Career-best knock helps reel in Scorpions
Scorpions opener Bridget Patterson’s cracking half century was upstaged by a matching winning knock from a New South Wales rookie in their season opener in Adelaide.
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World-class power gives Redbacks cup edge
South Australia will miss skipper Travis Head but expects its World Cup triumvirate to fire in the Marsh Cup one-day competition.
No regrets for ‘older’ Oates
Broadly speaking, Stacey Oates is not old. But in cricketing terms at the age of 23, she’s actually quite old to be given her very first chance to play for the state’s best women’s cricket team
Bates gives Scorpions pinch of star power for opener
The state’s best female cricketers will start their 2019-20 summer of cricket with their first game on Sunday. And the extended squad includes a few surprise faces.
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Haddin axing is no excuse for Aussies’ poor form
Claims that the selectors’ decision to omit Brad Haddin from the Third Test has harmed team harmony are alarming, writes Scott Walsh.
SA view: ‘c’ word haunts Proteas
THE World Cup is still three months away, but the dreaded ‘c’ word is already starting to enter most conversations about South Africa.
Smith: ‘I quit for my family’
GRAEME Smith says seeing his toddler in hospital helped him make up his mind to retire from international cricket.
Is Cronje more admired than Smith?
SOME in South Africa are wondering if, despite their vastly different careers, Hansie Cronje is more admired than Graeme Smith.
Proteas bask in local knowledge
THE real reason behind South Africa’s mastery of reverse swing was local knowledge of a recently re-laid pitch.
SA View: Now for Smith’s scalp
MICHAEL Clarke’s team has directly contributed to the retirement of Graeme Swann and the axing of KP. Is Graeme Smith next on their hit list?
’For all your talk, we are No. 1’
ON the eve of the second Test in Port Elizabeth, the rattled South Africa media has come out firing, telling the tourists, ‘We’re still No. 1’.
Kallis reassures with fighting words
JACQUES Kallis may be one Test into retirement, but the temptation to seek out his reassuring presence has proven overwhelming.
’Deadliest balls I’ve got in a Test’
IF Mitchell Johnson was looking for an ego boost, it came courtesy of Faf du Plessis’s weekly column in South Africa.
SA view: Batting needs total rejig
THE post-Jacques Kallis era has just begun for South Africa, and replacing him is already posing a big selection headache.
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