Craig Kieswetter

Quick Facts

Full Name	Craig Kieswetter
Occupation	Cricket Player
Date Of Birth	Nov 28, 1987(1987-11-28)
Age	37
Birthplace	Johannesburg
Country	South Africa
Birth City	Gauteng
Horoscope	Scorpio

Craig Kieswetter Biography

Craig Kieswetter is one of the most popular and richest Cricket Player who was born on November 28, 1987 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. The cricketer is who hails from South Africa known as a wicket-keeper in teams such as Somerset or The Chevrolet Warriors. He helped lead England to its first ICC World Twenty20 title in 2010.

He batted regularly with He regularly batted alongside Marcus Trescothick in One Day Internationals. in One Day Internationals.

In 2010, Kieswetter qualified to play for England on the basis of having a British passport, via his Scottish mother, and his residency in England. Under the rules for international cricket, he had to wait until four years after his last appearance for South Africa, which was on 16 February 2006 during the Under-19s World Cup. In January 2010, he was named as part of the England Lions squad to tour the United Arab Emirates for a series against Pakistan A. The England head coach, Andy Flower, described Kieswetter’s performances during that tour as “a really good start”, and described the Twenty20 warm-up match between the England Lions and the England senior team that followed the tour as “a chance for him to impress”. During that match, which was played on the day that he qualified for England, Kieswetter scored 81 runs to help the Lions beat the senior team.

Kieswetter made his first appearance for Somerset’s second team in May 2006, taking over from Sam Spurway as wicket-keeper midway through a match when the latter was injured. He scored 94 not out in his first innings of that match against Glamorgan, and by the end of the season he had scored 245 runs at an average of over 40. His performances were so strong that Somerset chose to release Spurway at the start of the 2007 season, and named Kieswetter alongside Carl Gazzard as their two wicket-keepers. In early April that year, he made his one-day debut for Somerset against Glamorgan; he made 69 not out off 58 balls and took a catch described as “world class” by Somerset’s director of cricket, Brian Rose. He made his first-class debut the following month, keeping wicket while Derbyshire made 801 for 8 declared and scored 63 in the Somerset reply.

The mother of the child is Scottish and his father is an Afrikaner.

Craig Kieswetter Net Worth

Craig Kieswetter is one of the richest Cricket Player from South Africa. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Craig Kieswetter 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

His birthplace was in Johannesburg and was a player with the Western Province at thirteen years old.

He was awarded the NBC He won the NBC Denis Compton Award as the most promising player in county cricket in both 2007 and 2008. Award for the most promising county cricketer both in 2007 and 2008.

Craig Kieswetter (born 28 November 1987) is an English professional golfer and former cricketer who appeared in 71 matches for the England cricket team between 2010 and 2013. Born and raised in South Africa, Kieswetter moved to England to complete his education, and began playing county cricket for Somerset in 2007. Three years later, he made his international debut in a One Day International (ODI) against Bangladesh. A wicket-keeper batsman, he was considered a one-day specialist, and all his international appearances came in ODIs or Twenty20 Internationals.

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In 2009, Kieswetter passed 1,000 first-class runs in a season for the only time during his career. Early in the year, he scored an unbeaten 150 in a high-scoring draw against Warwickshire, his maiden first-class century. A few weeks later, he scored 106 runs against Durham to help his county avoid defeat. In his report for ESPNcricinfo, Andrew McGlashan described Kieswetter as “another likely South African to make the transition to England colours”. Kieswetter scored two further first-class centuries during the year, both at Taunton, against Sussex and Lancashire; he averaged just under 60 for his 1,242 first-class runs in the season. In one-day cricket, Kieswetter opened the batting alongside Trescothick, and averaged 65.83, scoring an unbeaten 138 off 131 balls against Warwickshire. In the quarter-final of the 2009 Friends Provident Trophy, Kieswetter scored his second one-day century of the season, but Somerset were defeated by six wickets. His 248 runs in the 2009 Twenty20 Cup helped Somerset reach the final of that competition, where they were again beaten by Sussex. He was awarded his county cap during the final game of the 2009 County Championship against Worcestershire.

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After England’s drawn T20I series with Pakistan in mid-February 2010, Kieswetter was added to the senior England squad for the ODI series against Bangladesh. He was immediately included in the team, playing as a specialist batsman alongside wicket-keeper Matt Prior, in the first warm-up match on 23 February against the Bangladesh Cricket Board XI. He scored 143, his career- best one-day score, from 123 balls. That score, and his performances for the England Lions, led to Kieswetter’s selection for the first ODI against Bangladesh on 28 February. Opening the innings alongside captain Alastair Cook, Kieswetter struggled in his first over; he made 19 runs in an innings described by ESPNcricinfo’ s Andrew Miller as “tinged with nerves” and “chancy”. In the next match, two days later, Kieswetter misplayed his first ball and was nearly dismissed; he was then caught off a similar mishit from the next ball bowled. In the third match, he scored his first international century – 107 runs – which helped England to 284 for five and a 45-run victory. England won the series 3–0. In contrast to the “hard-hitting batting” which Geoff Miller, the England selector, had cited as one of the reasons for his inclusion, Kieswetter’s century was patiently built after a nervous start.

What is Craig Kieswetter doing now?

Since retiring, South Africa-born Kieswetter has turned his attentions from the cricket pitch to the golf course, and in a second bid to reach the top of a chosen sport, he became a professional golfer towards the end of 2016.

Why did kieswetter retire?

Kieswetter, as his brief yet distinguished England career (there were 71 appearances in T20 and the 50-over format) suggests, is a decisive man and on Friday he announced that he had come to a difficult decision: that he would retire from the game at the age of 27 because of an eye injury.

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