Glamorgan County Cricket Club has signed South African opening batsman Jacques Rudolph as its overseas player for the 2014 and 2015 seasons subject to receiving clearance from Cricket South Africa.
Rudolph is a highly experienced top-order batsman having played in 48 Tests and 45 One-Day Internationals for South Africa amassing over 16,000 runs and scored 46 centuries during his first-class career. He has also been a proven performer in county cricket, chiefly with Yorkshire for whom he scored 5,429 first-class runs at an average of 52.20.
On his Test Match debut, Rudolph scored 222 not out and shared an unbroken stand of 429 with Boeta Dippenaar for South Africa's third wicket against Bangladesh. This is the highest partnership in Test cricket to involve a debutant.
As well as his proven calibre at domestic and international level, Jacques will also add great experience at the top of Glamorgan's batting order.
Hugh Morris who will join Glamorgan as Chief Executive and Director of Cricket said: "Signing a player of Jacques Rudolph's undoubted capabilities and experience is a great boost ahead of the new season.
"With an increasingly heavy first-class schedule it will be a huge advantage to have a world-class opening batsman available to us. I look forward to welcoming Jacques to Glamorgan."
Jacques Rudolph who is currently playing Champions League cricket in India for the Titans said, "I'm delighted to be joining Glamorgan on a two-year deal.
"I enjoyed my time playing for Yorkshire so I'm looking forward to the challenge at Glamorgan and hopefully enjoying similar success. "
