The Six Gun Grill Garden Route Badgers on Sunday bid farewell to long-serving player, Hanno Kotze, who will retire from cricket at the end of the month.
The 29-year old Kotze, who made his first class debut for SWD on 5 December 2013 – as a 19-year old – against Griqualand West, will exchange the life of a professional cricket player for the corporate world as from March, 1st 2024.
In total he played 49 first class matches (2,142 runs), 59 List A matches (1,441 runs) and 28 T20 matches (662 runs). During his first-class career he also spent two seasons for Boland and during that time he represented the Cape Cobras.
“ Hanno arrived at SWD as a 18-year old student at the Nelson Mandela University in George and as a teenager played himself into the SWD team. He was a loyal and popular player who earned respect both on and off the field with a devastating reputation with the bat in the white-ball format”, commented SWD Cricket CEO, Albertus Kennedy. “We wish him all the best with his future endeavors”, he concluded.
