As the circus that is World Cup comes to life in the subcontinent, a significant moment is upon South African cricket. Yes, the Proteas have headed eastward in effort to slay the ghost of Headingley past, but this will also be Graeme Smith's last ODI...
Leo Tolstoy wrote War and Peace, arguably one of the most celebrated pieces of fiction in the Western world. War and Peace is a story, grossly simplified, about five aristocratic families and how Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812, including the s...
Sport, being the great equaliser that it is, simply waits for no man and respects no reputations.
This time last year, the world was Graeme Smith's oyster as he led a team brimming with talent, luck and confidence to burst Australia's bubble in u...
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...
Shane Warne recently wrote in his column for the Times: "This is a big call, but cricket evolves and the 50-over game has passed its sell-by date. It's amazing to think that after the Ashes series, England and Australia play seven one-day games, whic...
Deserts are an ever-changing landscape. From one day to the next the dunes shift from place to place, rolling over the landscape made asunder with the assistance of the wind. The only constant is the sun and as an Arabic proverb states "all sunshine ...
By Adam Wakefield
The old adage states "if it ain't broken, don't fix it". David Morgan, the ICC president, recently said that Test cricket could or would undergo serious changes by the time the clock strikes 12 and 2010 becomes 2011. This stateme...
