Covid-19 causes setback for women’s cricket
The future looks bleak for the Proteas Women with the pandemic biting into gains made domestically and internationally. It doesn’t help that the South African government is failing to support them.
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Why has SA cricket not changed under black leaders?
For two decades, Cricket South Africa has been mainly in the hands of black leadership. Why then have the organisation and cricket in the country hardly transformed?
The roots of racism run deep in SA cricket
Cricket’s foundation phase is littered with racism, from the structural in elite all-boys schools that produced 65% of the Proteas who have played at a World Cup to the overt where black talent is doubted and marginalised.
Ngidi exposes thinly veiled racism in SA cricket
The reaction to Lungisani Ngidi’s call for CSA to acknowledge that black lives matter was unsurprising. The sport still has racist elements in its midst, including beneficiaries of apartheid.
How Dinesha Devnarain got her ideal job
The former Proteas player has a complicated relationship with cricket, which has both given and taken from her. But her new job is breathing life into women’s cricket in South Africa.
New Books | Too Black To Wear Whites
Krom Hendricks was the first sportsperson to be barred from representing South Africa on the basis of race, even though he was touted as one of the world’s greatest fast bowlers.
The gifted Gregory Mahlokwana bowls both ways
The young, ambidextrous bowler was almost lost to cricket as a more certain career in law enforcement beckoned. But a chance meeting with his idol gave him the chance to pursue the pitch.
From De Kock the dasher to Quinny the dutiful
Quinton de Kock’s cricketing brain has made him South Africa’s new ODI skipper. But if his batting genius is to win games on its own, first he must give up the keeper’s gloves.
ASA and athletes view Doha disaster differently
Wanted: A single hymn sheet from which Athletics South Africa and its athletes can sing to improve their medal haul at the upcoming Olympics in Tokyo.
Enoch Nkwe and cricket’s doubting Thomases
The interim Proteas team director faces an army of doubters despite winning three of the four franchises trophies on offer in his first year as a coach in South Africa.