Shukri Conrad (born 2 April 1967) is a South African

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coach and former player who was appointed

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coach of the

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in 2023. He led the team to victory in the

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. Conrad played

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for

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teams both before and after the end of racial segregation. He was later a long-serving coach of

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and also coached

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and

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. He was briefly coach of the

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from 2010 to 2011 before joining the

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National Academy as head coach in 2014.

Playing career

The son of Dickie Conrad, also a first-class cricketer, Conrad was born in Lansdowne, a suburb of

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.Shukri Conrad
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 September 2015. He made his debut for

in December 1985, aged 18, during the 1985–86 Howa Bowl season.First-class matches played by Shukri Conrad
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 September 2015. 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. A right-handed

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, 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). The Howa Bowl and the previously white-only

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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. His highest score in those matches was 61 against Northern Transvaal B, made from fourth in the batting line-up. Conrad finished the season fourth in his side's batting aggregates, in what was his last season at first-class level. His last first-class appearance came at

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in January 1995, against a Zimbabwe Board XI that was competing in the tournament as an invitational team. Conrad finished his first-class playing career with a

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of 24.95 and a

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of 23.00, having played a total of thirteen matches.

Coaching career

Conrad first entered the coaching arena during the 1999–2000 season, as coach of a non-first-class team, Gauteng B. He remained in that position until May 2002, when he was named coach of the Gauteng senior team (at the time branded as the Highveld Strikers). He was in charge of that team for the 2002–03 and 2003–04 seasons, with the team winning the Standard Bank Cup during the latter, but after the introduction of franchise cricket for the 2004–05 season took over as the inaugural coach of the

team. Conrad left the Lions in July 2005, instead being named to replace Peter Kirsten as the coach of the Western Province–Boland franchise (now known as the

). He remained in the position until being sacked in April 2010, but during his five-season tenure took the team to three titles – the 2006–07 MTN Domestic Championship, the 2008–09 Standard Bank Pro20 (qualifying the team for the inaugural 2009 Champions League Twenty20), and the 2009–10

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. In October 2010, Conrad was hired as Uganda's new national coach, with the Uganda Cricket Association using funds received from its inclusion in the ICC's High Performance Programme. He replaced another ex-Western Province player, Barney Mohamed, and had had previous experience in Uganda, spending a week in the country in June 2005 (during the South African off-season) to help the national side prepare for the

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. However, Conrad's time as head coach of Uganda was short-lived, as his contract was terminated by mutual agreement in January 2011. He nonetheless agreed to stay on as a member of the technical team for the 2011 World Cricket League tournament, under his replacement as head coach, Martin Suji. In July 2012, Conrad was a candidate for the vacant

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coaching position, but lost out to

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. His next major appointment came in April 2014, when he was named head coach of

's National Academy. In January 2023, Conrad was appointed as the head coach of

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in Test cricket. In April 2023, he was appointed as the coach of

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, ahead of their tour to Sri Lanka.

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