Craig Arend Haupt is a South African born English

English people

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 cricket

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. Haupt is a left-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium pace

Seam bowling

Seam bowling is a phrase used for a bowling technique in cricket whereby the ball is deliberately bowled on to its seam, to cause a random deviation. Practitioners are known as seam bowlers or seamers....

. He was born in Cape Town

Cape Town

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, Cape Province

Cape Province

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Haupt made his debut for Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire County Cricket Club

Oxfordshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Oxfordshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...

 in a List A match against the Durham Cricket Board

Durham Cricket Board

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 in the 1999 NatWest Trophy

1999 NatWest Trophy

The 1999 NatWest Trophy was the 19th NatWest Trophy. It was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 4 May and 29 August 1999...

. He played a further 3 List A matches for Oxfordshire, the last coming against Shropshire

Shropshire County Cricket Club

Shropshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Shropshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...

 in the 2nd round of the 2002 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy

2002 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy

The 2002 Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy was the 2nd Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy following its change of name from the NatWest Trophy. It was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 29 August 2001 and 31 August 2002...

 which was held in 2001. In his 4 List A matches he scored 182 runs at a batting average

Batting average

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 of 60.66, with a high score of 126*

Not out

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. This came against the Nottinghamshire Cricket Board

Nottinghamshire Cricket Board

The Nottinghamshire Cricket Board is the governing body for all recreational cricket in the historic county of Nottinghamshire.From 1999 to 2003 the Board fielded a team in the English domestic one-day tournament, matches which had List-A status.-Structure:...

 in the 1st round of the 2002 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy, played in 2001. With the ball he took a single wickets at a cost

Bowling average

Bowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket.A bowler's bowling average is defined as the total number of runs conceded by the bowlers divided by the number of wickets taken by the bowler, so the lower the average the better. It is similar to earned...

 of 56 runs, with best figures of 1/33.

He made his Minor counties debut for Oxfordshire in the 2000 Minor Counties Championship against Shropshire. Haupt has played Minor counties cricket for Oxfordshire from 2000 to present, which has included 35 Minor Counties Championship matches and 24 MCCA Knockout Trophy

MCCA Knockout Trophy

The Minor Counties Cricket Association Knockout Cup was started in 1983 as a knockout one-day competition for the Minor Counties in English cricket...

 matches.

His nephew, Dale, has played first-class cricket

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 for Western Province

Western Province cricket team

Western Province cricket team is the team representing Western Cape province in domestic first-class cricket in South Africa. The team began playing in January 1890 and its main venue has always been Newlands in Cape Town.-Honours:...

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External links

• Craig Haupt at ESPNcricinfo
• Craig Haupt at CricketArchive
  CricketArchive
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