Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Alviro Nathan Petersen
Alviro Nathan Petersen, a right-hand opening batsman who forged a path to Test cricket in 2010 – nine year after his professional debut. It seemed as if he had turned his back on his country in 2011 after signing a county contract with Glamorgan but was picked again at the start of 2012 and has now cemented his place at the top order in international cricket.
With a cool head and a stoic, self-contained batting style, Petersen is primarily a leg-side player although he can bring out the perfect cover drive at will. On the fringes of the national side throughout 2009, an injury to Mark Boucher presented him with a Test debut against India in Calcutta. He made a century, only the third South African to do so, and didn’t do too much wrong before he was dropped after the New Year’s Test of 2011, also against India. He averaged 33.65 at the time and, although he had not lit up the world, he also hadn’t darkened it but Jacques Rudolph’s sheer weight of runs pushed Petersen out.
Here’s a list of things you may have or may not have known about Alviro Nathan Petersen:
- Alviro Nathan Petersen (born 25 November 1980) is a South African cricketer who plays his domestic cricket in England for Somerset and in South Africa for the Highveld Lions.
- Alviro is a right-handed batsman, he has represented South Africa in Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 cricket
- Alviro Nathan Petersen is the captain of the Highveld Lions in South African domestic cricket.
- Alviro was born and raised in the township of Gelvandale in Port Elizabeth
- Alviro attended the same state high school as fellow South African Test batsman Ashwell Prince.
- Alviro Nathan Petersen’s father was a taxi driver.
- Alviro made his Test debut in February 2010 against India in Kolkata, and he scored a century.
- Alviro Nathan Petersen is the third player to score a century on Test debut for South Africa, after Andrew Hudson and Jacques Rudolph
- Alviro played a career-defining innings of 182 in the second Test against England at Headingley in 2012 that also took his career average into the 40s. During that series he completed 1 000 Test runs.
- Alviro Nathan Petersen’s nickname is Viry
