South Africa

News van der Dussen and Shamsi win men’s ODI player of the year and men’s T20I player of the year awards Quicks Anrich Nortje and Shabnim Ismail were named South Africa’s men’s and women’s cricketer of the year respectively at CSA’s annual awards ceremony, which was held virtually on Sunday. Nortje became the 12th player

News New Test captain wants team to play “more and better cricket” as they rebuild their red-ball game Scoring hundreds, taking five-fors and becoming more consistent. These are on Dean Elgar’s agenda as South Africa embark on a(nother) new era next month. Elgar will lead the team on a two-Test tour of the West Indies

Boucher called de Villiers’ decision “unfortunate” © AFP/Getty Images Mark Boucher, the head coach of the South Africa men’s side, has revealed that AB de Villiers was not comfortable returning to the national squad in place of a player already in the system, effectively taking that spot. A day after de Villiers told CSA “once

News Last month it had emerged he was in discussions over a possible South Africa comeback with an eye on the T20 World Cup The chances of AB de Villiers featuring in this year’s T20 World Cup have dimmed, with Cricket South Africa stating that he has decided “once and for all, that his retirement

News Lizaad Williams, Kyle Verreynne, Keegan Petersen, Sarel Erwee and Marco Jansen also part of Dean Elgar’s line-up Uncapped offspinning-allrounder Prenelan Subrayen and fast bowler Lizaad Williams, who recently made his T20I debut, have received maiden call-ups to the South Africa Test squad for the two-match series against West Indies in St Lucia in June.

News The Royals’ overseas roster stands at just five members with Coetzee’s addition South Africa batter Rassie van der Dussen, it appears, is not going to join the Rajasthan Royals in India for the remainder of IPL 2021. ESPNcricinfo understands that he got a visa to fly to India but failed to obtain a No-Objection

Sports minister Nathi Mthethwa had threatened to strip CSA of its status as the game’s national governing body © Gallo Images/Getty Images CSA’s Members’ Council has unanimously agreed to amend the organisation’s Memorandum of Incorporation (MOI) to develop a framework for a majority independent board, which should avoid the game being derecognised and defunded by

News Cricket in South Africa will continue to be run by CSA once the new memorandum is adopted in next 48 hours Cricket South Africa has potentially avoided being derecognised and defunded by the country’s sports ministry after agreeing to adopt a new Memorandum of Incorporation (MOI) that will include a framework for a majority

News Joint letter signed by staff including Graeme Smith, as crisis looms for national body Cricket South Africa’s staff have warned of more than 1,000 job losses if their organisation is derecognised by the country’s sports ministry, and have asked the Members’ Council and Inteirm Board to hold a “meeting of minds” to save the

News The board could well be stripped of its status as the game’s governing body in the country if the minister does intervene Cricket South Africa is on the verge of being stripped of its status as the game’s governing body in the country, with the sports minister preparing to intervene in the ongoing crisis

News Franchise currently bottom amid injury and absence of three England squad members Rassie van der Dussen, the South Africa batsman, is expected to join the Rajasthan Royals for the 2021 IPL season, as a reinforcement for the England pair of Ben Stokes and Liam Livingstone, who have both withdrawn from this year’s tournament. It

News Will there be no South Africa in international cricket? If yes, why? Is there no way things can change? South Africa’s sports minister Nathi Mthethwa is on the verge of derecognising Cricket South Africa (CSA), and if that happens, CSA will not be the body that officially runs cricket in the country. That is

Duanne Olivier, Hardus Viljoen, Kyle Abbott, Simon Harmer and Stiaan van Zyl, who had all left the South Africa set-up with Kolpak deals, have returned to the country’s Division 1 competition for the upcoming season. All Kolpak registrations were cancelled at the end of 2020 following the end of the United Kingdom’s transition period with

News Discussions have already begun, and the two are set to catch up again during the IPL AB de Villiers is keen to play the T20 World Cup in India later this year, and is scheduled to discuss the subject with Mark Boucher, the national-team coach, during the course of the IPL. However, he understands

News Sports minister Nathi Mthethwa can withdraw funding and no longer officially recognise CSA as the governing body of cricket Cricket South Africa will face intervention from the country’s sports minister Nathi Mthethwa after failing to agree on a Memorandum of Incorporation (MOI) that will set out the blueprint for a majority independent board on

News However, the head coach cautions against knee-jerk reactions following the 1-3 T20I series defeat against Pakistan Head coach Mark Boucher has accepted “a massive amount of responsibility,” for South Africa losing eight out of their 11 series in his time in charge so far but believes the national men’s team is “on the right

News Nortje had to spend an extended time in quarantine after a false positive test Fast bowler Anrich Nortje is out of quarantine after testing negative for Covid-19 and has been declared fit for selection for the Delhi Capitals’ next match, on April 18 against Punjab Kings. He will have his first nets on Friday

News In excellent conditions for batting, South Africa’s captain felt his team had finished “about 10 runs short” He may not have wanted it but Heinrich Klaasen can recognise he had a front-row seat to one of the smoothest T20I innings the game has seen, as Babar Azam notched up his first century in the

Preview The visiting side won the first T20I despite not being at their best, which will give them added confidence Big picture It’s difficult to establish whether the nail-biting nature of the first T20I was about as good as this hollowed South African unit can produce, or the harbinger of a tremendously competitive T20I series.

Report The home side has handed maiden caps to Wihan Lubbe, Sisanda Magala and Lizaad Williams Toss South Africa opt to bat vs Pakistan South Africa captain Heinrich Klaasen opted to bat first after winning the toss in the first ODI against Pakistan in Johannesburg on Saturday, and have named three debutants for the game:

News The composition of the new board will be documented in CSA’s new Memorandum of Incorporation Cricket South Africa has avoided ministerial interference after the Members’ Council – the highest decision-making body in the organisation, made up of 14 provincial presidents – agreed to a majority independent board with an independent chairperson. The composition of

News South Africa’s T20I side is without a number of first-choice players, some because of injury and some because of the IPL It was just two months ago that Heinrich Klaasen, freshly recovered from a debilitating bout of Covid-19 at the time, was leading a second-string T20I side out in Pakistan. He is in the

News ODI squad members such as Markram, Phehlukwayo, Dupavillon and Mulder have been called up as cover Temba Bavuma will have to wait a little longer to lead South Africa in the shortest format after he was officially ruled out of the upcoming four-match T20I series against Pakistan due to a hamstring injury. Heinrich Klaasen

News Advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza to oversee process as ombudsman of Social Justice and Nation-Building committee Cricket South Africa’s Social Justice and Nation-Building (SJN) committee will hold public hearings as the country seeks to address issues of racial discrimination in the game, with the discussion around the national team not taking a knee still ripe. The

News South Africa’s head coach admits team needs to be “more desperate on the field” after series defeat If Mark Boucher thought the scant trophy cabinet that has so far characterised his tenure – two outright wins and a shared cup in nine series – was his biggest issue as this summer ends, he’s wrong.

Big picture Two matches, two high-octane finishes, with two centuries from two players who needed big numbers to their names, and one spirit-of-the-game debate that will keep us talking long after the dust settles on Wednesday. With honours even, the third match is a finale in the truest sense and will decide who earns a

News South Africa seamer was traced by UK authorities as a possible contact of someone with the virus Wayne Parnell, Northamptonshire’s South African overseas signing, will miss the start of the County Championship season after being forced to quarantine for an additional five days by the NHS Covid-19 track-and-trace system. Parnell was signed by Northants

News ESPNcricinfo understands that match officials did not find the keeper in breach of Law 41.5.1 on fake fielding Quinton de Kock did not intend to deceive Fakhar Zaman when the batsman was run out in the second ODI between Pakistan and South Africa, and is not in breach of Law 41.5.1 on fake fielding.

News de Kock appeared to gesture that the throw might be going to the other end, which led Zaman to slow down Fakhar Zaman took responsibility for the error of judgement in the moments leading up to his run-out, saying it was “my own fault” for not looking at the fielder. The Pakistan opener’s brilliant

News South Africa’s centurion accepted the reality of sport after Pakistan beat them off the last ball, but he was still disappointed “A hundred overs can come down to one moment.“Rassie van der Dussen Like the moment he outside edged Shaheen Shah Afridi wide of second slip and the ball beat Asif Ali’s dive. Van