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Full name Alan Charles Dawson
Born November 27, 1969, Cape Town, Cape Province
Current age 38 years 277 days
Major teams South Africa,Cape Cobras,Western Province
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
2
1
0
10
10
10.00
42
23.80
0
0
1
0
0
0
ODIs
19
7
4
69
23*
23.00
67
102.98
0
0
9
1
2
0
First-class
98
127
27
2196
143
21.96
1
13
47
0
List A
161
85
27
936
52*
16.13
0
1
35
0
Twenty20
20
5
4
21
7
21.00
19
110.52
0
0
2
0
2
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
2
4
252
117
5
2/20
3/32
23.40
2.78
50.4
0
0
0
ODIs
19
19
901
715
21
4/49
4/49
34.04
4.76
42.9
1
0
0
First-class
98
18482
7756
305
6/18
25.42
2.51
60.5
12
2
List A
161
7705
5213
232
5/13
5/13
22.46
4.05
33.2
5
4
0
Twenty20
20
19
442
516
24
4/18
4/18
21.50
7.00
18.4
1
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
Bangladesh v South Africa at Chittagong (MAA), Apr 24-27, 2003 scorecard
Last Test
Bangladesh v South Africa at Dhaka, May 1-4, 2003 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
England v South Africa at Dhaka, Oct 25, 1998 scorecard
Last ODI
Sri Lanka v South Africa at Dambulla, Aug 25, 2004 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut
1992/93
Last First-class
Cape Cobras v Eagles at Stellenbosch, Mar 16-18, 2006 scorecard
List A debut
1993/94
Last List A
Cape Cobras v Warriors at Cape Town, Nov 17, 2006 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Western Province Boland v Dolphins at Cape Town, Apr 7, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Lions v Cape Cobras at Johannesburg, Mar 23, 2007 scorecard
Profile
Alan Dawson is a quickish swing bowler and inventive lower-order batsman who struggled to discard the label of one-day specialist before establishing himself firmly for Western Province in the mid-1990s alongside Craig Matthews and Eric Simons, who is now South Africa's coach. First picked for South Africa in 1998, Dawson has toured the Asian subcontinent seven times in the last six years. Now in the autumn of his career, Dawson remains as sprightly a player a decade younger. He played a crucial role in WP's SuperSport Series title in 1998-99, when he crafted 143 in the final batting at nine, and was the competition's leading wicket-taker in 2002-3. A year later, after his province won the domestic title again, Dawson was named one of South Africa's five cricketers of the year. Away from cricket he is a landscape gardener.
Debashish Biswas October 2004
