Wayne Parnell

Personal information

Born

30 July 1989 (age 27)
Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa

Nickname

Pigeon

Height

6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)

Batting style

Left-handed

Bowling style

Left-arm fast

Role

Bowler

Relations

Aisha Baker (spouse)

International information

National side

South Africa

Test debut (cap 307)

14 January 2010 v England

Last Test

20 February 2014 v Australia

ODI debut (cap 94)

30 January 2009 v Australia

Last ODI

24 June 2016 v West Indies

ODI shirt no.

T20I debut (cap 39)

13 January 2009 v Australia

Last T20I

4 April 2014 v India

Domestic team information

Years

Team

2006–2007

Eastern Province

2008–

Warriors (squad no. 36)

2009

Kent (squad no. 36)

2010&2014-

Delhi Daredevils

2011– 2013

Pune Warriors

2011

Sussex

Career statistics

Competition	Test	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	4	54	57	133
Runs scored	44	414	1,798	1,590
Batting average	14.66	21.78	25.32	24.09
100s/50s	0/0	0/1	1/10	2/3
Top score	22	56	111*	129
Balls bowled	357	2,406	8,736	5,890
Wickets	7	76	159	179
Bowling average	45.40	29.63	31.67	29.87
5 wickets in innings	0	2	6	3
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	1	0
Best bowling	2/17	5/48	7/51	6/51
Catches/stumpings	1/–	7/–	18/–	20/–

Source: Cricinfo, 4 January 2017

Wayne Dillon Parnell (born 30 July 1989) is a cricketer who plays Tests, One Day International and Twenty20 matches for South Africa. At domestic level he plays for the Warriors having previously represented Eastern Province. He has also played county cricket for Kent, and for the Delhi Daredevils and Pune Warriors in the Indian Premier League.

Parnell made his first-class debut for Eastern Province in October 2006, at the age of seventeen, against South Western Districts scoring 17 and taking one wicket. In his second first-class match, he recorded figures of four for seven, and, in only his fifth first-class match, he took a hat-trick against Western Province: all three batsman were bowled. He was described as “the most talked about cricketer to hit the first-class scene for some time."

In 2008 Parnell was awarded the Coca-Cola Khaya Majola U19 Player of the Tournament and the CSA U19 Cricketer of the Year while representing Eastern Province.

At the start of the 2009 season Parnell was signed as an overseas player by Kent on a six-week contract, serving as a replacement for Stuart Clark. On his county debut against Essex he took 4/78 in the first innings and top scored with 69 in the second, his maiden first-class fifty; the innings contained 11 boundaries. Despite following on Kent won the match, with Parnell claiming three further wickets. In Kent's next first-class match, against Glamorgan he bettered his maiden fifty with an innings of 90, again top scoring from number eight. Parnell left Kent to join up with South Africa ahead of the World Twenty20, but after the tournament he returned for a further five weeks. Opening the bowling in Kent's successful defence of 149 runs against Durham in the Twenty20 Cup quarter-final, Parnell dismissed opening batsmen Phil Mustard for a golden duck from the first delivery of the Dynamos' run chase and David Warner in the second over of his spell, also for a duck. Though returning to South Africa after his second spell ends, Parnell has been cleared by Cricket South Africa to return to Kent and feature for the Spitfires on finals day of the competition.

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