One of Durban’s favourite cricketing sons Hashim Amla is fit and raring to go following a long injury lay-off when the Durban Heat kick off their Mzansi Super League campaign against the Cape Town Blitz at Kingsmead on Sunday.
The Proteas got some good practice ahead of their T20I against Australia on Saturday with a 41-run win over a Cricket Australia XI at Allan Border Field.
AB de Villiers’ Tshwane Spartans are coming to town … and they’re going to stamp out the Cape Town Blitz’s fire as they rain sixes into the crowd on Friday night, writes SIMON LEWIS.
Jacques Kallis gets the nod from one Aussie after another as the best cricketer ever to walk the earth.
The Mzansi Super League has announced Global Citizen as a partner for the first edition of the tournament.
With a busy week ahead of the Proteas and the Proteas Women, SuperSport’s Inside Edge team have plenty to talk about.
New Zealand snapped a seven-match losing streak – their longest-ever in T20Is – with their first win in the ICC Women’s World T20 2018.
Zimbabwe’s Brendan Taylor has joined a unique club of players to have scored a century in each innings of a Test match on two occasions, following his scores of 110 and 106 not out against Bangladesh in Dhaka, writes SIMON LEWIS.
South Africa’s hopes in the Women’s World T20 hang on their batters coming to the party, and that requires the Proteas Women to click into the right mind frame.
A Mzansi Super League tournament in the making, across a couple of versions, for over a year, will finally get underway at Newlands in Cape Town on Friday at 7pm, when the coastal kingpins meet the upcountry powerhouse.
December’s planned Emirates T20x League has been cancelled because of the failure to sell all five of the franchises within the stipulated time.
In the first-ever meeting between the two teams in T20Is, India registered a 52-run win over bottom-ranked Ireland, becoming the second team to book a place in the semifinals of the ICC Women’s World T20 2018.
Boland and Free State made slow but steady starts in their 3-Day Provincial Cup matches against Northern Cape and Easterns respectively.
‘We just need to be positive, get a bad day out the way. The sun’s going to shine tomorrow anyway. Well, let’s hope so, in St Lucia.’ – Proteas Women skipper Dane van Niekerk
Dale Steyn of the Cape Town Blitz speaks about the recent Australia tour and the Mzansi Super League.
