Former Wellington Cricket Club and Bellville Cricket Club batsman Dawid Malan has been named in England’s squad for next month’s one-off Twenty20 International against Sri Lanka.
Malan represented Wellington Cricket Club during the 2006 National Club Championship in Pretoria – and played for Bellville Cricket Club in the Western Province Cricket Association premier league as recently as February 2015.
“Dawid was still very young at that stage and I clearly remember him telling us he would still go play cricket in the UK,” Kempton Park Cricket Club captain Johan Fourie, who played against Malan during the 2006 National Club Championship, told Club Cricket SA.
“To be honest, he looked like all good youngsters and didn’t really stand out. But when I went to England as an overseas professional years later, Malan was smashing runs for Middlesex already, so he obviously developed really quickly.”
England and Wales Cricket Board national selector James Whitaker said: “Dawid has made great strides as an attacking batsman, both with Middlesex and the England Lions. We were particularly impressed with his three half-tons during the tour of the UAE against Pakistan A.”
The match will take place in Southampton on 5 July.