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  Nationality Zimbabwean
  Country Zimbabwe
  Country Abbrev Zim
  Name Eddo Brandes
  Picture Cricket_no_picpng
  Batting Style Right-hand bat
  Bowling Style Right-arm fast-medium
  Balls true
  Tests 10
  Test Runs 121
  Test Bat Avg 1008
  Test 100s/50s -/-
  Test Top Score 39
  Test Overs 1996
  Test Wickets 26
  Test Bowl Avg 3657
  Test 5s -
  Test 10s -
  Test Best Bowling 3/45
  Test Catches/stumpings 4/-
  ODIs 59
  ODI Runs 404
  ODI Bat Avg 1303
  ODI 100s/50s -/2
  ODI Top Score 55
  ODI Overs 2828
  ODI Wickets 70
  ODI Bowl Avg 3237
  ODI 5s 2
  ODI 10s -
  ODI Best Bowling 5/28
  ODI Catches/stumpings 11/-
  Date 9 February
  Year 2006


Eddo André Brandes (born March 5 , 1963 , Port Shepstone, KwaZulu-Natal , South Africa ) is a former Zimbabwe an Cricket er who played in 10 Tests and 59 ODI s from 1987 to 1999.

He took a ran a headline proclaiming "Clucking useless!; England lose to chicken farmer" to mark the occasion, making Eddo Brandes perhaps the most famous chicken-farmer to ever play cricket.

In an (in)famous incident Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath remarked after Brandes had just hit him for two fours "Hey Eddo, why are you so fucking fat?", to which Brandes is reputed to have replied "Because everytime I fuck your wife, she gives me a biscuit".