Club History
Rhodesia competed in South Africa's Currie Cup championship from 1905, but its appearances were sporadic at first. Having lost their inaugural match to Transvaal by an innings and 170 runs, Rhodesia did not play in the Currie Cup again until 1929–30. They also played in 1931–32, winning four out of five matches, but losing the cup to Western Province under the points system then in use. The Rhodesian team then did not return until 1946–47, after which they at last played regularly.
Noted Rhodesian players included Denis Tomlinson, Chris Duckworth, Tony Pithey, David Pithey, Jackie du Preez and Colin Bland, the only Rhodesian born cricketers to represent South Africa, together with Shropshire born Percy Mansel and the South Africans Paul Winslow, Mike Procter and Andy Flower and Egyptian born, John Traicos but the team never managed to win the Currie Cup. The team played in 1979–80 as "Zimbabwe-Rhodesia" and left the competition for good at the close of that season, after Zimbabwe officially became independent.
As Rhodesia fielded a whites-only side during South Africa's apartheid era, its players were eligible to represent South Africa in Test cricket until South Africa was banished from international cricket at the end of the 1960s.
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