After talking about the 2 New Zealand fast bowlers we are going in a different nation and we will talk about the premier fast bowler for South Africa now and someone who is still so young but has achieved so much in the game till now that he warrants a best performances article. We are talking about none other than Kagiso Rabada and even though he is 26 and has 10 years left in him I feel that he has earned this article and we will write one more after his career gets over.
He has been playing international cricket since 2015 and in these 7 years he has become a very good fast bowler that is respected around the world. He has played 55 Test Matches till now and has taken 257 Test wickets at an average of 22.46 with 12 Five wicket hauls and 4 times he has taken 10 wickets in a test match already. He has also played 85 ODIs and has taken 132 ODI Wickets at an average of 27.69 with 2 Five wicket hauls in ODI cricket. He has also played 46 T20IS and has got 52 wickets. So a total of more than 400+ international Wickets in 7 years and 10 years left. Let’s take a look at his Top 5 Best Performances.
7/112 and 6/32 vs England (2016)
This is one of the best performances by a fast bowler in test cricket and it came against England in 2016. Kagiso Rabada single handedly destroyed England in this test match. In the first batting innings for England he was the only one who looked like taking wickets and he took 7 wickets for 112 runs in 29 overs of good fast bowling and England were out for 342. Then in the 4th innings he was at his best as he got 6 Wickets for just 32 runs in just 10.4 overs as he got a total of 13 wickets in this test match and South Africa won this test match by 280 runs.
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4/37 and 6/55 vs Sri Lanka (2017)
His second 10 wickets haul in a test match came against Sri Lanka just a few months after his first and here also it was for the win of South Africa. In the first innings of Sri Lanka he got 4 wickets for 37 runs in 12 overs and Sri Lanka were bowled out for 110 but he saved his best for the fourth innings. In the fourth Innings he did not allow Sri Lanka to get anywhere near the target as he kept picking Wickets at regular intervals and in 17 overs that he bowled and giving away 55 runs he took 6 wickets and got 10 wickets in a test match again and South Africa won this test match by 282 Runs.
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5/96 and 6/54 vs Australia (2018)
This was the fourth time he had got 10 wickets or more in a test match and this is the 3rd performance in this list. This was against Australia and by this time Rabada had become the leader of the attack. In the first innings he got 5 important Wickets for South Africa and as a result Australia were not able to get a big score. He gave away 96 runs in 21 overs but in the second batting innings he got his best. He bowled 22 overs in the second innings and he took 6 wickets in that innings giving away only 55 Runs and he got 11 wickets in the test match and South Africa won the match by 6 wickets.
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5/60 and 3/48 vs New Zealand (2022)
This is his most recent best performance in test cricket and it came against New Zealand from home and he got 8 wickets in the test match so it is on this list. In the first batting innings for New Zealand Rabada again got a 5 wicket haul and it was important as it did not allow New Zealand to take the lead and he bowled for 19 overs giving away 60 Runs. In the second batting innings which was the 4th Innings of the year match Rabada again got 3 important wickets for South Africa and he bowled 19 overs again and gave away 48 runs this time and South Africa won the match by 196 Runs.
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6/16 vs Bangladesh (2015)
This was the first ODI bowling innings of Kagiso Rabada and he got his best figures in ODIs in this match against Bangladesh. Bangladesh were batting first and Rabada just decimated the batting line-up and got 6 Wickets for only 16 runs in 8 overs and Bangladesh could only make 160 and the biggest hero of the match was this debutant and in his first ODI he showed that he is here for the long haul. South Africa won this ODI by 8 wickets.
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