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RSA (Pre-1994): Shoprite and Checkers Cricket Medal Collection
RSA (Pre-1994): Shoprite and Checkers Cricket Medal CollectionRSA (Pre-1994): Shoprite and Checkers Cricket Medal Collection
RSA (Pre-1994): Shoprite and Checkers Cricket Medal CollectionRSA (Pre-1994): Shoprite and Checkers Cricket Medal Collection
RSA (Pre-1994): Shoprite and Checkers Cricket Medal CollectionRSA (Pre-1994): Shoprite and Checkers Cricket Medal Collection
Form: Circular
By: PM (?)
Date: 1992
Ref:  Laidlaw: 1204;
Variations:
SizeMetalMassValue
27.2 mmNickel plated bronze8.2 gm - 8.4 gm$1 (each)
Edge: Plain.

Obverse: Bareheaded bust of a South African cricketer in open-necked shirt, front. Cricket scenes left and right on ground line. Name of cricketer in legend above.

The collection has eighteen different medals, one for each South African cricketer. The cricketers on medals displayed here are:
(1) Adrian Kuiper
(2) Brian McMillan
(3) Hansie Cronje
(4) Kepler Wessels
(5) Richard Snell
The other cricketers are:
Tertius Bosch
Jimmy Cook
Daryll Cullinan
Allan Donald
Omar Henry
Andrew Hudson
Peter Kirsten
Craig Matthews
Meryck Pringle
Jonty Rhodes
David Richardson
Mark Rushmeer
Corrie van Zyl

Reverse: A medallion on a ornately radiating sun. On the medallion, cricket stumps behind ball with legend on a raised band outside a border of dots: "THE FRIENDSHIP TOUR (above) INDIA.SOUTH AFRICA (below between stops)". Below the medallion: "1992" with logo for Shoprite (left) and Checkers (right). Below that signed: "PM". Legend: "OFFICIAL SHOPRITE AND CHECKERS MEDAL COLLECTION". Stop at the foot.

Notes: The Shoprite Group of Companies is Africa's largest food retailer. In 1991, it acquired the national Checkers chain.

The Indian cricket team toured South Africa for four tests and seven one day internationals from 29 October 1992 to 6 January 1993.