Octafield Cricket
Proteas Men Career records for South Africa's men's team, computed ball by ball from every recorded delivery since 26 December 2002 .
Careers that began before ball-by-ball coverage — Kallis, Boucher, Ntini, Graeme Smith — carry a partial-record badge: their figures here count recorded deliveries only, never presented as career totals.
Test — Most runs Minimum 10 matches · since Dec 2002 Player Inns Runs Balls SR 4s 6s Hashim Amla 121 9,146 18,223 50.19 1150 14 AB de Villiers 105 8,182 14,930 54.8 944 63 Graeme Smith partial 93 7,572 12,459 60.78 953 19 Jacques Kallis partial 88 7,322 14,688 49.85 813 58 Dean Elgar partial 85 5,347 11,190 47.78 686 26 Faf du Plessis 68 4,163 8,986 46.33 518 21 Temba Bavuma partial 64 3,810 7,794 48.88 434 16 Quinton de Kock partial 54 3,300 4,652 70.94 411 33 Ashwell Prince 54 3,261 7,367 44.26 351 13 Aiden Markram 50 3,192 5,407 59.03 452 16 Mark Boucher partial 71 2,909 5,872 49.54 331 11 Herschelle Gibbs partial 34 2,103 3,689 57.01 317 20 JP Duminy 43 2,103 4,544 46.28 251 13 Alviro Petersen 36 2,093 4,044 51.76 256 12 Vernon Philander 60 1,779 3,995 44.53 204 17
Test — Most wickets Minimum 10 wickets · since Dec 2002 Player Mat Overs Runs Wkts Avg Econ Dale Steyn 90 3001.1 9,661 431 22.42 3.22 Kagiso Rabada 72 2239.2 7,489 340 22.03 3.34 Morne Morkel 86 2749.5 8,550 309 27.67 3.11 Makhaya Ntini partial 57 1972.4 6,545 225 29.09 3.32 Vernon Philander 64 1898.3 5,000 224 22.32 2.63 Keshav Maharaj 59 2051.2 6,370 218 29.22 3.11 Jacques Kallis partial 84 1636.3 4,760 140 34.00 2.91 Paul Harris 36 1434.5 3,835 99 38.74 2.67 Shaun Pollock partial 27 1012.3 2,586 92 28.11 2.55 Marco Jansen 21 568.0 1,879 89 21.11 3.31 Andre Nel partial 24 823.3 2,528 77 32.83 3.07 Anrich Nortje 19 509.3 1,870 70 26.71 3.67 Simon Harmer partial 14 522.2 1,504 69 21.80 2.88 Duanne Olivier 16 382.0 1,432 59 24.27 3.75 Lungi Ngidi 20 429.4 1,356 58 23.38 3.16
ODI — Most runs Minimum 10 matches · since Dec 2002 Player Inns Runs Balls SR 4s 6s AB de Villiers 209 9,324 9,225 101.07 813 196 Hashim Amla 174 7,834 8,861 88.41 796 49 Quinton de Kock partial 159 7,014 7,248 96.77 791 131 Faf du Plessis 135 5,445 6,175 88.18 493 61 Graeme Smith partial 151 5,280 6,462 81.71 588 38 JP Duminy 173 4,928 5,858 84.12 342 67 Jacques Kallis partial 128 4,908 6,384 76.88 417 53 David Miller 150 4,573 4,396 104.03 341 143 Herschelle Gibbs partial 102 3,766 4,344 86.69 414 72 Aiden Markram 76 2,539 2,596 97.8 263 57 Rassie van der Dussen 63 2,529 2,912 86.85 197 47 Mark Boucher partial 102 2,470 2,739 90.18 188 53 Heinrich Klaasen 55 2,131 1,816 117.35 199 72 Temba Bavuma partial 49 1,894 2,141 88.46 188 26 Rilee Rossouw partial 35 1,239 1,313 94.36 131 22
Ball-by-ball data from Cricsheet , licensed under the ODbL. Records computed by Octafield. 
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