List of South Africa Test cricketers

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

Key

General

– Captain^[1]
† – Wicket-keeper^[2]
First – Year of debut
Last – Year of latest game
Mat – Number of matches played

Batting

Innings – Innings batted
NO – Times Not out
Runs – Runs scored in career
HS – Highest score
Avg – Runs scored per dismissal
* – Batsman remained not out

Bowling

Balls – Balls bowled in career
Mdn – Maiden overs bowled in career
Wkt – Wickets taken in career
BBI – Best bowling in an innings
Ave – Average runs per wicket

Fielding

Ca – Catches taken
St – Stumpings taken

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

↑ Kepler Wessels also played Test cricket for Australia. Only his record for South Africa is given here.
1 2 3 Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher and Graeme Smith have all played for the ICC World XI. Only their records for South Africa are given here.

References

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

[Wessels-3] Kepler Wessels also played Test cricket for Australia. Only his record for South Africa is given here.

[KallisBoucherSmith-4] 1 2 3 Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher and Graeme Smith have all played for the ICC World XI. Only their records for South Africa are given here.

[Captains-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.

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