To his devotees the greatest all-round cricketer since Sobers; to his critics a flat-track bully who fails to dominate against the best. Gareth Bland examines the extraordinary career of Jacques Kallis.
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Kevin Pietersen has recently learnt the same lesson Ciss Parkin learned 88 years ago, that upsetting the England cricketing establishment has never yet ended well for the player concerned.
With one Test remaining in the SA-Eng series, Ewan reviews the action, and controversies, so far, and looks ahead to the final Test.
Cricket lovers are agog with excitement at the news that India and Pakistan may meet again, in December this year. But what exactly are the ramifications of the two arch-rivals clashing?
England’s tour of Australia in 1982-83 was the first of the post-Packer era in which the Ashes were at stake. Gareth Bland looks back at the eventful five Test series.
100 years ago the South Africa Test cricket players gathered on these shores for the Triangular Tournament – guest writer Patrick Ferriday recounts the build-up and the tournament itself.
Following Peter McGlashan’s retirement from all cricket last week, we interviewed him to find out what the future holds and to look back upon his 13 year career.
After the Oval England will be looking for inspiration for this week’s second Test. Perhaps, as with Devon Malcolm in 1994, they might even be gifted it by the South Africans.
166 years after the first international cricket match was played between the USA and Canada in the USA, international cricket returned to where it all started in the year 2010.
As Hashim Amla and Jacques Kallis inexorably advance South Africa’s lead at the Oval Martin looks at how England distracted the media from another majestic South African performance, back in 1994.