Cape Town: Barely three months before South Africa hosts the 2003 cricket World Cup, the country's government and cricket Board were at loggerheads on Thursday over the Board's scrapping of race quotas.
Johannesburg: Former England all-rounder Ian Botham told Sky Sports, "It's very bad news. But people will forget the good things he did and he'll be remembered for the wrong reasons.
Johannesburg: There has been widespread reaction in South Africa to the request by Judge Edwin King, chairman of the Commission of Inquiry that led to the lifetime ban on former national hero and South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje, to end its work.
Johannesburg: The meeting of sports ministers from all the Test-playing countries, which South African Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour had proposed to host here in January, will now take place sometime later this year.
Johannesburg: The South African Sports Ministry has questioned the national team selection for the second Test against Australia in Melbourne, including its dropping of black bowler Makhaya Ntini."What we are saying is that any player in the cricket team is there