Johan Botha      

South Africa

Full name Johan Botha

Born May 2, 1982, Johannesburg, Transvaal

Current age 28 years 159 days

Major teams South Africa, Africa XI, Border,Eastern Province, Rajasthan Royals, Warriors

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	3	3	1	54	25	27.00	163	33.12	0	0	5	0	2	0
ODIs	57	31	10	352	46	16.76	432	81.48	0	0	33	1	26	0
T20Is	21	13	7	113	28*	18.83	92	122.82	0	0	9	5	10	0
First-class	64	107	16	3153	109	34.64			1	22			46	0
List A	135	90	24	1404	55*	21.27	1766	79.50	0	4			41	0
Twenty20	63	45	19	433	44*	16.65	382	113.35	0	0	31	10	25	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	3	6	464	280	11	4/56	7/102	25.45	3.62	42.1	1	0	0
ODIs	57	54	2772	2143	52	4/19	4/19	41.21	4.63	53.3	1	0	0
T20Is	21	20	420	422	22	3/16	3/16	19.18	6.02	19.0	0	0	0
First-class	64		8991	4597	149	6/42		30.85	3.06	60.3		4	1
List A	135		6060	4585	122	4/19	4/19	37.58	4.53	49.6	2	0	0
Twenty20	63	60	1362	1331	58	4/19	4/19	22.94	5.86	23.4	1	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	Australia v South Africa at Sydney, Jan 2-6, 2006 scorecard
Last Test	West Indies v South Africa at Bridgetown, Jun 26-29, 2010 scorecard
Test statistics	- Statsguru Test analysis -  Player analysis menu/filter  Test match list  ---------------------------------  Batting career summary  Batting innings list  High scores  Batting series averages  ---------------------------------  Bowling career summary  Bowling innings list  Bowling match list  Best innings bowling  Best match bowling  Bowling series averages  ---------------------------------  Fielding career summary  Fielding innings list  Most catches in an innings  Fielding series statistics
ODI debut	India v South Africa at Hyderabad (Deccan), Nov 16, 2005 scorecard
Last ODI	West Indies v South Africa at Port of Spain, Jun 3, 2010 scorecard
ODI statistics	- Statsguru ODI analysis -  Player analysis menu/filter  ODI match list  ---------------------------------  Batting career summary  Batting innings list  High scores  Batting series averages  ---------------------------------  Bowling career summary  Bowling innings list  Best innings bowling  Bowling series averages  ---------------------------------  Fielding career summary  Fielding innings list  Most catches in an innings  Fielding series statistics
T20I debut	Australia v South Africa at Brisbane, Jan 9, 2006 scorecard
Last T20I	West Indies v South Africa at North Sound, May 20, 2010 scorecard
T20I statistics	- Statsguru T20I analysis -  Player analysis menu/filter  T20I match list  ---------------------------------  Batting career summary  Batting innings list  High scores  Batting series averages  ---------------------------------  Bowling career summary  Bowling innings list  Best innings bowling  Bowling series averages  ---------------------------------  Fielding career summary  Fielding innings list  Most catches in an innings  Fielding series statistics
First-class debut	2000/01
Last First-class	Titans v Warriors at Centurion, Sep 30-Oct 2, 2010 scorecard
List A debut	2000/01
Last List A	West Indies v South Africa at Port of Spain, Jun 3, 2010 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Eastern Cape v Western Province Boland at Port Elizabeth, Apr 13, 2004scorecard
Last Twenty20	Warriors v Chennai Super Kings at Johannesburg, Sep 26, 2010 scorecard

Profile

Johan Botha's is an interesting case. He began his career as an ordinary medium pacer for the Eastern Cape Warriors - by his own admission he was quicker than 125 kmph - but it was after Mickey Arthur, the South Africa coach, had a look at him in the nets and saw something else that Botha dropped his ambitions for speed. Spurred by Arthur's comments that he would do well to turn to spin, Botha remodeled his action and began studying the art of the doosra - the ball that turns away from the right-handed batsman - in hopes of emulating the wiles of Harbhajan Singh. A successful tour of Sri Lanka with the South Africa A side - in which he took key wickets as well as scoring runs - saw Botha's name penciled in as a potential spinning allrounder.Thanks crickinfo.com