Pieter van der Bijl, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetPieter van der Bijl
South African cricketer
Date of Birth: 21-Oct-1907
Date of Death: 16-Feb-1973
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: South Africa
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Pieter van der Bijl
- Pieter Gerhard Vintcent van der Bijl (21 October 1907 in Kenilworth, South Africa – 16 February 1973 in Kalk Bay, Cape Province) was a South African cricketer who played in 5 Tests in 1938–39.
- His son, Vintcent, also had a successful first-class cricket career. The son of one Western Province cricketer and the nephew of another, Pieter van der Bijl was educated at Diocesan College, Rondebosch, Cape Town, and was then a Rhodes Scholar at Brasenose College, Oxford University from 1928.
- A newspaper report in 1930 said that van der Bijl was "reputed to be the tallest man in Oxford".
- In many reports then and later, his surname was spelled "van der Byl".
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