Personal Life
Dernbach was born in Johannesburg, South Africa to a South-African father and an Italian mother and subsequently currently possesses an Italian passport. He moved with his family to England in 2000 when he was 14. In South Africa, his preferred sport was Rugby Union, but he began to develop as a cricketer in England. After bowling at an under-15s net session at Surrey, he quickly moved through the age groups.
Although born in South Africa, after his first call-up to the England squad, he stated that "I don't owe anything to South Africa. I was just born there, did a bit of schooling there, my whole cricket career has been based in the UK, and UK is my home. I want to give everything I can to England cricket, that's the country I love and that's the country that has given me everything I have now."
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