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Full name | John Harcourt du Preez | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) |
14 November 1942 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting style | Right-hand bat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling style | Legbreak googly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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John Harcourt "Jackie" du Preez (born 14 November 1942 in Salisbury, Rhodesia) was a Rhodesian cricketer who played in two Tests for South Africa against Australia in 1967.
A leg-spinner and useful lower-order batsman, he was educated at Prince Edward School and first played for Rhodesia aged 18 against New Zealand in Bulawayo in October, 1961. He represented Rhodesia a record 112 times before retiring in 1979.
Later he served as a national selector for Zimbabwe.