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South Africa

So far, so good for South Africa

Tuesday, 18th September 2007 at 4:29 pm

If the West Indies World Cup was a dismal failure, then the World Twenty20 is proving the exact opposite: electric cricket, surpise results, belligerent crowds, and an overall injection of life the game desperately needed. Zimbabwe’s win over Australia competes …

Natural Born Hitters

Natural Born Hitters: smokin’…

Friday, 14th September 2007 at 11:36 pm

The adverts have added a quirky touch to local television; now, Standard Bank’s Natural Born Hitters campaign has introduced a particularly eye-catching billboard to back up sponsorship of 20-over cricket. You may well have already spotted one of them: billowing …

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 …

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 …