Career
He was included in the Northerns cricket team squad for the 2015 Africa T20 Cup. Shukri Conrad, South Africa"s National Academy coach believes that Klaasen could become South Africa"s equivalent of Mississippi Dhoni. In September 2015, he said, "Heinrich stays very calm in the situation.
He stays in the moment.
There’s very much a ‘poor man’s Mississippi Dhoni’ about him. There are really no sideshows to his game and really takes the game to the opposition.
He doesn’t wait for the game to come to him and that is what I like most about him.