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Full name | Dawid Johannes Malan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Roehampton, England |
3 September 1987 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | AC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting style | Left handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling style | Right arm leg break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Dawid Malan Sr. (father) Charl Malan (brother) |
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2005–2006 | Boland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2006–present | Middlesex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016–present | Peshawar Zalmi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016–present | Barisal Bulls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive.com, 25 July 2016 |
Dawid Johannes Malan (born 3 September 1987 in Roehampton, Inner London) is an English cricketer.
Malan is a left-handed opening batsman and occasional leg-spin bowler who has represented Boland in South Africa (2005/2006) and the MCC Young Cricketers in 2006. He joined Middlesex on 7 July 2006 and he made his 1st XI debut in a Twenty20 Cup tie versus Surrey at The Oval on the same day.
In 2007 Malan was the top run scorer in the Second XI Championship with 969 runs at 51.00. He made his first-class debut for Middlesex in June 2008, scoring 132 not out.
His father (also called Dawid) represented Western Province B, Northern Transvaal B and Teddington, as a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler.
On July 8, 2008, Malan hit the 24th century in the history of the Twenty20 Cup after compiling 103 off 54 balls in the quarter-final against the Lancashire Lightning.
Dawid Malan along with Rakep Patel jointly has the record for the highest ever individual score in any forms of T20s when batting at number 6 position(103).