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Temba Bavuma will not be drawn into making an “emotional” decision about his future as T20I captain and will only consider his options once the dust has settled on a disappointing World Cup campaign. This is the second tournament under his watch in which South Africa have failed to qualify for the knockouts and the

No, it wasn’t a dream. Early on Sunday morning, not even eight hours after the world champion Springboks were beaten by Ireland in Dublin, South Africans woke up to the news that their men’s cricket team had been booted out of the T20 World Cup following a defeat to Netherlands. Yes, it is a nightmare.

Petersen was fielding on the deep square boundary in the sixth over of Titans’ innings and sprinted to deep midwicket to cut off a Theunis de Bruyn flick. He prevented the boundary but went down immediately, clutching his left hamstring and grimacing. He was taken off the field and left the ground in an ambulance.

Big picture It’s pretty straightforward, as Wayne Parnell put it: South Africa are in the knockout stages. They must beat Netherlands to go through to the semi-finals and if you’d said that pre-tournament, many would have thought the conclusion foregone, but this has been a World Cup of surprises and perhaps there’s one more? Netherlands

Cricketers from Pakistan have been permitted by the PCB to sign up with the CSA’s SA20 league, after not being part of the main player auction. ESPNcricinfo understands that the change came after the league introduced the option of additional wildcard entries. The process will allow each team to pick one extra player in their

Temba Bavuma has admitted the “wheels probably came off” for South Africa in the field at the SCG as they suffered their first defeat of the T20 World Cup but did not see it as a major cause for alarm with progression still firmly in their hands. Pakistan had been reduced to 43 for 4

Pakistan 185 for 9 (Shadab 52, Iftikhar 51, Nortje 4-41) beat South Africa 108 for 9 in 14 overs (Bavuma 36, Afridi 3-14, Shadab 2-16) by 33 runs (DLS method) Pakistan have kept their semi-final hopes alive with victory in a rain-reduced, must-win match over their favourite opponents: South Africa. They’ve met four times at

David Miller has never played a Test match. He probably never will. His last first-class game was in 2018. But for a few moments three days ago against India in Perth, it might have felt like one. He walked in with South Africa 24 for 3 against a ball doing all sorts on a Perth

The SA20 has breached the hurdle at which the Global League T20 and the Mzansi Super League fell, securing a ten-year deal with Viacom18 for an undisclosed amount to broadcast the tournament in India. ESPNcricinfo understands that CSA has also reached an agreement with the broadcaster to put South Africa’s bilateral fixtures for the next

Maketa is currently the South Africa A coach and National Academy Lead and will take charge of the Test squad from December until early January. He has been involved with the Test squad recently, and was part of the touring group, in England in August, as a consultant. He also served as assistant head coach

Forget grounds and nets and training. If you want to break records in cricket, get hooked on Instagram. It certainly did the trick for Dewald Brevis who took the world by storm on Monday, cracking 162 off 57 balls in a T20 game in South Africa. The 19-year old batter’s shots bear a striking resemblance

South Africa 137 for 5 (Miller 59*, Markram 52, Arshdeep 2-25) beat India 133 for 9 (Suryakumar 68, Ngidi 4-29, Parnell 3-15) by five wickets South Africa moved to the top of the group 2 points table and boosted their chances of making the semi-finals after recovering from 24 for 3 to successfully chase 134

Even though Optus Stadium’s green-tinged surface conjures pace and sharp bounce, characteristics that are well suited to them, South Africa’s speedsters have been urged to be restrained as they contemplate loading up with four quicks against India in a blockbuster T20 World Cup clash. Quicks Mark Wood and Haris Rauf have lit up the pitch

The teams from group 2 in the T20 World Cup have only played two matches each, but with upsets and rain in the air, there is plenty at stake in each of the remaining matches. Here is a look at how the teams stack up in the race for the two semi-final spots. PakistanPlayed: 2,

It has been a remarkable return to international cricket for Rilee Rossouw. After six years away, during which he took up a Kolpak deal in county cricket that did not go down well with CSA, he has now compiled back-to-back T20I centuries, alongside an unbeaten 96, in just seven innings. His numbers for the year

Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan has deflected attention, and some of the pressure, towards South Africa, their opponents on Thursday at the Sydney Cricket Ground. South Africa had to contend with just one point after rain halted their chase against Zimbabwe in Hobart earlier in the week. Although T20 is a volatile format, recent form

South Africa have “no regrets,” after their washout against Zimbabwe in Hobart saw them drop a point in the T20 World Cup and believe they are “still in control” of their destiny in the tournament. “We haven’t had a good history with rain,” the outgoing coach Mark Boucher said, bringing to mind how South Africa

Tim Paine has accused South Africa of ball tampering in the Test match immediately after Australian cricket was rocked by the sandpaper-gate scandal, claiming the act was covered up by match broadcasters. Paine made the explosive claims in his autobiography The Paid Price, with the former Test captain becoming the first player lift the lid on

Zimbabwe coach Dave Houghton was fiercely critical of the decision to carry on with his side’s game against South Africa even as the rain in Hobart grew heavier, saying he didn’t believe the “conditions were right to play”, and that Zimbabwe “shouldn’t have bowled a ball”. Rain halted Monday’s game in Hobart on multiple occasions,

In the book, du Plessis reflects on a difficult childhood, a career that started in shadow of his best friend AB de Villiers, South Africa’s 2015 and 2019 World Cup heartaches, his elevation to national captain, and his eventual exit from the role, driven by what he terms a lack of soft skills from Cricket

Big picture It doesn’t have quite the same hype as the Trans-Tasman or subcontinent derbies, but the meeting of two southern African neighbours has all the makings of a classic match-up. There’s an obvious favourite: South Africa, who have never lost a T20I to Zimbabwe and only been defeated by them in two ODIs. One

South Africa are clearing the mental fog from their back-to-back series defeats in India and have begun their final preparations for the Men’s T20 World Cup with a nine-wicket win over New Zealand in the first of two warm-up matches. The team arrived in Australia last week, directly from India where they played six white-ball

Colin Ingram, the former South Africa batter, has signed a two-year contract extension with Glamorgan. Ingram, 37, will feature as one of the club’s overseas players in 2023, alongside Marnus Labuschagne and Michael Neser. Ingram topped Glamorgan’s averages in the County Championship, scoring three centuries in a haul of 596 runs at 66.22, as well

Krish Reddy, the pre-eminent record-keeper of black and non-racial cricket in South Africa, has died. Reddy was involved in the game as a player, administrator, selector and historian, and was best-known for his dedication to collating and preserving the records of players who were otherwise unrecognised in segregated South Africa, and for telling their stories.

Cricket South Africa is hoping to put bums on seats by throwing open doors to the CSA T20 Challenge, their domestic T20 competition, for free – almost. Tickets for the tournament – which features the eight Division 1 provincial sides, and will include 31 matches from October 17 to November 6 – have gone on

Pretorius had fractured his left thumb in the third T20I against India, which was South Africa’s only win in the three-match series. Jansen, 22, who was only part of the T20I squad for the tour, then replaced Pretorius for the ODI leg before being named for the T20 World Cup, which starts on October 16

India 105 for 3 (Gill 49, Iyer 28*, Fortuin 1-20) beat South Africa 99 (Klaasen 34, Kuldeep 4-18, Washington 2-15) by seven wickets India stormed to a fifth successive ODI series win with a crushing victory over South Africa in Delhi. Their spinners combined to bowl South Africa out for 99, their lowest ODI total

Big picture With a prize as big as a T20 World Cup on offer in little more than a month’s time, and teams including the hosts of this three-match ODI series having their eye firmly set on the marquee event, it would be easy to dismiss the decider as not such a big deal. But

Innings South Africa 278 for 7 (Markram 79, Hendricks 74, Siraj 3-38) v India Reeza Hendricks‘ fifth half-century in his last six international innings and Aiden Markram‘s highest score of the calendar year combined to anchor a South African innings that started and ended slowly. The duo shared a run-a-ball stand of 129 and guided

South Africa will complete their 2023 ODI World Cup qualification process with five games at home early next year, against England and Netherlands. Those matches, along with a full tour by West Indies – two Tests, three ODIs and three T20Is – are the only men’s internationals for the 2022-23 summer, during which the SA20