Rising Titans prodigy Pretorius ‘patient’ with Proteas dream

SOUTH Africa’s newest batting prodi-gy, Lhuan-dre Pretorius, has taken to professional cricket like a duck to water, scoring centuries for fun in different formats.

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Having built quite a reputation in white-ball cricket since his high-school days, some questioned whether he could replicate that success in first-class cricket.

On his first-class debut at St. George’s Park last December, the youngster put to bed all the ques-tions with a maiden century in his very first innings in the Cricket SA Four-Day Series competition.

He then followed that up knock with 103 against Western Province in Division One, to prove that he belongs in Division One cricket.

In his innings, it touches cricket, thus far, the youngster has failed only once to reach the half-century mark, making him one for the future for the Proteas Test team.

Though he’s been playing in Division One for a little over a year, Pretorius has drawn attention to himself with impressive performances, forcing fans to come to see him in the green and gold in the near future.