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South African captain Temba Bavuma huddles with the team. Matthew Lewis/ICC/Getty Images

November 10, 2023

Cricket World Cup 2023: what it’ll take for South Africa to win

Mogammad Sharhidd Taliep, Cape Peninsula University of Technology

This is South Africa’s fifth semi-final at the tournament. Is 2023 the year they reach the finals and win?

Zimbabwe’s Sikandar Raza (R) celebrates with teammate Brian Mudzinganyama at the Harare Sports Club in 2020. Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images

July 15, 2021

How the history of Zimbabwe played out on the country’s cricket fields

Trishula Patel, Georgetown University

Nine immigrants founded a cricket club in 1934 in Rhodesia. The Sunrise club survives to this day, part of Zimbabwe’s national culture.

Eliud Kipchoge (R) of Kenya at the NN Mission Marathon in 2021. Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images

June 17, 2021

Sport in Africa: book delivers insights into the games, people and politics

Tarminder Kaur, University of Johannesburg; Gerard A. Akindes, Northwestern University, and Todd Cleveland, University of Arkansas

Sports in Africa, Past and Present examines the role played by leisure and professional sports in shaping African life, including resisting colonialism.

May 31, 2020

Elite boys’ schools still shape South Africa’s national cricket team

Habib Noorbhai, University of Johannesburg

Decades into democracy, the country’s top cricketers still come from fewer than 50 elite schools – mostly boys-only schools.

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