Elgar makes a plea for Test cricket
/ 4 February 2024

Elgar makes a plea for Test cricket

In an interview with Drew Forrest, the Test opener insists our first-class game cannot be fixed using another, entirely different, format

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Proteas’ loss, as three duck early
/ 13 January 2024

Proteas’ loss, as three duck early

Three fine cricketers have retired early and unhappily, but it’s not all doom and gloom

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Proteas in Perth – The enigma that is SA cricket
/ 3 November 2022

Proteas in Perth – The enigma that is SA cricket

The Proteas are in the T20 World Cup with a fighting chance but all is not well in game

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Welcome to no future for cricket
/ 20 July 2022

Welcome to no future for cricket

The current heatwave in the UK is making it impossible to play or watch the game

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Khaya Koko: John Steenhuisen, please take a knee
/ 27 October 2021

Khaya Koko: John Steenhuisen, please take a knee

The Democratic Alliance leader rebuking cricketer Quinton de Kock would be this election season’s greatest triumph

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Shabnim Ismail bowls her way into the record books Down Under
/ 1 December 2020

Shabnim Ismail bowls her way into the record books Down Under

The night before Australia’s Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) final, fiery South African fast bowler Shabnim Ismail lay awake pondering how to take the prized wicket of Aussie gun batter, Meg Lanning. Twenty-four hours later, Ismail was the toast of her Sydney Thunder team, as they upset the favourites, Melbourne Stars, bowling them out for […]

It’s just not cricket
/ 15 July 2020

It’s just not cricket

Near Makhanda in the Eastern Cape in the village of Salem is a cricket pitch that is said to be the oldest in the country. Watered by blood and trauma, rolled with frontier nostalgia and contemporary paranoia, how does it play?