Monday, 27 March 2023
Daniel Gallan is a Johannesburg-born freelance journalist living in London, UK. He is constantly searching for the intersecting lines between sport and politics, to show that the games we play reflect who we are as a society.
Even before the demise of this format of the game was predicted, the women’s team had little opportunity to experience and enjoy it. They are keen to change this while they still can.
In the second of a two-part series on women’s cricket in South Africa, the reason for the widening gap between the national team’s players and those chasing their spots becomes clear.
In the first of a two-part series about the journey to become a member of the women’s senior national cricket team, the various challenges of development at school level are explored.
Kobus Olivier’s life as a coach has taken him from Cape Town to Croatia via the war-torn country, where he had been working hard to promote the sport and establish proper structures for it.
The cricketer joined his mother in England shortly after she fled Zimbabwe to escape political persecution. While he still loves his native country, he has accepted that England is now home.
Sporting bodies across disciplines moved swiftly to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. Their stances, however, reveal sport’s hypocrisy when it comes to which lives it values.
South Africans loved to hate him, but the supremely talented and bigger-than-life spin bowler from Australia had an impact on the country that few cricketers can match.
The 2021 ODI Women’s Cricketer of the Year has honed her batting skills all the way to the top of the order and she’s ready to lead the Proteas to World Cup triumph.
The club and the city are inextricably intertwined and both are emblems of something far more than the riveting action on the pitch that football fans the world over embrace and admire.
The Pretoria native went to New Zealand after struggling to gain a foothold in domestic cricket. Though adapting meant learning some hard lessons, he could not be happier these days.
New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard put the spotlight firmly on the issue when she became the first openly transgender athlete to compete in the Olympics.
Rugby has a contentious past in Ireland as a ‘foreign and fantastic game linked with Britain’. But nations unite to back one team when the British and Irish Lions tour.
The English star and art collector says the Benin Bronzes looted from Nigeria during the colonial era should be returned to their rightful owners.
England’s diverse and socially aware team stood in stark contrast to the football hooligans who stormed Wembley and the bigots who hurled racist insults at three Black players.
Test cricket is broken because India, England and Australia, who dominate the format, eat alone at the main table while other Test-playing nations compete for crumbs. Can the World Test Championship change this?
Graces Cricket Club is using a sport in which six of the 12 Test-playing nations have criminalised marriages or relationships between same-sex couples to tackle homophobia.
The former Springbok who received most of the backlash following South Africa’s heaviest defeat contemplated quitting the sport afterwards. He explains how he got over the period to become a sensation in France.
Known as the most racist football club, the Israeli side has never signed an Arab player and Muslims who joined the team faced chilling prejudice. But an Arab billionaire says he can change all that.
Doug Ryder and his Team Qhubeka Assos riders put the continent on the cycling map. He explains why the future of African cycling is bright despite the name changes and struggles of the past.
In the second of a two-part series, the focus is on what sport can do to reduce its footprint, whether it’s changing the way stadiums are built or the food that is served to fans.
Sport gives fans an escape from reality, but it cannot escape the reality of climate change. Not least, cyclones and water shortages threaten grounds and tournaments.