Dale Benkenstein
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman (RHB) | |
| Bowling type | Right-arm Medium (RM) | |
| Tests | ODIs | |
| Matches | 0 | 23 |
| Runs scored | - | 305 |
| Batting average | - | 17.94 |
| 100s/50s | - | -/1 |
| Top score | - | 69 |
| Balls bowled | - | 65 |
| Wickets | - | 4 |
| Bowling average | - | 11.00 |
| 5 wickets in innings | - | - |
| 10 wickets in match | - | N/A |
| Best bowling | - | 3/5 |
| Catches/stumpings | -/- | 3/- |
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Dale Benkenstein is a cricket batsman and bowler born Dale Martin Benkenstein on 9th June 1974 in Harare (formerly Salisbury), Zimbabwe.
He attended Highbury Preparatory School and Michaelhouse in South Africa and now lives in Hillcrest.
He is a right-handed batsman, and a right-arm off-break or right-arm medium paced bowler.
Significant teams that he has played in are Natal, South Africa Under-24s, South Africa A, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africans, Marylebone Cricket Club, Dolphins, Durham, and South Africa.
His ODI debut was for South Africa in England vs. South Africa at Dhaka. The two teams were playing for the Wills International Cup. Benkenstein debuted during the 1st Quarter-final for this match in 1998/99.
He was captain for KwaZulu-Natal for the SuperSport Series-Standard Bank Cup double in 1996-97 and 2001-02.
When he joined Durham for the 2005 season, he collected the club's player of the year award during his first attempt. During this time he also filled in as skipper for the absent Mike Hussey and Paul Collingwood. He was an all-rounder and finished as the county's top run scorer with 1,183 and four centuries.
He is another example of a cricketer who has performed exceptionally well on many occasions, both for his province and his county team, but has never had the opportunity to play for his national side on a more constant basis. With Australia calling on Michael Hussey (he had a particularly long first class career before being called up to the national side) as they did, one would think that Benkenstein, a player comparable to Hussey (a confident batsman and an excellent finisher, also a useful gap-filling bowler), would have also been called upon. However South Africa did not follow suit.
Benkenstein would be a great addition to the national side; offering invaluable experience, consistent performance both with bat and ball and a steadying match temperament to a side in desperate need of it.
