Allan Donald
South Africa
Personal information
Batting style	Right hand bat
Bowling style	Right arm fast
Career statistics
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	72	164
Runs scored	652	95
Batting average	10.68	4.31
100s/50s	0/0	0/0
Top score	37	13
Overs	2586.3	1426
Wickets	330	272
Bowling average	22.25	21.78
5 wickets in innings	20	2
10 wickets in match	3	n/a
Best bowling	8/71	6/23
Catches/stumpings	18/0	28/0
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Allan Anthony Donald, (born October 20, 1966, Bloemfontein) was a South African cricketer, and one of their most successful pace bowlers ever. is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... Bloemfontein at night Bloemfontein (IPA: , Afrikaans and Dutch for spring of Bloem (bloom), flower spring or fountain of flowers is the capital city of the Free State Province of South Africa. ... Darren Gough bowling In the sport of cricket, bowling is the action of propelling the ball toward the wicket defended by a batsman. ...

In his prime, he was one of the best fast bowlers ever seen in Test cricket, reaching the top of the ICC Test rankings in 1998, and peaked with a top ICC ranking of 895 points the next year, the 25th best ranking ever. In ODIs, he reached 794 points in 1998, second place to his teammate Shaun Pollock, the 28th best ranking ever. In the early 1990s, he was arguably the only world-class bowler in the South African team, until the emergence of Pollock, with whom he made a healthy new-ball partnership from the 1996/1997 tour of India until his retirement in 2002. Shaun Maclean Pollock (born July 16, 1973 in Port Elizabeth) is a South African bowling all-rounder. ...

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He made his Test debut on 18 April 1992 in South Africa's first test since their return to world sport after the abolition of apartheid. South Africa lost to the West Indies in Barbados by 52 runs, but Donald took 2-67 and 4-77, including the prized wicket of Brian Lara. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 412 pixelsFull resolution (1175 × 605 pixel, file size: 17 KB, MIME type: image/png) A graph that shows Allan Donalds test career bowling statistics and how they have varied over time. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 412 pixelsFull resolution (1175 × 605 pixel, file size: 17 KB, MIME type: image/png) A graph that shows Allan Donalds test career bowling statistics and how they have varied over time. ... A Test match between South Africa and England in January 2005. ... is the 108th day of the year (109th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... A segregated beach in South Africa, 1982. ... Learie Constantine, was one of the first great West Indian players. ... Brian Charles Lara (born May 2, 1969) (nicknamed, The Prince of Port-of-Spain or simply The Prince) was a record-breaking cricketer, the greatest batsman of his generation, and one of the greatest cricketers ever. ...

Known as 'White Lightning', he is remembered as a fearsome fast bowler, scowling and aggressive, with a horizontal white line of sunscreen across his cheeks and nose. When he retired, he was South Africa's record wicket-taker with 330 Test wickets at an average of 22.25, and claimed 272 One-day International wickets at an average of 21.78. Both of these records have now fallen to Shaun Pollock. Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. ... One-day International (ODI) is a form of cricket, which is played over 50 overs per side between two national cricket teams. ... Shaun Maclean Pollock (born July 16, 1973 in Port Elizabeth) is a South African bowling all-rounder. ...

Notable Incidents

1992 Cricket World Cup

South Africa's first game in the 1992 Cricket World Cup was against Australia. From his first ball, Donald got a noticeable edge off Geoff Marsh to the keeper, but the umpire Brian Aldridge didn't give the decision. The Cricket World Cup in 1992 (aka Benson & Hedges World Cup) was the fifth edition of the tournament and was won by Pakistan. ... Geoffrey Robert Marsh (born December 31, 1958 in Northam, Western Australia) was an Australian cricketer, coach and selector. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

1997 racism allegations

In 1997 he came under intense scrutiny from the international cricket media after he was alleged to have used racially abusive language against India's Rahul Dravid in the finals of a one-day series. Allan Donald mentioned this incident in his autobiography, White Lightning: For the band, see 1997 (band). ... Rahul Sharad Dravid (Marathi:राहुल द्रविड)(Kannada:ರಾಹುಲ್‌ ಶರದ್‌ ದ್ರಾವಿಡ್‌)   (born 11 January 1973 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh) is an Indian cricketer, and the current captain of the Indian cricket team. ... The Melbourne Cricket Ground hosts an ODI match between Australia and India. ... Cover of the first English edition of 1793 of Benjamin Franklins autobiography. ...

"in the middle of a noisy, partisan atmosphere, with the final in the balance, ...I got involved in an incident that has since caused me a lot of grief, leading to accusations that I am a racist.

"I was really pumped by the time Tendulkar and Dravid came together, but they soon got after me. Tendulkar pulled me for a flat six over midwicket, a wonderful shot...but when Dravid smashed me for six and four, I got carried away in typical fast bowler's fashion. I walked right up to him, face to face, and snarled, 'This isn't such a fucking easy game' and the TV cameras had me in close-up, with everyone lip-reading my words. Dravid's eyes lit up when he saw me standing so close, and the Durban crowd absolutely loved it." Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar   (Marathi: सचिन तेंडुलकर; born 24 April 1973) is a current Indian cricketer who was rated by Wisden (2002) as the second greatest Test batsman ever[1] after Sir Don Bradman. ...

He continues:

"In the end, they [The Indians] folded, we won the Final after looking out of it, and I thought no more about it, to me it was just a high-octane period of a match that we desperately wanted to win, and we did because we had the bottle to do so. Straight afterwards, I went to Dravid and told him my words weren't meant to be personal, that it was all in the heat of the moment, it should stay out in the middle and shouldn't be a problem between us. He gave me a hard look, and left it at that. I thought no more of it."

1998 Test Match at Trent Bridge

Donald had a now famous duel with the English batsman Michael Atherton during the Trent Bridge Test Match of 1998. This duel has since gone down as one of the most electrifying and intense periods of Test match cricket in history. Michael Andrew Atherton (born March 23, 1968) is a broadcaster, journalist and retired cricket player. ... For more coverage of cricket, go to the Cricket portal. ... A Test match between South Africa and England in January 2005. ...

South Africa batted first, scoring 374 in their first innings. England responded with 336, Donald taking 5 wickets, giving South Africa a slender lead of 38 runs. In their second innings, South Africa were undone by the English bowling attack, scoring 208, with Angus Fraser taking five wickets. This left England with a target of 247 to win the match. Note that England had not successfully chased down a target this big in the 4th innings at home to win a match since 1902. Angus Robert Charles Fraser (born 8 August 1965, in Billinge, Lancashire) was an English cricketer. ...

The final innings of the game began on the fourth day, 12 overs before tea. Butcher scored 22 before falling to Shaun Pollock with the score at 40-1, and Atherton was joined by Nasser Hussain. Hussain and Atherton comfortably negotiated the other bowlers, Elworthy, Cronje and Kallis, and Pollock was unable to follow up on his earlier success. Nasser Hussain (born March 28, 1968, Madras (now Chennai, India) is a former Essex and England cricketer. ... Steven Elworthy (b. ... Wessel Johannes Hansie Cronje (September 25, 1969 - June 1, 2002) was a South African cricketer (all-rounder) and captain of the South African national cricket team in the 1990s. ... Jacques Henry Kallis (born 16 October 1975 in Cape Town) is a South African cricketer. ... Shaun Maclean Pollock (born July 16, 1973 in Port Elizabeth) is a South African bowling all-rounder. ...

Donald, sensing that the match was on the line, proceeded to bowl a fast, fearsome spell. Bowling from the Pavilion End of the ground, he sought to extract the extra bounce that Angus Fraser had used. One delivery towards Atherton appeared to catch the glove on its way past his chest; the South Africans roared an appeal for caught behind, supported by the television commentators, which was rejected by the umpire. Donald was incensed, calling Atherton a "fucking cheat", raising the tension further.

Donald proceeded to hurl three bouncers from around the wicket, at close to 90 mph, but Atherton was immovable. Both cricketers have described this vignette in their respective autobiographies, Donald's White Lightning and Atherton's Opening Up, and both regard it as one of the most intense periods of Test Match Cricket they ever played. Donald speaks of the electric atmosphere in the crowd surging him on. Atherton mentions that the ball is a blur, but he is playing well. In the next over, Donald continued in the same manner to Atherton, who eventually top-edged him just over Paul Adams at square-leg.

Soon after this, the crucial moment occurred. Donald enticed an edge from Hussain to give an apparently simple catch to the keeper, Mark Boucher. Both Donald and the nearby fielders had started to celebrate when they heard the edge. However, the ball bounced out of Boucher's gloves, and the celebrating Kallis at slip was in a poor position to take the rebound.[2] Boucher appeared distraught, and Donald was furious. With a small amount of luck, England finished the day on top. Mark Verdon Boucher (born December 3, 1976 in East London, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa) is a South African cricketer. ...

The following day, Pollock and Donald again came out firing. Pollock had a couple of chances but the edges didn't reach the keeper. Donald had another attempt at bouncing out Atherton from around the wicket, but couldn't make the breakthrough. Although Hussain was dismissed shortly after lunch, the new batsman Alec Stewart batted aggressively, and took England home by 8 wickets, with Atherton finishing on 98. Alec James Stewart OBE (born 8 April 1963 in Merton, Surrey) is a retired English cricketer, a right-handed batsman-wicketkeeper and former captain of the English cricket team. ...

This intense period of play, which captivated audiences in the ground and on TV, remains in Test Match folklore. Nonetheless, at the end of the day's play, the protagonists were sharing a beer in the dressing room. Several years later, Atherton gave Donald the gloves he wore on this occasion for Donald's benefit year auction. According to Atherton's autobiography, the red mark where the ball struck was clearly visible, which he duly circled and autographed.

1999 Cricket World Cup semi-final

In what is often referred to as "the greatest one-day match in cricket", between South Africa and Australia, Donald was the last batsmen on the South African team, and is often held responsible for their exit from the tournament. Although the match technically ended in a tie, South Africa had previously lost to Australia in the Super-Six phase, and needed to win outright to progress to the final.

With Australia batting first, Donald and Pollock were the most successful bowlers in the South African team, and restricted Australia to 213, Donald taking 4-32, and Pollock 5-36. Donald picked up the wicket of Ponting with his first ball, in the 14th over, and another wicket with the last ball of the same over, Darren Lehmann caught whilst trying to deal with a bouncer. In the penultimate over, Donald clean-bowled Paul Reiffel and Damien Fleming, with Australia slipping from 207-6 to 213 all out. Ricky Thomas Ponting (born December 19, 1974, in Launceston, Tasmania) is an Australian cricketer and current captain of the Australia national cricket team (for both One-Day International and Test cricket). ... Darren Scott Lehmann (born February 5, 1970 in Gawler, South Australia) is an Australian cricketer, who made his ODI debut in 1996 and Test debut in 1998 for the Australian cricket team. ... Paul Ronald Reiffel (born April 19, 1966 in Victoria, Australia) is a former Australian Test cricketer whose career best bowling figures of 6-71 are also the best of an Australian in all matches played at Edgbaston. ... Damien William Fleming (born April 24, 1970, Bentley, Western Australia) is a former Australian cricketer who played in 60 Tests and 88 ODIs from 1994 to 2001. ...

South Africa's reply began well, going to 48-0 off 12 overs. The introduction of Shane Warne had immediate effect, as South Africa slipped to 61-4, Warne taking 3 wickets. Kallis and Rhodes took the score to 145-4, before both fell in the space of a few overs. At 183-6 with 4 overs remaining, chasing 214 to win, South Africa appeared to be slightly on top. However, good bowling and fielding restricted South Africa, and with the run-out of Steve Elworthy, they needed to score 16 off the last 8 balls to win without losing a wicket, with Lance Klusener and Allan Donald at the crease. Klusener hit McGrath in the air towards Paul Reiffel on the boundary, who unluckily parried it for 6, and ran a single on the last ball to keep the strike for the final over. Shane Keith Warne (born 13 September 1969 in Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria), is an Australian cricketer and the current captain of Hampshire. ... Jacques Henry Kallis (born 16 October 1975 in Cape Town) is a South African cricketer. ... Jonathan Neil Jonty Rhodes (born 27 July 1969) is a former South African Test and One-day International cricketer who played for the South African cricket team between 1992 and 2003. ... Lance Klusener (born on September 4, 1971 in Durban, South Africa) is a cricketer, more specifically an all-rounder. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Klusener hit Damien Fleming for consecutive fours off the first two balls of the last over. With the scores level and 4 balls to go, it appeared South Africa would be victorious, needing only a single for victory. Klusener mis-hit the next ball to Lehmann at mid-on, and Donald, who had "backed-up" down the crease, narrowly escaped being run-out as he turned to go back. The next ball, Klusener hit the ball straight down the wicket and set off immediately, probably assuming Donald would be backing up. Instead, Donald was watching the ball, and missed the call to run. Both batsmen were at the bowler's end before Donald started running, having dropped his bat. The ball was thrown to the bowler, then to Gilchrist, who broke the stumps at the other end, with Donald only halfway down the pitch. Damien William Fleming (born April 24, 1970, Bentley, Western Australia) is a former Australian cricketer who played in 60 Tests and 88 ODIs from 1994 to 2001. ... Adam Craig Gilchrist (born 14 November 1971 in Bellingen, New South Wales), nicknamed Gilly or Church,[1] is an Australian cricketer. ...

Outside International Cricket

In English county cricket, Donald enjoyed a long and highly successful career with Warwickshire. He also played a single match for Worcestershire in 2002. Having retired from playing, he now commentates for South African Broadcast Corporation (SABC) in their coverage of South Africa's home Tests, alongside former teammate Daryll Cullinan. In May 2007, Allan Donald was appointed as a temporary bowling consultant for the England cricket team. His involvement impressed many, and was praised by several players. Donald's originally brief contract was extended until September 2007. In the UK, County cricket is the domestic form of the sport of cricket that is considered to be first-class cricket. ... Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Warwickshire. ... Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Worcestershire. ... Daryll John Cullinan (born 4 March 1967, Kimberley, Cape Province) is a former South African cricketer, who played Test cricket and one-day internationals for South Africa as a specialist batsman. ... The logo of the England Cricket Team which shows the three Lions of England below a five-pointed crown The England cricket team is a cricket team which represents England and Wales, operating under the auspices of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). ...

External links

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v • d • e South Africa squad - 1992 Cricket World Cup
	1 Wessels (c) • 2 Bosch • 3 Cronje • 4 Donald • 5 Henry • 6 Hudson • 7 Kirsten • 8 Kuiper • 9 McMillan • 10 Pringle • 11 Rhodes • 12 Richardson (wk) • 13 Rushmere • 14 Snell

v • d • e South Africa squad - 1996 Cricket World Cup
	1 Cronje (c) • 2 Adams • 3 Cullinan • 4 de Villiers • 5 Donald • 6 Hudson • 7 Kallis • 8 Kirsten • 9 Matthews • 10 McMillan • 11 Palframan (wk) • 12 Pollock • 13 Rhodes • 14 Symcox

v • d • e South Africa squad - 1999 Cricket World Cup
	1 Cronje (c) • 2 Benkenstein • 3 Boje • 4 Boucher (wk) • 5 Crookes • 6 Cullinan • 7 Dawson • 8 Donald • 9 Elworthy • 10 Gibbs • 11 Kallis • 12 Kirsten • 13 Klusener • 14 Pollock • 15 Rhodes Ntini was named in the original squad, but was replaced on 23 April 1999 by Dawson

v • d • e South Africa squad - 2003 Cricket World Cup
	1 Pollock (c) • 2 Boucher • 3 Boje • 4 Dippenaar • 5 Donald • 6 Gibbs • 7 Hall • 8 Kallis • 9 Kirsten • 10 Klusener • 11 Langeveldt • 12 Ntini • 13 Peterson • 14 Rhodes • 15 Zondeki