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 [...]
South Africa will soon head to the West Indies for a tour that will include three test matches. This will give Hashim Amla the opportunity to polish off an impressive season with his chance of over taking India’s Virender Sehwag to hopefully move to number 1 in the Reliance Mobile ICC test rankings. Hashim Amla [...]
Graeme Smith completed a year of huge achievement when he was named both SA Cricketer of the Year and Castle Test Cricketer of the Year at the glittering 2009 SA Cricket Awards Gala Dinner held at the Sandton Convention Centre on Tuesday evening. The other major winners were AB de Villiers (Standard Bank One-Day International [...]
Poor planning or the blooding of a youngster? That’s my question. Graeme Smith left the final over to Wayne Parnell, in the nail biter last ball finish against New Zealand on Tuesday night. Needing 15 runs from the last over Graeme Smith called up Wayne Parnell (19) to bowl, but as he called him up [...]
So, the phoney war of the first group stage of the Twenty20 World Cup is over and the real business of the tournament is about to start. Despite the efforts of the organisers to remove the element of surprise from the Super 8s there have been a couple of shocks. Firstly, the fall of Australia [...]