Vintcent Adriaan Pieter van der Bijl (born 19 March 1949) is a retired South African cricketer.
He was born in Rondebosch, Cape Town, where his father, Pieter van der Bijl, was headmaster of the Diocesan College Preparatory School after retiring from playing first-class cricket for Western Province and South Africa.
[2] He was educated at the Diocesan College Rondebosch, where he not only excelled at cricket, but, owing to his size and strength, was a useful rugby union player and outstanding shot putter and at the University of Natal.
[3] After graduating, he became a teacher at Maritzburg College in Pietermaritzburg and played first-class cricket as an amateur for Natal from 1968/69 to 1979/80.
[4] Middlesex won the County Championship and the Gillette Cup, and he was named one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1981.