Ryan McLaren

Ryan McLaren

Personal information
Full name	Ryan McLaren
Born	(1983-02-09) 9 February 1983 (age 33) Kimberley, Cape Province, South Africa
Height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Batting style	Left-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm medium-fast
Role	All-rounder
International information
National side	South Africa (2009–2014)
Test debut (cap 306)	14 January 2010 v England
Last Test	12 February 2014 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 97)	8 November 2009 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI	23 November 2014 v Australia
ODI shirt no.	23
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2003–2005	Free State
2004–2014	Knights
2007–2009	Kent
2010	Mumbai Indians
2011	Kings XI Punjab
2011	Middlesex
2013	Kolkata Knight Riders
2014–2016	Dolphins
2015–2016	Hampshire
2017–present	Lancashire
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA Matches 2 54 128 190 Runs scored 47 485 5,186 2,879 Batting average 23.50 18.65 34.11 30.30 100s/50s 0/0 0/1 6/27 0/13 Top score 33* 71* 140 88 Balls bowled 264 2,403 20,598 7,827 Wickets 3 77 380 243 Bowling average 54.00 27.29 27.74 27.41 5 wickets in innings 0 0 14 2 10 wickets in match 0 n/a 1 n/a Best bowling 2/72 4/19 8/38 5/38 Catches/stumpings 0/– 13/– 60/– 57/–
Source: CricketArchive, 27 January 2017

Ryan McLaren (born 9 February 1983, Kimberley, Cape Province, South Africa) is a South African cricketer, who plays for all formats in international level. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler.

He made his first-class debut for Free State (now called Knights) in October 2003, taking two wickets and scoring 25 runs.

He had also appeared eight times for South Africa Under-19's, during the 2001–02 Under-19 World Cup.

He agreed to join Kent on a Kolpak deal for the 2007 season. In the 2007 Twenty20 Cup Final against Gloucestershire, McLaren took a hat-trick to help Kent win the Twenty20 Cup for the first time.

He had been called up for the South African One-day side for the Kenya and Bangladesh series, but had to withdraw, because Kent did not release him from his Kolpak contract. After renouncing his Kolpak status, he was called up by South Africa to play against Zimbabwe and England in the 2009–10 season.

McLaren made his ODI debut against Zimbabwe at Benoni on 8 November 2009. He has single fifty in the format and took 77 wickets in 54 matches up to October 2015. His T20I debut also came on 2009, against England at Johannesburg. He took a T20I five-wicket haul against West Indies on 2010 as well on his third T20I. The feat was the first by a South African in T20Is.

Due to his good performance in shorter formats, he was called to the Test series against England on 14 January 2010. But his Test performance is not too good, where he played only 2 tests up to October 2015 and picked up only 3 wickets. Due to this poor performances, he was dropped from the squad.

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