Archive for September 12th, 2007


Schalk Burger

Schalk Burger gets four weeks

Wednesday, 12th September 2007 at 3:26 pm

Feverpitcher has looked at the footage. And looked at it again. We’ve then had a look at Phil Vickery’s deliberate trip (two week suspension, but with ten days in the Maldives thrown in by the citing commission by way of …

Herschelle Gibbs

Herschelle Gibbs goes mad - again

Wednesday, 12th September 2007 at 2:59 pm

It brought back memories of the 175 that highlighted the greatest one-day game ever; not so many runs this time, perhaps, but Herschelle Gibbs’s unbeaten 90 included many of the same shots Australia were on the wrong end of on …

Chris Gayle

Chris Gayle sets the World Cup alight

Wednesday, 12th September 2007 at 2:43 pm

Feverpitcher got dragged off to Pink’s tour-ending Cape Town concert on Tuesday night, thus missing South Africa powering home to victory in the opening match of the Twenty20 World Cup; we managed to hold off departure until Chris Gayle had …

John Smit and Jake White

Springboks show their hand

Wednesday, 12th September 2007 at 2:33 pm

From the moment the World Cup schedule was announced, this has been the game everyone’s been waiting for: South Africa versus England, effectively playing for the right to avoid Australia in the quarterfinals. The two teams have met regularly over …

Wanderers crowd

Wanderers: spiritual home of Twenty20?

Wednesday, 12th September 2007 at 2:09 pm

It might not have the history of Lord’s, the size of the MCG, or the sheer majesty of Eden Gardens in full cry, but the Wanderers has every right to lay claim to being Twenty20 cricket’s spiritual home. The Bullring’s definitive …

Justin Kemp and Herschelle Gibbs

Kemp and Gibbs - oh so relaxed…

Wednesday, 12th September 2007 at 1:57 pm

A retrospective gem from the Feverpitcher photo vault, that suggests we could have had a pretty shrewd bet on which two players would lead South Africa home in their opening game against the West Indies. Go back 36 hours or …