Andre Nel: Strange incidents keep happening on the cricket field. Many such incidents have been captured on camera in history, after seeing which you will not stop laughing. But in the year 2004, an incident happened which you probably won't believe after hearing about it. In fact, former South African veteran player Andre Nel got married during the match itself. After this, this player performed brilliantly and made Africa win the match.
Wedding during the match!
In 2004, former South African legend Andre Nel did not expect that he would be included in the Test series against West Indies. For this reason they had fixed the date of their marriage. Complete preparations for the wedding had also been done. However, during this period his name appeared in the Test team. However, on the day of the test match, the date of Andre Nel's wedding had been fixed. Then what was left Andre Nel made a clever decision and flew by helicopter to the church during the middle of the match, had a quick wedding and returned the next day. Andre Nel bowled amazingly in this match. He also dismissed Brian Lara.
Happy birthday Andre Nel!
The seamer took 2️⃣3️⃣1️⃣ wickets for his country and was certainly one of his country’s more entertaining bowlers. pic.twitter.com/PoSjOBR2Hz
— ICC (@ICC) July 15, 2019
How was the performance in this match?
Andre Nel bowled brilliantly in the first innings and took 3 wickets for Africa by spending 78 runs in 32.5 overs. During this period, apart from Brian Lara, he had taken many important wickets. In the second innings too, Andre Nel recorded 2 successes and spent 49 runs in 13 overs. Africa won this match by a huge margin of 189 runs.
A look at career
Andre Nel made his debut for South Africa in 2001. In his 7-year career, he took 123 wickets in 36 test matches. Apart from this, he took 106 wickets in 79 ODI matches. He took 2 wickets in 2 T-20 matches. Andre Nel played his last match for Africa against England in 2008.
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