Clayton August is a South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. He is a left-handed batsman and a left-arm medium-fast bowler who played for Boland. He was born in Vredenburg

Vredenburg

Vredenburg is a town of the Cape West Coast in the Western Cape province of South Africa. "Vrede" is Afrikaans for peace. It is the transportation and commercial hub of the West Coast area and administrative center of the Saldanha Bay Local Municipality...

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August made a single first-class appearance during the 2006-07 season, in which, as a tailender, he did not bat, but bowled five overs, taking match figures of 0-12.

August was a part of the South African Under-19 World Cup squad in 2007-08, and played two games in the competition, his first act in the competition being to bowl out Namibian opening batsman Raymond van Schoor

Raymond van Schoor

Raymond Van Schoor is a Namibian cricketer. Van Schoor is the former captain of the Namibian team at Under-15 level, who made his first-class debut in 2007. Van Schoor's father, Melt, 23 years his senior, retired from cricket in 2005....

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August has played for Boland Under-19s since the opening of the 2008-09 season.

External links

• Clayton August at Cricket Archive