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/ 25 February 2003
A Canadian off-spinner who normally bats at number nine and who has never scored a century smashed the fastest 100 in World Cup history this weekend.
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/ 14 February 2003
Zimbabwe’s opening game against Namibia wasn’t a particularly memorable match in cricketing terms. Craig Wishart scored a superb 170*, but that was about it. But for Zimbabwe cricket and particularly Henry Olonga and Andy Flower, it will be a day they will remember for quite a while.
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/ 10 February 2003
When the Canadian national team’s coach calls a practice session, most of the team has to book a flight to attend the practice. One player has to fly all the way from New Zealand to be there. The team is a walking advertisement for how different cultures can unite for a common goal.
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/ 9 February 2003
Wasim Akram is in the twilight of his career, but even at a ripe 37 there is still a lot of fight in the old warhorse. His legend is the stuff of a Bollywood script. Ball tampering, match fixings and broken friendships mark his illustrious career. But Wasim has survived them all, and is still grinning and smirking at the end of his career. He will retire on his own terms, not those laid down by others.
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/ 7 February 2003
South Africa’s gold industry has given the 2003 Cricket World Cup even more glitter. The country’s main gold producing companies — all members of the Chamber of Mines -– donated 54 single ounce 24-carat gold medallions for the toss of each game in the World Cup and 54 solid gold watches for the man of the match award.
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/ 6 February 2003
Glen McGrath seems to have shaken off his back injury as easily as shaking off a cold.
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/ 28 January 2003
The latest popular book by the head of Wits University’s renowned palaeoanthropology unit contains so many mistakes it is destroying South Africa’s credibility in the field, say critics writing in the latest South African Journal of Science.
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/ 23 January 2003
Eight lions supposedly saved from the canned hunting industry face being harmed by their owner’s good intentions clashing with the law. Greg Mitchell and Kelcey Grimm bought the lions from a breeder, Marius Prinsloo, for R175 000 and gave them shelter at the Enkosini reserve.
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/ 17 January 2003
The government’s tough stance on land invasions will be put to the test by a recent court decision it fears may reward squatters. Land Affairs is worried that a ruling that it take care of evicted squatters will compel it to provide housing for anyone evicted from private property.
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/ 10 January 2003
The carnage on South Africa’s roads was described on news bulletins over the holiday season by cold voices reading off ciphers. These statistics seemed clinical, saying little about the victims making up the numbers.