Bjorn Haaken David Mordt (born 29 June 1978) is a Zimbabwean cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. Mordt is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium pace

Seam bowling

Seam bowling is a phrase used for a bowling technique in cricket whereby the ball is deliberately bowled on to its seam, to cause a random deviation. Practitioners are known as seam bowlers or seamers....

. He was born at Mutare

Mutare

Mutare is the fourth largest city in Zimbabwe, with a population of around 170,000. It is the capital of Manicaland province.-History:...

, Manicaland Province.

Mordt joined English

England

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 county Berkshire

Berkshire County Cricket Club

Berkshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Berkshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy....

 in 2003, making his debut for the county in that seasons Minor Counties Championship against Shropshire

Shropshire County Cricket Club

Shropshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Shropshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...

. To date he has made 46 Minor Counties Championship appearances and 29 MCCA Knockout Trophy

MCCA Knockout Trophy

The Minor Counties Cricket Association Knockout Cup was started in 1983 as a knockout one-day competition for the Minor Counties in English cricket...

 appearances. When Berkshire were permitted to take part in the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy alongside the first-class

First-class cricket

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 counties, Bjorn made two List A appearances in that competition. The first of these came against Kent

Kent County Cricket Club

Kent County Cricket Club is one of the 18 first class county county cricket clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the county of Kent...

 in the 2004 competition

2004 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy

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, with him scoring a single run before he was dismissed by Martin Saggers

Martin Saggers

Martin John Saggers is a retired English cricketer, who spent the majority of his career at Kent. He had little success in his three seasons with Durham between 1996 and 1998, but then joined Kent and from 2000 to 2003 passed 50 first-class wickets each year, his best being 83 in 2002...

 in a match which Kent won by 9 wickets. The second of these came against Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Gloucestershire. Its limited overs team is called the Gloucestershire Gladiators....

 in the 2005 competition

2005 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy

The 2005 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy was the 4th Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy, an English county cricket tournament, held between 3 May and 3 September 2005. The competition was contested by all 18 first-class counties, as well as 10 minor counties and the national teams of Scotland, Ireland,...

, with Mordt top scoring with 43 runs before be was dismissed by Martyn Ball

Martyn Ball

Martyn Charles John Ball is an English former cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler. He spent his 19 year career at Gloucestershire....

, with Gloucestershire winning by 85 runs. He has captained

Captain (cricket)

The captain of a cricket team often referred to as the skipper is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player...

 Berkshire since 2007, which included leading them to the Minor Counties Championship in 2008.

External links

• Bjorn Mordt at ESPNcricinfo
• Bjorn Mordt at CricketArchive
  CricketArchive
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