Cricket World Cup 2019: Kagiso Rabada

  • 01/04/2019
Rabada.
Rabada. Photo credit: Getty

About:

Age: 24
Left-handed batsman
Right-arm fast
Born: May 25, 1995 
ODI debut: June, 2007 (64 matches)
ODI batting: 201 runs (14.35 average, 26 top score)  
ODI bowling: 102 wickets (26.80 average, 6/16 best)
Social links: @KagisoRabada25 (Twitter), @rabada_25 (Instagram)

Biography:

Rabada's rise through the international cricketing ranks has been nothing short of remarkable.

In 2014, he made his limited-overs debut for the Proteas only a year removed from high school, then a year after that he was in test cricket whites.

A ten-wicket haul against England in 2016 thrust him into the limelight, and two years later the youngster was sitting atop both the ICC's ODI and test bowling rankings.

Rabada has since become the youngest bowler to reach 150 test wickets (23 years, 50 days) and was named cricketing bible Wisden's best young player in the world in 2018.

Now 24-years-old, he'll spearhead a potent South African attack in England, as they look to shake their World Cup hoodoo.

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