Rain brings premature end to first one-day international
Torrential rain 38 overs into the South African innings drove the players from the field and brought a premature end to the first Standard Bank one-day international at the North West stadium in...
View ArticleLavine rocks Highveld Strikers
North West bowled out the reigning Supersport Series Champions the Highveld Strikers for 224 on the first day of their four-day match in Potchefstroom on Friday
View ArticleNorth West defeat Strikers
The Highveld Strikers ended the limited-overs portion of their season of discontent with another defeat, their seventh in 10 Standard Bank Cup outings, although they mounted a courageous attempt to...
View ArticleRecord partnership lifts North West to respectability
North West were saved by a record unbeaten eighth-wicket partnership that carried them to a respectable total on the first day of their SuperSport Series Super Eight match against Western Province on...
View ArticleFerreira's century steadies shaky Province innings
An unbeaten century from Western Province's Lloyd Ferreira overhauled their disastrous start to the innings, leaving them only 59 runs behind North West at the close of play on Friday
View ArticleWestern Province wrap-up innings victory as North West fold
There wouldn't have been too many people betting on an outright result between Western Province and North West at the North West Stadium in Potchefstroom on Saturday morning, given that the second...
View ArticleNorth West struggle to hold on against Border
Border look certain to go into next week's Supersport Series final against Western Province at Newlands on the back of another healthy victory after reducing North West to 78 for five on Saturday in...
View ArticleGrace century lifts North West to tense victory over Border
With Graham Grace hitting an unbeaten maiden limited-overs century, North West scramble to a one-wicket win over Border in a Standard Bank Cup match in Potchefstroom on Sunday
View ArticleWarne and Bevan to miss Potch ODI
Shane Warne and Michael Bevan will both miss Australia's bid to take a 3-0 lead in the Standard Bank one-day series match against South Africa in Potchefstroom on Wednesday
View ArticleAustralian last-wicket pair snatch tie in Potchefstroom
Australia's last wicket pair of Jimmy Maher and Nathan Hauritz snatched a remarkable tie in the third Standard Bank One-Day International in Potchefstroom on Wednesday after South Africa seemed set to...
View ArticleComfortable win for Australia A in Potchefstroom
Australia and South Africa A opened their seven match series at Potchefstroom with an entertaining day/night match won by the visitors by 30 runs (D/L Method) after rain in the South African innings...
View ArticleSouth Africa hold too many aces for Bangladesh
If the warm-up match against South Africa `A' at Soweto was anything to go by, then Bangladesh is going to have plenty of problems against the South African bowling attack
View ArticleBuffalo Park and North West Stadium granted Test venue status
Two South African venues have been granted new Test Match status by the ICC this summer and, when Bangladesh play the first Castle Lager/MTN Test match at Buffalo Park, East London, from the 18th of...
View ArticleBangladesh squander lunchtime position
The North West Stadium became the eleventh South African Test venue as Bangladesh met South Africa in the second Castle Lager/MTN Test in Potchefstroom
View ArticleSouth Africa in control as Bangladesh toil
South Africa took the Castle/MTN second Test against Bangladesh by the scruff of the neck with three hundreds in a total of 414/2 at the end of day two in Potchefstroom
View ArticleSouth Africa crush Bangladesh in Potchefstroom
South Africa destroyed Bangladesh on the third and last day of the secondCastle/MTN Test in Potchefstroom
View ArticleCullinan fails to impress but Klusener shines with the ball
Lance Klusener's poor form with the bat may have continued, but the all-rounder starred with the ball to ensure that South Africa A completed a convincing 65-run victory against the touring Sri Lankans...
View ArticleKenya crushed as hosts secure first win
Herschelle Gibbs totally destroyed any chance that Kenya might have thought they had as the right-handed opener stroked South Africa to a ten-wicket victory at the North West Stadium in Potchefstroom.
View ArticleInjury threatens South Africa's fielding maestro
Jonty Rhodes' future in the World Cup is uncertain after South Africa's star fielder fractured a bone in his hand against Kenya
View ArticlePotchefstroom ground staff help Australia to four points
A sterling effort by the groundsmen, administrators and a willing Netherlands team saw Australia run out winners in a rain-affected match at the North West Stadium in Potchefstroom.
View ArticlePonting salutes Dutch courage
Australia's captain Ricky Ponting had warm praise for the Netherlands after his side clinched a comfortable 75-run win in their rain-affected World Cup Pool A clash in Potchefstroom.
View ArticleMilestones Preview: Australia v Namibia, Canada v South Africa
Lance Klusener (RSA) needs 3 wickets to join the 25 World Cup wicket-club Shane Pollock (RSA) needs 4 wickets to join the 25 World Cup wicket-club
View ArticleRecords fall as Australia break the Namibian dream
What started out as a dream turned into a nightmare as the Australia's clinical opening bowler, Glenn McGrath, took seven for 15 to demolish the Namibian batting, bowling them out for 45 in 14 overs...
View ArticleNew kids on the block
It is little wonder that the 50th anniversary of the Queen's Coronation was such a low-key affair
View ArticleBirch canes South Africa
Charlotte Edwards made 81, and Rosalie Birch produced a fine allround performance with 5 for 50 and 42 not out, as England's women sealed the five-match one-day series against South Africa in emphatic...
View ArticleButcher steals Key's thunder
Robert Key's fears that his barnstorming innings in England's tour opener might have been his last meaningful act on this tour gaied ground with the news that Mark Butcher had been preferred for...
View ArticleHazy, lazy days
Potchefstroom is a tranquil University town, 75 miles south-west of Johannesburg, and the sort of place that does exactly what it says on the tin, says Andrew Miller
View ArticleMasakadza century sets up Zimbabwean win
The Zimbabweans recovered from an ordinary start to their tour of South Africa to inflict a comprehensive seven-wicket defeat on a combined Gauteng & North West XI at Sedgars Park in Potchefstroom
View ArticleSouth Africa A clinch series win
South Africa A's decision to bowl first, prompted by the evening dew, came good as New Zealand A batted poorly and were rolled out for 125
View ArticleSouth Africa overwhelm Bangladesh by 168 runs
South Africa comfortably beat Bangladesh by 168 runs at Potchefstroom.
View ArticleGanguly and Pathan revive India
Sourav Ganguly and Irfan Pathan launched a superb counterattack in the afternoon after the highly-rated Morne Morkel cut a swathe through the Indian top order at Sedgars Park in Potchefstroom
View ArticleIndia edge ahead on bowlers' day
The Indian batsmen suffered another collective meltdown that took the sheen off a superb bowling performance on the second day of the tour game against Rest of South Africa at Sedgars Park in...
View ArticleZaheer spearheads Indian win
Zaheer Khan once again led the way with the ball as the Indians wrapped up a comprehensive 96-run victory over Rest of South Africa in the tour game at Sedgars Park in Potchefstroom
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