Brilliance doesn’t have a colour-coding
If you do your talking out in the middle, with bat and ball, there will always be a future for white South African cricketers – it doesn’t matter what age, writes MARK KEOHANE for Independent Newspapers.
Boucher should not be leading Proteas
The Mark Boucher issue is so much bigger than a Test or ODI series result, writes MARK KEOHANE for Independent Newspapers.
Combative Jansen has ignited Proteas’ attack
Marco Jansen showed at Centurion and the Wanderers that he is born to play Test cricket, writes MARK KEOHANE.
SA cricket’s perpetrators must listen to those they racially abused
The fight for justice for England cricketer Azeem Rafiq was massive but there wasn’t the same fight when South African cricketers spoke out, writes MARK KEOHANE in his regular IOL column.
Most underrated Proteas: HD Ackerman
In the second part of a new series, MARK KEOHANE identifies classy batsman HD Ackerman as one of the most underrated former Proteas.
SA-born Campher impresses against World Champs
Curtis Campher is the first Irish cricketer in ODI history to score back-to-back half-centuries and take wickets in both matches. He did it against World Cup ODI champions England, writes MARK KEOHANE for IOL.
Sports betting as MoneyMan and MoneyBoy see it
Regular Independent Media and IOL Sport columnist and South Africa’s influential and popular sports betting analyst, MoneyMan, speaks to Mark Keohane about the growth of the industry in South Africa, global online trends, the birth of MoneyBoy and also the devil in the detail for online sports-betting platforms.
Why Steyn is among Test greats
Statistics back up the view that Dale Steyn is Test cricket’s greatest-ever strike bowler.
Since when did we become England?
I thought I was living in England and that the team being written about and spoken about was England.
Dream come true for Elliott
How cruel of the cricketing gods that it would be a native of South Africa who would crush South Africa’s hopes of a first ever World Cup final.
Proteas not World Cup favourites
South Africa’s build up has been first class and everything a public demands from a champion team – on and off the field.
Kallis pure genius
Jacques Kallis’s Big Bash T20 debut in Australia showed him to be an even better cricketer than his remarkable career statistics.
AB is pure class
AB de Villiers is the best batsman in international cricket – and he is South African.
The Proteas don’t need three captains
Hashim Amla, as the Test captain, should have been appointed the national leader in all three formats.
