AUSTRALIAN cricket today faces its most damaging scandal since the infamous underarm incident 37 years ago, with Test captain Steve Smith admitting he and other senior team members deliberately planned and carried out ball tampering on the third day of the mat... More »
USMAN Khawaja: average 20. Steve Smith: 27. David Warner: 37. There tells the story of Australia's failure to compete against the South Africans in mid series. KEN PIESSE reports from Cape Town. More »
THE all-important Third Test is evenly poised despite some heroics from AB de Villiers. KEN PIESSE reports from scenic Newlands. More »
A B de Villiers 22nd Test century at the weekend was a popular milestone among even the Aussies supporters dismayed at the over-the-top on field behavior of their team in Kingsmead. KEN PIESSE reports: CALL ME unpatriotic or even un-Australian, but I for one l... More »
SOUTH AFRICA’S fast-bowling future has come sharply into focus on day one of the second Test – but they’ve got a problem with their new Number One man, writes RON REED. More »
KEN PIESSE admires the work of Mitchell Starc as he opens the gap between the Aussies and the South Africans in the First Test More »
THEY SAID it was going to be all about the respective pace attacks, but the first day of the South Africa-Australia Test series provided evidence that spin bowling will have a big part to play, writes RON REED. More »
THE ASHES have been comfortably regained but if you thought that was the biggest challenge Steve Smith and the Australian team will face this year, think again, writes former Test fast bowler IAN CALLEN More »
GOOD THINGS come in threes, and, as chief writer RON REED reports in Test cricket so do some strange things: HAT-TRICKS are among the least common occurrences in Test cricket – in more than 2000 matches over nearly 150 years, bowlers have taken wickets with th... More »
ENGLISH CRICKET has unearthed a new pace bowler making a name for himself at the double, writes RON REED More »
