It will be a Blue day in Manchester regardless of who wins at Eastlands on Sunday when defending league champions Manchester City face third placed Chelsea in the English Premier League. With rivals United a full 15 points clear at the top of the table, Roberto Mancini’s Citizens will need a miracle to catch them […]
In the space of his first two balls, Sachin Tendulkar changed the complexion of the first Test match at Chennai. Arriving at the wicket with India a forlorn 12/2 in reply to 380, he punched a rampant James Pattinson through the covers with so much certainty that a previously confident Australia were given pause, while […]
It’s been a heady couple of days for Kyle Abbott. On Friday, he got the exhilarating news that he would make his Test debut, after Jacques Kallis was ruled out with a calf injury. On Saturday, he grabbed that chance in the most spectacular manner, ripping through Pakistan’s brittle batting to end with 7/29, the […]
By Faf du Plessis Greetings all towards the end of what has been another whirlwind week. Let’s start with the national T20 captaincy, which is now in my hands on a more permanent basis following the announcement that AB would prefer not to have that on his plate along with all his other responsibilities. The […]
The Nashua Mobile Cape Cobras were made to sweat, but overcame the Chevrolet Knights by 25 runs in their RAM SLAM T20 Challenge match at Boland Park in Paarl on Friday. The Knights, chasing a target of 172 for victory, ended on 146/8 in their 20 overs after Johan van der Wath had won the […]
Not a single observer on the opening day of India’s series against Australia was surprised by the sight of Michael Clarke conjuring his side’s spinal innings. And not one of them would have been game to predict that Clarke’s partner for a rousing stand of 151, after some major early stutters on a parched pitch, […]
Before the start of the third Test at Centurion, Pakistan received the unpleasant news that two of their main bowlers won’t be available – Umar Gul out due to a sore throat and Junaid Khan still recovering from the injury that kept him out of the Newlands Test – leaving their pace attack with a […]
When I first heard the news on the morning of Valentine’s Day that Oscar Pistorius had shot and killed his girlfriend Reeve Steenkamp
By Neal Collins Oscar Pistorius, in case you hadn’t heard, was granted bail on a charge of murder before the full glare of the world’s media on Friday afternoon. Clearly, that’s something of a victory for the first amputee to compete in the able-bodied Olympics. The man who put four bullets through his toilet door […]
When Neil McKenzie was named one of Wisden’s five Cricketers of the Year in 2008, it was for something he had not done, rather than what he had done: