Lloyd Ferreira

{{short description|South African cricketer}}

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{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Lloyd Ferreira

| image =

| country = South Africa

| fullname = Lloyd Douglas Ferreira

| nickname =

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|5|6|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Johannesburg, Transvaal Province, South Africa

| heightft =

| heightinch =

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Left-arm medium

| club1 = Dorset

| year1 = 1998

| clubnumber1 =

| club2 = Western Province B

| year2 = 1997/98–1998/99

| clubnumber2 =

| club3 = Western Province

| year3 = 1997/98–2003/04

| clubnumber3 =

| club4 = Boland

| year4 = 1993/94–1996/97

| clubnumber4 =

| columns = 2

| column1 = FC

| matches1 = 67

| runs1 = 3,088

| bat avg1 = 28.24

| 100s/50s1 = 7/12

| top score1 = 201

| deliveries1 = 126

| wickets1 = 1

| bowl avg1 = 80.00

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = 1/25

| catches/stumpings1 = 35/–

| column2 = LA

| matches2 = 81

| runs2 = 2,147

| bat avg2 = 29.27

| 100s/50s2 = 3/13

| top score2 = 134

| deliveries2 = 24

| wickets2 = 1

| bowl avg2 = 8.00

| fivefor2 = –

| tenfor2 = –

| best bowling2 = 1/8

| catches/stumpings2 = 23/–

| date = 31 May

| year = 2010

| source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/45046.html Cricinfo

}}

Lloyd Douglas Ferreira (born 6 May 1974) is a former South African cricketer. Ferreira was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm medium pace bowler.

Ferreira made his first-class debut for Boland in the 1993–94 season against the touring Australians.[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3991/First-Class_Matches.html First-Class Matches played by Lloyd Ferreira] Ferreira would go on to represent the team 25 times in first-class matches from 1993–94 to 1996–97, where he would score 958 runs at a batting average of 19.55, with 26 half centuries and a single century high score of 127.[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3991/f_Batting_by_Team.html First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Lloyd Ferreira]

Ferreira made his List-A debut for Boland against Orange Free State in the 1994–95 Benson and Hedges Series. During his time with Boland, he represented the team in 35 List-A matches from 1994–95 to 1996–97, where he scored 1,141 runs at an average of 33.55. He made 2 centuries and 7 half centuries and made a high score of 125*.[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3991/a_Batting_by_Team.html List-A Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Lloyd Ferreira]

With the departure of West Indian Desmond Haynes, the call-up of Gary Kirsten to the South African team and the inevitable call-up of Herschelle Gibbs, Western Province were in need of a new opening batsman. Ferreira was signed by the province for the 1997–98 season, where he made his first-class debut for the province against Free State. During his time with Western Province, Ferreira played 4 first-class matches for the Western Province B team. For the main team, he played 38 matches during which he scored 1,930 runs at an average of 32.16, with 5 centuries and 8 half centuries. He also made his highest first-class score for the province, 201 against North West in 2001.[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/71/71724.html North West v Western Province, SuperSport Series 2000/01 (Super Eight)] He played his final first-class match for the province against KwaZulu-Natal in the 2003–04 SuperSport Series.

Ferreira also played List-A cricket for Western Province, making his one-day debut against Griqualand West in the 1997–98 Standard Bank League. He played 45 one-day matches for the province, scoring 999 runs at an average of 24.97, with a 6 half centuries and a single century score of 134. His final one-day match for the province came against Easterns in the 2003–04 Standard Bank Cup.

In 1998 he represented Dorset in England, in the 1998 NatWest Trophy against Hampshire. Ferreira scored 7 runs, before being dismissed by Nixon McLean in what his only appearance for the English county.[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/66/66026.html Dorset v Hampshire, National Westminster Bank Trophy 1998 (1st Round)] In 1999, he played 4 matches for Rawtenstall Cricket Club in the Lancashire League.[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3991/Lancashire_League_Matches.html Lancashire League Matches played by Lloyd Ferreira]