National cricket team of South Africa
South Africa
South Africa Cricket's coat of arms
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Nickname(s)
| Proteas
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Association
| Cricket South Africa
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Test captain
| Temba Bavuma
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One Day captain
| Temba Bavuma
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T20I captain
| Aiden Markram
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Coach
| Shukri Conrad
(Test)
Rob Walter
(ODI & T20)
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ICC status
| Full member (1909)
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ICC region
| Africa Cricket Association
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ICC Rankings
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Current
[1]
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Best-ever
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Test
|
4th
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1st
(1 January 1969)
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ODI
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3rd
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1st
(1 May 1996)
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T20I
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6th
|
1st
(8 August 2012)
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First Test
| v
England
at
St George's Park
,
Port Elizabeth
, 12?13 March 1889
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Last Test
| v
New Zealand
at
Bay Oval
,
Mount Maunganui
; 13?16 February 2024
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Tests
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Played
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Won/Lost
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Total
[2]
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464
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178/161
(125 draws)
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This year
[3]
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3
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0/3 (0 draws)
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World Test Championship
appearances
| 2 (
first in
2019?2021
)
|
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Best result
| 3rd place (
2021?2023
)
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First ODI
| v
India
at
Eden Gardens
,
Kolkata
; 10 November 1991
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Last ODI
| v
India
at
Boland Park
,
Paarl
; 21 December 2023
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ODIs
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Played
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Won/Lost
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Total
[4]
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672
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410/235
(6 ties, 21 no results)
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This year
[5]
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0
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0/0
(0 ties, 0 no results)
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World Cup
appearances
| 8 (
first in
1992
)
|
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Best result
| Semi-finalist (
1992
,
1999
,
2007
,
2015
,
2023
)
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First T20I
| v
New Zealand
at
Wanderers Stadium
,
Johannesburg
; 21 October 2005
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Last T20I
| v
Bangladesh
at
Nassau County International Cricket Stadium
,
East Meadow
; 10 June 2024
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T20Is
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Played
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Won/Lost
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Total
[6]
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179
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99/76
(1 ties, 3 no results)
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This year
[7]
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6
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3/3
(0 ties, 0 no results)
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T20 World Cup
appearances
| 8 (
first in
2007
)
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Best result
| Semi-finalist (
2009
,
2014
)
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Official website
| https://cricket.co.za/
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As of 10 June 2024
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The
South Africa men's national cricket team
, also known as
the Proteas
, represents
South Africa
in men's
international cricket
and is administered by
Cricket South Africa
(CSA). South Africa is a full member of the
International Cricket Council
(ICC). Its nickname derives from South Africa's
national flower
,
Protea cynaroides
, commonly known as the "King Protea".
South Africa entered
first-class
and international cricket at the same time when they hosted an
England cricket team
in the 1888?89 season. Initially, the team was no match for
Australia
or
England
but, having gained experience and expertise, they were able to field a competitive team by the first decade of the 20th century. The team regularly played against Australia, England and
New Zealand
through to the 1960s, by which time there was considerable opposition to the country's
apartheid
policy. The ICC imposed an international ban on the team, commensurate with actions taken by other global sporting bodies. When the ban was imposed, South Africa had developed to a point where its team was arguably the best in the world, and even out-played Australia.
The ban remained in place until 1991, after which South Africa played against
India
,
Pakistan
,
Sri Lanka
and the
West Indies
for the first time. The team has been strong since its reinstatement, and has at several times held the number-one positions in international rankings. South Africa is also one of the most successful teams in ODI cricket, winning more than 61 per cent of their matches.
[8]
However, the
1998 Champions Trophy
is its sole success in ICC-organised tournaments. South Africa won the gold medal at the
Commonwealth Games
in
1998
.
[9]
As of November 2023, team is currently ranked 3rd in ODIs, 4th in T20Is and 4th in Tests.
[10]
History
[
edit
]
Beginnings and early developments
[
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]
European colonisation of southern Africa began on Tuesday, 6 April 1652 when the
Dutch East India Company
established a settlement called the
Cape Colony
on
Table Bay
, near present-day
Cape Town
, and continued to expand into the hinterland through the 17th and 18th centuries. It was founded as a victualling station for the Dutch East Indies trade route but soon acquired an importance of its own due to its good farmland and mineral wealth. There was virtually no British interest in South Africa until 1795 when troops under General Sir
James Henry Craig
seized Cape Colony during the
French Revolutionary War
, the Netherlands having been occupied by French forces the same year. After the British seized Cape Colony a second time in 1806 to counteract French interests in the region in the course of the
Napoleonic Wars
, Cape Colony was turned into a permanent British settlement. As in most other parts of the world, British colonisation brought in its wake the introduction of the game of
cricket
, which began to develop rapidly. The first-ever recorded cricket match in South Africa took place in 1808, in Cape Town between two service teams for a prize of one thousand rix-dollars.
[11]
The oldest cricket club in South Africa is the Port Elizabeth Cricket Club, founded in 1843. In 1862, an annual fixture "Mother Country v Colonial Born" was staged for the first time in Cape Town. By the late 1840s, the game had spread from its early roots in Cape Colony and permeated the
Afrikaners
in the territories of
Orange Free State
and
Transvaal
, who were descendants of the original Dutch settlers and were not considered naturally a cricket-playing people. In 1876, Port Elizabeth presented the "Champion Bat" for competition between South African towns. The first tournament was staged in
Port Elizabeth
. King William's Town Cricket Club won the tournament in 1876 and the following year, in 1877, too.
[11]
In 1888,
Sir Donald Currie
sponsored the first
English team
to tour South Africa. It was managed by
Major R. G. Warton
and captained by future Hollywood actor
C. Aubrey Smith
. The tour marked the advent, retrospectively, of both
first-class
and
Test cricket
in South Africa. Currie donated the
Currie Cup
(originally called the Kimberley Cup) that became the trophy, first won by
Transvaal
in 1889?90, for a national championship of the provincial teams in South Africa.
[11]
Early Test history
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In 1889, South Africa became the third test-playing nation when it played against England at Port Elizabeth,
[12]
captained by
Owen Robert Dunell
.
[13]
Soon after, a 2nd test was played at Cape Town. However, these two matches, as was the case with all early matches involving the erstwhile 'South African XI' against all touring teams, did not receive the status of official 'Test' matches until South Africa formed the
Imperial Cricket Conference
with England and Australia in 1906. Neither did the touring English team organised by Major Warton even claim to be representing the
English cricket team
; the matches were marketed as 'Major Warton's XI' v/s 'South African XI' instead. Even the players who participated did not know that they had played international cricket, and the side that played South Africa was regarded to be of weak county strength. The team was captained by
C. Aubrey Smith
, a decent medium pacer from
Sussex
, and for two of the Major Warton's XI,
Basil Grieve
and
The Honourable Charles Coventry
, the two Tests constituted their entire first-class career. Even so, the nascent, fledgling 'South African XI' was very weak, losing both tests comfortably to England, English spinner
Johnny Briggs
claiming 15?28 in the second Test at Cape Town.
[14]
However,
Albert Rose-Innes
did make history by becoming the first South African bowler to take a five-wicket haul in Tests at Port Elizabeth.
South Africa's early Test record remains the worst among all current Test-playing nations with ten defeats and just a solitary draw from their first eleven tests,
[15]
and it was not until 1904 that they began to emerge as a quality international team. They recorded their first Test win against England in 1906, which took them 17 years. The low point of this barren early period for the South African team was an
English tour of 1895?96
, where South Africa was humiliated 3?0 in 3 Tests by an English side for the first time remotely comparable to a full-strength team, losing all the tests by 288 runs,
[16]
an innings and 197 runs,
[17]
and by an innings and 32 runs
[18]
respectively. The touring English team, arranged by
Lord Hawke
, included four of the best cricketers of the world at the time:
Tom Hayward
,
C.B. Fry
,
George Lohmann
and
Sammy Woods
.
Emergence as a quality international team
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In the early 1900s, the first world-class South African cricket team emerged, comprising stars such
Bonnor Middleton
,
Jimmy Sinclair
,
Charlie Llewellyn
,
Dave Nourse
,
Louis Tancred
,
Aubrey Faulkner
,
Reggie Schwarz
,
Percy Sherwell
,
Tip Snooke
,
Bert Vogler
, and
Gordon White
, players who were capable of giving any international teams a run for their money. In addition to possessing batsmen such as Sinclair (the batsman with the highest
strike rate
in Test history), Nourse, Tancred, all-rounder Faulkner, Sherwell, Snooker, and White, the South Africans developed the world's first (and arguably greatest) spin attack which specialised in
googly
. Greatest among the South African googly quartet was Schwarz, who, inspired by English googly bowler
Bernard Bosanquet
, regarded as the inventor of the googly, developed into the most devastating googly bowler of his time. He taught diligently the secrets of the googly to allrounder Faulkner, medium-pacer Vogler, and specialist batsman White, and together the four formed a quartet which began to lead South Africa to unprecedented heights in Test cricket.
[15]
Another important force during this period for South Africa was the all-around performances of Faulkner and Llewellyn. Faulkner came to be regarded as the first great South African all-rounders in the international game, regarded by some as even the greatest all-rounder in the world in the pre-1st World War period.
[19]
The
Australian cricket team
toured
South Africa in 1902, with an extremely strong squad comprising many prominent members of 'The Golden Age of Australian Cricket' such as
Victor Trumper
,
Joe Darling
,
Clem Hill
,
Syd Gregory
,
Monty Noble
,
Reggie Duff
,
Warwick Armstrong
,
Hugh Trumble
, and
Ernie Jones
. Though South Africa lost the 3-match Test series 2?0, they avoided defeat for the first time by drawing the first game at Johannesburg, even forcing the touring side to follow on thanks to some outstanding all-round performances from Llewellyn.
[15]
In 1904, South Africa was invited by the
Marylebone Cricket Club
for a
tour of England
to play a series of first-class matches, the team not being regarded as sufficiently high standard to play-official Tests. The side won ten out of their twenty-two matches, including a thrilling
tie
with
Middlesex
, who finished among the top four in that year's
County Championship
, due to some magic weaved by Schwarz through his googlies. He repeated his heroics against an all-England XI, whom South Africa recorded an upset victory against by 189 runs. Unfortunately, the match was not accorded official Test status.
[15]
In 1906, England made a reciprocal
tour
to South Africa, which this time consisted of a 5-match official Test series. The touring English team was a second-string team, with only
Colin Blythe
,
Schofield Haigh
and
JN Crawford
being those who could be considered regulars of the England team. Nevertheless, South Africa was still not favouriting going into the series. However, in a shocking result at
Johannesburg
, the inspired South Africans, led by Sherwell and their googly quartet, defeated England by 1 wicket, thereby recording her first Test win. Schwarz, Vogler, and Faulkner led the way for South Africa.
[15]
Afterwards, South Africa defeated England by 9 wickets in the 2nd Test at Johannesburg, a 243-run win in the 3rd test at the same venue as well as an innings-and-16 runs victory at Cape Town in the 5th Test to secure a 4?1 domination of England. Schwarz picked up 18 in the series at 17.22, Faulkner 14 at 19.42. However, Vogler was not so successful with 9 wickets at 22.33.
[15]
The series is widely recognised as the one which heralded the arrival of South Africa as a major force on the international cricket scene. The MCC duly complied by inviting the South African team to
tour
England in 1907 for the first time to play-official Tests. Though the series finished 1?0 to England with two draws, the quartet of Schwarz, Faulkner, Vogler, and White were praised for their exceptional quality of googly bowling,
[20]
and Schwarz and Vogler came to be recognised as
Wisden
Cricketers of the Year
the following year ? the first South Africans to win the prestigious
award
.
England's next
tour
of South Africa came about in 1909?10. Once again, South Africa was dominant, winning the 5-match Test series 3?2, with victories in the first Test at Johannesburg by 19 runs,
[21]
second Test at
Durban
by 95 runs,
[22]
and by 4 wickets in the 4th Test at Cape Town.
[23]
South Africa's captain was
Tip Snooke
.
The South African cricket team
toured
Australia for the first time in 1910?11. The Australian team was then considered as the leading cricket team of the era, in what has been described as 'The Golden Age of Australian Cricket'. Led by the legendary
Clem Hill
and the batting exploits of
Victor Trumper
, Australia won the 5-match Test series comfortably 4?1, though South Africa made history by recording their first-ever overseas Test victory, as well as a maiden Test victory against Australia at the 3rd Test in
Adelaide Oval
.
[24]
The tour was significant for the rise of
Billy Zulch
as a leading batsman of the South African cricket team; and after a resolute 150 in the 1st Test at
Sydney Cricket Ground
in a heavy innings defeat for South Africa,
[25]
he scored South Africa's highest individual score of 105 in their maiden overseas Test win at Adelaide, a match also characterised by the all-round performances
Charlie Llewellyn
and the outstanding bowling of
Reggie Schwarz
.
South Africa's next international cricketing involvement was a
triangular tournament
held in England, involving England, Australia, and South Africa, the only three Test-playing nations of the era. By this time, the googly duo of Schwarz and White were past their prime, while Vogler had already retired. Additionally, retirements of key players such as Sherwell ensured that South Africa was nowhere near their best in the series. South Africa finished bottom with just one draw, but the series was notable for the debut of
Herbie Taylor
, regarded as one of the finest batsmen of the era. The tournament marked the international swansong for Schwarz and White. The tournament also marked the peak of the short, but moderately successful test career of medium-pacer
Sid Pegler
, whose rise, coinciding as it did with the decline of Schwarz and Vogler, briefly caused him to hold the mantle of the lead bowler of the South African bowling attack before as well as to emerge as South Africa's leading bowler and a resounding success in the Triangular tournament, before commitments elsewhere in the form of the appointment as a colonial district commissioner in
Nyasaland
forced him to drift out of cricket ? meaning that the enormous potential that he showed in that Triangular, as well as the expectations that he could be a mainstay in the South African bowling in the coming years, were not quite fulfilled.
Prodigious batsman Herbie Taylor was named captain of the South African team to face off against
the visiting English team
in 1913?14, in what would prove South Africa's last international cricketing involvement before the First World War. Overall, the series was extremely poor for a South African side in transition, who failed to replicate the achievements of the South African sides 1905?06 and 1909?10, losing the 5-match Test series 4?0 against an extremely strong English side playing under the banner of the MCC. However, the series became memorable for Herbie Taylor's exceptional batting, who heralded his arrival as a new colossus in the world game, scoring a phenomenal 508 runs at an
average
of 50.80 against a terrific
Sydney Barnes
at his prime, who had claimed a record 49 wickets during the series
at
just 10.93. The cricket historian
H.S. Altham
wrote: "The English cricketers were unanimous that finer batting than his against Barnes at his best they never hoped to see."
Neville Cardus
noted it was "perhaps the most skillful of all Test performances by a batsman." It also led Cardus to count Taylor as "one of the six greatest batsmen of the post-Grace period".
The inter-war years
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]
The war brought in its wake the temporary suspension of international cricket.
The Currie Cup
, which had hitherto not been held during the years of
The Boer War
(1899?1902) and on the years when England had visited as a touring team, faced cancellation during the years of war (1914?18). Cricketing activity in South Africa resumed to normal with the armistice in November 1918.
Post World War I, South Africa first hosted in 1919?20 an Australian Imperial Forces side boasting cricketers of the calibre of
Jack Gregory
,
Herbie Collins
,
Bert Oldfield
, and
Nip Pellew
. The South African XI lost both of their matches against them.
Australia became the first international team to make an official tour to South Africa in 1921?22. The first two tests at Durban and Johannesburg were drawn,
[26]
[27]
with Australia sealing the series 1?0 with a 10-wicket win in the 3rd Test at Cape Town.
[28]
[29]
Herbie Taylor, who captained the South Africans, finished with 200 runs at 33.33.
Claude Carter
was the South Africans' leading bowler, taking 15 wickets at 21.93.
[30]
The following season, in 1922?23, an English cricket team
toured
. Just like nine years, previous Taylor was at his best. In the first Test at Johannesburg, he batted at number three and in the second innings scored a superb 176, the next highest score in the match was 50.
[31]
Taylor's knock included 25 boundaries and was the largest by a South African against England.
[32]
South Africa won the Test by 168 runs, it was Taylor's first victory as captain and as a Test player.
[33]
He followed that in the second Test with scores of 9 and 68 as England narrowly won by one wicket.
[34]
In the third Test at Durban he was moved back up to open the innings, he scored 91 and shared 110 with
Bob Catterall
. The third day's play was washed out leaving the draw inevitable in a four-day match.
[35]
The fourth Test was also drawn, Taylor scored 11 at number four and then moved back as the opener in the second innings made 101.
Wisden
wrote: "Taylor, who hit out freely when fear of defeat had gone, played a masterly game, but he had a little luck".
[36]
With the series still level at 1?1, the fifth and final Test was made
Timeless
to ensure a winner of the series. England's
C. A. G. Russell
scored two centuries in the match and South Africa were set a target fourth innings target of 344. Taylor, at number four, batted for four and a half hours over an innings of 102 however he received little support from his teammates and South Africa lost by 109 runs.
[37]
Taylor finished the series with 582 runs at 64.66 and was the highest scorer on either side, his total was 278 more than the next South African.
[38]
His series total was at the time a Test record for a captain, later surpassed by
Don Bradman
in 1936.
[39]
His three centuries in the series set a South African Test record which was only bettered in 2003/04 by
Jacques Kallis
.
[40]
The
Wisden
report of the series recorded that "H. W. Taylor as a batsman was in a class by himself".
[41]
The series cemented Taylor's position as a leading batsman in the world.
With Faulkner retiring in 1924, the South Africans, who had only two quality players in Taylor and Cattrell, underwent somewhat of a barren period in the 1920s. However, the emergence of a new generation of South African cricketers, more so in their batting than in their bowling, in the 1930s such as
Bruce Mitchell
,
Xen Balaskas
,
Ken Viljoen
,
Dudley Nourse
,
Eric Rowan
,
Alan Melville
,
Pieter van der Bijl
, and
Ronnie Grieveson
once again ensured that South Africa became a top-quality international team. The team's leading batsmen during this era were Mitchell, Nourse, Rowan, Melville, and van der Bijl. Nourse, in particular, became famous for his hand-eye coordination and his excellent fielding, one of many to be produced by South Africa in the coming decades; natural skills which were according to legend inspired and developed by his father Dave's refusal to coach him as a youngster, demanding that he learned the rudiments of the game on his own, as he himself had. This South African team was also distinct from past South African teams in one respect: whereas the previous teams had been composed entirely of British-origin players, this team had Afrikaners like van der Bijl and Greeks such as Balaskas, regarded by wide consensus to be the greatest
Greek
cricketer ever.
[42]
The post-war years
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]
The South African cricket team toured England in 1947. At
Trent Bridge
, Captain
Alan Melville
and
vice-captain
,
Dudley Nourse
achieved a Test match record for a third wicket partnership of 319. The following year Nourse, 38-year-old captain of
Natal
, was appointed Captain for the 1948 MCC Test matches in South Africa.
[43]
They continued to play regularly against
England
,
Australia
and
New Zealand
until 1970.
[44]
The membership rules of the
Imperial Cricket Conference
(ICC) meant that when South Africa left the
Commonwealth
in May 1961, they also left the ICC. Despite the rules being changed in 1964 to allow other nations to be "Associate" members, South Africa did not reapply.
[45]
Due to South African
apartheid laws
, which introduced legal
racial segregation
to the country in 1948, no non-white (defined under the legislation as either "black", "coloured" or "Indian") player was eligible to play Test cricket for South Africa.
[46]
The international ban
[
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]
The
anti-apartheid movement
led the ICC to impose a moratorium on tours in 1970.
[47]
This decision excluded players such as
Graeme Pollock
,
Barry Richards
and
Mike Procter
from international Test cricket for most of their careers. It would also cause the emigration of future stars such as
Allan Lamb
and
Robin Smith
, who both played for England, and
Kepler Wessels
, who initially played for Australia before returning to South Africa. World class cricketers of their day such as
Clive Rice
and
Vintcent van der Bijl
also never played Test Cricket despite their strong first class records.
A rainbow nation
[
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]
The
ICC
reinstated South Africa as a Test nation in 1991, and the team played its first
sanctioned
international match since 1970 (and its first-ever One-Day International) against
India
in
Calcutta
on 10 November 1991 losing by 3 wickets. South Africa's first Test match after re-admission was played against the
West Indies
in April 1992. The match was played in
Bridgetown, Barbados
and South Africa lost by 52 runs.
Since South Africa has been reinstated they have achieved mixed success and hosted the
International Cricket Council
Cricket World Cup
in 2003. However, it is widely believed
[48]
the sides containing the likes of
Allan Donald
,
Shaun Pollock
,
Gary Kirsten
,
Jacques Kallis
and
Hansie Cronje
grossly underachieved, gaining a reputation as "
chokers
", due to them reaching the semi-finals of the
Cricket World Cup
four times, but failing to progress into the finals. In the second part of the 1990s, South Africa had the highest winning percentage in ODIs of any team, but they were knocked out of the 1996 World Cup in the
quarter-finals
, and then were eliminated on countback after tying their
semi-final
against Australia in 1999.
Their most noted international win was their win in the inaugural
Champions Trophy
in 1998. The team also won Commonwealth Games Gold medal in
1998
.
21st century Proteas
[
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]
In the 2003 World Cup, South Africa was one of the favourites but was eliminated by only one run in the group stages after they had mistakenly counted the number of runs they needed. They have also had bad press for failing in vital matches in global tournaments including the
2002 ICC Champions Trophy
and the
2007 ICC World Twenty20
.
[49]
With
Donald
retiring, Cronje banned for
match-fixing
and later
killed in a plane crash
, and Pollock also retiring from international cricket, the team once again changed shape.
Graeme Smith
was made captain, although following injuries to Smith and
Jacques Kallis
,
Ashwell Prince
deputised as Test captain on 12 July 2006. At the age of 29, he became the first
non-white
man to captain the once all-white South African cricket team. Although that
racial quota
policy, was rescinded in 2007,
[50]
a new rule passed in 2016 stated that the team had to have an average minimum of six Black players, of which two must be Black African, in matches over the season.
[51]
With the addition of high-class players such as AB de Villiers and Hashim Amla, the South African Cricket team started rising in the ICC rankings. After many of the major players in the
Australian
side that had dominated the early 2000s had retired, the number one place in the
ICC Test Championship
was a wide-open race, with
India
and
England
having short stints as the number one side.
South Africa toured England in 2012
for a three-Test series with the winner assured of being the world No. 1. South Africa went on to take the series comfortably 2?0 and claim the top spot in the rankings, a position they retained for over a full calendar year from 20 August 2012.
[52]
Eight days later, on 28 August 2012, South Africa became the first team to top the rankings in all
three formats of the game
.
[53]
In February 2014 South Africa took on Australia in a Test series, with the winner being ranked No. 1 team in the world. Australia won the series 2?1.
[54]
South Africa later in the year would regain the No. 1 ranking. As of 4 May 2020, South Africa is ranked 6th in Test Cricket.
[55]
During this time of dominance in the Test arena, the ODI and T20I performances were far less consistent, as South Africa search for a winning formula ahead of the
2014 ICC World Twenty20
and the
2015 ICC Cricket World Cup
. A notable ODI series loss to
New Zealand
at home in January 2013, and a further loss in
Sri Lanka
highlighted South Africa's recent difficulties. Exits from the
2012 ICC World Twenty20
and the
2013 ICC Champions Trophy
only served to improve South Africa's reputation as 'chokers' in major tournaments. In the latter years of Smith's career, South Africa split the captaincy in the shorter forms of the game, with the ODI side being led by
AB de Villiers
and the T20I side by
Faf du Plessis
. After Smith's retirement,
Hashim Amla
was appointed captain of the test side, leading his side to victory in his first test in charge, in
Galle
in Sri Lanka.
Tournaments
[
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]
South Africa has a record of failing to win world cups and is much-maligned because of this. The
1992 Cricket World Cup
, for example, featured a rain-affected semi-final played before the introduction of the
Duckworth-Lewis
rain rule. South Africa needed 22 runs from 13 balls when rain intervened. After the delay, they were left in the situation of requiring 22 runs from one ball to progress. In 1996 they were eliminated in the quarter-finals despite being one of the fancied teams and having qualified first in their group. In 1999 South Africa lost in the semi-final to eventual champions Australia. The match ended in a tie with both South Africa and Australia managing 213 but
Australia
advanced to the Final as Australia finished higher than South Africa in the group.
South Africa hosted the
2003 Cricket World Cup
but failed to progress beyond the group stage due to a misunderstanding of how many runs they needed to score in a rain-affected run chase. As a result of this,
Shaun Pollock
resigned as captain and was replaced by young batsman
Graeme Smith
, although Pollock continued to play for the team. Under Smith's leadership, South Africa has achieved some success, although they have been hampered by the retirements of many star players, including fast bowler
Allan Donald
and one-day specialist
Jonty Rhodes
. As a result, they had a poor 2004, only winning against the
Windies
.
In the
2007 Cricket World Cup
they had a rollercoaster ride that included dominant wins over
England
, the West Indies,
Ireland
,
Netherlands
and
Scotland
, and a narrow win over
Sri Lanka
, but devastating losses to Australia,
New Zealand
and Bangladesh that cost them the No. 1 ranking. Then they bowed out in the semi-finals with their lowest ever score in a World Cup as Australia bowled them out for 149 and won by 7 wickets.
In the
2011 World Cup
, South Africa topped Group B with the distinction of bowling out every side they played within the 50 over the limit, which also included a famous victory over hosts India. In the quarter-final, they were beaten by New Zealand after suffering a dramatic collapse and losing eight wickets for 64 runs.
Even after many setbacks, their biggest heartbreak was awaiting them in the
2015 World cup
semi-final where they lost to the tournament runners-up New Zealand in a rain-affected tie. Batting first South Africa posted 281?5 and set a revised target of 298 to New Zealand, thanks to an amazing batting performance by
Faf du Plessis
,
David Miller
and captain
AB de Villiers
. Chasing a mammoth target of 298 New Zealand got off to a flier inspired by their captain
Brendon McCullum
. But the real hero of the match was
Grant Elliott
, who scored 84* including a second-last ball six off the then world's best bowler
Dale Steyn
. This saw South Africa crash out of the 2015 World Cup despite playing some fantastic cricket throughout the entire tournament. After a good world cup, South Africa went on to dominate ODI cricket in bilateral series which saw the Proteas rise to No. 1 in the
ICC ODI Championship
.
At the
2019 Cricket World Cup
South Africa lost the opening match of the tournament to England and followed this up with losses to Bangladesh and India. Rained out against West Indies, they defeated Afghanistan but then lost to New Zealand and Pakistan, to end their chances of qualifying for the next stage.
They also hold the record of the highest successful run chase and made the highest total (the latter record has been surpassed) in One-Day Internationals (438?9 in 49.5 overs), in
an iconic match
against
Australia
on 12 March 2006. This game is considered by many to be the greatest One-Day International ever played.
South Africa beat the Netherlands by 231 runs in
Mohali
in Group matches in
ICC World Cup 2011
, The 231-run win is the fourth-largest margin of victory for any team in World Cups and the largest for South Africa in World Cups. It is also the second-largest margin of victory for South Africa in ODIs on 3 March 2011.
[56]
The 87-run stand between
JP Duminy
and
Colin Ingram
is the highest for the sixth wicket for South Africa in World Cups. The highest sixth-wicket stand for South Africa in ODIs is the 137 between Hansie Cronje and Shaun Pollock against
Zimbabwe
in 1997. The triumph is South Africa's seventh by a fringe of hundred or more runs in World Cups.
[57]
In the
2023 Cricket World Cup
South Africa reached the semi-final but lost its match against Australia who went on to win the final.
Records
[
edit
]
Test matches
[
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]
One-Day Internationals
[
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]
T20 Internationals
[
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]
International grounds
[
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]
Locations of all stadiums which have hosted an international cricket match within South Africa
Tournament history
[
edit
]
ICC World Test Championship
[
edit
]
Cricket World Cup
[
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]
Champions
|
Semi-finalists
|
Quarter Finalists
|
Group stage KnockOuts
|
South Africa CWC record
|
0
|
5
|
2
|
2
|
†
For World Cups from 1975 to 1987 inclusive, South Africa was not an ICC member, and therefore ineligible to compete in the tournament.
ICC T20 World Cup
[
edit
]
Champions
|
Semi-finalists
|
Super KOs
|
South Africa WT20 record
|
0
|
2
|
6
|
ICC Champions Trophy
[
edit
]
Champions
|
Semi-finalists
|
Group KOs
|
South Africa Champions Trophy record
|
1
|
4
|
3
|
Commonwealth Games
[
edit
]
Honours
[
edit
]
Others
[
edit
]
Team colours
[
edit
]
South Africa's kits are manufactured by
Lotto
,
[61]
who replaced the previous manufacturer
Castore
[62]
in 2023.
When playing Test cricket, South Africa's
cricket whites
feature the king protea badge (the emblem of the South African Sports Commission) with the South African flag above it on the left breast of the shirt. South African fielders may wear a green cap or a white sun hat with the king protea badge in the middle. Helmets are also coloured green. Before 1996, the cap insignia was the
United Cricket Board of South Africa
old badge, which was a circle with a ball superimposed over a wicket in the centre and the inscription which reads "UNITED CRICKET BOARD OF SOUTH AFRICA" around the circle's border. Before 1991, the cap insignia was a springbok head under the inscription "S.A.C.B" in yellow letters (which changed to "S.A." with the years of the tour, for instance, "S.A. 1982?83").
In
limited overs cricket
, South Africa's ODI and Twenty20 shirts feature the king protea badge with the national flag on the left breast of the shirt.
In ODIs, the kit comprises a green shirt with yellow accents and dark green stylised protea leaves and green trousers, whilst the Twenty20 kit comprises a green shirt with a yellow gradient and the
Oxigen
logo in the front and green trousers. In both uniforms, the fielding hat is a green baseball cap with white piping and a yellow line on the visor border or a green sunhat, which are both green with the king protea badge.
In
ICC
limited-overs tournaments, a modified kit design is used with the sponsor's logos moving to the sleeve and 'South Africa' printed across the front.
Since 2016, South Africa played some matches with an all-pink version of its uniform, to raise breast cancer awareness.
Previous suppliers were ISC (1992?1996), Asics (1999), Admiral (2000?2003), Hummel (2004?2007), Adidas (2011?2015), New Balance
[63]
(2016-2021) and Castore
[64]
(2021-2023).
Until 2016, the sponsor was
Castle Lager
. During the
2003?04 tour of Pakistan
, the Castle Lager logo was replaced by "Charles".
[65]
Current squad
[
edit
]
For the 2023?24 period, CSA awarded 20 players national contracts, from which selectors choose the core of the Test, One-Day, and Twenty20 International teams.
[66]
Non-contracted players remain eligible for selection and can be upgraded to a Cricket South Africa contract if they gain regular selection.
This is a list of every active player who is contracted to Cricket South Africa, has played for South Africa since February 2023 or was named in the recent Test, ODI or T20I squads. Uncapped players are listed in
italics
.
Last updated: 14 February 2024
- Forms - This refers to the forms they've played for South Africa in the past year, not over their whole South Africa career
- C ? Contracted to Cricket South Africa (Y = Holds contract)
- S/N ? Shirt number
Name
|
Age
|
Batting style
|
Bowling style
|
Domestic team
|
Forms
|
C
|
S/N
|
Captain
|
Last Test
|
Last ODI
|
Last T20I
|
Batters
|
Temba Bavuma
|
34
|
Right-handed
|
Right-arm
medium
|
Lions
|
Test, ODI, T20I
|
Y
|
11
|
Test, ODI (C)
|
2023
|
2023
|
2023
|
David Bedingham
|
30
|
Right-handed
|
?
|
Western Province
|
Test
|
?
|
5
|
|
2024
|
?
|
?
|
Matthew Breetzke
|
25
|
Right-handed
|
?
|
Eastern Province
|
T20I
|
?
|
85
|
|
?
|
?
|
2023
|
Tony de Zorzi
|
26
|
Left-handed
|
?
|
Western Province
|
Test, ODI
|
?
|
33
|
|
2024
|
2023
|
?
|
Zubayr Hamza
|
29
|
Right-handed
|
?
|
Lions
|
Test
|
?
|
?
|
|
2024
|
2021
|
?
|
Reeza Hendricks
|
34
|
Right-handed
|
Right-arm
off break
|
Lions
|
ODI, T20I
|
Y
|
17
|
|
?
|
2023
|
2023
|
Aiden Markram
|
29
|
Right-handed
|
Right arm
off break
|
Titans
|
Test, ODI, T20I
|
Y
|
4
|
T20I (C); ODI (VC)
|
2024
|
2023
|
2023
|
David Miller
|
35
|
Left-handed
|
?
|
Dolphins
|
ODI, T20I
|
Y
|
10
|
|
?
|
2023
|
2023
|
Edward Moore
|
31
|
Left-handed
|
Right arm
off break
|
Titans
|
Test
|
?
|
?
|
|
2024
|
?
|
?
|
Keegan Petersen
|
30
|
Right-handed
|
?
|
Dolphins
|
Test
|
Y
|
93
|
|
2024
|
?
|
?
|
Rassie van der Dussen
|
35
|
Right-handed
|
Right-arm
leg break
|
Lions
|
ODI, T20I
|
Y
|
72
|
|
2022
|
2023
|
2023
|
Raynard van Tonder
|
25
|
Right-handed
|
?
|
North West
|
Test
|
?
|
?
|
|
2024
|
?
|
?
|
All-rounders
|
Neil Brand
|
28
|
Left-handed
|
Left-arm orthodox
|
Titans
|
Test
|
?
|
?
|
|
2024
|
?
|
?
|
Dewald Brevis
|
21
|
Right-handed
|
?
|
Titans
|
T20I
|
?
|
52
|
|
?
|
?
|
2023
|
Ruan de Swardt
|
26
|
Left-handed
|
Right-arm
medium-fast
|
North West
|
Test
|
?
|
?
|
|
2024
|
?
|
?
|
Donovan Ferreira
|
25
|
Right-handed
|
?
|
Titans
|
T20I
|
?
|
55
|
|
?
|
?
|
2023
|
Marco Jansen
|
24
|
Right-handed
|
Left-arm
medium-fast
|
Warriors
|
Test, ODI, T20I
|
Y
|
70
|
|
2024
|
2023
|
2023
|
Wiaan Mulder
|
26
|
Right-handed
|
Right-arm
medium
|
Lions
|
ODI
|
?
|
13
|
|
2023
|
2023
|
2021
|
Andile Phehlukwayo
|
28
|
Left-handed
|
Right-arm
medium-fast
|
Dolphins
|
ODI, T20I
|
?
|
23
|
|
2018
|
2023
|
2023
|
Shaun von Berg
|
37
|
Right-handed
|
Right-arm
leg break
|
Boland
|
Test
|
?
|
?
|
|
2024
|
?
|
?
|
Wicket-keepers
|
Quinton de Kock
|
31
|
Left-handed
|
?
|
Titans
|
?
|
Y
|
12
|
|
2021
|
2023
|
2023
|
Clyde Fortuin
|
28
|
Right-handed
|
?
|
Boland
|
Test
|
?
|
?
|
|
2024
|
?
|
?
|
Heinrich Klaasen
|
32
|
Right-handed
|
Right-arm
off break
|
Titans
|
ODI, T20I
|
Y
|
45
|
|
2023
|
2023
|
2023
|
Ryan Rickelton
|
27
|
Left-handed
|
?
|
Lions
|
?
|
Y
|
44
|
|
2023
|
2023
|
?
|
Tristan Stubbs
|
23
|
Right-handed
|
Right-arm
off break
|
Warriors
|
Test, T20I
|
Y
|
30
|
|
2024
|
2023
|
2023
|
Kyle Verreynne
|
27
|
Right-handed
|
?
|
Western Province
|
Test
|
?
|
97
|
|
2024
|
2022
|
?
|
Spin bowlers
|
Bjorn Fortuin
|
29
|
Right-handed
|
Left-arm orthodox
|
Lions
|
T20I
|
Y
|
77
|
|
?
|
2023
|
2023
|
Keshav Maharaj
|
34
|
Right-handed
|
Left-arm orthodox
|
Dolphins
|
Test, ODI, T20I
|
Y
|
16
|
|
2024
|
2023
|
2023
|
Dane Piedt
|
34
|
Right-handed
|
Right-arm
off break
|
Knights
|
Test
|
?
|
?
|
|
2024
|
?
|
?
|
Tabraiz Shamsi
|
34
|
Right-handed
|
Left-arm unorthodox
|
Titans
|
ODI, T20I
|
Y
|
26
|
|
2018
|
2023
|
2023
|
Seam bowlers
|
Nandre Burger
|
28
|
Left-handed
|
Left-arm
medium-fast
|
Western Province
|
Test, ODI, T20I
|
?
|
?
|
|
2024
|
2023
|
2023
|
Gerald Coetzee
|
23
|
Right-handed
|
Right-arm
fast
|
Knights
|
Test, ODI, T20I
|
?
|
62
|
|
2023
|
2023
|
2023
|
Beuran Hendricks
|
34
|
Left-handed
|
Left-arm
fast-medium
|
Western Province
|
ODI
|
?
|
14
|
|
2020
|
2023
|
2021
|
Sisanda Magala
|
33
|
Right-handed
|
Right-arm
fast-medium
|
Lions
|
ODI
|
Y
|
58
|
|
?
|
2023
|
2023
|
Tshepo Moreki
|
30
|
Right-handed
|
Right-arm
fast-medium
|
Lions
|
Test
|
?
|
?
|
|
2024
|
?
|
?
|
Lungi Ngidi
|
28
|
Right-handed
|
Right-arm
fast-medium
|
Titans
|
Test, ODI, T20I
|
Y
|
22
|
|
2024
|
2023
|
2023
|
Anrich Nortje
|
30
|
Right-handed
|
Right-arm
fast
|
Warriors
|
ODI
|
Y
|
20
|
|
2023
|
2023
|
2023
|
Duanne Olivier
|
32
|
Right-handed
|
Right-arm
fast-medium
|
Lions
|
Test
|
?
|
?
|
|
2024
|
2019
|
?
|
Dane Paterson
|
35
|
Right-handed
|
Right-arm
fast-medium
|
Western Province
|
Test
|
?
|
?
|
|
2024
|
2019
|
2018
|
Kagiso Rabada
|
29
|
Left-handed
|
Right-arm
fast
|
Lions
|
Test, ODI
|
Y
|
25
|
|
2024
|
2023
|
2023
|
Lizaad Williams
|
30
|
Left-handed
|
Right-arm
medium-fast
|
Titans
|
ODI, T20I
|
?
|
6
|
|
2022
|
2023
|
2023
|
Coaching staff
[
edit
]
Test
[
edit
]
Limited overs
[
edit
]
Coaching history
[
edit
]
Current and former players
[
edit
]
National captains
[
edit
]
See also
[
edit
]
References
[
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For
Guyana
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Jamaica
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Trinidad and Tobago
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Barbados
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Antigua and Barbuda
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Anguilla
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Dominica
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Grenada
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Montserrat
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Nevis
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Saint Kitts
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Saint Lucia
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Sint Maarten
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British Virgin Islands
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United States Virgin Islands
the national team is the West Indies.
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For
England and Wales
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For the
Republic of Ireland
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Northern Ireland
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