Alviro Petersen

Personal information

Full name

Alviro Nathan Petersen

Born

25 November 1980 (age 36)
Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa

Nickname

Viro

Batting style

Right-handed

Bowling style

Right-arm off break

Role

Batsman

International information

National side

South Africa (2006–2015)

Test debut (cap 308)

14 February 2010 v India

Last Test

2 January 2015 v West Indies

ODI debut (cap 85)

18 September 2006 v Zimbabwe

Last ODI

26 July 2013 v Sri Lanka

ODI shirt no.

Domestic team information

Years

Team

2001–2006

Northerns

2004–2006

Titans

2006–2016

Highveld Lions (squad no. 73)

2008–2010

2011

2012

2013–2014

2015–present

Career statistics

Competition	Test	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	36	21	226	198
Runs scored	2,093	504	14,765	6,275
Batting average	34.88	28.00	40.01	36.06
100s/50s	5/8	0/4	42/60	12/34
Top score	182	80	286	145*
Balls bowled	114	6	1,732	517
Wickets	1	0	17	9
Bowling average	62.00	–	51.52	54.66
5 wickets in innings	0	–	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	0	n/a
Best bowling	1/2	–	3/58	2/48
Catches/stumpings	31/–	5/–	175/–	75/–

Source: CricketArchive, 10 December 2016

Alviro Nathan Petersen (born 25 November 1980) is a South African cricketer who plays his domestic cricket in South Africa for the Highveld Lions and in England for Lancashire. A right-handed batsman, he has represented South Africa in Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 cricket. He is the captain of the Highveld Lions in South African domestic cricket.

Petersen was born and raised in the township of Gelvandale in Port Elizabeth and attended the same state high school as fellow South African Test batsman Ashwell Prince. His father was a taxi driver. He started playing first class cricket in 2001, representing the Northerns cricket team. He played for South Africa A before breaking into South Africa's ODI squad in 2006, playing in two matches against Zimbabwe.

He made his Test debut in February 2010 against India in Kolkata, and he scored a century. He is the third player to score a century on Test debut for South Africa, after Andrew Hudson and Jacques Rudolph. Later in 2010, Petersen played for Kings of Khulna in Bangladesh's NCL Twenty20 tournament. He also played in the three Tests of South Africa's tour of the West Indies, the two Tests of the series against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates, and all three Tests of the drawn home series against India. He failed to score a century in any of the three series, and was dropped for South Africa's two-Test home series against Australia in November 2011.

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