SOUTH Africa’s Elana Meyer will travel to the USA on Monday for her fourth attempt at winning the Boston Marathon, the only US city marathon still eluding Meyer. Meyer has won all the major road races on the USA circuit, and will be hoping to break the Boston hoodoo when she joins a top-class field […]

HARIM Cassim, the South African businessman alleged to be the go-between in the Hansie Cronje scandal denied any wrong-doing on Friday and said he would cooperate in an inquiry into match-fixing. Harim Cassim was alleged in newspaper reports to be the businessman who introduced the former cricket captain to London-based Indian bookmaker Sanjiv Chawla. Chawla […]

OPENER Herschelle Gibbs, named in the match-fixing scandal surrounding Hansie Cronje, says he’s relieved to have been cleared of any wrongdoing by his former captain. Gibbs was one of four players, including Cronje, named by Indian police in their investigations into match-fixing during a recent tour of the subcontinent earlier this year. But Cronje, who […]

DAVID SHAPSHAK, Durban | Saturday 5.00pm. DEFENDING champions the Canterbury Crusaders shot to the top of the Super 12 log with a 32-24 win over the Sharks at Absa Stadium in Durban on Saturday. Durban-borne Andrew Merhtens slotted 12 points as his New Zealand side, who led 15-10 at half-time, gave the Sharks their second […]

THE Chiefs clinically disposed of the Super 12’s bottom team, the Northern Bulls, 40-7 on Saturday. The Bulls’ lack of discipline soon led to penalties and inside 22 minutes Loki Crichton had kicked the third-bottom Chiefs into a 9-0 lead. Roger Randle rounded off the first half with the Chiefs’ first try after a nice […]

FANS who have not abandoned disgraced former cricket captain Hansie Cronje can bowl him out of a New Delhi jail in a website game. ”We felt that we needed something to lift South African spirits after the shock admissions by Hansie on Tuesday and thought a game in which the public can help Hansie would […]

INDIAN businessman Rajesh Kalra, arrested in connection with cricket match- fixing allegations, was remanded in custody by the revenue department for two days on Thursday. Metropolitan Magistrate Praveen Kumar remanded Kalra under the Enforcement Directorate’s custody for questioning on foreign exchange transactions, the assistant legal adviser of the quasi-judicial body said. Former South African captain […]