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Graeme Craig Smith
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| GRAEME SMITH is both South Africa’s youngest captain and its most successful captain of all time. Throughout his career he has maintained a Test batting average around the 50 mark and an ODI average of 40 in spite of the... |
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Abraham Benjamin de Villiers
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| AB De Villiers gave an early indication of his versatility in his debut season against England when he opened the batting, was used in the middle-order and also kept wicket. In addition, it soon became evident that he wa... |
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Alviro Nathan Petersen
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| Alviro Petersen made his ODI debut as far back as 2006 against Zimbabwe and then had to wait another two years for another chance on the tour to Bangladesh in 2008. It looked as though he might never gain regular interna... |
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Ashwell Gavin Prince
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| Ashwell Prince made his Test debut under testing circumstances against a rampant Australia side in 2002 and had to wait until the 2004/05 summer to establish himself as a permanent member of the Castle Lager Test squad w... |
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Colin Alexander Ingram
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| Colin has become a regular member of the Proteas’ Castle Lager ODI squad in a remarkably short space of time, having made his debut against Zimbabwe as recently as October, 2010. It was a star-studded debut, too, as he b... |
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Dale Willem Steyn
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| Dale Steyn has maintained the Proteas’ tradition of producing some of the world’s great fast bowlers and has succeeded the likes of Allan Donald, Shaun Pollock and Makhaya Ntini as the leader of the South African attack.... |
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Francois du Plessis
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| Faf du Plessis forced his way into the Proteas’ ODI line-up during the 2010/11 season through share weight of runs when he hit 3 centuries and made more than 500 runs in the domestic MTN40 competition. He carried this fo... |
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Hashim Mahomed Amla
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| Hashim Amla has made a meteoric rise up the batting rankings in both Test match and ODI cricket over the course of the past 3 years. He has scored 11 Test match centuries during that period and another 8 in the limited o... |
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Jacques Henry Kallis
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| Jacques Kallis is unquestionably the greatest South African cricketer of the modern era and probably the greatest of all time as well. It is not just his statistics that make this claim. He has scored more than 11 000 ru... |
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Jean-Paul Duminy
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| JP DUMINY was identified as a star for the future at a young age and it came as no surprise when he made his Test debut against Australia in 2008 with a stunning contribution to an historic series win. Called up as a rep... |
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Johan Botha
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| Johan Botha made his Test debut during the 2005-06 season against Australia but, after only one Test, found the legality of his action placed under scrutiny. This has, in fact, happened to him on no fewer than 3 occasion... |
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Johannes Albertus Morkel
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| Albie Morkel is a fearsome and devastating big hitter with incredible bat speed that has often seen him compared with Lance Klusener – and with good reason. He has a strike rate of 100 in the ODI format and an incredible... |
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Juan Theron
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| Rusty Theron has come to light as a key contributor to the success of the Chevrolet Warriors in the past few seasons. His ability to bowl Yorkers and produce effective changes of pace has made him renowned as a death bow... |
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Lonwabo Lennox Tsotsobe
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| After a couple of consistent seasons for the Chevrolet Warriors at franchise level Lopsy Tsotsobe made his international debut in both T20 and ODI cricket in the series in Australia in 2009 and was an instant success, ta... |
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Lungile Loots Bosman
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| Loots Bosman is an explosive opening batsman in limited overs cricket and a middle-order batsman in the first-class game. He came within centimetres of becoming the first Protea to score a T20 International century when ... |
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Mark Verdon Boucher
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| MARK BOUCHER is statistically the greatest wicketkeeper the world has ever seen. He holds the unique distinction of making more than 500 dismissals in Test match cricket and needs one more catch to have 500 catches in ad... |
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Mohammad Imran Tahir
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| Imran has had to wait a long time to represent his adopted country but, once the time came, his desire knew no limits. After qualifying as a naturalised South African on January 1, 2011, he was immediately chosen for the... |
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Morne Morkel
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| Morne Morkel is one of the tallest bowlers ever to represent South Africa and the combination of the bounce he is able to achieve and the skiddy away swing of Dale Steyn, both at high pace, gives the Proteas one of the m... |
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Paul Lee Harris
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| Paul Harris has been the Proteas’ first-choice Test spin bowler since making his debut against India in 2007 although he now faces fresh challenges from Imran Tahir and Robin Peterson. He has been used mainly in a holdin... |
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Robin John Peterson
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| Robin Peterson has made 6 Test match appearances and all 6 have been in different series. He made his debut against Bangladesh in 2003, taking 5 wickets, and made his last appearance also against Bangladesh in 2008, when... |
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Ryan McLaren
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| Ryan McLaren’s debut for the Proteas was delayed for at least a year by his county commitments to Kent and, in fact, he might have made his debut even earlier after taking 50 domestic first-class wickets in the 2006-07 s... |
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Wayne Dillon Parnell
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| Wayne Parnell was singled out as a player for higher honours at a young age when he was selected to represent South Africa at the ICC under-19 World Cup in Sri Lanka in 2006. He was back two years later in Bangladesh as ... |
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