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THE SOUTH AFRICAN
NATIONAL CRICKET TEAM
by Pepe Cuesta y Pablo Martínez Rojo
The South African national cricket team, nicknamed the Proteas,
represents South Africa  in international cricket. The team toured
England in 1947. At Nottingham, Captain Alan Melville and vice-
captain Dave Nourse achieved a Test match record for a third wicket
partnership of 319. The following year Nourse, 38-year-old captain
of Natal, was appointed Captain for the 1948 MCC Test matches in
South Africa.
CRICKET RULES
Cricket is a game played with a bat and a ball on a large field,
known as a ground, between two teams of 11 players each.
The aim of the game is to score runs after hitting the ball and
to put out the opposing batsmen when in the field.
The cricket rules displayed on this page are for the traditional
form of cricket which is called “Test Cricket”.
South Africa has a record for failing to win major tournaments. The
1992 Cricket World Cup, for example, featured a rain-affected semi-
final played before the introduction of the Duckworth-Lewis rain rule.
South Africa needed 22 runs from 13 balls when it started to rain.
However there are other versions of the game (eg. 50 over
matches, Twenty20 Cricket, etc) where the rules differ
slightly.