All-rounder Neil Johnson is to cut his ties with Zimbabwe and link up with Western Province during the 2000/2001 season, it was announced on Wednesday

Robin Peterson, a 20-year-old left-arm spinner, has been flown to Sri Lanka as cover for Paul Adams

Champion fast bowler Allan Donald has committed himself to South Africa up to and including the 2003 World Cup, United Cricket Board managing director Ali Bacher said on Friday

Cricketers love to talk about finding themselves "staring down the barrel"

If Danny Jordaan feels he needs a change of pace after the bitter disappointment of South Africa's failed bid for the 2006 football World Cup, he could do worse than consider swopping sports

At the risk of reading too much into a single performance, South Africa might have to quickly make up their minds exactly what role they want Nantie Hayward to play in Sri Lanka

On a day of crushing disappointment for South African sport, Shaun Pollock and his Protea team-mates added their commiserations to those flooding in around the country following the failure of South Africa's bid to host the 2006 football World Cup

To the great surprise of no one, Justice Edwin King has sought and received permission to extend the deadline for his first interim report into match-fixing and related matters from June 30, to August 11

Not so much the man who would be king as the man who had to be king, Shaun Pollock will carry a fair bit of excess baggage in his coffin when he flies off to Sri Lanka with his South African side on Friday

The six-week delay in the presentation of Justice Edwin King's interim report to President Thabo Mbeki will serve, among other things, to stretch out the agony for Herschelle Gibbs

History, brief though it may be, suggests that South Africa will hold sway in Sri Lanka next month when they return for their second tour of the island

The King commission of inquiry into match-fixing and related matters completed its first session of hearings in Cape Town on Monday, adjourning proceedings to an unspecified future date

And then there was Marlon Aronstam

The cross-examination of Hansie Cronje ground to a halt at the King commission on Thursday, tangled up in the tape recordings, which first broke the match-fixing scandal in April, but which have not been made available to the South African inquiry

If nothing else, Hansie Cronje's cross-examination at the King commission hearings on Wednesday provided a penetrating insight into why the former South African captain fell from grace

Hansie Cronje is suffering from clinical depression, the King commission heard on Wednesday, but was still capable of undergoing cross-examination

Hansie Cronje takes the stand again on Tuesday for his second, and in all probability, most gruelling appearance before the King commission

Expressionless and showing little visible sign of emotion, Hansie Cronje took just on 45 minutes to confirm every allegation made against him at the King commission as the hearings reached a climax with the former South African captain's long-awaited

United Cricket Board managing director Ali Bacher has flatly denied an allegation that he was involved in fixing a match involving a rebel West Indian team during the early 1980s

Speculation was rife at the King commission on Tuesday that Hansie Cronje will make his much-anticipated appearance in the witness box on Thursday