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Cricket South Africa (CSA) is the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in South Africa. In 1991, the separate South African Cricket Union and the South African Cricket Board merged to form the United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCB), ending enforced racial separation governance in South African cricket. Cricket South Africa ...
The first-ever recorded cricket match in South Africa took place in 1808, in Cape Town between two service teams for a prize of one thousand rix-dollars. [11] The oldest cricket club in South Africa is the Port Elizabeth Cricket Club, founded in 1843.
South Africa are more aware than most at the allure of greener pastures elsewhere given the number of players that took up Kolpak deals in country cricket, and it is a grand shame that Quinton de ...
Cricket South Africa (CSA) is the governing body for both professional and amateur cricket in South Africa.In 1991, the separate South African Cricket Union and the South African Cricket Board merged to form the United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCB), ending enforced racial separation governance in South African cricket.
South Africa is one of the leading cricket-playing nations in the world and one of the twelve countries sanctioned to play test cricket. Cricket was traditionally popular among English-speaking whites and the Asian (Subcontinent) community, though the latter were not able to compete in top-level South African cricket in the apartheid era.
This is a list of cricket grounds in South Africa. The list includes all grounds that have been used for Test, One Day International, Twenty20 International, first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket matches. Grounds that have hosted men's international cricket games are listed in bold.
Sport in South Africa had been divided on racial lines since the early white settlers, and cricket was no different. While Walter Read's Englishmen played against a non-white team, the Malays, in 1891-92, it would be 65 years before non-white South Africans played any other international cricket, with a team of Kenyan Asians touring against South African non-whites in 1956.
The Africa Cricket Association (ACA) is an international body which coordinates the development of cricket in Africa. The ACA was founded in 1997, and has 23 member countries. The role of the ACA includes promoting the development of cricket in Africa and organising some regional tournaments.