Andre van Troost

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Andre van Troost
Personal information
Full name
Adrianus Petrus van Troost
Born (1972-10-02) 2 October 1972 (age 51)
Schiedam, South Holland, Netherlands
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast
International information
National side
ODI shirt no.69
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1994/95
Griqualand West
1991–1998Somerset
Career statistics
Competition FC LA
Matches 71 31
Runs scored 461 75
Batting average 7.94 8.33
100s/50s –/– –/–
Top score 35 17*
Balls bowled 8,451 1,321
Wickets 146 36
Bowling average 38.45 30.77
5 wickets in innings 4 1
10 wickets in match
Best bowling 6/48 5/22
Catches/stumpings 10/– 2/–
Source: CricketArchive, 16 January 2011

Adrianus 'André' Petrus van Troost (born 2 October 1972 in Schiedam, South Holland) is a Dutch businessman and former cricketer.

A right-arm

ICC Trophy level between 1990 and 1997, taking thirteen wickets in nine matches at a bowling average
of 17.38.

Playing career

Van Troost played for

provincial cricket.

He took 3-27 for the

Netherlands in their surprise victory against the West Indies in a limited-over match in 1991, his wickets including Richie Richardson and Jeff Dujon.[1]

Van Troost was an aggressive bowler: in 1995, whilst playing for Somerset, he bowled a

West Indies batsman Jimmy Adams, which resulted in Adams being hospitalised with a fractured cheekbone.[2] Just a week later, umpire Barry Dudleston ordered him out of the bowling attack for intimidatory bowling in a match against Kent.[3] On Test Match Special on 30 June 2010, Mark Butcher stated that at The Oval in around 1995 van Troost had bowled the fastest spell of bowling he had ever faced, describing the express Pakistani pace bowler Waqar Younis
as looking like "a medium pace bowler by comparison".

Later career

In September 2008, van Troost was appointed as the chief executive of the Royal Dutch Cricket Association[4] but resigned less than five months later to resume his business career.[5] His career has included working for Procter & Gamble, Danone and Lely, where he was appointed as CEO in 2020.[6]

Family

His brother Luuk van Troost has also played cricket for the Netherlands.

References

  1. ESPNCricinfo
    . Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  2. CricInfo
    .
  3. ^ "Van Troost barred for intimidation". The Independent. 10 August 1995. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
  4. CricInfo
    . 17 September 2008. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
  5. CricInfo
    . 22 February 2009. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
  6. ^ "Alexander van der Lely to become chairman of the Supervisory Board" (Press release). Maassluis: Lely. 2 September 2019. Retrieved 23 October 2021.