Eddo Brandes
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |
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| Bowling type | Right-arm fast-medium | |
| Tests | ODIs | |
| Matches | 10 | 59 |
| Runs scored | 121 | 404 |
| Batting average | 10.08 | 13.03 |
| 100s/50s | -/- | -/2 |
| Top score | 39 | 55 |
| Balls bowled | 1996 | 2828 |
| Wickets | 26 | 70 |
| Bowling average | 36.57 | 32.37 |
| 5 wickets in innings | - | 2 |
| 10 wickets in match | - | n/a |
| Best bowling | 3/45 | 5/28 |
| Catches/stumpings | 4/- | 11/- |
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As of 9 February 2006 |
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Eddo André Brandes (born March 5, 1963, Port Shepstone, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) is a former Zimbabwean cricketer who played in 10 Tests and 59 ODIs from 1987 to 1999.
He took a hat-trick in an ODI against England in January 1997 that is still regarded as the highest in terms of total average of the batsmen dismissed [1]. The Mirror ran a headline proclaiming "Clucking useless!; England lose to chicken farmer" to mark the occasion, making Eddo Brandes perhaps the most famous chicken-farmer to ever play cricket. Only two months short of his 34th birthday, he remains the oldest player to have taken an ODI hat-trick.
In an (in)famous incident Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath remarked after Brandes had just hit him for two fours "Hey Eddo, why are you so f***ing fat?", to which Brandes is reputed to have replied "Because every time I f**k your wife, she gives me a biscuit".
As of 2003 Brandes has moved to Australia to pursue a coaching career, and is currently coaching the Sunshine Coast Scorchers who play in the XXXX Gold Brisbane Grade Competition.
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