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Dawid Johannes Malan :Profile

FULL NAME	Dawid Johannes Malan
BORN	September 03, 1987, Roehampton, England
AGE	36y 241d
NICKNAMES	AC
BATTING STYLE	Left hand Bat
BOWLING STYLE	Legbreak
PLAYING ROLE	Top order Batter
HEIGHT	6ft
EDUCATION	Paarl Boys High School; UNISA
RELATIONS	DJ Malan (father), CC Malan (brother)
Profile	Dawid Malan made a striking entry into international cricket in a T20I in Cardiff in 2017, demolishing South Africa’s attack with 78 from 44 balls. He deposited the second ball, from Chris Morris, over midwicket for six and never looked back. A bludgeoning left-hand batter with power and panache, Malan was born in Roehampton but brought up in South Africa. He made his first-class debut for Boland in 2005-06. In 2006 he played 2nd XI cricket for Middlesex and Worcestershire, having made his first-team debut for Middlesex in front of 20,000 people in a T20 Cup match at The Oval. As a 20-year-old in 2008, he came in at No. 6 for Middlesex to hit a brilliant unbeaten hundred in a T20 quarter-final against a Lancashire attack containing Andrew Flintoff, Glen Chapple and Dominic Cork. Malan made his Test debut a month after his first T20I, but his first five Tests, against South Africa and West Indies, were far from exceptional, with an average of 23. However, England calculated he possessed fortitude, and at 30, the know-how to handle an Ashes series in Australia. He did exactly that by scoring England’s first hundred of that 2017-18 series after they got to the WACA 2-0 down. It was a tough, grown-up innings at a time when England had to answer charges of off-field immaturity.