List of Netherlands first-class cricketers

First-class cricket is an official classification of the highest-standard international or domestic matches in the sport of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the competing teams. Matches must allow for the teams to play two innings each although, in practice, a team might play only one innings or none at all.[1]

The Netherlands national cricket team (Dutch: Nederland se cricketteam) is the team that represents Netherlands and is administered by the Royal Dutch Cricket Association. Cricket has been played in the Netherlands since at least the 19th century, and in the 1860s was considered a major sport in the country. Other sports – notably football – have long since surpassed cricket in popularity amongst the Dutch, but today there are around 6,000 cricketers in the Netherlands. The first national association, the forerunner of today's Royal Dutch Cricket Association, was formed in 1883 and the Netherlands achieved Associate Membership of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1966.[2]

In 2004 Netherlands first played first-class cricket in the ICC Intercontinental Cup, drawing with Scotland in Aberdeen and then going down to an innings defeat against Ireland in Deventer.[3][4] Netherlands played 33 first-class matches in total, with majority of them against Ireland and Scotland.[5] In total, 50 Dutchmen have made first-class appearances for Netherlands. Peter Borren has played as well as captained more first-class matches for Netherlands than any other Dutchman.[6][7]

Captain Peter Borren is also the Netherlands' leading run-scorer at first-class level, aggregating 1331 runs.[8] Nineteen centuries including two double centuries have been scored by ten Dutch batsmen in this format.[9] Ryan ten Doeschate's unbeaten 259 runs, scored against Canada in 2006 is the highest individual score by a Dutch batsmen, while he has also the team's best batting average: 142.77.[10][11] Among the bowlers, Edgar Schiferli and Peter Borren has taken more wickets than any other, claiming 41 wickets each.[12] On the contrary, Timm van der Gugten has the best bowling figures in an innings representing Netherlands, who picked up 7 wickets conceding 68 runs against Namibia in 2013.[13]

Players are initially listed in alphabetical order of their referred name.

Key

General

  • † – Wicket-keeper
  • First – Year of first-class debut for Netherlands
  • Last – Year of latest first-class match for Netherlands
  • Mat – Number of first-class appearances for Netherlands

Batting

Bowling

Fielding

List of first-class cricketers

Netherlands first-class players[14][15]
No. Name First Last Mat Runs HS Avg Overs Wkt BBI Ave Ca St Ref(s)
Batting Bowling Fielding
1 Adeel Raja 2004 2010 7 62 28 6.88 125.2 7 2/82 59.85 0 0 [16]
2 Rahil Ahmed 2015 2016 2 18 8 4.50 – – – – 1 0 [17]
3 Ahsan Malik 2011 2016 4 36 21 18.00 93.5 8 3/55 28.87 1 0 [18]
4 Ali Ahmed 2017 2017 1 9 9* – 10.00 0 – – 1 0 [19]
5 Rifaiz Bakas 2008 2008 1 16 16 8.00 – – – – 0 0 [20]
6 Wesley Barresi 2009 2017 18 608 81 17.88 10.00 3 3/42 16.00 32 4 [21]
7 Peter Borren 2006 2017 27 1331 109 27.16 532.5 41 4/1 40.29 40 0 [22]
8 Sebastiaan Braat 2012 2013 2 28 23 14.00 27.0 0 – – 0 0 [23]
9 Jeroen Brand 2009 2009 1 30 20 15.00 4.0 0 – – 1 0 [24]
10 Mudassar Bukhari 2007 2016 12 424 66* 21.20 318.1 34 6/43 27.70 2 0 [25]
11 Atse Buurman 2007 2010 5 176 41 19.55 – – – – 16 1 [26]
12 Ben Cooper 2015 2017 4 451 173* 75.16 – – – – 2 0 [27]
13 Tom Cooper 2011 2013 4 341 109 48.71 46.3 3 2/43 56.33 5 0 [28]
14 Steven de Bruin 2010 2012 2 48 32 16.00 – – – – 5 0 [29]
15 Tom de Grooth 2004 2012 20 892 196 26.23 7.3 1 1/2 36.00 7 0 [30]
16 Bas de Leede 2017 2017 1 61 56* 61.00 – – – – 0 0 [31]
17 Tim de Leede 2006 2006 1 23 23 11.50 13.0 0 – – 0 0 [32]
18 Wilfred Diepeveen 2010 2010 3 171 72* 34.20 – – – – 2 0 [33]
19 Daniel Doram 2013 2015 2 30 14 30.00 54.4 8 5/82 22.62 2 0 [34]
20 Scott Edwards 2017 2017 1 5 5 5.00 – – – – 5 1 [35]
21 Jacob-Jan Esmeijer 2004 2004 2 37 23 12.33 27.0 1 1/51 107.00 1 0 [36]
22 Sebastiaan Gokke 2004 2005 3 13 10 4.33 63.0 8 4/77 29.25 1 0 [37]
23 James Gruijters 2013 2013 1 5 5 2.50 – – – – 1 0 [38]
24 Tim Gruijters 2012 2016 6 95 29 8.63 1.0 0 – – 1 0 [39]
25 Quirijn Gunning 2013 2017 5 44 17 8.80 110.0 9 2/10 44.33 2 0 [40]
26 Tom Heggelman 2010 2013 4 202 59 33.66 31.0 3 2/41 40.66 2 0 [41]
27 Mark Jonkman 2006 2010 6 144 43* 20.57 143.0 15 5/21 27.93 3 0 [42]
28 Maurits Jonkman 2007 2010 4 62 18* 10,33 70.0 8 2/63 37.12 1 0 [43]
29 Alexei Kervezee 2005 2010 11 514 98 34.26 26.0 2 1/14 41.00 4 0 [44]
30 Vivian Kingma 2013 2017 6 10 5* 2.00 158.3 24 4/36 22.29 1 0 [45]
31 Feiko Kloppenburg 2004 2004 1 0 0 0.00
32 Somesh Kohli 2007 2008 2 13 5* 6.50
33 Neil Kruger 2011 2011 1 91 91 91.00
34 Bernard Loots 2010 2010 2 11 5 3.66
35 Mohammad Kashif 2006 2010 6 59 24* 11.80
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List of captains

Netherlands first-class captains[46]
No. Name First Last Mat Won Lost Tie Draw Win%
1 Luuk van Troost 2004 2006 4 0 1 0 3 0.00
2 Jeroen Smits 2005 2008 7 4 2 0 1 57.14
3 Bas Zuiderent 2005 2005 1 0 0 0 1 0.00
4 Peter Borren 2007 2017 19 3 12 0 4 15.78
5 Nick Statham 2010 2010 1 0 1 0 0 0.00
6 Michael Swart 2012 2012 1 0 0 0 1 0.00
Total 33 7 16 0 10 30.43

See also

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