I had the pleasure last week of watching Australia finish off India in the first Test in Melbourne, Australia.
As South Africans, it's almost a birth right to "hate" Aussies, and this is, in my opinion, because jealousy makes us nasty.
We all...
Australia's current tour of South Africa has produced some enthralling cricket, with the contest being feisty. Graeme Smith scored a much needed 50 in Port Elizabeth while Jacques Kallis also returned to form with a classy knock, reminding us of his ...
England has wrapped up its victory against India at Edgbaston and quite comprehensively. Alastair Cook's serene 294 (more runs than India have managed in an entire innings throughout the current series) proved the platform for England's monumental 71...
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the 19th century American philosopher, lecturer and essayist, once said, "go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path". That statement says a lot about how cricket fans in South Africa are or not feeling ...
It all started in India. The new generation, which had the great side of 1970 to follow as the last to represent South Africa, walked out on to Eden Gardens in 1991.
It was India who offered a hand to a nation not yet three years away from the en...
"We have to pick ourselves up. We haven't become bad players because of one performance. We'll have to work on our decision making." -- Graeme Smith, January 15 2011.
"We've got to learn from today, pick ourselves up." -- Graeme Smith March 6 2011...
Have you ever seen a film where there are two characters, each pushing their own agenda, whose paths are destined to collide because it is just so? It's a popular story arc in fictionalised works all over the world, since it gives a clear distinction...
By Greg Hurvitz
Undoubtedly the purist cricket enthusiast is in cricket heaven over this festive season and rightly so, with the Proteas dismissing the Indians for another surprisingly low first innings total, this time 205 all out. These are the ...
Steve Waugh was noted back in the day to have called India the "the final frontier". A country vast in size and unique in character, has always proven to be a difficult place to tour. For the Australians, it was a place that had resisted their effort...
By Duncan Newton Keal
At the completion of the test series between India and South Africa, a series touted as being the 'world championship' of Test cricket, I can not help wondering how good South African really is.
When the Proteas made hist...
