South African Universities cricket team

South African Universities are a former first-class cricket team in South Africa. They played 35 first-class friendly matches, usually one match per season, between March 1949 and January 1990.

South African Universities played their first first-class match in 1948-49 against the touring MCC, who won by an innings. Their next first-class match was also against the MCC, in 1956-57, and ended with the same result. David Pithey took 5 for 100 in the MCC innings.

They won their next match, in 1957-58 against North Eastern Transvaal, when Colin Bland scored 131 on his first-class debut and Pithey and Peter van der Merwe shared most of the wickets. Later that season they drew their match against the Australians, Tony Pithey scoring 126 and his brother David taking 5 for 105.

From 1960-61 – when Glen Hall took 4 for 24 and 9 for 122 (South African Universities' best innings and match figures) on his first-class debut, and Colin Bland scored 124 and Eric Brotherton scored 164 not out (South African Universities' highest individual score) to defeat Western Province by an innings – South African Universities played annually, usually against a provincial team, and usually in early December. In their seven matches against provincial teams in the 1960s they won four: twice against Western Province, once against Transvaal, and once against Orange Free State.

From June to August 1967 South African Universities toured England, playing 21 matches, of which they won ten and lost only one. Two matches were first-class, against Cambridge University, which was drawn, and Oxford University, which South African Universities won by an innings.

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