The Second Coming

Imran Tahir is the blueprint for how to manage Proteas players who fail at their first crack at international cricket. By Ryan Vrede

Fast and furious

We chatted to lightning quick SA U19 bowler Kagiso Rabada after the side’s World Cup triumph. By GARETH STEVENS

Well-planned heist

Cricket will change irrevocably over the next few years, thanks to a brazen takeover of the ICC by the three biggest boards in the game, Neil Manthorp writes.

Great new generation

Ray Jennings’ talented U19 squad became national heroes by winning South Africa’s first World Cup. By GARETH STEVENS.

Getting to know Stiaan

New Proteas Test squad member Stiaan van Zyl was confident that if he kept scoring runs, ‘the door couldn’t be closed forever’.

Flashback: ‘Steyn has 300 overs left’

A year ago TOM EATON wrote that Dale Steyn had been the No 1 bowler in the world for quite some time but he has been over-used by South Africa. He reckoned he has 300 international overs left. This is the story he wrote, in it’s original form.

It’s Miller time

David Miller has embraced his potential, and wants to become a match-winner for the Proteas, writes Ryan Vrede.

The Steyn you never knew

Dale Steyn hates talking about cricket. He’d prefer talking about his small role in an Adam Sandler film, watching the US Open surfing competition on Huntington Beach in California, writes Ryan Vrede.

Leading the charge

Faf du Plessis is quickly becoming the complete cricketer and he will be a key figure in the dressingroom and on the field as the Proteas experience life without Graeme Smith and, to a large extent, Jacques Kallis, writes Jon Cardinelli.