The art of leaving outside off-stump
When Neil McKenzie was named one of Wisden’s five Cricketers of the Year in 2008, it was for something he had not done, rather than what he had done:
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Frank Heydenrych
The day Beefy ran Boycott out
I had the pleasure of a day wih Ian Botham in Johannesburg in 1991. He told the following story, which ESPNCricinfo has retold. The story grows by the year, but here it is true to what Botham shared with me.
On no-balling
I thought I was relatively quick as a young cricketer. In later years I turned to off-spin. I thought I was Mike Procter, as I came as a fast bowler off a run-up not too far from the sightscreen, as he did. I was side-on, he was chest-on, coming it seemed off the wrong foot. […]
A second chance at life
The nurse took off my shirt, lay me down and placed what seemed like 100 pads to my chest. Only 12, actually. When I took them off that evening, each one ripped my chest hairs out. She hooked me up to what seemed like Jodrell Bank. I spoke and she told me to shut up. […]
Memories of Pinky Carelse
Isolation was simply the worst event for a young cricketer in South Africa. We had such memories of the great side of 1970, and we knew we had the best team in the world. But we could not play against the greats of the day, due to apartheid.
Watch out, here comes Viljoen
There I was on the scoreboard bank of Centurion in 1996, Shaun Pollock making merry among the England top order. Graeme Hick and Jack Russell were resolutely defiant. I had my third or fourth Castle Draught firmly in hand.
Upton, Kirsten and personal mastery
It might be something in the water, or it could be the influence of the mountain. Whatever it is, there is something profound
ICC: SA choke again
Seldom can a team have prepared so thoroughly for a tournament, and still got it hopelessly wrong. That was the case with South Africa as they brought themselves to the very brink of disqualification from the World T20 in Sri Lanka.
Time for Meyer to change game plan
I had the great privilege to spend many hours with Dr Danie Craven, for so many years the supremo of South African rugby. One of the phrases he indelibly etched on me was: “If you spend so much time winning the ball, why kick it straight back at the opposition?”
Lessons from Oz
Australia are now ranked below Ireland in the latest T20 rankings. At No 10, they are a shadow of the great Australian side that made other teams tremble just by turning up on the park.