| Izak Buys | |
| Fullname: | Isaac Daniel Buys |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Left-arm fast-medium |
| Columns: | 2 |
| Column1: | Tests |
| Matches1: | 1 |
| Runs1: | 4 |
| Bat Avg1: | 4.00 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
| Top Score1: | 4* |
| Deliveries1: | 144 |
| Wickets1: | - |
| Bowl Avg1: | - |
| Fivefor1: | - |
| Tenfor1: | - |
| Best Bowling1: | - |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 0/- |
| Column2: | First-class |
| Matches2: | 12 |
| Runs2: | 37 |
| Bat Avg2: | 3.70 |
| 100S/50S2: | 0/0 |
| Top Score2: | 8 |
| Deliveries2: | 2,340 |
| Wickets2: | 48 |
| Bowl Avg2: | 22.97 |
| Fivefor2: | 3 |
| Tenfor2: | 0 |
| Best Bowling2: | 6/49 |
| Catches/Stumpings2: | 5/- |
| International: | true |
| Country: | South Africa |
| Testdebutdate: | 23 December |
| Testdebutyear: | 1922 |
| Lasttestdate: | 23 December |
| Lasttestyear: | 1922 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/44147.html Cricinfo |
| Date: | 24 August 2017 |
Isaac Daniel "Izak" Buys (born 4 February 1895, death date 9 Oct 1946 in the Grootte Schuur Hospital, Cape Town (after his death his body was donated to the medical school of the University of Cape Town) was a South African cricketer.
A left-arm fast-medium bowler, Izak Buys was born in Somerset East, Cape Colony, South Africa, on 4 February 1895. The date of his death is unknown and there was no obituary in Wisden.
He played first-class cricket for Western Province from 1921–22 to 1923–24, and also played one Test for South Africa, the First Test against England in 1922-23 at Johannesburg. He scored 0 and 4 not out and failed to take a wicket.[1] A few weeks earlier he had taken 5 for 121 and 2 for 22 for Western Province against the tourists; all seven wickets were of noted batsmen.[2] He also played for South Africa in the third match of the five-match series against S. B. Joel's XI in 1924-25, taking the first three wickets in the first innings. It was his last first-class match.[3]
His batting was poor – in 19 visits to the crease in his 12 first-class matches he never reached double figures – but he was an effective opening bowler. Three times he took five wickets in an innings, once per season from 1921–22 to 1923–24. His best figures were 6 for 49 at Johannesburg in a Currie Cup match against Border in December 1923, when he also took two catches in the first innings and 3 for 87 in the second innings.[4]
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