We are well into the Cricket World Cup in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh -- by all accounts it would seem that the organisation is very good -- unlike the Commonwealth Games earlier.
Haroon Lorgat opened his stance on the World Cup very early on ...
The second edition of the T20 Champions League is on these shores as I type this. Enrique -- or Enreekay -- kicked the circus off with a concert at Emmarentia Dam in Johannesburg and did a few numbers before the Lions took on the Indians (referring t...
That didn't last long did it? While South African cricket fans have become used to being underwhelmed by our national team, our recent exit from the World Twenty20 was even more whimpering than usual.
What we are used to is a barnstorming start, ...
It may be somewhat surprising when you think about how, in over 13 decades of cricket's well-documented existence, we only have one known way to judge cricketers -- batting and bowling averages. The void that this leaves is quite huge.
Measuring c...
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, ...
And so a week that started so well -- with hype, hope and a fair sprinkling of glamour -- ended rather limply, with Bafana showing all the attacking promise of a newborn gazelle charging a pride of lions.
I mean, really, what was Santana thinking...
