Derek Norman Crookes (born 5 March 1969) is a former South African cricketer who played 32 One Day Internationals for

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between 1994 and 2000. In domestic cricket he played for

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, Easterns and the

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. He was educated at Hilton College. His father,

Norman Crookes Norman Samuel Crookes (born 15 November 1935) is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket in South Africa from 1962 to 1970. Career Norman Crookes was an Off spin, off-spinner and useful lower-order batsman for KwaZulu-Natal cricket t ...

, was an off-spinning all-rounder who played for Natal in the 1960s and toured

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with the South African team in 1965, but did not play a Test.

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