Makhaya Ntini

6 July 1977

Makhaya Ntini, SA cricket player, is born

Makhaya Ntini, South African cricket player, was born on 6 July 1977 in Mdingi, near King William’s Town, in the Eastern Cape.

Ntini is a product of the United Cricket Board's development program. Raymond Booi, a cricket development officer noticed Ntini’s talent while traveling around the Eastern Cape area introducing the game to rural boys. Ntini was given a pair of boots and packed off to Dale College, one of the country's best regarded cricketing nurseries. Ntini found himself touring Australia at the end of 1997 when Roger Telemachus failed a fitness test. He made his South African one-day debut at Perth in early 1998, bowling well in helpful conditions and his test debut came against Sri Lanka in the same year. Ntini became the first South African to take ten wickets at Lord's in 2003 before devastating the West Indies in Trinidad in 2005 with 13 for 132, the best-ever match figures by a South African bowler.

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3. A biography. Website: makhayantini.com.