Trevor Chesterfield

Cronje evaluates South Africa's Wanderers Test performance

Johannesburg Hansie Cronje ducked the verbal bouncers from England's media last night when he suggested the Tests series against Nasser Hussain's tourists is going to be a lot tougher than last summer's 5-0 thrashing of the West Indies

27-Nov-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

Donald's pace too hot for England

Johannesburg: For weeks it had been billed as the Donald and Atherton show, but the way Allan Donald, alias White Lightning, struck at the Wanderers yesterday, England were also no doubt wondering if there had been a grain of truth in the fitness

26-Nov-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

Kallis the missing piece in the jigsaw puzzle

Johannesburg: It may have been a reflex action but the sight of Jacques Kallis going through the motions of warming up would have no doubt begged the question of whether the extra seamer would not have added to England pressure on the first day of

26-Nov-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

Donald humbles England to win first round

Johannesburg - It was not the best weather for a batting picnic: there was even a hint of high drama about the toss which Hansie Cronje won

25-Nov-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

Battle of wits looms as first Test shapes up

Johannesburg: On their recent form England, if we are to look at their record against New Zealand, do not so much represent collecting a prized scalp for South Africa as whipping off a bald mans toupee

25-Nov-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

Kallis faces up to new challenge

Johannesburg: There is the distinct impression that England's captain Nasser Hussain does not quite believe the stories that Jacques Kallis, now credited as the world's number one all-rounder is unable to bowl in the first two Tests of the series

25-Nov-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

Donald downplays Atherton duel

Johannesburg: Top protagonists in the opening Test of the series South Africa fast bowler Allan Donald and England opening batsman Mike Atherton met in a hotel lift in Sandton yesterday and exchanged greetings

24-Nov-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

Northerns in tough December schedule

Centurion: Peter Kirsten is rarely in the habit of borrowing thoughts from someone else book of favourite phrases but Steve Waugh comments at this year World Cup was not a bad starting point for the Northerns coach

23-Nov-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

Donald's duel with Atherton set to rumble

Centurion South Africa fast bowler Allan Donald, whose duel with England opening batsman Mike Atherton is seen as the first flash point of the looming Test series, has to come through two crucial fitness tests during the next 48 hours if he is to

23-Nov-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

SA selectors get the mix right

Centurion: As England were still in two minds yesterday about their bowling attack for the first Test at the Wanderers this week South Africas selectors did a patch up job for the game starting on Thursday

22-Nov-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

Hussain's mixed message for South Africa

Centurion: England captain Nasser Hussain showed yesterday why has been selected for the job to revive Englands sagging fortunes by sending a mixed message to the South African camp yesterday after leading the tourists to a comprehensive victory

22-Nov-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

SA A team selections show selectors thinking

Centurion: World Cup squad members Nicky Boje, Alan Dawson and Derek Crookes as well as the recall of Roger Telemachus to the South Africa A team's ranks shows that the national selectors are thinking forward to the international limited-overs scene

22-Nov-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

Eksteen's little triumph as England XI crash

Centurion: While a pall of gloom hung over the England dressing room last night, and most of it they would have to admit is self-induced, Clive Eksteen finally managed to take Mike Atherton's wicket

21-Nov-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

McKenzie's batting style lifts gloom for Combined XI

Centurion: Neil McKenzie may have lifted the spirits of the crowd yesterday but serious question marks hovered over the Test future of opening batsman Adam Bacher on a gloomy second day Combined XI outing against the England tourists

20-Nov-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

Cronje has paid his dues to selectors

Centurion: Hansie Cronje it seems has served out his ``probation period'' as South Africa?s captain this season and is likely to be named as leader of the side for the series against England when the team is announced today for the first Test

20-Nov-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

New ball upsets Vaughan's hard work

Centurion: New England coach Duncan Fletcher had predicted the day before that his side was about to face what he thought would be the tours sixth Test

19-Nov-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

Test openers on trial for England series

Centurion: Although the latest political fracas over what had been the selection of a ``lilly white'' combination of a South African provincial side is unlikely to disturb the thinking of the national selectors, Rushdie Majiet?s panel are still

19-Nov-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

How Mpitsang has overtaken Ntini

When he was launched five summers ago as the feared black cannon ball Makhaya Ntini was seen as the one most likely to partner Allan Donald when England next toured South Africa

18-Nov-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

Bryson replaced by Masimula after selection row rumpus

Centurion: England coach Duncan Fletcher is not often moved to delivering such categorical statements that his charges are today facing an combined opposition which should provide the tourists with their toughest ``warm up'' game of the tour

18-Nov-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

2000 and beyond: SA focus of the future in the millenium

Centurion: In global terms it was a small event which attracted some local attention yet in countries as diverse as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and far off Papua-New Guinea interest was the sort of high profile you would expect from a major event

18-Nov-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

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