Discussions are underway to call the Australia-South Africa Test trophy however an announcement won’t come earlier than the tip of the three-match sequence.
Australia and the Proteas have had one in all world cricket’s fiercest rivalries since South Africa was readmitted into worldwide sport in 1992 when the nation’s apartheid regime was coming to an finish.
But the trophy for the Test sequence between the nation’s groups stays anonymous regardless of many fierce battles over the past 30 years.
Australia performs for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in opposition to India, the Frank Worrell Trophy in opposition to the West Indies and the sequence in Pakistan this yr the Benaud-Qadir Trophy was up for grabs for the primary time.
Cricket Australia chief government Nick Hockley stated the desire was for each sequence their groups contest to have a reputation.
“I do think it gives a bit of extra essence and meaning to it so it’s something we’ll have a good think about following this series,” Hockley advised SEN Cricket on Sunday.
“There’s a lot up for grabs in this series with a World Test Championship berth on the line so that’s something we’ll continue to think about and talk about going forward.
“Certainly our discussions across the Pakistan sequence there have been much more consideration and discussions and we labored on that for a lot of months so I feel it is higher to get it proper moderately than a rushed resolution.”
Ahead of the 2016-17 series, Cricket Australia’s website gave fans an option to name the perpetual trophy.
“We’d love to listen to what followers assume this sequence is perhaps referred to as, and we encourage dialogue to contemplate the names of previous gamers however not be restricted by that,” former CA chief executive James Sutherland said at the time.
However, interest waned and a name was never settled on.
Suggestions this week centred around former star batsman Kepler Wessels, the only cricketer to play Test cricket for both Australia and South Africa.
Australian captains Ricky Ponting, Allan Border, Steve Waugh and Adam Gilchrist have been raised as contenders, as have South African legends Jacques Kallis, Shaun Pollock, Allan Donald and Graeme Smith.
