Derek Crookes

Derek Crookes

Personal information
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm off break
Relations	Norman Crookes (father)
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1989/90–1996/97	Natal
1997/98–1999/00	Gauteng
2000/01–2002/03	Easterns
2003/04–2004/05	Lions
2003/04–2004/05	Gauteng
Career statistics
Competition ODI Matches 32 Runs scored 296 Batting average 14.80 100s/50s 0/1 Top score 54 Balls bowled 1,221 Wickets 25 Bowling average 40.43 5 wickets in innings 0 10 wickets in match 0 Best bowling 3/30 Catches/stumpings 20/–
Source: Cricinfo, 7 March 2006
Medal record Representing  South Africa Men's Cricket Commonwealth Games 1998 Kuala Lumpur List-A cricket

Derek Norman Crookes (born 5 March 1969) is a former South African cricketer who played 32 One Day Internationals for South Africa between 1994 and 2000. In domestic cricket he played for Natal, Gauteng, Easterns and the Highveld Lions. Crookes was a member of the South Africa team that won the 1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy, the only ICC trophy the country has won till date, where he scored the winning boundary in the final.

He was educated at Hilton College.

His father, Norman Crookes, was an off-spinning all-rounder who played for Natal in the 1960s and toured England with the South African team in 1965, but did not play a Test.

References

External links

• Derek Crookes at ESPNcricinfo