Hashim Amla

One of the greatest to ever pad up for the Proteas has stepped down from all formats of the game.

The Proteas batsman faces being axed from the Wrold Cup squad after a poor run of form against Sri Lanka

A complacent side and reluctance to take risks and trial new players puts World Cup in jeopardy

A series of whacks and punches leaves us searching for answers to woes on the pitch

From the stands: Centurion and Wanderers

Du Plessis was banned for one Test after being found guilty of captaining a team which maintained a slow over-rate

South Africa lead the three-match series 2-0

Amla was moved down to number four in the order for South Africa’s most recent Test against Sri Lanka in Colombo in July

​Perhaps no cricket-playing nation conjures the vicissitudes and vagaries of the game quite like Pakistan

The Proteas have not been whitewashed anywhere in the world since 2006

It was far from the high-octane Test cricket that was seen in Cape Town last week, but it was every bit as engaging.

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

As the Oval celebrates 100 Tests, the model role model goes back to a venue ‘close to his heart’

Racism in Australian cricket or in Mpumalanga – we don’t need an explanation and we don’t need to "just shrug it off".

No Test team has ever performed a clean sweep in Australia — but the Proteas are close to it.