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Full Name
  
Craig Richard Ervine

Birth Place
  
Name
  
Craig Ervine

Height
  
6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)

Role
  
Middle-order batsman

Batting style
  
Left-handed

Craig Ervine is smiling, has brown hair, a beard, and a mustache, and wears a red top.

Born
  
(
1985-08-19
) 19 August 1985 (age 38)

Parents
  
Rory Ervine

National team
  
Zimbabwe

Bowling style
  
Right arm off-break

Siblings
  
,
Ryan Ervine

Current teams
  

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Craig Richard Ervine (born 19 August 1985 in Harare) is a Zimbabwean international cricketer. Ervine is a left-handed batsman who has impressed in the Zimbabwe domestic leagues.

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Craig Ervine Is smiling, has brown hair, a beard, and a mustache, arms crossed, and wears his red-yellow National Cricket team uniform with a print on his left chest “ZIMBABWE CRICKET” and another print "DONEAR" on his right arm, and "ZIMBABWE" on his stomach.

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Domestic career

Craig Ervine is smiling, has brown hair, a shaved beard, and a mustache, both hands holding a trophy, at the back are different kinds of brands, he is wearing a red hat and sunglasses, a silver necklace, and a red long-sleeve shirt with the print “ZIMBABWE” on the center and a star on his left chest, and a ball with the year 2011 on right.

Ervine has played for the Midlands cricket team in Zimbabwe and represented the Southern Rocks topping the batting averages in his maiden season.

Craig Ervine is smiling, has brown hair, a beard, and a mustache, and wears his red-yellow National Cricket uniform.

In February 2010, Ervine signed for the Zimbabwean domestic circuit with Southern Rocks. On debut against the Mid West Rhinos, Ervine made a top score of 100; which is his highest in first-class cricket, and he averages over 50 in limited-overs cricket. He is a talented prospect for the relatively weak, but slowly improving, Zimbabwe batting line-up.

International career

Craig Ervine is smiling, and has brown hair, a shaved beard, and a mustache, at the back are different kinds of brands, he is wearing a red cap and sunglasses, a silver necklace, and a red shirt with a star print on his left chest, and a ball on his right chest with the  “Cricket World Cup”.

on 2 August 2015, Ervine scored his first ODI century against New Zealand. The innings is the second best score for Zimbabwe in winning chases. He scored brilliant unbeaten 130 runs with 11 fours and 5 sixes, where Zimbabwe won the match by chasing 300+ score.

Craig Ervine is smiling while looking to his right, has brown hair, a beard, and a mustache, and his right hand holds a black helmet with a red-white-black chin strap, on his left is a Cricket Bat with an SS print, he is wearing his red-yellow National Cricket uniform with a print on his right chest “JHSAN SPORTS” at the center is “ZIMBABWE” and on left is a yellow print.

On 6 August 2016, Ervine scored his maiden Test century, which was came against New Zealand at Harare. New Zealand batted first and scored a mammoth total of 582. Zimbabwe scored 362 for their first innings courtesy of his century. Despite his ton, due to low second innings score by Zimbabwe, New Zealand won the match by 254 runs, which gave Zimbabwe's sixth straight loss to New Zealand as well.

Ervine contributed their second ODI win over Sri Lanka in their tour to Sri Lanka in 2017, when he scored calm and quiet match winning 69 runs to level the 5-match series 2-2. Zimbabwe won the 5th ODI and won the first ever series against Sri Lanka as well.

Ervine's second Test century came against Sri Lanka on 14 July 2017 at R Premadasa Stadium. His century came when other Zimbabwean batsmen fell over to Sri Lankan spinner Rangana Herath, where the team was in a spot of bother to make a big score in the first innings. The knock of 160 was recorded as the second highest Test score by a Zimbabwean against Sri Lanka as well. With the help of his Ervine's century, Zimbabwe scored 356 for the first innings and laid a solid foundation.

Personal life

Ervine's brother, Sean Ervine has also played first-class cricket for Midlands, Southern Rocks, the Zimbabwe national cricket team and Hampshire.

References

Craig Ervine Wikipedia