In cricket, a player's bowling average is the number of runs they have conceded per wicket taken. The lower the bowling average is, the better the bowler is performing. It is one of a number of statistics used to compare bowlers, commonly used alongside the economy rate and the strike rate to judge the overall performance of a bowler.
The CSA 4-Day Domestic Series is the domestic first class cricket competition of South Africa. The tournament is contested by teams from all nine provinces of South Africa.
Rohan Babulal Kanhai is a Guyanese former cricketer of Tamil Indo-Guyanese origin, who represented the West Indies in 79 Test matches. He is widely considered to be one of the best batsmen of the 1960s. Kanhai featured in several great West Indian teams, playing alongside Sir Garfield Sobers, Roy Fredericks, Lance Gibbs, Clive Lloyd, and Alvin Kallicharran among others. C. L. R. James wrote in the New World journal that Kanhai was "the high peak of West Indian cricketing development", and praised his "adventuresome" attitude. Kanhai was part of the West Indian team that won the inaugural, 1975 Cricket World Cup.
Ronald George Draper is a South African former cricketer who played in two Tests in 1950. He played first-class cricket from 1945 to 1959. Since 3 September 2021 he has been the oldest living Test cricketer.
Richard Cecil Denis Compton is a retired South African cricketer.
The Howa Bowl was a first-class cricket competition in South Africa that ran from the 1972–73 to 1990-91 cricket seasons. Originally known as the Dadabhay Trophy, it was contested between Eastern Province, Natal, Transvaal and Western Province.
Abdulhack Ahmed 'Jack' Manack is a former South African first-class cricketer who played for Transvaal and Western Province in the Howa Bowl.
Andrew Jordaan was a South African cricketer who represented Eastern Province cricket team. Jordaan was the first ever cricketer to be timed out in a first class cricket match when he failed to arrive at the ground to continue his innings in a game against Transvaal at Port Elizabeth in 1988. He was delayed as the roads were bad after a downpour the previous night. This feat was only recognised after the decision to recognise matches played under the South African Cricket Board which governed cricket played by non-white South Africans during apartheid. Jordaan is one of only five cricketers to have been timed out in the history of cricket.
Pierre de Bruyn is a South African former cricketer. Having made his debut in first-class cricket in the 1995–96 South African cricket season, de Bruyn proceeded to play first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket for several teams as an all-rounder and occasional wicket-keeper until his retirement during the 2009–10 South African cricket season. Following his retirement, he moved into coaching. He was appointed the head coach of English county side Leicestershire in 2016, before resigning the following year. In December 2018, he was appointed as the head coach of the Namibia national cricket team.
Michael Frederick Voss is a former South African cricketer. Voss was a left-handed batsman. He was born in Cape Town, Cape Province.
The 1889–90 Currie Cup was the inaugural edition of the Currie Cup, the premier first-class cricket tournament in South Africa. The 1889–90 competition involved just two teams, Transvaal and Kimberley. The two sides played a single, three-day match, which was won by Transvaal by six wickets.
Eric James Brotherton is a former South African cricketer and squash player.
Alfred Edward Cooper was a South African cricketer who played at first-class level for Griqualand West and Transvaal).
Shukri Conrad is a former South African cricketer who is the current head coach at Cricket South Africa's National Academy. Conrad's playing career included first-class appearances for Western Province teams both before and after the end of racial segregation in cricket, which occurred before the 1991–92 season. He first coached at first-class level during the 2002–03 season, when he was in charge of Gauteng. Following the introduction of franchise cricket during the 2004–05 season, Conrad was the inaugural coach of the Highveld Lions. He switched to the Cape Cobras the following season, and the team went on to win several titles during his five seasons in charge. After being dismissed from the Cobras in 2010, Conrad was briefly coach of the Ugandan national team. He was appointed to his current position in April 2014.
Samuel McDonald Skeete is a former Barbadian cricketer who represented the Barbadian national team in West Indian domestic cricket. He also played three seasons of South African domestic cricket, representing Easterns.
Gedaya Abrahams is a South African cricketer, who played two First-class matches in the Howa Bowl for Eastern Province in the summer of 1981–82.
William Brent Steytler is a former South African cricketer who played for Northern Transvaal in South African domestic cricket. He was a left-arm orthodox bowler. His father is South African and his mother is Brazilian.
Khaya Majola was a South African cricket player and administrator. A black African, Majola played cricket during the apartheid-era in South Africa. Early in his playing career, he was given opportunities by the South African African Cricket Board (SAACB) to play alongside white players in exhibition matches, and to play overseas in England. He soon rejected further offers from the SAACB, feeling that the matches were token gestures, and that they were using black players as tools to overturn the sporting boycott of apartheid South Africa, and enable the national team, consisting solely of white players, to be re-admitted into international cricket. This decision meant that Majola played almost all of his cricket in the Howa Bowl between 1973 and 1991, a non-racial tournament organised by the South African Cricket Board of Control (SACBOC), who supported the boycott. Matches were typically played on matting wickets in poor conditions; they were not considered to be of first-class status at the time, but were subsequently added to the records.
Robert Lawrence Sugden Armitage was a South African first-class cricketer.
Graeme John Turner is a Rhodesian-born South African former cricketer.
