Richard Ernst Levi

Full name   : Richard Ernst Levi
Born         : January 14, 1988, Johannesburg
Current age      : 24 years 256 days
Major teams   : Cape Cobras, Mumbai Indians, Somerset, Somerset 2nd XI, South Africa A, South Africa Academy, South Africa Under-19s, South Africa XI, Western Province
Batting style    : Right-hand bat
Bowling style   : Right-arm medium

A student of the Cape Ivy League schools, Richard Levi represented South Africa in the Under-19 World Cup in 2006, and quickly developed a reputation as a fearsome striker of the new ball, especially in the shortest format. Two Twenty20s into his international career, no one was in doubt of his abilities. In February 2012, opening the innings in South Africa's chase of 174 against New Zealand, Levi plundered 13 sixes - a record - in an unbeaten 117 off 51 balls. He reached his century off 45 balls, breaking the record for the fastest ton in Twenty20 internationals. Granted, the Seddon Park in Hamilton isn't the biggest ground, but several of Levi's strikes sailed well past the boundary, and would have been sixes in most arenas. Levi's success could provide South Africa with an exciting long-term replacement for Graeme Smith at the top of the order in the limited-overs formats.

Abraham Benjamin de Villiers

Full name        : Abraham Benjamin de Villiers
Born               : February 17, 1984, Pretoria
Current age     : 28 years 222 days
Major teams    : South Africa, Africa XI, Delhi Daredevils, Northerns, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Titans
Playing role      : Wicketkeeper batsman
Batting style     : Right-hand bat
Bowling style   : Right-arm medium
Fielding position : Wicketkeeper

A batsman of breathtaking chutzpah and enterprise, as well as the skills and the temperament required to back up his creative intent. A fielder able to leap tall buildings and still come up with the catch. A wicketkeeper who is perfectly at ease donning pads and gloves. A fine rugby player, golfer, and tennis player. All AB de Villiers needs to show off his abundant gifts is a ball. Just about any ball.

Johannes Albertus Morkel

Full name      : Johannes Albertus Morkel
Born             : June 10, 1981, Vereeniging, Transvaal
Current age   : 31 years 108 days
Major teams  : South Africa, Africa XI, Chennai Super Kings, Durham, Easterns, Somerset, Somerset 2nd XI, South Africa Under-19s, Titans
Batting style   : Left-hand bat
Bowling style : Right-arm medium-fast
Relation Father - A Morkel, Brother - M Morkel

Albie Morkel, a right-arm fast-medium bowler and left-handed batsman, was earmarked as the new Lance Klusener, but hasn't quite been able to live up to his billing despite some glimpses of match-winning skills.

David Andrew Miller

Full name      : David Andrew Miller
Born             : June 10, 1989, Pietermaritzburg, Natal
Current age    :  23 years 108 days
Major teams   :  South Africa, Dolphins, Durham, Kings XI Punjab, KwaZulu-Natal Inland Under-19s, South Africa A, South Africa Academy, South African Schools
Playing role      : Middle-order batsman
Batting style    : Left-hand bat
Bowling style   :Right-arm offbreak

A product of the esteemed Martizburg College, David Miller was groomed for cricketing success from a young age. He made his first-class debut when he was just 17 and has been a force in limited-overs cricket. Grace and elegance have little place in his technique, which is to hit the ball with such power that it stays hit. He has been particularly effective in the Powerplay overs because of his big-hitting, and he enjoys the freedom to play a range of strokes, both off the front and back foot. Miller earned his national call-up in May 2010 after a series for South Africa A against Bangladesh A, where he ended as the second-highest run-scorer. In his first match, a Twenty20 international against West Indies, he was the top-scorer for South Africa in a tense, 1-run victory. He played in two ODI series, against West Indies and Pakistan, before being named in South Africa preliminary 2011 World Cup squad.

Jacques Henry Kallis

Full name       : Jacques Henry Kallis
Born              : October 16, 1975, Pinelands, Cape Town, Cape Province
Current age    : 36 years 346 days
Major teams   : South Africa, Africa XI, Cape Cobras, Glamorgan, ICC World XI, Kolkata Knight Riders, Middlesex, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Warriors, Western Province
Playing role    : Allrounder
Batting style    : Right-hand bat
Bowling style   : Right-arm fast-medium]

No batsman prizes his wicket more highly, and no wicket in all of cricket is more highly prized. Jacques Kallis is the broad-shouldered colossus of the South African team, a figure whose looming presence inspires calm in some and dread in others. Few players who belong to the modern age are a better fit for the notion of the classical cricketer. Kallis is a fine, forceful batsman who has at his disposal both a rock-solid technique and a mind impervious to distraction. Though his role as a bowler diminishes with each passing season, he will be remembered as a purveyor of sometimes surprising pace and swing, and awkward bounce. In the slips, his sure-handedness and rattlesnake reflexes make ridiculous catches look regulation.

Dale Willem Steyn

Full name         : Dale Willem Steyn
Born                : June 27, 1983, Phalaborwa
Current age      : 29 years 91 days
Major teams     : South Africa, Africa XI, Cape Cobras, Deccan Chargers, Essex, Northerns, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Titans, Warwickshire
Playing role        : Bowler
Batting style       : Right-hand bat
Bowling style      : Right-arm fast

Dale Steyn could be just the latest nuclear-tipped arrow that South Africa have drawn from their seemingly bottomless quiver of classy fast bowlers. The trouble, for opposing batsmen, is that he is rather more than that. Pure pace is one thing, pinpoint pure pace distinctly another. Pinpoint pure pace poison-tipped with aggression still another. Add the regularity with which Steyn moves the ball away from right-handers, and the way his deliveries skid at batsmen - a lack of height isn't all bad - and the danger he poses is obvious.

Graeme Craig Smith

Full name              : Graeme Craig Smith
Born                     : February 1, 1981, Johannesburg, Transvaal
Current age           : 31 years 238 days
Major teams         : South Africa, Africa XI, Cape Cobras, Gauteng, Hampshire Cricket Board, ICC World XI, Pune Warriors, Rajasthan Royals, Somerset, Western Province
Playing role           : Opening batsman
Batting style           : Left-hand bat
Bowling style         : Right-arm offbreak

Meaty, muscular and mighty, that's Graeme Smith, who looms even larger than all that as South Africa's colossus of a captain. His achievements as a batsman are significant, but the most important monument to his career is the fact that under Smith, the confidence of South Africans, both within and outside of the national team and its structures, has been rebuilt.

Wayne Dillon Parnell

Full name           : Wayne Dillon Parnell
Born                  : July 30, 1989, Port Elizabeth, Cape Province
Current age        : 23 years 58 days
Major teams      : South Africa, Delhi Daredevils, Eastern Province, Kent, Pune Warriors, South Africa Under-19s, Sussex, Warriors
Nick name         : Pigeon, Parny
Playing role        : Bowler
Batting style       : Left-hand bat
Bowling style     : Left-arm medium-fast
Education       : Grey High School

Wayne Parnell is a naturally gifted allrounder who bats and bowls left-handed, and who seems to have been earmarked for success from a young age. Parnell began playing for Eastern Province's U-13 side when he was 12 and was captain the following year. He didn't make the U-15 side initially, but at the age of 15 began to play for Eastern Province and South Africa at the U-19 level. He made his first-class debut for Eastern Province in 2006-07 and was also part of South Africa's Under-19 squad for the 2006 World Cup in Sri Lanka. The experience he gained over the years brought him the captaincy for the Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia in 2008 and he led by example: taking 18 wickets, the most in the tournament, and scoring useful runs in the middle-order to steer South Africa into the final. His best performance came in the quarter-final against Bangladesh, when he took 6 for 8 after scoring 57. The South Africa selectors were already taking note and he went on the Emerging Players tour of Australia before a call-up to the senior one-day squad for the series in early 2009. After a modest debut against the Australians, he became the youngest player to be handed a national contract by Cricket South Africa (CSA). He soon repaid their faith in him with a terrifically impressive performance in just his second ODI in April 2009. Parnell demolished Australia in partnership with Dale Steyn, picking up 4 for 25 and a well-deserved Man-of-the-Match award. He put in a stand-out performance at the Twenty20 World Cup later that year, picking up 9 wickets at an economy rate of under 6 runs an over. After a successful stint with county Kent, Parnell's star continued to rise when he made his Test debut against England in the fourth Test at the Wanderers in January 2010. Later that month he also found himself with a new IPL contract, snapped up by Delhi Daredevils for $610,000 .

Mark Verdon Boucher

Full name          : Mark Verdon Boucher
Born                 : December 3, 1976, East London, Cape Province
Current age       : 35 years 298 days
Major teams     : South Africa, Africa XI, Border, Cape Cobras, ICC World XI, Kolkata Knight Riders, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Warriors
Playing role       : Wicketkeeper batsman
Batting style       : Right-hand bat
Bowling style     : Right-arm medium
Fielding position : Wicketkeeper

A man to go to war with, but never against, Mark Boucher packed all the archetypical attributes of the South African cricketer into his short, stocky frame. He was relentlessly competitive, invariably aggressive, and as hard and uncompromising as the new ball. After an international career that lasted almost 15 years, the end was desperately unfortunate, as Boucher was forced to announce his retirement after being hit in the eye by a bail in a warm-up game on the tour to England in 2012, which would have been his last series anyway. Boucher finished with 998 international dismissals as a wicketkeeper, including 555 in 147 Tests.

Vernon Darryl Philander

Full name            : Vernon Darryl Philander
Born                   : June 24, 1985, Bellville, South Africa
Current age         : 27 years 93 days
Major teams        : South Africa, Cape Cobras, Devon, Middlesex, Somerset, South Africa A, South Africa Under-19s, Western Province, Western Province Boland, Western Province Under-19s
Also known as Pro
Playing role         : Allrounder
Batting style        : Right-hand bat
Bowling style      : Right-arm fast-medium

Vernon Philander is a powerful allrounder who has had stunning success in his first five months in Test cricket, reaching 50 wickets in only seven matches, the second-fastest ever in Test history. Philander hails from a country famous for producing high-quality fast bowlers, and he has done everything in his first few games to keep up that tradition. His strength isn't extreme pace, but he has everything else going for him: the ability to move the ball both ways at a sharp speed, and relentlessly attack the stumps over long spells.

Hashim Mahomed Amla

Full name         : Hashim Mahomed Amla
Born                : March 31, 1983, Durban, Natal
Current age      : 29 years 178 days
Major teams     : South Africa, Dolphins, Essex, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa XI
Playing role       :  Top-order batsman
Batting style      : Right-hand bat
Bowling style     : Right-arm medium, Right-arm offbreak
Relation Brother - AM Amla

An elegant strokeplayer blessed with the temperament to make the most of his talent, Hashim Amla is the first South African of Indian descent to reach the national squad - his grandparents migrated from Gujarat - and he shares the penchant for wristy leg-side flicks that ooze off his bat. His elevation to the South Africa side was a poorly kept secret after he reeled off four centuries in his first eight innings of the 2004-05 season, after being appointed captain of the Dolphins (formerly Natal) at the tender age of 21. His older brother by four years, Ahmed, made his first-class debut two seasons before Hashim, but there is little doubt that the younger Amla is the better player. He is also a devout Muslim whose requests to have logos promoting alcohol removed from his playing gear have been successful so far. Amla toured New Zealand with the South African Under-19 team in 2000-01, he captained South Africa at the 2002 Under-19 World Cup, and after starring for the A team, made his Test debut against India in 2004-05. He was not an instant success, with serious questions emerging about his technique as he mustered 36 runs in four innings against England later that season. hi is best.