South Africa

“Temba struggled during the tour. There’s no doubt,” Mark Boucher, South Africa’s coach said. But he only really struggled against one bowler and that was [Bhuvneshwar] Kumar. Most of the guys struggled against him. Let’s give him credit where it’s due. Kumar is a fantastic bowler in those conditions.” Bhuvneshwar, who opened the bowling and

Ryan Rickelton, the South Africa batter, has signed for a short-term spell as an overseas player with Northamptonshire. He will be available for their next two LV= Insurance County Championship games. Rickelton, who made his Test debut against Bangladesh in March, comes in to strengthen the squad in red-ball cricket after the departure of Will

In naming the quintet, England have dipped in to the talent pool they believe has expanded with the greater professionalisation of the Women’s game in England and Wales in recent years. They are also planning for a future beyond veteran seam bowlers Anya Shrubsole, who retired from international cricket after England finished runners-up at the

Big picture If we needed an advertisement for a five-match bilateral T20I series, and one on the back of a 74-match IPL, this is it. Locked at 2-2, this series has had South Africa’s highest successful chase, and their lowest T20I total; India’s biggest win over South Africa, career-bests for six players, a comeback for

South Africa 278 for 5 (Luus 93, Wolvaardt 89) beat Ireland 89 (Waldron 32, Ismail 5-8) by 189 runs South Africa’s pace spearhead Shabnim Ismail picked up 5 for 8 to bundle Ireland out for 89 in the third ODI, and lead her team to a 189-run win and seal the series 3-0 in Dublin.

South Africa fast bowler Anrich Nortje is still some way away from being at the level he was before his back and hip injuries, which kept him out of action for almost five months. Nortje was cleared of any serious injury just before IPL 2022 and allowed to continue his rehabilitation with Delhi Capitals. He

Steyn and Laura Wolvaardt got South Africa off to a quick start, putting on 52 before Georgina Dempsey got Wolvaardt, who had been handed a life earlier, to chip one to short midwicket. Dempsey then saw another catch going down off her bowling, Goodall the beneficiary early in her innings. But once she was off

Toss: South Africa chose to bowl vs India Temba Bavuma chose to chase after calling correctly for the third time in the series and with the knowledge that South Africa have been successful fielding first in the previous two matches. South Africa’s captain wants only a slight improvement (1 or 2%, he said at the

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.