Luke Alfred

When Lee was invincible

Former South Africa batsman Lee Irvine remembers his Essex days, batting against John Gleeson, drinking with Arlott, and watching a football game with Kanhai

18-Oct-2016•Luke Alfred

The charming antiquity of Willowmoore Park

The Benoni ground has hosted the likes of Denis Compton, footballers, and other athletes over the years. Might it soon have a bigger role to play in South African cricket?

04-Oct-2016•Luke Alfred

Wearing a watermelon against Dilley

A teenager bats against county and Test pros and lives to tell the tale

02-Oct-2016•Luke Alfred

Remembering South Africa's first fast bowling hero

Lindsay Tuckett lost his best years to the war, and when he got the chance to play Tests, he bowled with virtually no support

08-Sep-2016•Luke Alfred

When little Dave Callaghan went big

The former South Africa allrounder is best remembered for his 169 in an ODI against New Zealand in 1994

22-Aug-2016•Luke Alfred

South Africa need to get their bite back

Their mongrel seems to have gone AWOL, tail between its legs

18-Aug-2016•Luke Alfred

'We play a boring brand of cricket here in South Africa'

With New Zealand touring South Africa, Kruger van Wyk, who made the journey in reverse and called New Zealand his home for nearly a decade, talks about his cricket experiences in the land he briefly adopted

11-Aug-2016•Luke Alfred

Do it like Dean and Kuhn

In these times of discontent in South Africa, batsmen like Dean Elgar and Heino Kuhn show that quotas don't necessarily have to cause heartburn

29-Jul-2016•Luke Alfred

Colin Ingram, South Africa's invisible man

How a talented batsman has come to be an emblem of the neglect of a region

12-Jul-2016•Luke Alfred

Bavuma's giant leap

The South African batsman talks us through his landmark hundred at Newlands against England, an inspiration to an emerging generation of South African players

04-Jul-2016•Luke Alfred

Why South Africa need to liberate themselves from shame

They're a very good ODI side, if only they can change the culture of their cricket

21-Jun-2016•Luke Alfred

Remembering 2008

As Mickey Arthur takes charge of Pakistan, he could do worse than look back at successful tours of England and Australia eight years ago, when he coached South Africa

30-May-2016•Luke Alfred

The rise of Dwaine Pretorius

The South African bowling allrounder has steadily crept up the wickets chart, while also being handy with the bat

14-May-2016•Luke Alfred

The juju is bad for South Africa

The last few months have been a steep comedown. What has gone wrong?

18-Apr-2016•Luke Alfred

The return of South Africa, on a tour they didn't want

Exhausted at the end of a long season, South Africa played their first Test on their return to international cricket in Barbados in 1992 - and nearly won

11-Apr-2016•Luke Alfred

Frontier darkness

The Eastern Cape in South Africa has a troubled history, and its cricket is no less complicated

01-Apr-2016•Luke Alfred

Down to the pointy end in South Africa

The domestic season is coming to an end and familiar scenarios are playing themselves out

29-Mar-2016•Luke Alfred

Walking down Dolly's Cape Town streets

There's little in the Upper Cape that commemorates the legacy of Basil D'Oliveira

11-Mar-2016•Luke Alfred

The freshness that Quinny and KG bring

The two young men have a fearlessness and self-belief that are at odds with the culture of caution that has marked South African cricket for long

19-Feb-2016•Luke Alfred

South Africa's weird season

From chopping and changing in selection to the latest fixing scandal, the country's cricket is in for testing times, at least in the immediate future

28-Jan-2016•Luke Alfred

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