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Nicky Boje
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| Personal information |
| Full name |
Nico Boje |
| Born |
20 March 1973 (1973-03-20) (age 36)
Bloemfontein, South Africa |
| Batting style |
Left Handed |
| Bowling style |
Slow Left Arm Orthodox |
| Role |
Bowler |
| Domestic team information |
| Years |
Team |
| 1990-2002 |
Free State |
| 2002 |
Nottinghamshire |
| 2004-2007 |
Eagles |
| 2007 - |
Northamptonshire (squad no. 17) |
| Career statistics |
| Competition |
Tests |
ODIs |
FC |
OD |
| Matches |
43 |
115 |
1901 |
261 |
| Runs scored |
1312 |
1414 |
7955 |
3642 |
| Batting average |
25.23 |
26.67 |
34.14 |
26.20 |
| 100s/50s |
0/4 |
2/4 |
8/46 |
2/15 |
| Top score |
85 |
129 |
226* |
129 |
| Balls bowled |
8620 |
4541 |
39261 |
11111 |
| Wickets |
100 |
96 |
535 |
247 |
| Bowling average |
42.65 |
35.57 |
32.06 |
32.19 |
| 5 wickets in innings |
3 |
1 |
22 |
1 |
| 10 wickets in match |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
| Best bowling |
5/62 |
5/21 |
8/93 |
5/21 |
| Catches/stumpings |
18/- |
33/- |
115/- |
78/- |
| Source: Cricinfo, 21 April 2009 |
Nico "Nicky" Boje (born 20 March 1973 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State) was a South African cricketer who played in 43 Tests and 115 One Day Internationals for South Africa, and attended the prestigious Grey College in Bloemfontein.
[edit] International Career
Boje's international career began in 1995 against Zimbabwe, and although he was in and out of the team due to injuries he established himself as South Africa's first choice spin bowler. Due to the amount of all-rounders in the South African team, Boje usually batted at eight or nine in the batting order, despite a first class batting average of 32 and both Test and ODI averages around 26, which was the highest for a regular number nine in Test cricket in the 2000s. However, despite the reasonably high average he never hit a Test century, although did make two ODI centuries against New Zealand in 2000–01.
In December 2006, Boje announced his retirement from international cricket, effective immediately. He finished his career with exactly 100 Test wickets, the wicket of Mahela Jayawardene in his final Test brought up his milestone.
[edit] Northamptonshire
Boje joined English side Northamptonshire CCC for the last few weeks of the 2007 season as a replacement overseas player for Johan Van der Wath. A few days later it was announced that he would be joining the breakaway Indian Cricket League. In 2008, the captain of Northamptonshire, David Sales, resigned and Boje took over the role as captain for Northamptonshire. In that season, the captaincy had no effect on his batting as he scored his highest ever First class cricket score of 226*.
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