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...
The holiday season has come to an end, and while most people take time off and enjoy this time of family, presents and often boozing at the office Christmas party, there has been one sour note that continues to needle me as I sit in front of my compu...
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...
By Peter Church
In 1992, the Sydney rain came down on a gutsy SA cricket team's bid to win the prestigious Cricket World Cup. When Brian McMillan and Dave Richardson returned to the centre, the revised target left them with 22 runs to score off 1 ...
The sticky issue of England's cricket side resembling a United Nations delegation keeps raising its head, but it shouldn't be such a surprising trend to cricket followers.
A glance at the numbers reveal why so many South Africans, in particular, ...
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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 ...
You win five on the trot and then you stumble at the penultimate hurdle. For most teams, that would be a pretty good run which was bound to end some time.
But for Graeme Smith and co, that is mere confirmation of their world-class choke-ability, ...
Submitted by Sean Lloyd
We've all come to look up at certain people in our lives and often the brands we use are ones that have in some way been endorsed by someone we look up to. From Lance Armstrong, Nike and Oakley, to Kelly Slater and Quiksilv...
Your vice-captain or the new hot hand on the block? After a rocky start, Ashwell Prince has proven to be a reliable steady influence in the Proteas’ middle order. That summer against the Pakistanis proved to be his making and he’s not looked back...
