Full Name

George Fredrik Linde

Born

December 04, 1991, Cape Town

Age

32y 106d

Batting Style

Left hand Bat

Bowling Style

Slow Left arm Orthodox

Playing Role

Allrounder

A left-arm spinner from the northern suburbs of Cape Town, George Linde's started off a seam-bowling schoolboy cricketer before changing his mind as a teenager. After he was selected in the Western Province under-13 team, he switched to spin and never looked back. Still, batting took precedence through his school years but an interested coach coaxed him to focus more on spin as his game developed.

Linde spent a season playing club cricket in the UK after finishing school, before returning to South Africa, where he worked his way into the West Province amateur team and eventually into the Cobras franchise team. Competing against Dane Piedt meant Linde was often confined to the limited-overs teams, where he made his name.

He was sixth in the 2017-18 domestic one-day cup wicket charts with 15 scalps and his star continued to rise as a white-ball bowler. He was contracted to the Cape Town Blitz for the Mzansi Super League in the 2018-19 season and took five wickets in as many matches. A bigger break came when he was selected as part of the South African A team that toured India in August-September 2019 and was the joint second-highest wicket-taker in the unofficial ODI series.

Linde was called up as a replacement to South Africa's T20 squad to tour India in September 2019 when Jon-Jon Smuts was withdrawn from the squad for failing to meet fitness standards and was then added as a stand-in to the Test squad when Keshav Maharaj was ruled out of the last match of the series through injury.

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George Linde Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests3601353722.5025552.940019200
ODIs221271827.002993.10003030
T20Is141111112911.1085130.58006660
FC76109113129148*31.92478265.4351636759400
List A847514173693*28.451710101.5201312257330
T20s17413135173863*18.101306133.070310878480

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests3547325295/645/6828.003.1952.5110
ODIs22907232/322/3224.004.8030.0000
T20Is1414288340153/233/2322.667.0819.2000
FC761261337865882487/2911/13126.562.9553.99153
List A8482380333101136/476/4729.295.2233.6320
T20s174167333241911544/194/1927.217.5421.6300
George Fredrik Linde

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Recent Matches of George Linde

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
W Province vs LIONS0--17-Mar-2024JohannesburgT20
W Province vs North West90/3313-Mar-2024Cape TownT20
Qalandars vs Gladiators--0/3010-Mar-2024KarachiT20
Qalandars vs Sultans50/2527-Feb-2024LahoreT20
Qalandars vs Kings26*0/2524-Feb-2024LahoreT20

Photos of George Linde

George Linde finished with 2 for 33
George Linde walks off after getting hit in the face
George Linde celebrates dismissing Wihan Lubbe
George Linde was the only half-centurion in the first innings
George Linde plays the flick shot
George Linde is thrilled after taking a wicket