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Proteas wicketkeeper batsman Quinton de Kock has announced his retirement from Test cricket with immediate effect after a Test career spanning 54 matches.

India have beaten South Africa by 113 runs in the first test at Supersport Park, Centurion, to go 1-nil up in the 3-Test series

Cricket South Africa said it would be instituting a formal inquiry into the conduct of the Director of Cricket Graeme Smith and Proteas coach, Mark Boucher. This after CSA received the report Social Justice and Nation Building report last week, with Ombudsman making “tentative findings” regarding allegations of discrimination and racism.

The appointments of Graeme Smith as Director of Cricket and Mark Boucher as head coach was procedurally flawed. This was one of the findings of the Social Justice and National Building Ombudsman, Advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza in his 235-page report presented to CSA on Thursday.

Richard Kohler is all set for a solo surfski paddle from Cape Town to Salvador in Brazil, aiming to become the first person to complete the 7000 mile journey alone and unsupported.

Five Springboks - Lukhanyo Am, Damian de Allende, Eben Etzebeth, Siya Kolisi and Makazole Mapimpi - are up against each other for the coveted SA Rugby Player of the Year award for 2021

Five Springboks, including captain Siya Kolisi, have been named in the World Rugby’s Men’s 15s Dream Team of the year.

South African Rugby Sevens legend Werner Kok has asked his thousands of Twitter followers to help him retrieve his rugby jerseys that were stolen from a storage facility in Cape Town. Twenty-Eight-year-old Kok tweeted on Friday that every single one of his Springbok Sevens jerseys, with the number 5 on the back, had been stolen two days earlier.

A new COVID-19 variant which has seen South Africa placed on the UK and EU travel red list is playing havoc with international golf, rugby and cricket currently on the go in the country.