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Cricket World Cup champions England start as strong favourites when they take on a South Africa side struggling on and off the pitch in a three-match one-day international series starting at Newlands in Cape Town on Friday. The first delivery is due to be bowled at 13:00. BIG READ | PROTEAS FACE STRICTER TRANSFORMATION TARGETS […]

Cricket South Africa (CSA) and the England Cricket Board (ECB) have confirmed the postponement of Friday’s first One-Day International (ODI) of their three-match series. READ | FAF DU PLESSIS RESTED FOR ODI SERIES This follows after an unnamed Proteas player tested positive for Covid-19 after the teams’ last round of scheduled testing performed on Thursday. […]

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has confirmed that Kaizer Chiefs’ Champions League clash against PWD Bamenda has been postponed. BAMENDA RAN INTO VISA ISSUES Bamenda contacted Amakhosi on Thursday requesting a postponement to their preliminary second leg clash scheduled for Friday at 18:00 at the FNB Stadium after reportedly running into issues with their […]

Former Springbok coach Peter de Villiers has been appointed as the new EP Elephants head coach. DE VILLIERS WAS 1 OF 5 SHORTLISTED De Villiers was one of five coaches who appeared before the EP panel on Wednesday for his interview for the role. The interview process also included former Springbok assistant coach Ricardo Loubscher, […]

Cricket South Africa (CSA) have been dealt another blow in the longstanding wrangling over who is responsible for the gross maladministration of the game. The former head of sales and sponsor relations at CSA, Clive Eksteen, took his former employer to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) over his dismissal earlier this year […]

Concussion substitute Yuzvendra Chahal took three crucial wickets as India beat Australia by 11 runs to win the opening T20 at the Manuka Oval in Canberra on Friday. Hint of controversy as concussion substitute turns match Chahal came into the side after batting hero Ravindra Jadeja was ruled to have suffered a concussion when he […]

The Proteas team doctor Shuaib Manjra is concerned about a possible breach of the team’s bio-secure ‘bubble’.  Manjra aired his concerns after the first one-day international against England was postponed because a Proteas player tested positive for COVID-19. Proteas medical team investigating possible breach More tests will be conducted by the team on Saturday ahead […]

Mamelodi Sundowns have agreed to release 24-year-old winger Katlego Otladisa bringing to seven the number of players who have been allowed to leave Chloorkop this season. In his two seasons at Sundowns, former Platinum Stars man Otladisa has struggled for gametime and the club believe it is in his best interests to seek pastures new, […]

Kaizer Chiefs’ CAF Champions League opponents PWD Bamenda have finally departed from Cameroon ahead of their second leg preliminary round clash. The defending Cameroonian champions were due to face Kaizer Chiefs at the FNB Stadium this evening however visa issues prevented them from arriving in time. The match was subsequently postponed to give the CAF […]

Wales’ Jamie Donaldson shot a 10-birdie 63 on Friday to share the SA Open second-round lead on 134 with Christiaan Bezuidenhout at Gary Player Country Club in Sun City.    South African Bezuidenhout, winner of the Alfred Dunhill Championship last weekend, carded a second successive 67 over the 7,834-yard (7,163-metre) layout, the longest on the […]