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| Full name | Louis Petrus van der Westhuizen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 31 March 1988 Windhoek, South West Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Slow left-arm orthodox | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Louis van der Westhuizen (born 31 March 1988) is a Namibian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a slow left-arm bowler. He has played first-class cricket for the senior Namibian cricket team since 2006, having previously lined up for the Under-19s. He made his first-class cricket debut on 11 May 2006, for Namibia against Scotland in the 2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup.[1]
Van der Westhuizen played for the Namibians in the Under-19s World Cup in 2006. Generally speaking, van der Westhuizen occupies the position of opening batsman for the Namibian side in limited-overs cricket. He was also part of the Namibian Under-19 team which won the Under-19 African Championship in 2007.
Van der Westhuizen has had success as a batsman in the Twenty20 format of the game. Playing against Kenya in a Twenty20 match, he scored 145 runs from 50 balls, then the third-highest individual score of all time in top level Twenty20.[2][3] He also scored an innings of 159*, with 16 sixes, against Kenya in Kampala during the 2011 ICC World Cricket League Africa Region Twenty20 Division One tournament (which is not considered a top-level Twenty20 tournament).[4]
In January 2018, he was named in Namibia's squad for the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament.[5]
References
- ^ "Aberdeen, May 11 - 13 2006, ICC Intercontinental Cup". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
- ^ "Namibia v Kenya, 2011/12". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
- ^ "Individual Scores of 100 and More in a Twenty20 Match". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 18 December 2011. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
- ^ "Namibia continues its winning ways". International Cricket Council. 13 July 2011. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
- ^ "Six teams vying for the final two spots in ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2018". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
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