Umbilo Harlequins Cricket Club’s Yusuf Abdulla has claimed the opening Club Cricket SA Player of the Week award for March 2018.
Abdulla starred in a tight nine-run victory over Amanzimtoti Cricket Club in stream one of the KwaZulu-Natal challenge league on 4 March.
The 35-year-old struck an entertaining 65 – and later gathered telling figures of four for 15 in 10 overs.
The seaming all-rounder played two Twenty20 Internationals for South Africa against Australia and England – and represented the Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League – in 2009.
The defeat was only the second of Amanzimtoti Cricket Club’s 2017-18 campaign. They had lost to Umlazi Cricket Club in October last year, but since gathered eight victories to climb to the top of the 10-team standings.
Club Cricket SA Player of the Week archives:
26 February 2018: Kyle Wilson (Delfos Cricket Club)
19 February 2018: Matthew Smit (Jeppe Quondam Cricket Club)
12 February 2018: Jano Moller (Sinoville Cricket Club)
5 February 2018: Dwayne Pocock (North West University Vaal Cricket Club)
29 January 2018: Lenert van Wyk (Bellville Cricket Club)
22 January 2018: Nawaaz September (Tygerberg Cricket Club)
15 January 2018: Rostill Wessels (Strandfontein Cricket Club)
8 January 2018: Marco Wyngard (Victoria Cricket Club)
18 December 2017: Keenan Bowers (St Augustine Cricket Club)
11 December 2017: Lenert van Wyk (Bellville Cricket Club)
4 December 2017: Siya Simetu (University of the Western Cape Cricket Club
27 November 2017: Seth Fledermaus (Kraaifontein Cricket Club)
20 November 2017: Matthew Olsen (Cape Town Cricket Club)
13 November 2017: Quayum Camroodien (Cravenby Cricket Club)
6 November 2017: Rudi Swarts (Piketberg Cricket Club)
30 October 2017: Winslow Bedien (Kensington Cricket Club)
23 October 2017: Josh Savage (Ottoman Cricket Club)
16 October 2017: Brandon Viret (Durbanville Cricket Club)
9 October 2017: Justin Schwerin (Milnerton Cricket Club)
22 March 2017: Pieter Malan (Durbanville Cricket Club)
14 March 2017: Nigel Dirks (Bellville South Cricket Club)
6 March 2017: Michal Lord (Cape Town Cricket Club)
27 February 2017: Jody Lawrence (University of the Western Cape Cricket Club)
20 February 2017: Warrick Rhoda (Victoria Cricket Club)
13 February 2017: Michael Pote (Rondebosch Cricket Club)
7 February 2017: Warren Ekstraal (St Augustine Cricket Club)
30 January 2017: Zac Elkin (Green Point Cricket Club)
23 January 2017: Byron Boshoff (Durbanville Cricket Club)
16 January 2017: Sameer Sandhi (Wynberg Cricket Club)
9 January 2017: Handre Theron (Bellville Cricket Club)
5 December 2016: Nicholas Scott (Cape Town Cricket Club)
28 November 2016: Virgil Jacobs (Strandfontein Cricket Club)
21 November 2016: Sheraz Ali (Wynberg Cricket Club)
14 November 2016: Michael Cohen (Western Province Cricket Club)
7 November 2016: Gary-Jon Sylvester (Helderberg Cricket Club)
31 October 2016: Aidan Greenfield (Milnerton Cricket Club)
24 October 2016: Nathan Swartz (Durbanville Cricket Club)
17 October 2016: Marvin de Kock (Northerns Goodwood Cricket Club)
11 October 2016: James Crowson (Western Province Cricket Club)
7 March 2016: Julian Fortuin (Macassar Cricket Club)
29 February 2016: Derek Mitchell (Western Province Cricket Club)
24 February 2016: Abdul Temoor (Hottentots Holland Cricket Club)
15 February 2016: Muneer Holmes (Ottoman Cricket Club)
9 February 2016: Ashley Botha (Tygerberg Cricket Club)
2 February 2016: David Schierhout (Primrose Cricket Club)
25 January 2016: Dylan Solomon (Avendale Cricket Club)
18 January 2016: Zac Elkin (Green Point Cricket Club)
16 December 2015: Adam Ball (Claremont Cricket Club)
7 December 2015: Givon Christian (United Cricket Club)
29 November 2015: Jonathan Reynders (Milnerton Cricket Club)
24 November 2015: Roshan Khan (Cravenby Cricket Club)
18 November 2015: William Hantam (Cape Town Cricket Club)
9 November 2015: Anwar Rahman (Ottoman Cricket Club)
2 November 2015: Luke Petersen (Montrose Cricket Club)
26 October 2015: Zaid Patel (Wanderers Cricket Club)