Martin van Jaarsveld

Quick Facts

Full Name	Martin van Jaarsveld
Occupation	Cricketer
Date Of Birth	Jun 18, 1974(1974-06-18)
Age	50
Birthplace	Klerksdorp
Country	South Africa
Birth City	North West
Horoscope	Gemini

Martin van Jaarsveld Biography

Martin van Jaarsveld is one of the most popular and richest Cricketer who was born on June 18, 1974 in Klerksdorp, North West, South Africa. Martin van Jaarsveld (born 18 June 1974) is a South African cricketer who played nine Tests as well as eleven One Day Internationals with South Africa between 2002 and 2004. Van Jaarsveld is a specialist middle-order batsman. He holds two wickets during One Day International cricket, including England opening Marcus Trescothick’s wicket in a game where the bowler took five overs for 18 runs and was not allowed to bat due to the 153-run partnership of Jacques Kallis and Jacques Rudolph.

The year 2005 saw van Jaarsveld retired from international cricket and chose to switch to becoming an Kolpak participant for the English county cricket with Kent. Van Jaarsveld claimed that he was making “a decision about what [was] best for [his] long-term future”. He scored the highest score for Kent during the 2005 season, scoring 262 runs not lost against Glamorgan however, he was third in the run scoring tables at 1,198, a place behind the former England Test cricketer Robert Key and 29-year-old Darren Stevens. The Kent player was back in South African domestic cricket for the 2005-06 season and played for Benoni Titans. Benoni Titans and making 211 runs in five SuperSport Series games at an average that was lower than the other five Titans players.

Van Jaarsveld also went on tour to Sri Lanka in 2004, however, despite a first-innings score of 51 during the 2nd Test match, South Africa lost that match by 313 runs, and lost the series. But he was offered one last shot to play in the One Day International team at the 2004 Champions Trophy, replacing Jean-Paul Duminy following a 0-5 ODI series defeat to Sri Lanka. After not playing with Bangladesh, van Jaarsveld made the gold duck during South Africa’s second and final game, slamming an ODI ball off Ian Bradshaw to Daren Powell in a five-wicket defeat to South Africa’s eventual winners West Indies. He was a part of two additional Tests, but only producing 15 runs in just 2 innings (out of South Africans’ total of 679) in the drawn match in the Green Park Stadium, Kanpur prior to being dropped in favour of Hashim Amla. He returned for the fifth and final Test against England and his first-innings score did not impress the selectors, although he was able to make 49 runs from 52 balls during the second innings, as South Africa attempted a chase of 378 runs in 86 overs.

Martin van Jaarsveld Net Worth

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

He made his international debut due to his performances during the 2001-02 cricket season, in which he scored 1,268 runs with an average of 74.58 He began his international career in an home match against Bangladesh in 2002-03. However, in a 10-wicket victory at Benoni there was none of his contributions with either bat or ball. He was the top scorer in the next match, however, with 42 and then removing Talha Jubair in the first ball he played in international cricket to close the match. In the two Tests the batsman scored 50 runs over two innings. He was dismissed twice, losing by lbw Tapash Baisya.

But, after having scored three runs in the match in the match against Sri Lanka in the first match of a series of two tests the player was dropped because Herschelle Gibbs healed from a back injury and returned only in 2003 for the NatWest Series. South Africa finished second at the tournament with three teams, however van Jaarsveld could only score 20 once, finishing with 82 runs and 20.50. 20.50 He was not included in the squad that toured Pakistan for the 2003-04 season. He was a part of two Tests the same season, scoring the Test’s first half-century, scoring 72 in the match against West Indies after Gary Kirsten was forced to withdraw, and replaced Neil McKenzie for the final Test in New Zealand, making 59 and 13 unbeaten in a nine-wicket victory.

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