Cricket South Africa’s director of cricket, Graeme Smith, has every right to defend himself against potentially defamatory accusations of a racial nature. But with new testimony from the SJN leaked regularly, he is under immense pressure and needs to act with emotional intelligence, writes RYAN VREDE.
The Proteas have slumped to seventh in the Test rankings and their prospects in the other formats aren’t encouraging. Their rehabilitation will require a long-term approach that should include four key features in the structure of South African cricket, writes RYAN VREDE.
A power play rooted in legal might has derailed a noble and necessary process in the Social Justice and Nation Building hearings. Now testimony is leaking, and compounding racial tension in South African, laments RYAN VREDE.
The four Australia bowlers who’ve rebuked others for asking legitimate questions about their involvement in the infamous ball-tampering incident don’t understand that what cricket needs trumps what they want. They must be quiet while the game heals, writes RYAN VREDE.
As a two-Test series against the West Indies looms on the cricket horizon, the Proteas will need Kagiso Rabada performing at his ferocious best, writes CRAIG LEWIS.
Simon Harmer and Kyle Abbott would improve the Proteas’ chances of winning Test matches. The last time I checked, that was reason enough for any player to be in the selection mix, argues RYAN VREDE.
Hashim Amla is deeply missed in a playing context, but the South African continues to be one of the most powerful voices in cricket, evidenced most recently by his moving offering on the Palestine issue, writes RYAN VREDE.
The Proteas’ fall to seventh in the Test rankings is a sad state of affairs, but it also serves as a reminder that iconic teams from the recent past were as good as it gets, writes CRAIG LEWIS.
If your objective is winning a major trophy, you have to pick the best available players. And if the Proteas want to win the T20 World Cup, they have to pick ‘freelancers’, writes RYAN VREDE.
The Indian Premier League organisers will forever be remembered for putting profits ahead of people, while the players who stayed and played while thousands died and hundreds of thousands were infected daily will be judged by history, writes RYAN VREDE.
The IPL’s indefinite postponement was inevitable, but the fact organisers took so long to make the decision beggars belief, writes CRAIG LEWIS.
As the humanitarian crisis in India deepens, so does the desperation of the organisers and franchise owners to plaster over their moral bankruptcy. This while the spineless ICC says nothing, writes RYAN VREDE.
People should always matter more than products. The product that is the Indian Premier League needs to be scrapped as India wrestles with a health crisis that shows no signs of abating, writes RYAN VREDE.
After looking on the verge of purging itself from the toxic members’ council, the interim board and government conceded to a resolution that will ‘save’ cricket in the short term but kill it eventually, writes RYAN VREDE.
Sports minister Nathi Mthethwa gave cricket the hard reset it needed, but that drastic step will mean nothing if the corrective action isn’t carefully considered, writes RYAN VREDE.
