Kosie Venter

Jacobus "Kosie" Francois Venter (born 1 October 1969) is a former South African cricketer. Venter was a left-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born at Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.

In a professional career that lasted from the 1989/90 to the 2003/04 South African cricket seasons, Venter played both the first-class and List A formats of the game with no fewer than six different sides. Debuting in the 1989/90 season for Orange Free State, he proceeded to play first-class and List A cricket for Orange Free State, Transvaal B and Free State.[1] He later played List A cricket in England for the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1996[2] and the Worcestershire Cricket Board in the 1999 NatWest Trophy.[3] Venter also played Second XI cricket in England for the Leicestershire Second XI in 1994.[4]

In his first-class career, he played 108 times scoring 5,066 runs at a batting average of 30.15, with five centuries and thirty-two half centuries and making a high score of 193. An all rounder, Venter took 241 wickets at a bowling average of 33.00, with eight five wicket hauls and best figures of 7/83. An able fielder, he took 60 catches. Venter played nearly an equal amount of List A matches, playing exactly 100. In these he scored 2,459 runs at an average of 29.27, with a single century score of 118* and thirteen half centuries. With the ball he took 71 wickets at an average 29.70, with a single five wicket haul which gave him best figures of 5/21. In the field he took 36 catches.

His older brother, Everhardus, represented Orange Free State at first-class and List A level.