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A couple of days before the IPL final I made contact with Faf du Plessis in Dubai where the Chennai Super Kings were awaiting news of their opponents i…
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There are so many factors to consider during the forthcoming T20 World, all of which will, at some point and to a greater or lesser degree, influence t…
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Australia and New Zealand are both great countries and have provided many of the most cherished memories of my career. I was hoping to visit both again…
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Let’s be very clear about what just happened. Cricket New Zealand instructed its national team to leave Rawalpindi less than an hour before the toss in…
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The most vexing question after the third T20 International concerned the proportions between South Africa’s excellence and Sri Lanka’s ineptitude. When…
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For many years, decades even, I’ve written and spoken about the decline in players’ performance towards the end of tours. They were merely personal obs…
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It is wretched habit of those professionally or even just emotionally invested in the performance of ‘their’ sports team to suddenly question the quali…
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The ennui of another featureless day on tour appeared to be significantly off-set by the prospect of watching Christiano Ronaldo once again playing foo…
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The Proteas’ T20 International modus operandi was established in the five matches in the West Indies and is now cemented in place for the World Cup nex…
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It’s important to set goals and have something to look forward to each day in the bio-bubble and today it was the announcement of T20 World Cup squads,…
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Sri Lankan cricket has had precious little to celebrate over the last couple of years so it was only right and proper that they should make a big deal …
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That was as a grim a batting display as South Africa have ever produced in a One-Day International and the mood of gloom about their prospects of havin…
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