Shukri Conrad
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Lansdowne, Cape Province,
South Africa
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| Born | 2 April 1967 Lansdowne, Cape Province, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Dickie Conrad (father) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1985–1990 | Western Province (SACB) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1994–1995 | Western Province B | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2010–2011 | Uganda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023–present | South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 1 September 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shukri Conrad (born 2 April 1967) is a South African cricket coach and former player who was appointed Test coach of the South Africa national cricket team in 2023. He led the team to victory in the 2025 ICC World Test Championship final.
Conrad played first-class cricket for Western Province teams both before and after the end of racial segregation. He was later a long-serving coach of Cape Cobras and also coached Gauteng and Highveld Lions. He was briefly coach of the Uganda national cricket team from 2010 to 2011 before joining the Cricket South Africa National Academy as head coach in 2014.
The son of Dickie Conrad, also a first-class cricketer, Conrad was born in Lansdowne, a suburb of Cape Town.[1] He made his debut for Western Province in December 1985, aged 18, during the 1985–86 Howa Bowl season.[2] South African cricket was still racially segregated at that time, and matches in the non-white Howa Bowl were consequently not classed as first-class, with that status being assigned only retrospectively. Conrad played irregularly for Western Province throughout the final years of Howa Bowl's existence, including two matches in the 1990–91 season, the last before integration.[3] A right-handed all-rounder, his best bowling figures, 4/35 from 14 overs, came in his final match in the competition, against Eastern Province in December 1990. In Western Province's second innings in the same match, he scored 63 after being promoted to third in the batting order, which was to be his highest first-class score (and one of only three half-centuries).[4]
The Howa Bowl and the previously white-only Currie Cup were integrated for the 1991–92 season, but Conrad never made Western Province's senior team at that level. However, during the 1994–95 season of the UCB Bowl (the second division of the Currie Cup), he did play five matches for Western Province B, which were accorded first-class status.[2] His highest score in those matches was 61 against Northern Transvaal B, made from fourth in the batting line-up.[5] Conrad finished the season fourth in his side's batting aggregates, in what was his last season at first-class level.[6] His last first-class appearance came at Newlands in January 1995, against a Zimbabwe Board XI that was competing in the tournament as an invitational team.[2] Conrad finished his first-class playing career with a batting average of 24.95 and a bowling average of 23.00, having played a total of thirteen matches.[1]
