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Dirk Nannes 
Personal information Full name Dirk Peter Nannes Born 16 May 1976
Mount Waverley, Melbourne, AustraliaNickname Diggler, Dirty Dirk Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) Batting style Right-hand Bowling style Left-arm fast Role Bowler International information National side Australia Netherlands Only ODI (cap 177) 28 August 2009
Australia v ScotlandODI shirt no. 11 T20I debut (cap 15) 5 June 2009
Netherlands v EnglandLast T20I 31 October 2010
Australia v Sri LankaDomestic team information Years Team 2006–present Victoria (squad no. 26) 2008 Middlesex (squad no. 30) 2009–2010 Delhi Daredevils (squad no. 26) 2011 Royal Challengers Bangalore 2011 Surrey 2011 Melbourne Renegades Career statistics Competition T20I FC List A T20 Matches 17 23 32 113 Runs scored 22 108 18 42 Batting average 11.00 6.75 3.60 8.40 100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 Top score 12 31* 5* 12* Balls bowled 366 4,139 1,737 2,472 Wickets 28 93 47 144 Bowling average 16.39 25.02 29.70 20.19 5 wickets in innings 0 2 0 0 10 wickets in match n/a 1 n/a n/a Best bowling 4/18 7/50 4/38 4/11 Catches/stumpings 1/– 7/– 0/– 16/– Source: Cricinfo, 07 July 2011 Dirk Peter Nannes (born 16 May 1976) is a Dutch Australian cricketer. A left-arm fast bowler, he plays for the Australian cricket team, the Victorian Bushrangers, the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League, and Fitzroy-Doncaster in Victorian club cricket. He has also represented the Netherlands cricket team. On the 26th May 2011, Nannes signed to represent Surrey County Cricket Club as an overseas player in the 2011 UK Twenty20 county competition.
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Early career
Nannes was previously a skier. In 1995, he made his debut as a mogul skier, and went on to compete at FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup events[1] until 1999. He then turned to playing cricket for club side Fitzroy-Doncaster.
Progression to first-class cricket
Nannes was eventually called up to the Victorian Bushrangers side in early 2006, where he made his first-class and List A debuts.
In his second first-class cricket game he played in the 2005/06 Pura Cup final in which the Queensland Bulls amassed a record 6 for 900 declared.[2] Nannes took three wickets in the innings and when it came Victoria's time to bat he was the last wicket to fall in the match.
He signed for Middlesex during the 2008 English Domestic season, qualifying as a non-overseas player due to his Dutch passport. Nannes struggled with injury the 2008 season however he was a member of Middlesex's Twenty20 triumph, and took 20 wickets at 19, including a haul of 6/32 in the county championship.
In the 2008 Sheffield Shield, Nannes took his career best figures of 7/50. In his first innings against Western Australia in Perth, he produced highly unusual figures of 1/2 off 0.1 overs, bowling a wicket then two beamers in succession and being banned from bowling for the remainder of the innings.[3]
In February 2010 Dirk Nannes retired from first class cricket. He said, "Having been able to play just one game in the longer format this season due to injury, this decision will allow me to concentrate on 50 over and Twenty20 cricket and extend my career with Victoria and Australia".[4] The news was generally well received by fans as Dirk had battled through many injuries in his short career.[citation needed]
He played for Delhi Daredevils in the IPLII and III, where he led the bowling attack. The team kept Glenn McGrath in the benches to play him. But in the auctions for IPL IV,he was purchased by Royal Challengers Bangalore for $650,000,[citation needed] where he is expected to open the bowling along with Zaheer Khan. After a couple of matches Nannes sustained a side strain and was ruled out of the IPL; he was later replaced by Chris Gayle.[5]
In 2010, Nannes played for the Nottinghamshire in the revamped domestic T20 tournament in England.[6]
International career
Netherlands
On Wednesday 11 November 2008 it was announced that Nannes was selected for the Netherlands cricket squad to play the ICC World Cup Qualifier tournament in South Africa.[7] However Nannes subsequently signed with the Delhi Daredevils for the 2009 IPL season, which was to be played in April at the same time as the ICC Trophy causing him to withdraw from The Netherlands' squad.
Victoria & Delhi Daredevils coach Greg Shipperd, when asked about Dirk's non selection for the Australian Twenty20 team, said that "I would have thought he would be first pick".[8] Following this omission from the Australian team, Nannes now confirmed his allegiance to the land of his parent's home country.[9] He made his international debut for The Netherlands in the first match of the 2009 ICC World Twenty20, opening the bowling in their surprise win over England.[10]
Australia
In a strange turn of events, Nannes was called up to the Australian T20I team in August 2009, just two months after making his debut for the Netherlands.[11] A one-day international debut followed that same month where Nannes picked up 1/20 against Scotland. Nannes played for Australia in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 in the West Indies; Nannes played against Pakistan on 2 May 2010 at St Lucia and he took 3 wickets for 41 runs in his allocated overs, he was unbeaten batting for 0 runs facing one ball. He also played against Bangladesh on 5 May at Barbados and he took 4 wickets for 18 runs in his allocated overs, he did not bat.He bagged highest number of wickets in the T20 World Cup in 2010 with 14 wickets at 13.07
Personal life
In addition to being a former skier, Nannes is the director and founder of 'Global Snow Tours',[12] an independent snow tour operator. He studied the saxophone at university.[13] He was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne. Though it is often claimed that Nannes speaks Japanese fluently,[13] in an interview with the BBC, Nannes refuted this.[14]
Highest Number of wickets in 2010 T20 World Cup
References
- ^ FIS Ski competitor biography
- ^ List of First-class cricket matches played by Nannes
- ^ WA vs Vic Scorecard
- ^ Dirk Nannes retires from first class cricket
- ^ Gayle lined up as Nannes replacement, ESPNcricinfo, 19 April 2011, http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2011/content/story/511815.html, retrieved 2011-06-19
- ^ "Nannes Signs To Play Twenty20 For Nottinghamshire". Cricket World. 25 November 2009. http://www.cricketworld.com/uk_county_cricket/nottinghamshire/article/?aid=22521.
- ^ Cricket Europe - Dutch announce World Cup Qualifier squad
- ^ Dirk Nannes is now confident he can't be ignored
- ^ Goodbye Australia, hello Holland
- ^ The start of things to come?
- ^ [1]
- ^ http://www.globalsnowtours.com/staff.php
- ^ a b Cricinfo Dirk Nannes Profile
- ^ Nannes, Dirk. Interview with Joe Wilson. ICC T20 World Cup 2009 Day 4 Highlights. BBC. 2009-06-08.
Netherlands squad – 2009 ICC World Twenty20 
Australia squad – 2010 ICC World Twenty20 (runners-up) 
Australia squad – 2011 Cricket World Cup 7 Cameron White · 11 Dirk Nannes · 12 Callum Ferguson · 14 Ricky Ponting (c) · 18 Jason Krejza · 23 Michael Clarke · 25 Mitchell Johnson · 29 David Hussey · 32 Shaun Tait · 33 Shane Watson · 36 Tim Paine (wk) · 41 John Hastings · 48 Michael Hussey · 49 Steven Smith · 57 Brad Haddin (wk) · 58 Brett Lee · Coach: Tim Nielsen
Michael Hussey and Nathan Hauritz were replaced due to injury by Callum Ferguson and Jason Krejza respectively. Doug Bollinger was injured and replaced by Michael Hussey. Dirk Nannes joined the squad as a backup bowler.Categories:- 1976 births
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