This promising batsman suddenly betrayed South Africa, now he will play international cricket for New Zealand forever

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|10-08-2024

Devon Conway: We have seen this many times in the cricket world, when a player does not get a chance to play cricket from his country, then he turns to another country and there are many examples of this.

In this episode, a player has left South Africa and moved to New Zealand and will now be seen playing cricket from there. Actually, this is none other than Devon Conway, who performed brilliantly for the Kiwi team.

Devon Conway had left South Africa

This promising batsman suddenly betrayed South Africa, now he will play international cricket for New Zealand forever 2

Actually, New Zealand's legendary opening batsman Devon Conway was born in South Africa and started his cricket career there. Conway scored a lot of runs in Africa's domestic cricket but he was not selected in the national team and that is why he decided to leave his country.

After not being selected in the African team, Conway moved to the Kiwi country and started playing cricket from there. Here he performed well and he also got a place in the team. Now he is seen playing international cricket for this team.

He scored a century in his last innings in South Africa

Conway played for Gauteng in South Africa's domestic cricket and scored a century in one match, after which he hoped to get a place in the team but it did not happen. After this innings, he decided to leave South Africa and this innings proved to be the last innings of his career in Africa.

This player joined the Blackcaps to make a name for himself in international cricket and now plays cricket from there. He started to feel that his career would not be able to progress in South Africa and that is why Devon sold his house and car and moved to New Zealand.

Devon Conway's performance for New Zealand

Although Devon Conway did not get a chance in the South African team, after this he made his debut for the Kiwi team in the year 2020 and since then he has remained an important player of this team.

He has played a total of 20 Test matches in his international career so far, in which he has scored 1497 runs with an average of 41. Apart from this, this player has also performed well in ODIs and T20 matches.

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