The South African Rugby Union has been asked to ‘name their price’ by their French counterparts as the organisations look to strike a deal to switch this year’s Test match in June away from South Africa to be played in France. read more
Dutch Premier League giants Ajax Amsterdam have abandoned their plans to tour South Africa in January due to their domestic league commitments. read more
The organisers of the Rugby World Cup 2011 have allocated the hosting rights to 23 centres across New Zealand with the South African team to train at venues in the North Shore, Taupo and Wellington ahead of their group matches. read more
Work has now completed on the new 68,000-seater Greenpoint stadium in Cape Town after the city’s mayor was handed the keys to the R4.5bn arena ahead of next summer’s World Cup where it will host one of the semi-finals amongst other games. read more
Bafana Bafana has confirmed that its base for the 2010 World Cup will be at Esselen Park in Kempton Park. read more
The Department of Home Affairs has made the announcement that all passengers entering the country during the World Cup will be screened against Interpol's dangerous persons list, in an effort to exclude ‘undesirables’ from the grounds during the event. read more
SA Rugby President Oregan Hoskins officially opened the Windvogel and Isaac Wolfson stadiums in Port Elizabeth following the upgrading of both facilities. read more
The German Football Federation (DFB) is offering fans their own World Cup village for next June's tournament in South Africa. read more
The new European Tour season, which starts in South Africa this week with the Dunhill Championship, will feature six new golf tournaments after the 2010 schedule was confirmed. read more
FIFA has opened its first Football for Hope Centre in Khayelitsha in the outskirts of Cape Town – the world football governing body’s 2010 World Cup community campaign will looks to build 20 such centres across the African continent. read more
The Peter Mokaba Stadium - one of South Africa's nine 2010 World Cup venues - will host a Super 14 warm-up match in January of next year. read more
The National Council for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) has written to world football governing body FIFA about plans to slaughter cattle at each of the 2010 World Cup stadiums in South Africa. read more
According to media reports, next summer’s rugby union Test match between France and South Africa is to be switched from Cape Town to a European location due to scheduling clashes with the football 2010 World Cup. read more
The Africa Open, to be staged in January 2010, is to become the fourth co-sanctioned golf tournament between the European Tour and the Sunshine Tour on take place on South African soil. read more
The new stadium in the city of Durban built for the 2010 World Cup has staged its first match as Amazulu played Maritzburg United in the South African Premier League. read more
You have just got to get them to the point where they really hate you. When you get to that point you sometimes make them think about something else -- a split second of concentration lapse that could give you a wicket.
New Zealand's Neil Wagner speaks of his bowling techniques ahead of the second test against England.
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