1. Makhaya Ntini

    Makhaya Ntini (born 6 July 1977 in Eastern Cape Province) is a South African cricketer, the first ethnic black player to play for the South African team. A fast bowler, he tends to bowl from wide of the crease with brisk, although not express, pace. He has survived legal controversy early on in his career to become only the third South African to take 300 Test wickets after Shaun Pollock and Allan Donald, and to reach second place in the ICC test match bowling ratings.

  2. Lorrie Wilmot

    Anthony Lorraine Wilmot (June 1, 1943 - February 29, 2004) was a South African first class cricketer from Cape Province who played from 1960/61 to 1988/89, during their isolation era.

  3. Mark Boucher

    Mark Verdon Boucher (born December 3, 1976 in East London, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa) is a South African cricketer. He was educated at Selborne College. He has represented Border, Africa XI, ICC World XI and South Africa. He has been a regular feature of the South African side since the 1997/1998 tour to Australia.

  4. Mark Bruyns

    Mark Lloyd Bruyns (born November 8, 1973 in Pietermaritzburg) is a former South African first class cricketer for Natal, Border and the Warriors. A right handed batsman, he played between 1993/94 and 2005/06. He occasionally kept wicket.

  5. Monde Zondeki

    Monde Zondeki (born 25 July, 1982, King William's Town, Cape Province, South Africa) is a South African cricketer who has played five Tests and 7 ODIs for South Africa, in addition to three ODIs for the ACA African XI. As of 2005, he plays first class cricket for the Cape Cobras.

  6. Justin Kreusch

    Justin Peter Kreusch (born September 27, 1979 in East London) is a South African first class cricketer for Border. A hard hitting right handed batsman, Kreusch was named captain of Border when he was aged just 23, in 2003-04. He had previously captained the Border B team. In March 2006 he took 5 for 31 against the Cape Cobras at Stellenbosch. This effort included a hattrick and 4 wickets in 5 balls.

  7. Tony Greig

    Anthony "Tony" William Greig (born October 6, 1946) is a former test cricketer and currently a commentator. Born in South Africa, Greig qualified to play for England by virtue of his Scottish father. He was a tall (6' 7") all-rounder who bowled both medium pace and off spin. He became captain of the national side from 1975 to 1977, and was also captain of the Sussex county side. Greig's younger brother Ian, also played test cricket. He was a sometimes controversial figure.

  8. Ottis Gibson

    Ottis Delroy Gibson (b. 16 March, 1969) is a cricketer from Barbados. A bowler capable of genuine pace, Ottis Gibson was also an intelligent bowler with the old ball for West Indies. But he became seen, possibly unfairly, as a one-day specialist - his hard-hitting late middle-order batting was particularly effective in the closing overs of the innings. He toured England in 1995, playing in the Lord's Test, …

  9. Pieter Strydom

    Pieter Coenraad Strydom (b. 10 June, 1969 in Somerset East) is a former cricketer. He played two Test matches and ten one-day internationals for South Africa in 2000 until he was caught up in the Hansie Cronje betting scandal but he was acquitted of those charges.

  10. Vasbert Drakes

    Vasbert Drakes (born August 5, 1969 in Barbados) is a West Indian cricketer. He was a right-arm fast bowler and handy lower order batsman. Drakes made his international debut when he played 5 ODI games against Australia in 1994-95, followed by a tour of England. He didn't return to the side until the age of 33 when in September 2002 he was named in the West Indies' squad for the Champions Trophy.

  11. Daryll Cullinan

    Daryll John Cullinan (born 4 March 1967, Kimberley, Cape Province) is a former South African cricketer, who played Test cricket and one-day internationals for South Africa as a specialist batsman. He was the youngest South African to score a first class century, at the age of 16. He also achieved the highest first class score in domestic South African cricket at the time, scoring 337 not out.

  12. Emmerson Trotman

    Emmerson Nathaniel Trotman (b. 10 November, 1954) in Paradise Valley, Barbados. He was a West Indies cricketer who played for Barbados and Border in South Africa. He coached Holland from 1996 until 2004, leading them to the ICC Trophy.

  13. James Carse

    James Alexander Carse (born December 13, 1958] in Harare) is a former Zimbabwean first class cricketer. Aside from representing his country he also played in England and South Africa.

  14. Tyron Henderson

    Tyron Henderson (born August 1, 1974, Durban, Natal) is a cricketer who has represented South Africa in a Twenty20 International. An all-rounder, Henderson has signed on to play for the Highveld Lions franchise in South African domestic cricket from season 2006-07. He has previously represented the Warriors, Border, Kent and Berkshire, making his first-class and List A debuts in 1998-99.

  15. Simon Base

    Simon Base (born January 2, 1960) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who played first-class cricket between 1981 and 1999. He first represented Western Province in 1981 before moving back to England to commence his county career. He initially played for Glamorgan in 1986 against Gloucestershire. A fixture for his debut first-class English season, in the second half of 1987 he moved to South Africa to play for Boland, …

  16. Johan Botha

    Johan Botha (born 2 May, 1982 in Johannesburg) is an all-rounder South African cricketer. He made his Test debut against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground in January 2006 during the 2005-06 tour, and claimed batsman Mike Hussey for his first Test wicket. However, he was reported for throwing the ball at the conclusion of the match. He was allowed to play several games during the 2005–06 VB Series, but in February, …

  17. Charles Prince

    Charles Frederick Henry Prince (born September 11, 1874, Boshof, Orange Free State, died February 2, 1949, Wynberg, Cape Province) was a South African cricketer who played in one Test in 1899. Prince was a lower-order right-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper who played from 1894 for Western Province. He later played for both Border and Eastern Province. His one Test match was the second match of the 1898-99 series against the English cricket team led by Lord Hawke.

  18. Chris Wilkins

    Chris Wilkins (born July 31, 1944) was a South African cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler and wicket-keeper. Wilkins' cricketing career started with Border in 1962, when he represented them for the first time in the season's Currie Cup tournament. He continued playing for Border through to the 1969/70 season, and represented them for the last time when visited by the travelling Australians in February 1970.

  19. Hugh Gore

    Hugh Edmond Ivor Gore (b. 18 June, 1953) in St John's. He was a West Indies cricketer who played for the Combined Islands and the Leeward Islands in the 1970's and played a season from the Border Second XI.

  20. Faoud Bacchus

    Sheik Faoud Ahamul Fasiel Bacchus (b. 31 January, 1954) in Georgetown, Guyana is a cricketer player for the West Indies and the United States. A right-handed batsman, he made his Test match debut for the West Indies aged 24 in the 1977/78 series against Australia, but his best achievements were in the 1978/79 series against India, where he scored 96 in the second Test and 250 in the 6th Test. However, he only averaged 26 after 19 Tests, making seven ducks, …

  21. Wes Durston

    Wes Durston (born October 6, 1980 in Taunton, Somerset) is an English cricketer who plays for Somerset. He learnt his cricket at Millfield School and is a right-handed batsman and off break bowler. He made his debut for the Somerset 2nd XI in 1999 and played for the Somerset Cricket Board in the Nat West Bank Trophy in 2000. He made his first-class debut for Somerset against West Indies 'A' in 2002 and made his Championship debut in 2003.

  22. Rod McCurdy

    Rodney John McCurdy (born December 30 1959 in Melbourne) is a former cricketer who played for Australia, Border, Derbyshire, Eastern Province, Natal, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria. A fast bowler, he played in 11 One-day internationals in the mid 1980s, and later joined in the South African rebel tours in 1985.

  23. Bob Herman

    Robert Stephen Herman (b. 30 November, 1946) in Southampton. He was an England cricketer who played for Hampshire and Middlesex in County Cricket.

  24. Paul Kirsten

    Paul Kirsten (born October 30, 1969 in Cape Town) is a former South African first class cricketer. He is the brother of Gary Kirsten and half brother of Peter Kirsten.

  25. Steve Tikolo

    Stephen Ogonji Tikolo (born June 25, 1971 in Nairobi) is a Kenyan cricketer. He is a right handed middle order batsman and part time right-arm medium pace bowler. He bowls quite effective offspin in the shorter form of the game. Tikolo has previously represented Border in South African domestic cricket and has also spent time playing in England and Bangladesh.

  26. Phil Simmons

    Philip Veraint Simmons (born April 18, 1963 in Trinidad) was a skilled all-round cricketer who played as an opening batsman a useful bowler and a talented slip fielder. He played cricket for a number of First-class sides in the West Indies and England as well as international cricket for the West Indian cricket team. He was voted a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1997.

  27. Alan Wells

    Alan Peter Wells (born 2 October 1961 in Newhaven, East Sussex) is an English cricketer. He played for Sussex from 1981 to 1996, where he was captain from 1992 to 1996. He then played for Kent from 1997 to 2000. In total he played 376 first-class matches in a career spanning twenty seasons, with a batting average of 38.57 and a top score of 253 not out (against Yorkshire at Middlesbrough in 1991).

  28. Trevor Jesty

    Trevor Edward Jesty (born 2 June, 1948 in Gosport) was a cricketer. He played 10 one-day internationals for England but no Tests. He played 490 first-class matches from 1966 to 1991. Jesty is currently a cricket umpire in England and it the Reserve Umpire for the 4th Test Match at the Oval between England and Pakistan, (2006).

  29. Xenophon Balaskas

    Xenophon Constantine Balaskas, sometimes known as Xen or Bally (15 October 1910 - 12 May 1994) was a South African all-round cricketer who scored 2,696 first-class runs at 28.68 and took 276 wickets at 24.11 with his leg-spin bowling. Born in Kimberley to Greek immigrant parents, Balaskas made his first-class debut for Griqualand West in 1926/27, but did not really break through until 1929/30.

  30. Tip Snooke

    Sibley John "Tip" Snooke (1 February, 1881 - 14 August, 1966) played Test cricket for South Africa as an all-rounder, captaining the side to victory 3-2 against England in a five-Test series in South Africa in 1909-10. He played in 26 Test matches, playing the first 23 between 1906 and 1912, and he was recalled aged 41 for three further Test matches against England in South Africa in 1922-23. Snooke was born in St Mark's, Tembuland.

  31. Norman Norton

    Norman Ogilvie "Pompey" Norton (born May 11, 1881, Grahamstown, Cape Colony, died June 27, 1968, East London, Cape Province) was a South African cricketer who played in one Test in 1910. He took four wickets, including both Jack Hobbs and Frank Woolley, but was not picked again. His domestic cricket was played for Western Province and Border, and he later became a prominent cricket administrator for Border. By profession, he was a lawyer.

  32. Geoffrey Chubb

    Geoffrey Walter Ashton Chubb (12 April, 1911 - 28 August, 1982) was a South African cricketer who played five Tests for South Africa on tour of England in 1951 aged 40. He headed the bowling averages, taking 21 wickets at an average of 27.47, but couldn't prevent England taking the series 3-1. However, he retired following the series, becoming a national selector and serving two terms as President of the South African Cricket Association.