Sunrisers Hyderabad Overseas
Heinrich Klaasen
Wicketkeeper · Right-hand bat
South Africa · Age 34 · No. 29
The numbers
Career record
56
Matches
1820
Runs
40.4
Average
174.0
Strike rate
11
Fifties
1
Hundreds
104
High score
Form
Last ten innings
The form trajectory across the most recent appearances.
Steady
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Player intelligence
The read on his game
AI-generated analysis, grounded in his career numbers and role.
Heinrich averages 40.4 at a strike rate of 174, a profile built for tempo rather than highlight reels.
Strengths
- A genuine finisher: the strike rate climbs, not dips, in the death overs.
- Manipulates the strike better than the raw strike rate suggests.
- Exceptional square of the wicket, the cut and the pull are run-scoring shots, not survival ones.
Ways to get at him
- Can be tied down early by disciplined seam in the channel outside off.
- The well-directed short ball is still a way back into a spell against him.
Pressure performance
84
Scoring zones
Venue performance
Returns home to Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, where the average first-innings score is 184.