Profile
Despite barely putting a foot wrong since his selection in 2006 for South Africa, Alviro Petersen remains in and around the fringes of the national team.
An 80 in his second ODI outing against Zimbabwe wasn’t enough to earn an immediate recall. He returned a year and half later, for a solitary innings against Bangladesh, before another year and half on the dugout. ODIs against Zimbabwe and England came calling in 2009. Against the latter, he scored 3 consecutive half-centuries, doing enough to tour India at the turn of the year. Injury to keeper Mark Boucher helped Petersen to a premier Test cap, fitting into an opening slot with captain Graeme Smith. An impressive hundred was the result, another fine display on show to maintain his place for the ODIs and subsequent visit to the Caribbean. At the West Indies, solid starts failed to manifest into bigger scores with a solitary Test fifty. After irregularities surrounded Herschelle Gibbs’ international appearances, the start-stop career of Alviro Petersen gained momentum and fixed his place in the Protean side towards the later half of 2010.
Fast Facts
- Alviro Petersen became the third South African after Andrew Hudson and Jacques Rudolph to score a hundred on Test debut.
Statistics
Show:
| |
Matches |
Innings |
Runs |
NO |
Avg. |
SR |
100's |
50's |
HS |
| Test |
13 |
25 |
943 |
1 |
39.29 |
52.65 |
3 |
3 |
156 |
| ODI |
17 |
15 |
437 |
1 |
31.21 |
83.23 |
0 |
4 |
80 |
| T20 |
2 |
2 |
14 |
0 |
7 |
73.68 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
| CLT20 |
4 |
4 |
170 |
1 |
56.66 |
154.54 |
0 |
2 |
57* |
| |
Matches |
Innings |
Balls |
Runs |
Wickets |
BBI |
BBM |
Avg. |
Econ. |
4w |
5w |
10w |
Extras |
| Test |
13 |
5 |
72 |
36 |
1 |
1/2 |
/ |
36 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| ODI |
17 |
1 |
6 |
7 |
0 |
0/7 |
/ |
- |
7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
| |
Catches |
Stumpings |
Runouts |
| Test |
7 |
0 |
2 |
| ODI |
4 |
0 |
0 |
| T20 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| CLT20 |
4 |
0 |
3 |
| |
Matches |
Won |
Lost |
Tie |
No Result |
Win percentage |
| CLT20 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
50 |
Career
Span:
- Test:
- 2010-2012
- ODI:
- 2006-2012
- T20:
- 2010-2010
- CLT20:
- 2010-2010
- Test
-
- Debut:
- South Africa Vs India at Eden Gardens, Kolkata - Feb 14, 2010
- Last played:
- South Africa Vs New Zealand at Basin Reserve, Wellington - Mar 23, 2012
- ODI
-
- Debut:
- South Africa Vs Zimbabwe at Buffalo Park, East London - Sep 18, 2006
- Last played:
- South Africa Vs Sri Lanka at The Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg - Jan 22, 2012
- T20
-
- Debut:
- South Africa Vs West Indies at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, St Peter's, Antigua - May 19, 2010
- Last played:
- South Africa Vs West Indies at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, St Peter's, Antigua - May 20, 2010
- CLT20
-
- Debut:
- Highveld Lions Vs Mumbai Indians at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg - Sep 10, 2010
- Last played:
- Highveld Lions Vs Royal Challengers Bangalore at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg - Sep 21, 2010
