during his career.

In February 2001 he hit the headlines after bursting into tears when he felled Allan Donald with a fiery bouncer in a domestic first-class match. It emerged later that he had been following instructions from his coach Ray Jennings to target Donald.^[7]

During 2003 he was sent home from a South Africa A tour of Australia after being pulled over for drink driving.^[8] Later in the year during the tour of the West Indies he, along with four other teammates, was found guilty of smoking marijuana.^[9]

His enthusiastic and aggressive approach on the field also gets him into trouble and he was notably brought before the match referee for making offensive facial gestures to Chris Gayle and subsequently fined half of his match fee.^[10]

After being left out of the South African squad for the tour of India due to his skin colour, he threatened the South African cricket board that he would join the rebel breakaway Indian Cricket League.

[edit] References

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