Three months ago, South African cricket was in the doldrums. Now the sun has risen on better days
The hole in the cricket season left by the scrapped Global T20 League has given fans the rare thrill of seeing Proteas in action in domestic games
President Jacob says De Villiers has done the country immensely proud by being named the ICC One Day International Cricketer of the Year.
Nothing but good intentions from CSA, but black players who earned their spot aren’t so happy with ‘token’ places.
With their confidence rattled in Sri Lanka, the Proteas must dig deep to find their way back to aplomb.
Haroon Lorgat is the best man to head up local cricket, but is a pesky thorn in the side of the game’s global elite.
The local game ‘can do what it likes’ in making Lorgat boss, but powerful teeth are being gnashed, writes Neil Manthorp.
The International Cricket Council has decided to expand the World Twenty20 tournament and four more berths to the upcoming 2014 edition.
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/ 1 February 2012
Future International Cricket Council presidents are likely to have reduced powers after the governing body’s board recommended splitting the job.
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/ 15 November 2011
The International Cricket Council has announced that the ICC World Test championship due to be played next year will not be held until 2017.
The ICC is considering scrapping time limits for the final of the inaugural world Test championship in 2013, returning cricket to the 1930s.
Cricket’s governing body has banned countries from appointing politicians to national boards to free the sport from undue government influence.
ICC boss Haroon Lorgat says fixing allegations involving three Pakistan players could be the worst corruption case in cricket since Hansie Cronje’s.
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/ 6 February 2009
Does Zimbabwe deserve to be allowed back into the international Test arena?
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/ 17 December 2008
ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat on Wednesday identified slow over rates and verbal abuse as two key areas that must be kept in check.
Former International Cricket Council (ICC) president Ehsan Mani said on Monday the governing body could lose credibility after the ”disgraceful” treatment of outgoing chief executive Malcolm Speed. Mani became the latest critic of the ICC board, which has come under fire after Speed was placed on paid leave on Friday.
South Africa’s Haroon Lorgat has been appointed the new chief executive of the International Cricket Council (ICC), the governing body announced on Friday. The 47-year-old Lorgat will take over from Malcolm Speed after the governing body’s annual conference starting on June 29, the ICC said in a statement.