(hide) South African Test match captains Number Name Season Report Opposition Location Played Won Lost Drawn Owen Dunell 1888 -- 89 Report England South Africa 0 0 William Milton 1888 -- 89 Report England South Africa 0 0 1891 -- 92 Report England South Africa 0 0 Total 0 0 Ernest Halliwell 1895 -- 96 Report England South Africa 0 0 1902 -- 03 Report Australia South Africa 0 0 Total 0 0 Alfred Richards 1895 -- 96 † Report England South Africa 0 0 5 Murray Bisset 1898 -- 99 Report England South Africa 0 0 6 Henry Taberer 1902 -- 03 Report Australia South Africa 0 0 7 Biddy Anderson 1902 -- 03 Report Australia South Africa 0 0 8 Percy Sherwell 1905 -- 06 Report England South Africa 5 0 1907 Report England England 0 1910 -- 11 Report Australia Australia 5 0 Total 13 5 6 9 Tip Snooke 1909 -- 10 Report England South Africa 5 0 10 Frank Mitchell 1912 Report Australia England 0 0 1912 Report England England 0 0 Total 0 0 11 Louis Tancred 1912 Report England England 0 0 1912 Report Australia England 0 0 Total 0 12 Herbie Taylor 1913 -- 14 Report England South Africa 5 0 1921 -- 22 Report Australia South Africa 0 1922 -- 23 Report England South Africa 5 1924 Report England England 5 0 Total 18 10 7 13 Nummy Deane 1927 -- 28 Report England South Africa 5 1929 Report England England 5 0 1930 -- 31 Report England South Africa 0 0 Total 12 6 14 Buster Nupen 1930 -- 31 † Report England South Africa 0 0 15 Jock Cameron 1930 -- 31 Report England South Africa 0 0 1931 -- 32 Report Australia Australia 5 0 5 0 1931 -- 32 Report New Zealand New Zealand 0 0 Total 9 5 16 Herbie Wade 1935 Report England England 5 0 1935 -- 36 Report Australia South Africa 5 0 Total 10 5 17 Alan Melville 1938 -- 39 Report England South Africa 5 0 1947 Report England England 5 0 Total 10 0 6 18 Dudley Nourse 1948 -- 49 Report England South Africa 5 0 1949 -- 50 Report Australia South Africa 5 0 1951 Report England England 5 Total 15 9 5 19 Jack Cheetham 1952 -- 53 Report Australia Australia 5 1952 -- 53 Report New Zealand New Zealand 0 1953 -- 54 Report New Zealand South Africa 5 0 1955 Report England England 0 0 Total 15 7 5 20 Jackie McGlew 1955 † Report England England 0 0 1956 -- 57 † Report England South Africa 0 0 1957 -- 58 † Report Australia South Africa 0 0 1960 Report England England 5 0 1961 -- 62 Report New Zealand South Africa 5 Total 14 6 21 Clive van Ryneveld 1956 -- 57 Report England South Africa 1957 -- 58 Report Australia South Africa 0 Total 8 22 Trevor Goddard 1963 -- 64 Report Australia Australia 5 1963 -- 64 Report New Zealand New Zealand 0 0 1964 -- 65 Report England South Africa 5 0 Total 13 10 23 Peter van der Merwe 1965 Report England England 0 1966 -- 67 Report Australia South Africa 5 Total 8 24 Ali Bacher 1969 -- 70 Report Australia South Africa 0 0 25 Kepler Wessels 1991 -- 92 Report West Indies West Indies 0 0 1992 -- 93 Report India South Africa 0 1993 -- 94 Report Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 0 1993 -- 94 Report Australia Australia 0 1993 -- 94 Report Australia South Africa Report England England Total 16 5 8 26 Hansie Cronje 1993 -- 94 † Report Australia Australia 0 0 1994 -- 95 Report New Zealand South Africa 0 1994 -- 95 Report Pakistan South Africa 0 0 1994 -- 95 Report New Zealand New Zealand 0 0 1995 -- 96 Report Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 0 0 1995 -- 96 Report England South Africa 5 0 1996 -- 97 Report India India 0 1996 -- 97 Report India South Africa 0 1996 -- 97 Report Australia South Africa 0 1997 -- 98 Report Pakistan Pakistan 0 1997 -- 98 Report Australia Australia 0 1997 -- 98 Report Pakistan South Africa 0 1997 -- 98 Report Sri Lanka South Africa 0 0 1998 Report England England 5 1998 -- 99 Report West Indies South Africa 5 5 0 0 1998 -- 99 Report New Zealand New Zealand 0 1999 -- 00 Report Zimbabwe South Africa 0 0 1999 -- 00 Report Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 0 0 1999 -- 00 Report England South Africa 5 1999 -- 00 Report India India 0 0 Total 53 27 11 15 27 Gary Kirsten 1997 - 98 † Report Pakistan South Africa 0 0 28 Shaun Pollock 2000 -- 01 Report Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 2000 -- 01 Report New Zealand South Africa 0 2000 -- 01 Report Sri Lanka South Africa 0 2000 -- 01 Report West Indies West Indies 5 2001 -- 02 Report Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 0 2001 -- 02 Report India South Africa 0 2001 -- 02 Report Australia Australia 0 0 2002 -- 03 Report Bangladesh South Africa 0 0 2002 -- 03 Report Sri Lanka South Africa 0 0 2002 -- 03 Report Pakistan South Africa 0 0 Total 26 14 5 7 29 Mark Boucher 2001 -- 02 Report Australia South Africa 0 2002 -- 03 † Report Bangladesh South Africa 0 0 Total 0 30 Graeme Smith 2003 Report Bangladesh Bangladesh 0 0 2003 Report England England 5 2003 -- 04 Report Pakistan Pakistan 0 2003 -- 04 Report West Indies South Africa 0 2003 -- 04 Report New Zealand New Zealand Report Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 0 2004 -- 05 Report India India 0 2004 -- 05 Report England South Africa 5 2004 -- 05 Report Zimbabwe South Africa 0 0 2005 Report West Indies West Indies 0 2005 -- 06 Report Australia Australia 0 2005 -- 06 Report Australia South Africa 0 0 2005 -- 06 Report New Zealand South Africa 0 2006 -- 07 Report India South Africa 0 2006 -- 07 Report Pakistan South Africa 0 2007 -- 08 Report Pakistan Pakistan 0 2007 -- 08 Report New Zealand South Africa 0 0 2007 -- 08 Report West Indies South Africa 0 2007 -- 08 Report Bangladesh Bangladesh 0 0 2007 -- 08 Report India India 2008 Report England England 2008 -- 09 Report Bangladesh South Africa 0 0 2008 -- 09 Report Australia Australia 0 2008 -- 09 Report Australia South Africa 0 0 2009 -- 10 Report England South Africa 2009 -- 10 Report India India 0 Report West Indies West Indies 0 2010 -- 11 Report Pakistan UAE 0 0 2010 -- 11 Report India South Africa 2011 -- 12 Report Australia South Africa 0 2011 -- 12 Report Sri Lanka South Africa 0 2011 -- 12 Report New Zealand New Zealand 0 2012 Report England England 0 2012 -- 13 Report Australia Australia 0 2012 -- 13 Report New Zealand South Africa 0 0 2012 -- 13 Report Pakistan South Africa 0 0 2013 -- 14 Report Pakistan UAE 0 2013 -- 14 Report India South Africa 0 2013 -- 14 Report Australia South Africa 0 Total 108 53 28 27 31 Jacques Kallis 2005 -- 06 † Report Australia South Africa 0 0 2008 -- 09 † Report Australia South Africa 0 0 Total 0 32 Ashwell Prince 2006 Report Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 0 0 33 Hashim Amla 2014 Report Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 0 2014 Report Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 0 0 2014 -- 15 Report West Indies South Africa 0 2015 Report Bangladesh Bangladesh 0 0 2015 -- 16 Report India India 0 2015 -- 16 Report England South Africa 0 Total 14 6 34 AB de Villiers 2015 -- 16 Report England South Africa 0 35 Faf du Plessis 2016 † Report New Zealand South Africa 0 2016 -- 17 † Report Australia Australia 0 2016 - 17 Report Sri Lanka South Africa 0 0 2016 - 17 Report New Zealand New Zealand 0 2017 Report England England 0 Total 15 8 Grand total 415 153 139 124
who is captain of the south african cricket test team
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