Mark Boucher by CricketArchive Staff Reporter

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Player:

MV Boucher

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DateLine: 17th April 2009

 

It is a measure of the rapidity of Mark Boucher's rise that no-one is quite sure exactly how many cricketing records he currently holds. Fastest man to a 100 dismissals here, most innings without a bye over the road - they've tumbled out so quickly that it has been difficult to keep up. He also held the record for the highest score by a nightwatchman. Probably his most significant achievement, however, came in only his second Test match, his first on home soil, against Pakistan at the Wanderers in February 1998 when he and Pat Symcox put on 195 to set a new Test ninth-wicket partnership record.

 

Boucher had made his Test debut before his 21st birthday a few months previously when he was rushed to Sheikhupura to stand in for the injured Dave Richardson. He served his apprenticeship on South Africa's 1997-98 tour of Australia, and took over as the first-choice keeper when Richardson retired at the end of that series.