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Loots Bosman

Loots Bosman
Personal information
Full name Lungile Edgar Bosman
Born (1977-04-14) 14 April 1977 (age 40)
Kimberley, Cape Province, South Africa
Nickname The Hammer, The Bazooka
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm slow medium
Role Batsman
International information
National side
ODI debut (cap 84) 15 September 2006 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI 27 February 2010 v India
ODI shirt no. 14
T20I debut (cap 19) 24 February 2006 v Australia
Last T20I 27 October 2010 v Pakistan
Domestic team information
Years Team
2012– Free State
2010 Derbyshire
2009–2012 Dolphins (squad no. 14)
2004– Eagles / Knights (squad no. 14)
1997–2008 Griqualand West
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA
Matches 14 14 98 157
Runs scored 301 323 4,688 4,137
Batting average 25.08 24.84 28.76 29.13
100s/50s 0/2 0/3 5/24 1/23
Top score 88 94 140 150
Balls bowled 576 85
Wickets 8 1
Bowling average 42.87 77.00
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match n/a n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 3/25 1/36
Catches/stumpings 3/– 1/– 52/– 36/–
Source: CricketArchive, 19 May 2011

Lungile Edgar Bosman (born 14 April 1977) is a South African international cricketer. He is a top order right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler. He plays domestic cricket for Dolphins, and has appeared for South Africa in both One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals. He scored the first century in the Standard Bank Pro20 Series in the 2004–05 season.

A hard-hitting opener and an archetype of the successful Twenty20 batsman, Loots Bosman was born in Kimberley in the Cape Province, where he was raised by his grandfather, and made his debut for Griqualand West at the beginning of the 1997–98 season. But despite some success with provincial and South Africa A sides, it was only when Twenty20 cricket arrived in South Africa that Bosman etched his name into his country's cricketing consciousness. Pro20 cricket's first outing came at the end of the 2003–04 season, and Bosman – who was now part of the Eagles team under the new franchise system – topped the batting charts with 219 runs at a strike-rate of 120.99 and a high score of 84* despite the fact that he was asked to bat in the middle order.

Bosman turned down a contract with the Indian Cricket League in October 2007, instead signing up for the Mumbai Indians in the first edition of the Indian Premier League, though he couldn't make it into a starting XI. Bosman had a quiet international year in 2008, playing just one Twenty20 against Bangladesh, and at the end of the 2008–09 domestic season moved from the Eagles to the Dolphins franchise in KwaZulu-Natal. Initially named in a provisional squad of 30 for the 2009 World Twenty20, he couldn't find a place in the final 15, but in November of that year he fell one blow short of what would have been, at the time, just the second international Twenty20 century. Smashing 94 from just 45 balls, including nine sixes, against England at Centurion, he was also involved in a world record 170-run opening stand with Graeme Smith as South Africa racked up a mammoth 241 for 6.

Bosman finally made it to a World Twenty20 tournament in the Caribbean in 2010, but appeared strangely out of sorts and made just eight runs in two innings, failing to find the boundary once. Despite that failure, he was signed by Derbyshire as their overseas player for the Friends Provident t20 tournament in 2010, and responded in superb fashion, hammering 94 off 50 balls to set up a crushing 65-run win over a strong Yorkshire side in June.


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