Nicky Boje      

South Africa

Full name Nico Boje

Born March 20, 1973, Bloemfontein, Orange Free State

Current age 37 years 201 days

Major teams South Africa, Africa XI, Eagles, Free State,Hyderabad Heroes, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire,Orange Free State, Warriors

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox

Education Grey College

Relation Brother - EHL Boje

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	43	62	10	1312	85	25.23	2715	48.32	0	4	184	6	18	0
ODIs	115	71	18	1414	129	26.67	1594	88.70	2	4	135	13	33	0
T20Is	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	0
First-class	212	318	55	8975	226*	34.12			8	55			124	0
List A	289	207	49	4032	129	25.51			2	16			88	0
Twenty20	64	45	15	728	58*	24.26	607	119.93	0	3	76	6	27	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	43	72	8620	4265	100	5/62	8/134	42.65	2.96	86.2	9	3	0
ODIs	115	108	4541	3415	96	5/21	5/21	35.57	4.51	47.3	2	1	0
T20Is	1	1	24	27	1	1/27	1/27	27.00	6.75	24.0	0	0	0
First-class	212		42324	18756	577	8/93		32.50	2.65	73.3		22	2
List A	289		12064	8741	274	5/21	5/21	31.90	4.34	44.0	9	1	0
Twenty20	64	59	1176	1373	62	3/10	3/10	22.14	7.00	18.9	0	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	India v South Africa at Mumbai, Feb 24-26, 2000 scorecard
Last Test	Sri Lanka v South Africa at Colombo (PSS), Aug 4-8, 2006 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	Zimbabwe v South Africa at Harare, Oct 21, 1995 scorecard
Last ODI	South Africa v New Zealand at Port Elizabeth, Oct 30, 2005 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
Only T20I	South Africa v New Zealand at Johannesburg, Oct 21, 2005 scorecard
T20I statistics	- Statsguru T20I analysis -  Player analysis menu/filter  T20I match list  ---------------------------------  Bowling career summary  Bowling innings list  ---------------------------------  Fielding career summary  Fielding innings list
First-class debut	1990/91
Last First-class	Northamptonshire v Glamorgan at Northampton, Jul 5-7, 2010 scorecard
List A debut	1993/94
Last List A	Netherlands v Northamptonshire at Rotterdam, Aug 22, 2010 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Dolphins v Eagles at Durban, Apr 11, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Warriors v Chennai Super Kings at Johannesburg, Sep 26, 2010 scorecard

Profile

Such is the sporting gene-pool in the Boje family that mother, father and all three children have played at least one sport at provincial or international level. Nicky Boje captained South Africa Schools and was selected for three successive years as a middle-order batsman. From an early he showed his all-round skills, opening the bowling for his own school, and then switched to left-arm spin on the coach's command - because nobody else could turn the ball. He was equally pivotal on the rugby field and tennis court. Boje spent four long years after his initial squad selection quietly desperate to be regarded by the national selectors as a middle-order batsman who bowled usefully, but a spinner he remained. He worked furiously on his bowling as a result, and match-winning analyses in both India and Sri Lanka finally established him as the Test No. 1 in 2000-01, a position he briefly surrendered to Claude Henderson in Australia in 2001-02, and then to Robin Peterson and Paul Adams in 2003. However, he had a big role to play in the final Test of the New Zealand tour of 2003-04, when his eight-wicket haul helped South Africa to a series-levelling win. But after being implicated in the Hansie Cronje match-fixing scandal in 2000, Boje refused to tour India in subsequent years. After fighting his way back into the squad to face India in 2006, he surprisingly announced his retirement from international cricket to concentrate on his domestic career with the Eagles. He went on to play in the "rebel" ICL and in 2008 was appointed captain of Northamptonshire, handing over the reins to Andrew Hall after a stuttering start to the 2010 season. He was one of the bright, inquisitive breed of internationals who preferred a cameraman's long lens to a boring dressing-room and a craft market or temple to a hotel room. thanks crickinfo.com