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Kyle Verreynne: Age, Test Stats, WTC Final and SA20 Career

Kyle Verreynne is a South African wicketkeeper-batter who plays for the Proteas, Western Province, Nottinghamshire and Paarl Royals. Born in Pretoria on 12 May 1997, he was 29 on 30 August 2026. His international record includes 1,266 Test runs, four centuries and 106 wicketkeeping dismissals in 31 Tests. Verreynne also struck the winning run in South Africa's 2025 World Test Championship Final victory and carried strong county form into 2026, including 443 group-stage One-Day Cup runs before a match-winning quarter-final hundred.

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Right-handedNo regular bowling roleBorn 12 May 1997

Current squadPaarl RoyalsSA20 · Paarl Royals Season 4 record; active with South Africa and Nottinghamshire in 2026

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Full nameKyle Verreynne

Age29As of 30 August 2026

Date of birth12 May 1997Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Batting styleRight-handed

Bowling styleNo regular bowling role

Career overview

Kyle Verreynne cricket career

Born 12 May 1997 in Pretoria; age 29 on 30 August 2026.

Right-handed wicketkeeper-batter with no regular senior bowling role.

Scored 1,266 runs with four hundreds in 31 Tests through November 2025.

Hit the winning run in South Africa's 2025 World Test Championship Final victory.

Official Paarl Royals data records 591 SA20 runs from 29 matches through Season 4.

Scored 105 in Nottinghamshire's 2026 One-Day Cup quarter-final recovery from 1/3.

Career story

Kyle Verreynne career and playing journey

Who is Kyle Verreynne?

Kyle Verreynne is a South African wicketkeeper-batter who has represented the Proteas in Tests and ODIs. In domestic cricket he is associated with Western Province, Nottinghamshire and Paarl Royals.

His career combines lower-middle-order Test batting with specialist wicketkeeping and adaptable domestic roles. He has opened in SA20, batted through collapses in Test cricket and filled an overseas-player position for Nottinghamshire in both the County Championship and One-Day Cup.

Kyle Verreynne's age, full name and birthplace

Kyle Verreynne was born on 12 May 1997 in Pretoria, Gauteng. He was 29 years old on 30 August 2026.

Cricket South Africa lists him among the current Proteas men's group, while the ICC's 2025 World Test Championship media guide identifies him as South Africa's number 97. The age is tied to the review date so it can be refreshed without changing his permanent identity record.

What is Kyle Verreynne's role?

Verreynne is a right-handed wicketkeeper-batter. He has no regular bowling role in senior cricket, even though some franchise databases carry an off-break style field.

His value is measured through runs, catches and stumpings. A wicketkeeper's work also includes receiving, footwork and decision-making that a scorecard cannot fully capture, but this profile does not invent subjective ratings. It uses recorded dismissals and specific match evidence instead.

School and South Africa Under-19 pathway

Verreynne attended Wynberg Boys' High School and represented South Africa at the 2016 Under-19 World Cup. The ICC media guide records 158 tournament runs.

Age-group cricket belongs to his development story rather than his senior totals. It placed him in the same South African pathway as future international teammates, but Under-19 appearances do not add to his first-class, List A or international aggregates.

First-class debut at 17

Verreynne made his first-class debut for Western Province in January 2015 while still 17. He then built a domestic record strong enough to move from provincial cricket into the Cape Cobras setup and national selection.

Nottinghamshire's official profile notes that he averaged above 50 in five of his first six first-class seasons. The peak cited there was 680 runs at 97.14 in 2020-21. Those figures explain the selection case more clearly than a generic claim that he was highly rated.

The 216 not-out first-class high score

The dated first-class career table lists Verreynne's highest score as 216 not out. His July 2026 snapshot contained 7,280 runs from 120 matches at an average of 46.66, with 17 centuries and 34 fifties.

That aggregate is a dated baseline, not a live counter. Nottinghamshire played additional Championship matches later in August, so newer county performances are discussed separately rather than silently folded into a career total without a fully reconciled provider update.

ODI debut against Australia

Verreynne made his ODI debut against Australia at Paarl on 29 February 2020. He scored 48 from 64 balls in South Africa's total of 291/7, supporting Heinrich Klaasen and David Miller.

South Africa won the match by 74 runs. The innings showed the role that shaped his early ODI career: rotate the strike in the middle order, then provide acceleration around established hitters. A debut 48 is not a fifty and is kept as the exact score.

Kyle Verreynne's ODI statistics

Through February 2025, Verreynne had played 19 ODIs and scored 533 runs from 16 innings. His average was 38.07, strike rate 90.65 and highest score 95, with five fifties.

He also recorded 11 catches and one stumping. These are ODI-only figures. They sit inside his wider List A career, so the two run totals cannot be added together. His latest ODI in the reviewed record came against Pakistan in Karachi on 12 February 2025.

Test debut in the West Indies

Verreynne made his Test debut against West Indies at Gros Islet on 10 June 2021 and received South Africa Test cap 348. He entered a side still working through its long-term wicketkeeping succession.

His first five Tests did not produce a fifty. That slow start matters because his breakthrough in New Zealand was not the continuation of an easy entry; it was the innings that changed the shape of an uncertain early Test record.

Why the unbeaten 136 mattered

Verreynne scored 136 not out from 187 balls against New Zealand in Christchurch in February 2022. It was his first Test hundred and helped South Africa set a target of 426 before winning the match by 198 runs.

The innings came in his sixth Test and levelled the two-match series 1-1. He batted through the declaration and worked with the lower order, including a fast contribution from Kagiso Rabada. The 136 remains his Test high score in the reviewed 31-match record.

The 114 in Mirpur

Verreynne scored 114 from 144 balls against Bangladesh in Mirpur in October 2024. South Africa had dismissed Bangladesh for 106, and his innings lifted the visitors to 308 and a lead of 202.

ICC's account of South Africa's route to the World Test Championship Final identifies the hundred as the foundation of the victory. It was his second Test century and his first in Asia, built with the lower order after Bangladesh's spinners created pressure.

Unbeaten 105 against Sri Lanka

Verreynne made 105 not out from 133 balls against Sri Lanka at Gqeberha in December 2024. He resumed day two on 48 and carried South Africa to 358.

He reached the hundred with a six and finished with 12 fours and three sixes. The innings was another example of batting around the tail rather than chasing a personal milestone from a protected top-order position. South Africa later won the Test and the two-match series.

Fourth Test hundred against Pakistan

Verreynne completed his fourth Test century against Pakistan at Newlands in January 2025. He scored 100 as South Africa amassed 615 in the first innings.

The match is often remembered for Ryan Rickelton's 259, but Verreynne's hundred extended the total and continued a run of three Test centuries across Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan during the 2023-25 World Test Championship cycle.

Kyle Verreynne's Test statistics

The career table through South Africa's November 2025 India series records 31 Tests, 1,266 runs from 48 innings and six not-outs. His batting average was 30.14 and strike rate 55.75.

The century and fifty split was four and three, with a high score of 136 not out. These figures are stable through the last completed Test in the reviewed record. A future squad listing will not change them; only another Test appearance can do that.

Wicketkeeping record in Test cricket

Verreynne recorded 93 catches and 13 stumpings in his first 31 Tests, a total of 106 dismissals. He also took a sharp one-handed catch to remove Travis Head in the 2025 World Test Championship Final.

Catches and stumpings measure completed dismissals, not every part of keeping. They should not be added to batting appearances or treated as bowling wickets. The split also reflects conditions: stumpings depend heavily on how often the team's spin bowlers create those opportunities.

The 2023-25 World Test Championship cycle

ICC recorded 488 runs from 14 innings for Verreynne during the 2023-25 World Test Championship cycle, including three hundreds and one fifty. South Africa won seven Tests in succession to reach the final.

His role was often situational rather than volume-driven. Batting at six or seven meant joining with the ball older but the recognised batters sometimes gone. The Mirpur and Gqeberha hundreds demonstrate why aggregate runs alone do not capture the pressure or partners available.

Winning the World Test Championship

South Africa beat Australia by five wickets at Lord's on 14 June 2025 to win the World Test Championship. It was the country's first senior men's ICC title since the 1998 Champions Trophy.

Aiden Markram's 136 and Kagiso Rabada's nine wickets were the central performances. Verreynne contributed 13 in the first innings and came in near the end of the chase, joining David Bedingham after Markram fell with six runs required.

Kyle Verreynne's winning run at Lord's

Verreynne drove Mitchell Starc through the off side for the run that completed South Africa's chase of 282. He finished four not out as the team secured the title.

The final stroke is an important career moment without being inflated into the whole victory. Markram, Rabada, Temba Bavuma and the wider XI created the position. Verreynne's place in the record is exact: wicketkeeper in the winning XI and the batter who struck the decisive run.

Current South Africa status

Cricket South Africa's current Proteas men's page lists Verreynne in the national group and shows South Africa as reigning World Test Champions. His most recent completed Test in the statistical record was against India in November 2025.

Current selection still depends on each squad and playing XI. A national directory confirms that he remains in the setup; it does not guarantee an appearance in every upcoming Test or establish a permanent position regardless of form and team balance.

Nottinghamshire debut in 2024

Nottinghamshire first signed Verreynne for the closing Championship matches of 2024. He made his county debut against Surrey on 29 August and scored 50 not out in his first innings.

He finished the short spell with 248 runs across four innings while being dismissed once. An unbeaten 148 against Warwickshire completed the stint and persuaded the county to bring him back for a longer 2025 campaign.

County Championship winner in 2025

Verreynne scored exactly 500 Championship runs for Nottinghamshire in 2025 and completed 38 catches, according to the county's re-signing announcement. The club's player page records 39 total wicketkeeping victims when stumpings are included.

His six against Kent in the final match secured the batting bonus point that confirmed Nottinghamshire's seventh County Championship title. The shot was only six runs within his season total, but the competition situation gave it lasting significance.

Nottinghamshire's 2026 Championship defence

Nottinghamshire retained Verreynne for the full 2026 Championship season. The county's player page records 247 runs from ten innings in his first seven matches, including a high score of 115.

That row is an official in-season snapshot rather than a final season total. Nottinghamshire continued playing after it was posted, including the late-August fixtures against Surrey and Warwickshire. This profile therefore labels the number by its source scope instead of calling it complete.

A major 2026 One-Day Cup run

Verreynne became one of Nottinghamshire's most reliable batters in the 2026 One-Day Cup. The county profile recorded 443 runs at 88.60 from the eight group-stage matches, with five fifties.

The run included 85 against Gloucestershire in a 150-run partnership with Haseeb Hameed and another fifty against Kent. Nottinghamshire reached the knockouts after a campaign in which Verreynne repeatedly took responsibility once the top order had been disrupted.

The 105 that rescued Nottinghamshire from 1/3

Verreynne scored 105 from 123 balls against Yorkshire in the One-Day Cup quarter-final on 14 August 2026. Nottinghamshire were 1/3 while chasing 274 before he and Jack Haynes added 154.

Haynes finished unbeaten on 116 as Nottinghamshire won by three wickets. Verreynne's century was his first of that One-Day Cup campaign and converted his sixth fifty. The match belongs outside the earlier 443-run group-stage snapshot and is described separately to avoid presenting a stale tournament total as final.

Kyle Verreynne records

Kyle Verreynne career statistics and records

Batting, bowling and fielding figures are kept separate by competition and format.

Test career through November 202531matches