South African cricket team

The South African cricket team, also known as The Proteas, is a national cricket team representing South Africa. It is administrated by the United Cricket Board of South Africa.

South Africa is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and one-day international status. It played its first Test match in 1889 (against England at Port Elizabeth), becoming the third Test nation.

In 1970, the ICC voted to suspend South Africa from international cricket indefinitely because of its government's policy of apartheid. The ICC reinstated South Africa as a Test nation in 1991 after the deconstruction of apartheid, and the team played its first sanctioned match since 1970 (and its first one-day international) against India in Calcutta on 10 November, 1991.

Since its return to international cricket, South Africa has remained one of the strongest international sides, competing with Australia for the acknowledgement as the best cricket team in the world.

History of South African international cricket

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