Nicky Boje

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	Tests	ODIs
Nicky Boje South Africa (SA)

Batting style	Left hand bat
Bowling type	Slow left arm orthodox
Matches	43	115
Runs scored	1312	1414
Batting average	25.23	26.67
100s/50s	-/4	2/4
Top score	85	129
Balls bowled	8620	4541
Wickets	100	96
Bowling average	42.65	35.57
5 wickets in innings	3	1
10 wickets in match	-	n/a
Best bowling	5/62	5/21
Catches/stumpings	18/-	33/-
As of 17th February, 2007 Source: Cricinfo.com

Nico "Nicky" Boje (born 20 March 1973, Bloemfontein, Orange Free State) and attended the prestigious Grey College in Bloemfontein was a South African cricketer who played in 43 Tests and 115 one-day internationals for South Africa.

Boje's international career began in 1995 against Zimbabwe, and although he was in and out of the team due to injuries he established himself as South Africa's first choice spin bowler. Due to the amount of all-rounders in the South African team, Boje usually batted at eight or nine in the batting order, despite a first class batting average of 32 and both Test and ODI averages around 26, which was the highest for a regular number nine in Test cricket in the 2000s. However, despite the reasonably high average he never hit a Test century, although did make two ODI centuries against New Zealand in 2000–01.

In December 2006, Boje announced his retirement from international cricket, effective immediately. He finished his career with exactly 100 Test wickets, the wicket of Mahela Jayawardene in his final Test brought up his milestone

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	South Africa squad - 2003 Cricket World Cup
1 Pollock \| 2 Boucher \| 3 Boje \| 4 Dippenaar \| 5 Donald \| 6 Gibbs \| 7 Hall \| 8 Kallis \| 9 Kirsten \| 10 Klusener \| 11 Langeveldt \| 12 Ntini \| 13 Peterson \| 14 Rhodes \| 15 Zondeki