Wayne Lee Madsen is a South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

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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 and current Kolpak

Kolpak

The Kolpak ruling is a European Court of Justice ruling handed down on May 8, 2003 in favour of Maroš Kolpak, a Slovak handball player. It declared that citizens of certain countries which have signed agreements with the European Union, have the same right to freedom of work and movement within the...

 player for Derbyshire County Cricket Club

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...

. Hailing from a strong cricketing family, with uncles Michael Brian Madsen, Henry Fotheringham

Henry Fotheringham

Henry Richard Fotheringham was a South African cricketer from 1971/72 to 1989/90 during the country's apartheid ban. A right-handed opening batsman, Fotheringham scored 8814 first class runs at 40.06 with 21 hundreds....

 and Trevor Madsen, and cousin Greg Fotheringham all playing first class cricket in South Africa, Madsen made his debut in 2003 for KwaZulu-Natal cricket team. In August 2009 he signed his contract with Derbyshire, following a strong run of form with two centuries in four games. Despite being offered a professional contract at Derbyshire, Wayne more notably played for Unsworth CC.

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