Tjade Heico Groot (born 22 January 1973) is a former Dutch international

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er who represented the Dutch national side between 1997 and 2004. He played as a right-handed top-order batsman, occasionally opening the batting. Groot was born in

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, and played his club cricket for VRA. Having earlier represented the national under-19 team, he made his senior debut for the Netherlands on a tour of South Africa in early 1997.Miscellaneous matches played by Tjade Groot
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 March 2016. Later in the year, Groot was named in the Dutch squad for the

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in Malaysia, although he played in only a single match (the fifth-place play-off against

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). He continued to play occasional matches for the team over the following years, but not at any international tournaments. In 2002 and 2003, Groot played matches for the Netherlands in the C&G Trophy, an English domestic competition where matches held

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status.List A matches played by Tjade Groot
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 March 2016. His final appearance for the national team came in February 2004, on another tour of South Africa.

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