Cricket South Africa | Player Profile

Robin John Peterson

Robin Peterson has made 6 Test match appearances and all 6 have been in different series. He made his debut against Bangladesh in 2003, taking 5 wickets, and made his last appearance also against Bangladesh in 2008, when he took 5 wickets in an innings for the first time.

He had a similar start to his ODI career until the most recent ICC World Cup on the sub-continent when he became a regular member of the attack and finished the tournament as the leading Protea wicket-taker. This included a memorable new ball spell against England when he picked up 3 wickets. He joined the list of Protea bowlers with 50 or more ODI appearances during the 2011/12 series against Sri Lanka.

He has become a useful lower-order batsman, playing vital innings against Sri Lanka at the 2007 World Cup and against India at the 2011 World Cup to clinch nail-biting victories.

He completes the all-round package in the field being able to throw accurately off both hands.

He is currently playing the best cricket of his career and is enjoying the confidence being shown in him by the selectors who named him in the squads for all three formats of the tour to New Zealand in 2012 and the following one to England. He is South Africa’s first-choice ODI spin bowler and is knocking on the Test door again as well.