A South African cricketer who now represents Gloucestershire, Marchant de Lange was born on October 13, 1990. He currently plays for Somerset. The South African team decided to call him up for the series against Sri Lanka despite his relative obscurity and lack of first-class experience. He is a right-arm fast bowler and a right-handed batsman who plays at the tail end of the batting order. In the second test match against Sri Lanka, De Lange was chosen as a late substitute for Vernon Philander. He made his debut in the test match and recorded statistics of 8/126, including 7/81 in the first innings of the Sri Lankan team.
In the year 2011, these stats are the best for any bowler in the history of Test cricket. In addition to having the ability to develop swing and accuracy, de Lange is a tall right-arm fast bowler. De Lange was a javelin thrower before he began his career as a cricket player, which is the reason he was able to achieve such an incredible speed from a short run-up, which was around 145–150 kilometers per hour. In 2010, when de Lange was just 19 years old, he made his maiden appearance in a class match for Easterns versus Free State. He finished with match numbers of 4 matches and 99 runs.
He was picked up to the South African side for the series against Sri Lanka, despite his relative obscurity and lack of first-class experience. He excelled in the second test with his speed and bounce, claiming 7–81 in the first innings of the Sri Lankan innings and taking 1–56 in the second innings. At the beginning of 2012, he was playing in an unofficial Twenty20 series in Zimbabwe when he sustained an injury. As a result, he had to modify his actions to avoid the injury from occurring again in the future.
On the 19th of February in 2012, he played his first Twenty20 match, which was against New Zealand in Hamilton. On the very first day of his career, he bowled Martin Guptill out. The Kolkata Knight Riders made a surprising acquisition of Marchant de Lange at the Indian Premier League Auction in 2012. They purchased him for the basic price of $50,000. There were three matches that he participated in during the season, and he took three wickets at an average of 35.66.
Marchant de Lange Biography
| Name | Marchant de Lange |
| Full Name | Marchant de Lange |
| Date of Birth | 13 October 1990 |
| Place of Birth | Tzaneen, South Africa |
| Other Names | NA |
| Nationality | Southafrican |
| Father’s Name | NA |
| Mother’s Name | NA |
| Siblings | NA |
| Spouse | NA |
| Marriage Date | NA |
| Children | NA |
| Role | Bowling |
| Batting | Right-handed |
| Bowling | Right-arm fast |
| ODI Debut | March 03, 2012 vs. New Zealand |
| Test Debut | December 26, 2011 vs. Srilanka |
| Favourite Food | NA |
| Favourite Actor | NA |
| Favourite Actress | NA |
| Favourite Colour | Blue |
| Retirement | Still Playing |
The Mumbai Indians paid Rs. 30 lakhs to get this outstanding bowler at the player’s auction for the Indian Premier League in 2014. It was in their second match against Delhi Daredevils that he made his debut for them, taking the place of Lasith Malinga, who was their finest bowler. Because Mumbai needed to win all of their matches to qualify for the playoffs, this match was very critical. Even though he was out for ten in his first over, he made a remarkable recovery, bowling out Dinesh Karthik with the very first ball he delivered to him and then going on to take the crucial wicket of Manoj Tiwary. He amazed everyone with his performance.
As a result of his ability to maintain his composure and shift the tide of the game in his team’s favor, he was awarded the Kanna Keep Calm award and ended with figures of 32. The Durban Heat selected him to be a member of their team for the first Mzansi Super League Twenty20 event, which took place in October 2018. While he was playing for the Trent Rockets in 2021, he was the first player to ever take a five-wicket haul in the very first edition of The Hundred Competition. By the end of the season, he had taken a total of 12 wickets, making him a joint leader in wickets taken.
Following the players’ draft for the 2022 Pakistan Super League, Islamabad United signed him in December of 2021. This was after the conclusion of the draft. It was in April of 2022 that the Trent Rockets decided to acquire him for the 2022 season of The Hundred. On the second day of Gloucestershire’s Division Two match against Northamptonshire, as a result of Marchant de Lange’s thirteenth five-wicket haul in first-class cricket, Gloucestershire was looking forward to achieving their first victory in the County Championship since the conclusion of the 2022 season.
The South African paceman, who had earlier recorded a six-wicket haul against Middlesex this season, performed consistently aggressive bowling to return 5-42. This included wickets with consecutive deliveries, which resulted in the outing of the hosts for 171, which was 238 runs behind Gloucestershire’s first-innings total of 409. At the end of his first game for Northamptonshire, Siddarth Kaul finished with statistics of 5-76, which included a five-wicket haul.
Batting & Fielding Stats
| YEAR | MAT | NO | RUNS | HS | AVG | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4S | 6S | CT | ST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 2 | 50.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 2 | 50.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bowling
| YEAR | MAT | BALLS | RUNS | WKTS | BBM | AVE | ECON | SR | 4W | 5W |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career | 5 | 108 | 169 | 5 | 3/34 | 33.80 | 9.39 | 21.60 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 1 | 24 | 30 | 0 | 0/30 | – | 7.50 | – | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 1 | 24 | 32 | 2 | 2/32 | 16.00 | 8.00 | 12.00 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 3 | 60 | 107 | 3 | 3/34 | 35.66 | 10.70 | 20.00 | 0 | 0 |
Cameron Bancroft (36 not out) and Ben Charlesworth (41 not out) brought the visitors to 77 without loss and gave them an overall advantage of 315. Gloucestershire chose not to enforce the follow-on, which allowed them to increase their lead to 315. The Northamptonshire response got off to a disastrous start when Emilio Gay was trapped leg before wicket by a swinging delivery from Josh Shaw. This came after Gloucestershire managed to scrape out 71 runs from the final two wickets.
Even though Northamptonshire went into lunch with a score of 56-1, the momentum of the game shifted just three balls before the start of play Lange was nicked to James Bracey by Ricardo Vasconcelos, causing him to leave the game for 43, and Karun Nair was beaten for speed on the opening ball, causing him to be stuck in front Lange returned and found the outside edge for Bracey to claim another victim, and Zafar returned to have fellow spinner Liam Patterson-White lbw playing no shot. Saif Zaib, who was curbing his customary aggressiveness, fought stoically for his 23 from 80 balls. However, Bracey was able to claim another casualty.
