Cricketers XI with their birthday on 24th November

#3 Neil McKenzie

Neil McKenzie was involved in a world record opening stand of 415 runs with Graeme Smith in a Test match

Neil McKenzie was a formidable South African middle-order batsman who made his presence felt in the early 2000s. The right-hand batsman was born on this day back in 1975 in Johannesburg. In a career that, more or less, prevailed over the uncertainty of his spot in the national team, McKenzie came up with a couple of defining knocks in Tests. He was involved in a world record opening stand of 415 with his captain Graeme Smith in a Test match against Bangladesh in 2008.

However, the batsman couldn't hold on to his spot following the emergence of some of the youngsters and eventually retired in January 2016. He scored 3523 runs in 58 Test that he played for the national team with a high score of 226. He was decent in ODIs as well scoring 1688 runs in 64 matches at an average close to 37.