The South African national cricket team features the player Ryan David Rickelton. His international career with South Africa began on March 31st 2022. The batter and wicketkeeper Rickelton maintains a left-handed batting position. RIckelton represents both Gauteng province and MI Cape Town in his domestic cricket matches.
Ryan Rickelton South African Cricketer Biography
Ryan David Rickelton was born on 11 July 1996 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. He is 28 years old as of 2024. The cricketer Ryan performs left-handed batting with slow left-arm spin bowling talents.
Rickelton serves as both wicketkeeper and specialist batsman in his cricket career. His father Ian Rickelton served as his coach when he started playing cricket while Penny Rickelton stands as his mother.
According to the reports, he is in a relationship with his girlfriend named Jamie Kronenberg.
Domestic Career:-
Gauteng became Rickelton’s first choice for playing first-class cricket when he faced Northerns. The competition picked him in August 2017 to represent the Nelson Mandela Bay Stars in the T20 Global League.
Gauteng selected Rickelton to play T20 competition for the first time on September 1, 2017 during the Africa T20 Cup. During the 2017-18 CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge season Ryan scored 351 runs as the leading run-scorer for his team Gauteng across eight games.
Rickelton took up the captaincy role of Imperial Lions during the 2021-22 CSA T20 Challenge in February 2022. The Indian Final League (IPL) selected Rickelton as a Mumbai Indians player in 2025.
International Career
Ryan Rickelton received his first T20I selection from South Africa to play against Pakistan during January 2021. In November 2021 the team management selected him to participate in ODIs versus the Netherlands. The selection committee picked Rickelton for the Test squad during the month of December 2021 for the India series.
The cricket authorities selected Rickelton for New Zealand Test tour duty during January 2022 and added him to the Bangladesh Test squad in March 2022. Rickelton initiated his Test career on March 31, 2022 when he faced Bangladesh during a match. Rickelton made his ODI debut on March 18 2023 during the game against the West Indies team.
In May 2024, Ryan was selected for South Africa’s squad for the 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. In January 2025, he scored his first double-century in Test cricket during the second match of a home series against Pakistan, hitting 259 runs at Newlands Cricket Ground.
| Format | Matches | Runs Scored | Batting Average | 100s/50s | Top Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 10 | 616 | 41.06 | 2/0 | 259 |
| ODI | 6 | 188 | 31.33 | 1/1 | 103 |
| T20I | 13 | 263 | 20.23 | 0/1 | 76 |
| FC | 65 | 4,861 | 50.63 | 18/17 | 259 |
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