South Africa

News Domestic cricket in South Africa does not take place under strict biosecure bubbles CSA has postponed all three Division 2 four-day matches scheduled to start on Thursday after some players were tested positive for Covid-19. The one-day matches due to take place on December 16 have also been pushed back to 2022. This is

News “We will have a board meeting soon after we receive the report and then we will release it publicly,” CSA acting CEO Pholetsi Moseki CSA’s Social Justice and Nation-Building (SJN) report will be delivered to the organisation a week later than scheduled, with the ombudsman, Dumisa Ntsebeza, requesting an extension to the revised November

News Klusener’s current contract expires on December 31 Lance Klusener has decided not to continue as the head coach of Afghanistan. The former South Africa allrounder, who was appointed in the role in September 2019, will not extend his contract, which expires on December 31, 2021. “Having spent two years with the team, I will

News He is the favourite to join Kagiso Rabada and Anrich Nortje in the Test squad to face India in December Duanne Olivier has made himself available for an international comeback but is not allowing himself to think too far ahead. Olivier, who returned to South African cricket following the end of the Kolpak system

News Kapp was bedridden for three days before the final due to illness and then had to deal with the emotional challenge of playing against her wife Dane van Niekerk Player of the WBBL final Marizanne Kapp revealed that she didn’t leave her hotel room for three days in the lead-up to the final after

News Although Netherlands are unable to catch a flight out, it is understood the players have communicated they are not in the right mental state to play The second and third ODIs between South Africa and Netherlands have been postponed after concerns around a new Coronavirus variant, Omicron. The first match in the series, which

News Reports suggest the BCCI will wait and watch before deciding on the senior men’s team’s scheduled tour of South Africa The Netherlands team will head back home without completing their ODI tour of South Africa, after a new Covid-19 variant made its presence felt in the country this week*. The first of the three

Report Visitors make three changes from the last ODI they played; hosts recall Wayne Parnell, Kyle Verreynne and Khaya Zondo Toss Netherlands chose to bowl vs South Africa Zubayr Hamza and Sisanda Magala were handed their ODI caps as South Africa fielded a new-look side for their opening ODI against Netherlands. There were recalls for

News The Netherlands have a number of players of South African origin, plenty of whom have played professional cricket in South Africa “Colin is the most recent of our players who has played first-class cricket here in South Africa, so he actually ran me through all the players (in their squad) that I didn’t know

Preview Netherlands have their own points to prove against the “big boys”, with the ODI Super League being scrapped going forward You may expect the usual David and Goliath angle for a preview about a series between South Africa and Netherlands but this won’t exactly be it. You only have to go back a little

News Lizaad Williams also ruled out because of an intercostal muscle strain, Junior Dala has been added to squad Lungi Ngidi has been forced to withdraw from South Africa’s squad for the three-match ODI series at home against Netherlands after testing positive for Covid-19. “He is well and in good spirits,” a CSA statement on

News He is the first former Kolpak player to be recalled for the national team since the system ceased to exist Wayne Parnell is four years older, has represented ten more teams and collected 100 more white-ball wickets since he last played limited-overs cricket for South Africa. He is now promising to contribute “experience” during

News South Africa Test captain tunes up ahead of the series against India in mid-December South Africa’s Test captain Dean Elgar signalled his return to full fitness from an abductor injury with a hundred in his third red-ball innings this summer as the Titans registered their first win of the season. Elgar, who sustained the

News The left-arm spinner, who played for South Africa at the 2016 Under-19 World Cup, took 10 for 36 in a Division 2 match of the 4-Day Franchise Series He enjoyed a superb match overall, picking up 5 for 64 in the Easterns’ first innings and also contributing 66 and 45 as South Western Districts

News Full text of de Villiers’ retirement video Before he announced his retirement from cricket on Friday, AB de Villiers issued a short speech, which was put out by Royal Challengers Bangalore, the IPL franchise he joined in 2011. Seemingly emotional, de Villiers declared he is now “half Indian and half South African” thanks to

News “Now, at the age of 37, that flame no longer burns so brightly” AB de Villiers has announced his decision to retire from all cricket. This will end his association with all franchise T20 leagues, including Royal Challengers Bangalore, with whom he continued to play in the IPL following his international retirement in 2018.

News They will also play West Indies for a bilateral series in December before the global event Warriors batter George van Heerden will lead the South Africa Under-19 side in the World Cup early next year in the Caribbean. They will also take part in a pre-World Cup bilateral tour against West Indies in December

News South Africa allrounder set to play Championship and Royal London Cup games for Running Foxes South Africa allrounder Wiaan Mulder will join Leicestershire for the 2022 county season. Mulder, 23, who travelled to the T20 World Cup with the South Africa squad but didn’t play a game, was initially due to sign for Leicestershire

News Lutho Sipamla, George Linde, Beuran Hendricks, Marco Jansen among those in the squad of 14 Opening batter Pieter Malan will lead an experienced South Africa A squad for their series of three four-day games against India A, from November 23 to December 9 in Bloemfontein. Others with international experience in the 14-man squad are:

News Keshav Maharaj will lead the team, which also sees a return for the Kolpak-returned Wayne Parnell Parnell’s comeback is the first indication that South Africa are ready to reintegrate players who gave up their international careers when they signed Kolpak deals. Since the UK’s exit from the European Union, which has dissolved the Kolpak

News “As a South African cricket side, we have been put under immense pressure around this whole topic” Temba Bavuma has called for South African cricket to take a “collective” decision on how it will approach anti-racism gestures going forward, and said the pressure mounted on the team to take a knee is “sometimes a

News He provided a timely reminder of his red-ball credentials with a Test summer looming Lutho Sipamla was one of three bowlers to pick up a six-for in the match as Lions beat Warriors by an innings and 20 runs to move to the top of the first-class points table. Sipamla took 6 for 34

News Sluggish chase against Bangladesh proves costly, but Boucher proud of team’s revival Too few runs, scored too slowly in the early stages of the T20 World Cup cost South Africa a place in the semi-finals, according to coach Mark Boucher. He called their victory over England, and elimination on net run-rate, a “bitter pill

News Bavuma also cognisant of SA’s advantage of playing after Australia v West Indies South Africa will look to “add an extra five per cent” in all their departments, as they seek to beat England for the first time in six T20Is and topple one of the tournament favourites in a bid for a semi-final

News With five different slower variations in his arsenal, he has become his captain’s go-to end-overs bowler Dwaine Pretorius has fallen into a death-bowling role because the rest of South Africa’s attack is doing so well that they have to be used earlier in the innings. That’s how the allrounder explained his new role in

Preview Without Shakib, Bangladesh look weaker but will hope their other senior players step up Big Picture South Africa will look to avoid any more stumbles in their T20 World Cup campaign as they come up against a Bangladesh side ravaged by defeats and injuries. Bangladesh have already lost three matches, and whatever thin mathematical

Report Pathum Nissanka’s 58-ball 72 and Wanindu Hasaranga’s hat-trick go in vain as Sri Lanka lose their second game South Africa’s chase veered, almost stalled, and threatened to careen off a cliff – particularly when Wanindu Hasaranga claimed a T20I hat-trick to go with the ODI one he took on debut. But, in the end,

Graeme Smith‘s appointment as director of cricket was not irregular but ratified by the Cricket South Africa (CSA) board, and made in the hopes of stopping the organisation’s slide as they suffered severe reputational damage in the aftermath of the Thabang Moroe era. Acting CEO Pholetsi Moseki told the Social Justice and Nation-Building Hearings that

News Former WI fast bowler cited the example of Makhaya Ntini and how even though he was a world-class player he is sometimes viewed as a statistic The term “quota” is an unnecessary burden for players of colour to carry and they should instead be recognised for their abilities and excellence. That was Michael Holding‘s

News Keshav Maharaj says the team is now closer than ever after they aired out their differences over the taking of the knee South Africa are ready to welcome Quinton de Kock back into their starting XI after he sat out the match against West Indies when he refused to take a knee, and believe