Keagan Clint Africa (born 6 April 1985) is a former South African
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er who represented
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...
between 2004 and 2007. He played as a right-arm medium-pace bowler.
Africa was born in
Johannesburg and attended
Hilton College.
[South Africa / Players / Keagan Africa](_blank)
ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 5 March 2017. He represented the
South African under-19 team at the
2004 Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh, and took eight wickets from six matches. In his team's narrow one-wicket loss to
Nepal, he scored 52 not out from ninth in the batting order, and then took 3/36 from ten overs opening the bowling. Africa made his
first-class debut for KwaZulu-Natal in October 2004, and his
limited overs debut just over a week later. He made semi-regular appearances over the following three seasons, and played his last game in November 2007.
[First-class matches played by Keagan Africa](_blank)
CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 March 2017. In total, Africa took 41 wickets from 19 first-class matches and 24 wickets from 22 limited-overs matches.
His best figures for KwaZulu-Natal, 5/23 from 16 overs, came in the second innings of a
Three-Day Challenge game against
Border in January 2007.
KwaZulu-Natal v Border
South African Airways Provincial Three-Day Challenge 2006/07 (Pool B)], CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
See also
* List of Old Hiltonians
Hilton College is a South African private boarding school for boys located near the town of Hilton in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. It was founded in 1872 by Gould Arthur Lucas and Reverend William Orde Newnham as a non-denominational Christian bo ...
References
External links
Player profile and statistics
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CricketArchive
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ESPNcricinfo
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1985 births
Living people
Alumni of Hilton College (South Africa)
KwaZulu-Natal cricketers
South African cricketers
Cricketers from Johannesburg