Mark Boucher

Mark Boucher
Boucher playing his last game for South Africa against Somerset in July 2012
Personal information
Full name
Mark Verdon Boucher
Born (1976-12-03) 3 December 1976
East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Height5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight arm medium
RoleWicket-keeper-batsman
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 267)17 October 1997 v Pakistan
Last Test3 January 2012 v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 46)16 January 1998 v New Zealand
Last ODI28 October 2011 v Australia
ODI shirt no.9
T20I debut (cap 2)21 October 2005 v New Zealand
Last T20I10 May 2010 v Pakistan
T20I shirt no.9
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1995/96–2002/03Border
2004/05–2012Warriors
2008–2010Royal Challengers Bangalore
2011Kolkata Knight Riders
Head coaching information
YearsTeam
2019—2022South Africa
2023—2024Mumbai Indians
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 147 295 212 365
Runs scored 5,515 4,686 8,803 6,218
Batting average 30.30 28.57 33.34 28.19
100s/50s 5/35 1/26 10/53 2/35
Top score 125 147* 134 147*
Balls bowled 8 32
Wickets 1 1
Bowling average 6.00 26.00
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 1/6 1/6
Catches/stumpings 532/23 403/22 712/37 484/31
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 10 September 2017
Medal record
Representing  South Africa
Men's Cricket
Commonwealth Games
1998 Kuala LumpurList-A cricket

Mark Verdon Boucher (born 3 December 1976) is a South African cricket coach and former cricketer who played all three formats of the game. Boucher is regarded as one of the best wicket-keeper batsmen of all time, and holds the record for the most Test dismissals by a wicket-keeper, with 532 catches and 555 total dismissals. Boucher was a member of the South Africa team that won the 1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy, the only time the country had won an ICC trophy until the 2025 World Test Championship final.

He has represented Border, Warriors, South Africa, Africa XI, ICC World XI and Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League.

He had been a regular feature of the South African side since the 1997/1998 tour to Australia, until his retirement from international cricket in July 2012 after a serious eye injury against Somerset.

In 2021, during the Cricket South Africa's (CSA) Social Justice and Nation Building (SJN) transformation public hearings, Paul Adams claimed under oath that Mark Boucher and other teammates racially abused him by calling him a "brown shit" in a team song.