Donald McRae
Sports Reporter at The Guardian
Author of 14 books about fighters, surgeons, trial lawyers, South Africa & real life. Interviewer The Guardian https://t.co/3NXuM5Fznd…
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Donald McRae
“I’m obsessed with winning,” Hollie Doyle says calmly in response to a suggestion that she seems consumed by racing, “but I do love horses as well. So that helps, doesn’t it?”The most successful female jockey in British racing history had begun our interview with an impressively crunching handshake. Doyle’s cheerfully powerful greeting confirmed that her small but muscled frame ripples with the strength of a supreme jockey absorbed in the singular world of racing.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Donald McRae
As Pat Cummins opens up at the pavilion end, while gazing across the vast empty space of Lord’s a few days before Australia face South Africa in the World Test Championship final, it’s clear that the unexpected opponents this week have helped to frame his remarkable career. On Wednesday morning, while towering a foot over Temba Bavuma, his 5ft 3in South African counterpart, Cummins will lead Australia for the 34th time, in his 68th Test.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Donald McRae
“There was always some sort of allegiance with Lord’s when we were growing up in Langa,” Temba Bavuma says of his childhood as a township boy living just outside Cape Town. Bavuma, the first black cricketer to captain South Africa, will lead his country against Australia in the World Test Championship final, which begins at Lord’s on Wednesday. In the quintessentially English surroundings of Arundel, the 5ft 3in Bavuma looks as if he has gone back to being a kid in the dusty townships.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Donald McRae
“I was always angry,” Fin Smith remembers as he explains his transition from a volatile young tennis player into the decisively calm fly-half for Northampton, England and the Lions who is as serene as he is interesting. Smith has had a remarkable year so far but there is an understated lightness about him as he recalls playing in tennis tournaments alongside Jack Draper, the current world No 5.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Donald McRae
“When the pressure’s on,” Jamie Smith says intently on an otherwise languid morning at the Oval, “it definitely gives you more of a focus. You can’t get away from the fact that, when the game is on the line, you want to be the one that takes it on and wins it. Look at some of the best players that have played the game – and the impact they’ve had in situations where they’ve been needed the most.
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Thanks Pat Cummins for our interview as we reflected on his career so far - from a glorious debut to hard times, achievement and controversy - and ahead to this week's World Test Championship against South Africa as well the future for him and Test cricket https://t.co/7HPXUfxXLQ
Thanks @TembaBavuma, South Africa's cricket captain, for talking openly about his story which stretches from the township of Langa to Lord's & next week's World Test Championship against Australia. So much here: life, cricket & being inspired by captaincy https://t.co/NDJjX2IAvq
