Jan Feiko Kloppenburg (born 19 June 1974) is a former Dutch international

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er. He was born in

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Domestic career

Kloppenburg made his

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debut in the 2004

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game against

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. He had a match to forget, bagging a

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with the bat and conceding 60 runs from 12 wicketless overs.

International career

Kloppenburg toured

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with a Netherlands A side in 1995, but his first tournament of note for his country was the 1998 European Championships, held that year in his home country. He scored only 40 runs in four innings, and took just two wickets, but was part of the side that defeated

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in the final at

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. He appeared in six of the Netherlands' ten games in the

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, but scored only one half-century and had been dropped by the time the Dutch team beat

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in the final. He made his

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debut in September 2002, at the

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tournament. He played only one match in this competition, opening the batting against

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but scoring just 7 before being

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. He also took the only Pakistani wicket to fall, that of Imran Nazir. Five months later he played a fuller part in the Netherlands' 2003 World Cup squad, with five appearances in the competition. Against Namibia he made 121 to become the first Dutch cricketer to score an ODI century, just ahead of team-mate

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who also passed three figures in the match and with whom he put on 228 for the second wicket, a Dutch record for any wicket in ODIs. Kloppenburg then completed a fine all-round performance by claiming 4/42 with the ball, making him only the sixth player to score a hundred and take four wickets in the same ODI. He adjudged man of the match for his performance as well.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kloppenburg, Feiko 1974 births Living people Dutch cricketers Netherlands One Day International cricketers Sportspeople from Haarlem