List of South Africa women Test cricketers
Encyclopedia
A women's Test match
is an international four-innings cricket match held over a maximum of four days between two of the leading cricketing nations. Women's cricket
was played in South Africa
fairly regularly throughout the beginning of the 20th century, but died out during the Second World War. It was revived in 1949 by a group of enthusiasts, and in 1951 Netta Rheinberg
, on behalf of the Women's Cricket Association
, suggested that a South Africa Women's Cricket Association be formed, and encouraged the possibility that a series of matches could be played between the two associations. The South Africa & Rhodesian Women's Cricket Association (SA&RWCA) was officially formed in 1952. At their annual general meeting
in January 1955, the SA&RWCA accepted an invitation from the Women's Cricket Association to join an International Women's Cricket Council
that, in addition to South Africa, included England, Australia and New Zealand. They also agreed that international matches would be played between the four nations. In 1959, arrangements were made for the first international women's cricket tour of South Africa, as they would play host to the English team in 1960.
The first Test involving South Africa women was held at St George's Park
, Port Elizabeth, the same venue as the one for first men's Test match in the country in 1889, and ended in a draw. South Africa then played a subsequent series against New Zealand
in 1971–72. As part of the international campaign against apartheid, the Commonwealth of Nations
signed the Gleneagles Agreement
in 1977, excluding South Africa from competing in international sporting events. Because of this exclusion, they did not play another Test until hosting India in 2001–02, before facing England again in 2003 and most recently the Netherlands in 2007.
South Africa have played eleven Test matches, seven of which were played pre-exclusion, and four of them post-exclusion. Two players, Jennifer Gove
and Lorna Ward
, have played all seven matches pre-exclusion, and two others, Cri-zelda Brits
and Daleen Terblanche
, have played all four since. Yvonne van Mentz
and Brenda Williams
are the only South African women to have scored Test centuries, while Jean McNaughton
, Lorna Ward and Sunette Loubser
have all taken five-wicket hauls; Ward has done so on three occasions. This list contains every woman who has played Test cricket for South Africa. The list is initially arranged in the order in which each player won her Test cap. Where more than one player won her first Test cap in the same Test match, those players are initially listed alphabetically by the surname the player was using at the time of the match.
Women's Test cricket
Women's Test cricket is the longest format of women's cricket and is the gender equivalent to men's Test cricket. Matches comprise four-innings and are held over a maximum of four days between two of the leading cricketing nations...
is an international four-innings cricket match held over a maximum of four days between two of the leading cricketing nations. Women's cricket
Women's cricket
Women's cricket is the form of the team sport of cricket that is played by women.-History:The first recorded match of women's cricket was reported in The Reading Mercury on 26 July 1745, a match contested "between eleven maids of Bramley and eleven maids of Hambledon, all dressed in white." The...
was played in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
fairly regularly throughout the beginning of the 20th century, but died out during the Second World War. It was revived in 1949 by a group of enthusiasts, and in 1951 Netta Rheinberg
Netta Rheinberg
Netta Rheinberg MBE played for the English women's cricket team in a single Test, but was a notable figure in the women's game as an administrator and journalist. Rachael Heyhoe-Flint, the former England captain, said of her work as an administrator, "Netta was an action girl...
, on behalf of the Women's Cricket Association
Women's Cricket Association
The Women's Cricket Association was responsible for the running of women's cricket in England between 1926 and 1998. It was formed by a group of enthusiasts following a cricket holiday in Malvern...
, suggested that a South Africa Women's Cricket Association be formed, and encouraged the possibility that a series of matches could be played between the two associations. The South Africa & Rhodesian Women's Cricket Association (SA&RWCA) was officially formed in 1952. At their annual general meeting
Annual general meeting
An annual general meeting is a meeting that official bodies, and associations involving the public , are often required by law to hold...
in January 1955, the SA&RWCA accepted an invitation from the Women's Cricket Association to join an International Women's Cricket Council
International Women's Cricket Council
The International Women's Cricket Council was formed in 1958 by the women's cricket associations of Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa to organise international matches between the four nations....
that, in addition to South Africa, included England, Australia and New Zealand. They also agreed that international matches would be played between the four nations. In 1959, arrangements were made for the first international women's cricket tour of South Africa, as they would play host to the English team in 1960.
The first Test involving South Africa women was held at St George's Park
Sahara Oval St George's
St George’s Park Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in St George's Park, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. It is the home of the Port Elizabeth Cricket Club, one of the oldest cricket clubs in South Africa, and the Eastern Province Club...
, Port Elizabeth, the same venue as the one for first men's Test match in the country in 1889, and ended in a draw. South Africa then played a subsequent series against New Zealand
New Zealand women's cricket team
The New Zealand women's cricket team played their first Test match in 1935, when they lost to England. Since then they have only won two Tests, once against Australia, and once against South Africa....
in 1971–72. As part of the international campaign against apartheid, the Commonwealth of Nations
Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of fifty-four independent member states...
signed the Gleneagles Agreement
Gleneagles Agreement
The Gleneagles Agreement was unanimously approved by the Commonwealth of Nations at a meeting at Gleneagles, Auchterarder, Scotland. In 1977, Commonwealth Presidents and Prime Ministers agreed, as part of their support for the international campaign against apartheid, to discourage contact and...
in 1977, excluding South Africa from competing in international sporting events. Because of this exclusion, they did not play another Test until hosting India in 2001–02, before facing England again in 2003 and most recently the Netherlands in 2007.
South Africa have played eleven Test matches, seven of which were played pre-exclusion, and four of them post-exclusion. Two players, Jennifer Gove
Jennifer Gove
Jennifer Anne Gove is a former South Africa women's Test cricketer. She made seven Test appearances for South Africa between 1960 and 1972, with her 256 runs making her the leading Test run-scorer for her country....
and Lorna Ward
Lorna Ward
Lorna Grace Ward is a former South Africa Test cricketer. She is South Africa's leading wicket-taker in women's Test cricket, having claimed 27 wickets in her seven Test appearances, and taking five-wicket hauls on three occasions. She played in South Africa's first match in Test cricket at St...
, have played all seven matches pre-exclusion, and two others, Cri-zelda Brits
Cri-Zelda Brits
Cri-Zelda Brits, also written Crizelda Brits and Cri-zelda Brits is an international cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler, Brits was originally called up to the South Africa national women's cricket team as an opening bowler in 2002...
and Daleen Terblanche
Daleen Terblanche
Magdalena Terblanche , generally known as Daleen Terblanche, is a former South African cricketer...
, have played all four since. Yvonne van Mentz
Yvonne van Mentz
Yvonne van Mentz is a former South African cricketer. She scored South Africa's first century in Women's Test cricket, with an unbeaten 105 against England in the fourth Test played during the 1960/61 season. An all-rounder, she played four Test matches for South Africa, taking eight wickets and...
and Brenda Williams
Brenda Williams
Brenda Glynis Williams is a former South African cricketer. She scored South Africa's second century in Women's Test cricket, with 100 against New Zealand in the third Test played during the 1971/72 season. A right-handed bat and right-arm off break bowler, she played two Test matches for South...
are the only South African women to have scored Test centuries, while Jean McNaughton
Jean McNaughton
Jean Fay Field is a former Southern Transvaal and South Africa Test cricketer. A right-arm medium-fast bowler and tail-end right-handed batsman, McNaughton made three Test appearances for her country...
, Lorna Ward and Sunette Loubser
Sunette Loubser
Sunette Loubser is a South African cricketer and the current captain of the South African national women's cricket team....
have all taken five-wicket hauls; Ward has done so on three occasions. This list contains every woman who has played Test cricket for South Africa. The list is initially arranged in the order in which each player won her Test cap. Where more than one player won her first Test cap in the same Test match, those players are initially listed alphabetically by the surname the player was using at the time of the match.
Key
General – Captain Captain (cricket) The captain of a cricket team often referred to as the skipper is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player... – Wicket-keeper Wicket-keeper The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being guarded by the batsman currently on strike...
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Batting Batting (cricket) In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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Bowling Bowling (cricket) In the sport of cricket, bowling is the action of propelling the ball toward the wicket defended by a batsman. A player skilled at bowling is called a bowler; a bowler who is also a competent batsman is known as an all-rounder...
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Fielding Fielding (cricket) Fielding in the sport of cricket is the action of fielders in collecting the ball after it is struck by the batsman, in such a way as to either limit the number of runs that the batsman scores or get the batsman out by catching the ball in flight or running the batsman out.Cricket fielding position...
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Test cricketers
| No. | Name | First | Last | Mat | Inn Innings An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably cricket and baseball during which one team attempts to score while the other team attempts to prevent the first from scoring. In cricket, the term innings is both singular and plural and is... |
NO Not out In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress... |
Runs Run (cricket) In the sport of cricket, a run is the basic unit of scoring. Runs are scored by a batsman, and the aggregate of the scores of a team's batsmen constitutes the team's score. A batsman scoring 50 or 100 runs , or any higher multiple of 50 runs, is considered a particular achievement... |
HS | 100 Century (cricket) In the sport of cricket, a batsman reaches his century when he scores 100 or more runs in a single innings. The term is also included in "century partnership" which occurs when two batsmen add 100 runs to the team total when they are batting together. A century is regarded as a landmark score for... |
50 | Avg Batting average Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball that measures the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters. The two statistics are related in that baseball averages are directly descended from the concept of cricket averages.- Cricket :... |
Balls Delivery (cricket) A delivery or ball in cricket is a single action of bowling a cricket ball towards the batsman.During play of the game, a member of the fielding team is designated as the bowler, and bowls deliveries towards the batsman... |
Wkt | BBI | BBM | Ave Bowling average Bowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket.A bowler's bowling average is defined as the total number of runs conceded by the bowlers divided by the number of wickets taken by the bowler, so the lower the average the better. It is similar to earned... |
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| Batting Batting (cricket) In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke... |
Bowling Bowling (cricket) In the sport of cricket, bowling is the action of propelling the ball toward the wicket defended by a batsman. A player skilled at bowling is called a bowler; a bowler who is also a competent batsman is known as an all-rounder... |
Fielding Fielding (cricket) Fielding in the sport of cricket is the action of fielders in collecting the ball after it is struck by the batsman, in such a way as to either limit the number of runs that the batsman scores or get the batsman out by catching the ball in flight or running the batsman out.Cricket fielding position... |
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| 1 | 1960 | 1961 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 65 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | |||
| 2 | 1960 | 1972 | 7 | 14 | 4 | 256 | 0 | 1 | 683 | 9 | 10 | 0 | ||||||
| 3 | 1960 | 1961 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| 4 | 1960 | 1961 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 240 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | |||
| 5 | 1960 | 1961 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | |||
| 6 | 1960 | 1961 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 144 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 7 | 1960 | 1960 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 65 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | |||
| 8 | 1960 | 1961 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 276 | 6 | 4 | 0 | ||||||
| 9 | 1960 | 1961 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 211 | 0 | 2 | 174 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 10 | 1960 | 1961 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 186 | 1 | 0 | 565 | 8 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 11 | 1960 | 1972 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 1,420 | 27 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| 12 | 1960 | 1961 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 177 | 0 | 2 | 462 | 2 | 4 | 0 | ||||||
| 13 | 1960 | 1972 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 814 | 8 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| 14 | 1960 | 1961 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | |||
| 15 | 1961 | 1961 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||
| 16 | 1972 | 1972 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 139 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | – | – | – | 3 | 0 | |||
| 17 | 1972 | 1972 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 184 | 0 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 9 | 0 | |||
| 18 | 1972 | 1972 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | |||
| 19 | 1972 | 1972 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 108 | 0 | 0 | 270 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| 20 | 1972 | 1972 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 420 | 3 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| 21 | 1972 | 1972 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | |||
| 22 | 1972 | 1972 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 660 | 5 | 3 | 0 | ||||||
| 23 | 1972 | 1972 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 686 | 12 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| 24 | 1972 | 1972 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 46 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | |||
| 25 | 1972 | 1972 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 162 | 1 | 0 | 120 | 0 | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | |||
| 26 | 2002 | 2003 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 93 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 3 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| 27 | 2002 | 2007 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 150 | 0 | 1 | 507 | 6 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| 28 | 2002 | 2002 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 228 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| 29 | 2002 | 2003 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 239 | 0 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 0 | |||
| 30 | 2002 | 2002 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 144 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| 31 | 2002 | 2002 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | |||
| 32 | 2002 | 2002 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 0 | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | |||
| 33 | 2002 | 2007 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 186 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 0 | – | – | – | 3 | 0 | |||
| 34 | 2002 | 2003 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 79 | 0 | 1 | 462 | 3 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| 35 | 2002 | 2003 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 258 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 36 | 2002 | 2002 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 88 | 0 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | |||
| 37 | 2003 | 2003 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 54 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | |||
| 38 | 2003 | 2003 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 276 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 39 | 2003 | 2007 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 109 | 0 | 1 | 162 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 40 | 2003 | 2007 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 336 | 4 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| 41 | 2003 | 2003 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 159 | 0 | 1 | 240 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 42 | 2003 | 2003 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | |||
| 43 | 2007 | 2007 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| 44 | 2007 | 2007 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | |||
| 45 | 2007 | 2007 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 150 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 46 | 2007 | 2007 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 0 | 0 | – | 66 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||
| 47 | 2007 | 2007 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 0 | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | |||
| 48 | 2007 | 2007 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 327 | 8 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 49 | 2007 | 2007 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 108 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
Test captains
| No. | Name | First | Last | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | Draw | Win% |
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| 1 | 1960 | 1961 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0% | |
| 2 | 1972 | 1972 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0% | |
| 3 | 2002 | 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0% | |
| 4 | 2003 | 2003 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0% | |
| 5 | 2007 | 2007 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | |
| Total | 1960 | 2007 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 9.09% | |