Heino Kuhn

Heino Gunther Kuhn (born 1 April 1984) is a South African cricketer who has played for the national team. He has played for Titans and Northerns in South African domestic cricket and in March 2018 signed a Kolpak contract with Kent County Cricket Club to play in English county cricket. He left Kent in 2021 and returned to South Africa to play for North West.

Heino Kuhn

Kuhn fielding for Kent at Beckenham in June 2018
Personal information
Full name	Heino Gunther Kuhn
Born	(1984-04-01) 1 April 1984 (age 40) Piet Retief, Transvaal Province
Batting	Right-handed
Role	Wicket-keeper batsman
International information
National side	South Africa (2009–2017)
Test debut (cap 331)	6 July 2017 v England
Last Test	4 August 2017 v England
T20I debut (cap 43)	15 November 2009 v England
Last T20I	22 January 2017 v Sri Lanka
T20I shirt no.	20
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2004/05–2015/16	Northerns
2005/06–2019/20	Titans
2018–2021	Kent (squad no. 4)
2018–2019	Nelson Mandela Bay Giants
2018/19	Dhaka Dynamites
2021/22–2023/23	North West
Career statistics
Competition Test T20I FC LA Matches 4 7 189 187 Runs scored 113 49 11,838 5,182 Batting average 14.12 12.25 38.94 34.09 100s/50s 0/0 0/0 25/58 13/24 Top score 34 29 244* 141* Catches/stumpings 1/– 5/0 382/18 193/22
Source: CricInfo, 10 April 2023

Domestic career

Kuhn at Tunbridge Wells, June 2018

A wicket-keeper batsman, Kuhn was the second highest run scorer in the 2006-07 SuperSport Series with 776 runs at an average of 48.50. This tally included an innings of 216 against the Dolphins at Pietermaritzburg.

In the 2015–16 Sunfoil Series, he became the sixth South African player to score 1,000 runs in a single first-class season.^[1] In July 2016 Cricket South Africa named him as the first-class cricketer of the season and the domestic players' player of the season.^[2]

In August 2017, he was named in Nelson Mandela Bay Stars' squad for the first season of the T20 Global League.^[3] However, in October 2017, Cricket South Africa initially postponed the tournament until November 2018, with it being cancelled soon after.^[4]

In March 2018, Kuhn signed a Kolpak contract with Kent County Cricket Club to play in English county cricket, subject initially to him obtaining a visa.^[5] In June 2018, he was named in the squad for the Titans team for the 2018–19 season.^[6] In September 2018, he was named in the Titans' squad for the 2018 Abu Dhabi T20 Trophy.^[7]

In October 2018, he was named in Nelson Mandela Bay Giants' squad for the first edition of the Mzansi Super League T20 tournament.^[8][9] In September 2019, he was named in the squad for the Nelson Mandela Bay Giants team for the 2019 Mzansi Super League tournament.^[10] In April 2021, he was named in North West's squad, ahead of the 2021–22 cricket season in South Africa.^[11]

International career

He made his international debut in a Twenty20 International (T20I) against England at his home ground of Supersport Park, Pretoria, on 15 November 2009.^[12]

In June 2017, he was named in South Africa's Test squad for their series against England.^[13] He made his Test debut for South Africa against England on 6 July 2017.^[14]

See also

• List of Kolpak cricketers

References

1. "Titans crowned champions after Richards' seven". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
2. "Rabada dominates CSA awards". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
3. "T20 Global League announces final team squads". T20 Global League. Archived from the original on 5 September 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
4. "Cricket South Africa postpones Global T20 league". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
5. Fordham J (2018) Kent sign South African batsman Heino Kuhn, Kent Online, 2018-03-07. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
6. "Multiply Titans Announce Contracts 2018-19". Multiply Titans. Archived from the original on 16 June 2018. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
7. "Titans name strong squad for Abu Dhabi T20 league". Sport24. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
8. "Mzansi Super League - full squad lists". Sport24. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
9. "Mzansi Super League Player Draft: The story so far". Independent Online. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
10. "MSL 2.0 announces its T20 squads". Cricket South Africa. Archived from the original on 4 September 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
11. "CSA reveals Division One squads for 2021/22". Cricket South Africa. Archived from the original on 20 April 2021. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
12. "Smith And Bosman Star As South Africa Smash 241". Cricket World. Archived from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
13. "Kuhn, Phehlukwayo in South Africa's Test squad". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
14. "South Africa tour of England, 1st Test: England v South Africa at Lord's, Jul 6-10, 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 July 2017.

External links

• Heino Kuhn at ESPNcricinfo