Gauteng cricket team is the first-class cricket

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 team of the province of Gauteng

Gauteng

Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...

 (previously Transvaal

Transvaal Province

Transvaal Province was a province of the Union of South Africa from 1910 to 1961, and of its successor, the Republic of South Africa, from 1961 until the end of apartheid in 1994 when a new constitution subdivided it.-History:...

) in South Africa

South Africa

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For the purposes of the SuperSport Series

SuperSport Series

The SuperSport Series is the main domestic first class cricket competition in South Africa, first contested in 1889-90. From 1990-91 it became known as the Castle Cup, and from 1996-97 by its current title...

, Gauteng has merged with North West

North West cricket team

North West cricket team plays first-class cricket in South Africa.For the purposes of the SuperSport Series, North West has merged with Gauteng North West cricket team (formerly Western Transvaal cricket team) plays first-class cricket in South Africa.For the purposes of the SuperSport Series,...

 (formerly Western Transvaal) to form the Highveld Lions

Highveld Lions cricket team

The Highveld Lions is the name used by the combined Gauteng and North West first class cricket teams in South Africa. The home venues are the New Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg and Senwes Park in Potchefstroom....

 or, more simply, "the Lions".

Honours

• Currie Cup (25) - 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 (4) - 1921–22, 1937–38, 1965–66, 1969–70
• Standard Bank Cup (6) - 1981–82, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1992–93, 1997–98, 2003–04
• South African Airways Provincial Three-Day Challenge (1) - 2006–07
• South African Airways Provincial One-Day Challenge (1) - 2007–08
• Gillette/Nissan Cup (9) - 1973–74, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1990–91

Club history

Under the main competition's various names – the Currie Cup, then the Castle Cup, now the SuperSport Series

SuperSport Series

The SuperSport Series is the main domestic first class cricket competition in South Africa, first contested in 1889-90. From 1990-91 it became known as the Castle Cup, and from 1996-97 by its current title...

 – Transvaal/Gauteng cricket team has been the most successful of the South African domestic sides, winning 25 times. Their most glorious period being the 1980s when they were dubbed the "Mean Machine".

Gauteng was called Transvaal from April 1890 to April 1997; it has formed part of the Lions from Oct 2004.

Players

Gordon Eric McMillan,
Clive Rice

Clive Rice

Clive Edward Butler Rice is a former South African international cricketer. An all-rounder, Rice ended his first class cricket career with a batting average of 40.95 and a bowling average of 22.49....

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Jimmy Cook

Jimmy Cook

Stephen James Cook is a former South African cricketer who played in three Tests and four ODIs from 1991 to 1993. His son Stephen Cook currently plays for Gauteng....

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Sylvester Clarke

Sylvester Clarke

Sylvester Theophilus Clarke was a West Indian cricketer who played 11 Tests and 10 One Day Internationals.-Early life:Born in Christ Church, Barbados, Clarke attended St Bartholomew's Boys' School...

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Graeme Pollock

Graeme Pollock

Robert Graeme Pollock, known as Graeme, is a former cricketer. He played in 23 Test matches for South Africa and represented Transvaal and Eastern Province at domestic level....

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Alvin Kallicharran

Alvin Kallicharran

Alvin Isaac Kallicharran is a former West Indian batsman of Indo-Guyanese ethnicity who played from 1972 to 1981. His elegant, watchful batting style produced some substantial innings for a West Indian team very much in its formative years in the seventies...

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Roy Pienaar

Roy Pienaar

Roy Francois Pienaar is a former South African first class cricketer. He played for Western Province and Transvaal in domestic cricket and he spent 1987 until 1989 in England playing for Kent. In both 1983 and 1990 he won the South African Cricket Annual Cricketer of the Year award.-External links:*...

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Hugh Page

Hugh Page

Hugh Ashton Page is a former South African first class cricketer who was born in Zimbabwe. He played his cricket with Transvaal and spent the 1987 English season with Essex.-References:*...

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Richard Snell,
Henry Fotheringham

Henry Fotheringham

Henry Richard Fotheringham was a South African cricketer from 1971/72 to 1989/90 during the country's apartheid ban. A right-handed opening batsman, Fotheringham scored 8814 first class runs at 40.06 with 21 hundreds....

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Ray Jennings

Ray Jennings

Raymond Vernon Jennings is a former South African cricketer. He was one of South Africa's leading wicket-keepers during the apartheid era....

Venues

Venues have included:

• Old Wanderers
  Old Wanderers
  Old Wanderers was a cricket ground in Johannesburg, South Africa. The ground hosted 22 Test matches from 1895 to 1939, before being rebuilt as Johannesburg's Park Station in 1946...
  
  , Johannesburg
  Johannesburg
  Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...
  
   (1891–1946)
• Berea Park, Pretoria
  Pretoria
  Pretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the executive and de facto national capital; the others are Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.Pretoria is...
  
   (occasional venue Dec 1906 - Jan 1932; Northerns venue from 1937)
• Willowmoore Park, Benoni (occasional venue Dec 1923 - Dec 1931; Northerns venue from 1948)
• Ellis Park, Johannesburg (1946–1956)
• New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg (1956–present)
• Vereeniging Brick and Tile Recreation Ground (one game in 1966)
• New Wanderers No 1 Oval, Johannesburg (occasional venue Nov 1968 - Dec 1991)
• Strathvaal Cricket Club A Ground, Stilfontein (occasional venue Dec 1963 - March 1976)
• South African Defence Force Ground, Potchefstroom (one game in Dec 1972)
• Lenasia Stadium, Johannesburg (occasional venue Jan 1977 - Nov 2002)
• George Lea Sports Club, Johannesburg (two games in 1983)
• Dick Fourie Stadium, Vereeniging (two matches 1989 - 1991)
• NF Oppenheimer Ground, Randjesfontein (three matches 1995 - 2004)