sibling rivalry inspires rubin hermann to lofty heights with royals

Sibling Rivalry Inspires Rubin Hermann To Lofty Heights With Royals

Rubin Hermann had to sit on the sidelines and watch his younger brother Jordan rip up SA20 for the first two seasons.

For any that must have been difficult waiting in the wings, especially with Jordan going on to be crowned a SA20 champion two years in a row with the Sunrisers Eastern Cape whilst being hailed as the next big thing in South African cricket by none other than Proteas legend AB de Villiers.

Instead of moping around feeling sorry for himself, Rubin knew the only way for him to gain entry into the SA20 was by banging the door down domestically. And thats exactly what he did by smashing 436 runs at an average of 39.63 for the North West Dragons in the CSA T20 Challenge.

It placed Rubin fourth on the national run-scorers list even though he played a couple of games less than his contemporaries Matthew Breetzke, Ryan Rickelton and Reeza Hendricks. It was almost 100 runs more than Jordans 349.

Rubin was now in exalted company and even boasted the highest strike rate of 145.33 for all the batters that had passed 400 runs in the competition.