About Roelof Oosthuizen
Lived 1894 – 1947 (aged 52–53). Roelof Oosthuizen was a South African cricketer.
Roelof Oosthuizen (1894 –1947) was a cricketer who played one match of first-class cricket for Border in 1913.
While aged 19 and a boarder at Selborne College in East London, Oosthuizen made his first-class debut for Border, alongside another Selbornian, Lawrence Miles, against the touring MCC in November 1913. He top-scored in Border's second innings with a hard-hitting 23. The MCC players rated him as one of the best young players in South Africa and presented him with an MCC cap.
Despite this initial success, Oosthuizen never played major cricket again. After he left school he returned to the family sheep farm in the Karoo. He fought with South African forces in the South West Africa campaign in World War I.
Oosthuizen died of heart failure at the family farm in 1947, leaving a widow, Elizabeth, and a son, Ochert.
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Who was Roelof Oosthuizen?
cricketer (1894-1947)
When was Roelof Oosthuizen born?
Roelof Oosthuizen was born in 1894 in Moorreesburg.
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Roelof Oosthuizen died in 1947 in Steynsburg.
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Roelof Oosthuizen was a cricketer.
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Roelof Oosthuizen was South African.
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