I was incensed when news broke that Mark Boucher had been dropped from the Protea’s T20 and ODI squads to play the West Indies following the poor performance of the Proteas in the ICC World T20. My initial reaction was, how can we drop the guy who always seems to be there for us when [...]
I haven’t written at all about the recent spot-fixing controversy surrounding the Pakistan cricket players, purely because this blog is about SA Cricket and the shenanigans have had nothing to do with our players. Clive Rice on the other hand, has managed to attract the attention of the international cricket media with some paranoid schizophrenic [...]
The Champions League Twenty20 starts in about two weeks, so I thought I’d find out which players of note are actually coming out to entertain us. A few players qualified to play for their home teams as we’ll as their IPL franchises, so the rich kids had to pay $200 000 per player to the home [...]
I was uber chuffed when an email popped up in my in-box from Vincent Hofmann inviting me to the SA Cricket Awards Gala Dinner. As a blogger I don’t often get invited to official events and it’s very difficult for me to get access to the players. Vincent and I were accompanied by Mike Stopforth [...]