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It’s not how you Start, it’s how you Finish. I was given this advice a few decades ago after a faltering start to a tour on which I was distracted by a…
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That’s Out – On a Limb. There are a few better forms of entertainment in cricket that a fierce debate about a point of principle, and what constitutes…
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The Longest Day, the Longest Tour. It’s not just cricket which has changed so dramatically in the last couple of years, it’s the whole world. The…
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Salon Prives, Game Drives and Beauty Treatments At the height of the Sun City Million Dollar’s popularity with the world’s best golfers it wasn’t…
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Anybody who has ever found themselves in a raging, screaming argument which started out over something well-meaning but misunderstood may be better…
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Cricket has many great venues and occasions around the world but the vast majority of international players who have experienced it will concur that…
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By the middle of 2019 Thabang Moroe had already made over half a dozen trips to India to woo the BCCI into cooperating with and perhaps even supporting…
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Sports writers have this thing where we say that we only write about politics when we have to and that, in an ideal world, sports and politics shouldn’t…
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light read - Back in the days when Test matches were sacrosanct and every team in the world selected their strongest available XI for every match, South…
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A week before South Africa’s enthralling and spicy tussle with Bangladesh at Kingsmead another, a different engagement was taking place involving two…
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All the best and most compelling reasons in the world, technical, financial and emotional, point towards the ‘IPL Five’ making their choice not to play…
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Roughly two hours and 40 minutes after the confirmation Pholetsi Moseki as the permanent Chief Executive Officer of Cricket South Africa, there was a…
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