- Heinrich Klaasen: South Africa’s dashing batsman Heinrich Klaasen is considered a legendary batsman. He has played many match-winning innings in his career. He played one such innings…
Heinrich Klaasen: In the history of South Africa cricket ( SA) , there have been many batsmen who played many explosive innings for their team with their aggressive game. Graeme Smith, Herschelle Gibbs and AB de Villiers are among them. But if we talk about the present time, Heinrich Klaasen is considered a legendary player of white ball cricket.
Klaasen has many world records in his name in ODI cricket. But today we will tell you about one such innings of Klaasen after which he remained in the headlines for many days.
Heinrich Klaasen played an explosive innings in ODI.
South Africa hosted the Australian team in the year 2023. An ODI match was played between these two teams (SA vs AUS) at the Centurion ground, in which Heinrich Klaasen thrashed the Australian bowlers and scored the third century of his ODI career.
However, this century was the most special in terms of his career because he scored 174 runs in his innings with the help of 13 fours and 13 sixes while facing 83 balls. In this match, there was also a partnership of 200 runs in the last 100 balls between Klaasen and David Miller .
South Africa won the match
Talking about that match played in Centurion, South Africa, batting first, set a huge target of 417 runs in front of Australia due to the explosive innings of Heinrich Klaasen . Kangaroo team’s spin bowler Adam Zampa proved to be the most expensive bowler of the entire match.
They conceded 113 runs in 10 overs. In reply, the Kangaroo team could only score 252 runs while chasing the target. Australian batsman Alex Carey was out after scoring 99 runs and missed his century. Due to which Africa won this match by 164 runs.
A look at Heinrich Klaasen’s statistics
Heinrich Klaasen ‘s international career has been quite brilliant. He has scored runs in many matches for his team in international cricket. Talking about Klaasen’s career, he has scored 104, 1723 and 980 runs for his team in 4 Tests, 54 ODIs and 56 T20 matches. Klaasen has 4 centuries to his name in ODI cricket.
