Kallis just can’t get a double!

Jacques Kallis must be going steadily mad… he just can’t get a double hundred despite being one of the worlds highest scoring batsmen of all time.
Today he got rolled for 173 against India depsite looking like he was well set. Against England a few months back he was on 120 and looking super comfortable only [...]

Cricket drawn!

Well at least we have a win at the Wanderers and a draw in the series preventing the English pigs from taking our pride and dignity by beating us on home turf.
A small observation is that JP Duminy has just picked up the last two wickets with his off-spinners and has actually been surprisingly good with the [...]

Don’t blame Harris

 
Graham Onions is probably the most hated man in South African cricket right now as he once again frustrated the home team and made sure that England for the second time in three test matches hung on for an improbable draw.
There have been some incredibly exciting moments in this test series and to have had [...]

Not looking good

By: Marc Ashton
So South Africa and England have squared up against one another in two test matches:

Result one was a hard-fought draw with the poms hanging on for dear life.
Result two – the English steam-roller the home team at Kingsmead

Before the first test match started, I had concerns that the South African attack was lacking [...]

SA hockey stars shine on world stage

Hockey never gets much of a plug in South Africa but two of our players have managed to qualify for the Men’s and women’s World All Star teams which is a fantastic achievement considering that hockey is an amateur sport in this country.
Congratulations to the SA Men’s captain Austin Smith, and joint women’s captain Marsha [...]

Wayne Parnell – what a travesty

Wayne Parnell not playing in the first test against England at Centurion Park is an absolute travesty of justice and in my opinion a really short-sighted decision that the SA management will regret.
We are going into this test match with three right arm seamers (Steyn, Ntini and presumably Morne Morkel) and we have Paul Harris [...]