George Linde overview
His full name is George Fredrik Linde. He is a cricketer from South Africa. Linde was born on 4th December 1991 in Cape Town.
He is an all-rounder, a left-hand batsman and left-arm spinner. This 29-year-old spinner also has played cricket in England before returning to South Africa.
Batting Career Summary
|
M |
Inn |
NO |
Runs |
HS |
Avg |
BF |
SR |
100 |
200 |
50 |
4s |
6s |
| Test |
3 |
6 |
0 |
135 |
37 |
22.5 |
255 |
52.94 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
19 |
2 |
| ODI |
0 |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
| T20 |
5 |
4 |
1 |
67 |
29 |
22.33 |
43 |
155.81 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
4 |
| IPL |
0 |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
Bowling Career Summary
|
M |
Inn |
B |
Runs |
Wkts |
BBI |
BBM |
Econ |
Avg |
SR |
5W |
10W |
| Test |
3 |
5 |
473 |
252 |
9 |
5/64 |
5/68 |
3.2 |
28.0 |
52.56 |
1 |
0 |
| ODI |
0 |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
| T20 |
5 |
5 |
114 |
127 |
5 |
3/23 |
3/23 |
6.68 |
25.4 |
22.8 |
0 |
0 |
| IPL |
0 |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
Early signs
George Linde was a left-arm quick bowler during his school days. But after being selected in the under-13 school team of Western Province Linde changed his mind and switched to spin bowling and never looked back. Even Linde had shown potential in batting in his school days. But one of his school coaches advised him to set focus more on spin bowling. Later Linde also realized that his hard work to develop spin bowling only has taken him to the international level finally.
Linde made his debut in First-class cricket in 2012 for Western Province against Gauteng in the Three-Day Provincial Challenge Cup. But he was able to capture only one wicket in the first innings and 2 wickets in the second innings. Even having begun his ‘List A’ cricket journey in the same year Linde was not at all impressive.
His rise was noticed in 2018 as Linde placed himself at the sixth spot in the domestic cricket that year with 15 scalps. Then, having represented Cape Town Blitz the spinner drew attention by capturing five wickets in as many matches. Linde has played in 54 First-class matches and claimed 198 wickets including his best bowling of 7 wickets for 64 runs in a match. In the ‘List A’ cricket also, Linde has claimed 86 wickets from 62 matches so far.
ODI Career
Test career
George Linde has participated in only one Test so far. He was selected in South African squad for the 3rd Test at Ranchi against India last year. It was a part of ICC World Test Championship. India won the Test by an innings and 202 runs. Although Linde was expensive, giving away 133 runs from his 31 overs, he claimed wickets including the prize wicket of Ajinkya Rahane.
IPL career
T20 Career
George Linde had his beginning in the Twenty20 International against England at Cape Town in November this year. England won the match by 5 wickers but Linde earned respect, claiming 2 wickets from his 4 overs at the cost of 20 runs. He has participated in three T20Is so far and captured only 2 wickets at the cost 73 runs. Linde has however bagged 84 wickets from his 84 T20 matches including his best figure of 4 wickets for 19 runs.
ICC Trophies
South Africa
