CHOOSING HIS TIME

When a cricketer leaves the game at 25, history suggests that they don’t do so on their own terms… not so for Dale Deeb. By the time Dale Deeb had turned 25, his cricket CV was quite impressive. During high school at Trinityhouse in Randburg, he made SA Schools teams two years in a row, the highlight being captaining the 2008 side that included Temba Bavuma and Titans players Graeme van Buuren and Mangaliso Mosehle. After school, the spinning all-rounder represented SA Under-19 against England in 2009 before earning his breakthrough at the Highveld Lions via provincial cricket for Gauteng and North West. As has become popular with local cricketers, he’d also done a stint playing club cricket in the...