Marchant de Lange

Marchant de Lange
Personal information
Full name Marchant de Lange
Born (1990-10-13) 13 October 1990
Tzaneen, Transvaal Province, South Africa
Nickname Langy, Chant, Chana
Height 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm fast
Role Bowler
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 312) 26 December 2011 v Sri Lanka
Last Test 23 March 2012 v New Zealand
ODI debut (cap 103) 3 March 2012 v New Zealand
Last ODI 21 August 2014 v Zimbabwe
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2014 Mumbai Indians
2011–2016 Titans
2010–present Easterns
2016–present Knights
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 2 2 32 38
Runs scored 9 – 402 219
Batting average 4.50 – 11.82 12.16
100s/50s 0/0 –/– 0/0 0/0
Top score 9 – 35 29
Balls bowled 448 101 5,646 1,900
Wickets 9 7 119 76
Bowling average 30.78 11.00 28.92 21.86
5 wickets in innings 1 0 5 2
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 1 n/a
Best bowling 7/81 4/46 7/81 5/64
Catches/stumpings 1/– 0/– 14/– 7/–
Source: CricketArchive, 27 January 2015

Marchant de Lange (born 13 October 1990) is a South African cricketer. He is a right-arm fast bowler and tail-end right-handed batsman and was called up to the South Africa squad from relative obscurity and little first-class experience for the series against Sri Lanka. De Lange was drafted as a late replacement for Vernon Philander in the second test match against Sri Lanka and returned figures of 8/126 on Test debut, including 7/81 in the Sri Lankan first innings.[1] The figures are the best for any bowler in Test cricket in 2011.[2]

Playing Style

de Lange is a tall right-arm fast bowler with an ability to gain swing and accuracy. Prior to his cricketing career, de Lange was a javelin thrower hence his ability to attain such impressive pace around 145-150 km/hr from a short run-up.

International career

de Lange, at the age of 19, made his first class debut in 2010 for Easterns against Free State and returned match figures of 4/99. He was called up to the South Africa squad from relative obscurity and little first-class experience for the series against Sri Lanka and impressed in the second test with pace and bounce claiming 7-81 in the Sri Lankan first-innings and capturing 1-56 in the second. He suffered an injury during an unofficial T20 series in Zimbabwe in early 2012 and was forced to remodel his action to prevent further recurrences of the injury happening again.

He made his Twenty20 debut against New Zealand on 19 February 2012 at Hamilton. He took the wicket of Martin Guptill on his debut.[3]

Indian Premier League

Marchant de Lange was a surprise buy in the 2012 Auction with Kolkata Knight Riders notching him up for his base price of $50,000. That season he played in three matches and picked up 3 wickets at an average of 35.66.

In players auction for IPL 2014, Mumbai Indians bought this talented bowler for Rs. 30 lakhs. He debuted for them in their second match against Delhi Daredevils replacing their best bowler Lasith Malinga. It was an important match as Mumbai needed to win all their in order to qualify for the playoffs. He went for 10 in his first over but impressed everyone with a great comeback, bowling Dinesh Karthik out in the first ball he bowled to him and later getting the important wicket of Manoj Tiwary. He finished with figures 2/31 and received the Kanna Keep Calm award for keeping his cool and turning the game around for his team.

International Five-wicket hauls

Test Cricket

Test Five-wicket hauls of Marchant De Lange
# Match Figures Match Against City/Country Venue Season
1 7/81 1  Sri Lanka Durban, South Africa Kingsmead Ground 2011

International Awards

One-Day International Cricket

Man of the Match awards

S No Opponent Venue Date Match Performance Result
1 New Zealand Eden Park, Auckland 3 March 2012 9-1-46-4 ; DNB  South Africa won by 5 wickets.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "2nd Test: South Africa v Sri Lanka at Durban, Dec 26-30, 2011". Cricinfo. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
  2. ↑ "De Lange tops role models". The Age. 28 December 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
  3. ↑ "New Zealand vs South Africa - 20-20, 2nd T20I, Seddon Park, Hamilton, New Zealand, Sun, 19 Feb 2012".
  4. ↑ "South Africa in New Zealand ODI Series, 2012 - 3rd ODI".
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