I've recently been looking at scorecards from the Rebel era and found to my
amazement that very often the South African teams comprised many players
from Transvaal. For example: Jimmy Cook, Graeme Pollock, Clive Rice, Kevin
McKenzie, Ray Jennings, Alan Kourie and Vince van der Bijl have represented
South Africa against rebel tourists in the early eighties - often all seven
of them played. The rest of the team was made up by the Western Province
trio Peter Kirsten, Garth le Roux and Stephen Jefferies. Surely this is
quite incredible. Where a team consists of 10 players drawn from 2 provinces
with Barry Richards of Natal making up the eleven. How often has so many
players from one first class team represented the national side in test
cricket?
Eitan [Just interested]
and just to end of with another question (apologies) who was the first West
Indian born player to represent England in an international match?
--
Eitan Prince
IRCnick: Donald
Rhodes University
"Straigh Outta [Cape Town] . . . "