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South African national cricket captains

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South Africa played its first Test match in cricket in 1889 against England at Port Elizabeth, becoming the third Test nation after England and Australia. This is a list of the men and women who have been the official South African captains in Tests.

South Africa was a founder member of the International Cricket Council in 1909. However, the South African team did not play official Test cricket from 1970 to 1991, having been suspended from membership the ICC as a result of controversy over apartheid (most particularly the reaction to the Basil d'Oliveira affair). There were a number of rebel tours to South Africa in the intervening period, but none of the matches are recognised as official Test matches and they are not include here. South Africa rejoined the ICC, and resumed playing official Test cricket, in 1991.

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Test match captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the South African cricket team for at least one Test match. Where a player has a dagger (†) next to a Test match series in which he captained at least one Test, that denotes that player deputised for the appointed captain or were appointed by the home authority for a minor proportion in a series. The dagger classification follows that adopted by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.

South African Test match captains
Number Name Years Played Won Lost Drawn
1 Owen Dunell 1888-89 1 0 1 0
2 William Milton 1888-92 2 0 2 0
3 Ernest Halliwell 1895-96 3 0 3 0
4 Alfred Richards† 1895-96 1 0 1 0
5 Murray Bissett 1898-99 2 0 2 0
6 Henry Taberer 1902-03 1 0 0 1
7 John Anderson 1902-03 1 0 1 0
8 Percy Sherwell 1905-11 13 5 6 2
9 Tip Snooke 1909-10 5 3 2 0
10 Frank Mitchell 1912 3 0 3 0
11 Louis Tancred 1912 3 0 2 1
12 Herbie Taylor 1913-24 18 1 10 7
13 Nummy Deane 1927-31 12 2 4 6
14 Buster Nupen† 1930-31 1 1 0 0
15 Jock Cameron 1930-32 9 2 5 2
16 Herbie Wade 1935-36 10 1 4 5
17 Alan Melville 1938-47 10 0 4 6
18 Dudley Nourse 1948-51 15 1 9 5
19 Jack Cheetham 1952-55 15 7 5 3
20 Jackie McGlew 1955-62 14 4 6 4
21 Clive van Ryneveld 1956-58 8 2 4 2
22 Trevor Goddard 1963-65 13 1 2 10
23 Peter van der Merwe 1965-67 8 4 1 3
24 Ali Bacher 1969-70 4 4 0 0
25 Kepler Wessels 1991-94 16 5 3 8
26 Hansie Cronje 1993-2000 53 26 11 16
27 Gary Kirsten† 1997-98 1 0 0 1
28 Shaun Pollock 2000-03 26 14 5 7
29 Mark Boucher† 2001-03 4 2 2 0
30 Graeme Smith 2003- 29 11 8 10
Grand total 303 99 106 98

ODI captains

This is a complete list of every man who has captained South Africa in at least one one-day international.

South African ODI captains
Number Name Years Played Won Lost Tied No result % won
1 Clive Rice 1991 3 1 2 0 0 33
2 Kepler Wessels 1992-94 52 20 30 0 2 39
3 Hansie Cronje 1994-2000 138 99 35 1 3 72
4 Shaun Pollock 2000-05 92 59 29 3 1 64
5 Graeme Smith 2003-05 55 29 21 1 4 53
6 Mark Boucher† 2003 1 1 0 0 0 100
7 Nicky Boje† 2005 1 1 0 0 0 100
Grand total 342 210 117 5 10 61

Youth cricket

Test match captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the South African Under-19 cricket team for at least one under-19 Test match. The table of results is complete to the third Test in England in 2003. Where a player has a dagger (†) next to a Test match series in which he captained at least one Test, that denotes that player was captain for a minor proportion in a series.

South African Under-19 Test match captains
Number Name Year Opposition Location Played Won Lost Drawn
1 Neil McKenzie 1995 England England 3 0 2 1
2 Douglas Gain 1995–96 India India 3 1 1 1
3 Philip Hearle 1996–97 Pakistan South Africa 3 0 2 1
4 Matthew Street 1997–98 England South Africa 2 0 0 2
5 Thami Tsolekile 1998–99 Pakistan Pakistan 3 0 1 2
6 Rivash Gobind 2000–01 New Zealand New Zealand 3 0 2 1
7 Imraan Khan 2003 England England 3 2 0 1
Grand total 16 3 8 7

Youth One-day International captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the South African Under-19 cricket team for at least one Under-19 one-day international. The table of results is complete up to the ODI against Bangladesh in 2005-06 in the Afro-Asian Cup.

South African Under-19 ODI captains
Number Name Year Played Won Lost No result
1 Neil McKenzie 1995 2 0 2 0
2 Douglas Gain 1996 3 0 3 0
3 Philip Hearle 1997 3 2 1 0
4 Matthew Street 1998 8 7 1 0
5 Thami Tsolekile 1999-2000 9 5 3 1
6 Johan Botha 2001 2 0 1 1
7 Rivash Gobind 2001 1 1 0 0
8 Hashim Amla 2002 8 5 3 0
9 Imraan Khan 2003 2 1 0 1
10 Divan van Wyk 2004 6 3 3 0
11 Dean Elgar 2005 5 1 4 0
Grand total 49 25 21 3

Women's cricket

Test match captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the South African women's cricket team for at least one women's Test match. Where a player has a dagger (†) next to a Test match series in which she captained at least one Test, that denotes that player was captain for a minor proportion in a series.

South African women's Test captains
Number Name Season Opposition Location Played Won Lost Drawn
1 Sheila Nefdt 1960–61 England South Africa 4 0 1 3
2 Maureen Payne 1971–72 New Zealand South Africa 2 0 1 0
3 Carole Gildenhuys 1971–72† New Zealand South Africa 1 0 0 1
4 Cindy Eksteen 2001–02 India South Africa 1 0 1 0
5 Alison Hodgkinson 2003 England England 2 0 1 1
Grand total 10 0 4 6

Women's One-Day International captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the South African women's cricket team for at least one women's one-day international.

South African women's ODI captains
Number Name Year Played Won Lost Tied No result
1 Kim Price 1997-2000 26 13 12 0 1
2 Linda Olivier 1999 3 0 3 0 0
3 Cindy Eksteen 1999-2002 6 2 3 0 1
4 Alison Hodgkinson 2003-05 14 4 14 0 1
Grand total 54 19 32 0 3

See also

References


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