Kagiso
Rabada
South Africa
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Cricket
Date of birth | May 25, 1995 |
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Birthplace | Johannesburg |
Age | 30 |
Nationality | South Africa |
Career start | 2014 |
Disciplines | Cricket |
To say Kagiso Rabada’s rise to stardom has been meteoric would be something of an understatement.
The strike bowler made his South African Twenty20 debut in November 2014, just a year after leaving high school, before making his One Day International debut against Bangladesh in July 2015 and his Test debut in November of the same year.
Then, in July 2016, he became the first cricketer to win six awards at Cricket South Africa's (CSA) annual dinner, including Cricketer of the Year. By January 2018, he'd topped both the ICC ODI bowler rankings and the ICC Test bowler rankings at the age of 22. That same year he became the youngest bowler to take 150 wickets in Tests (23 years and 50 days) and mirrored his 2016 feat of six awards at CSA's annual dinner, including Cricketer of the Year, Test Cricketer and ODI Cricketer of the Year.
Kagiso has also enjoyed plenty of success on the domestic front, excelling for teams in South Africa and abroad. He enjoyed a short spell with Kent County Cricket Club in England and is a regular fixture in the Indian Premier League – helping the Delhi Capitals reach the final in 2020 for the first time in the history of the franchise.
Kagiso is also no slouch with the bat, with a best of 47 in Tests and often acting as a nightwatchman for South Africa.