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born 1995 South Africa
Nandre Burger (born 11 August 1995) is a South African cricketer who plays for the South African cricket team and Western Province in South African domestic cricket. He has described himself as an accidental cricketer as he endured a serendipitous path to cricketing journey.
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You're seeing a bunch of pink men walking around.
WITS offered a scholarship for those who played cricket.
But it's okay, I think (smiles sheepishly).
Moments like those are cool to help with team bonding. Everyone got to act like a kid for an hour.
I've now played two Tests. If I never play another Test, I'll still be fine with it because I enjoyed and lived every moment of those two.
Keeping the secret to myself was the hardest part.
I'm just letting you know the Test team for the India series is going to be announced on Monday.
My team-mates were like, 'Oh, you seem happy today' and I'm like, 'Hey, I'm just a happy person'. It was really cool.
I had nothing to lose when I first started playing, I was simply playing to enjoy it.
The one thing I love is that it's a family. And I'm big on family - for me, it's a core principle. Everyone celebrated Holi.
Those were the biggest lessons I took from missing a whole year.
I follow it religiously. At times, I can get extra competitive on the field, but it's who we are, right?
I thought it was cool. I didn't want to be a cricketer, but I was getting a free way to study, so I thought why not?
It's amazing to open the bowling with him. It could be pretty fun to do it for an entire season
But when I was close to being picked internationally, I realised I was putting way too much pressure on myself.
Ah, Boulty [Trent Boult]. I wanted to be like him. Understand what he thinks when he opens the bowling.
That year away kind of helped me slow down and give me the focus back. I learnt to just enjoy bowling again.
By the time I actually got to bowl, I was so emotionally tired. It felt like I'd played ten days of cricket.
I've had so much time to pick his brain, trying to observe how he goes about things. I've been like a crazy fan boy around him.
Your name will be in it, congrats.' This is just before I'm about to enter the field. I was like 'Woah, no pressure
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