South Africa

2:38 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Former South Africa allrounder Lance Klusener has been appointed as the team’s assistant batting coach for the T20I leg of their India tour next month. Former South Africa assistant coach Vincent Barnes has been named the assistant bowling coach, while former batsman Justin Ontong has been given the assistant fielding

8:40 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Hampshire have signed Tabraiz Shamsi, the South African left-arm wristspinner, for the final four games of the Vitality Blast group stage. After a successful run thanks to the dual spin of Liam Dawson and Mason Crane, Hampshire’s Blast campaign has been derailed by injuries to Crane and back-up spinner Brad

11:15 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff While preparing in the hopes of playing his first Test match later this year, South Africa batsman Rudi Second has injured himself and will require surgery to get better. As a result, the 30-year old, who was one of the new faces in the squad to play a three-Test series

10:23 AM ET Liam Brickhill Enoch Nkwe, South Africa’s interim team director, has long been inspired by the feats of Pep Guardiola, the former Spanish football international who famously coached Barcelona to success while still in his 30s. Nkwe is 36, slightly younger than Guardiola was when he took charge at Barcelona, and is faced

Dale Steyn bowls © Getty Images Cricket South Africa have said that Dale Steyn was not “medically ready” to be selected for South Africa’s upcoming tour to India. Steyn announced his retirement from Test cricket last week, turning his focus entirely to limited overs cricket, but was one of the notable absentees when the T20I

8:17 AM ET Liam Brickhill Chris Morris will not be part of South Africa’s T20I side in India in September, but he remains in Cricket South Africa’s plans for the future. “He still wants to play cricket for South Africa,” CSA’s acting Director of Cricket Corrie van Zyl said of Morris’ status after the 32-year-old

8:46 AM ET Liam Brickhill Quinton de Kock will captain South Africa’s T20 side during their upcoming trip to India. There are also three newcomers in the squad for the three-match T20 International series, with Temba Bavuma and Anrich Nortje included and Lions allrounder Bjorn Fortuin in line for an international debut. Faf du Plessis

7:33 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Rassie van der Dussen has qualified for a Cricket South Africa contract for the 2019-20 season, having cleared the revised threshold during South Africa’s World Cup 2019 campaign. In an otherwise lacklustre campaign, van der Dussen was among South Africa’s bright spots, scoring 311 runs at an average of 62.20

5:12 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Enoch Nkwe, the former Gauteng batsman and title-winning Highveld Lions and Jozi Stars head coach, has been named as South Africa’s interim team director for the tour of India in September, which comprises three T20Is, three ODIs and three Tests. “It is a tremendous honour and privilege to lead the

11:04 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Hashim Amla has retired from all formats of international cricket and will continue to be available for domestic cricket as well as the Mzansi Super League. “Firstly, all Glory and thanks to the Almighty for granting me this Proteas journey which has been nothing but a joy and privilege,” Amla

6:56 AM ET Liam Brickhill Gary Kirsten will coach the Durban Heat in the second edition of the Mzansi Super League in South Africa. Kirsten will be back in a coaching capacity in South Africa – a country he both played for and coached – with a wealth of experience in having handled international and

9:49 AM ET Liam Brickhill This year’s Mzansi Super League will once again be screened on SABC, South Africa’s public broadcaster. There had been some speculation, especially ahead of the first edition of the MSL, that Cricket South Africa might look to SuperSport as broadcaster, but they have ultimately stuck with SABC once again, despite

7:30 AM ET Liam Brickhill Faf du Plessis will captain South Africa’s Test side in India, but there may soon be a new leader in the South Africa’s white-ball sides as Cricket South Africa begins to chart a course for the next World Cup in four years’ time. CSA’s acting director of cricket, Corrie van

2:35 PM ET Liam Brickhill The messy fallout from South Africa’s disastrous World Cup campaign is now out in the open. Various internal communications leaked to the media over the last few days have hinted at a somewhat fractious end to the tenures of both Ottis Gibson, the head coach, and Mohammad Moosajee, the long-standing

11:24 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Dale Steyn has retired from Tests with immediate effect, finishing as South Africa’s highest wicket-taker. The 36-year-old took 439 wickets in 93 Tests, overtaking Shaun Pollock earlier this year. He will continue to be available for ODI and T20I selection. “Today I walk away from a format of the game

6:49 AM ET Liam Brickhill Ottis Gibson will not be South Africa’s coach for the team’s upcoming tour of India. Gibson’s tenure as coach comes to an end in September and his services will not be retained. Cricket South Africa (CSA) have also announced sweeping changes to the way the national men’s team will be

2:22 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Faf du Plessis and Dane van Niekerk, the South Africa men’s and women’s captains, were named the CSA Cricketers of the Year on Saturday. They were declared winners in the ‘Players’ Player of the Year’ category as well. Du Plessis also scooped the ODI-Cricketer-of-the-Year Award while fast-bowling allrounder Marizanne Kapp

Aug 2, 2019 ESPNcricinfo staff South Africa spinner Keshav Maharaj will return for Yorkshire’s next two Championship matches, as well as a spell in the Vitality Blast, having enjoyed success during his initial three-match spell in July. Maharaj will be available to play against Nottinghamshire at Scarborough later this month, and for the trip to

10:24 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff South Africa captain Faf du Plessis has been signed by Belfast Titans for the inaugural Euro T20 Slam that begins next month. Du Plessis was picked as a supplementary player, a week after the tournament’s player draft and will join a team that also includes Shahid Afridi, JP Duminy and

4:57 AM ET Former South Africa captain AB de Villiers has revealed that on the day he announced his international retirement, in May 2018, he was asked privately by a person from within the Cricket South Africa set-up whether “the door was still open” for him to play the World Cup. De Villiers said yes

Jul 5, 2019 Faf du Plessis has hinted he would like to continue as South Africa captain until the T20 World Cup in Australia next year. While du Plessis continued to rule out the suggestion that he would retire from international cricket after the current World Cup he expressed a belief that his experience could

11:42 AM ET Liam Brickhill Time. It’s the one thing South Africa coach Ottis Gibson wishes he’d had more of. More time to find and nurture a replacement for AB de Villiers. Time to rest his fast bowlers. Time to inculcate brave, adventurous batting into his charges. Time to fail at doing so, and to

10:50 PM ET JP Duminy played 46 Tests. Only 23 men have played more for South Africa. Only six others have played more than his 199 ODIs. These numbers come as a surprise as he summarised his international career, which he ended with South Africa’s last match in the World Cup. Duminy is the first

3:00 AM ET South Africa 325 for 6 (du Plessis 100, van der Dussen 95, Lyon 2-53) beat Australia 315 all out (Warner 122, Carey 85, Rabada 3-56) They have one foot on the plane home, and South Africa have finally turned up at the World Cup. In the final league game of the tournament,

2:29 PM ET South Africa captain Faf du Plessis believes it would be “amazing” if the ICC was to act on Jason Holder’s suggestion of introducing a minimum wage into international cricket. However, du Plessis also conceded it was “a long way from happening”, and said that he would be taking time after the World

3:00 AM ET Big Picture In another world, this could have been the ultimate match to finish the group stage: 20 years since the Greatest ODI Ever at Edgbaston which put Australia on track for the first of a hat-trick of World Cup titles and consigned South Africa to one of their most agonising near-misses.

12:28 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Fast bowler Anrich Nortje, who was sidelined from the World Cup with a fractured thumb, will have a chance to prove his fitness and form when he tours India from August 24 as part of the South Africa A one-day and four-day sides. Left-arm seamer Beuran Hendricks, who was a

3:58 PM ET For only the second time in the tournament, South Africa’s top order produced serious runs, and their bowlers knocked an opposition over cheaply, all in the same game. There’s an obvious criticism here: Of course they are playing well. There was no pressure on them in this game. Captain Faf du Plessis

10:59 AM ET There is no real pressure. No way that they can choke. Far as South Africa are concerned, this could just be another match in a bilateral series. Will that free them up against a team they have routinely thumped over the last year? Of the last ten matches between these sides, South

11:58 AM ET Their opponents are still technically battling for one of those semi-final spots, but for South Africa the post-mortem has already begun. How did two years of intense planning, which featured serious blooding of hopefuls and all manner of contingencies, including letting David Miller keep for a few games in case Quinton de