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Jacques Kallis

Can anyone stop Jacques Kallis?

Wednesday, 14th November 2007 at 10:17 pm

So that’s 9 000 Test runs out the way, then, with close to 30 hundreds and an average nudging 60 thrown in for good measure. No double hundred, perhaps, but that’s almost being pedantic: all told, the Jacques Kallis Test …

Graeme Smith

Pakistan test passed with flying colours

Wednesday, 31st October 2007 at 5:14 pm

Given that Iraq don’t have a cricket team, Siberia aren’t in the ICC, and the Darfur Invitation XI hasn’t seen much time in the middle of late, touring Pakistan is probably bottom of the list of international touring destinations. Several …

Graeme Smith

Pakistan blasts put tour in jeopardy

Friday, 19th October 2007 at 3:10 pm

Officially, the tour is still on, Cricket South Africa issuing a terse statement on Friday confirming that Pakistan authorities had assured them that security wouldn’t be an issue, and that the team was safe to continue its tour of Pakistan. …

Inzamam-ul-Haq

Inzamam-ul-Haq takes a final bow

Sunday, 14th October 2007 at 6:57 pm

Cricket, as we’re reminded so often, has little time for sentiment. Signing off a great career with a romantic flourish is the way every cricketer wants to go, but ever since Don Bradman’s infamous final innings, fairytale finishes haven’t been …

Makhaya Ntini and Dale Steyn

Steyn signals changing of the guard

Monday, 8th October 2007 at 10:52 am

If the return of Jacques Kallis - and how - commanded the headlines through South Africa’s march to victory in the first Test against Pakistan in Karachi, then the make-up of the South African attack made for a not insubstantial …

Jacques Kallis

Jacques Kallis makes his point

Friday, 5th October 2007 at 12:08 am

Feverpitcher is reminded of the one-day international in which an under-fire Nasser Hussain made a one-day hundred in England, and celebrated with a none-too-subtle gesture to the media box, the inhabitants of which had made a collective point of suggesting …