Today is the second semi-final of the Cricket World Cup and the national broadcaster, the one which is in such managerial disarray, is not broadcasting the match. Probably the bigger of the two semi-finals to cover, although they would not know that ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the 19th century American philosopher, lecturer and essayist, once said, "go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path". That statement says a lot about how cricket fans in South Africa are or not feeling ...
Stranded in an empty stadium at Edgbaston on June 17 1999 and agonising over the tied cricket match that ended SA's championship hopes, someone had a vision of the future: it's World Cup 2011 and Alan Donald's punching the air and high-fiving with ec...
So on Saturday the same old same old, hey? And How! I started getting worried on Wednesday when a friend said to me, of all the opposition, he would have picked New Zealand. Then I read on Facebook about the certainty with which SA supporters were tr...
I am almost certain (well I hope so) that if you are roughly 18 years old or older I do not have to remind you of the 1999 Cricket World Cup -- the seventh edition of the premium platform for world cricket -- with the SA Dream Team, defined by Dr Ali...
Lonwabo Tsotsobe's devastating form against the Bangladeshis should, hopefully, have made the selectors sit up and take note.
Having been consigned to the role of drinks boy for most of the group stages, Tsotsobe reminded all and sundry why he was...
It all started in India. The new generation, which had the great side of 1970 to follow as the last to represent South Africa, walked out on to Eden Gardens in 1991.
It was India who offered a hand to a nation not yet three years away from the en...
With the Cricket World Cup upon us, for those who don't really understand one of the most archaic sports going around, here is what you need to know about the teams competing (the ones who can win the tournament at least ... apologies to the associat...
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...
The Cricket World Cup (CWC) and South Africa have never had the best of relationships. Like two people who share a tempestuous love, they seem to be perfect for each other but invariably find some way to continually break up in an ugly manner, which ...
