Nairobi - The Almighty's ability to shower His blessings wherever and whenever cricket is played will be tested at the Nairobi Gymkhana Club over the next two weeks as the ICC KnockOut 2000 tournament takes its course

Shaun Pollock's clearly been watching the Olympics

Goodbye Gauteng, hello Highveld Strikers

South Africa's greatest fast bowler, Allan Donald, signed a new 18-month contract on Thursday thereby pledging his immediate future to his country

Herschelle Gibbs made amends for his first innings duck with an unbeaten 67 as Western Province's three-day friendly against Gauteng fizzled out into a draw at the Inanda Country Club in Johannesburg on Wednesday

Gauteng openers Adam Bacher and Sven Koenig stormed into the new first class season with centuries apiece as Western Province wilted by the end of the first day of a three-day friendly at the Inanda Country Club on Monday

Daryll Cullinan's had a lot of press in his time, both good and bad

Herschelle Gibbs, the South African opening bat banned from international cricket for six months for his part in the Hansiegate scandal, will return to provincial cricket later this month when Western Province embark on a short pre-season tour

Allan Donald, South African cricket's prodigal son, should be welcomed back to the fold on Friday afternoon

Champion fast bowler Allan Donald returns to the South African team for the ICC Knockout tournament in Kenya in Nairobi, but Daryll Cullinan, the centre piece of South Africa's batting for several years, has been left out

If last month's flirtation with indoor cricket in Melbourne took the game into the 21st century, the SuperSport Knockout Challenge, to be staged at Kingsmead on October 1, will underline the increasing role that technology has come to play in the

It might not yet have occurred to Hansie Cronje, as he stashes away the cash from his latest round of interviews, but it is possible that he could still emerge as the man who plunged cricket into its gravest constitutional crisis since apartheid

Reaction to the six-month bans imposed on South African players Herschelle Gibbs and Henry Williams on Monday ranged from condemnation of the sentences as being too harsh or too lenient to outright relief

Ackerman, who is currently in the West Indies with the SA A side, had been approached by Zimbabwe to take charge of their national side

Herschelle Gibbs and Henry Williams were banned from international cricket until the end of this year on Monday, but they may have escaped harsher punishment because of the International Cricket Council's inability to promulgate and distribute clear

Khaya Majola, the United Cricket Board's director of amateur cricket, died at 1pm on Monday

United Cricket Board managing director Ali Bacher will contact Hylton Ackerman in the Caribbean on Monday in an attempt to persuade the former Boland coach not to take up an offer to take charge of the Zimbabwean national team

However much money Hansie Cronje earns from assorted interviews and book deals, at least some of it may have to be used to pay the legal costs of his former team-mates

Released just 15 hours after Hansie Cronje set about rebuilding his tattered public image with the enthusiastic co-operation of subscription television channel M-Net, the interim report of the King commission of inquiry presents an entirely different

Sports minister Ngconde Balfour formally handed the interim report of the King commission of inquiry into match-fixing over to the United Cricket Board on Thursday