Marco Jansen

Very tall and able to bowl regularly at around 140 kilometres per hour, Jansen combines pace with a useful, hard-hitting approach at the crease. His bowling gives batters plenty to think about: he can move the new ball a long way in the air, and by banging it into the pitch he generates awkward bounce. Over time he added a fierce yorker and a well-disguised slower delivery. The one area still holding him back was consistency. He made his List-A debut in the 2017-18 season, and his First Class debut followed soon afterwards.

The IPL offered an important endorsement when the Mumbai Indians signed him for the 2021 edition, making him one of only a few overseas players to appear in that tournament before playing international cricket. Chances were limited that season, yet he had shown enough for the Sunrisers Hyderabad to bring him into their side.

South Africa included him in the squad that travelled to Pakistan in January 2021, though his first cap had to wait until the Boxing Day Test against India late that year. He was 22 or younger when he became a Test cricketer. Debuts in ODIs and T20Is arrived the following year. He joined the 2022 T20 World Cup squad as a replacement for the injured Dwaine Pretorius, and in 2023 he was picked in South Africa's 15-man squad for the Cricket World Cup.