Robert Graeme Pollock is a former cricketer for South Africa,Transvaal and Eastern Province. A member of a famous cricketing family,Pollock is widely regarded as one of South Africa's greatest ever cricketers,and as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. Despite Pollock's international career being cut short at the age of 26 by the sporting boycott of South Africa,and all but one of his 23 Test matches being against England and Australia,the leading cricket nations of the day,he broke a number of records. His completed career Test match batting average of 60.97 remains the third best behind Sir Don Bradman and Adam Voges.
Edgar John Barlow was a South African cricketer. Barlow was born in Pretoria,Transvaal,South Africa,and played first-class cricket for Transvaal and Eastern Province from 1959–60 to 1967–68 before moving to Western Province for the seasons from 1968–69 to 1980–81. During this time he also played three seasons with Derbyshire in the English County Championship from 1976 –1978. He completed his first-class career in Boland in 1982–83. Barlow was named as one of the six South African Cricket Annual players of the year in 1962.
Denis Thomson Lindsay was a South African cricketer who played 19 Test matches for South Africa between 1963 and 1970. His outstanding series was against Australia in 1966–67,when he scored 606 runs in seven innings,including three centuries,took 24 catches as wicketkeeper and conceded only six byes.
Trevor Leslie Goddard was a South African cricketer. A left-handed all-rounder,he played 41 Test matches for South Africa from 1955 to 1970. He captained the young South African team on its five-month tour of Australia and New Zealand in the 1963–64 season,levelling the series with Australia,and was also captain in 1964–65 against England in South Africa.
Stanley Keppel"Shunter" Coen was a South African cricketer who played in two Test matches in 1927–28. He was born in Heilbron,Orange Free State,and died in Durban,Natal.
Alistair Innes"Scotch" Taylor was a South African sportsman who played first-class cricket and hockey for Transvaal,and captained the Transvaal cricket team for four seasons. Taylor represented South Africa in one cricket Test in 1956. He was an alumnus of the King Edward VII School,set up a squash section in the Old Edwardians club,and was elected president of the South African Hockey Union.
Peter Rudolph Carlstein was a South African cricketer who played as a middle-order batsman in eight Test matches from 1958 to 1964.
Harry Dudley Bromfield was a South African cricketer who played in nine Test matches between 1961 and 1965.
Sydney Frank Burke was a South African cricketer who played in two Test matches,one in each of 1962 and 1965.
William Stephen"Buster" Farrer is a former South African cricketer who played in six Test matches between 1962 and 1964. He also played tennis and hockey at international level.
David Bartlett Pithey was a Rhodesian cricketer who played in eight Tests for South Africa from 1963 to 1967. As well as playing for Rhodesia and Western Province,he played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Northamptonshire. Christopher Martin-Jenkins described him as "spasmodically brilliant". His brother,Tony,also played Test cricket for South Africa;they played together in five of the Tests on the 1963–64 tour of Australasia.
George Derek Varnals was a South African cricketer who played in three Test matches in the 1964–65 season.
Michael John Macaulay was a South African cricketer who played his only Test match for the country in 1965.
James Thomas "Jackie" Botten was a South African cricketer who played in three Tests in 1965.
This article describes the history of South African cricket from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the start of South Africa's cricket isolation in 1970.
The England cricket team toured South Africa under the auspices of the Marylebone Cricket Club from December 1905 to March 1906. There were five Test matches,and seven first-class games against South African provincial teams. While the team won a number of their first-class matches,they also lost several,and South Africa won the Test series 4 to 1.
Yvonne van Mentz is a South African former cricketer who played as an all-rounder. She appeared in four Test matches for South Africa in 1960 and 1961,all against England. She scored South African's first century in Women's Test cricket,with 105* in the fourth Test of the series. She played domestic cricket for Southern Transvaal and Natal.
The South African Fezela XI was a team of young South African cricketers who toured England in 1961 under the captaincy of the Test player Roy McLean. Several of the team later went on to play leading parts in the revival of South Africa’s cricket fortunes in the 1960s.
Lynton Morby-Smith is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1958 to 1967.
Desmond John Schonegevel was a South African cricketer who played 100 matches of first-class cricket in South Africa between 1954 and 1977.
