Cricket in South Africa: Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added

Inline

Revision as of 12:53, 13 January 2010

Cricket is one of the most popular sports in South Africa. South Africa is a leading cricket-playing nation in the world, and is one of ten countries sanctioned by the International Cricket Council (ICC) to play Test cricket.

It also hosted the 2003 Cricket World Cup and the inaugural World Twenty20 in 2007.

History

Cricket in South Africa was established by the British, and the first tour by a side from England took place in 1888-89. Here South Africa played its first Test match (against touring 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, an overtly racist policy, which led them to play only against the white nations (England, Australia, New Zealand), and field only white players. This decision excluded players such as Graeme Pollock from partaking in international Test Cricket. It would also cause the emigration of future stars like Allan Lamb and Robin Smith, who both played for England, and Kepler Wessels, who initially played for Australia, before returning to South Africa.

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 ever One-Day International) against India in Calcutta on 10 November 1991.

Demographics

Cricket was traditionally popular among English-speaking whites, and the Asian community, though the latter were not able to compete in top level South African cricket in the Apartheid era. Since the end of the Apartheid era a higher proportion of white players have come from Afrikaans-speaking backgrounds, and attempts have been made to increase the number of non-white players, in part through a quota system. Its popularity has grown markedly amongst other groups.

Today, cricket is one of the most popular sports in South Africa, and is the only sport in the country to feature in the top two sports of all race groups. This has had both successes — Herschelle Gibbs, a Cape Coloured, is one of the sport's most dominating batsmen and the black bowler Makhaya Ntini reached number 2 in the ICC Player Rankings in 2006 — and unintended side effects. Kevin Pietersen, who is white, left the country claiming that he was put at a disadvantage by the quota system, and within a few years became one of the world's top batsmen - as a member of the England cricket team.

Governing body

Formerly known as the United Cricket Board of South Africa, Cricket South Africa is the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in South Africa.

South Africa is a full member of the International Cricket Council and African Cricket Association with Test and One Day International status.

Domestic cricket

South Africa's two major domestic competitions are the SuperSport Series (four day first class competition), the MTN Domestic Championship (List A one-day competition) and Standard Bank Pro 20 Series (domestic Twenty20 competition). During the 1970s and 1980s, a first-class tournament for non-whites called the Howa Bowl was also played.

Generally encompassing more than one provincial associate team, six first-class teams take part in the SuperSport Series and MTN Championships competitions.

the food that has the most calsiom is tyler white he is 11 and hes b-day is may2

External links

@@ Line 37: / Line 37: @@
 * [[Warriors cricket team|Warriors]] ([[Eastern Province cricket team|Eastern Province]]/[[Border cricket team|Border]])
+the food that has the most calsiom is tyler white he is 11 and hes b-day is may2
-==National team==
-{{main|South Africa national cricket team}}
-{{seealso|Australia in South Africa, 5th ODI, 2006}}
-Since re-admission to the ICC the national team has consistently ranked in the top three in the world in both the One-Day and Test forms of the game. In 2006 in [[Johannesburg]] in what many considered the Greatest ODI ever, South Africa led by Herschelle Gibbs' 175 chased down Australia's mammoth and then world record score of 434-3.
-South Africa hosted the [[2003 Cricket World Cup]] an event that was disappointing to them as they tied against Sri Lanka and were eliminated on home soil. In the [[2007 Cricket World Cup]] South Africa reached the semi-finals of the event but lost to Australia.
 ==See also==