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It was a day of contrasting fortunes for South Africans in the IPL on Tuesday, as Graeme Smith was ruled out of the tournament due to a finger injury before Jacques Kallis kissed it better with a sensational knock to win the game for the Ro...(
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Cricket South Africa annoucned their squads for the South African tour of the West Indies today, including a shortlisted 18-man squad for the ICC World Twenty20 which includes newcomer Rusty Theron and old-timer Justin Kemp.Directly after t...(
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West Indies fast bowlers Darren Sammy, Dwayne Bravo and Kemar Roach have all achieved career-best rankings in the ICC ODI Player Rankings.Sammy, Bravo and Roach shared 23 wickets between them in the series against Zimbabwe which the West In...(
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Using the words "Modi" and "subtle" in the title of an article is not something I fall victim to that often, but in this case I’m going to bite the bullet and make an exception.I watched a fascinating little by-play on Twitter today b...(
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The recently-completed Standard Bank Pro20 series - South Africa’s domestic T20 competition - saw crowd attendance at matches rise 18 percent this season over last year’s figures.According to Cricket South Africa 127,120 fans at...(
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The opening salvos of the third edition of the IPL were fired this weekend and based on the evidence the strongest team in the tournament this year appears to be the Delhi Daredevils.The Kolkata Knight Riders have won both of their games so...(
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There’s cricket, there’s T20 cricket, then there’s the IPL.That crazy cricket carny comes to town tonight and as much as I loathe Danny Morrison’s DLFfers, and fear speeches by Lalit Modi, and cringe at the amount of...(
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Although the ultimate prize is already won for South Africa’s top two domestic T20 sides - the Champions League Twenty20 - the silverware for winning the final of the Standard Bank Pro20 final in Port Elizabeth on Friday night would s...(
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A full schedule of the games and times of the 2010 Indian Premier League. All times are South African time (UTC+2) and all games will be aired live on SuperSport 2, with selected games also on SuperSport HD.The opening ceremony will air on ...(
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The question posed in the title of this article is one I have been struggling with for some time now, since roughly around the time Collingwood, Ian Bell and Graham Onions were saving the third Test on a hot day in Cape Town.Back then I tho...(
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The ICC released their list of match officials for the 2010 World Twenty20 today and revealed that controversial Aussie umpire Daryl Harper has been excluded, despite being a member of the Elite Panel of umpires.They said his omission was d...(
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Warriors bowler Rusty Theron, who has been instrumental to their success in the last couple of seasons, is about to join the IPL for the Kings XI Punjab after revealing that they are interested in signing him.According to The Herald, Theron...(
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On the eve of their Standard Bank Pro20 final against the Warriors on Friday, the Highveld Lions have been left reeling by the news that several of their top players are defecting to other franchises.According to an inside source of mine wi...(
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I can’t pretend to understand the machinations of the Pakistan Cricket Board on a good day, much less on a day in which two of their finest Test players have been handed life bans, two others one-year bans and everyone else massive fi...(
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Apologies for revisiting the ghosts of series past, but you may feel as I do: Jonathan Trott’s time-wasting antics in the first two Tests of the recent series against South Africa were never properly addressed.Or rather, they were - w...(
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I’ve seen plenty of positive tweets from Rajasthan Royals players over the last couple of weeks, as international players have gradually made their way to India, and I’m getting a good vibe about it all.The Jaipur-based side wer...(
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Most countries could reasonably expect their sides to do well in the 2010 World Twenty20, to be held in the West Indies in May. Nobody has a disastrously bad team, although Pakistan’s current woes aren’t likely to win them frien...(
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A report by BMI Sport Info on the popularity of franchise cricket brands in South Africa reveals that there are 9.5-million domestic cricket supporters in the country, out of a population of 50-million.The most popular franchise, bizarrely,...(
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Call me traditional, call me a company man, call me Ahab if you must, but for the life of me I can’t understand a Man of the Match award going to a player on the losing side.Surely the very definition of a Man of the Match is the guy ...(
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The Highveld Lions emulated the Warriors by winning the second leg of their Standard Bank Pro20 semi-final for a clean sweep against the Titans on Friday night, becoming the second South African side to gain entry into the 2010 Champions Le...(
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