Andre van Troost
Adrianus Petrus van Troost is a Dutch businessman and former cricketer.
A right-arm fast bowler, van Troost represented his nation at the ICC Trophy level between 1990 and 1997, taking thirteen wickets in nine matches at a bowling average of 17.38.
Playing career
Van Troost played for Somerset in English county cricket and Griqualand West in South African provincial cricket.He took 3/27 for the Netherlands in their surprise victory against the West Indies in a limited-over match in 1991, his wickets including Richie Richardson and Jeff Dujon.
Van Troost was an aggressive bowler: in 1995, whilst playing for Somerset, he bowled a bouncer to West Indies batsman Jimmy Adams, which resulted in Adams being hospitalised with a fractured cheekbone. Just a week later, umpire Barry Dudleston ordered him out of the bowling attack for intimidatory bowling in a match against Kent. On Test Match Special on 30 June 2010, Mark Butcher stated that at The Oval in around 1995 van Troost had bowled the fastest spell of bowling he had ever faced, describing the express Pakistani pace bowler Waqar Younis as looking like "a medium pace bowler by comparison".