HANSIE Cronje’s sacking on the eve the first one-day game against Australia has ruined the three-match series before it has even started, the Australian team’s manager said on Tuesday. Steve Bernard said that Cronje’s sacking and the ongoing matchfixing enquiries have effectively reduced the three-match series to a sideshow. Bernard said: “People aren’t talking about […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 5.30pm. ORGANISATION of African Unity Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim, has appealed to world football’s governing body, Fifa, to let Africa host the 2006 World Cup. “The case for Africa is overwhelming,” Salim told a meeting of African ambassadors in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on Monday night. […]
THE Australian Cricket Board expressed its shock at the sacking of Proteas skipper Hansie Cronje. “We have certainly heard the news and like everyone else we’re shocked,” ACB public affairs general manager Brendan McClements said. “It poses no threat to the (Australian one-day) series in South Africa. “And we’re confident the ICC and the United […]
JULIAN LINDEN, Sydney | Wednesday 12.00pm THE head of the Australian players association accused the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday of contributing to the Hansie Cronje scandal by failing to deal with previous matchfixing allegations. South African captain Cronje was sacked on Tuesday after admitting receiving money from an Indian bookmaker in one of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 8.50am CRICKET chief Ali Bacher said on Wednesday Hansie Cronje’s involvement in the match-fixing controversy was part of a more serious global problem. The day after Cronje was sacked as South Africa’s captain for taking between $10000 and $15000 from a bookmaker for information and forecasting on one-day matches, Bacher […]
SOUTH African fast bowling legend Allan Donald on Tuesday said Hansie Cronje had been set up, leading to his sacking as his country’s cricket captain. Cronje reportedly received between $10000 and $15000 during a triangular tournament earlier this year but Donald said: ”By the looks of it he (Cronje) was done in. He got a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 3.00pm. BAFANA Bafana coach Trott Moloto has indicated that he is not considering dropping any of the 18-man squad that that beat Lesotho 2-0 in their World Cup qualifier last weekend, but may draft in Manchester United midfielder Quinton Fortune for the return-leg match. The match takes place next […]
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HIGHLANDERS flyhalf Tony Brown is unlikely to see action in his team’s Super 12 clash with the Auckland Blues on Friday night after spraining his ankle on Sunday. Highlanders’ coach Peter Sloane said that Brown is doubtful for the match and there are more worries in the backline. Rua Tipoki, who rolled an ankle against […]