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Mar 6, 2023
Cricket coursing through the Gantsho veins
“All us Gantshos do every day is talk cricket. In the living room, in the kitchen, in the garden … cricket, cricket, cricket!” Kaiser...
Mar 5, 2023
No divided loyalties for Johnson
Allison Johnson has spent the better part of 35 years in South Africa, but he says there will be no divided loyalties when he leads the...
Mar 4, 2023
Proteas made to sweat in World Cup warm-up
The Proteas Veterans finalised their preparations for the Over-50 Cricket World Cup with a victory against the USA on Saturday, but it...
Mar 4, 2023
South Africa at the Over-50s World Cup
The 2023 Cricket World Cup will be the third edition of the tournament, and the second to be played in Cape Town. The first tournament...
Mar 3, 2023
Proteas have all bases covered and going for the win
With three days to go before the opening game of the Over-50s World Cup, Proteas Veterans vice-captain Mario Solomons is clear in his...
Mar 2, 2023
Procter – Right place, wrong time
Like so many other great players of his generation, the sporting boycott imposed on South Africa because of its Apartheid policy of the...
Mar 1, 2023
Cann relishing South African ‘homecoming’
When Wales face Pakistan in their opening game of the Over-50 World Cup at Claremont Cricket Club on March 6, there will be one man more...
Feb 28, 2023
Zimbabwe not getting ahead of themselves
They have one of the strongest squads on paper and are many people’s outside bet to reach the final, but Zimbabwe are not getting ahead...
Feb 28, 2023
King Louis wants his crown
South African cricket teams and World Cups have not always seen eye to eye. Whether that was the result of unfavourable weather,...
Feb 27, 2023
Player Profile: Mlungisi Ngece
Unlike many of his Proteas Veterans teammates, Mlungisi Ngece has pretty much been involved in cricket in some form or other for the...
Feb 27, 2023
Player Profile: Andre Peters
At almost 58, Andre Peters is one of older players in the South African side, but he will go into the Over-50 World Cup as one of the...
Feb 27, 2023
Player Profile: Saleem Mukuddem
Like Proteas Veterans teammate Alan Dawson, this will be Saleem Mukuddem’s second Cricket World Cup. But unlike Dawson, Mukuddem will be...
Feb 27, 2023
Player Profile: Craig Lyons
Craig Lyons is a top-order batsman and wicket-keeper who played First-Class cricket in England for Oxford and Colts cricket for Transvaal...
Feb 27, 2023
Omar Henry’s top three batsmen
Graeme Pollock, Barry Richards and Peter Kirsten are considered three of the greatest batsmen the game has ever seen, even though they...
Feb 27, 2023
Player Profile: Morné Cilliers
Morné Cilliers says his earliest memory of playing the game is backyard cricket with his family and, barring a five-year spell before the...
Feb 26, 2023
Player Profile: Clive Eksteen
Clive Eksteen played seven Test matches and six One-Day Internationals for South Africa and was part of the country’s first international...
Feb 26, 2023
Player Profile: Bruce Wilson
Bowling great leg-spin is not the easiest discipline in cricket, but in Bruce Wilson the Proteas Veterans have a master of his craft....
Feb 26, 2023
Player Profile: Kaiser Gantsho
Kaiser Gantsho is a left-arm seam bowler and left-handed batsman who started playing cricket at the age of 14 in the village where he...
Feb 26, 2023
Player Profile: Grant Jansen
A ‘cricket glutton’ by his own description, Grant Jansen is still playing first team for St Augustine, Veterans leagues for Western...
Feb 26, 2023
Player Profile: Louis Koen
One of the more experienced players in the squad, Louis Koen will be the man to lead the Proteas Veterans both on the field, and with the...
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