Clive Rice

With the Cricket South Africa (CSA) appointing Russell Domingo as the next coach of the team, former SA allrounder Clive Rice smells a rat.

The menace of match-fixing is life threatening and it's time the ICC steps in and take stringent action to wipe out the menace for once and all, feels former South Africa captain Clive Rice.

Both of them are the true legends of the game and Hanif Mohammad and Clive Rice have just won another crucial battle-the battle of cancer!

Graeme Smith has done no good to the South African team as skipper and Johan Botha would make a better leader, feels former captain Clive Rice.

The Eden Gardens stadium in Kolkata is a significant cricketing venue for South Africa, marking their return to international cricket after a two-decade hiatus due to oppressive Apartheid policies. The policies enforced racial segregation and prevented non-white players from representing the national team, leading to South Africa's banishment from international cricket in 1970. India played a pivotal role in welcoming South Africa back to the cricketing family, with the first match scheduled for November 10, 1991, in Kolkata's 'City of Joy'.

After almost 22 years of sporting isolation due to apartheid, South Africa played its first international match against India on November 10, 1991.

Even as he was being treated for a life-threatening brain tumour in Bengaluru, former South Africa skipper Clive Rice was closely fol lowing his national team's progress at the ICC World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

Kevin Pietersen's relationship with England coach Peter Moores was doomed from the very start as the skipper respects only South African coaches, claims his former county team Nottinghamshire's Director.

Cricket South Africa chief executive Gerald Majola citied how Indian people lined the streets of Calcutta in 1991 to welcome the South Africa team.

It was a gamble that paid off and still remembered fondly as Tendulkar bowled three dot balls to Allan Donald preceded by a runout and Brian McMillan failed to get a boundary off the last delivery with the crowd buzzing from behind.

Kevin Pietersen let England down as he failed to act responsibly but coach Peter Moores was no better and lacked the spark to excel, feels Australian cricket columnist Peter Roebuck.

Former New Zealand skipper Glenn Turner is quite surprised that his country has its "nose ahead" in the ongoing bilateral series against India and the reason, according to him, is the underwhelming performance of the Jasprit Bumrah-led visiting pacers.

November 10, 1991 marked a new beginning for the cricket world at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.

After organising a path-breaking tournament for retired cricketing legends on the Alpine slopes in Switzerland two years ago, the organisers of the event are all set to now hold a six-a-side cricket match.

As the Pakistan captain walked to the plane, a Daily Mail correspondent asked him point blank: ‘‘Did you kill Bob Woolmer?"

While several reports are now suggesting that the death could have been due to natural circumstances, close associates of Woolmer disagree.

South Africa's Jacques Kallis may boast of the best statistics among all rounders but players refuse to place him in the league of extraordinary gentlemen.

"World cricket currently lacks superstars. I feel Virat is great for Test cricket. He is enthusiastic about playing the longest format of the game. As long as he keeps performing, we have a chance to keep Test cricket relevant," Graeme Smith said.

Test cricket itself is returning to Eden Gardens after almost six years since the historic pink-ball Test against Bangladesh in Nov, 2019. Interestingly, none of the India cricketers who played in that Test win will be in action this weekend.