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It's not how you Start, it's how you Finish
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…
Jun 19
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That's Out - On a Limb
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…
Jun 11
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The Longest Day, the Longest Tour
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…
Jun 5
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Salon Prives and Beauty Treatments
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…
May 24
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Smith, Boucher and CSA – The Explainer
Anybody who has ever found themselves in a raging, screaming argument which started out over something well-meaning but misunderstood may be better…
May 17
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Could the Best play each other while the Rest play Australia and England?
Cricket has many great venues and occasions around the world but the vast majority of international players who have experienced it will concur that…
May 8
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Sticks and Stones, and a new Tournament…
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…
Apr 29
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Half-time Oranges
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…
Apr 24
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Rafting with ‘Sir Dick’.
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…
Apr 15
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Legal battles continue in shadow of cricketing ones
A week before South Africa’s enthralling and spicy tussle with Bangladesh at Kingsmead another, a different engagement was taking place involving two…
Apr 9
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The Good, the Bad and the Cash
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…
Mar 30
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Interim No More – Time for Action
Roughly two hours and 40 minutes after the confirmation Pholetsi Moseki as the permanent Chief Executive Officer of Cricket South Africa, there was a…
Mar 19
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