Junior Dala

  • Dec 29, 1989 (33 years)
  • Lusaka, Zambia
  • RIGHT
  • Right Arm medium
Player Batting Status
  M Inn NO Runs HS Avg SR 100 200 50 4s 6s
ODI 2 2 1 8 5 8.0 133.33 0 0 0 1 0
T20I 10 4 3 19 12 19.0 67.86 0 0 0 1 0
IPL 1 0 0 0 0 - - 0 0 0 0 0
Player Bowling Status
  M Inn B Runs Wkts BBI BBM Econ Avg SR 5W 10W
2 2 102 121 1 1/57 1/57 7.12 121.0 102.0 0 0
10 10 192 307 13 3/35 3/35 9.59 23.62 14.77 0 0
1 1 18 34 0 0/34 0/34 11.33 0.0 0.0 0 0
Biography

Almost a wrong-footed action, yet all seems right when Junior Dala skids it off the wicket with deceptive pace to trouble the batsman. Playing under the able eyes of Mark Boucher for the Titans in domestic cricket, Dala was fast-tracked for the T20I series against India.

Dala immediately made an impression by dismissing Rohit Sharma in all the three games and also bagging the wickets of Virat Kohli and Mahendra Singh Dhoni. His 7 wickets in the 3-match T20I series came at a decent average of just over 15. But his expensive figures of 2 for 47 in his debut game enrolled him for a dubious record. Those numbers turned out to be the most expensive numbers for a South African bowler on debut in a T20I.

But the penchant to go for wickets and bowl at a hustling pace meant he was picked up the Delhi franchise as an injury replacement to replace Chris Morris during IPL 2018.