South Africa won their first Test series at home since beating Bangladesh in 2008 after two dominant displays at Centurion and Newlands, plus being taught a lesson at Kingsmead in Durban (again).
Jacques Kallis silenced his ever-present band of cr...
Journalism allows you the opportunity to see, hear and read a lot of different opinions on how sports teams overcome tough patches to eventually triumph in a manner that would demand an unlimited bar tab at the big game after-party.
So with that ...
It has been 20 years since South Africa re-entered international cricket when they played India in Calcutta on November 10 1991, in what was the country's first ODI.
Two of the men who played in that match, Andrew Hudson and Allan Donald, are now�...
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 ...
As the year slowly grinds towards the next summer of international cricket, preparations have already begun for those considered to inhabit the "near selection" vortex of the national side. South Africa A have recently returned from a brief yet fruit...
Cricket, as a sport, has a habit of indulging itself in its own legend. Players are elevated above mere mortal status to something divine, something Bradmanesque as it were, where their influence on the game goes way beyond the boundary ropes of thei...
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...
The passing of a milestone is an important moment to acknowledge for a batsman. It shows that you respect the applause given to you by the crowd, your teammates and somewhat begrudgingly, the opposition. And now, more than ever, do we regularly see b...
An interesting development, if you follow the touring English cricket team, has been the absence of Jacques Kallis from South Africa's ODI squad.
I wrote a loving hymn (or chunder-worthy appraisal depending on your point of view) about JK last wee...
What makes a great Test cricketer? It is a question which cannot be answered by mere statistical analysis alone since numbers fail to explain the importance of circumstance and context. Often, a gritty 67 is more valuable then a double century, a sin...
