Quinton Friend

Quinton Friend
Personal information
Full name Quinton Friend
Born (1982-02-16) 16 February 1982
Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa
Nickname Quinne
Batting Right-hand bat
Bowling Right-arm fast
Role Bowler
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2000—2007 Western Province/Cape Cobras
2009/10-2011/12 Dolphins
2011/12-present Knights
Career statistics
Competition First Class List-A Twenty20
Matches 41 35 10
Runs scored 638 82 1
Batting average 17.24 5.86 0.50
100s/50s 0/1 0/0 0/0
Top score 51 20 1*
Balls bowled 5844 1563 223
Wickets 117 39 7
Bowling average 25.51 29.05 36.86
5 wickets in innings 4 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 - -
Best bowling 7/31 3/36 2/29
Catches/stumpings 13/0 10/0 2/0
Source: CricInfo, 24 April 2008

Quinton Friend (born 16 February 1982) is a South African domestic cricketer as well as a regular representative in the South Africa A cricket team. He bowls right arm fast-medium with an action similar to Damien Fleming and is a tail-end right handed batsman.

Career

Friend, who was born in Bellville, Western Cape, debuted for the Warriors in 2002 in List-A cricket, and in 2002 in first class cricket at Pietermaritzburg.[1] He took career best figures of 3/36 against Western Province Boland in a one day match on 17 November 2004,[2] and the following year in January 2005 he took 5/93 in one day again against Western Province in a first class match,[3] ending with final figures of 6/114.[4] Against Western Province again Friend was the pick of the bowlers with 4/65 on 2 March 2006 during a one day game,[5]

In 2007, Western Provinces merged with Boland to become the Cape Cobras, who then released Friend on 12 July 2007 to join the Dolphins.[6] He led them to victory against the Titans on 22 October 2007,[7] however eight days later was suspended for one match along with Titans' Martin van Jaarsveld for verbal abuse.[8]

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