Nine of the best as Kleinveldt and Levi deliver big performances

They don’t look like the fittest cricketers going around but Rory Kleinveldt and Richard Levi delivered big performances for English county Northamptonshire this week.

Kleinveldt, who played four Tests for the Proteas, wrote himself into the record books with an incredible spell of 9/65 in his team’s County Championship game against Nottinghamshire.

The 34-year-old has been a brilliant servant for Northants over the past few seasons.

Kleinveldt’s heroics gave Northants the chance to close out a vital win at Wantage Road in a game they have to win to keep their County Championship Second Division promotion hopes alive.

Then it was the turn of burly Richard Levi to show his worth.

He smashed a second-innings 115 off just 104 balls as Notts were set 314 to win before Kleinveldt extended his haul to 11 wickets in the match as the visitors closed day two on 33 for two.

He now has 11 for the match and there’s the prospect of even more!

In between, Levi played an innings totally at odds with the rest of the game.

On a difficult batting track, his attacking mindset was brilliantly executed.