David Bedingham

thumb|David Bedingham David Guy Bedingham (born 22 April 1994) is a South African cricketer. He holds United Kingdom ancestry visa and qualified for English county cricket as a local player. Bedingham was a member of the South African team which won the 2025 ICC World Test Championship final, the second ICC title the country has won till date. Quotes I hate doing interviews I'm just keen to focus on scoring runs wherever I play and hopefully through that, I can crack it at Test cricket at some stage. That's always been the plan. They [the selectors] never spoke to me directly, but I didn't expect them to. It's completely up to them. If they were keen to pick me, perfect, but if not… I don't expect any favours. If they want to go a different route, then that's perfect too. I was hearing lots of things in the media and from friends saying 'you turned down playing Test cricket', that type of stuff. That just wasn't true. The plan all along was to get a passport - not just for cricket, but for after as well. Me and my missus like staying in Newcastle and in England, so we see it as a long-term plan to live here. It's about opportunity, it's about uncertainty - same old, same old. It's high time that CSA sits down and looks at things a little bit closer… face it, confront the brutal facts. I really enjoy playing cricket here [in the UK] so my main thing is to play for Durham, do my days and qualify as a local If I score runs for three years consistently, hopefully there's a gig somewhere,I don't want to cause any drama. If I score runs and play for whoever I play for, that's fine. I just want to score runs and do as well as I can. I really enjoy playing cricket here so my main thing is to play for Durham, do my days and eventually qualify as a local If it works out and I'm still playing well, then perfect. If not, I still really enjoy playing county cricket. If that's the peak for me, that's the peak, but hopefully I can kick on because the main thing for me is to one day play Test cricket and see if I can cope or not. It's tough to compare [domestic cricket in England and South Africa] because over there the wickets are completely different and so are the bowlers . Over here, it's more mental. You play so much cricket and because the ball moves, if you go through a couple of low scores it can affect you mentally . Whereas there, you train a lot more than you play. If you have a part of your game that you don't really trust, you can work on it for two weeks until your next game I think sport is changing a bit in terms of age; it feels like if you're scoring runs now, you're scoring runs. [Jonathan] Trott came in quite late, [Michael] Hussey came in late. If I can give it a go for six years or so and hopefully score loads of hundreds, I'll look at my career and say I tried my best and did okay David Bedingham: 'The main thing for me is to play Test cricket and see if I can cope or not',Feb 2022, Cricinfo by Matt Roller I’m still South African so I’d like to play for South Africa. They just have different conditions and different balls. I feel like when England comes over to play SA they pick different bowlers to what they would pick if they played at home, It’s tough to compare, but they both have high standards. They’re just different. I enjoy playing in SA and on those harder wickets a bit more. But in saying that the last three wickets I’ve played on – especially against Notts [in the County Championship] – have been quick and bouncy. It just depends on which venues in the country you play. But you just have to score the runs, whether you’re in England or SA – so it doesn’t matter [too much]. “I’m still South African, so I’d like to play for SA” | David Bedingham Exclusive Interview, April 2022,Cricket Fanatics Magazine by Staff I’m very proud [to represent South Africa] but in saying that, it was a long process and I have a lot of people to thank,Two or three years ago I didn’t think I’d be playing for SA. When I was in hospital I wasn’t thinking about cricket, I was thinking about walking straight and getting my studies done and working a normal job. It gave me the perspective of ‘life is a lot bigger than cricket When I started playing cricket again – because I had that outlook on life and cricket – I put less pressure on myself and things just started to happen. When I was here [in South Africa] I used to score runs only on flat pitches, but when I came back from Durham and played here I felt I could score runs in different conditions. The conditions are very different there,The wickets are a lot slower, the bowlers are a bit more skilful but probably slower. Life’s a lot bigger than cricket’ — David Bedingham on accident that changed his perspective,March 2024, DM, by Keanan Hemmonsbey External Links Category:Cricketers from South Africa Category:1994 births Category:Living people