Herschelle Gibbs and Nicky Boje have pulled out of the India tour fearing arrest or worse. Have they served their time? or should cheats (if that’s what they were) be forever under the black cloud of match fixing?
At the time of the Cronje et al scandal, I fell out of love with the game, [...]

What a difference 18 months can make. On March 2nd 2004 at Napier, New Zealand wrapped up a comprehensive thrashing of SA by 5 ODI’s to 1. Last night in Port Elizabeth South Africa had already won the 5 match series by winning the third game of this series.
The pitches from what I have [...]

There’s something infinitely dodgy about watching New Zealand in South Africa in this current one day series, not least of which is the fact that every boundary is celebrated by a cartoon duck appearing on the screen. Perhaps I’m missing the obvious connection. A duck for a boundary? The relevance (if any) is lost [...]

South Africa’s most exciting contribution to the Twenty20 game today was the introduction of green bikini clad dancing girls to jive in accompaniment to every boundary and wicket. Someone must have complained that their outfits were too skimpy as they came out in the second innings with paint sprayed over their midriffs.
The home [...]