A truck and a bus collided head-on in Patryshoek, north of Tshwane. 15 people died on the spot, while 37 others were transferred to various Pretoria hospitals. At least seven individuals were critically injured, and the death toll was expected to rise. A bus and a truck crashed on a South Africa highway in the … Read more
India’s Mithali Raj announces retirement from all international cricket. She is the all-time leading run-scorer in women’s one-day internationals. Raj captained India to two 50-over World Cup finals. India’s Mithali Raj on Wednesday announced her retirement from all international formats after 23 years dominating women’s cricket as a batter and skipper. Raj is the all-time leading run-scorer … Read more
India’s KL Rahul ruled out of five-match Twenty20 series against South Africa. Opener picked as skipper after all-format skipper Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli took a break. Rishabh Pant named in his place for the series, which begins Thursday in New Delhi. India’s KL Rahul has been ruled out of the five-match Twenty20 international series … Read more
South Africa are bracing for a formidable bowling attack from India. Bumrah and Shami rested while Avesh Khan and Umran Malik make debuts. The series starts at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground in a week. South Africa are bracing for a formidable bowling attack from an Indian side eager to prove themselves when their Twenty20 … Read more
Bangladesh hoping to have fast bowler Taskin Ahmed back from injury for the T20I series against West Indies. Taskin has been sidelined with a shoulder injury since April. Bangladesh will play its first test against WI from June 16 to 20 in Antigua. Bangladesh hopes to have fast bowler Taskin Ahmed back from injury in … Read more
The Australian women’s team will begin planning their next World Cup campaign. Coleman and Marsh will join the team for the second training camp, and Nitschke sees this as an excellent chance. Nitschke signed a two-year extension as head coach of the WBBL’s Perth Scorchers. This week in Brisbane, the Australian women’s team will begin … Read more
Ireland, led by Gaby Lewis, their youngest captain in history, stunned South Africa for only the second time in 11 T20I matches to grab a one-match lead in the three-match series. Ireland is ranked 12th in Twenty20 cricket, and their sole win over South Africa came in August 2016. This match featured five South Africans … Read more
Greg Barclay calls for more women’s Tests to be played over five days. Barclay questions whether the long-format matches are beneficial. Only England, Australia and India have played a women’s Test since 2017. International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman Greg Barclay would like to see women’s Test matches played over five days but has questioned whether the … Read more
Between January and March, 6,083 people were killed — 22.2 % increase from last year. Kidnappings showed the sharpest increase, with 3,306 cases. Police minister vows to weed out corrupt cops. On Friday, South Africa’s police minister bemoaned a “brutal” increase in murders and other violent crime in a country that was already one of … Read more
After the ending of Indian Premier League this sunday, Indian team set to host series against South Africa. India and South Africa will confronting each other in the main match in Delhi on June 9. “Both the groups will go through RT-PCR testing on the landing in their particular lodgings. Since there is no bio-bubble … Read more
Ellyse Perry is ready to prove she is still a valuable member of Australia’s greatest T20I team ahead of a busy short-form calendar. Perry, who was once one of Australia’s top T20 players, has struggled with injury and form in recent years, and was left out of the Ashes opening in January. The 31-year-old has … Read more
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has said that the national women’s team will tour Australia next year. Pakistan will play three T20Is and three ODIs in Brisbane, Sydney and Canberra from 16-29 January 2023, the board added. The ODIs will be a part of the ICC Women’s Championship 2022-2025. The first two ODIs will be played … Read more
Caroline Masson of Germany defeated top-seeded Minjee Lee of Australia 2&1 on Friday to complete a perfect 3-0 round-robin and knock the Australian out of the LPGA Match-Play in Las Vegas, Nevada. On Saturday at Shadow Creek, Masson will face Andrea Lee in the round of 16. Lee won her four-woman group by defeating Stephanie … Read more
Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany said during a visit to South Africa that some countries’ support for Russia’s offensive in Ukraine is “wrong.” “There have been several countries that have voted in favor of Russia.” “That is unacceptable,” Scholz said during a joint press conference in Pretoria with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. South Africa … Read more
DAKAR: Olaf Scholz, the German Chancellor, visited Dakar, Senegal’s capital, on Sunday, as part of an Africa tour that will also take him to Niger and South Africa. After a joint news conference with Senegalese President Macky Sall at the Palace of the Republic of Senegal, Scholz travelled to Diass (southeast) for the commissioning of … Read more
Officials reported Sunday that heavy rains pounded South Africa, forcing approximately 500 people to escape their homes on the east coast, just a month after the worst floods in living memory killed more than 400 people. No fatalities were immediately recorded but there was severe damage to some buildings, mainly in Durban, capital of KwaZulu-Natal … Read more
The widow of a UK-based photojournalist killed by soldiers of Col. Gaddafi in Libya in 2011 is pleading with the South African authorities to divulge material she says is critical to finding her husband’s remains. Anton Hammerl was kept hostage for 44 days before being slain in the May 2011 event that ended in the … Read more
Bangladesh Test captain Mominul Haque stated his squad will take confidence from the first drew Test and put in a comprehensive team effort in the series-clinching second game in Dhaka. Bangladesh drew the Test against Sri Lanka, but more importantly, they were able to move on from their poor showing in South Africa. To lead … Read more
According to Africa News, a video footage from Stellenbosch University in South Africa has upset many in the country, showing a white student peeing over a black student’s things. The event occurred on May 15, at 4:00 a.m., when the black student was asleep in his room, according to the varsity’s student union. The off-camera … Read more
Tristan Stubbs, a talented 21-year-old middle-order hitter from the Eastern Cape who had amassed 506 runs in 17 senior T20 innings, was hardly known outside of the narrow bubble of South African domestic cricket only two weeks ago. On May 5, the Mumbai Indians announced Stubbs as the replacement for injured Tymal Mills for the … Read more
Tom Harrison has decided to step down as the ECB’s chief executive after a tenure of seven and a half years. When Harrison’s term ends in June, Clare Connor, the managing director of women’s cricket and president of the MCC, has been named as an interim replacement. Harrison joined IMG in Singapore and ESPN STAR … Read more
After being named in the team to play five T20Is in India in June, Tristan Stubbs, the second-highest run-scorer in South Africa’s domestic T20 competition, has received his first call-up to the national side. Stubbs will be part of a full-strength South African squad that includes all of the players that missed the Bangladesh Test … Read more
Arif Malik, the president of the Kashmir Premier League (KPL), and Rashid Latif, the former Pakistan wicketkeeper and Director of Operations, have both expressed interest in inviting Virat Kohli to play in the tournament’s second edition. Latif was recently hired as the KPL’s Director of Cricket Operations, with the goal of raising the league’s standards. … Read more
Bangladesh fast bowler Taskin Ahmed is expected to miss the two-match Test series against the West Indies due to injury. The 27-year-old fast sustained a shoulder injury in the first Test of the South Africa series, ruling him out of the Port Elizabeth Test and the rest of the series against Sri Lanka. Taskin will … Read more
Out-of-form Virat Kohli says that he has a positive-fire manner of drowning out his growing range of critics — he just mutes the tv. The 33-year-old former India skipper has continued an extended batting stoop for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League and fell for his third golden duck of the season on … Read more
Players are struggling to excel in Test cricket because they haven’t adopted the appropriate mindset, according to Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) head Nazmul Hasan. Bangladesh has previously challenged Pakistan, New Zealand, and South Africa in the first Test, but has faltered as the series went. Hassan and other board members met with the team management … Read more
World’s giant hydrogen-powered Truck innaugrated in South Africa Mining goliath Anglo American has divulged the world’s biggest hydrogen-fueled truck, a beast weighing 220 tons, at a platinum mine in northern South Africa. Charged as the first of an armada that will supplant the association’s diesel-controlled trucks, the vehicle utilizes 2 megawatts of hydrogen power devices … Read more
India plans to lease abandoned coal pits to private mining companies in an effort to boost production as power outages exacerbate a scorching heatwave A government official said Friday. Even as exceptionally hot weather highlights the issue of climate change caused by burning fossil fuels, coal supplies more than two-thirds of India’s energy needs, and … Read more
