What do we know about Dane Paterson?

 

What do we know about Dane Paterson?

Born 4 April 1989 in Cape Town, Dane Paterson is a deceptive and skillful, sturdy, right-arm fast-medium bowler. A busty bowler, he relies on clever variations in line and length, as he possesses no real pace and is no great swinger of the ball. He represented Western Province at Under-17 and Under-19 levels and also the South Africa Academy. He made his List A debut for Western Province in a 45 over fixture at Newlands, Cape Town versus KwaZulu-Natal in March 2009. Eight months later he made his first-class debut for Western Province versus Griqualand West at Kimberley taking 3-31 in the first innings. He played a further six first-class matches that season in which he took 17 wickets @29.94. In March 2011 he made his first-class debut for Dolphins in a 4-day Supersport Series contest versus Lions at Kingsmead, Durban, taking three wickets in the match. During the 2010-11 campaign he took 57 first-class wickets @13.42. The next two seasons saw Paterson take 16 and 25 wickets respectively as he played his cricket for KwaZulu-Natal. In 2013-14 he took 67 first-class wickets @18.59 in 17 matches for Western Province and Cape Cobras including a career best 7-20 for Western Province versus Free State at Rondebosch. In 2014-15 he took 45 first-class wickets @21.57 when he became a regular with Cape Cobras. His good form was rewarded with a place on the South Africa ‘A’ tour of India in August, playing versus India A at Wayanad taking 1-125 in the match. Paterson then had a couple of quiet seasons in first-class cricket taking 17 wickets @33.94 in 2015-16 and 23 wickets @29.04 in 2016-17.  In 2017 he travelled to England to play for South Africa ‘A’ appearing in first-class contests against Hampshire and Sussex, achieving first innings figures of 7-27 in a 251 run victory at the Ageas Bowl. Two months later he played against India ‘A’ taking three wickets at Potchefstroom. 

Paterson made his international debut in a T20 against Sri Lanka at Newlands in January 2017, and played against New Zealand in Auckland the following month but failed to take a wicket in either game. In June he appeared in two T20 internationals against England at Taunton and Cardiff, taking a career best 4-32 in the latter game, where he earned significant praise for his death-bowling exploits. Paterson was included as cover in South Africa's Test squad to Bangladesh in September-October 2017 and made his ODI debut against the same opposition at Kimberley in October in the home one-day series. He retained his place in the following two ODIs taking a career best 3-44 at Buffalo Park in East London. His fourth and last ODI appearance was versus Pakistan at Durban in January 2019.

In August 2017, he was named in Bloem City Blazers' squad for the first season of the T20 Global League. However, two months later, Cricket South Africa postponed the tournament. In October 2018, he was named in Paarl Rocks' squad for the first edition of the Mzansi Super League T20 tournament. He was the joint-leading wicket-taker for the team in the tournament, with ten wickets @32.10 in 11 matches. The following year he made two appearances in the competition for Jozi Stars being a team mate of Dan Christian.

Paterson made his Test debut in the Third Test versus England at St George’s Park, Port Elizabeth in January 2020. Ben Stokes became his maiden test victim caught by Dean Elgar for 120, as he finished with figures of 1-62. South Africa followed on, as Paterson a renowned rabbit scored an unlikely 39 not out off 40 balls adding 99 for the 10th wicket with Keshav Maharaj but this could not prevent England winning by an innings and 53 runs. He retained his place in the Eleven for the next Test at the Wanderers in Johannesburg as England won by 191 runs; He had figures of 2-86 and 1-18 dismissing Joe Denly twice and Stuart Broad.

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Paterson’s full career record is given below:

 

	M		I		NO		RUNS		HS		AV’GE		CT	100	50
Test	2		4		3		43		39*		43.00		1	-	-
ODI	4		-		-		-		-		-		2	-	-
Int. T20	8		2		1		5		4*		5.00		1	-	-
First-Class	103		128		31		1214		59		12.51		39	-	1
List A	83		32		7		283		29		11.32		26	-	-
Twenty/20	88		28		12		147		24*		9.18		23	-	-
		OVERS		M		RUNS		W		AV’GE		ARPO	BPW	BB	5wI
Test		57.5		11		166		4		41.50		2.87	86.75	2-86	-
ODI		34.5		1		217		4		54.25		6.22	52.25	3-44	-
Int. T20		29.5		0		265		9		29.44		8.88	19.89	4-32	-
First-class		2730.1		584		8579		355		24.16		3.14	46.14	7-20	13
List A		688.4		49		3532		115		30.71		5.12	35.93	5-19	1
Twenty/20		298.3		7		2300		91		25.27		7.70	19.58	4-24	-

Happy Birthday Dane