Proteas and England will clash in a series-deciding 3rd T20 today at 14:30 England time and 15:30 South African time. This will be an exciting finish to the series as both teams are playing a very attacking brand of cricket and key players from both sides are stepping up and performing in crucial moments, putting both teams in a good position going forward.  This will be England's last T20 to test their options for the T20 world cup. Their next T20 series is in September. The series starts on 15th September, the deadline for teams to announce their squads for the T20 world cup. So, they will want to use this last opportunity to identify their bowling options, especially with their first-choice players still racing against the clock to be fit for the T20 world cup. Proteas do have 2 more T20s after this match to test different options that they want to have a look at as they put together the final pieces for their World T20 squad. Proteas will hope De Kock, and Captain Miller can

  The 2nd T20 of the 3-match series between England and Proteas is today at 6:30pm England time 7:30 pm SA time. The 1st T20 was a high-scoring affair, and a lot of positives came out of that match for both teams.   Proteas found a new Star in Tristan Stubbs who made the most of his opportunity and scored 72 of 28 hitting 8 6s and 24s at a strike rate of 257.13. Stubbs was fantastic with his hitting power and stroke-making. Reeza Hendricks was another positive will his innings of 57 of 33 with 9 4s and 1 6s at a strike rate of 172.72.   With the ball, it was Ngidi who was the star with 5-39 in his 4 overs. He, Rabada and Maharaj were good on a pitch that proved to be a run feast.   England will be happy with the way they batted especially Bairstow and Moeen Ali. With the ball Topley, Curran and Jordan were good especially Jordan closing the innings in the death overs.  Today's game will again be expected to be a high-scoring affair and expect few changes as its back-to-back matches

 The 1st T20 of the 3-match series between the Proteas and England is today. Both teams will look at this series as their final chance to try out some combinations as they prepare for the T20 World cup in October. Proteas have a 2-match T20 series against Ireland after this but for England, this is their last T20 series as the next time they play as T20 series is after the 15th of September deadline for World T20 squads to be announced. Proteas also don't have any T20 series after the Ireland series until after September 15th.  This series will be important for both teams as they will want to have their best combinations identified for the world T20 and test some fresh faces in the team to see if they fit into the plans for the World cup.  Rilee Rossouw who will make his Proteas return after 6 years, is one of the players to look out for as he has been in sublime form in T20 cricket leagues all over the world and scored 782 runs at an average of 46 and a strike rate of 181. Rossouw

IPL has reached the midseason point and the biggest surprise is Mumbai Indians are the first team to be eliminated from the playoff race as they have lost their first eight matches. The other team in danger of being eliminated is Chennai Super Kings who have won 2 out 8 matches they have played.  The two most dominant teams of the IPL 9 trophies between the two are the two teams fighting for the wooden spoon in the 15th edition of the IPL is the biggest surprise as not many fans would have anticipated this to be how things would unfold.  The two teams that were pointed out as the two weakest teams and would be the bottom 2 are the current top 2 teams in the IPL 2022 and look well on their way to securing a playoff spot. The Gujarat titans and Sunrisers Hyderabad coming out of the auction had the weakest teams on paper, they have managed to change that perspective with excellent performance so on the field so far.  Currently, the Sunrisers Hyderabad are on a 5 match winning streak and G

This week CSA announced the point system for the Promotion and relegation for the new domestic system which compromises two divisions. The points are awarded according to performance in each competition. The Promotion and Relegation system will go over a 2-year cycle. The division 1 points system is as follows this competed across 3 tournaments. Winner tournament 15 points  Runner up gets       10 points  3rd position           7 points  4th position           5 points  5th position           3 points  6th position          2 points  7th position         1 point  Last position       0 points  Division 1 Standings after this season   So after this season in Division 1, the team in danger of getting Relegated is the ITEC Knights who after starting the season on a winning note by winning the provincial T20 tournament that consisted of all 15 teams from both divisions. Note the provisional T20 tournament does not count towards promotion/relegation points.  The other teams that could come i

 Proteas have won the 2nd and final test against Bangladesh by 332 runs. The Proteas spin twins were once again the chief destroyers of the Bangaladesh batting order as they combined to take 15 of the 20 wickets to fall in this match. They took a combined 29 wickets in the series which is unheard of on SA soil that 2 spinners would dominate the series for the home team. Maharaj and Harmer provide two world-class spinners for SA to utilise and they proved to be too good for the Bangladesh batters to deal with throughout the series. Both a proven match-winners in their own ways and in conditions that proved to be spin-friendly in this series they lead the way with the ball in hand and bowled the Proteas to victory. Maharaj and Harmer were also very handy with the bat in hand as they contributed some useful runs in the series.  They are no mugs with the bat in hand and can be classified as bowling all-rounders which just benefits SA cricket going forward. This Successful series victory ag

Proteas have won the 1st test against Bangladesh in Durban at the Kingsmead Stadium by 220 runs after the spin twins of Maharaj and Harmer ran through the Bangladesh batting order in the 2nd innings. Maharaj ended with 7-32 in 10 overs and Harmer ended with 3-21 in 9 0vers.  Bangladesh won the toss and chose to bowl first on the first morning. The Bangladesh bowlers could not back their captain's decision as SA got off to a good start with their openers putting up a 100 run partnership for the first wicket. Bangladesh then fought back with 4 wickets in quick time but the SA lower middle order together with Bavuma manage to put together some partnerships which help SA post a 1st innings total of 367.  In reply, Bangladesh batsman Struggled to tackle the twin spin due Maharaj and Harmer with only Joy, Litton Das and Mehidy Hasan really managing to tackle the SA spinners. as they showed resistance and batted around Joy who scored a well deserved 137 and posted 298 giving SA a lead of