The Cape Province cricket team and its predecessor the Cape Colony cricket team were South African

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teams that played 11 matches against English touring teams between 1888 and 1948. The last five of these matches had first-class status. The team brought together players from the four first-class teams in

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, Eastern Province,

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and

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. The team did not take part in the South African domestic competition, the

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; its four constituent teams competed separately. The Cape Colony team won one of its early matches, but all five of the Cape Colony/Province's first-class matches resulted in victories to the English team by wide margins.

Matches

Cape Colony

Not first-class

* 26, 27, 28 December 1888, at

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. R. G. Warton's XI won by 11 runs. R. G. Warton's XI 122 and 162; Cape Colony XV 159 and 114. * 17, 18, 19 January 1889, at Pirates Cricket Club, Ground, Kimberley. Cape Colony won by 10 wickets. R. G. Warton's XI 91 and 212; Cape Colony XV 267 and 37 for 4. Frederick Klinck scored 81 for Cape Colony, easily the highest score on either side. * 23, 24, 26 December 1891, at Newlands, Cape Town. Drawn. W. W. Read's XI 180 and 218 for 2 dec.; Cape Colony XV 197 and 142 for 10. * 6, 7 January 1892, at St George's Park, Port Elizabeth. W. W. Read's XI won by an innings and 39 runs. W. W. Read's XI 246; Cape Colony XV 97 and 110. * 14, 15, 16 January 1892, at Eclectics Cricket Club Ground, Kimberley. W. W. Read's XI won by an innings and 17 runs. Cape Colony XV 142 and 77; W. W. Read's XI 236. * 1, 2, 3 January 1896, at Newlands, Cape Town. Lord Hawke's XI won by an innings and 125 runs. Cape Colony XIII 118 and 162; Lord Hawke's XI 405.

First-class

On the 1895-96 tour the English team met a provincial team on level terms, 11-a-side, for the first time, when Lord Hawke's XI played Western Province towards the end of the tour. It was thus the first first-class match in these tours outside the Tests. On the next tour in 1898-99 there were three first-class provincial matches, one against

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and two against Cape Colony. * 14, 16, 17 January 1899, at St George's Park, Port Elizabeth. Lord Hawke's XI won by 101 runs. Lord Hawke's XI 134 and 228; Cape Colony 112 and 149. * 25, 27, 28 March 1899, at Newlands, Cape Town. Lord Hawke's XI won by an innings and 29 runs. Cape Colony 110 and 138; Lord Hawke's XI 277.

Cape Province

By the time of England's 1913-14 tour, South African domestic cricket was considered strong enough for all seven of the Currie Cup teams to meet touring teams on level terms in first-class matches. The Cape Province team played its first match. * 21, 22 November 1913, at St George's Park, Port Elizabeth. MCC won by an innings and 167 runs. MCC 385; Cape Province 158 and 60. The scheduled three-day match was completed in two. * 24, 26 January 1931, at

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, East London. MCC won by an innings and 49 runs. Cape Province 156 and 131; MCC 336 for 8 dec. The scheduled three-day match was completed in two. * 6, 8, 9 November 1948, at Newlands, Cape Town. MCC won by 10 wickets. Cape Province 225 and 323; MCC 456 and 93 for no wicket. Owen Wynne scored 105 and 48; he was the only Cape Colony/Province player to score a century. He played in the first three Tests of the series that began a month later.

References

{{reflist South African first-class cricket teams Former senior cricket clubs in South Africa