Michael James Rippon (born 14 September 1991) is a South African-born
cricket
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er. He current plays international cricket for
New Zealand, having previously also played for the
Netherlands national cricket team. He is a right-handed
batsman who bowls
left-arm unorthodox spin.
Personal life
Rippon was born in
Cape Town on 14 September 1991.
He lived in the Netherlands for three years as a young child, his Dutch grandfather having immigrated to South Africa in the 1970s. He began playing club cricket in the Netherlands at the age of 15, after his coach
Ryan Maron
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recruited him to play for
VRA Amsterdam.
He attended
Rondebosch Boys' High School in Cape Town.
Early career in South Africa
Rippon made his
Twenty20 debut for
Cape Cobras
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against the
Knights
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in the
2010–11 Standard Bank Pro20. He made five further appearances for the Cobras in that competition, with his final appearance coming in the final of the competition against the
Warriors.
In his six appearances in the competition, Rippon took 4 wickets at an
average of 31.75, with best figures of 2/28.
It was in that same season that he made his debut for
Western Province in a
List A
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match against
Boland.
The following season, Rippon made his
first-class debut for Western Province against
KwaZulu-Natal Inland at the
City Oval, Pietermaritzburg, in the
CSA Provincial Three-Day Competition. He made two further first-class appearances during the competition, against Boland and
Easterns.
He scored 40 runs in his three first-class matches,
and took 6 wickets at an average of 45.33, with best figures of 3/34.
He also made four Twenty20 appearances for Western Province in the
2011–12 CSA Provincial T20,
taking 6 wickets at an average of 18.16, with best figures of 3/24.
Career in England and New Zealand
Rippon signed for English county side
Sussex
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for the 2012 season, signing a contract which kept him there until the end of the 2013 season. Having spent much of the 2012 season playing for the Sussex Second XI, he made his senior debut for the county in the
2012 Friends Life t20
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T ...
against
Kent at the
County Ground, Hove. He took figures of 4/23 on debut to help Sussex to an 83 run victory. He has since made two further appearances in the competition, against
Surrey
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at
The Oval, and
Hampshire at the
Rose Bowl.
Rippon has suggested he may want to qualify for England.
In June 2018, he was awarded a contract with
Otago
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for the 2018–19 season.
In June 2020, he was offered a contract by Otago ahead of the 2020–21 domestic cricket season.
International career
In July 2018, he was named in the Netherlands'
One Day International
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(ODI) squad, for their series
against Nepal.
He is now eligible to be selected by the
New Zealand national cricket team
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. In November 2020, Rippon was named in the
New Zealand A cricket team for practice matches against the
touring West Indies team. After starring for the
Netherlands in games against New Zealand in 2021, Rippon was selected for his newest adopted nation - New Zealand - in June 2022. The team scheduled games against
Ireland,
Scotland and his former side the
Netherlands in the
T20 format of the game. He made his T20I debut for New Zealand on 29 July 2022, against
Scotland, becoming the 14th cricketer to
represent two international teams in T20Is.
References
External links
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1991 births
Living people
Cricketers from Cape Town
Alumni of Rondebosch Boys' High School
South African cricketers
Cape Cobras cricketers
Western Province cricketers
Sussex cricketers
Netherlands One Day International cricketers
Netherlands Twenty20 International cricketers
Otago cricketers
Dutch cricketers
South African emigrants to the Netherlands
South African emigrants to New Zealand
Dual international cricketers