EXCLUSIVE: October, Plaatjie on coach-player relationship
Graham October and Siya Plaatjie open up to SACricketmag.com’s Khalid Mohidin about their relationship and Siya’s selection for the SA Colts side.
Graham October and Siya Plaatjie open up to SACricketmag.com’s Khalid Mohidin about their relationship and Siya’s selection for the SA Colts side.
Ethan Bosch led a brilliant bowling display by the Dolphins as they completed a stunning 279-run victory over the Highveld Lions on day three of the sixth round of 4-Day Franchise Series matches.
The SA Schools team was beaten for the first time in an exciting match at Newlands in the annual Coca-Cola Khaya Majola Week challenge match, writes THEO GARRUN.
Pakistan gathered a tidy six-wicket victory over the Cricket South Africa Invitation XI at Willowmoore Park in Benoni on Friday.
Fast bowler Anrich Nortje ‘was busy getting meat for a braai that night’, when bought by the Kolkata Knight Riders at Tuesday’s Indian Premier League player auction in Jaipur.
The Sydney Thunder were at their destructive best as they beat the Melbourne Stars by 15 runs on the DLS method to take them to the top of the Big Bash League on net run rate.
Erin Osborne led the Melbourne Stars Women to their fourth win while Stafanie Taylor spun the Sydney Thunder Women to the top of the Women’s Big Bash League table.
Former Proteas batsman Stiaan van Zyl has ‘not written off South African cricket entirely’, as he returns from a lengthy injury layoff. Van Zyl, who gathered the last of his dozen Tests in August 2016 before pursuing a career as a Kolpak cricketer in the United Kingdom, has not played competitive cricket since May 2018, due to a knee injury…. Read more →
Titans chief executive officer Jacques Faul has conceded that head groundsman Bryan Bloy is anxious ahead of the first Test between South Africa and Pakistan at SuperSport Park in Centurion this month.
Seamer Dane Paterson has been added to South Africa’s squad for the first Test against Pakistan at SuperSport Park in Centurion later this month.
Disgraced former Australian captain Steve Smith has admitted to reporters that he could have prevented the ball-tampering scandal at Newlands from happening … but that he failed as a leader at that moment.
‘Cricket is a skill-based game, but with stellar fitness training you can execute your skill better. Training is the 1% that leads to the 100% of success,’ says Kenosi Mashwabi, the VKB Knights’ assistant strength and conditioning coach.
‘You need to play through the pain barrier, but it is essential to know how to draw the fine line and know when to stop,’ says Kenosi Mashwabi, the VKB Knights’ assistant strength and conditioning coach.
New Zealand will likely play this month’s second Test against Sri Lanka without seamer Matt Henry.
Batsman Yuvraj Singh has insisted he won’t simply go through the proverbial motions when the Indian Premier League gets under way in March next year.