Dean Elgar talks about going into the Test series against Bangladesh without their IPL stars, the painful ODI series defeat and the ‘brilliant’ Proteas Women.
Eight Proteas players with IPL contracts will take part in the upcoming ODI series against Bangladesh.
Proteas Test captain Dean Elgar has called for his star players to put playing for their country ahead of the riches of the IPL.
Ryan Vrede reflects on an eventful IPL auction for South Africans that saw a highly ranked T20 batsman go for a bargain and a Proteas star snubbed.
Proteas fast bowler Marco Jansen and batsman Aiden Markram were bought by the Sunrisers Hyderabad early on day two of the IPL auction.
Proteas fast bowler Kagiso Rabada was bought for R18.6 million (9.25 Indian crore) by the Punjab Kings at the IPL auction on Saturday.
Some of the world’s top cricketers will be among 590 players in the two-day auction for the big-bucks IPL this weekend.
AB de Villiers is the most important South African batsman of the past 20 years, arguably ever, because of how he played the game and what he achieved, writes Ryan Vrede.
AB de Villiers, who announced his retirement from cricket on Friday, will be remembered as one of the sport’s great entertainers and one of the finest players to represent South Africa.
The IPL final on Friday will be a clash between two of cricket’s finest tacticians when MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings take on Eoin Morgan’s Kolkata Knight Riders.