Category: Sports

Retired South African fast bowler Morne Morkel has signed on for the Big Bash League (BBL), but as a local rather than international after becoming an Australian permanent resident. The 36-year-old, who played 86 Tests, 117 ODIs and 44 T20Is for the Proteas, moved to Australia in 2018, where he lives with his wife and […]

All the fixtures, team line-ups, kick-off times and predictions for Round 5 of the Super Rugby Unlocked tournament. LOG | LATEST STANDINGS IN SUPER RUGBY UNLOCKED FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 SHARKS V CHEETAHS, DURBAN – 19:00 Sharks 15 Manie Libbok, 14 Yaw Penxe, 13 Jeremy Ward, 12 Marius Louw, 11 Madosh Tambwe, 10 Curwin Bosch, 9 […]

Seven-time MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi edged closer to a return to his Yamaha team for the European Grand Prix when he tested negative for coronavirus. The 41-year-old missed the back-to-back races at Aragon last month after testing positive for Covid-19. REPLACEMENT RIDER ON STANDBY – JUST IN CASE However, his team said his latest […]

English club Harlequins have named former Sharks, Lions and Springbok lock Stephan Lewies as captain ahead of the 2020/21 Premiership season.  Lewies played one Test for the Springboks Lewies follows in the footsteps of former club skippers Keith Wood, Will Carling, Jason Leonard, Andre Vos and Chris Robshaw. Lewies, 28, played his one and only […]

It’s been five weeks since the Springbok flyhalf Handre Pollard underwent a knee operation – and he says he’s feeling great again. Pollard returned to South Africa for surgery and recuperation after suffering a knee injury while playing for Montpellier in France. POLLARD WAS INJURED WHILE MAKING TACKLE The 2019 Rugby World Cup-winning pivot tore an anterior […]

Cricket South Africa (CSA) interim board member Haroon Lorgat has backed the idea of the Proteas touring Pakistan early next year. For the past decade, Pakistan have hosted South Africa in the United Arab Emirates due to security concerns following a terrorist attack on the Sri Lanka team bus in 2008. More backing for SA […]

Round 5 of Super Rugby Unlocked gets underway on Friday night, and kicks off with a big one in Durban between the Sharks and the Cheetahs at Kings Park. The two sides have two wins apiece in the early stages of the competition, but only the visitors are unbeaten going into the encounter. Super Rugby […]

The first Proteas squad since the return of cricket was named on Friday afternoon, with Quinton de Kock set to lead the South Africans against 50-over world champions England, who arrive in the country in mid-November. The two nations lock horns once more – having done so earlier in the year – in three One […]

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the sporting world is slowly but surely returning to something resembling normality. Highlights for The South African sports team this weekend include, in no particular order: The IPL has reached its playoff stage, it’s Super Rugby Unlocked Round 5, the English Premier League has some mouth-watering match-ups (look no further than […]

SA Rugby president Mark Alexander has confirmed the organisation is in discussion with World Rugby to obtain permission to arrange “at least three Tests” prior to the Springboks’ series against the British & Irish Lions in mid-2021. The Springboks are scheduled to play a three-Test series against the British & Irish Lions between July 24 […]