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Full name Matthew Hendrik Wessels
Born November 12, 1985, Australia
Current age 23 years 19 days
Major teams Marylebone Cricket Club,Nondescripts Cricket Club,Northamptonshire 2nd XI
Nickname Blood
Batting style Right-hand bat
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
Height
5 ft 11 in
Relations Father - KC Wessels
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
First-class
51
83
7
2150
107
28.28
3542
60.70
3
13
100
10
List A
57
53
6
1299
100
27.63
1340
96.94
1
7
44
0
Twenty20
33
26
6
407
49*
20.35
308
132.14
0
0
29
16
9
9
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
51
12
13
0
-
-
-
6.50
-
0
0
0
List A
57
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Twenty20
33
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Career statistics
First-class debut
2004
Last First-class
Northamptonshire v Middlesex at Northampton, Sep 24-27, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2005
Last List A
Northamptonshire v Yorkshire at Northampton, Sep 13, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Northamptonshire v Gloucestershire at Milton Keynes, Jun 22, 2005 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Essex v Northamptonshire at Chelmsford, Jul 7, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Rikki Wessels is the son of the former Australia and South Africa player and former Northants coach Kepler Wessels. He is an extremely talented gloveman who also possesses a decent range of strokes. Northamptonshire have high hopes for him, and he scored his maiden first-class century for them in 2005 against Somerset. He played ten times in the Championship in 2006, consolidating his position in the side. September 2006
