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Full name | Ashwell Gavin Prince | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Port Elizabeth, South Africa |
28 May 1977 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting style | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling style | Right arm off break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut (cap 283) | 22 February 2002 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 29 December 2011 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut (cap 72) | 9 October 2002 v Bangladesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 25 April 2007 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1995/6–1996/97 | Eastern Province | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1997/98–2003/04 | Western Province | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2004–05 | Western Province Boland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2006/07–2007/08 | Cape Cobras | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008 | Nottinghamshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008/09–2013/14 | Warriors | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2009–2010 2012–2014 |
Lancashire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 26 September 2015 |
Ashwell Gavin Prince (born 28 May 1977) is a cricketer who played Test and One Day International cricket for South Africa. A left-handed middle order batsman, he has a high-batted stance and is strong through the offside. He is noted for his gritty style of batting and also for being an athletic fielder in the covers. At the age of 29, he became the first non-white man to captain the South African cricket team when he stood in for the injured Graeme Smith in two Tests.
Prince started his career with Eastern Province in the 1995/6 South African cricket season. Since then, he has represented Western Province, Western Province Boland, Cape Cobras, and Warriors in South Africa's domestic competitions. He has also had spells in England, first at Nottinghamshire and later Lancashire where he is currently playing.
In 2002, Prince made his Test and One Day International (ODI) debuts for South Africa. He played 52 ODIs between 2002 and 2007, and 66 Tests between 2002 and 2011. All eleven of his international centuries came in Test cricket, in which he averaged 41.64. He originally announced his intention to retire from professional cricket at the end of the 2014 English cricket season, but stayed on for another season before announcing his retirement for a second time in September 2015.
Ashwell Prince made his first-class debut on 27 October 1995, playing for Eastern Province B against Griqualand West B in the UCB Bowl. Two matches later, on 1 December, he played his first match for the full Eastern Province team. Opening the batting with Philip Amm, Prince was dismissed leg before wicket by fast bowler Roger Telemachus without scoring in each innings. Recounting the incident 14 years later, Prince remembered the match as his first-class debut.