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Bjorn Fortuin

Bowler

Slow left-arm orthodox 31 yrs.

Bjorn Fortuin is a Paarl born spin-bowling all-rounder. He owns the ability to bowl wicket-taking spells and can also contribute few runs with the bat down the order. With more than 100 wickets and 1500 runs to his name in First-class cricket, Fortuin has kept himself under the selector's radar. He played for the Highveld Lions team for the 2017-18 season.

Bjorn was promising in Mzansi Super League T20 tournament representing Paarl Rocks but the turning point of his life came in the 2018–19 CSA T20 Challenge tournament where he ended as the leading wicket-taker of the tournament with 15 scalps from 10 matches. A terrific tournament with the ball bagged him the CSA T20 Challenge Player of the Season award. Finally, in August 2019, his extraordinary performance was acknowledged by the selectors and he was named in South Africa's T20I squad for the series against India.

Personal Information
Born	October, 21 1994
Birth Place	South Africa
Current age	31 yrs.
Role	Bowler
Batting style	Right Handed
Bowling style	Slow left-arm orthodox

Batting Statistics

	M	I	N/O	R	BF	Avg	S/R	HS	200s	100s	50s	4x	6s
Test
ODI	16	11	1	77	133	7.70	57.89	28	0	0	0	5	1
T20I	27	18	8	127	109	12.70	116.51	32	0	0	0	14	2
FC	75	108	16	2836	4605	30.83	61.59	194	0	7	9	384	16
List A	95	71	20	940	1109	18.43	84.76	62	0	0	3	78	11
T20	140	61	22	391	376	10.03	103.99	31	0	0	0	28	6

Bowling Statistics

	M	I	O	Balls	Maiden	R	W	AVG	S/R	E/R	BEST BOWL	5 WKT	10 WKT
Test
ODI	16	15	126.3	759	5	611	18	33.94	42.17	4.83	2/22	0	0
T20I	27	27	80	480	1	650	23	28.26	20.87	8.13	3/16	0	0
FC	75	131	2192.1	13153	445	6190	221	28.01	59.52	2.82	7/70	9	0
List A	95	89	716.2	4298	32	3324	110	30.22	39.07	4.64	5/34	1	0
T20	140	138	493	2958	9	3166	148	21.39	19.99	6.42	4/8	0	0