Friday, 22 January 2021
The board’s inability to rein in Thabang Moroe played a critical part in the organisation’s downfall, highlighted by a dark episode of revoking the accreditation of journalists critical of the cricket body.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.