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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 …

Twenty20 World Cup ready to go

Tuesday, 11th September 2007 at 11:32 am

The cricket world has descended en masse in South Africa, the ICC awards to be followed by a fortnight or so of pyrotechnic cricket action. We’re all very familiar with 20-over cricket in this part of the world, the Standard …

AB de Villiers

Beating Australia always fun…

Monday, 10th September 2007 at 12:01 pm

We won’t get too carried away by it, but as omens go, it could certainly have been worse. The weekend warm-up for the Twenty20 World Cup offered a few psychological points for the winners ahead of the tournament proper, and …