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born 1991 Ireland

Ruhan Pretorius (born 2 March 1991) is a South African cricketer. Since 2015, he has played cricket in Ireland, and in 2019 moved to Northern Ireland.

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The next game is just around the corner, so we’ll need to take what we’ve learnt and apply it quickly over coming days.

There was a stage where I was thinking if I had the made right decision and done the right thing.

I know people praise Johnty a lot, but he needs to get all of the credit because he’s a brilliant coach.

At club level, I want to keep putting performances in and knocking the door down.

He worked with me at Waringstown and he definitely brought the best out of me. He knows people individually and spends time not just as a coach or sportsperson but as a human.

Even in our batting, we could have at times tried to score more freely, especially myself as the set batsman.

It’s a whole different culture and English is my second language but these are the sacrifices I have to make.

I want to be first in line because of my performances at club and Inter-Provincial level.

Hopefully next year everything is back to normal and once cricket starts I can put in performance after performance.

It’s been surprisingly good and it was my first time experiencing things like the Christmas markets because we don’t really have that in South Africa.

Every first cap that you get for any team is an honour. Even though I had played 50+ First Class games, it was a real honour getting my first Knights cap.

Giving up family back home, the Afrikaans culture, the sunshine – all of those things you’ve to give up

The result was unfortunate – we know our death bowling needs to improve. While it’s something we need to take on the chin, we know we weren’t good enough in the last four or five overs.

I was probably training six times a week and then sometimes there was a Sunday group session with the Knights so there were some weeks it was seven days a week depending on the bowling workload.

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