South Africa A

Personnel
Captain	Tony de Zorzi
Coach	Shukri Conrad
Team information
Founded	1992
History
First-class debut	England A in January 1994
Official website	Official Website

TheSouth Africa A cricket team is a nationalcricket team representingSouth Africa. It is the second-tier of international South African cricket, below the fullSouth Africa national cricket team. Matches played by South Africa A are notTest matches orOne Day Internationals, instead receivingfirst-class andList A classification respectively.Tony de Zorzi is the current captain of the side, while they are being coached byShukri Conrad.^[1]

South Africa A played their first match in January 1994, a five-day first-class contest against the touringEngland A cricket team.

South Africa A have played a number of series, both home and away against other national A teams, and competed against other first-class opposition. Their first tour was toZimbabwe in 1994–95, when they played three first-class matches and three one-day matches, including one match againstZimbabwe A. They played their firstTwenty20 in November 2009, facing anEngland XI as part of the English tour of South Africa.

This is a list of players who have played at least 2 First-Class matches or 3 List A matches for South Africa A team since 2018.
International cap players are marked inBold.

South Africa A cricket captains
Number	Name	Year	Opposition	Location	Matches
1	Jimmy Cook	1993–94	England A	South Africa	1
2	Mark Rushmere	1994–95	Various	Zimbabwe	6
3	Dale Benkenstein	1995–96	Zimbabwe A	South Africa	1
		1997–98	West Indies A	South Africa	6
		1998	Sri Lanka A	Sri Lanka	7
		1999–2000	Sri Lanka A	South Africa	5
		2000	Various	West Indies	8
		2001–02	Australians	South Africa	1
		2002–03	Sri Lankans	Sri Lanka	1
4	John Commins	1995–96	England XI	South Africa	1
		1996	Various	England	10
		1996–97	Indians	South Africa	1
5	Gerhardus Liebenberg	1995–96	Essex	England	1
6	Nic Pothas	1998–99	West Indies	South Africa	1
7	Gerald Dros	2000	Windward Islands	West Indies	1
		2001–02	India A	South Africa	2
		2002–03	Australia A	Australia	5
8	Hylton Ackerman	2001–02	Indians	South Africa	1
		2001–02	Kenya	South Africa	1
		2001–02	India A	South Africa	2
9	Daryll Cullinan	2001–02	Australians	South Africa	1
		2002–03	Pakistanis	South Africa	1
10	Neil McKenzie	2002–03	Australia A	South Africa	6
		2002–03	Bangladeshis	South Africa	1
		2002–03	Sri Lankans	South Africa	1
		2002–03	The Rest	South Africa	5
		2003–04	West Indians	South Africa	1
		2007–08	West Indians	South Africa	1
11	Gary Kirsten	2002–03	Pakistanis	South Africa	1
12	Graeme Smith	2002–03	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	3
13	Nicky Boje	2002–03	Australia A	Australia	5
14	Ashwell Prince	2003–04	Australia A	South Africa	5
		2004	Zimbabwe A	Zimbabwe	5
		2004–05	New Zealand A	South Africa	6
		2004–05	England XI	South Africa	1
15	Boeta Dippenaar	2004–05	England XI	South Africa	1
		2006–07	Zimbabwe Select XI	Zimbabwe	2
		2007–08	India A	India	3
		2007–08	New Zealanders	South Africa	1
16	Jacques Rudolph	2005–06	Various	Sri Lanka	4
		2005–06	Triangular A Team Tournament	Sri Lanka	5
		2005–06	New Zealanders	South Africa	2
17	Robin Peterson	2006–07	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	3
18	Ahmed Amla	2008–09	Sri Lanka A	South Africa	3
19	Alviro Petersen	2008–09	Sri Lanka A	South Africa	5
20	Justin Ontong	2009–10	England XI	South Africa	1
21	Stephen Cook	2015–16	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	2
22	Zubayr Hamza	2021	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	1

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