South Africa

News Nick Hockley said the relationship with CSA is “very strong” despite the pullout earlier this year Cricket Australia is hopeful they have found a window to play their postponed Test series against South Africa in 2023. The series was originally scheduled for March of this year but Australia pulled out amid concerns over the

News After spending four weeks with Punjab Kings in the UAE, Markram feels conditions are easiest for batting in Abu Dhabi, and most difficult in Sharjah South Africa’s batters will experience the best and the worst of run-scoring conditions in the UAE at the T20 World Cup, according to Aiden Markram. After spending the last

News A round-up of the highlights from pool stages of the domestic tournament, with all quarter-finalists now confirmed Dolphins and North West make up the final two teams in the CSA provincial T20 quarter-finals after the pool stages were completed in Bloemfontein. With the last eight now decided, the new hierarchy in South African cricket’s

News The thumb is “obviously not 100% at the moment but I am building it up,” he says at team’s departure press interaction Temba Bavuma is on track to leading South Africa at the T20 World Cup later this month. Bavuma, who broke his thumb in Sri Lanka last month, is four weeks post-surgery and

News The former South Africa allrounder, who retired two years ago, is a strategic consultant for the team for the T20 World Cup JP Duminy always wanted to be part of the upcoming T20 World Cup. He will be there, but not in the way he expected. When Duminy announced his retirement from ODIs in

News A look at the highlights from Pool A matches of CSA’s domestic T20 competition The Western Cape will be well-represented in the quarterfinals of the Provincial T20 Cup – CSA’s domestic T20 competition – after two teams from the province progressed from Pool A at the weekend. South Western Districts and Western Province finished

News South Africa fast bowler unavailable for the entire season after picking up a knee injury in West Indies Sydney Thunder have suffered a major blow just weeks out from the start of their WBBL title defence with South Africa star Shabnim Ismail ruled out of the tournament with a knee injury. Ismail missed the

News Fast bowler is the toast of the team after taking four wickets in his first two games This IPL has been one of two distinct halves for Anrich Nortje in IPL 2021. In April, it was all frustration, first at having received a false positive for Covid-19 that sidelined him from the start of

News Lee’s team-mate Ayabonga Khaka also gained a spot to move to No. 7 among the bowlers A stellar run of recent form has pushed South Africa batter Lizelle Lee to the top of the ODI batting rankings for the second time this year. With 762 ranking points, Lee is jointly atop the women’s batting

News The next set of hearings will resume on October 18 Cricket South Africa’s Social Justice and Nation-Building (SJN) hearings are due to resume on October 18, seven weeks after they were initially supposed to, and more than three months after the process began. That means CSA won’t have the final report by ombudsman, advocate

Report Visitors make one change, with Mulder getting a go in place of Nortje Toss: Sri Lanka chose to bat v South Africa Sri Lanka have won the toss and chosen to bat, in the third T20 at Khettarama. Although they had lost the last match batting first, this is an unsurprising decision, with Khettarama

News Vernon Philander, another of their players, may also be unavailable for some matches after he signed on to be Pakistan bowling coach Hashim Amla will not return to play domestic cricket in South Africa after negotiating an exit to his deal with Western Province. Amla, who retired from international cricket in August 2019 but

Report South Africa cruised to the target of 158 to take a 3-0 lead in the five-match series South Africa 158 for 2 (Lee 78*, Wolvaardt 53) beat West Indies 157 (Dottin 71, Williams 37, Ismail 3-31) by eight wickets Batter Lizelle Lee continued her run of fine form with an unbeaten 78 that ensured

Preview Tabraiz Shamsi is one wicket away from 50 in T20Is Big picture Sri Lanka’s batting order has one more chance this series. In both matches so far, they appeared barely competent – they were unable to hit enough boundaries, frequently struggled to rotate the strike, and often found the opposition’s spinners difficult to negotiate.

News Shamsi believes the current side is on par with the great South African sides of the past The decline of South Africa’s men’s team is not quite as bad as many may think, according to first-choice white-ball spinner Tabraiz Shamsi. Speaking after South Africa reeled off a third successive T20I series win, Shamsi pleaded

Preview South Africa will fancy themselves a sixth straight win in T20Is Big picture If you have followed Sri Lanka’s T20 cricket over the past two years, Friday’s turn of events may have seemed familiar. Faced with a challenging target, Sri Lanka’s batters failed to ever get themselves in a good position, struggling to find

File photo: Laura Wolvaardt struck an unbeaten 71 to guide South Africa home © Getty Images South Africa 121 for 1 (Wolvaardt 71*) beat West Indies 120 all out (Knight 22, Kapp 3-24, van Niekerk 2-14) by nine wickets South Africa bowlers’ combined efforts to restrict West Indies 120 followed by Laura Wolvaardt‘s unbeaten 71

Report The hosts also brought back Bhanuka Rajapaksa after his two ducks in the first two ODIs Toss South Africa chose to bat v Sri Lanka Quinton de Kock and David Miller return to South Africa’s XI after missing the ODIs and will be in action early, after Keshav Maharaj chose to bat on his

News Temba Bavuma is expected to recover in time to lead the team at the marquee tournament Faf du Plessis has not been included in South Africa’s T20 World Cup squad despite being available to play international white-ball cricket. The 37-year old former captain, who retired from Tests in February, specifically named the upcoming global

Tabraiz Shamsi is the leading wicket-taker in T20Is in 2021 © AFP/Getty Images Big picture A T20 World Cup is around the corner. For Sri Lanka, it begins with the qualifiers, which kick off approximately six weeks from now. For South Africa, who go straight through to the main draw, the World Cup starts about

Report South Africa’s disciplined bowling performance helped bowl West Indies out for 153 South Africa 157 for 2 (Lee 91*, Joseph 1-26) beat West Indies 153 all out (Knight 39, van Niekerk 2-23, Khaka 2-17) by eight wickets Opening batter Lizelle Lee continued her fine run of form with an unbeaten 91 to help South

News The balance of South Africa’s side came into focus with results suggesting they were a batter short South Africa’s narrow defeat by 14 runs in the first ODI, rather than their loss by 78 runs in the third game, is to blame for their failure to win the one-day series in Sri Lanka, according

Report Dinesh Chandimal slots into the hosts’ XI in the third ODI; Akila Dananjaya, Minod Bhanuka and Bhanuka Rajapaksa left out Sri Lanka chose to bat vs South Africa Sri Lanka won the toss and, unsurprisingly, chose to bat first on a Khettarama surface that tends to become more difficult to bat on as the

News The South Africa allrounder of the 1940s and 1950s was the oldest living Test cricketer in the world Former South Africa allrounder John Watkins died in Durban on Friday after being infected with Covid-19 ten days ago, CSA said in a statement, adding that “he had been in failing health for some time”. He

News Sri Lanka coach calls on bowling unit to stick to the basics more consistently It’s not often that a young Sri Lanka batter walks into the national team and begins to perform almost immediately, but seven innings into his career, this is what Charith Asalanka has been doing. A former Sri Lanka Under-19 captain,

File pic: Deandra Dottin struck three fours and a six during her 21-ball 31 © Getty Images West Indies women 81 for 5 (Dottin 31, Knight 26) beat South Africa women 80 for 9 (Luus 23, Ramharack 3 for 8) by five wickets A strong bowling performance, capped by a three-wicket haul from offspinner Karishma

Heinrich Klaasen stumps Dhananjaya de Silva off Keshav Maharaj © Ishara S.Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images South Africa chose to bat vs Sri Lanka Keshav Maharaj, in his first match as stand-in skipper, called correctly at the toss and asked Sri Lanka to chase in the second ODI. The match has been reduced to 47 overs a side

News The captain for the T20I series will be named by the selection panel later Temba Bavuma, the South Africa limited-overs captain, has been ruled out of the remainder of the ongoing series in Sri Lanka after suffering a fracture in his right thumb during the first ODI on Thursday. In his absence, Keshav Maharaj

South Africa need to find a way to get more out of their spinners © Ishara S.Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images Big picture It was to nobody’s surprise that Sri Lanka turned to spin to defeat South Africa in the first ODI. But what will have been heartening for the home fans, was the poise and determination their

News The batter had been omitted from the Caribbean and Bangladesh tours because of failed fitness tests Avishka Fernando, long considered one of Sri Lanka’s finest limited-overs batting prospects, was left out of the squad entirely for Sri Lanka’s first two limited-overs assignments this year (in the Caribbean, and in Bangladesh). The omission wasn’t down