Rilee Rossouw

South Africa|Top order Batter
Rilee Rossouw
INTL CAREER: 2014 - 2023
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Full Name

Rilee Roscoe Rossouw

Born

October 09, 1989, Bloemfontein, Orange Free State

Age

34y 162d

Batting Style

Left hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Offbreak

Playing Role

Top order Batter

A stylish top-order player with an elegant and authoritative drive, Rilee Rossouw has been a high-impact batter for South Africa in limited-overs cricket.

He first came to attention in the 2008 Under-19 World Cup, after which he was the leading run-scorer in the South African first-class competition in 2009-10, with 1189 runs at 66.05. But though he went on to average over 40 in first-class cricket in 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14, he was unable to break into to the Test team.

Eventually, in August 2014, Rossouw was included in a South Africa ODI squad, but he had a nightmarish start in international cricket, racking up four ducks in his first six innings. The selectors, though, stuck with him and he was included in the T20 squad for the Australia tour in November 2014, where he scored 78 in his first match.

Two months on, Rossouw made his first international century, against West Indies in Johannesburg, in the match where AB de Villiers broke the record for fastest ODI hundred, and he averaged 52 in the six games he played in the ODI World Cup that followed.

In October 2016 he hit a sensational 122 to secure a 5-0 ODI series win over Australia, but he announced early the next year that he had signed for Hampshire as a Kolpak. He made an immediate impact in England, smashing a career-best 156 against Somerset in the Royal London Cup.

Rossouw became a man in demand on the franchise T20 circuit at the tail end of the 2010s and into the next decade, finishing the 2018-19 Bangladesh Premier League as the leading run-scorer, with 558 runs. He won the Pakistan Super League with Quetta in 2019 and two years later with Multan Sultans; in 2022 he made 275 runs as Sultans made it to the final again and lost.

Later that year, the UK having exited the European Union, Rossouw, no longer able to qualify to play county cricket other than as an overseas player, returned to South Africa colours. He did so with a bang, making an unbeaten 96 and two back-to-back T20I hundreds as their No. 3 in his first few innings back, against England, India and Bangladesh - the last of those in the World Cup, where South Africa eventually endured a shock exit at the hands of Netherlands.

Rilee Rossouw Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
ODIs36353123913238.71131394.363713122220
T20Is2927576710934.86480159.79236939130
FC10819010736331940.901152363.8919331073561190
List A1581548581815639.84599597.04123566479780
T20s33232044823712129.845756143.106497953321350

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
ODIs363454411/171/1744.005.8645.0000
T20Is29------------
FC1086787031/11/123.335.3826.0000
List A1586938711/171/1787.005.6193.0000
T20s3326343231/31/310.665.6411.3000
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Rilee rossouw and Mohammad Wasim celebrate a wicket
Shadab Khan and Rilee Rossouw at the toss
Players and their special guests strike a pose on Gold Ribbon Day in Karachi, a bid by the PCB to raise awareness on childhood cancers
Shan Masood and Rilee Rossouw at the toss
Rilee Rossouw steered Quetta Gladiators home
Rilee Rossouw and Babar Azam at the toss