Proteas looking to bat just once
This was ammunition for all those trying to hasten the end of five-day Test cricket as we know it, writes GARY LEMKE.
This was ammunition for all those trying to hasten the end of five-day Test cricket as we know it, writes GARY LEMKE.
The senior players will be under pressure to lift the team’s standards in what will be a crucial Test series against Bangladesh.
It’s certainly going to be a Sizzling Summer of Cricket, but will the players survive the heat?
Former Proteas batsman HD ACKERMAN says Dale Steyn should play for as long as he possibly can; until he knows he has nothing left to give to the game.
New coach Ottis Gibson will need to address the Proteas’ mental frailties as well as their technical shortcomings during this period of transition.
My comments about the way the Proteas team is selected were misunderstood, as I only want to see South African cricket survive and flourish.
If Ottis Gibson is to be announced as the Proteas head coach, why haven’t we been told yet?
A lack of significant individual scores and partnerships continues to compromise the Proteas in big Tests.
South African sporting teams have become accustomed to walking into the arrivals area at OR Tambo International with a crowd of supporters singing and dancing. That’s not going to happen for Faf du Plessis’ Proteas, writes GARY LEMKE.
First, the winning chances for South Africa in their final Test match of this England series at Old Trafford: ok, moving on quickly, writes GARY LEMKE.
South Africa asked for the heavy roller between innings on day two at Old Trafford, but instead it was they who found themselves flattened on another desperately poor day at the office.
Normally, when a side has been asked to bowl first and has the opposition six wickets down by stumps with only 260 runs on the board, you’d think the bowling side has won the day, writes GARY LEMKE.
Faf du Plessis has to deliver as a batsman and tactician in South Africa’s must-win Test at Old Trafford.
It will be harsh on Heino Kuhn, but the fourth Test at Old Trafford could be a great opportunity to hand Aiden Markram a Test debut at the top of the order.
There’s no time to point fingers. This is a lightning quick turnaround before the start of the final Test on Friday, writes GARY LEMKE. This third Test at The Oval was over as a contest after day three. In many aspects the match mirrored the first Test at Lord’s, before South Africa continued their Jekyll ’n Hyde display with a… Read more →