In the year 1889, South Africa became the third test-playing nation. The match was against England at Port Elizabeth, captained by Own Robert Dunell. In 1906 South Africa formed the Imperial Cricket conference.

In the early 1900s, the first world-class South African cricket team emerged, comprising stars who were capable of giving any international teams a run for their money such as  Bonnor Middleton, Jimmy Sinclair, Charlie Llewellyn, Dave Nourse,  etc.

With the addition of players like AB de Villiers and HashimAmla, the South Africa Cricket team and players stats started rising in the ICC rankings. Many of the time South Africa ranked no.1 team in the world. As of 20 May 2020 latest ranking South Africa are ranked 6^th in test cricket.

The South Africa team has a huge fan based around the world. Their current ODI and the T20 captain is Quinton de Kock.

South Africa cricket team topped Group B in the 2011 World Cup, with the distinction of bowling out every side they played within the 50 over limit, which also included a famous victory over hosts India. South Africa also hold the record of the highest successful run chase and made the highest total in One-Day Internationals (438–9 in 49.5 overs), in an iconic match played against Australia on 12 March 2006. The match is still considered by many to be the greatest One-Day International ever played.

In the same year the South Africa national cricket team beat Netherlands by 231 runs in Mohali in Group matches. This 231 runchaes win is the fourth largest margin of victory for any team in World Cups and the largest for South Africa in World Cups. This is the second largest margin of victory for South Africa in ODIs on 3 March 2011.

Trophies and Awards

The South Africa Cricket team has won only one ICC Trophy so far — the 1998 Champions Trophy which was held in Bangladesh. The inability of the team to perform well in the ICC tournaments has given it an unwanted tag of “Chokers”.