- Garth Le Roux
Garth Stirling Le Roux (b. 4 September, 1955) in Kenilworth, Cape Town was a South African fast bowler who played 15 unofficial Tests for South Africa in the 1980's. A big and powerful fast bowler, he had a lethal bouncer. Unfortunately though for him his career took part during the time that South Africa were barred from international cricket. He played some World Series Cricket in the late 70's and later played 15 "Tests" back home against rebel touring sides.
- Jacques Kallis
Jacques Henry Kallis (born 16 October 1975 in Cape Town) is a South African cricketer. He is a talented right-handed batsman and effective fast-medium bowler who can swing the ball both ways off a good line and length. As of September 2006 he became the only cricketer in the history of the game to hold more than 8,000 runs and 200 wickets in both Test and One Day International cricket. Sanath Jayasuriya has achieved that feat in ODIs but not Tests, …
- Graeme Smith
Graeme Craig Smith (born 1 February 1981 in Johannesburg) is a cricketer who became the youngest ever player to captain the South African cricket team at the age of 22 years when he was selected to take over from Shaun Pollock after the 2003 Cricket World Cup after Pollock had miscalculated the Duckworth-Lewis calculations to win the game..
- Ashwell Prince
Ashwell Gavin Prince (born May 28, 1977, Port Elizabeth, Cape Province) is a cricketer who plays Test and One-day International cricket for South Africa. A left handed middle order batsman, he has a high batted stance and is strong through the offside he is one of the fastest runners in cricket. He is noted for his gritty style of batting and also for being an athletic fielder in the covers.
- Ryan ten Doeschate
Ryan Neil ten Doeschate (born 30 June 1980, Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa) is a Netherlands cricket player who has represented Western Province and currently plays for Essex. Due to his Dutch ancestry, he plays One-Day International cricket for the The Netherlands. Locally, he is a member of Clacton Cricket Club, but rarely actually plays for them now due to his Essex commitments.
- Bob Woolmer
Robert Andrew Woolmer was an international cricketer, professional cricket coach and also a professional commentator. He played in 19 Test matches and 6 One-day Internationals for England and later coached South Africa, Warwickshire and Pakistan. On 18 March 2007, Woolmer died suddenly in Jamaica, just a few hours after the Pakistan team's unexpected elimination at the hands of Ireland in the 2007 Cricket World Cup.
- Herschelle Gibbs
Herschelle Herman Gibbs (born 23 February 1974 in Cape Town) is a South African cricketer, more specifically a batsman. He was schooled at Diocesan College in Rondebosch. Considered by many to be the most naturally gifted batsman South Africa has produced since their re-admission to International Cricket in 1991, Gibbs has nevertheless been accused of under achievement during his still impressive career.
- Roger Telemachus
Roger Telemachus (b. 27 March, 1973) has played 36 one-day internationals but has not yet played a Test match for South Africa. Telemachus currently plays for the Gestetner Eagles. In the 2006 English summer, Telemachus had a largely unsuccessful stint playing for Hornchurch CC. Telemachus was also involved in what is probably the most bizarre stoppage in the history of cricket, when 'calamari stopped play'.
- Billy Stelling
William ("Billy") Frederick Stelling (born 30 June 1969 in Johannesburg, South Africa), better known as Billy Stelling is a Dutch cricket player. An allrounder, he bowls right arm fast medium and a right handed batsman who usually bats at 6 or 7. He has been a much-traveled player, starting his career at Western Province in his native South Africa, before moving on to play for Boland.
- Gary Kirsten
Gary Kirsten (born 23 November 1967 in Cape Town) was a South African cricketer, and opening batsman. He played 101 Test matches for his country. His half-brother Peter, also played cricket for SA and was a member of the South African World Cup team in 1992. His brother, Paul played provincial cricket as wicketkeeper for Western Province. He made his debut against Australia in Melbourne in 1993.
- Paul Adams
Paul Regan Adams (born January 20, 1977 in Cape Town) is a South African cricketer, a chinaman bowler who has played for the national team sporadically since the 1990s. Adams's bowling action is highly unorthodox and Mike Gatting famously likened it to a "frog in a blender". Though his action initially caught world batsmen by surprise, he was soon exposed for lack of variety by the Australians. As such, he became less effective.
- Graham Gooch
Graham Alan Gooch, OBE (born July 23 1953) is a former cricketer who captained Essex and England. He was one of the most successful international batsmen of his generation. Gooch was born in Whipps Cross Hospital, Leytonstone, in East London. Gooch played first-class cricket regularly between 1973 and 1997. His debut in Test cricket came in 1975 against Australia, and was marked with a 'pair'. He scored 6 and 31 in the next game of the series, and was dropped from the side.
- Thami Tsolekile
Thami Lungisa Tsolekile (b. 9 October, 1980) is a South African cricketer who has played three Test matches for South Africa as a wicket-keeper in 2004-05. He failed to pass 25 runs with the bat, and though his glovework has been described as sound by Cricinfo journalist Neil Manthorp, it was not enough to keep his place against established wicket-keeper Mark Boucher.
- Peter Kirsten
Peter Noel Kirsten (born May 14, 1955, Pietermaritzburg, Natal) is a former South African cricketer who played in 12 Tests and 40 ODIs from 1991 to 1994. He made his Test debut at the late age of 36 due to South Africa's ban on international cricket during the 1970s and 80s. Despite being well past his destructive best as a number 3 batsman, he still managed to post his one and only Test Century at the age of 38.
- Bradley Player
Bradley Todd Player (born January 18, 1967 in Benoni) is a former South African first class cricketer for Free State and Western Province. An allrounder, his career lasted from 1984/85 until 2000/01. He bowled both right-arm fast-medium and offbreaks and as a right handed batsman he made 4 first class hundreds. Player was a regular for South Africa in the Hong Kong Sixes.
- Hylton Ackerman
Hylton Michael Ackerman (born April 28, 1947 in Transvaal) is a former South African first class cricketer who played for Western Province in the 1970's. His son, HD Ackerman played Test cricket for South Africa. During his 234 first class games, the left handed batsman had a stint with Northamptonshire.
- Kenny Jackson
Kenneth Conrad Jackson (born August 16, 1964, Kitwe) is a former first class cricketer. Jackson was born in Zambia but played the majority of his cricket in South Africa with Boland, having previously played for Western Province with whom he spent his first three seasons. He is the half brother of Jonathan Trott. In 1999, Jackson played one day cricket for the Netherlands.
- 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.
- Allan Lamb
Allan Joseph Lamb is a former English cricketer. Born in Cape Province, South Africa. Lamb first played first-class cricket for Western Province, before being signed as an overseas player by Northamptonshire. There, he was persuaded that with South Africa banned from Test match cricket because of the apartheid régime, he should take advantage of his parents' English heritage to play for England. In the years that followed, he played in 79 Tests, …
- George Lohmann
George Lohmann (born June 2, 1865 in London, died December 1, 1901 in Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa) is regarded as one the greatest bowlers of all time. Statistically, he holds the lowest lifetime Test bowling average among bowlers with more than ten wickets and he has the second highest peak rating for a bowler in the ICC ratings. He bowled at around medium pace, and on the primitive pitches of his time could gain a lot of spin, …
- Jonathan Trott
Ian Jonathan Leonard Trott (born 22 April, 1981 in Cape Town) is a South African born English cricketer who has played domestic cricket in South Africa, England and New Zealand. He has represented South Africa at U19 level. Trott hit four first class centuries for Warwickshire during the 2005 season, bettering his previous career best to 152 against Glamorgan before taking it to 210 against Sussex three weeks later.
- Alistair Gray
Alistair John Alec Gray (born July 8, 1982 in Johannesburg) is a South African first class cricketer for Western Province. A right handed opening batsman, Gray made his first class debut in 2004/05 and in 3 seasons has made 1198 runs at 36.30.
- 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.
- Eric Simons
Eric Owen Simons (b. 9 March 1962 in Cape Town,South Africa) is a South African former cricketer. He was an all-rounder, and he played 23 one-day internationals but no Tests for South Africa in the 1990's. He later became coach of the national side for two years but he was replaced in 2004 by Ray Jennings.
- Kepler Wessels
Kepler Christoffel Wessels (born September 14, 1957 in Bloemfontein) was a South African cricketer who captained South Africa after playing 24 Tests for Australia. He was the first man to have played one day international cricket for two countries. He was a left-handed opening batsman but also useful as a right arm off spinner and medium pace bowler. He played first-class cricket for a variety of teams. In his native South Africa, Wessels played for Orange Free State, …
- Eddie Barlow
Edgar ("Eddie") John Barlow (born 12 August 1940 in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa; died 30 December 2005 in Jersey) was a South African cricketer (All rounder). Barlow 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.
- Duncan Fletcher
Duncan Andrew Gwynne Fletcher OBE (born 27 September 1948) is a former Zimbabwean cricketer, former captain of the Zimbabwean cricket team and former coach of the English cricket team. Fletcher is largely credited with rejuvenating the fortunes of the then flagging English team, with the team rising from bottom of the Test rankings to second under his tenure as coach.
- 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.
- Faiek Davids
Faiek Davids (born September 1, 1964 in Cape Town) is a former South African first class cricketer. A big hitting lower to middle order batsman, he played with Western Province and Boland during the 1990's.
- Paul Harris
Paul Lee Harris (born 2 December 1978, Harare, Zimbabwe) is a South African cricketer who has played for the cricket teams of Titans, Western Province and Warwickshire CCC. He is a left-arm orthodox spin bowler. During the 2006 cricket season, he joined Warwickshire under the Kolpak ruling after New Zealand spinner Daniel Vettori got injured. He instantly made his debut for the Bears in a Twenty20 Cup match against Worcestershire.
- Neil Johnson
Neil Clarkson Johnson (b. 24 January, 1970) in Harare was a cricketer who played 13 Tests and 48 one-day internationals for Zimbabwe between 1998 and 2000. An allrounder, he bowled right arm fast medium and played in the middle order as an aggressive left handed batsman. He usually opened the batting in One Day cricket. Throughout his first class career he spent time in both South Africa and England, playing for Eastern Province, Natal, Western Province, …
- David Pithey
David Bartlett Pithey (born October 4, 1936, Harare, Rhodesia) is a former South African cricketer who played in eight Tests from 1963 to 1967.
- 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.
- 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, …
- Sven Koenig
Sven Gaetan Koenig (born 9 December 1973 in Durban, South Africa) is a South African cricketer. Koenig was educated at Hilton College and the University of Cape Town. He played representative cricket for Ntl Nuff (1989-1991) and South African Schools (1991). He represented Easterns, Gaetang, Western Province, MCC (2004) and Middlesex (2002-2004) as a dogged left-handed opening batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler.
- 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, …
- John Emburey
John Ernest Emburey (born 20 August 1952 in Peckham) is a former English cricketer who played for Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Western Province, Berkshire and England.
- Mike Procter
Mike Procter (born Michael John Procter September 15 1946) was a South African cricketer. A tremendously powerful fast bowler and hard hitting batsman, his talent ranks with that of Ian Botham, Imran Khan or Andrew Flintoff yet his chances of a long and productive test career were wrecked by South Africa's banishment from world cricket in the 1970s and 1980s.
- Brian McMillan
Brian Mervin McMillan (born 22 December, 1963 in Welkom, South Africa) played 38 Test and 78 one-day internationals for South Africa from 1991 to 1998. In domestic cricket he played for Transvaal for his first 4 years and spent the rest of his time at Western Province. He also spent a season with Warwickshire County Cricket Club in 1986. McMillan was a right arm medium-pace bowler and right handed batsman. He had an incredible record when batting at number 7 in Tests, …
- Alan Dawson
Alan Charles Dawson (b. 27 November, 1969) is a South African cricketer who played two Tests and 19 one-day internationals for South Africa as a seam bowler. His international career lasted from 1998 to 2004, yielding 21 ODI wickets at a bowling average of 34.04 and five Test wickets at 23.39. However, both of his Tests were against bottom-ranked Bangladesh.