| Louis van der Westhuizen | |
| Country: | Namibia |
| Fullname: | Louis Petrus van der Westhuizen |
| Birth Date: | 31 March 1988 |
| Birth Place: | Windhoek, South West Africa |
| Batting: | Left-handed |
| Bowling: | Slow left-arm orthodox |
| International: | true |
| Internationalspan: | 2006–2018 |
| Columns: | 3 |
| Column1: | FC |
| Matches1: | 39 |
| Runs1: | 1,555 |
| Bat Avg1: | 23.56 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/10 |
| Top Score1: | 85 |
| Deliveries1: | 2,578 |
| Wickets1: | 36 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 38.11 |
| Fivefor1: | 1 |
| Tenfor1: | 0 |
| Best Bowling1: | 5/90 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 13/– |
| Column2: | LA |
| Matches2: | 88 |
| Runs2: | 1,400 |
| Bat Avg2: | 18.66 |
| 100S/50S2: | 0/8 |
| Top Score2: | 97 |
| Deliveries2: | 2,174 |
| Wickets2: | 65 |
| Bowl Avg2: | 27.49 |
| Fivefor2: | 0 |
| Tenfor2: | 0 |
| Best Bowling2: | 4/14 |
| Catches/Stumpings2: | 37/– |
| Column3: | T20 |
| Matches3: | 45 |
| Runs3: | 917 |
| Bat Avg3: | 21.32 |
| 100S/50S3: | 2/4 |
| Top Score3: | 145 |
| Deliveries3: | 791 |
| Wickets3: | 47 |
| Bowl Avg3: | 18.87 |
| Fivefor3: | 0 |
| Tenfor3: | 0 |
| Best Bowling3: | 3/11 |
| Catches/Stumpings3: | 7/– |
| Date: | 10 October |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/97/97746/97746.html CricketArchive |
Louis van der Westhuizen (born 31 March 1988) is a Namibian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a slow left-arm bowler. He has played first-class cricket for the senior Namibian cricket team since 2006, having previously lined up for the Under-19s. He made his first-class cricket debut on 11 May 2006, for Namibia against Scotland in the 2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup.[1]
Van der Westhuizen played for the Namibians in the Under-19s World Cup in 2006. Generally speaking, van der Westhuizen occupies the position of opening batsman for the Namibian side in limited-overs cricket. He was also part of the Namibian Under-19 team which won the Under-19 African Championship in 2007.
Van der Westhuizen has had success as a batsman in the Twenty20 format of the game. Playing against Kenya in a Twenty20 match, he scored 145 runs from 50 balls, then the third-highest individual score of all time in top level Twenty20.[2] [3] He also scored an innings of 159*, with 16 sixes, against Kenya in Kampala during the 2011 ICC World Cricket League Africa Region Twenty20 Division One tournament (which is not considered a top-level Twenty20 tournament).[4]
In January 2018, he was named in Namibia's squad for the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament.[5]