The early cancellation of the SA cricket season due to Covid-19 was a merciful end to a year that seemed to lurch from one disaster to another. Here’s a wrap of a season that will forever demand an asterisk next to it in the South African cricket annals
Here’s a wrap of a season that will forever demand an asterisk next to it in the South African cricket annals.When talking about the uncertainty brought about by the coronavirus this week, acting Cricket SA chief executive Jacques Faul hypothesised: “What if the game falls over, it just can’t go on?”
Add the fact that they put on their worst performance at a World Cup last year and won just one test all year, and you have a team in crisis.Former Proteas captain Smith, after many false starts, was brought in as director of cricket to lead the elite performance side of the game in a new direction. But no cricket fan can ignore the South African women’s team going as far as the semifinals in the T20 World Cup in Australia.
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