[1] He scored his maiden first-class century in 1997, batting alongside his twin-brother Ettiene de Bruyn for Northerns B.
[3] He played cricket in England in 2003, appearing for Norfolk in a one-day match in the 1st round of the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy against Lincolnshire.
[6] He played a total of 91 first-class matches, scoring 4,637 runs at an average of 37.09, while with his right-arm fast-medium bowling he took 108 wickets at 29.85 apiece.
[8] With Leicestershire bottom of the County Championship in 2017 and with unresolvable dressing room tensions, de Bruyn quit as head coach with immediate effect in September 2017,[9] with Graeme Welch and John Sadler replacing him in the interim.
[10] In December 2018, he was appointed as head coach of the Namibia national cricket team, replacing Dee Thakur.