Gerald Coetzee

Gerald Coetzee is a talented fast-bowling all-rounder from the land of Allan Donald. 

He is a hit-the-deck kind of pacer who enables the batters to play shots that they don’t want to and an explosive lower-order batter too. The allrounder has represented South Africa Under-19s during the 2018 and 2020 events. 

The Bloemfontein-born started playing the sports in the backyard under the guidance of his older brother. As he grew, his likeness turned into love and he was selected to play for Free State Under 13s. On the back of age-group performances, the selectors picked a 17-year-old Coetzee for the U19 World Cup held in New Zealand in 2018, where he played four games and scalped six wickets and scored 70 crucial runs. The all-rounder played a couple more games in the next edition of the ICC event. 

In between the two World Cups, a lot happened with Coetzee, the all-rounder was picked by the Knights team to make his domestic debut. He made his List A debut in the 2018–19 CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge and made his Twenty20 debut in the 2018–19 CSA T20 Challenge. 

He made his first-class debut in the 2019–20 CSA 4-Day Franchise Series. Coetzee gained a lot of experience after playing domestically. In 2020, he represented the Kingfishers team during CSA’s invented 3-Team Cricket format. 

During the 2021 IPL season, Rajasthan Royals bagged the South African as a replacement for Liam Livingstone, but Coetzee didn’t feature in any game as the edition got suspended after the bubble breach mishap. 

(As of June 2021)