Bittersweet Shadows: The Legacy of South Africa’s ’99 World Cup Semifinal and the Unyielding Spirit of Cricket – By Charindra Chandrasena Source : Charindra Chandrasena linkedin The ending of the 1999 cricket world cup semi-final between Australia and South Africa is probably my saddest cricketing moment not involving Sri Lanka. But the result of that match is even sadder considering how South African cricket has changed since. Hansie Cronje was an inspirational, incredible captain, and just what South Africa needed in the first decade after Apartheid. He built that team to win the ’99 WC for years, but that would prove to be his last opportunity. One year after this match Cronje was banned from cricket for life. Two years after that, he was dead. Lance Klusner was superman in the ’99 world cup. He carried the South African team on his shoulders through the tournament and almost dug his team ...
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Edgbaston. What A Match! Errol’s Armchair Pleasures-by Michael Roberts Source:thuppahis Email Commendation from Errol Fernando in Melbourne, 21 June 2023 Bravo, Captain Pat Cummins! No words of praise are adequate to describe how Captain Pat, in that final hour, turned certain defeat into victory. And he did it with lots and lots of smiles! It was good to hear Cummins, in his post-match interview, acknowledge the crucial support of warrior Nathan Lyon. He also stated that the most important contribution in the match was made by Usman Khawaja. Best of all, he was gracious and modest in victory. When asked whether this was the ‘Number One’ Test of his whole career he immediately agreed that it was. Obviously he had forgotten the Test match 12 years ago at the Wanderers in Johannesburg when he made his debut as a lad of 18 – the second youngest Australian Test player after Ian Craig. In that ...
Kallis named as England batting consultant for Sri Lanka Test tour Jacques Kallis Source:Dailynews Jacques Kallis has been appointed as England’s latest batting consultant for next month’s Test series in Sri Lanka, a tour that the ECB insist is set to go ahead as planned in spite of the heightened uncertainty over the UK’s latest wave of measures to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. The ECB last week stepped up its search for full-time appointments for their batting, pace- and spin-bowling coaching vacancies. Applications are set to close on January 10, meaning that Kallis’s appointment may be the last consultancy role used by the board, following similar appointments for Jonathan Trott during the Pakistan Tests last summer, and Marcus Trescothick on the recent white-ball tour of South Africa. ...
