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List of Gauteng representative cricketers

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This is a partial list of cricketers who have played first-class, List A cricket, or Twenty20 cricket for Transvaal and Gauteng in South Africa. The team was renamed ahead of the 1997–98 season following the renaming of Transvaal province as Gauteng in 1994.

Transvaal made its first-class debut during the 1889–90 season, playing against Kimberley in the first Currie Cup match.[a][1][2][3] From that date the matches it played in the competition are considered first-class. The Transvaal B side joined the Currie Cup B section in 1959–60, and matches involving the B side are considered first-class in the competition.[4] Following the renaming of the side as Gauteng, the B section competition continued, although the Gauteng B side did not take part.[5][6] In 2019–20 and 2020–21 the Gauteng side was sometimes listed as Central Gauteng.[7]

Transvaal first played List A cricket in 1970–71, the first season of provincial List A cricket in South Africa.[b][9] Gauteng first played domestic Twenty20 cricket in the first season of the CSA Provincial T20 in 2011–12.[4]

This list includes the players who played first-class and List A cricket for Transvaal[9] and Transvaal B[5] between 1889–90 and 1997–98, and those who played first-class, List A, and Twenty20 cricket for Gauteng[4] and Central Gauteng[7] from 1997–98 to the present day.[c] It does not include players who appeared only for franchise side Lions which was operated by the Gauteng and North West Cricket Unions between 2003–04 and 2020–21.[d][12] Nor does it include the cricketers who played for the Transvaal side in 108 first-class Howa Bowl matches organised by the South African Cricket Board between 1971–72 and 1990–91.[e][14]

As of 14 July 2025
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Transvaal XI players

The following players appeared in first-class matches for Transvaal XIs, but did not appear for the Transvaal representative side in provincial matches.[10]

Notes

  1. The first domestic first-class matches in South Africa were played during the same season on Natal's tour of Cape Colony. The 1889–90 Currie Cup match was played after the five matches which have first-class status on the tour. The competition was a single match in its first season. Two Test matches played the previous season between South Africa and a touring English side are considered the first matches played in South Africa to have first-class status.[1]
  2. The 1969–70 Gillette Cup competition had taken place the previous season, but teams did not use their provincial names. The team that represented Transvaal was organised by Ali Bacher and known as A Bacher's XI. It played two matches. All 13 of the cricketers who played for the side also played matches for Transvaal or Transvaal B so, by default, appear on this list.[8]
  3. Transvaal XIs played two additional first-class matches, one in 1913–14 against the touring England side, and one in 1970–71 against The Rest, and a Gauteng XI played a first-class match in 1998–99 against the England A side. Several of the players who appeared for Transvaal in these matches did not otherwise play for the provincial team. They are listed separately at the bottom of this list.[10][11]
  4. These players who played for the franchise side are listed at List of Lions (South Africa) cricketers.
  5. These matches were organised by a different board of control under the apartheid system in South Africa. They were intended to be played by non-white players and were not seen as first-class until a retrospective ruling by the United Cricket Board.[13]
  6. Manack also played for the Transvaal SACB side.[15]

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