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THREE spinners!!!

At last the World Cup has two serious, test-playing, full ICC-member teams playing one another. It makes a nice change from the one-sided mismatches (Holland excepted) so far.
Chris Gayle's shock departure on a shocking pitch in an equally shocking start — opening with a spinner — provided some of the early drama.
In fact the drama [...]


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Cape Town hero in World Cup

ARCHIE HENDERSON
WHEN Ryan ten Doeschate first emerged on the scene in Cape Town cricket, they could not even spell his name.
He also couldn't get a game for Western Province. One spurious reason was that he was an overseas player, which was strange for a player who had grown up in Cape Town and been schooled [...]


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How Cricket World Cup will pan out … I thin

THERE'S a lot of hyperbole about predicting winners. In the far distant past, many of our public prints believed that doing so in horseracing sold papers. That has long been debunked, and not only because the tipsters were often more successful with the blindfold-and-pin method than studying form.
There is no art to picking winners, only [...]


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Something rotten in our cricket

For all its contrived jolliness about the World Cup, Cricket South Africa has failed to clean up the big stink over bonuses.
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Some not-so-small change went into pockets of Majola This week it will try again. For its special meeting on Saturday to oust a president who is [...]


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Tahir is no secret weapon

Imran Tahir a secret weapon?
What's so secret about someone who's been around for at least 14 years (since his first-class debut in Pakistan), played for more teams than even Allison Johnson and bowls legspin?
There's nothing secret about legspin, especially if you are a decent World Cup batsman.
Tahir may soon play for the Proteas (though [...]


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India give up on Gary

INDIAN cricket appears to have given up on keeping Gary Kirsten as coach, but it's not clear if he would be willing to take up the Proteas job which will become vacant after the World Cup.
Kirsten helped take India's Test team to No 1 in the world, a long-held ambition of the Board of Control [...]


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The Great Cricket SA Scandal

You wouldn't know it unless you've been following the minutiae in a few of our public prints (notably the Sunday Times and Beeld), but Cricket South Africa is in the midst of a great scandal.
This one at least does not involve match-fixing, as the last one did. Now it's about money.
The money — almost R2-million [...]


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Yes, they are worried, mate

SOMETHING cataclysmic is about to happen in world cricket — and it starts in Brisbane on Thursday, according to the soothsayers.
The Australian empire, like the British, Roman and Greek ones before it, is crumbling. Australia no longer have an Achilles, Hercules or Ulysses. They have picked a Xavier, but it doesn't have that same heroic [...]


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India want Gazza to stay

Gary Kirsten's name is being mentioned in some quarters as a possible Proteas coach after the World Cup. That is when Corrie van Zyl, the incumbent, is due to give up trying to understand Graeme Smith's field placings and head back to Bloem.
Luring Gazza home might not be that easy, however.
Cricket SA won't be able [...]


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Weak ICC probe

THE men who run Pakistan cricket are suddenly all brave and taking action. They are going to sue The Sun for claiming that Pakistan fixed some elements in a one-day game against England.
We will not hold our breaths on a writ being served.
Pakistan cricket is a disgrace and few will take them seriously. The same [...]


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