Roelof Oosthuizen

Roelof Oosthuizen (1894 –1947) was a cricketer who played one match of first-class cricket for Border in 1913.

Roelof Oosthuizen

Personal information
Born	1894 Steynsburg, Cape Colony
Died	1947 (age 53) Steynsburg
Nickname	Kalf
Batting	Left-handed
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1913–14	Border
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 1 Runs scored 24 Batting average 12.00 100s/50s 0/0 Top score 23 Balls bowled 114 Wickets 0 Bowling average – 5 wickets in innings 0 10 wickets in match 0 Best bowling – Catches/stumpings 0/–
Source: Cricinfo, 2 April 2017

While aged 19 and a boarder at Selborne College in East London, Oosthuizen made his first-class debut for Border, alongside another Selbornian, Lawrence Miles, against the touring MCC in November 1913. He top-scored in Border's second innings with a hard-hitting 23.^[1][2] The MCC players rated him as one of the best young players in South Africa and presented him with an MCC cap.^[1]

Despite this initial success, Oosthuizen never played major cricket again. After he left school he returned to the family sheep farm in the Karoo. He fought with South African forces in the South West Africa campaign in World War I.^[1]

Oosthuizen died of heart failure at the family farm in 1947, leaving a widow, Elizabeth, and a son, Ochert.^[1]