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South African cricket team in the West Indies in 2004–05

international cricket tour

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ7565869 ↗
Source-derived summary

The South Africa national cricket team toured the West Indies from March to May 2005 to play four Test matches and five One Day Internationals (ODIs).

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Test series summary

South Africa won the series 2–0 with two matches drawn.

Editorial summary

“South African cricket team in the West Indies in 2004–05” enters the record as international cricket tour. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what South, African and cricket can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around South, African and cricket.
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“South African cricket team in the West Indies in 2004–05” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, South, African and cricket provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7565869. The first chronological checks are 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “South African cricket team in the West Indies in 2004–05” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.