Using sandpaper or pulling a gun – which one gets the longer ban?

Steve Smith and David Warner got a one year ban for being involved in using sandpaper to tamper with the ball, yet Qaasim Adams gets banned for just six matches for pulling a gun on a team-mate. It’s disgusting! I was the first to say that Steve Smith and David Warner should be banned after using […]

Cricket is becoming soft and it’s killing the game we love.

Test cricket is the height of any cricketers career. It’s the format everyone wants to play. But if the ICC are going to continue to run it like children – We’ll all lose interest and the format will die The general rule I have when writing a blog post is to think what I want to […]

SPRINGBOKS GOLD, PROTEAS AND BAFANA BATTLE FOR SILVER.

If our top three sporting codes had to battle it out for the best team in SA, the Springboks, without a shadow of doubt would grab that gold medal and leave Bafana Bafana to battle it out with the Proteas for silver. Not one, but two world cup winning medals are proudly in the Springbok trophy cabinet, […]

Selection timing can make or break a test career

Timing is everything. Depending on when you get your dream call-up to represent the national side, your career could last a month or last a decade. The Proteas test opening position is a prime example of this. I’ve been reading so many articles and Twitter feeds moaning about how poor Heino Kuhn was in England and […]