Episode 34: Dean Elgar - Top of the Order
Over the last five years no Test opening batsman has scored more runs than Dean Elgar. The Proteas left-hander has knocked off 3018 runs at an average...
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Episode 33: Thomas Abt - Greatness begins here
Newly appointed Sunshine Tour Commissioner Thomas Abt has taken over at one of the most precarious times in sporting history. The impact of the Covid-...
Episode 32: Ed Coetzee - The business of rugby
One of rugby’s great myths is that the forwards are always the unthinking, heavy lifters, while the backs have all the brains. It probably comes from ...
Episode 31: Corne Krige - The hard truth
As a rugby player he was tougher than complex quantum physics and more courageous than a wounded lion. He captained the Springboks 18 times and played...
Episode 30: Andrew Breetzke - Cricket at a crossroads
Cricket in South Africa is at a major crossroads. There is a leadership vacuum, a pending financial crisis, transformation, race and social justice is...
Episode 29: Haroon Lorgat: Cricket SA - A corridor of uncertainty
Former ICC and Cricket South Africa CEO Haroon Lorgat has seen it all in the game. From South Africa’s tentative return to the international arena in ...
Episode 28: Jacques Nienaber - Bok to the future
The old saying goes that defence wins World Cups and in 2019 that adage held true as the Springboks conceded a miserly four tries in seven matches at ...
Episode 27: Mark Andrews - Remembering RWC ‘95
He played 77 Tests for South Africa, 75 of those at lock. He twice played loose forward, and it was the two he played at No 8 that might be most remem...
Episode 26: Wayde van Niekerk - Wings On His Heels
Wayde van Niekerk is unquestionably South Africa’s most accomplished athlete of all time. He is the only runner in history to break 10 seconds for the...
Episode 25: Graeme Smith - Born To Lead
He is considered South Africa’s greatest-ever opening batsman, but even more impressively, he is the country’s most successful captain having led the ...