List of South Africa Test cricketers

This is a list of cricketers who play Test cricket for South Africa.

Key

General

Batting

Bowling

Fielding

Players

Statistics are correct as of 11 March 2023. ‡ Captain † Wicketkeeper

South African Test cricketers Batting Bowling Fielding
Cap Post-
1991
Cap 		Name Career Mat Inn NO Runs HS Avg Balls Mdn Runs Wkt Best Avg Ca St
1 Owen Dunell ‡
2 Charlie Finlason
3 Philip Hutchinson
4 Gus Kempis
5 William Milton ‡
6 Arthur Edward Ochse
7 Albert Rose-Innes
8 Fred Smith †
9 Robert Stewart
10 Bernard Tancred
11 Charles Vintcent
12 Gobo Ashley
13 William Richards
14 Nicolaas Theunissen
15 Godfrey Cripps
16 Flooi du Toit
17 Charles Fichardt
18 Ernest Halliwell ‡†
19 Frank Hearne
20 Charles Mills
21 Dante Parkin
22 Thomas Routledge
23 Clarence Wimble
24 Frederick Cook
25 Robert Gleeson
26 Charles Hime
27 James Middleton
28 Robert Poore
29 Jimmy Sinclair
30 Joseph Willoughby
31 William Frank
32 Clement Johnson
33 Charlie Llewellyn
34 George Rowe
35 George Shepstone
36 George Glover
37 Alfred Richards ‡
38 Arthur Seccull
39 Murray Bisset ‡†
40 Robert Dower
41 Howard Francis
42 Robert Graham
43 William Solomon
44 Vincent Tancred
45 Frederick Kuys
46 Albert Powell
47 Charles Prince
48 William Shalders
49 Maitland Hathorn
50 Dave Nourse
51 Charlie Smith
52 Henry Taberer ‡
53 Louis Tancred ‡
54 George Thornton
55 Biddy Anderson ‡
56 Johannes Kotze
57 Percy Twentyman-Jones
58 Aubrey Faulkner
59 Reggie Schwarz
60 Percy Sherwell ‡†
61 Tip Snooke ‡
62 Bert Vogler
63 Gordon White
64 Stanley Snooke
65 Tom Campbell †
66 Mick Commaille
67 Louis Stricker
68 Billy Zulch
69 Claude Floquet
70 Sid Pegler
71 Norman Norton
72 Sivert Samuelson
73 Ormerod Pearse
74 Rolland Beaumont
75 Gerald Hartigan
76 Frank Mitchell ‡
77 Herbie Taylor ‡
78 Tommy Ward †
79 Claude Carter
80 Harold Baumgartner
81 Jimmy Blanckenberg
82 Alfred Cooper
83 Joseph Cox
84 Philip Hands
85 Plum Lewis
86 George Tapscott
87 Claude Newberry
88 Cecil Dixon
89 Len Tuckett
90 Horace Chapman
91 Fred le Roux
92 Dan Taylor
93 Reginald Hands
94 Bill Lundie
95 Charlie Frank
96 William Ling
97 Eric Marx
98 Buster Nupen ‡
99 Neville Lindsay
100 Norman Reid
101 William Brann
102 Izak Buys
103 Bob Catterall
104 Cyril Francois
105 George Hearne
106 Alfred Hall
107 Doug Meintjes
108 Lionel Tapscott
109 Dalton Conyngham
110 Nummy Deane ‡
111 George Parker
112 Manfred Susskind
113 Jock Cameron ‡†
114 Shunter Coen
115 Jacobus Duminy
116 Denys Morkel
117 Henry Promnitz
118 Cyril Vincent
119 George Bissett
120 Archibald Palm
121 John Nicolson
122 Arthur Lennox Ochse
123 Jack Siedle
124 Jim Christy
125 Bruce Mitchell
126 Tuppy Owen-Smith
127 Neville Quinn
128 Sandy Bell
129 Eric Dalton
130 Quintin McMillan
131 Edward van der Merwe †
132 Xen Balaskas
133 Syd Curnow
134 Bob Newson
135 Ken Viljoen
136 John Cochran
137 Lennox Brown
138 Bob Crisp
139 Arthur Langton
140 Dudley Nourse ‡
141 Eric Rowan
142 Denis Tomlinson
143 Herby Wade ‡
144 Frank Nicholson †
145 Jack Robertson
146 Ernest Bock
147 Dooley Briscoe
148 Eric Davies
149 Robert Harvey
150 Gerald Bond
151 Norman Gordon
152 Alan Melville ‡
153 Pieter van der Bijl
154 Billy Wade †
155 Ronnie Grieveson †
156 Ossie Dawson
157 Tony Harris
158 Johnny Lindsay †
159 Tufty Mann
160 Athol Rowan
161 Ian Smith
162 Lindsay Tuckett
163 Dennis Dyer
164 Jack Plimsoll
165 George Fullerton †
166 Denis Begbie
167 Cuan McCarthy
168 Owen Wynne
169 Martin Hanley
170 Fish Markham
171 Jack Cheetham
172 Jack Nel
173 Hugh Tayfield
174 John Watkins
175 Ronald Draper
176 Michael Melle
177 Paul Winslow
178 Geoff Chubb
179 Jackie McGlew ‡
180 Clive van Ryneveld ‡
181 John Waite†
182 Roy McLean
183 Percy Mansell
184 Russell Endean †
185 Ken Funston
186 Anton Murray
187 Eddie Fuller
188 Headley Keith
189 Neil Adcock
190 David Ironside
191 Dick Westcott
192 Trevor Goddard ‡
193 Peter Heine
194 Scotch Taylor
195 Tony Pithey
196 Chris Duckworth
197 Christopher Burger
198 Peter Carlstein
199 Jonathan Fellows-Smith
200 Geoff Griffin
201 Sid O'Linn
202 Colin Wesley
203 Jim Pothecary
204 Atholl McKinnon
205 Eddie Barlow
206 Colin Bland
207 Harry Bromfield
208 Kim Elgie
209 Godfrey Lawrence
210 Peter Pollock
211 Kenneth Walter
212 Sydney Burke
213 Buster Farrer
214 Tiger Lance
215 Denis Lindsay †
216 Joe Partridge
217 David Pithey
218 Graeme Pollock
219 Kelly Seymour
220 Peter van der Merwe ‡
221 Clive Halse
222 Derek Varnals
223 Glen Hall
224 Mike Macaulay
225 Ali Bacher ‡
226 Jackie Botten
227 Richard Dumbrill
228 Mike Procter
229 Pat Trimborn
230 Jackie du Preez
231 Grahame Chevalier
232 Dennis Gamsy †
233 Lee Irvine
234 Barry Richards
235 John Traicos
South Africa did not Play International Test Cricket from 1970 to 1991 due to International Isolation.
236 11 Tertius Bosch
237 5 Hansie Cronje ‡
238 10 Allan Donald 1992–2002 72 94 33 652 37 10.69 15519 661 7344 330 8/71 22.25 18 -
239 3 Andrew Hudson 1992–1998 35 63 3 2007 163 33.45 - - - - - - 36 -
240 4 Peter Kirsten 1992–1994 12 22 2 626 104 31.30 54 1 30 - - - 8 -
241 6 Adrian Kuiper 1992 1 2 - 34 34 17.00 - - - - - - 1 -
242 9 Meyrick Pringle 1992–1995 4 6 2 67 33 16.75 652 21 270 5 2/62 54.00 - -
243 7 Dave Richardson † 1992–1998 42 64 8 1359 109 24.27 - - - - - - 150 2
244 2 Mark Rushmere 1992 1 2 - 6 3 3.00 - - - - - - - -
245 8 Richard Snell 1992–1994 5 8 1 95 48 13.57 1025 42 538 19 4/74 28.32 1 -
246 1 Kepler Wessels ‡ 1992–1994 16[a] 29 2 1027 118 38.04 - - - - - - 12 -
247 12 Jimmy Cook 1992–1993 3 6 - 107 43 17.83 - - - - - - - -
248 15 Omar Henry 1992–1993 3 3 - 53 34 17.67 427 15 189 3 2/56 63.00 2 -
249 14 Brian McMillan 1992–1998 38 62 12 1968 113 39.36 6048 255 2537 75 4/65 33.83 49 -
250 13 Jonty Rhodes 1992–2000 52 80 9 2532 117 35.66 12 1 5 - - - 34 -
251 16 Brett Schultz 1992–1997 9 8 2 9 6 1.50 1733 82 749 37 5/48 20.24 2 -
252 17 Craig Matthews 1992–1995 18 25 6 348 62* 18.32 3980 231 1502 52 5/42 28.88 4 -
253 18 Daryll Cullinan 1993–2001 70 115 12 4554 275* 44.21 120 3 71 2 1/10 35.50 67 -
254 20 Clive Eksteen 1993–2000 7 11 2 91 22 10.11 1536 97 494 8 3/12 61.75 5 -
255 19 Pat Symcox 1993–1998 20 27 1 741 108 28.50 3561 135 1603 37 4/69 43.32 5 -
256 22 Fanie de Villiers 1993–1998 18 26 7 359 67* 18.89 4805 221 2063 85 6/23 24.27 11 -
257 21 Gary Kirsten ‡ 1993–2004 101 176 15 7289 275 45.27 349 19 142 2 1/0 71.00 83 -
258 23 John Commins 1994–1995 3 6 1 125 45 25.00 - - - - - - 2 -
259 24 Steven Jack 1994–1995 2 2 - 7 7 3.50 462 24 196 8 4/69 24.50 1 -
260 25 Rudi Steyn 1995 3 6 - 127 46 21.17 - - - - - - - -
261 26 Shaun Pollock ‡ 1995–2006 108 156 39 3781 111 32.31 24353 1222 9733 421 7/87 23.11 72 -
262 27 Jacques Kallis ‡ 1995–2013 166[b] 280 40 13174 224 55.12 20166 847 9499 292 6/54 32.53 199 -
263 28 Paul Adams 1995–2004 45 55 15 360 35 9.00 8850 339 4405 134 7/128 32.87 29 -
264 29 Herschelle Gibbs 1996–2008 90 154 7 6167 228 41.95 6 - 4 - - - 94 -
265 30 Lance Klusener 1996–2004 49 69 11 1906 174 32.86 6887 318 3033 80 8/64 37.91 34 -
266 31 Adam Bacher 1996–1999 19 33 1 833 96 26.03 6 - 4 - - - 11 -
267 32 Mark Boucher ‡† 1997–2012 146[b] 204 24 5498 125 30.54 8 - 6 1 1/6 6.00 532 23
268 33 H. D. Ackerman 1998 4 8 - 161 57 20.13 - - - - - - 1 -
269 34 Makhaya Ntini 1998–2009 101 116 45 699 32* 9.84 20834 759 11242 390 7/37 28.82 25 -
270 35 Gerhardus Liebenberg 1998 5 8 - 104 45 13.00 - - - - - - 1 -
271 36 Steve Elworthy 1998–2002 4 5 1 72 48 18.00 867 35 444 13 4/66 34.15 1 -
272 37 David Terbrugge 1998–2004 7 8 5 16 4* 5.33 1012 44 517 20 5/46 25.85 4 -
273 38 Boeta Dippenaar 1999–2006 38 62 5 1718 177* 30.14 12 1 1 - - - 27 -
274 39 Nantie Hayward 1999–2004 16 17 8 66 14 7.33 2821 90 1609 54 5/56 29.80 4 -
275 40 Pieter Strydom 2000 2 3 - 35 30 11.67 36 - 27 - - - 1 -
276 41 Nicky Boje 2000–2006 43 62 10 1312 85 25.23 8620 293 4265 100 5/62 42.65 18 -
277 42 Neil McKenzie 2000–2009 41 65 4 2028 120 33.25 72 - 63 - - - 37 -
278 43 Mfuneko Ngam 2000–2001 3 1 1 0 0* - 392 15 189 11 3/26 17.18 1 -
279 44 Justin Kemp 2001–2005 4 6 - 80 55 13.33 479 20 222 9 3/33 24.67 3 -
280 45 Claude Henderson 2001–2002 7 7 - 65 30 9.29 1962 79 928 22 4/116 42.18 2 -
281 46 André Nel 2001–2006 36 42 8 337 34 9.91 7630 280 3919 123 6/32 31.86 16 -
282 47 Justin Ontong 2002–2004 2 4 1 57 32 19.00 185 2 133 1 1/79 133.00 1 -
283 48 Ashwell Prince ‡ 2002–2011 23 36 3 1254 139* 38.00 78 1 31 1 1/2 31.00 9 -
284 50 Andrew Hall 2002–2006 19 30 4 735 163 28.26 2838 91 1511 39 3/1 38.74 15 -
285 51 Dewald Pretorius 2002–2003 4 4 1 22 9 7.33 570 18 430 6 4/115 71.67 - -
286 49 Graeme Smith ‡ 2002–2014 117[b] 205 13 9265 277 48.25 1418 28 885 8 2/145 110.62 169 -
287 52 Martin van Jaarsveld 2002–2004 9 15 2 397 73 30.54 42 - 28 - - - 11 -
288 54 Alan Dawson 2003 2 1 - 10 10 10.00 252 14 117 5 2/20 23.40 - -
289 53 Jacques Rudolph 2003–2012 48 83 9 2622 222* 35.43 664 13 432 4 1/1 108.00 29 -
290 55 Charl Willoughby 2003 2 - - 0 - 300 18 125 1 1/47 125.00 - -
291 56 Robin Peterson 2003–2014 15 20 3 464 84 27.29 2515 85 1461 38 5/33 37.26 9 -
292 57 Monde Zondeki 2003–2005 5 4 - 82 59 20.50 692 21 438 16 6/39 27.38 1 -
293 58 Zander de Bruyn 2004 3 5 1 155 83 38.75 216 8 92 3 2/32 30.67 - -
294 59 Thami Tsolekile † 2004 3 5 - 47 22 9.40 - - - - - - 6 -
295 60 Hashim Amla ‡ 2004–2019 124 215 16 9282 311* 46.64 54 0 37 0 - - 108 -
296 61 AB de Villiers ‡† 2004–2018 114 191 18 8765 278* 50.66 204 6 104 2 2/49 52.00 222 5
297 62 Dale Steyn 2004–2019 93 119 27 1251 76 13.59 18608 660 10077 439 7/51 22.95 26 -
298 63 Charl Langeveldt 2005–2006 6 4 2 16 10 8.00 999 27 593 16 5/46 37.06 2 -
299 64 Johan Botha 2006–2010 5 6 2 83 25 20.75 1017 29 573 17 4/56 33.70 3 -
300 65 Morné Morkel 2006–2018 86 104 23 944 40 11.65 16498 605 8550 309 6/23 27.66 25 -
301 66 Paul Harris 2007–2011 37 48 5 460 46 10.69 8809 336 3901 103 6/127 37.87 16 -
302 67 JP Duminy 2008–2017 46 74 10 2103 166 32.85 2703 48 1601 42 4/47 38.11 38 –
303 68 Imraan Khan 2009 1 1 0 20 20 20.00 - - - - - - - -
304 69 Albie Morkel 2009 1 1 0 58 58 58.00 192 - 132 1 1/44 132.00 0 -
305 70 Friedel de Wet 2009–2010 2 2 0 20 20 10.00 426 19 186 6 4/55 31.00 1 -
306 71 Ryan McLaren 2010–2014 2 2 1 41 33* - 150 4 45 1 1/30 43.00 0 -
307 72 Wayne Parnell 2010–2017 6 4 0 67 23 16.75 556 11 414 15 4/51 27.60 3 -
308 73 Alviro Petersen 2010–2015 36 64 4 2093 182 34.88 114 1 62 1 1/2 62.00 31 -
309 74 Lonwabo Tsotsobe 2010–2011 5 5 2 19 8* 6.33 870 35 448 9 3/43 49.77 1 -
310 75 Imran Tahir 2011–2015 20 23 9 130 29* 9.28 3925 86 2294 57 5/32 40.24 8 -
311 76 Vernon Philander 2011–2020 64 94 20 1779 74 24.04 11391 507 5000 224 6/21 22.32 17 -
312 77 Marchant de Lange 2011–2012 2 2 0 9 9 4.50 448 10 277 9 7/81 30.77 1 -
313 78 Rory Kleinveldt 2012–2013 4 5 2 27 17* 9.00 667 21 422 10 3/65 42.20 2 -
314 79 Francois du Plessis ‡ 2012–2021 69 118 14 4163 199 40.02 78 0 69 0 - - 63 -
315 80 Dean Elgar ‡ 2012– 84 149 11 5146 199 37.28 1036 12 673 15 4/22 44.86 91 -
316 81 Kyle Abbott 2013–2017 11 14 0 95 17 6.78 2081 95 886 39 7/29 22.71 4 -
317 82 Quinton de Kock ‡† 2014–2021 54 91 6 3330 129* 38.82 - - - - - - 221 11
318 83 Dane Piedt 2014–2019 9 12 1 131 56 11.90 1824 46 1175 26 5/153 45.19 5 -
319 84 Stiaan van Zyl 2014–2016 12 17 2 395 101* 26.33 403 14 148 6 3/20 24.66 6 -
320 85 Temba Bavuma ‡ 2014– 56 97 12 2997 172 35.25 96 1 61 1 1/29 61.00 28 -
321 86 Simon Harmer 2015– 10 14 2 221 47 18.41 2105 68 1075 39 4/61 27.56 4 -
322 87 Dane Vilas † 2015–2016 6 9 0 94 26 10.44 - - - - - - 13 -
323 88 Kagiso Rabada 2015– 60 93 17 897 47 11.80 11117 369 6257 280 7/112 22.34 29 -
324 89 Chris Morris 2016–2017 4 7 0 173 69 24.71 623 15 459 12 3/38 38.25 5 -
325 90 Hardus Viljoen 2016 1 2 1 26 20* 26.00 114 2 94 1 1/79 94.00 2 -
326 91 Stephen Cook 2016–2017 11 19 0 632 117 33.26 12 0 16 0 - - 6 -
327 92 Keshav Maharaj 2016– 49 78 6 1129 84 15.68 9575 299 5055 158 9/129 31.99 16 -
328 93 Tabraiz Shamsi 2016–2018 2 4 3 20 18* 20.00 483 10 278 6 3/91 46.33 0 -
329 94 Duanne Olivier 2017– 15 19 9 50 12 5.00 2088 61 1294 59 6/37 21.93 3 -
330 95 Theunis de Bruyn 2017–2022 13 25 1 468 101 19.50 102 1 74 0 - - 12 -
331 96 Heino Kuhn 2017 4 8 0 113 34 14.12 - - - - - - 1 -
332 97 Aiden Markram 2017– 35 64 1 2285 152 36.26 249 5 130 2 2/27 65.00 34 -
333 98 Andile Phehlukwayo 2017– 4 4 2 19 9 9.50 250 9 147 11 3/13 13.36 2 -
334 99 Lungi Ngidi 2018– 17 27 9 89 19 4.94 2315 93 1192 51 6/39 23.37 7 -
335 100 Zubayr Hamza 2019– 6 12 0 212 62 17.66 - - - - - - 5 -
336 101 Wiaan Mulder 2019– 12 21 0 326 42 15.52 1050 49 515 19 3/1 27.10 17 -
337 102 Senuran Muthusamy 2019– 3 6 2 105 49* 26.25 273 4 190 2 1/63 95.00 3 -
338 103 Anrich Nortje 2019– 19 33 9 187 40 7.79 3057 81 1870 70 6/56 26.71 6 -
339 104 Heinrich Klaasen † 2019– 4 8 0 104 35 13.00 - - - - - - 10 2
340 105 George Linde 2019– 3 6 0 135 37 22.50 473 17 252 9 5/64 28.00 0 -
341 106 Dwaine Pretorius 2019– 3 6 0 83 37 13.83 480 17 252 7 2/26 36.00 2 -
342 107 Rassie van der Dussen 2019– 18 32 2 905 98 30.16 - - - - - - 23 -
343 108 Pieter Malan 2020– 3 6 0 156 84 26.00 12 0 5 0 - - 3 -
344 109 Dane Paterson 2020– 2 4 3 43 39* 43.00 347 11 166 4 2/86 41.50 1 -
345 110 Beuran Hendricks 2020– 1 2 1 9 5* 9.00 231 5 175 6 5/64 29.16 0 -
346 111 Lutho Sipamla 2020– 3 4 1 15 10* 5.00 419 14 245 11 4/76 22.27 2 -
347 112 Keegan Petersen 2021– 11 20 0 596 82 29.80 - - - - - - 18 -
348 113 Kyle Verreynne † 2021– 14 23 3 572 136* 28.60 - - - - - - 39 3
349 114 Marco Jansen 2021– 11 18 3 306 59 20.40 1775 54 985 44 5/35 22.38 9 -
350 115 Sarel Erwee 2022– 10 19 1 479 108 26.61 - - - - - - 8 -
351 116 Glenton Stuurman 2022– 2 2 0 11 11 5.50 174 5 124 1 1/124 124.00 0 -
352 117 Ryan Rickelton 2022– 4 8 1 165 42 23.57 - - - - - - 1 -
353 118 Lizaad Williams 2022– 2 3 0 25 13 8.33 185 5 105 3 3/54 35.00 4 -
354 119 Khaya Zondo 2022– 5 7 1 120 39 20.00 - - - - - - 2 -
355 120 Gerald Coetzee 2023– 2 4 1 47 20 15.66 240 6 143 9 3/37 15.88 0 -
356 121 Tony de Zorzi 2023– 2 4 0 114 85 28.50 - - - - - - 2 -

Notes

  1. ↑ Cite error: The named reference Wessels was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Cite error: The named reference KallisBoucherSmith was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).

References

  1. ↑ "Afghanistan Captains' Playing Record in Test Matches". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  2. ↑ "Statistics / Test Matches / Fielding records – as designated wicketkeeper". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 11 May 2018.