AB, Amla up for top award
AB de Villiers will again be the favourite to win the SA Cricketer of the Year award when the CSA awards are held on 3 June in Johannesburg.
The genius of AB de Villiers
After another breathtaking knock, this time in the IPL, AB de Villiers must be the luckiest batsman in world cricket, writes Kobus Pretorius.
‘Coach, captain should pick team’
South Africa’s convener of selectors should be a full-time job and the coach and captain of the Proteas should have a major say in team selections, says Graeme Pollock.
Tahir should go to Bangladesh
I reckon Imran Tahir should be South Africa’s first-choice spinner when the selectors pick a squad for the Proteas’ tour of Bangladesh in July.
Dale Steyn at a crossroads
Andrew Hudson believes South African fast bowler Dale Steyn needs a break from cricket and says it’s too early to write off Imran Tahir’s Test career.
No regrets, says Hudson
Andrew Hudson says he has no regrets about his five-year tenure as South Africa’s convenor of selectors, writes Kobus Pretorius.
Going round in circles
Sideshows, rhetoric and racism on both sides of the fence are not doing anything to help a country that is struggling to breed black players, writes TOM EATON.
Hudson ‘won’t stand for re-election’
Andrew Hudson will step down as South Africa’s convener of selectors when his contract expires in June.
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.
Mike Horn’s interview transcript
As we close the chapter on the team selection controversy that has defined South Africa’s World Cup campaign, here is the transcript of the interview Mike Horn gave two South African journalists in China last week who he claimed quoted him out of context.
Players deserve better than this
South Africans don’t exit a World Cup party early without stopping for a rumble in the carpark, arguing who was to blame.
How AD would bowl to AB
Allan Donald’s international career ended in 2003, AB de Villiers’ started a year later. More than a decade since, the pair are colleagues at the Bangalore Royal Challengers in the ongoing Indian Premier League.
All-round Wiese can’t stop Mumbai
A superb performance from South African all-rounder David Wiese and a swashbuckling cameo from AB de Villiers proved in vain, as the Royal Challengers Bangalore slipped to a 18 run defeat to the Mumbai Indians in Sunday’s entertaining Indian Premier League match at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.
CSA close chapter on selection debacle
An investigation by Cricket South Africa has confirmed there was no political interference in team selections for the Proteas’ semi-final against New Zealand.
Horn clarifies political interference quotes
After seemingly confirming in the week that there was political interference in team selection at the World Cup, the Proteas’ high performance coach Mike Horn has now changed his story saying his remarks were ‘taken out of context’.
