🏅 Dane van Niekerk
★ Div 1 Rep
All-Rounder – Bowling
VIC
Balanced scorer
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Teams played for
Competitions
Registered with:
Melbourne BBL · Sydney BBL · Adelaide Strikers · Melbourne Cricket Club · South Africa · Australian Capital Territory
Overall
Elite
78/100
fielding 40% · bat 30% · bowl 30%
Fielding
Needs Work
25/100
Batting
Proficient
62/100
Bowling
Strong
~35/100
discounted — banded on wickets per match
Representative pathway — 48 pathway points in the overall rating
- ● State representation (+12)
- ● Division 1 representative (+4)
- ● First-class, BBL or international — 92 matches (+16.0)
- ● National championships — 10 matches (+14.0)
- ● Premier or state pathway — 1 match (+0.4)
- ● Body of work — 103 imported matches (+2.1)
Critical recommendations
high
Bowling
Economy under pressure
Going at 6.49 an over. Tighten the stock ball: hit a consistent length, cut out the 4-ball (short and wide / overpitched on the pads).
medium
Batting
Not converting fifties into hundreds
Only 0% of 50+ scores become hundreds (8 fifties, 0 hundreds). Practise batting in long blocks and resetting targets at 50.
Strengths
- ✓ Scores quickly (SR 98.0) without sacrificing consistency.
- ✓ Dangerous ground fielder — involved in 10 run outs.
How these ratings are calculated
- Overall
- Weighted blend of the disciplines: Fielding 25 × 40% · Batting 62 × 30% · Bowling 35 × 30%. Unrated disciplines are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so a non-bowler is not punished for not bowling.
- Level
- ×1.00 for the level played (National competition 102 · 1st grade 1). The same score is worth more in harder cricket.
- Form
- No match in the last 2 years, so not ranked. The rating shown is from the career.
- Fielding
- Outfield: 22 catches + 10 run outs (10 direct, 0 assisted) in 103 matches — 0.31 per match.
- Batting
- 1,644 runs in 82 innings, adjusted average 23.7, strike rate 98.0. Qualifies on the floors (avg ≥ 20, SR ≥ 40).
- Bowling
- 85 wickets in 95 matches bowled in (of 103 played) — 0.89 per match at 23.9, economy 6.49, strike rate 22.1.
Fielding — imported matches (103)
22
Ct (field)
0
Ct (WK)
0.21
Catches / match
10
RO (direct)
0
RO (assist)
0
Stumpings
32
Total dismissals
0.31
Dismissals / match
Batting — imported matches
1644
Runs (82 inns)
23.72
Avg (adj)
97.97
Strike rate
81
High score
15
Not outs
5
Median position
Century (100+)
Fifty (50–99)
Not out (under 50)
Out (under 50)
Bowling — imported matches
85
Wickets (313 ov)
6.49
Economy
23.89
Average
4
Maidens
0.15
Extras / over
22.1
Strike rate
Dismissal pattern
Imported-match summary
| Matches | 103 imported |
| Batting | 1644 runs in 82 inns @ 23.72 (SR 97.97) |
| Milestones | 0×100, 8×50, HS 81, 6 ducks |
| Bowling | 85 wkts @ 23.89 (econ 6.49, SR 22.1) |
| Best / 5WI | 4-13 · 0 five-fors |
| Fielding | 22 ct, 10 RO, 0 st |
All figures from imported scorecards only.
Further analysis
Batting form
Running not-out-adjusted average across innings (chronological).
Score distribution
How often each scoring band is reached — a read on consistency.
Scoring tempo
Runs vs balls faced per innings; line = a strike rate of 100.
Bowling form
Economy per spell (chronological) with the career economy as a baseline.
Wicket accumulation
Cumulative wickets across spells — the shape of their wicket-taking.
Fielding contribution
Breakdown of the 32 dismissals they were involved in.
Per-match fielding rate
0.21
Catches / match
0.31
Dismissals / match
Across 103 imported match(es).
Season by season
Seasons run 1 September – 31 August. Imported scorecards only.
Batting
| Season | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50 | 100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 16 | 0 | 356 | 62 | 22.25 | 117.11 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020/21 | 10 | 0 | 166 | 45 | 16.6 | 101.84 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019/20 | 6 | 1 | 125 | 30 | 24.31 | 106.84 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018/19 | 9 | 5 | 174 | 51* | 30.07 | 123.4 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017/18 | 13 | 5 | 263 | 63 | 28.01 | 103.54 | 2 | 0 |
| 2016/17 | 14 | 4 | 249 | 81 | 22.87 | 80.84 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015/16 | 14 | 0 | 311 | 53 | 22.21 | 102.3 | 2 | 0 |
Bowling
| Season | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Avg | Econ | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 33.5 | 0 | 260 | 4 | 65 | 7.76 | 50.3 |
| 2020/21 | 41.2 | 0 | 300 | 10 | 30 | 7.29 | 24.7 |
| 2019/20 | 35 | 1 | 236 | 8 | 29.5 | 6.74 | 26.3 |
| 2018/19 | 56.7 | 1 | 380 | 19 | 20 | 6.71 | 17.9 |
| 2017/18 | 62 | 2 | 324 | 25 | 12.96 | 5.23 | 14.9 |
| 2016/17 | 52.2 | 0 | 314 | 11 | 28.55 | 6.02 | 28.5 |
| 2015/16 | 32.5 | 0 | 217 | 8 | 27.13 | 6.68 | 24.4 |
Fielding
| Season | Ct | WK Ct | RO | St | Dismissals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 2019/20 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 2018/19 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2017/18 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 2016/17 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 2015/16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pathway benchmark
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