Rilee Rossouw Profile, Biography, Age, Country, Cricket stats, Wife, Height, Salary, IPL and more

Rilee Rossouw is a South African cricketer who plays for the team South Africa. Rilee Rossouw was born on Oct 09, 1989; and as of 2023, he is 34 years old. Rilee Rossouw is a batter from Bloemfontein and bats left-handed. In Rilee Rossouw’s ODI career, he has played 36 matches to date in his ODI career and has scored 1,239 runs, with an average of 39. Rilee Rossouw has hit 131 fours and 22 sixes in his ODI career. One of his recent ODI matches took place in Jan 1970 at, where he contributed runs off balls. Rilee Rossouw has played 29 matches to date in his T20 career and has scored 767 runs, with an average of 35. Rilee Rossouw has hit 69 fours and 39 sixes in his T20 career. In his most recent T20 match against West Indies at DP World Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa, which took place in Mar 2023, Rilee Rossouw contributed 42 runs off 21 balls to his team’s total. Rilee Rossouw is ranked 5th position in the ICC T20 batting rankings with a total of 689 points.

In the IPL Auction 2024, the Punjab franchise acquired the services of Rilee Rossouw for Rs 8.00 Cr.

Rilee Rossouw Physical Statistics

Rilee Rossouw Profile

A free-stroking left-handed batsman with snappy wrists akin to the subcontinental breed, Rilee Rossouw first made his mark in the Under-19 World Cup of 2008. He did not set the tournament ablaze but provided glimpses of his blossoming potential with 136 runs in six matches, including two fifties in South Africa’s run to the final.

Rossouw made his First-Class debut a few months before the Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia, top-scoring for Free State against Easterns in Bloemfontein. Catapulting his powers to an all-new level, the southpaw cracked the hitherto fastest triple ton in the history of South African domestic cricket in an exhibition of enterprising batsmanship in March 2010. The purple patch got even better that season as Rossouw ended up with 1,261 runs at a stellar average of 57.61.
The young batter also created a splash in the Champions League T20 when he smashed a 19-ball 44 against T&T in 2009.

Rossouw’s performances at the domestic level did not go unrewarded as he was called up to the national side in 2014. He made his ODI debut the same year against neighbours Zimbabwe and his T20I debut came a few months after against Australia.

However, like many South African players on the fringes of the national team, Rossouw decided to sign a Kolpak deal with Hampshire in 2017, a decision that drew a lot of scepticism and one that rendered him unable to turn up in national colours. Rossouw’s county stint wasn’t remarkable and when the United Kingdom exited the European Union, Kolpak deals came to an end and so did Rossouw’s time at Hampshire. By then, however, Rossouw had transformed himself into a destructive T20 batter reputed across the globe and that paved the way for him to return to South Africa’s T20I side in 2022.

His return to South African colours after a 6-year absence was a resounding success. In just his 2nd comeback innings, Rossouw struck an unbeaten 55-ball 96 against England in a T20I. It didn’t take long for him to bring up his first T20I hundred as he struck 100* off just 48 deliveries against India less than a month later. A spot in South Africa’s squad for the 2022 T20 World Cup was inevitable and Rossouw stamped his authority with another century, this time against Bangladesh, in his first innings of the tournament.

Rossouw was first bought by the Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2011 but it wouldn’t be until 2014 that he would feature in a game after he was re-enlisted by the franchise as a replacement for Nic Maddinson. Rossouw only played 2 games in that season and 3 in the following one before a long hiatus. It was only in the 2022 IPL Auction, on the back of some stellar performances in leagues like the PSL and BPL and after returning to play some match-winning knocks for his country, that he was bought by the Delhi Capitals for INR 4.6 crore.

Rilee Rossouw Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

Bowling

Domestic andT20 Franchise Cricket

Rossouw made his debut as a first-class player in November 2007, playing for Free State against Easterns, playing in the third position, he scored the most points in the game with 83. His innings comprised 13 fours. After the conclusion of his debut season, Rossouw was promoted to franchise cricket and played 3 Twenty20 games with the Eagles.

Rossouw had a long-running role for the Eagles team in the 2008/09 season. During the SuperSport Series, he was the top scorer for the team with 765 runs, including three centuries. His first century in the first class came with the Titans in November of 2008 and he scored 106 runs which included 20 boundary runs.

In the match that followed in March 2009, he scored 109 runs in an aggregate of 178. No other batsman scored more than 16. The innings, however, were unsuccessful because the Eagles were defeated by their league-leading team. In the one-day format, he also hit his first century. He hit 131 off 108 balls to beat the Warriors.

International Cricket

While studying at Grey College in Bloemfontein Rossouw was selected to be part of the South African school’s team. The first time he played with the South Africa under-19s was in the second “Test” with Bangladesh on December 7, 2007. Also, he played in a match against India before playing in 2008’s U/19 Cricket World Cup. In the World Cup, he played all six games and scored 136 runs with an average of 34.00 when South Africa reached the final.

Rossouw was picked as part of the South Africa A squad for the tour in Bangladesh as well as Sri Lanka in 2010, during which time he scored 131 runs from 150 balls against Sri Lanka A, sharing 100-run stands with Dean Elgar and Jonathan Vanier.

PSL Career

Rilee Roscoe Rossouw signed with the PSL in the year 2017. He was signed by PSL Franchise Quetta Gladiator as a replacement. Due to his impressive performance in the batting department during his PSL time, RR Rossouw now is an integral and permanent component of his team in the PSL league. You can expect him to play in PSL 2022, which is set to begin on January 27th.

Retirement

It is important to note that Rossouw did not quit international cricket as a whole. The reason Rossouw didn’t play for South Africa for all these years was due to a Kolpak agreement with Hampshire in the year 2017.

Batting Style

Left-handed. Rilee Rossouw, an elegant top-order batsman who has an elegant and powerful drive, established himself to be a highly-impact player with South Africa in limited-overs formats before signing a Kolpak deal for English county cricket in Hampshire.

Rilee Rossouw’s Net worth

As an experienced professional, he is an infamous South African cricket player. The main source of income is the sport of cricket. The total value of his assets is $5-$6 million.

Rilee Rossouw T20 Century

Rilee Rossouw’s Highest Score in T20 is 78. Rossouw’s score is zero T20 centuries two T20 half-century runs, and one time 30+ as well as two instances of more than 20 T20 runs. R Rossouw’s average strike of 142.4 with an average in the range of 22.08 for the 186 T20 balls. Rilee Rossouw scored a total of 36 boundaries and 28 sixes and 28 fours in the T20.

Rilee Rossouw IPLT 2022

The Protease top-order batter hit a century during the T20 World Cup 2022 in Australia. The contract was for 4.6 crores during the auction. Rilee Rossouw has been signed by Delhi Capitals at the IPL 2023 auction.

Rilee Rossouw IPL AUCTION PRICE HISTORY

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