Commonly Asked Questions

Which team in the IPL is Donovan Ferreira in?

Donovan Ferreira is in the Delhi Capitals team for the 2025 IPL.

What is the bowling style of Donovan Ferreira?

Right arm off spin.

What is the primary role of Donovan Ferreira in the South African cricket team?

His primary role is that of a middle-order batter who also keeps wickets. He is known for a right-arm off-break bowling style.

What is his highest score in T20 international cricket?

His highest Score in the T20 international cricket is 48, which he made against Australia.

What is his T20 international career strike rate?

His T20 international career strike rate is 177.03.

For which domestic team did Donovan Ferreira play for when he made his T20 debut?

He made his T20 debut for Northerns in the 2018 Africa T20 Cup.

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Donovan Ferreira

Donovan Ferreira is an emerging South African international cricketer who made his international cricket debut in 2023 against Australia. He is mainly known as a right-hand middle-order batter with an aggressive, explosive batting style.

Personal Details

Donovan Ferreira Net Worth	INR 6 Crore
Full name	Donovan Ferreira
Date of Birth	21st July 1998
Age	27 (as of 2025)
Birth Place	Pretoria, South Africa
National side	South Africa
Role	Middle order batter
Batting style	Right handed
Bowling style	Right arm off break
Height	1.80 meters
Jersey number (domestic and international)	17
Jersey number (Indian Premier League)	17

Education and Early life

Donovan Ferreira was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and attended the Pretoria Boys’ High School. His cricket career journey began while playing school cricket. There, he gained recognition for his talent with both Ball and bat. He graduated from the University of Pretoria.

Net Worth of Donovan Ferreira

Donovan Ferreira has a huge net worth of approximately 6 crores in Indian rupees INR, as of reports in 2025.
In early 2024, he was bought by the Joburg Super Kings for USD $294,000.
In 2024, he was retained by the Rajasthan Royals for INR 50 lakhs.
In 25, he was bought by Delhi Capitals for INR Rs 75 lakhs.

Domestic cricket career of Donovan Ferreira

His journey in cricket began with his debut in many formats like

T20 debut: He made his T20 debut on 14th September, 2018, for Northerns in the 2018 Africa T20 Cup (it was the fourth and final edition of the Africa T20 Cup, which was a Twenty20 tournament). He has been playing for the Northerns from the 2018/19 session to present.
List A Debut: He made his List A debut for Northerns in the 2019-20 CSA Provincial One Day Challenge ( it was a domestic one-day cricket match, which was held in South Africa, from October to March) on 19th October, 2019.
First Class Debut: On 22nd February, 2021, he made his first-class debut in the 2020-21 CSA 3-day provincial Cup, for the Easterns.

Overall, he had played 13 first-class matches (with a batting average of 47.00),

22 List A (LA) matches ( with a batting average of 38.88), and 123 Twenty20 matches (with a batting average of 28.97).

He has also played for some major South African Domestic cricket teams like the Titans and the Tshwane Spartans.

He played for the Titans, in the 2020-21 CSA T20 challenge, he made 166 balls in only six innings, with his aggressive batting style. In the next session, he made 209 runs in the CSA One Day Cup. He was a part of the Titans team, which won the CSA T20 Challenge in the 2022-23 season.

Domestic Teams

The domestic cricket teams he had played for are:

Northerns: He has been playing for the Northerns from the 2018/19 session to present.
Tshwane Spartans: He has been playing for the Tshwane Spartans from the 2018/19 session.
Easterns: He has been playing for them from the 2020/21 session.
Joburg Super Kings: He has been playing for them from the 2022/23 session. In the inaugural SA20 in 2023, he made a score 82* off 40 balls. He was awarded the player of the match.
Barbados Royals: He has been playing for them from the 2023 session.
Rajasthan Royals: He has been playing for them from the 2024 session. In the 2023 auction, he was bought by the Rajasthan Royals and was retained there for the 2024 season. After that, the Delhi Capitals bought him in the 2025 IPL auction.
Yorkshire: He has been playing for them since the 2024 session.
Oval Invincibles: He has been playing for them from the 2024 session to the present.
Delhi Capitals: He has been playing for them from the 2025 session to the present.

Texas Super Kings: He has been playing for them since the 2025 session.

International Cricket Career

He mainly plays as a middle-order batter, who also keeps wickets.
He made his international cricket Debut against Australia, on 3rd September 2023, in a T20 international ( as part of the Australia tour of South Africa).
He made his highest T20 international Score of 48 runs off 21 balls in that series.
As of 2025, he has played 9 T20 international matches, made a score of 131 runs, with a batting average of 18.71, and a strike Rate of 177.03.
He was named in the South Africa Twenty20 International squad to tour England in August 2025.
He was the stand-in South African captain in a T20 match on 11th October 2025, against Namibia.
In his T20 international career, he has bowled 33 balls across 9 matches and has taken 5 wickets.

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