Gauteng cricket team


Gauteng is the first-class cricket team of the southern parts of Gauteng province of South Africa. The team was called Transvaal from April 1890 to April 1997. Under the main competition's various names - the Currie Cup, then the Castle Cup, now the SuperSport Series - Transvaal/Gauteng cricket team has been the most successful of the South African domestic sides, winning 25 times. The club's most glorious period was the 1980s when they were dubbed the "Mean Machine".
For the purposes of the SuperSport Series, Gauteng merged with North West to form the Highveld Lions or, more simply, "the Lions".

Honours

Currie Cup - 1889–90, 1894–95, 1902–03, 1903–04, 1904–05, 1906–07, 1923–24, 1925–26, 1926–27, 1929–30, 1934–35, 1950–51, 1958–59, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1999–00; shared - 1921–22, 1937–38, 1965–66, 1969–70Standard Bank Cup - 1981–82, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1992–93, 1997–98, 2003–04South African Airways Provincial Three-Day Challenge - 2006–07, 2012–13; 'shared – 2014-15South African Airways Provincial One-Day Challenge - 2007–08Gillette/Nissan Cup - 1973–74, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1990–91

Former players

Among the notable players are: Clive Rice, Jimmy Cook, Sylvester Clarke, Graeme Pollock, Alvin Kallicharran, Roy Pienaar, Hugh Page, Richard Snell, Henry Fotheringham, Ray Jennings and Rohan Kanhai.

Venues

Venues have included: