Three bests from Morris on his birthday
Proteas all-rounder Chris Morris turned 33 years old on Thursday, 30 April 2020. Morris has not played international cricket since the 2019 World Cup.
Proteas all-rounder Chris Morris turned 33 years old on Thursday, 30 April 2020. Morris has not played international cricket since the 2019 World Cup.
Cricket South Africa has been relatively transparent of late in terms of who they are looking to blood as Proteas in the future. Last year, then director of cricket Corrie van Zyl publicly earmarked several players for debuts, which have since come to fruition.
Former Proteas captain AB de Villiers has said reports suggesting he was asked to lead the national side again are ‘just not true’.
Despite a first season of senior cricket blighted by injury, young quick Lifa Ntanzi finished on a high with his Dolphins debut and followed that up with securing a contract with the Durban-based franchise for the upcoming season.
Dolphins coach Imraan Khan has attributed fighting spirit and consistency as two standout points for his team from the recently concluded 2019-20 season.
Central Gauteng Lions have announced the senior provincial women’s and men’s teams as well as the academy-contracted squads for the 2020-21 season.
Batsman David Miller has suggested ‘there may still be hope’ for a berth in the Proteas Test XI.
England all-rounder Ben Stokes wants the rules of Test cricket to remain untouched.
Batsman David Warner is understandably doubtful Australia’s limited-overs tour of England in July will go ahead.
Proteas batsman David Miller is embracing his responsibility as one of the senior players in the limited-overs set-up.
This week marks 15 years since the Proteas deployed all 11 players with the ball against the West Indies in Antigua in 2005.
Claiming the 100th Test wicket of one’s career is an important milestone for any bowler and can be seen as a player staking their claim as an international star.
New Proteas head coach Mark Boucher is taking the difficult start to his tenure in his stride after a testing summer of cricket against England and Australia.
For Paulina Mashishi, becoming a big part of the Northerns Women’s squad for the 2020-21 season is just the next step in a journey that has been longer than most. Through all the steps she has taken to get to this point in the game, this next leap may well be the most comfortable.
The new Proteas limited-overs captain Quinton de Kock says the 3-0 whitewash of Australia in the recent ODI series was the standout moment of a rather disappointing summer of cricket.