Adolf Matthys "Aldo" van den Berg (born 9 March 1978) is a former

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er whose domestic career spanned from 1997 to 2007. A right-handed

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, he played matches for

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, Easterns (which he briefly captained), and Mpumalanga. Born in

Randfontein Randfontein is a gold mining town in the West Rand, Gauteng, South Africa, west of Johannesburg. With the Witwatersrand gold rush in full swing, mining financier JB Robinson bought the farm Randfontein and, in 1889, floated the Randfontein Est ...

, van den Berg played for a representative South African Schools team during the 1996–97 season, and the following season, aged 19, made his senior debut for

, against Easterns in the one-day Standard Bank League. He played two more matches in the same competition the next season,List A matches played by Adolf van den Berg
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 September 2015. and in July 1999 was selected to tour Ireland and Scotland with the South African Academy team, making his first-class debut as the side's captain.First-class matches played by Adolf van den Berg
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 September 2015. For the 1999–00 domestic season, van den Berg switched to playing for Easterns, where he became a regular in both the one-day and three-day formats. Prior to the 2006–07 season, he switched to Mpumalanga, which had been granted first-class status on a trial basis. In his only season, he was the team's leading wicket-taker in both the three-day and the one-day competition. However, the team did not perform well enough to secure a first-class status for the following season, which meant an end to van den Berg's career at that level. Van den Berg captained Easterns in four first-class matches during the 2001–02 season, in the absence of the regular captain,

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. Of the four matches, his team won two, lost one, and drew one. In 34 first-class matches overall, van den Berg recorded two centuries and six half-centuries, with his highest score, 103, coming for Easterns against the touring

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team in March 2002. The other century was made for Mpumalanga against

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in November 2006, a score of 100

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out of a team total of 184. Van den Berg's off-spin garnered him 50 first-class wickets at an

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of 33.32, including three five-wicket hauls. Two of those were made for Mpumalanga during the 2006–07 season, while his best figures, 5/49, came against Boland in March 2004. Van den Berg's returns in the one-day format were much diminished, with his 30 matches yielding only 22 wickets and a single half-century (65 against Free State in March 2006).South Africa / Players / Aldo van den Berg
– ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 September 2015.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Van den Berg, Aldo 1967 births Living people South African cricketers People from Randfontein Gauteng cricketers Easterns cricketers Mpumalanga cricketers Sportspeople from Gauteng