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New Zealand’s cricketers celebrate after defeating the better-resourced and more fancied Indian national team in the final of the inaugural World Test Championship in Southampton, England. (Photograph by Alex Davidson/ Getty Images)
CLIVE LLOYD

Can Test cricket be saved from the Big Three?

Test cricket is broken because India, England and Australia, who dominate the format, eat alone at the main table while other Test-playing nations compete for crumbs. Can the…

  • Daniel Gallan
9 min read
Hansie Cronje during cross-examination at the King commission of inquiry into allegations of cricket match-fixing. (AFP)
ALI BACHER

Illegal betting syndicates target MSL cricket

Cricket, wittingly or unwittingly, is host to an alternate society of parasitic fixers, gangsters and business people who trade in extortion

  • Allan Hendricks
12 min read
Bacher to explain R5m ‘precedent’ to CSA probe
ALI BACHER

Bacher to explain R5m ‘precedent’ to CSA probe

Dr Ali Bacher will today explain a R5m payout cited by Cricket SA boss Gerald Majola as a precedent for his own controversial handling of bonuses.

  • Nickolaus Bauer
  • Sapa Afp
4 min read
ALI BACHER

Patel’s ICC job ‘not a done deal’

Imtiaz Patel’s appointment as the next chief executive of the International Cricket Council (ICC) is ”not a done deal” according to SuperSport, his current employer. ”Nothing has…

  • Chris Burnes
2 min read
FRANS CRONJE

Get ready for Hansie, the movie

The filming of <i>Hansie</i> — based on the life of the late South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje — has been completed, its producer said on Tuesday. "The movie is looking…

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read