LANCE KLUSENER

'Lance Klusener' (born on September 4, 1971 in Durban, South Africa) is a cricketer, more specifically an all-rounder. He is known for his aggressive batting and his intelligent fast-medium swing bowling. He is nicknamed "Zulu" because of his fluency in that language.
He made his Test match debut for South Africa against India in Calcutta during the second Test in 1996/97. Klusener, at the time playing primarily as a bowler, took some fearful hammering at the hands of Mohammad Azharuddin, who at one point hit him for five consecutive fours, in his first innings of his debut but returned career best figures of eight for 64 in the second.
Klusener will be remembered mainly for his contributions in One-day Internationals, in which he became feared as a hard hitting batsman and was voted as Man of the Tournament during the 1999 World Cup. He was also voted as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2000.
His international career has tapered off since then, due mainly to persistent ankle injuries, as well as a public dispute with the current South African captain Graeme Smith, who at breakfast meeting shortly after his appointment to the captaincy described Klusener as a "disruptive force" to the younger players within the South African national cricket team team, with the quote ending up in the South African press. However it seems that Klusener and Smith have patched up their differences.
He plays for Kwazulu-Natal (Nashua Dolphins) in the domestic level in South Africa. In 2003 Northamptonshire County Cricket Club signed him on a contract running until late 2007. So far at Wantage Road he has impressed with his fired-up seam bowling and his hard-hitting in the low middle-order. On August 20th 2007, the Indian Cricket League claimed that he had signed to play in its unofficial Twenty20 tournament in India.^[1]
Klusener's batting averages are particularly notable for the peculiar fact that his ODI average is considerably higher than his Test average. This is a fair reflection of his aggressive temperament.

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1. http://uk.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idUKL2002330820070820