Grant Roelofsen

• Biography

A wicketkeeper-batsman with an ability to occupy the crease for hours at a time, Grant Roelofsen has often been seen at the top of run-scoring charts.

The leading run-scorer in the Sunfoil 3-Day Cup in 2017-18, aged just 21, he contributed 781 runs in ten matches.

A similar run two years later, with 588 runs across ten games in the 2019-20 Momentum One Day Cup saw the right-hander named one-day player of the year at the annual awards ceremony in South Africa.

In the interim he had spent the first of three prolific summers playing club cricket in England, hitting 919 runs for Barrow Cricket Club in Cumbria.

Continuing to pile on the runs on home soil, Roelofsen returned to England in 2022, plying his trade with Billericay Cricket Club to great effect, scoring 1,768 across 20 matches, at an average of 98.22 and with a high score of 177.

Catching the eye of Essex’s selectors, he added a further 364 runs in six innings for the Second XI, before being called into their Royal London One-Day Cup squad, scoring a further 355 in seven knocks on his foray into the England professional game.

In 2023 he returned to represent Gloucestershire in the Vitality Blast, hitting 275 runs in 12 knocks as the side made the quarter-finals.

Whilst enjoying another run-laden stint with Billericay in 2024, the 28-year-old made the decision to swap the Dolphins for Boland in his native South Africa.

After notching a hundred in just his second First-Class game for his new outfit, Roelofsen wrote himself into the province’s record books with a 317-ball 240 in the very next game, the highest ever score for Boland.