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Full name Colin de Grandhomme
Born July 22, 1986, Harare
Current age 22 years 132 days
Major teams Auckland,Manicaland,Zimbabwe Under-19s
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Relations Grandfather - HL de Grandhomme,Father - LL de Grandhomme
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
First-class
21
35
3
772
109
24.12
1678
46.00
1
3
14
0
List A
20
20
2
317
96*
17.61
0
1
5
0
Twenty20
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
0
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
21
25
1423
712
25
4/65
5/67
28.48
3.00
56.9
1
0
0
List A
20
228
155
2
1/17
1/17
77.50
4.07
114.0
0
0
0
Twenty20
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Career statistics
First-class debut
Zimbabwe A v Kenya at Harare, Oct 11-12, 2005 scorecard
Last First-class
Auckland v Wellington at Auckland, Nov 24-27, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2004/05
Last List A
Auckland v Otago at Auckland, Mar 2, 2008 scorecard
Only Twenty20
Auckland v Otago at Auckland, Feb 4, 2007 scorecard
Profile
Colin de Grandhomme is a talented batsman who broke through into the Manicaland side in 2004-05 an immediately impressed. Although he played at Under-19 level for Zimbabwe, it was rumoured that his father persuaded the national selectors to overlook him.
In 2005 he moved to New Zealand and played for Auckland where he soon made his mark.
Martin Williamson July 2007