Alviro Nathan Petersen (born 25 November 1980) is a former South African international

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er who played domestic cricket in South Africa for the

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and in England for

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. A right-handed

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, he has represented

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(ODI) and

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cricket. He was the captain of the Highveld Lions in South African domestic cricket.

Domestic career

Petersen was born and raised in the township of Gelvandale in

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and attended the same state high school as fellow South African Test batsman

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. His father was a taxi driver. He started playing first class cricket in 2001, representing the

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. In 2011, Petersen signed for

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for the 2011 English county season, replacing Jamie Dalrymple as the county's captain. Petersen was Glamorgan's top run scorer in every competition. He scored his first double hundred in first class cricket (210) against Surrey at

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and was named Glamorgan's player of the year. He returned to South Africa at the end of the county season to play for the

. On 13 February 2012, Essex confirmed Petersen will join the club for the first half of the county season. Petersen could not rejoin Glamorgan as a Kolpak player as he won his place back in the South Africa Test team at the start of 2012. Petersen commented that he wished to stay at Glamorgan: "My agent gave Glamorgan a proposal which they didn't accept... lamorgancan only sign one overseas layer.. We proposed something but

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rejected... Just to put the record straight, I enjoyed my time with Glamorgan, and yes, would have wanted it to continue" He left Essex 31 May 2012. In July/August 2012 Petersen opened the batting for South Africa in their three match series in England, scoring 182 in the drawn second test at

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. Petersen was given out twice in this innings but was saved on both occasions by the

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(DRS). Petersen joined

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as their overseas player for the first part of the 2013 season. On 31 October 2013, Petersen re-signed for Somerset to be their overseas player for the 2014 season. In 2015, Petersen joined his 4th English county,

. He scored over a thousand runs in the 2016 County Championship and was successful in white ball cricket too including a hundred vs Leicestershire at Grace

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International career

He played for South Africa A before breaking into South Africa's ODI squad in 2006, playing in two matches against

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. He made his Test debut in February 2010 against

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, and he scored a century. He is the third player to score a century on Test debut for South Africa, after

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and Jacques Rudolph. Later in 2010, Petersen played for Kings of Khulna in Bangladesh's NCL Twenty20 tournament. He also played in the three Tests of South Africa's tour of the West Indies, the two Tests of the series against Pakistan in the

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, and all three Tests of the drawn home series against India. He failed to score a century in any of the three series, and was dropped for South Africa's two-Test home series against Australia in November 2011. After a string of high scores in domestic arena in 2011, he was recalled to South Africa's side for the third Test of the home series against Sri Lanka, replacing the dropped

. Opening the batting in the first innings, he scored his second Test century (109). On 6 January 2015, following South Africa's victory in the

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against the

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, Petersen announced his retirement from international cricket and that he would take up a Kolpak deal in English county cricket. Petersen subsequently signed a two-year contract with

, on 22 January 2015. In December 2016, Petersen was banned from cricket for two years by

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after his involvement in match-fixing in the 2015–16 domestic T20 competition.

References

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