List of South Africa national cricket captains - wikipedia List of South Africa national cricket captains South Africa played its first Test match in cricket in 1889 against England at Port Elizabeth, becoming the third Test nation after England and Australia. This is a list of the men and women who have been the official South African captains in cricket. South Africa was a founder member of the International Cricket Council in 1909. However, the South African team did not play official Test cricket from 1970 to 1991, having been suspended from membership the ICC as a result of controversy over apartheid ( most particularly the reaction to the Basil d'Oliveira affair ). There were a number of rebel tours to South Africa in the intervening period, but none of the matches are recognised as official Test matches and they are not include here. South Africa rejoined the ICC, and resumed playing official Test cricket, in 1991. Contents 1 Men 's Cricket 1.1 Test match captains 1.2 ODI captains 1.3 Twenty20 International captains 2 Youth cricket 2.1 Test match captains 2.2 Youth One - day International captains 3 Women 's cricket 3.1 Women 's Test match captains 3.2 Women 's One - Day International captains 3.3 Women 's Twenty20 Internationals 4 See also 5 References Men 's cricket Test match captains This is a list of cricketers who have captained the South African cricket team for at least one Test match. The table of results is complete up to the third Test against Australia in November 2016. Where a player has a dagger ( † ) next to a Test match series in which he captained at least one Test, that denotes that player deputised for the appointed captain or were appointed by the home authority for a minor proportion in a series. The dagger classification follows that adopted by Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack. South African Test match captains Number Name Season Report Opposition Location Played Won Lost Drawn Owen Dunell 1888 -- 89 Report England South Africa 0 0 William Milton 1888 -- 89 Report England South Africa 0 0 1891 -- 92 Report England South Africa 0 0 Total 0 0 Ernest Halliwell 1895 -- 96 Report England South Africa 0 0 1902 -- 03 Report Australia South Africa 0 0 Total 0 0 Alfred Richards 1895 -- 96 † Report England South Africa 0 0 5 Murray Bisset 1898 -- 99 Report England South Africa 0 0 6 Henry Taberer 1902 -- 03 Report Australia South Africa 0 0 7 Biddy Anderson 1902 -- 03 Report Australia South Africa 0 0 8 Percy Sherwell 1905 -- 06 Report England South Africa 5 0 1907 Report England England 0 1910 -- 11 Report Australia Australia 5 0 Total 13 5 6 9 Tip Snooke 1909 -- 10 Report England South Africa 5 0 10 Frank Mitchell 1912 Report Australia England 0 0 1912 Report England England 0 0 Total 0 0 11 Louis Tancred 1912 Report England England 0 0 1912 Report Australia England 0 0 Total 0 12 Herbie Taylor 1913 -- 14 Report England South Africa 5 0 1921 -- 22 Report Australia South Africa 0 1922 -- 23 Report England South Africa 5 1924 Report England England 5 0 Total 18 10 7 13 Nummy Deane 1927 -- 28 Report England South Africa 5 1929 Report England England 5 0 1930 -- 31 Report England South Africa 0 0 Total 12 6 14 Buster Nupen 1930 -- 31 † Report England South Africa 0 0 15 Jock Cameron 1930 -- 31 Report England South Africa 0 0 1931 -- 32 Report Australia Australia 5 0 5 0 1931 -- 32 Report New Zealand New Zealand 0 0 Total 9 5 16 Herbie Wade 1935 Report England England 5 0 1935 -- 36 Report Australia South Africa 5 0 Total 10 5 17 Alan Melville 1938 -- 39 Report England South Africa 5 0 1947 Report England England 5 0 Total 10 0 6 18 Dudley Nourse 1948 -- 49 Report England South Africa 5 0 1949 -- 50 Report Australia South Africa 5 0 1951 Report England England 5 Total 15 9 5 19 Jack Cheetham 1952 -- 53 Report Australia Australia 5 1952 -- 53 Report New Zealand New Zealand 0 1953 -- 54 Report New Zealand South Africa 5 0 1955 Report England England 0 0 Total 15 7 5 20 Jackie McGlew 1955 † Report England England 0 0 1956 -- 57 † Report England South Africa 0 0 1957 -- 58 † Report Australia South Africa 0 0 1960 Report England England 5 0 1961 -- 62 Report New Zealand South Africa 5 Total 14 6 21 Clive van Ryneveld 1956 -- 57 Report England South Africa 1957 -- 58 Report Australia South Africa 0 Total 8 22 Trevor Goddard 1963 -- 64 Report Australia Australia 5 1963 -- 64 Report New Zealand New Zealand 0 0 1964 -- 65 Report England South Africa 5 0 Total 13 10 23 Peter van der Merwe 1965 Report England England 0 1966 -- 67 Report Australia South Africa 5 Total 8 24 Ali Bacher 1969 -- 70 Report Australia South Africa 0 0 25 Kepler Wessels 1991 -- 92 Report West Indies West Indies 0 0 1992 -- 93 Report India South Africa 0 1993 -- 94 Report Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 0 1993 -- 94 Report Australia Australia 0 1993 -- 94 Report Australia South Africa Report England England Total 16 5 8 26 Hansie Cronje 1993 -- 94 † Report Australia Australia 0 0 1994 -- 95 Report New Zealand South Africa 0 1994 -- 95 Report Pakistan South Africa 0 0 1994 -- 95 Report New Zealand New Zealand 0 0 1995 -- 96 Report Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 0 0 1995 -- 96 Report England South Africa 5 0 1996 -- 97 Report India India 0 1996 -- 97 Report India South Africa 0 1996 -- 97 Report Australia South Africa 0 1997 -- 98 Report Pakistan Pakistan 0 1997 -- 98 Report Australia Australia 0 1997 -- 98 Report Pakistan South Africa 0 1997 -- 98 Report Sri Lanka South Africa 0 0 1998 Report England England 5 1998 -- 99 Report West Indies South Africa 5 5 0 0 1998 -- 99 Report New Zealand New Zealand 0 1999 -- 00 Report Zimbabwe South Africa 0 0 1999 -- 00 Report Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 0 0 1999 -- 00 Report England South Africa 5 1999 -- 00 Report India India 0 0 Total 53 27 11 15 27 Gary Kirsten 1997 - 98 † Report Pakistan South Africa 0 0 28 Shaun Pollock 2000 -- 01 Report Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 2000 -- 01 Report New Zealand South Africa 0 2000 -- 01 Report Sri Lanka South Africa 0 2000 -- 01 Report West Indies West Indies 5 2001 -- 02 Report Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 0 2001 -- 02 Report India South Africa 0 2001 -- 02 Report Australia Australia 0 0 2002 -- 03 Report Bangladesh South Africa 0 0 2002 -- 03 Report Sri Lanka South Africa 0 0 2002 -- 03 Report Pakistan South Africa 0 0 Total 26 14 5 7 29 Mark Boucher 2001 -- 02 Report Australia South Africa 0 2002 -- 03 † Report Bangladesh South Africa 0 0 Total 0 30 Graeme Smith 2003 Report Bangladesh Bangladesh 0 0 2003 Report England England 5 2003 -- 04 Report Pakistan Pakistan 0 2003 -- 04 Report West Indies South Africa 0 2003 -- 04 Report New Zealand New Zealand Report Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 0 2004 -- 05 Report India India 0 2004 -- 05 Report England South Africa 5 2004 -- 05 Report Zimbabwe South Africa 0 0 2005 Report West Indies West Indies 0 2005 -- 06 Report Australia Australia 0 2005 -- 06 Report Australia South Africa 0 0 2005 -- 06 Report New Zealand South Africa 0 2006 -- 07 Report India South Africa 0 2006 -- 07 Report Pakistan South Africa 0 2007 -- 08 Report Pakistan Pakistan 0 2007 -- 08 Report New Zealand South Africa 0 0 2007 -- 08 Report West Indies South Africa 0 2007 -- 08 Report Bangladesh Bangladesh 0 0 2007 -- 08 Report India India 2008 Report England England 2008 -- 09 Report Bangladesh South Africa 0 0 2008 -- 09 Report Australia Australia 0 2008 -- 09 Report Australia South Africa 0 0 2009 -- 10 Report England South Africa 2009 -- 10 Report India India 0 Report West Indies West Indies 0 2010 -- 11 Report Pakistan UAE 0 0 2010 -- 11 Report India South Africa 2011 -- 12 Report Australia South Africa 0 2011 -- 12 Report Sri Lanka South Africa 0 2011 -- 12 Report New Zealand New Zealand 0 2012 Report England England 0 2012 -- 13 Report Australia Australia 0 2012 -- 13 Report New Zealand South Africa 0 0 2012 -- 13 Report Pakistan South Africa 0 0 2013 -- 14 Report Pakistan UAE 0 2013 -- 14 Report India South Africa 0 2013 -- 14 Report Australia South Africa 0 Total 108 53 28 27 31 Jacques Kallis 2005 -- 06 † Report Australia South Africa 0 0 2008 -- 09 † Report Australia South Africa 0 0 Total 0 32 Ashwell Prince 2006 Report Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 0 0 33 Hashim Amla 2014 Report Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 0 2014 Report Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 0 0 2014 -- 15 Report West Indies South Africa 0 2015 Report Bangladesh Bangladesh 0 0 2015 -- 16 Report India India 0 2015 -- 16 Report England South Africa 0 Total 14 6 34 AB de Villiers 2015 -- 16 Report England South Africa 0 35 Faf du Plessis 2016 † Report New Zealand South Africa 0 2016 -- 17 † Report Australia Australia 0 2016 - 17 Report Sri Lanka South Africa 0 0 2016 - 17 Report New Zealand New Zealand 0 2017 Report England England 0 Total 15 8 Grand total 415 153 139 124 ODI captains This is a complete list of every man who has captained South Africa in at least one One Day International. It is complete up to the ODI against Australia at Newlands, Cape Town on 12 October 2016. South African ODI captains Number Name Years Played Won Lost Tied No result % won Clive Rice 1991 0 0 33.33 Kepler Wessels 1992 -- 1994 52 20 30 0 40.00 Hansie Cronje 1994 -- 2000 138 99 35 73.70 Shaun Pollock 2000 -- 2005 92 59 29 66.48 5 Graeme Smith 2003 -- 2011 149 92 51 5 64.23 6 Mark Boucher † 2003 0 0 0 100.00 7 Nicky Boje † 2005 0 0 0 100.00 8 Jacques Kallis 2006 -- 2010 13 6 6 0 50.00 9 Johan Botha 2008 - 2010 10 8 0 0 80.00 10 Hashim Amla 2011 -- 2015 9 5 0 0 44.44 11 AB de Villiers 2012 -- 2017 103 59 39 59.59 12 Faf du Plessis † 2013 -- present 9 8 0 0 88.88 Grand total 580 358 200 6 16 63.47 Twenty20 International captains This is a list of cricketers who have captained South Africa for at least one Twenty20 International. Updated on 26 October 2017. South Africa Twenty20 International captains Number Name Period of captaincy Played Won Lost Tied No result % won Graeme Smith 2005 -- 2010 27 18 9 0 0 66.66 Shaun Pollock 2007 0 0 0 0.00 Johan Botha 2008 -- 2012 11 8 0 0 72.72 Hashim Amla 2011 0 0 50.00 5 AB de Villiers 2012 -- 2017 18 8 9 0 47.05 6 Francois du Plessis 2012 -- present 32 19 13 0 0 59.37 7 JP Duminy 2014, 2017 0 0 50.00 8 Justin Ontong 2015 0 0 0 100.0 9 Farhaan Behardien 2017 0 0 33.33 Grand total 99 58 40 0 58.58 Youth cricket Test match captains This is a list of cricketers who have captained the South African U-19 cricket team for at least one under - 19 Test match. The table of results is complete to the away second Test against England in August 2014. Where a player has a dagger ( † ) next to a Test match series in which he captained at least one Test, that denotes that player was captain for a minor proportion in a series. South African Under - 19 Test match captains Number Name Year Opposition Location Played Won Lost Drawn Neil McKenzie 1995 England England 0 Douglas Gain India India Philip Hearle 1997 Pakistan South Africa 0 Matthew Street 1997 England South Africa 0 0 5 Thami Tsolekile 1999 Pakistan Pakistan 0 6 Rivash Gobind 2001 New Zealand New Zealand 0 7 Imraan Khan 2003 England England 0 8 Wayne Parnell 2007 / 08 Bangladesh South Africa 0 0 2008 India South Africa 0 0 Total 0 0 9 Jonathan Vandiar 2008 India South Africa 0 0 10 Diego Rosier 2013 England South Africa 0 11 Sibonelo Makhanya 2014 England England 0 0 Grand total 27 10 13 Youth one - Day International captains This is a list of cricketers who have captained the South African Under - 19 cricket team for at least one Under - 19 One Day International. The table of results is complete up to the conclusion of the 2016 Under - 19 Cricket World Cup on February 2016. South African Under - 19 ODI captains Number Name Year Played Won Lost No result Neil McKenzie 1995 0 0 Douglas Gain 0 0 Wade Wingfield 1997 0 0 Philip Hearle 1997 0 5 Matthew Street 1998 8 7 0 6 Thami Tsolekile 1999 -- 2000 9 5 7 Johan Botha 2001 0 8 Rivash Gobind 2001 0 0 9 Hashim Amla 2002 8 5 0 10 Imraan Khan 2003 0 11 Divan van Wyk 6 0 12 Dean Elgar 2005 -- 2006 10 7 0 13 Jonathan Vandiar 2008 -- 2009 6 0 14 Wayne Parnell 2008 8 0 15 Josh Richards 2009 - 2010 9 6 0 16 Keaton Jennings 2010 - 2011 16 13 17 Shaylen Pillay 2011 0 0 18 Quinton de Kock 2012 9 5 0 20 Prenelan Subrayen 2012 0 0 21 Chad Bowes 2012 6 5 0 22 Diego Rosier 2013 0 0 23 Yaseen Valli 2013 5 0 24 Aiden Markram 2013 - 2014 8 8 0 0 25 Sibonelo Makhanya 2014 -- 2015 9 0 9 0 26 Marques Ackerman 2014 0 0 27 Tony de Zorzi 2015 -- 2016 13 6 7 0 28 Kyle Verreynne 2015 0 0 29 Willem Ludick 2015 0 0 Grand total 152 86 62 Women 's cricket Women 's Test match captains This is a list of cricketers who have captained the South African women 's cricket team for at least one women 's Test match. Where a player has a dagger ( † ) next to a Test match series in which she captained at least one Test, that denotes that player was captain for a minor proportion in a series. South African women 's Test captains Number Name Season Opposition Location Played Won Lost Drawn W % Sheelagh Nefdt 1960 -- 1961 England South Africa 0 0.00 Maureen Payne 1972 New Zealand South Africa 0 0.00 Cindy Eksteen 2002 India South Africa 0 0 0.00 Alison Hodgkinson 2003 England England 0 0.00 5 Cri - Zelda Brits 2007 Netherlands Netherlands 0 0 100.00 6 Mignon du Preez 2014 India India 0 0 0.00 Grand total 12 5 6 8.33 Women 's one - Day International captains This is a list of cricketers who have captained the South African women 's cricket team for at least one women 's one - day international. It is complete up to the ODI against West Indies at Buffalo Park, East London on 29 February 2016. South African women 's ODI captains Number Name Year Played Won Lost Tied No result W % Kim Price 1997 -- 2000 26 13 12 0 52.00 Linda Olivier 1999 0 0 0 0.00 Cindy Eksteen 1999 -- 2002 6 0 40.00 Alison Hodgkinson 2003 -- 2005 19 14 0 22.22 5 Cri - zelda Brits 2007 -- 2011 23 16 6 0 72.72 6 Sunette Loubser 2009 7 0 50.00 7 Alicia Smith 2009 0 0 0 0.00 8 Mignon du Preez 2011 -- 2016 46 24 19 0 55.81 9 Dane van Niekerk 2016 -- present -- -- -- -- -- -- Grand total 131 62 61 7 50.40 Women 's Twenty20 internationals This is a list of cricketers who have captained the South African women 's cricket team for at least one Women 's Twenty20 International. It is complete up to the T20I against Ireland at the YMCA Cricket Club, Dublin on 3 August 2016. South African women 's T20I captains Number Name Year Played Won Lost Tied No result W % Cri - zelda Brits 2007 -- 2010 12 9 0 0 25.00 Sunette Loubser 2009 5 0 5 0 0 0.00 Alicia Smith 2009 0 0 0 0.00 Mignon du Preez 2011 -- 2016 50 24 25 0 48.97 5 Dane van Niekerk 2014 -- present 0 0 0 100.00 6 Dinesha Devnarain 2016 0 0 50.00 Grand total 71 29 41 0 41.42 See also List of South African Test cricketers List of South African ODI cricketers References Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack Cricinfo StatsGuru CricketArchive Jump up ^ `` List of captains : South Africa -- Tests ''. Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 February 2016. Jump up ^ `` List of captains : South Africa -- ODIs ''. Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 February 2016. Jump up ^ `` List of captains : South Africa -- T20 ''. Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 February 2016. Jump up ^ `` List of captains : South Africa Under - 19s -- Tests ''. Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 February 2016. Jump up ^ `` List of captains : South Africa Under - 19s -- ODIs ''. Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 February 2016. Jump up ^ `` List of captains : South Africa women -- Tests ''. Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 February 2016. Jump up ^ `` List of captains : South Africa women -- ODI ''. Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 February 2016. Jump up ^ `` List of captains : South Africa women -- T20 ''. Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 February 2016. South Africa Test cricket captains 1888 / 89 : Dunell 1888 / 89 -- 1891 / 92 : Milton 1895 / 96 -- 1902 / 03 : Halliwell 1895 / 96 : Richards 1898 / 99 : Bisset 1902 / 03 : Taberer 1902 / 03 : Anderson 1905 / 06 -- 1910 / 11 : Sherwell 1909 / 10 : Snooke 1912 : Mitchell 1912 : Tancred 1913 / 14 -- 1924 : Taylor 1927 / 28 -- 1930 / 31 : Deane 1930 / 31 : Nupen 1930 / 31 -- 1931 / 32 : Cameron 1935 -- 1935 / 36 : Wade 1938 / 39 -- 1947 : Melville 1948 / 49 -- 1951 : Nourse 1952 / 53 -- 1955 : Cheetham 1955 ; 1956 / 57 ; 1957 / 58 ; 1960 -- 1961 / 62 : McGlew 1956 / 57 -- 1957 / 58 : van Ryneveld 1963 / 64 -- 1964 / 65 : Goddard 1965 -- 1966 / 67 : van der Merwe 1969 / 70 : Bacher 1991 / 92 -- 1994 : Wessels 1993 / 94 ; 1994 / 95 -- 1999 / 00 : Cronje 1997 / 98 : Kirsten 2000 / 01 -- 2002 / 03 : Pollock 2001 / 02 ; 2002 / 03 : Boucher 2003 -- 2014 : Smith 2005 / 06 ; 2008 / 09 : Kallis 2006 : Prince 2014 -- 2015 / 16 : Amla 2015 / 16 : de Villiers 2017 -- : du Plessis 2017 : Elgar Italics denote deputised captaincy South Africa ODI cricket captains 1991 : Rice 1992 -- 1994 : Wessels 1994 -- 2000 : Cronje 2000 -- 2005 : Pollock 2003 -- 2011 : Smith 2003 : Boucher 2005 : Boje 2006 -- 2008 : Kallis 2008 -- 2009 : Botha 2011 -- 2012 : Amla 2012 -- 2017 : de Villiers 2016 - : du Plessis Italics denote deputised captaincy South Africa T20I cricket captains 2005 -- 2009 : Graeme Smith 2007 : Shaun Pollock 2008 -- 2009 : Johan Botha 2011 -- 2012 : Hashim Amla 2012 -- 2013 : AB de Villiers 2013 -- Faf du Plessis 2017 : Farhaan Behardien National cricket captains Test nations Australia Bangladesh England India New Zealand Pakistan South Africa Sri Lanka West Indies Zimbabwe ODI nations Afghanistan Bermuda Canada East Africa Hong Kong Ireland Kenya Namibia Nepal Netherlands Oman PNG Scotland United Arab Emirates United States of America Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_South_Africa_national_cricket_captains&oldid=807300318 '' Categories : South African cricket captains Lists of cricket captains South Africa in international cricket Lists of South African cricketers Hidden categories : Use dmy dates from July 2011 Talk Contents About Wikipedia मराठी Edit links This page was last edited on 27 October 2017, at 03 : 34. 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Answer: Faf du Plessis