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It’s time for our World Cup finalists, the Proteas Women’s cricket team, to play against Bangladesh in a One Day International series. Let’s get behind our team and have a great day out with your friends and family. It’s on Saturday the…

CHAMPIONS: SA’s netball team is the overall winner of the Spar Challenge Tri-nations netball tournamentPicture: SUPPLIED

Proteas trump Ugandan She-Cranes

The Spar Proteas celebrated last Wednesday after beating the Ugandan She-Cranes 44-32, securing the trophy at the Spar Challenge Tri-nations netball tournament in Cape Town. Their victory didn’t come easy and the Proteas had to claw their…

SA GREAT: Former Border cricket captain Peter Kirsten

Historic 1991 tour to India ‘never to be forgotten’, says former cricket captain

Last week’s article on the short visit by the Proteas to India for a three-match tour brought back some exciting memories for former Border cricket captain Peter Kirsten. The trip in November 1991 was the first official international…

Lutho Sipamla will play his cricket at the Wanderers in Johannesburg. Image: Wouter Pienaar/BackpagePix

Sipamla hoping to use presence of former Proteas in the SA coaching staff to his benefit

Fast bowler has said having former Proteas in the national team’s coaching staff will help young and upcoming players like him adjust well to the demands of being an international cricketer. The Proteas technical staff is made up almost…

The KFC and Cricket South Africa partnership has provided so many young cricketers with opportunities and has touched many previously disadvantaged communities.                                                                                     Image: Ashley Vlotman/Gallo Images

Cricket SA gets a boost as KFC renews sponsorship

Cricket South Africa (CSA) received a boost on Wednesday after the embattled organisation managed to retain KFC as title sponsors of the Proteas Twenty20 Internationals and the KFC mini-cricket programme. The partnership will keep the…

Rajasthan Royals lead owner Manoj Badale says $600m is set to be lost from the global cricket economy if the 2020 Indian Premier League is not staged.                                                                                              Image: Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP

What now for cricket in 2020? Four key questions

The coronavirus may have struck shortly before the English cricket season was due to start but it threatens to have major implications for the game worldwide. English officials still believe they can fit a full international programme of…

Kagiso Rabada, right, and music producer Da Capo making music at a studio in Cape Town this week. Image: Jonathan Ferreira

Off the pitch, cricketer Kagiso Rabada hits the right notes in a music studio

Kagiso Rabada has a secret, a love affair he’s had since he was 14: one of the cricket world’s top fast bowlers dabbles as a DJ. Rabada, 25, fell in love with music over a decade ago. It’s a day he’ll never forget. He walked into the…

Benkenstein warns Proteas to adapt or face embarrassing World Cup exit

London – South Africa batting coach Dale Benkenstein has warned his struggling side to adapt to the unique demands of the World Cup or face an embarrassing exit. The Proteas are battling to avoid their worst-ever World Cup performance…

South Africa head coach Ottis Gibson has ambitions of lifting the Cricket World Cup trophy with the Proteas. Image: Muzi Ntombela/BackpagePix

Proteas coach Ottis Gibson thinks big in small dressingroom

All things are not equal at the Oval‚ where England and South Africa will get the Cricket World Cup going on Thursday. “I didn’t realise the away dressingroom was so small at the Oval‚” Ottis Gibson said on Tuesday. “We’re squeezed in…

Dale Steyn is South Africa’s all-time leading wicket taker. Image: Cricket SA/Twitter

Dale Steyn ruled out of South Africa World Cup opener

Dale Steyn has been ruled out of South Africa’s World Cup opener against England on Thursday. The 35-year-old paceman injured his shoulder during the recent Indian Premier League and will not be risked at the Oval. “He’s not quite ready…

Hashim Amla ‘hungrier than ever before’ on eve of World Cup

Senior Proteas batsman Hashim Amla is approaching his possible ODI swansong at the ICC World Cup in England with the hunger of a wide-eyed rookie. The long-time premier top order batsman for South Africa is approaching the tournament on…

HOWZAT! Themba Bavuma seen with kids and coaches from mini-cricket during the Proteas coaching clinic at the Mdantsane Winter Rose fields Picture: MICHAEL PINYANA

Proteas on the ball with coaching clinic:

Eighty lucky aspiring young cricket talents were given the chance of a lifetime to rub shoulders with their cricketing heroes when the Proteas hosted a coaching clinic at Winter Rose Park in NU13 Mdantsane on Friday. Proteas stars Quinton…

WARRIORS: South African cricket stars AB de Villiers, Faf du Plessis, Hashim Amla, Farhaan Behardien and JP Duminy pictured during the last Proteas match played at Buffalo Park, against the West Indies in 2015.The Proteas take on Bangladesh in a one-day international next week Sunday in East London Picture: GALLO IMAGES

Get your tickets for Proteas clash early

Excitement is beginning to reach fever pitch with the Proteas return to East London for their One-Day International match against Bangladesh just barely over a week away. This will be the Proteas first appearance in East London since…

CHOC regional manager Debbie Kleinenberg

CHOC hosts gold event to inspire big challenges

CHILDHOOD Cancer Foundation (CHOC) will host the “Be Bold, Go Gold” evening next Thursday. Guest speaker at the event will be Deborah Kirsten, the wife of former Proteas cricketer and coach Gary Kirsten. September is gold ribbon month and…

De Kock steals show while George SA’s top umpire

DESPITE Quinton de Kock being the star of the show as he cleaned up at a glittering Cricket South Africa (CSA) awards function at the weekend, a Border umpire and Warriors player flew the Eastern Cape flag high with two awards each. De…