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born 1986 South Africa

Christiaan Jonker (born 24 September 1986) is a South African cricketer who represents the South Africa national cricket team. He was included in the Border cricket team for the 2015 Africa T20 Cup.

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I can help other people. If I could help someone in his life I will be satisfied

It’s more of that thing where it’s everything [that takes a toll on you].

Ask me how it was because if you don’t you’ll never know about it.

It’s been 15 years of cricket nonstop, 15 years of competing, 15 years playing competitive pressure situations.

That’s when I learned about being a family and playing for each other.

Doors opened for me because I have a diploma in Sport Psychology but now I want to get a degree.

Eventually I got a run, they chose me to play a 4-Day game for the Warriors.

I think I scored 64 on my debut smashing bowlers all over the Wanderers.

I don’t think it settled in until two days later. That’s when it actually sank in.

I always tell them: ‘Ask me the questions. Ask me what is depression.

That changed my life again. I basically changed my goals – I wanted to play cricket and enjoy it and only focus on that instead of focusing on politics.

Another thing that came out of this is that I can see in people’s [teammates] eyes that they don’t know how to handle this situation

I can’t tell you the exact year I started playing the game, I think I was born with a cricket bat

That was basically the best six months to a year of my life, playing for SWD. I broke the record of most first-class runs

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Christiaan Jonker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.