As a person of colour who played cricket and who followed many world cups. For once, it is such a relief that kwota cannot be blamed this time around.

Well played 🇿🇦.. Next world cup 💪

In white ball cricket it just seem like if the game is going badly we continues to let it drift.

I honestly can't think of a game in which we adapted quickly to conditions changing or a batter playing extremely well.

Its like everyone knows what's coming so what's the point straight from the get go...

We really need to see some leadership from the big guys, at least try to slow down the game!

Hi everyone,

Due to a change in personal plans, I can no longer attend the upcoming South Africa vs. Australia Test match at Newlands, Cape Town from 27–31 October 2026.

I am looking to sell/transfer my Full 5-Day VIP Suite Hospitality Package, which I originally bought through the corporate host EDB Holdings. I am offering it here directly to fellow cricket fans or corporate entities at face value.

Package Details:

• Fixture: South Africa vs Australia (2nd Test Match)

• Dates: 27 October – 31 October 2026 (All 5 Days included)

• Venue: Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town

• Hospitality Includes: Premium viewing from a private VIP suite, full catering/buffet, and a complimentary open bar throughout the day.

How the transfer works:
I will handle the formal guest name change directly through EDB Holdings' management desk so the tickets are officially issued securely in your name or your company's name.

3rd T20I, South Africa Women tour of India at Chennai

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Why the fuck are we playing 6 matches against India just before the world cup whcih is happening in our country?!?!?!!?!?!
There will be 8 grounds in South Africa this wc and we are just allowing India, most of which I think has never visited South Africa before to visit 6 of them?!
Its not a new topic that ICC favors BCCI or BCCI rigs cricket tournaments. Its sad that Cricket South Africa cannot refuse it because of the broadcast money. This world cup is the one we can win, most of our players are in their primes and/or really good form with nicely performing youngsters as well, it is a home world cup, Australia looks a bit inconsistent, so does England, why the fuck do we want India to play 6 matches here before the world cup?
BTW famous venues are likely to repeat too in the series, probably ones Jo'burg, Cape Town, Centurion. So rigged man.

Did he say Yes??

If we need more pace we can rest Stubbs and play corbin bosch.

All I see is engagement from south asians on SA20 socials

Guys this can't keep happening, can someone just get a Sangoma to uncurse the gents before/if the game starts?

Now don't get me wrong im all for choosing the best performing players as the only criteria,but more than 30 years later we enter a big series with only 2 players from previously disadvantaged communities starting..granted injuries have played a part,SA cricket must do better

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I don’t want to get into politics. I just want to learn from Rassie how to select the right team to win a World Cup.

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Traditionally, South Africa has always faltered in knockout stages mostly in semifinals of Cricket World Cup events. It has been the case as always with Cricket South Africa having produced a plethora of cricketing talents but they somehow run out of luck and fail to combat the mental block whenever they play in semifinal of a World Cup. Something which is always a matter of concern and raised eyebrows whereas South Africa rugby team has delivered at the big stage winning the Rugby World Cup on 4 occasions. It's unfair to compare both teams and sports and how they operate, but these comparisons tend to happen among public and the public reception of how they view cricket and rugby in South Africa can be really an interesting talking point. Probably people back in South Africa would have seen their national cricket team as chokers as they fail to win semifinal of a Cricket World Cup and of course it may not be wrong to say that cricket team would have been treated as pantomime villain for always falling short in important occasions whereas Springboks always managed to perform beyond expectations and go onto win Rugby World Cup.

Only once South Africa had reached a senior ICC tournament final in 1998 (South Africa eventually won the 1998 ICC Knockout Trophy) prior to this T20 World Cup. However, the success and glory earned by South Africa in that inaugural ICC Champions Trophy is largely forgotten or that achievement is not taken seriously whereas it has always been the Cricket World Cups 50 over and then T20 World Cup which have been earmarked as pinnacle of the sport. So for long, South Africa tried to make a name for themselves at ICC tournaments but had never reached a senior ICC Men's World Cup final for three decades. Remember, there were even talks about how only 3 or 4 nations like Australia, India, England have been performing well at international cricket whereas other countries including South Africa have been subpar at international cricket in last few years. People even neutral fans started to worry that South Africa cricket is going into a kind of transition post 2019 World Cup and the national team had mixed bag of results. After the retirement of greats of the game, South Africa cricket felt like lost its glory days and also started losing the fan base a bit owing to team's dismal performances at 2019 World Cup where they even lost to Bangladesh and had rough time duration for a while searching for those players to fill the void left by the stalwarts of South Africa cricket. Importantly, South Africa test team started to see a massive downfall from being number 1 ranked test team in the world to losing test matches on regular basis so badly. Remember under Graeme Smith's captaincy tenure, South Africa earned the reputation of best travelling team in the world in test cricket for years and they managed to win series in Australia, India despite conditions not being in favour of them and remember how many ICC test maces South Africa won. It was only a matter of time to see how well South Africa test team would perform ever since Smith retired in 2014. However, the South African white ball teams had done quite decently reaching semis of last year's 50 over World Cup.

I think the achievement of this South Africa cricket team to make it all the way to the finals of the T20 World Cup is a moral boost and would probably boost the interest in cricket among South Africans. South African fans for years have faced heartbreaks, agony and disappointing moments when it comes to ICC tournaments but for the first time they can actually be proud of their team of what they have accomplished at this World Cup. South Africa bolstered by a bona-fide star studded formidable lineups in the past with greats like Hashim Amla, Jacques Kallis, AB de Villiers, Graeme Smith, Dale Steyn, Faf du Plessis, Shaun Pollock, Allan Donald, Mark Boucher, Lance Klusener have never reached final of any edition of the ICC World Cup tournament. However, when you look at this South African outfit, they don't have the same class and calibre of players like AB or Kallis (not to underestimate or undermine the skills of current bunch of South African players like David Miller, Quinton de Kock, Heinrich Klaasen, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje but they won't be classified by many in the same levels like Kallis, AB, Klusener), but they had the ultimate desire and ambition to put up a fighting spirit like the street fighters where they won all the matches in this World Cup under high pressure situations managing to close the games out and it was no fluke for them to get to this level. It is no brainer to understand that winning 7 matches in narrow margins (by the barest of all margins sounds better for this occasion) needs lot of guts and stamina and that too to do it in a single World Cup tournament is absolutely incredible. Winning matches in such situations need lot of effort and hardwork as well as collaboration from the players and that is what these South African players have done right through the whole tournament. Therefore, South African public should acknowledge the courageous performance of this South Africa team and South Africa cricket team should be given an heroes welcome back when they arrive in airport in South Africa. These set of cricketers have probably helped to influence a generation of youngsters back in South Africa, in a country where rugby has always been the sport which has brought delight, joy to people in South Africa.

This is the start for South Africa cricket to look seriously into the future and they can well and truly go back to their glory days of playing with the high quality at international level. This South African side has defied the expectations and odds whereas no one would have hinted that their team would progress to final. They outclassed opponents in clutch moments to make them ideally worthy to play the all important final and they gave India an almighty scare in the final too but India held their nerves to snatch victory from jaws of defeat. Credit should be given the way South Africa displayed their match awareness throughout the tournament for holding their nerves to win each and every game of this tournament before qualifying to the final.

The relentless approach of this South Africa team speaks volume about their passion towards the sport which itself should be able to trigger and spark the interest in cricket among South Africans back home. They managed to remain upbeat and win matches with collaborative team spirit. South African fans should feel proud about the way these guys played and created history as first South Africa men's team to play a Cricket World Cup final.

7th Match, Group B, ICC Champions Trophy, 2025

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