Best players to have never played Test cricket for SA, post-1991

[Marius]

The other day I was thinking of the best players from SA who never played a Test for the country, after readmission.

I was putting together a tentative XI in my head.

You could probably open with Sven Koenig and Andrew Puttick, with Rilee Rossouw in the middle order. Nick Pothas would be the keeper.

Of the bowlers, Aubrey Martyn could be there.

What are some other names when thinking about a post-isolation uncapped Test XI for South Africa?

 

[ataraxia]

Conway

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Dale Benkenstein?

 

[TheJediBrah]

Derek Crookes

was going to say Albie Morkel but he did play 1 Test

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

David Miller?

 

[Chubb]

Martin van Jaarsveld only played a handful of tests before going Kolpak, he'd be up there if not for that.

Puttick was a good bat and unlucky to play just one ODI really.

 

[Dendarii]

Eric Simons

 

[honestbharani]

KP

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Clive Rice.

 

[Flem274*]

Neil Wagner

 

[Heboric]

Derek Crookes

was going to say Albie Morkel but he did play 1 Test

Newlands, got Ponting for a duck, his only wicket. That was the game Australia thought they could play any rando legspinner against the Proteas. The Bryce McGain and Andrew McDonald game.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Newlands, got Ponting for a duck, his only wicket. That was the game Australia thought they could play any rando legspinner against the Proteas. The Bryce McGain and Andre McDonald game.

The Phil Hughes debut series

 

[jayjay]

KP and Conway instantly come to mind .KP ended up being a great.

A lot of the names here ended up as middling LO players, let alone worthy enough for tests.

 

[trundler]

Trott and Flower.

 

[Coronis]

Ryan ten Doeschate warrants a mention I’d say. Thank Gooch and Kirsten for that.

 

[TheJediBrah]

KP and Conway instantly come to mind .KP ended up being a great.

A lot of the names here ended up as middling LO players, let alone worthy enough for tests.

Trott and Flower.

If we're cheating like this then Marn00s

 

[Marius]

Trott and Flower.

Then we may as well say Paul Harris, Gary Ballance, Dale Benkenstein etc are some of the best players to have never played a Test for Zimbabwe.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

not many bowlers yet huh

Friedel de Wet got a couple Tests otherwise he'd be in. Might have to stretch to Roelof van der Merwe and bat deep

 

[Heboric]

I was going to say Adrian Kuiper, but I see he did play one test

 

[Dendarii]

not many bowlers yet huh

Bowlers are more likely to miss the odd test here and there than batsmen, so most of the decent bowlers will have filled in for a handful of tests at some point.