The class of AB

AB de Villiers is the most complete cricketer in the world and South Africa’s chances of winning the World Cup depend on him.

Small battles lost

Australia won the small battles in Canberra and ultimately it saw them win the war.

Pitch perfect

Morne Morkel would love to dig up the WACA pitch and carry it around Australia with him for the rest of the ODI series.

Balance is wrong

No matter what AB de Villiers and David Miller threatened to do, South Africa were never going to win the first ODI in Perth.

Swing to the left

Barely noticed in South Africa’s T20 big win over Australia in Adelaide was the number of left handed Proteas batsmen.

Beauty of De Kock

The first time Sir Viv Richards batted as high as No3 in ODI cricket he came to the crease in only the second over.

War on spinners

Inside the last three months, the ICC has suspended 10 spin bowlers for suspect actions. It’s a farcical situation.

Steyn’s death bowling

There has been much talk about South Africa’s death bowling, but relive Dale Steyn getting it absolutely spot-on in the last Twenty20 World Cup against New Zealand.

Parnell expected to be fit

Proteas all-rounder Wayne Parnell’s shoulder injury sustained in the opening game of the Sunfoil Series season is unlikely to stop him from travelling to New Zealand next month for the ODI triangular series also featuring Australia.

SA’s best-ever 25 players revisited

Staring up from the cover of the book of ‘The 25 greatest South African cricketers of all time’ are 16 faces in black and white and nine in colour. This book, The Selected, was written by two of the country’s most respected cricket journalists in 2007.

Prince walking a tightrope

It’s not easy to form an absolute opinion from outside the boundary ropes, let alone 10 000km away, but Ashwell Prince is involved in one of the most sensitive cricket disciplinary issues imaginable.

Tahir top of pops

First it was Quinton de Kock who reached 1 000 ODI runs in the same number of innings (21) as Sir Viv Richards, Kevin Pietersen and Jonathan Trott and now Imran Tahir has also leapt to the top of an exclusive ODI list.

Berhardien strikes ton in draw

South Africa ‘A’ won their unofficial two-match series against Australia ‘A’ when the second Test ended in a draw at Townsville.

For Piedt’s sake. Give us more Tests

Just as we were sitting bolt upright digesting the best-ever Test debut performance by a South African spinner, we are reminded of the fact that it will be another four months before we get to see the world’s No1-ranked team in action again. 

Malaysian triumph

Being at the Commonwealth Games at Glasgow 2014 reminds me of when cricket was a medal sport. Back in 1998, in Kuala Lumpur. What a golden moment it was too, with South Africa winning the final, against Australia.