Was that a 4 or a 6?

Future Proteas Material

Our grandson Rhys, at 2 years old, seems to me to have a pretty good eye for the ball. Mind you, cricket runs in the blood of his daddy's family, and in fact here he is using a little bat given to him by his dad when he was about four weeks old! He has a bigger bat waiting for hin to grow into, given to him by his great-uncle and former South African Cricket Captain, Clive Rice. He loves to play with his ball and bat. This photo was taken last month on the day we left Durban at the end of our holiday there. [Clive Rice info on Wikipedia]

English Cricket Beware

So, today is St George's Day, which explains all the English flags flying in my street as I walked to work today. Pity then that England is no longer in the running for the Cricket World Cup. Thinking about cricket, a picture just in today reveals why England had better keep worrying about being beaten at its own game by South Africa for years to come ...

photo: Michelle Vaughan-Davies

Grandson, Rhys, imagining he is facing the best English cricket can throw at him

KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

Getting Olonga with Henry

For Show 16 of my Paradise Lost podcast, I was very happy and privileged to get time to interview Henry Olonga, currently in southern England on a speaking tour. He talks about his cricket, his singing, and how he feels today about the 'black armband incident' during the 2003 World Cup Cricket, which forced him into an exile from Zimbabwe. This man is a role model par excellence, and now that I know he can be lured back by the smell of a fine oxtail stew, I hope it will not be the last time Paradise Lost listeners get to hear from him. On the show, and with Henry's permission, I feature one of the songs off his new CD, Rise Again, which is a haunting lyric about what could be for Zimbabwe ...

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