Many people have been asking whether South Africa’s tour of UAE and games with Pakistan will go ahead. CSA issued a statement this morning indicating that they have to honour the agreement. How many people will actually pitch up to watch these games or switch on the tele to follow, is another story. Pakistan also [...]
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South Africa
A quick note, this is a cricket blog, where we write about cricket. However, Mohammed Aamer has had his ode ruined by Stu Broad and Jonathan Trott so, instead, this is a piece about football in South Africa and the battles we face to live up to our ‘rainbow nation image’. Historical moments in South [...]
The T20 Champions league is right around the corner and, while we are all thrilled that Enrique Iglesias will be performing here, some players just need their own special song. Take Dale Steyn for instance. While he can surely be the hero for Bangalore, he is much more likely to be pretty fly for a [...]
So, after telling us that we will have to wait a month before we find out who the new captain of the South African T20 side will be, Cricket South Africa announced on Saturday that it’s Johan Botha who will take the reins. I don’t think anybody is terribly surprised, most people thought that he [...]
After a big hoo-haa yesterday about Graeme Smith being set to resign as captain in all formats, the news emerged that Smithers is quitting as T20 captain with immediate effect and will only step down as captain in ODIs after the ODI World Cup in the sub-continent next year. This was the biggest climax of [...]
It’s hard to hate a man with such a tremendous beard. Not only does he have a tremendous beard though, he is also a marvellous player and the epitome of humility – one of the few cricketers in the South African team who seem to possess this quality. For somebody notoriously known for slating the [...]
Bangladesh beat England for the first time ever. England in cricket are a lot like England in football. The differences being, there was not much ODI Cricket back in 1966, and that there is no slam bang shorter format which the three lions can win in football now. The point being that the English Cricket [...]
The big deal: After a terribly disappointing summer, it’s time for the West Indies to switch gears and try to salvage some pride as they turn to the longer format of the game and it will take a tremendous, near miraculous effort for the West Indies to get their act together. Things in camp Windies [...]
It was revealed on Monday morning that most loved and most popular men of our time, Odi Cricket, had passed away. It was initially suspected that the death was of his twin brother, Test Cricket, but the autopsy and DNA tests revealed that it was Odi who had passed on. The cause of death is [...]
Imagine this: you are a little boy or girl and you absolutely adore cricket. You always get to watch on TV because games aren’t played close to you that often. But England are in town and you will finally get to go to your first live cricket game. You get up early, get dressed and [...]
