South Africa

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South Africa team is the national cricket team representing South Africa in international cricket.They are governed by Cricket South Africa. They are popularly known as " The Protes". Their test status was granted on 1889.They are the third nation to play the test cricket. They played their first est match at Port Elizabeth against England on March 1889.They were baned from playing international cricket on 1970 due to their governments policy on apartheid.Due to the policy South AfSica played only with the white teams (England,Australia,New Zealand).The ban was lifted on 1991 after the abolishment of the apartheid policy.They won the ICC champion trophy and gold medal in common wealth games on 1998.They are placed in 3rd position in the ICC test rankings and 1st in the ODI rankings. Kallis is in 7th position in the ICC batsman rankings for test cricket.Dale styen is in 2th position while Ntini in 6th position in the ICC bowler rankings for test cricket.Graeme Smith ,captain of the south African team is in 1st position whil AB DE Villers is in 8th position in the ICC batsman rankings for ODI.Nel is in 6th position in the ICC bowler rankings for ODI.