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.
South Africans don’t exit a World Cup party early without stopping for a rumble in the carpark, arguing who was to blame.
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.
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.
An investigation by Cricket South Africa has confirmed there was no political interference in team selections for the Proteas’ semi-final against New Zealand.
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’.
South Africa coach Russell Domingo will decide on a new bowling coach for the national team after Allan Donald decided to move on.
Former West Indies fast bowler Curtly Ambrose has listed erstwhile South Africa all-rounder Jacques Kallis among the greatest cricketers he played against. Ambrose took 405 and 225 wickets across 98 Test matches and 176 ODIs respectively, during a prolific international career that started in April 1988 and ended a dozen years later. He played four Tests and six ODIs against… Read more →
Mike Horn, who was with the Proteas at the World Cup as a high performance and ‘mental’ coach, has admitted that the team that played in the semi-final against New Zealand was changed to meet unofficial quota requirements.
Proteas bowling coach Allan Donald has vacated the building. And at the door he’s left big size 13s to fill.
Shane Bond and Alfonso Thomas are among our leading candidates to replace Allan Donald as South Africa’s bowling coach.
Allan Donald has resigned as the bowling coach of the South African cricket team.
Three Proteas, current and past, celebrate their birthdays on Tuesday. Happy birthday Pat Symcox (55), Loots Bosman (38) and JP Duminy (31).
Cricket South Africa’s process to appoint a new selection panel has begun as the current panel’s tenure comes to an end after the World Cup.
Haroon Lorgat, Cricket South Africa’s chief executive, has strongly denied reports that he sent an SMS instructing Proteas coach Russell Domingo to pick a player of colour for the World Cup semi-final against New Zealand.
