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Benjamin van Niekerk

Benjamin van Niekerk appears in 7 matches with a full FairPlay scorecard (27 Sept 2026 to 24 Oct 2026). 67 runs in 6 innings. 7 matches in FairPlay's recorded career data.

Player profile

Country
South Africa
Role
Bowler
Batting
Right-hand bat
Bowling
Right-arm off-break
Born
4 Jan 1996 Age 30
Recorded matches
7League and domestic

Benjamin van Niekerk is a bowler from South Africa with 7 matches in FairPlay's recorded data, all of them in league, domestic or other non-international cricket.

Batting: 67 runs across all recorded formats, with 0 hundreds and 0 fifties; the most runs came in T20 (league and domestic) cricket (67) and the highest recorded score is 38.

Career figures by format

Summed over the seasons in FairPlay's data provider's records, mostly recent ones. Older seasons can be missing, so these totals may be lower than the official career record.

Benjamin van Niekerk: batting and bowling figures by format in FairPlay's recorded data
FormatMatInnsRunsHSAvgSR100/50WktsBowl avgEcon5w
T20 (league and domestic)76673816.75106.30/0––––

Avg is runs per dismissal; SR is runs per 100 balls; Bowl avg is runs per wicket; Econ is runs per over; 5w is five or more wickets in an innings.

Benjamin van Niekerk at a glance

FairPlay holds 7 complete scorecards featuring Benjamin van Niekerk, most recently for Mpumalanga Rhinos (T20 and shorter).

In those matches Benjamin van Niekerk batted 6 times for 67 runs at a strike rate of 106.35. The highest score was 38 not out off 26 balls against KwaZulu-Natal Inland.

How the 4 dismissals happened: caught 2, LBW 2.

These matches were played at 5 different grounds.

Figures in FairPlay's scorecards

Batting
626738*16.75106.350/0
Bowling
Did not bowl in these matches.

Match by match

Newest first. Dates in India Standard Time. * means not out.

DateMatch
24 Oct 2026Knights v Mpumalanga RhinosBat 14 (17) · Bowl –
22 Oct 2026Mpumalanga Rhinos v South Africa EmergingBat 0 (5) · Bowl –
17 Oct 2026Rocks (Boland) v Mpumalanga RhinosBat 3 (6) · Bowl –
10 Oct 2026Mpumalanga Rhinos v Western ProvinceBat 0 (3) · Bowl –
2 Oct 2026Mpumalanga Rhinos v KwaZulu-Natal InlandBat 38* (26) · Bowl –
30 Sept 2026Eastern Strom v Mpumalanga RhinosBat – · Bowl –
27 Sept 2026Mpumalanga Rhinos v TitansBat 12* (6) · Bowl –

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