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11 wickets highlight Piedt’s dream return

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“I’M done trying to impress people!”

That’s Dane Piedt’s stance on life right now. Not just cricket. But his entire mantra, which has seen the 33-year-old make the journey all the way from North Carolina in the US to return to Bloemfontein, of all places.

If anyone is mistaking the comment above for a new-found American brashness though, they surely were not well-acquainted with the Cape Town-born off-spinner before he packed his bags for the US three years

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