1951 — Eric Rowan scores an unbeaten 160 on the first day of the fourth Test against England in Leeds.
1955 — Trevor Goddard and Hugh Tayfield take five wickets each to bowl out England for 256 in the fourth Test at Leeds as South Africa win by 224 runs and level the five-match series at 2-2.
1958 — France tour South Africa for the first time, holding the Springboks to a 3-3 draw at Newlands in the opening Test. Bok eighthman Butch Lochner scored the only try of the match, which was unconverted, and scrumhalf Pierre Danos landed a drop.
1960 — South Africa and England draw the fourth cricket Test in Manchester after the first two days were lost to rain, with the home side leading the five-match series 3-0.
2003 — Captain Graeme Smith, resuming on 178, goes on to score a South African record 277 as the Proteas notched up a mammoth first-innings total of 594/5 declared in the first Test against England at Birmingham. Herschelle Gibbs had made 179 from 236 balls on the opening day. But with one day lost to bad weather, and England replying with 408, the match ended in a draw.
2013 — Lonwabo Tsotsobe takes 4/22 as the Proteas beat Sri Lanka by 56 runs in the third ODI in Kandy to stay alive in the five-match series, reducing the deficit to 1-2. David Miller scored an unbeaten 85 off 72 balls to push South Africa to 223/7 before the hosts were bowled out for 167.
2014 — Captain Hashim Amla, resuming on 46, makes 139 not out as South Africa are dismissed for 282 in the second Test against Sri Lanka in Colombo, a first-innings deficit of 139.
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