This is a partial list of cricketers who have played first-class, List A cricket, or Twenty20 cricket for North Eastern Transvaal, Northern Transvaal and Northerns in South Africa. The team was renamed Northerns ahead of the 1996âÂÂ97 season following the renaming of Transvaal province to Gauteng in 1994.
North Eastern Transvaal made its senior debut in the Currie Cup in 1937âÂÂ38 and from 1946âÂÂ47 played regularly in the competition. The team first played List A cricket in 1970âÂÂ71, the first season of provincial List A cricket in South Africa.
The team was renamed as Northern Transvaal ahead of the 1971âÂÂ72 season and then as Northerns ahead of the 1996âÂÂ97 season, continuing to play first-class and List A cricket throughout this period. Northern Transvaal B played in the first-class Currie Cup Bowl competition from 1981âÂÂ82, with Northerns B playing in the same competition in 1997âÂÂ98 and 1998âÂÂ99, the final seasons of the Bowl competition. Northerns played its first domestic Twenty20 cricket in the first season of the CSA Provincial T20 in 2011âÂÂ12.
This list includes the players who played first-class and List A cricket for North Eastern Transvaal between 1937âÂÂ38 and 1970âÂÂ71, for Northern Transvaal and Northern Transvaal B between 1971âÂÂ72 and 1995âÂÂ96, and those who played first-class, List A, and Twenty20 cricket for Northerns and Northerns B from 1996âÂÂ97 to the present day. It does not include players who appeared only for franchise team Titans which was operated by the Northerns and Easterns Cricket Unions between 2003âÂÂ04 and 2020âÂÂ21.