Telford Vice

Cape Town

South Africa Correspondent at CricBuzz

Writer and Editor at Freelance

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Footy, rugby prepare to step aside for cricket’s WTC final

1 week ago | telfordvice.wordpress.com | Telford Vice

How many Aussies know their men’s team will take on South Africa in the WTC final at Lord’s from June 11? Telford Vice / Cape TownAUSTRALIA is deep in the throes of footy season. How deep? The AFL’s 18 clubs have played 95 games spread across 11 rounds. There are another 14 rounds and 319 matches to go. Then the top eight sides will contest four weeks of playoffs before the final at the MCG on September 27.
When Shukri met Rassie, and ideas flowed

2 weeks ago | telfordvice.wordpress.com | Telford Vice

“I find it really interesting that playing for the Springboks has got to be the biggest thing. Playing for the Proteas has to be the biggest thing.” – Shukri ConradTelford Vice / Cape TownIT’S not difficult to see why Shukri Conrad might get along with Rassie Erasmus. Both are straightforward, comfortable in their own skins, and reassuringly unvarnished: real people. Both have a way of translating elite level sport the kind of language the rest of us understand.
Conrad comes out swinging against Big Three theory

3 weeks ago | telfordvice.wordpress.com | Telford Vice

“I think only in their own minds have they dubbed themselves the Big Three. I don’t think anybody else has.” – Shukri ConradTelford Vice / Cape TownTHE WTC final at Lord’s in June was almost a month away when South Africa’s squad was announced on Monday, but Shukri Conrad came out swinging regardless: “I don’t think we need to do anything out of the extraordinary to beat Australia.”No doubt he meant ordinary.
CSA, IPL on collision course over WTC final players’ return?

3 weeks ago | telfordvice.wordpress.com | Telford Vice

“May 26 is the latest for the Test guys to come back. The original plans don’t change because the No. 1 priority is the WTC final.” – Enoch Nkwe, CSA director of national teams and high performanceTelford Vice / Cape TownPUSH is about to come to shove for Shukri Conrad’s philosophy that South Africa’s first-choice players should always be available for the national cause — come hell, high water or even the IPL.
WTC final: Ngidi back, Paterson, Bosch retained …

3 weeks ago | telfordvice.wordpress.com | Telford Vice

… but no Nortjé, Coetzee or Burger. Telford Vice / Cape TownLUNGI Ngidi is back in the frame more than nine months after playing his last Test. Dane Paterson has held onto the place that made him a cult hero last summer. Corbin Bosch’s personal fairytale has gained a chapter. Kagiso Rabada’s recent drugs drama hasn’t cost him his spot. But there is no room for Anrich Nortjé, Gerald Coetzee or Nandré Burger.
Will Conrad handle the tangle of club v country?

4 weeks ago | telfordvice.wordpress.com | Telford Vice

“We’re going to put out the best Proteas side every time we play.” – Shukri ConradTelford Vice / Cape TownSHUKRI Conrad is now in control of all three of South Africa’s men’s national teams. But he will soon have less authority over how he does his job than when he was the Test coach only. CSA announced on Friday that Conrad had been appointed coach in all three formats. He replaces Rob Walter, whose resignation from the white-ball role became effective at the end of April.
Dramatic dead rubber sends South Africa home smiling

4 weeks ago | telfordvice.wordpress.com | Telford Vice

“The century was never on my mind. And then, when I looked up, I saw, oh, I’m close. And then it just happened.” – Annerie DercksenTelford Vice / Cape TownA century and two five-wicket hauls, one of which featured a hattrick, the other begun and completed in 18 balls, and a team’s first win in six ODIs. The match between Sri Lanka and South Africa in Colombo on Friday had more than its fair share of drama, not least because it was a dead rubber.
Rabada’s greatness is assured, but so is this blot on his record

1 month ago | telfordvice.wordpress.com | Telford Vice

For South Africans, a one-month ban is punishment enough. Telford Vice / Cape TownKAGISO Rabada is no stranger to breaking records. In July 2016 he was the first player to claim six trophies at CSA’s annual awards. He did so again two years later. Also in 2018, the ICC ranked him the world’s best Test and ODI bowler for the whole year. In July 2018, he became the youngest bowler to take 150 Test wickets. A month later, Wisden anointed him the best young player in the world.
Another ODI, another loss for struggling South Africa

1 month ago | telfordvice.wordpress.com | Telford Vice

“Twenty-three runs is not that far away.” – Chloe TryonTelford Vice / Cape TownTHE last time South Africa won an ODI, Pope Francis was alive and as well as a then 87-year-old man could be, Donald Trump had yet to try and tariff the world into submission, and nothing had happened that might drive India and Pakistan to the brink of war.
Drug use took Rabada out of IPL

1 month ago | telfordvice.wordpress.com | Telford Vice

“I am deeply sorry to all those that I have let down.” – Kagiso RabadaTelford Vice / Cape TownKAGISO Rabada has missed a month of this year’s IPL because of recreational drug use, the fast bowler said in a statement on Saturday. Rabada played only two games for Gujarat Titans before returning to South Africa on April 3. The franchise said at the time he had gone home to attend to “an important personal matter”. Cricbuzz understands Rabada is back in India, presumably to resume playing in the IPL.