South Africa

Tristan Stubbs, the second-highest run-scorer in South Africa’s domestic T20 challenge, has received his maiden call-up to the national side after being included in the squad to play five T20Is in India in June. Stubbs joins a full-strength South African outfit that includes all the players who missed the Bangladesh Test after opting to go

Zubayr Hamza has been banned from “all cricket-related activities” for nine months by the ICC after admitting to an anti-doping rule violation. The South Africa batter provided an out-of-competition sample on January 17 in Paarl which was found to contain Furosemide, a substance specified in Section S5 of the 2022 WADA Prohibited List. Hamza accepted

South Africa and Australia have not played against each other in Tests since the Sandpapergate series in South Africa in 2018. They have since met in three ODIs in South Africa in March 2020, which South Africa won 3-0, and at the 2021 T20 World Cup, which Australia won, but were set to headline the

Cricket South Africa have “formally and unreservedly,” withdrawn charges of gross misconduct against men’s national head coach Mark Boucher less than a week before his disciplinary hearing was due to begin. That means they are no longer seeking his dismissal over the tentative findings of the Social Justice and Nation-Building (SJN) report which concluded that

Paul Adams, the former South African wristspinner, has confirmed that he will not testify against former team-mate Mark Boucher, in his upcoming CSA disciplinary hearing between May 16 to 20. Boucher, the current head coach of the South African national team, is slated to appear before senior counsel advocate Terry Motau, where he faces charges

Four IPL franchises – Delhi Capitals, Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals – and a consortium led by Kevin Pietersen have expressed interest in buying franchises in South Africa’s new T20 tournament. The competition, scheduled for January next year, is set to include six privately owned teams, who will play each other home

Tazmin Brits and Nonkululeko Mlaba have been rewarded their first central contracts by Cricket South Afica, with Nadine de Klerk the only player to miss out on the list from the last season. A total of 15 women have been contracted by CSA for the 2022-23 season. Both Brits, a top-order batter who made her

Cricket South Africa has announced the launch of a new franchise-based T20 tournament in association with SuperSport. The first edition of the competition is scheduled to be played in January 2023, immediately after South Africa’s tour to Australia. For subsequent editions, January will be the dedicated window for the tournament. According to a CSA release,

Graeme Smith, the former Cricket South Africa (CSA) director of cricket, has been cleared of allegations of racism in an independent arbitration process following the outcomes of the Social Justice and Nation-Building (SJN) commission’s report. The SJN made tentative findings that Smith had engaged in prejudicial behaviour on three counts and advocates Ngwako Maenetje SC

South Africa are not throwing the doors open to welcome back the IPL absentees who “vacated their spots”, as coach Mark Boucher put it, after finding a strong second-tier of players in their series sweep over Bangladesh. South Africa dominated the two Tests despite being without their entire frontline pace pack, and with four of

Dean Elgar and Mark Boucher, South Africa’s Test captain and coach, assessed this summer as a success after two Test series wins, an ODI clean-sweep over India, albeit not part of the World Cup Super League, and a better-than-expected showing at the T20 World Cup, which saw South Africa narrowly miss out on the semi-finals.

Mark Boucher has given no clear indication of whether he wants to continue as South Africa’s coach pending the outcome of his upcoming disciplinary hearing. Boucher will appear before senior counsel Terry Motau between May 16-20, where he faces charges of gross misconduct for his handling of racial issues, both historically and with the current

This is the first instance of the Covid substitution protocol being used in international cricket after Covid replacement incidents in the Plunket Shield and County Championship. It is just the second instance of two substitutes for a team in the same match in international cricket – Bangladesh had two concussion subs against India in 2019.

With the new ball “ragging”, as Sarel Erwee put it, Keshav Maharaj and Simon Harmer can continue to stake a claim for playing together as a spin duo in the future. The two opened the bowling in the second innings of the Gqeberha Test against Bangladesh, as they had in the first Test, and have

Big picture It’s Gqeberha, with a hard click at the start and a guttural “gha” at the end, that’s the venue for the last dance of the South African summer. Where, you ask? The place with the oldest cricket ground in the country but the newest name. Formerly known as Port Elizabeth, the city was

du Preez retires from the two formats, having played a solitary Test – which came back in 2014 against India, when she hit 102 in a losing cause – and 154 ODIs where she piled up 3760 runs in a career that started in 2007. The 32-year-old even captained her country in 46 ODIs from

Report The visitors triggered two collapses to bowl South Africa out for 204 in their second innings, but have lost their way after that Stumps Bangladesh 11 for 3 (Maharaj 2-7, Harmer 1-4) and 298 trail South Africa 367 and 204 (Elgar 64, Ebadot 3-40, Mehidy 3-85) by 262 runs South Africa are seven wickets

Report Bangladesh slump to 98 for 4 in reply to South Africa’s 367 on the second day Bangladesh 98 for 4 (Joy 44*, Shanto 38, Harmer 4-42) trail South Africa 367 (Bavuma 93, Elgar 67, Khaled 4-92, Mehidy 3-94) by 269 runs Simon Harmer marked his return to Test cricket by taking the first four

Report Mominul Haque chose to make first use of the surface with three seamers at his disposal Bangladesh chose to bowl vs South Africa On an unusually brown-green Kingsmead pitch, which Keshav Maharaj said he had never seen at this venue before, Mominul Haque chose to make first use of the surface with three seamers

Report South Africa grappling with the unavailability of their experienced Test stars away at the IPL Big picture 362 caps v 206 caps. For the first time since they got Test status in 2000, Bangladesh are in South Africa with an opportunity to challenge the home team. They have already won the ODI series, they have

News “We have to make do with our next best that we have in the country, who I’m still very confident in.” South Africa’s IPL-contracted players were “put in a bit of a situation” when asked to choose between staying to play in the two-Test series against Bangladesj or going to the T20 tournament, according

News South Africa’s batting is starting to hit top gear at the business end of the World Cup South Africa’s batting is starting to click at the business end of the World Cup, thanks largely to a resurgence in form for Mignon du Preez, who scored her first fifty of the tournament in a thrilling,

Since her international debut in 2019, Shafali Verma‘s rapid rise as an all-format player has played out like an action-packed cliffhanger, at 2x speed. Even before she faced her first ball in international cricket as a 15-year-old, she had etched her name in the record books as the youngest Indian to play T20Is. Soon after,

News Franchise physio Patrick Farhart to determine, after conducting fresh tests, when the quick can return to bowling competitively Anrich Nortje has been cleared of “any serious injury”, and a stress fracture, understood as the reason he has been out of action for the last six months, has been ruled out, clearing the way for

News The South Africa batter had tested positive for furosemide, a prohibited substance, in January “Hamza has been charged with the presence and/or use of a prohibited substance following the detection of Furosemide in a sample collected out-of-competition on 17 January 2022 and has been provisionally suspended pending the outcome of the disciplinary process,” the

News The South Africa head coach says the batters lacked intent and belief South Africa’s head coach Mark Boucher has said that his side’s “fear of failure” played a role in their defeat in the ODI series against Bangladesh. Boucher repeated the phrase several times during the post-match press conference, adding that the team lacked

Report Only 10.5 overs of play were possible after a delay of more than four hours No result South Africa Women 61 for 4 (du Preez 38, Henry 3-19) vs West Indies Women South Africa have qualified for the World Cup semi-finals after rain washed out their match against West Indies in Wellington. Only 10.5

News He is “not disputing” the positive test, is “cooperating fully with the ICC” and has agreed to voluntary suspension commencing immediately South Africa batter Zubayr Hamza has tested positive for a prohibited substance under the ICC’s anti-doping code. A Cricket South Africa (CSA) statement said “the positive test followed an ICC anti-doping test on

Preview Host captain Bavuma says, “Sunday is a must-win game for us. We have to up our game in all the departments” Big picture As well as they would be celebrating the landmark win in Centurion on Friday, Bangladesh will have their eyes on a bigger achievement on Sunday. Beating South Africa in South Africa

News Beuran Hendricks and Heinrich Klaasen have been dropped from the 16-man list Malan and Petersen have been rewarded for making excellent starts to their South Africa careers in white- and red-ball cricket respectively. Malan has been outstanding at the top of the order in ODIs since his debut in February 2019, scoring 759 runs