Gauteng cricket chairman resigns over B-word
Mtutuzeli Nyoka, the embattled chair of the Gauteng Cricket Board, has submitted his resignation, after the 10 other provinicial presidents -in an unprecedented ...
Sonn faces tough challenge for UCB presidency
With the race for the United Cricket Board presidency between Percy Sonn, the incumbent, and Dr Mtutuzeli Nyoka hotting up prior to Saturday's annual general meeting, ...
From coma to American legend
Early in '68 a stunt rider tried to jump his bike through the fountains at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Unfortunately, the back wheel hit the ramp, he lost control ...
Strikers' selectors in picking pickle for EP
Clive Eksteen, Mark O'Donnell and the Highveld Strikers selectors have an interesting conundrum to solve before tomorrow night, when the Strikers entertain the EP ...
Nocsa 'gravy train' offered trips to Sydney
It seems that the National Olympic Committee of South Africa was being more than hospitable towards various SA sporting bodies during the 2000 Games, offering top ...
Time to get the bid between the teeth again
It seems almost certain that a South African tender to host the World Cup in 2010 would be successful, but we must not shy away from the lessons to be learned from ...
'Banjo' could be crucial in Hansie saga
Mohammed "Banjo" Cassim, biltong-provider and friend to the stars, is emerging as an increasingly crucial witness in the King commission, and could provide more ...
SA have work cut out to stem Aussie tide
With the series square at one-a-piece, South Africa need to tighten up their bowling and find a way to counter the impressive Australian attack in the third and ...
Strydom in limbo as selectors deliberate
After cancelling a planned winter with Rochdale in the Lancashire league because of the possibility of toruing Sri Lanka with the South African side, Pieter Strydom ...
The long walk to the depths of despair
Sometime late last year Hansie Cronje began to walk away from South African cricket. In the long shadow cast by losing a World Cup semifinal in excruciating circumstances, ...
Waqar whacks South Africa in Sharjah
Cricket in Sharjah is an artificial concept at the best of times, but the Coca-Cola Cup finally sparked to life here as South Africa lost the final to Pakistan by ...
Cronje confident of winning 'big ones'
In the absence of Gary Kirsten, Neil McKenzie will partner Herschelle Gibbs at the top of the order for the Coca-Cola Cup final against Pakistan, with Jacques Kallis ...
Hansie's big game boys face the 'potato'
Hansie Cronje believes the Proteas are getting into the "habit of winning the big games". And they'll need all that experience as the the Pakistani "potato" - Inzaman ...
Back injury forces Kirsten out of final
According to Craig Smith, the South African team's physiotherapist, Gary Kirsten has a torn disc in his lower spine and will miss Friday's Coca-Cola final against ...
Akhtar the 'whirlwind' turns chase on SA
Shaun Pollock, South Africa's captain for the day, described Shoaib Akhtar's performance for Pakistan yesterday as "a whirlwind" - but he might just as well have ...
Wonky-ankle Klusener finds his feet
Lance Klusener, the man who has been gamely carrying his injured ankle around the sub-continent, has finally regained the form that made him such a proposition during ...
SA keeps close watch on Pollock's knee
A "wait-and-see" attitude is prevailing in the Proteas camp over Shaun Pollock's knee injury. Team physiotherapist Craig Smith was reluctant to commit himself as ...
A bit like playing cricket on the moon
Cricket in Sharjah, for all the trumpeting about neutral offshore venues and the like, is all about providing a subcontinental cricket spectacle for television, ...
Calm Boje saves day with priceless knock
Pakistan may have been without the "Rawalpindi Express" and Wasim Akram, but they thundered into SA nonetheless, nearly elbowing them off the tracks before Nicky ...
Gibbs in the 'magic zone'
Herschelle Gibbs and Gary Kirsten batted with such easy authority against India that one might be forgiven for thinking that they were playing against the "Klipdrift ...
Hot and cold Pakistan hard to predict
Pakistan are the kind of team who make it virtually impossible for journalists to write about with much authority, writes Luke Alfred. As a result, their first game ...
Hansie plays it cool over victory
It was an immaculate victory for South Africa against India in the first game of the Coca-Cola Cup but the way Hansie Cronje and Graham Ford po-faced it through ...
Gibbs, Kirsten stick to the script
The names "Gibbs" and "Kirsten" are beginning to look rather solid together, as though the two cricketers are yoked in self-evident and completely natural partnership, ...
Complacency not a problem - Hansie
Hansie Cronje believes that losing the one-day series in India will increase the motivation of the South African side as they face up to India in the first match ...
'No clear favourites in Aussie-SA clash'
With the thoughts of South African cricket fans understandably turning to the three match series against Australia in mid-April, it's intriguing to hear Indian captain ...