{"id":30610,"date":"2026-04-02T11:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30610"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:06:14","slug":"sas-van-der-dussen-retires-after-seven-years-of-cricket-international-career","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-van-der-dussen-retires-after-seven-years-of-cricket-international-career\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s Van der Dussen retires after seven years of cricket international career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">South African (SA) batter, Rassie van der Dussen, has called time on a distinguished seven-year international career, during which he established himself as one of the Proteas&#8217; most dependable top-order batters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He represented his country in all three formats.<\/p>\n<p>Van der Dussen made his T20 International debut against Zimbabwe in 2018 and went on to represent the Proteas in 57 matches, scoring 1 406 runs at a strike rate of 128.75.<\/p>\n<p>In One Day Internationals, he made an immediate impression with a composed 93 on debut against Pakistan in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He averaged over 50 in 71 matches with 600 \u00a0and 17 half-centuries.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old also featured in 18 Tests after making his debut in the red-ball format in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He scored six half-centuries, including a top score of 98 against England at his home ground, the Wanderers, in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30612,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[],"class_list":["post-30610","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Rassie van der Dussen, has called time on a distinguished seven-year international career","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30611,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30610\/revisions\/30611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=30610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}