# Cricket: Sixteen players were included in the Proteas Women’s squad for a white-ball tour of the West Indies. The team will play three one-day matches and three T20s in Barbados from the 11th of next month. Laura Wolvaardt will captain the group which sees the return of experienced Marizanne Kapp, and seamers Tumi Sekhukhune […]
# Cricket: Zimbabwean allrounder Sikandar Raza is hailed a hero in his country of birth, Pakistan, for rushing to help Lahore Qalanders win the Pakistan Super League. He landed just in time, but contributed an undefeated 22. Qalanders beat Quetta Gladiators by six wickets with one ball to spare. Raza’s teammates then carried him off […]
# Tennis: Die veertienmalige Franse Ope-wenner, Rafael Nadal, is vereer met ‘n emosionele afskeidseremonie op die Philippe-Chatrier-hoofbaan in Parys. Die Spanjaard het die kleibaantoernooi oorheers sedert sy eerste titel in 2005 tot sy rekord 14de in 2022. Sy jarelange mededingers, Roger Federer van Switserland, Novak Djokovic van Serwië en Andy Murray van Skotland, het by […]
# Tennis: Italian Lorenzo Musetti keeps improving in the world rankings, replacing Norwegian Casper Ruud in seventh position. This is the only change to the top ten at the start of the French Open. Another Italian, Jannik Sinner, still tops the list since the tenth of June last year. He is followed by defending champion […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa sê sy suksesvolle werksbesoek aan Amerika het die noodsaaklikheid bevestig om die gesprekskanale oop te hou. Hy sê in sy weeklikse nuusbrief een van die belangrikste uitkomste van die gesprekke met president Donald Trump was ‘n ooreenkoms oor ‘n ekonomiese samewerkingskanaal tussen die twee lande vir verdere besprekings oor tariewe en […]
# Die Anglikaanse aartsbiskop van Kaapstad, Thabo Makgoba, vra dat meer internasionale druk op Israel geplaas word. Dit volg na twee afsonderlike lugaanvalle op Gaza die naweek waarin 24 mense dood is. Volgens berigte was een op ʼn skool waar ontheemde gesinne gehuisves word. Makgoba sê Israel se aggressie is nou buite verhouding met Hamas […]
# Cricket: Former England captain Michael Vaughan believes substitutes coming on during the first innings of a Test should be allowed to bat and bowl instead of being restricted to fielding. Zimbabwe’s frontline seamer, Richard Ngarava, was injured after bowling only nine overs in the one-off Test against England at Trent Bridge on Thursday. That […]
# Tennis: The world’s top two men’s players, Jannik Sinner of Italy and Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, both start their French Open campaigns in Paris tomorrow. Sinner will face local player Arthur Rinderknech in the first round, while defending champion Alcaraz will play former world number four, 35-year-old Kei Nishikori of Japan. Last year’s losing finalist, […]
# Tennis: A new era dawns in Paris tomorrow when the French Open starts without 14-time champion Rafael Nadal for the first time since 2005. The king of clay has an amazing record at Roland Garros, winning 112 matches and only losing four – to Sweden’s Robin Soderling in 2009, Novak Djokovic of Serbia in […]
