Year: 2020

The Currie Cup has a new title sponsor. And there’ll be rugby on Boxing Day this year. The world’s oldest provincial rugby competition on Tuesday was officially renamed the Carling Currie Cup for the next three seasons. MATCHES TO BE PLAYED ON BOXING DAY The Carling Currie Cup will officially kick off on the weekend of […]

Orlando Pirates coach Josef Zinnbauer’s son is fighting for his life in hospital, according to reports coming in from Germany. The 50-year-old made a shock announcement moments before kick-off in the Buccaneers’ 3-0 victory against rivals Kaizer Chiefs on Saturday when he announced that he would leave shortly after the final whistle. Family crisis forces […]

England have named their Twenty20 and ODI squads for their upcoming tour of South Africa in November and December. The three T20s and three ODIs scheduled will be played at Newlands and Boland Park in Paarl. MORGAN TO LEAD ENGLAND, STOKES TO ONLY PLAY T20S Due to Covid-19 crowd restrictions, players will be confined to […]

The newly-appointed Cricket South Africa (CSA) interim board says it will do everything to see to it that those responsible of the turmoil within the organisation are brought to book. All members of the previous board stepped down in late October before Sports Minister Nathi Mthethwa announced a new delegation that will take over. New […]

Banyana Banyana got their Cosafa Women’s Championship title defence to a perfect start with a hard-fought 2-0 victory against Angola in Port Elizabeth on Tuesday. The match was the first outing in months for the host nation, and this was apparent as the usually free-flowing football associated with the South Africans was only visible in […]

With the 2020/2021 PSL campaign well underway, we take a look at some of South Africa’s top coaches who have been forced to follow the action from their television screens due to unemployment. The PSL is synonymous with coaching changes and as usual, it might not be long before we see a coaching shuffle with […]

The weather behaved across all three venues in the CSA 4-Day Series, allowing for another day of exciting action. The first day of the season brought the first pre-lunch century in South Africa’s top-level domestic game in over 40 years, as well as a rather brave declaration on one of the two games played on […]

South African surfing superstar Jordy Smith has posted an adorable picture of his new baby son. Smith, who married wife Lyndall in 2014, took to Instagram to inform his nearly 600 000 followers that he is now a father. JORDY SMITH A MULTIPLE WINNER AT J-BAY The Smiths have named their son Ziggy Ray. Smith […]