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Jacques Rudolph

Team flagSA43 yrs
batting styleleft handed Batter
Career & Stats
Batting
Bowling

Jacques Rudolph Recent Form

Batting

RSAL vs SLL, T2010 (7)
RSAL vs INDL, T2016 (14)
RSAL vs WIL, T205 (7)
GLM vs NOR, First class28 (47)
GLM vs NOR, First class0 (6)
GLM vs WARKS, T20-Blast65 (39)
GLM vs LEIC, T20-Blast46 (34) *
GLM vs MDX, T20-Blast22 (19) *
GLM vs SOM, T20-Blast7 (3)
GLM vs HAM, T20-Blast20 (25)

Bowling

GLM vs WORCS, First class0-4
GLM vs HAM, LIST A0-11
GLM vs SOM, LIST A0-12
GLM vs SOM, T20-Blast0-9
GLM vs GLCS, T20-Blast0-4
GLM vs ESS, T20-Blast0-9
GLM vs GLCS, First class0-16
GLM vs GLCS, First class1-5
GLM vs WORCS, First class0-20
GLM vs LEIC, First class1-9

Jacques Rudolph Career Stats

Batting

FormatMatInnR100s50sHSSRAvgFoursSixesDuckRank
ODI45391174078168.0635.581095----
T20I11600685.710.0000----
Test4883262261122243.8235.433627----

Bowling

FormatMatInnWEconAvgBest3W5WSRMaidenRank
ODI45106.500.000/26000.00----
T20I1000.000.000000.00----
Test481943.90108.001/100166.00----

Career Debut Information

ODI Debut
India vs South Africa at Dhaka - April 13, 2003
T20I Debut
Australia vs South Africa at Brisbane - January 09, 2006
Test Debut
Bangladesh vs South Africa at Chattogram - April 24 - 27, 2003

Teams played for

South Africa Africa XI Eagles Titans Yorkshire Surrey Jamaica Tallawahs Glamorgan Gemini Arabians South Africa Legends

About Jacques Rudolph

NameJacques Rudolph
GenderMale
Birth4 May 1981
Birth PlaceSprings, Transvaal
Height5ft 11in
NationalitySouth African

During a time when the opening spot alongside Graeme Smith was firmly up for grabs in the Test team, Rudolph appeared to be the saving grace after scoring 222 not out on debut against Bangladesh in Chittagong back in 2003 which still remains the highest ever Test score on debut by a left-handed batsman and evidence of a player who patiently waited in line for the smallest of opportunities.... continue reading

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Player Bio

During a time when the opening spot alongside Graeme Smith was firmly up for grabs in the Test team, Rudolph appeared to be the saving grace after scoring 222 not out on debut against Bangladesh in Chittagong back in 2003 which still remains the highest ever Test score on debut by a left-handed batsman and evidence of a player who patiently waited in line for the smallest of opportunities.

In 2004, he scored his second Test hundred against West Indies at Cape Town scoring 101 as South Africa piled up 532 in the first innings. The match was drawn but South Africa won the four-match series by the margin of 3-0. 

Rudolph oozed class and was a perfect fit for a Proteas team that began to develop into a strong and competitive unit. He played a match-saving inning of 102 not out against Australia in 2005 at Perth. 

A string of promising starts and lack of big scores made his case quite complicated and he was sidelined from South Africa’s team in 2006. Rudolph signed a Kolpak deal with Yorkshire, ultimately declaring himself unavailable for South African selection in 2007. But, in 2011, on the back of a few very successful seasons at Yorkshire, Rudolph returned to the Proteas squad under Gary Kirsten and went on a famous run of victories over the likes of Australia, New Zealand, England, and Sri Lanka, and has been described by some as the greatest South African Test team ever.

After a failure in the 2012 tour of Australia, he was dropped in favour of Dean Elgar and Rudolph wasn’t awarded the central contract by Cricket South Africa. Rudolph’s second coming in international cricket was not successful. 

The following summer he moved to Durham in order to get constant time on the pitch and proved to be a significant signing playing over 50 tests. Having been part of several seasons in county cricket, predominantly with Yorkshire for whom he has amassed 5,429 first-class runs. 

(As of April 2021)