Suné Luus
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Full name | Suné Elbie Luus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 5 January 1996 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right arm leg spin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Bowling all-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ODI debut (cap 63) | 6 September 2012 v Bangladesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 14 October 2019 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI shirt no. | 96 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I debut (cap 30) | 11 September 2012 v Bangladesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 4 October 2019 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Northerns Women | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 14 October 2019 |
Suné Elbie Luus (born 5 January 1996) is a South African cricketer, who plays for the South Africa women's national cricket team as a leg spinner.[1]
On 5 August 2016, during a match against Ireland at the Anglesea Road Cricket Ground, she became the second player to score a half-century and take a five-for in a women's ODI, after Heather Knight, by scoring 52 runs and taking 6 wickets.[2][3][4]
She also equalled the record of Anisa Mohammed for picking up the most number of wickets in a single calendar year in Women's ODI cricket, with 37 dismissals in 2016.[5] In 2016, along with Chloe Tryon, she set the record for the highest sixth-wicket partnership in a WODI, with 142 runs.[6]
In May 2017, she was named Women's Cricketer of the Year at Cricket South Africa's annual awards.[7] In March 2018, she was one of fourteen players to be awarded a national contract by Cricket South Africa ahead of the 2018–19 season.[8] In October 2018, she was named in South Africa's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.[9][10]
In November 2018, she was named in Brisbane Heat's squad for the 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season.[11][12] In September 2019, she was named in the M van der Merwe XI squad for the inaugural edition of the Women's T20 Super League in South Africa.[13][14]
References
- ^ "Suné Luus". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
- ^ "Luus' all-round brilliance underpins thumping SA win". ESPN Cricinfo. 5 August 2016.
- ^ "Records | Women's One-Day Internationals | All-round records | A fifty and five wickets in an innings | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
- ^ "1st ODI: Ireland Women v South Africa Women at Dublin, Aug 5, 2016 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
- ^ "Records | Women's One-Day Internationals | Bowling records | Most wickets in a calendar year | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
- ^ "Records | Women's One-Day Internationals | Partnership records | Highest partnerships by wicket | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ^ "De Kock dominates South Africa's awards". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
- ^ "Ntozakhe added to CSA womens' contracts". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
- ^ "Cricket South Africa name Women's World T20 squad". Cricket South Africa. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ^ "Shabnim Ismail, Trisha Chetty named in South Africa squad for Women's WT20". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ^ "WBBL04: All you need to know guide". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
- ^ "The full squads for the WBBL". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
- ^ "Cricket South Africa launches four-team women's T20 league". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- ^ "CSA launches inaugural Women's T20 Super League". Cricket South Africa. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
External links
- Suné Luus at CricketArchive (subscription required)
- Sune Luus – part-time student, full-time South Africa star – article in Wisden India