Northerns (South Africa, Cricket Team)
Northerns | |
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founded | 1937 |
Hometown | Centurion |
Home stadium | SuperSport Park |
First class championships | 0 |
One Day Cup victories | 0 |
As of October 11, 2017 |
Northerns , North Eastern Transvaal until 1971 and Northern Transvaal until 1995 , is a South African cricket team based in Centurion , which took part in professional national competitions until October 2004. From then on they were merged with Easterns, part of the Titans , and continued to play under the name Northerns in the second-rate South African competitions.
history
The Northerns have long played in the lower regions of the highest level of South African cricket. 1984/85 succeeded the team for the first time in the Currie Cup to achieve second place, which they could repeat in 1994/95 . In the 1996/97 and 1998/99 seasons , the Northerns were able to achieve success for the first time when they each won the Standard Bank League. In the 2001/02 season succeeded again a second place in the Currie Cup. In the 2003/04 season, the provincial teams were merged and Northers formed the Titans together with Easterns. In the following years the team succeeded in winning multiple wins in the First Class, List A and Twenty20 competitions of the now semi-professional provincial teams.
Stages
Since 1996 the team has mainly used the SuperSport Park in Centurion as their home stadium.
successes
First class cricket
Winning the Currie Cup (0): -
Win the CSA Provincial Three-Day Competition (1 + 2 shared): 2005/06 , 2014/15 (shared), 2016/17 (shared)
One-day cricket
Winning the One-Day Cup (0): -
Winning the Gillette Cup and successor (2): 1996/97 , 1998/99
Winning the CSA Provincial One-Day Competition (3): 2005/06 , 2009/10 , 2016/17
Twenty20 cricket
Winning the CSA Provincial T20 (1): 2011/12
Individual evidence
- ↑ Collin Bryen & Andrew Samson: A mixed bag ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved October 11, 2017.