Stephanus Ackermann is a Namibia

Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...

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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. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He was born in Windhoek

Windhoek

Windhoek is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around above sea level. The 2001 census determined Windhoek's population was 233,529...

 and has played one-day cricket for the Namibian youth team since 2005. He played in the Under-19 World Cup for Namibia in 2006.

Ackermann is generally used as a lower-middle order batsman, but has not been much used by his team in their bowling attack. Ackermann made an appearance for the Namibia A team in October 2007, his first appearance for the Namibians since the Youth World Cup.

Ackermann made his first-class debut in October 2008, against North West.

External links

• Stephanus Ackermann at Cricket Archive