Richard Peter Snell is a former cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er who played five Tests

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

 and 42 One Day Internationals for South Africa. He played for Transvaal

Transvaal cricket team

Gauteng cricket team is the first-class cricket team of the province of Gauteng in South Africa....

 in the early 90's forming a formidable opening pair with Steven Jack

Steven Jack

Steven Douglas Jack is a former South African cricketer who played in two Tests and two ODIs from 1994 to 1995. He was a fast, aggressive bowler and formed a formidable opening partnership with Richard Snell for Transvaal in the early 1990s, as they tried to recapture the glory of the 'Mean...

. He became famous for tight bowling at the death of Limited overs games, after an incident where he bowled a no-ball when Natal needed 7 to win off the last ball of a game. He took South Africa's first Test wicket after they were re-admitted to international cricket.