Finally, all the paperwork and red tape has been cleared and Imran Tahir is set to be a Protea.
This is big news. Why so, you may ask? Because why, as hulle se op die Oos Rand, his international career presents a challenge, not only to himself to ...
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 ...
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 release of Cricket South Africa's various squads last week showed where the selectors see "the future". Rusty Theron, who should've already made his debut for the Proteas, was the big winner in the T20 squads while Loots Bosman should count himse...
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 ...
