South Africa’s Test Results at Home – A Summary

South Africa were the third Test to make their debut in the year 1889 and over the decades, they have become one of the integral part of Test cricket. The African nation at one point dominated the Test arena both home and away, challenging the best of sides to a great effect.

Though, they didn’t have the best of starts in the late 1800s and early part of 1900s, but more than made up for that in recent decades. South Africa have the fourth most Test wins as a team (179) and are one of the few sides that have won more than lost (161).

Like all the teams, most of their wins came at home and we will have a glimpse at their Test record at home.

South Africa’s Test Record at Home

Key Stats

3 – South Africa became the third country to host a Test match after Australia and England. Still they rank very low in the list of teams that has played most number of Tests, the major reason being their 21-year ban from International cricket.

250 – The number of Test matches hosted in the Africa nation and this is and they have very good win percentage of 46.20 in these games.

117 – They have won 117 Test matches at home and most of their wins have come against England (20.)

34 – Out of the 77 games they lost at home, 34 of them came against England, while Australia inflicted 29 home defeats. The rest came against India (5), New Zealand (3), Sri Lanka (3), Pakistan (2) and West Indies (1).

3 – Out of them, the Proteas have lost a Test series only to 3 teams, England, Australia and Sri Lanka.

Innings and 254 runs – This is South Africa’s biggest Test win at home and it was in a match against Bangladesh at Bloemfontein in 2017.

In 2018, South Africa went onto win 11 Test matches (home and away) – one of the three teams to win the most number of Test matches within a calendar year.

492 – Their biggest win in terms of runs at home came against Australia at the New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg in 2018.

At the same venue, South Africa registered their biggest defeat at home, innings and 360 runs against Australia back in 2002.

You can also read the other teams’ record here.