Trevor Chesterfield

Bloemfontein: Jacques Kallis seems more than happy with his duel role as a front-line batsman and bowler and enjoyed the cut and thrust of what turned out to be the fourth day of the first Test against Zimbabwe

Kallis happy with his front line role

Bloemfontein: Greg Smith has joined the long queue of Northerns rejects which the national selectors have made a habit of ignoring until it is almost too late

Gibbs earns A team cap

Bloemfontein: There were two rather pathetic jokes doing the rounds of this city of the roses as South Africa, with efficient ease, crushed an under-powered Zimbabwe in the first Test of the season

Two rather pathetic jokes

Bloemfontein (South Africa) There are those who have loftily accused Hansie Cronje of having the batting technique of an honest journeyman but lacking in flair and then pass on without giving the dismissive comment a second thought

Cronje establishes batting milestone

31-Oct-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

Bacher injury mishap on eve of Test

Bloemfontein: Apart from a minor scare about Adam Bacher cracking a bone in his right hand and Shaun Pollock passing a fitness test it was another ordinary eve of Test practice session for South Africa at Springbok Park on Thursday

29-Oct-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

Gough high on confidence

Centurion - If we are to believe in the Darren Gough school of practice and theory England are not going to be the pushovers many assume on their tour of South Africa this summer

29-Oct-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

Atherton, Donald ready to resume hostilities

Johannesburg: England's opening batsmen certainly believe in the safety in numbers theory and displayed a brave front on Wednesday when suggestions of a resumption of the ``Anglo Boer War'' style confrontation between Mike Atherton and Allan Donald

28-Oct-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

Sri Lanka A lose first tour match

Potchefstroom: Sri Lanka A lost their first tour match when they opened their five weeks tour with a six-wicket defeat at the North West Stadium by a combined side made up of Free State, North West and Griqualand West players

28-Oct-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

Elworthy snubbed and SABC finally admit summer has arrived

Johannesburg: So, who did the South Africa selectors turn to in their hour of need

28-Oct-1999•Trevor Chesterfield

Not quite a compensation for Elworthy

Centurion: Steve Elworthy may have done enough to win man of the match award yesterday it was not quite the compensation for losing a place in a South African Test side he did not deserve to lose

When he last pulled into South Africa, Mike Atherton was the skipper of all he surveyed with the poker-faced Ray Illingworth as the England henchman as well as hatchman, and there was no committee to run the rest of the team's business

Atherton's new role in team management exercise

Centurion: A national selection policy steeped in time-honoured tradition and gift-wrapped with conservative ribbon has emerged as Rushdie Majiet's panel declined to adopt a bold approach for the Test series against Zimbabwe

Selection policy steeped in tradition

Centurion: It says little for the image of Nasser Hussain's England tourists who arrive in South Africa today with the label as the world's worst Test side tied around his neck and heading for another drubbing by a cocky South Africa

World's worst Test side in for another drubbing?

England's new coach, Duncan Fletcher, is not about to strike a Nelsonian pose and utter the phrase ``England expects every man to do his duty

Fletcher eyes pace weapon as England's hope

Sri Lanka A ended the second day of their three-day match against a Combined XI on 120 for three, still 51 runs short of avoiding an innings defeat in Potchefstroom on Monday

Liebenberg hits entertaining hundred

Centurion: Northerns coach Peter Kirsten is not too impressed with SuperSport's almost cavalier attitude of how they handled the TV operations on Sunday afternoon and in a competition as well as at a venue which carries their brand name

Kirsten annoyed by TV pullout

On the surface Zimbabwe, severely battered by Mark Waugh's Australians, who in turn were smarting from an uncomfortable Sri Lanka sojourn, give the impression that all they need to do is smarten up their fielding act to take on South Africa in

Contract squabble hits Zimbabwe