South Africa

Tsolekile, a former South Africa Test cricketer, was handed a 12-year ban for “contriving to fix a match or matches in the 2015 Ram Slam; failing to disclose to the CSA Anti-Corruption Officer the full details of an approach to engage in corrupt conduct”. Symes was banned for seven years, while Mbhalati was handed a

South Africa could finish what they travelled to India for – to win the five-T20I series – in less than a week if they win the third game on Tuesday, with two matches left to play. Conversely, it’s put India in a situation where every match is a must-win. That makes the Visakhapatnam game the

The series got off to a blockbuster start in Delhi with India posting their highest T20I score against South Africa, who completed their highest successful chase in response. Given that India are without even more players than they initially planned for after KL Rahul and Kuldeep Yadav were both ruled out on the eve of

The carnage began almost as soon as Ireland won the toss and opted to bat and soon enough they were 14 for 4. Shauna Kavanaugh (15), Sophie MacMahon (13) and Georgina Dempsey (19) were the only players to get into double-figures as South Africa took control and simply never let up. Ismail was responsible for

Big picture It’s T-minus 130 days to the start of the T20 World Cup but it seems only one of these two sides has seriously started the countdown, and it’s not India. They’ve chosen to rest new captain Rohit Sharma, former captain Virat Kohli, and pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah for the five match-series against South

Dewald Brevis and Tristan Stubbs, the young South African batters who played for Mumbai Indians in IPL 2022, have registered their interest in becoming overseas players in the Hundred this summer. Brevis, 19, represented South Africa at the Under-19 World Cup earlier this year and showed glimpses of his ability in the IPL after he

South Africa Women 107 for 2 (Goodall 52, Bosch 32*) beat Ireland Women 106 for 7 (Lewis 31, Sekhukhune 2-17, de Klerk 2-26) by eight wickets A much-improved South Africa levelled the T20I series against Ireland with a dominant performance in the second match. After struggling to find their lengths on a slower surface on

Dwaine Pretorius has started to believe he can do anything on a cricket field, thanks to MS Dhoni. After a season with the Chennai Super Kings, and four stints with Dhoni at the crease, Pretorius has had first-hand experience of how to combine calm and confidence to pull off a successful chase. “The biggest thing

South Africa will tap into the confidence of IPL champion David Miller when they kick off a busy 2022-23 season with five T20Is in India next week. Miller, who was the sixth-highest run-scorer in IPL 2022, had his best IPL showing in 10 years and was particularly successful against spin, which has often been a

Former South African Under-19 bowler Mondli Khumalo is an induced coma in Bristol after being assaulted outside a pub in Bridgwater on Saturday night. Khumalo has suffered bleeding on the brain and has had two operations thus far. He remains in a serious condition. A 27-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident.

South Africa men’s national team are ready to move on from controversies and display their culture of “inclusiveness,” according to white-ball captain Temba Bavuma, as they approach a bumper 2022-2023 season. Two-and-a-half years of scrutiny on the team environment, which included their response to the Black Lives Matter movement and the conduct of head coach

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