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Full name Nico Boje
Born March 20, 1973, Bloemfontein, Orange Free State
Current age 35 years 205 days
Major teams South Africa,Africa XI,Eagles,Free State,Hyderabad Heroes,Northamptonshire,Nottinghamshire,Orange Free State
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox
Education Grey College
Relations Brother - EHL Boje
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
43
62
10
1312
85
25.23
2715
48.32
0
4
184
6
18
0
ODIs
115
71
18
1414
129
26.67
1594
88.70
2
4
135
13
33
0
T20Is
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
0
0
First-class
188
278
49
7703
226*
33.63
8
43
114
0
List A
258
182
46
3526
129
25.92
2
14
78
0
Twenty20
30
20
7
382
58*
29.38
322
118.63
0
2
43
0
8
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
43
72
8620
4265
100
5/62
8/134
42.65
2.96
86.2
9
3
0
ODIs
115
108
4541
3415
96
5/21
5/21
35.57
4.51
47.3
2
1
0
T20Is
1
1
24
27
1
1/27
1/27
27.00
6.75
24.0
0
0
0
First-class
188
39069
17068
532
8/93
32.08
2.62
73.4
22
2
List A
258
10986
7857
247
5/21
5/21
31.80
4.29
44.4
9
1
0
Twenty20
30
27
544
660
24
3/31
3/31
27.50
7.27
22.6
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
India v South Africa at Mumbai, Feb 24-26, 2000 scorecard
Last Test
Sri Lanka v South Africa at Colombo (PSS), Aug 4-8, 2006 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Zimbabwe v South Africa at Harare, Oct 21, 1995 scorecard
Last ODI
South Africa v New Zealand at Port Elizabeth, Oct 30, 2005 scorecard
ODI statistics
Only T20I
South Africa v New Zealand at Johannesburg, Oct 21, 2005 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut
1990/91
Last First-class
Northamptonshire v Middlesex at Northampton, Sep 24-27, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1993/94
Last List A
Northamptonshire v Yorkshire at Northampton, Sep 13, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Dolphins v Eagles at Durban, Apr 11, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Essex v Northamptonshire at Chelmsford, Jul 7, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Such is the sporting gene-pool in the Boje family that mother, father and all three children have played at least one sport at provincial or international level. Nicky Boje captained South Africa Schools and was selected for three successive years as a middle-order batsman. From an early he showed his all-round skills, opening the bowling for his own school, and then switched to left-arm spin on the coach's command - because nobody else could turn the ball. He was equally pivotal on the rugby field and tennis court. Boje spent four long years after his initial squad selection quietly desperate to be regarded by the national selectors as a middle-order batsman who bowled usefully, but a spinner he remained. He worked furiously on his bowling as a result, and match-winning analyses in both India and Sri Lanka finally established him as the Test No. 1 in 2000-01, a position he briefly surrendered to Claude Henderson in Australia in 2001-02, and then to Robin Peterson and Paul Adams in 2003. However, he had a big role to play in the final Test of the New Zealand tour of 2003-04, when his eight-wicket haul helped South Africa to a series-levelling win. But after being implicated in the Hansie Cronje match-fixing scandal in 2000, Boje refused to tour India in subsequent years. After fighting his way back into the squad to face India in 2006, he surprisingly announced his retirement from international cricket to concentrate on his domestic career with the Eagles. He went on to play in the "rebel" ICL and in 2008 was appointed captain of Northamptonshire. He was one of the bright, inquisitive breed of internationals who preferred a cameraman's long lens to a boring dressing-room and a craft market or temple to a hotel room. Cricinfo staff
