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SA Domestic History

SeamUp

Hall of Fame Member
Post WWII to start of franchise system captains & colours decoding winning captains for that season.

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Then the franchise system came in which without doubt created a strength v strength mentality that served SA cricket well but it maybe neglected the smaller unions. The 3-day Provincial system below could be laughed at for getting FC status but man did it have good players developing there and driving competition to get into the franchise teams. These words were from Dwaine Pretorius on Comms which I thought was interesting.

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Then a return to the Provincial system with 2 divisions.

Just Division One.

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SeamUp

Hall of Fame Member
Always trying to look at different angles for stats and performance.

What's interesting is Heine, Adcock & Tayfield didn't play a hell of a lot of Currie Cup cricket. 50s and 60s. Most games are for the South Africans on the long tours to England and Australasia.

Most Currie Cup wickets per 5-year period.

60/61 to 64/65 (only 3 seasons happened)
Seam & spin
1. Atholl McKinnon 106
2. Jackie Botten 92 (58 Div 2)
3. Kenneth Walter 91
4. Goofy Lawrence 83 (47 Div 2)
5. Harry Bromfield 74
6. Peter Pollock 51


1965/66 to 1969/70
Seam
1. Peter Pollock 119
2. Mike Procter 114
3. Pat Trimborn 94
4. Alan Hector 91
5. Donald Mackay-Coghill 88
6. Eddie Barlow 76 (29 Div 2)
7. Trevor Goddard 71 (16 Div 2)

Spin
1. Jackie Du Preez 76 (28 Div 2)
2. Grahame Chevalier 48
3. Atholl McKinnon 45 (6 Div 2)

1970/71 to 1974/75
Seam
1. Vince van der Bijl 185
2. Mike Procter 152 (23 Div 2)
3. Robin Jackman 121
4. Donald Mackay-Coghill 121
5. Eddie Barlow 116
6. Pat Trimborn 99
7. Peter Swart 93
8. Clive Rice 84
9. Duncan Fletcher 82 (9 Div 2)
10. Dougie Neilson 76
11. Rupert Hanley 72

Spin
1. Pelham Henwood 93
2. Jackie Du Preez 78 (25 Div 2)
3. Richard Kaschula 65 (34 Div 2)
4. Grahame Chevalier 62

1975/76 to 1979/80
Seam
1. Vince van Der Bijl 197
2. Garth Le Roux 147
3. Dougie Neilson 140
4. Mike Procter 136
5. Rupert Hanley 123 (35 Div 2)
6. Kenny Watson 122 (27 Div 2)
7. Paddy Clift 120
8. Clive Rice 116

Spin
1. Denys Hobson 147
2. Alan Kourie 69
3. Richard Kaschula 59

1980/81 to 1984/85
Seam
1. Vince van der Bijl 152
2. Stephen Jefferies 137
3. Anton Ferreira 117
4. Garth Le Roux 113
5. Rupert Hanley 111
6. Kenny Watson 99
7. Neal Radford 97
8. Sylvester Clarke 76
8. Kenny Cooper 76
10. Clive Rice 74

Spin
1. Alan Kourie 189
2. Denys Hobson 112
3. John Emburey 48

1985/86 to 1989/90
Seam
1. Allan Donald 121
2. Neal Radford 120
3. Stephen Jefferies 104
4. Corrie van Zyl 102
5. Garth Le Roux 98
6. Fanie De Villiers 92
7. Hugh Page 81
8. Rod McCurdy 72
8. Sylvester Clarke 72
10. Brian McMillan 71
11. Eric Simons 70

Spin
1. Tim Shaw 116
2. Dave Rundle 76
2. Willie Morris 76
 
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SeamUp

Hall of Fame Member
1990/91 to 1994/95
Seam
1. Steven Jack 134
2. Steve Elworthy 119
3. Rudi Bryson 118
4. Meyrick Pringle 115
5. Eldine Baptiste 102
6. Franklyn Stephenson 101
7. Fanie de Villiers 98
8. Richard Snell 95
9. Tertius Bosch 93
10. Craig Matthews 90
11. Malcolm Marshall 82
12. Corrie van Zyl 79
13. Peter Rawson 77
14. Allan Donald 70
15. Otis Gibson 67

Spin
1. Clive Eksteen 125
2. Tim Shaw 101
3. Dave Rundle 82
4. Omar Henry 69
 

SeamUp

Hall of Fame Member
Duncan Fletcher's last trophy with WP before getting the England job. 1999 SuperSport Series.

John Commins was the captain for the final v Border as Craig Matthews was injured.

The long time WP captains of the 90s in Simons & Matthews with the trophy as the 'leaders'.

WP team without Matthews & SA Players for the final

Lloyd Ferreira
Brian McMillan
Ashwell Prince
HD Ackerman
John Commins
Renier Munnik
Eric Simons
Paul Kirsten
Alan Dawson
Claude Henderson
Ryan Joffe (only player who didn't have a long domestic career).

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SeamUp

Hall of Fame Member
Brian Lara played 3 games for Northern Transvaal in the 1992/93 B & H Night Series. Here he is, in action v Western Province at Newlands where Dave Rundle bowled him for 36. Phil Simmons got him for 18 v Border & Clive Rice got him for 48 v Natal.

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Scorecards of those games

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SeamUp

Hall of Fame Member
The following players have 10+ Top tier SA Domestic FC 100s from 1950s onwards.

Just a couple of reminders that guys in the 50s probably had more tour games than Currie Cup games. Even carried on into the 60s and a bit of the 70s. Once more teams started coming in the 80s there was more games and then the 90s when even more teams came so opportunity for more games and more 100s.

Although the franchise era was quality of 6 teams and strength v strength. Think 10 games is a good amount of 4-days games for a season.

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SeamUp

Hall of Fame Member
So not included are the great players who played either side of WWII
Dudley Nourse 6 Currie Cup 100s in 50s
Bruce Mitchell
Eric Rowan 4 Currie Cup 100s in 50s
Alan Melville

50s debutants played more tour games
Jackie McGlew 8
John Waite 8
Russell Endean 8
Roy McLean 7

50s/60s/70s guys loyal to their Div 2 team
Buster Farrer (Border)
Denis Lindsay (NE Transvaal)
Neil Rosendorff (OFS)

Picked young or early (modern)
Herschelle Gibbs 9
Graeme Smith 6
Faf du Plessis 6
Jacques Kallis 5
Mark Boucher 4
AB De Villiers 2
Quinton De Kock 2


Currently still playing the format;
Pieter Malan 17
Eddie Moore 12
Khaya Zondo 11
Temba Bavuma 9
Dominic Hendricks 9
Aiden Markram 8
Ryan Rickelton 8
Kyle Verreynne 8
Zubayr Hamza 8
Keegan Petersen 8
Wiaan Mulder 7
Matthew Breetzke 7
Raynard van Tonder 6
Josh Richards 6
Bjorn Fortuin 6
Janneman Malan 6
Tony De Zorzi 5
Jason Smith 5
Marques Ackerman 5
David Bedingham 4
Jordan Hermann 4
Dewald Brevis 4
Lesego Senokwane 4
Neil Brand 4
Mitch van Buuren 4
George Linde 4

Out of interest;
Lhuan-dre Pretorius 3
Tristan Stubbs 2
 
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SeamUp

Hall of Fame Member
Most Top-tier in SA Domestic FC wickets for seamers (debut season) that debuted between 1960 & 1992 (must still do the more modern in it's entirety). Will do a deeper delve but the thread in the other forum gave me the need to put this in.

1. Vince van der Bijl 572
2. Mike Procter 436

3. Clive Rice 366
4. Garth le Roux 358
5. Steve Elworthy 336
6. Meyrick Pringle 314

7. Rupert Hanley 274
8. Eddie Barlow 264
9. Allan Donald 261
10. Eric Simons 250
11. Stephen Jefferies 241
12. Pat Trimborn 237
13. Kenny Watson 227
14. Fanie De Villiers 225
15. Donald Mackay-Coghill 224
16. Dougie Neilson 221
17. Peter Pollock 220
18. Neal Radford 219
19. Peter Swart 207

20. David Brickett 197
21. Rudi Bryson 195
22. Craig Matthews 182
23. Corrie van Zyl 181
24. Steven Jack 161
25. Tertius Bosch 160
26. Anton Ferreira 158
27. Richard Snell 153
28. Brian McMillan 149
29. Kenny Cooper 145
30. Hugh Page 138
* Adrian Kuiper 131
* Brett Schultz 117
 

SeamUp

Hall of Fame Member
This was a great find.

1989/90 England Rebel Tour where the 2nd test was cancelled. This was the SA squad for the first test.

Rice was dropped for Wessels and their feud had been going for EP v Transvaal already.

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Back: Brian McMillan, Allan Donald, Roy Pienaar, Dave Rundle, Kepler Wessels, Richard Snell, Any idea @Stefan9 @StephenZA @Kenneth Viljoen ??

Front: Ray Jennings, Adrian Kuiper, Jimmy Cook (c), Peter Kirsten, Henry Fotheringham

Clive Rice, Trevor Madsen, Mark Rushmere, Daryll Cullinan, Tim Shaw & Fanie De Villiers came in for the One-Dayers.

This was an article trying to guess the squad before hand.

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Ray Jennings Transvaal
Peter Kirsten Western Province
Adrian Kuiper Western Province
Phillip Amm Eastern Province
Jimmy Cook Transvaal
Fanie De Villiers Northern Transvaal
Allan Donald Orange Free State
Henry Fotheringham Natal
Omar Henry Orange Free State
Ken McEwan Eastern Province
Brian McMillan Western Province
Hugh Page Transvaal
Roy Pienaar Transvaal
Clive Rice Transvaal
Dave Richardson Eastern Province
Mike Rindel Northern Transvaal
 
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SeamUp

Hall of Fame Member
With Denys Hobson passing on I thought I would look into how many wrist-spinners took over 100 FC wickets in our top tier system Post WWII and there have only been 6 with McGlashan just short.

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GRAB

State Vice-Captain
Perhaps quite a slog (210 names!), but you only have to guess a name once, and if you guess one surname all players of that surname are counted (per Sporcle tradition as well)... Tie break by average theoretically (I don't think any 11th places were tied?)
Gamified Top 10 list of batters from 2004 (start of franchise era) to 2024/25:
 

GRAB

State Vice-Captain
Data crunching...
In the 21 seasons since the beginning of the franchise era, there have been 94 batters and 94 bowlers each to have reached the top 10 wicket takers / run scorers in a season...
Batters by provincial origin:
1 Central Gauteng 19. 18 from City of Johannesburg (10/8 between Jhb and Sandton) plus 1 from Krugersdorp.
2 Western Province 14 (30 times). Obviously all from CCT, but only 1 from outside the old municipal border, in Bellville).
3 Northern Gauteng 14 (27 times). All from Pretoria itself.
4 Eastern Province 10. 7 PE (plus 1 from Thornhill), 2 from Grahamstown.
5 Free State 9. 8 from Bloem, 1 from Welkom.
6 KZN Coastal. 5. 3 from traditional Durban, 1 each from Westville and Tongaat.
7 Boland 4 (12 times). 3 from Paarl, 1 from Stellenbosch.
8 North West. 4 (10 times). 2 each from Potch and Klerksdorp.
9 Border 4 (9 times). 2 each from East London and Queenstown.
10 KZN Inland. 4 (4 times). 3 from Maritzburg itself and 1 from "Balgowrie".
11 Northern Cape. 3. All 3 from Kimberley
12 Eastern Gauteng. 2. Both from Benoni
13 Limpopo. 1. From Warmbaths
14,15 Zero from Mpumalanga and Garden Route
{1 international, from Bunbury, WA Aus}
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Bowlers by provincial origin:
1 Western Province 16. But only 8 from Cape Town defined narrowly. 3 from Bellville, 2 Brackenfell, 1 each Parow, Kuil's River, Fish Hoek)
2 Eastern Province 14. 10 PE, 2 each Grahamstown and Uitenhage).
3 KZN Coastal. 11. 7 from Central Durban, 2 each Westville and Hillcrest
4 Northern Gauteng. 10. 8 from Pretoria. 2 from Centurion.
5 Free State 7 (13 times). All from Bloem.
6 Central Gauteng 7. (8 times) 6 from City of Johannesburg (3 plus 2 from Sandton and 1 from Roodepoort). 1 from Vereeniging.
7 Border 5. 2 each from EL and King, 1 from Fort Beaufort.
8 Boland 4 (9 times). 2 from Worcester, 1 each from Wellington and Paarl.
9 North-West 4 (6 times). 2 from Rustenburg, 1 each Potch and Klerksdorp.
10 Limpopo 3 (9 times). 2 from Tzaneen, 1 from Phalaborwa.
11 Mpumalanga 3 (6 times). 1 each from Nelspruit, Witbank and Ermelo
12 Eastern Gauteng 3 (4 times). 2 from Alberton, 1 from Springs.
13 KZN Inland 3 (3 times). 1 from Pmb itself, and 1 from Hilton and "Blairgowrie".
14 Northern Cape 2. 1 each from Kimberley and Fraserburg.
15. Garden Route 1. From Oudtshoorn.
{1 international from Lahore, PB Pak}
 

SeamUp

Hall of Fame Member
First-Class seasonal leaders for each discipline from 1960 to current for 'Southern African players'. Must say, I loved doing this.

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SeamUp

Hall of Fame Member
First really great era of Western Province cricket.

Currie Cup Champions 74/75 & this was a young team 76/77 that went on to win the Currie Cup 77/78 again

Lawrence Seeff (Herzlia), Adrian Kuiper (Bishops), Richie Ryall (Bishops), Stephen Jefferies (Plumstead) came in late 70s

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