Dale Benkenstein - South Africa - Batsman

Dale Benkenstein

Dale Benkenstein

South Africa

Profile

Dale was the son of Martin Benkenstein who played for Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). Martin moved with his family to Durban, South Africa in 1980. Dale attended Highbury Preparatory School and Michaelhouse schools, he was also captained Natal Schools and South African Schools. Regarded as the successor to Hansie Cronje, Dale did not enjoy much success when it came to international cricket.

He was a solid middle-order batsman who racked by runs at will in the domestic circuit. Dale was also a more than useful seam bowler, who has 100 first-class wickets to his name. His ODI debut came against England in 1998, but he could never cement his place in the side. After playing his last game for South Africa in 2002, he moved to England to play County cricket.

Dale is regarded as one of the legends at Durham, he became their all-time leading run-scorer and achieved that feat in the 2010-11 season when he went past Jon Lewi's 7854 runs. He also captained Durham and led them to plenty of trophies. The noticeable ones being the Friends Provident Trophy in 2007 and the County Championship in 2008. Dale is married to Jacquiline and enjoys fishing and golfing in his leisure time.


by Akshay Maanay
As of May 2014

Personal Information

Born

June 09, 1974 (50 years)

Birth Place

Salisbury (now Harare), Rhodesia

Height

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Role

Batsman

Batting Style

Right Handed Bat

Bowling Style

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ICC Rankings

 

Test

ODI

T20

Batting

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Bowling

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Batting Career Summary
M Inn NO Runs HS Avg BF SR 100 200 50 4s 6s
ODI 23 20 3 305 69 17.94 463 65.87 0 0 1 20 0
Bowling Career Summary
M Inn B Runs Wickets BBI BBM Econ Avg SR 5w 10w
ODI 23 4 65 44 4 3/5 3/5 4.06 11.0 16.25 0 0