Pieter Jacobus Malan (born 13 August 1989) is a South African professional

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. He is a right-handed batsman and bowls right-arm medium-fast. Since 2007, he has played first-class cricket for both Northerns and Titans. He made his international debut for the South Africa cricket team in January 2020.

Domestic career

Malan has appeared for several English clubs including Nelson, Royton, Colne and

Rishton Rishton is a town in the Hyndburn district of Lancashire, England, about west of Clayton-le-Moors and north east of Blackburn. It was an urban district from about 1894 to 1974. The population at the census of 2011 was 6,625. History Its ...

. In the 2011 season he became the first player ever to score 1,000 runs in one season for Barrow since the club joined the

Northern Cricket League The Northern Premier Cricket League is a cricket league in the North West of England and was designated as an ECB Premier League in 2000.

in 2004, amassing 1,051 runs at an average of 65.69. He was then signed by Lancashire League club Ramsbottom as the club professional for the 2012 season. He was included in the Western Province cricket team squad for the

2015 Africa T20 Cup The 2015 Africa T20 Cup was a Twenty20 cricket tournament held in South Africa from 4 September to 4 October 2015, as a curtain-raiser to the 2015–16 South African domestic season. Organized by Cricket South Africa, it featured thirteen South Af ...

. He was the leading run-scorer in the

2016–17 Sunfoil 3-Day Cup The 2016–17 Sunfoil 3-Day Cup was a first-class cricket competition that took place in South Africa from 6 October 2016 to 9 April 2017. The competition was played between the thirteen South African provincial teams and Namibia national cricke ...

, with a total of 1,069 runs in nine matches. In August 2017, he was named in

Cape Town Knight Riders The Mzansi Super League (MSL) was a Twenty20 cricket (T20) franchise league held in South Africa. The competition was established in 2018 by Cricket South Africa (CSA) as a replacement for the failed T20 Global League, but only two editions wer ...

' squad for the first season of the

T20 Global League The Mzansi Super League (MSL) was a Twenty20 cricket (T20) franchise league held in South Africa. The competition was established in 2018 by Cricket South Africa (CSA) as a replacement for the failed T20 Global League, but only two editions wer ...

. However, in October 2017, Cricket South Africa initially postponed the tournament until November 2018, with it being cancelled soon after. In October 2017, he scored his 25th century in first-class cricket, batting for

Cape Cobras The Six Gun Grill Cape Cobras are a franchise cricket team representing the Western Province, Boland, and South Western Districts areas in South African domestic cricket. The team's home venues are Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town, Boland ...

against

Warriors A warrior is a person specializing in combat or warfare, especially within the context of a tribal or clan-based warrior culture society that recognizes a separate warrior aristocracies, class, or caste. History Warriors seem to have be ...

in the

2017–18 Sunfoil Series The 2017–18 Sunfoil Series was a first-class cricket competition that took place in South Africa from 19 September 2017 to 25 March 2018. Knights were the defending champions. There was a planned break in the competition between October and F ...

. He was the leading run-scorer in the

2017–18 Momentum One Day Cup The 2017–18 Momentum One Day Cup was a domestic one-day cricket championship that was held in South Africa. It was the 37th time that the championship was contested. The competition started on 20 December 2017 and concluded with the final on ...

, with a total of 615 runs in eleven matches. In June 2018, he was named in the squad for the

team for the 2018–19 season. In September 2018, he was named in Boland's squad for the

2018 Africa T20 Cup The 2018 Africa T20 Cup was the fourth and final edition of the Africa T20 Cup, a Twenty20 cricket tournament. It was held in South Africa in September 2018, as a curtain-raiser to the 2018–19 South African domestic season. Provincial side Kwa ...

. In November 2018, during the

2018–19 CSA 4-Day Franchise Series The 2018–19 CSA 4-Day Franchise Series was a first-class cricket competition that took place in South Africa from 26 September 2018 to 31 January 2019. It was the first edition not to be sponsored by Sunfoil, after they decided not to renew t ...

, he scored his 30th century in first-class cricket. He was the leading run-scorer for the Cape Cobras in the 2018–19 CSA 4-Day Franchise Series, with 821 runs in ten matches. In April 2021, he was named in Boland's squad, ahead of the 2021–22 cricket season in South Africa. In February 2022, Malan was named as the captain of the

Rocks In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter. It is categorized by the minerals included, its chemical composition, and the way in which it is formed. Rocks form the Earth's ...

for the

2021–22 CSA T20 Challenge The 2021–22 CSA T20 Challenge was a Twenty20 cricket tournament that took place in South Africa during February 2022. It replaced the planned 2022 edition of the Mzansi Super League, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Imperial L ...

International career

In December 2019, he was named in South Africa's Test squad for their series against England. He made his Test debut for South Africa on 3 January 2020 in the 2nd Test, scoring 5 in the first innings followed by 84 in the 2nd innings.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Malan, Pieter 1989 births Living people South African cricketers South Africa Test cricketers People from Mbombela Boland cricketers Cape Cobras cricketers Northerns cricketers Titans cricketers Warwickshire cricketers Middlesex cricketers