Kirsten excited by Durban Heat marquee players

Durban – Following the announcement of the marquee players for each of the six Mzansi Super League franchises, Durban Heat coach Gary Kirsten is happy that the Heat will have Andile Phehlukwayo and England’s Alex Hales in his team’s colours for this year’s competition. Phehlukwayo represented the Cape Town Blitz during the first edition of the MSL last year and has grown into a crucial cog in the Proteas machine over the last eighteen …

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Exciting first round of DPL 2019

Durban - The first round of the Hollywoodbets Dolphins Premier League, presented by Aucor, produced some strong performances with Dolphins all-rounder Rob Frylinck stealing the limelight with both bat and ball. The Gap Debt Solutions Pietermaritzburg Spurs star scored two half centuries during the weekend's action and was amongst the wickets too as the Spurs registered three wins from their first three matches to go top of the log. There we…

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Dolphins Premier League kicks off this weekend

Durban – The second edition of the Hollywoodbets Dolphins Premier T20 League, presented by Aucor, kicks off this weekend with a jam-packed round of fixtures taking place between the Pietermaritzburg Oval and the UKZN Varsity Oval on Saturday and Sunday. Players for the eight teams were selected a few weeks ago in a draft that saw each player allocated a price and the teams received a hypothetical budget. From there they had to use the imagin…

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Dolphins bowled over by blind cricket encounter

Durban – The KwaZulu-Natal Blind Cricket team celebrated a special win when they beat the Hollywoodbets Dolphins in a friendly match at the Kingsmead Oval on Saturday, coming out convincing victors by nine wickets. While the match was an entertaining event, it was also a profoundly moving and insightful affair for the Hollywoodbets Dolphins players, who had to wear blindfolds and blacked-out glasses to make the match against the blind cricke…

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Muthusamy receives maiden Proteas call up

Durban – Hollywoodbets Dolphins all-rounder Senuran Muthusamy has been handed his maiden call up for the Standard Bank Proteas’ test squad that will take on India in a three test series in India in October. The stylish left handed batsman has been one of the stand out players for the Dolphins in red ball cricket for the past few seasons and his exploits in the white clothing earned his a call up to the SA ‘A’ squad in 2018. A player…

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Kirsten at the Durban Heat helm for MSL 2.0

World Cup winning coach and one of South African cricket’s favourite son’s Gary Kirsten will take up the reins as head coach of the Durban Heat for the second edition of the Mzansi Super League starting at the beginning of November. Kirsten has been heavily involved in coaching since his playing days ended in 2002 and was responsible for guiding India to their first World Cup triumph in 28 years when they lifted the trophy on home soil in …

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Miller KZN’s big winner at CSA Awards

Durban – Proteas and Hollywoodbets Dolphins batsman David Miller was awarded the Standard Bank T20 International Cricketer of the Year award at the 2019 Cricket South Africa Awards on the weekend while there were a number of other awards won by KZN cricketers. Miller was in fine form for the Proteas during the T20I season where he averaged 36 with a top score of 65 not out against Pakistan at the Wanderers. The 30 year old will continue t…

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KZN Cricket Union host successful AGM

Durban – The 26th Annual General Meeting of the KwaZulu-Natal Cricket Union took place at Kingsmead Cricket Stadium last night, with a number of successes from the past season being highlighted as the union plots its path forward into the 2019-2020 season. The meeting was well attended by representatives from all districts, represented by members from towns as far as Newcastle, Pongola, Empangeni and Port Shepstone. The President of KZN Cric…

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Khan appointed Dolphins head coach

Durban – Imraan Khan has been appointed as the head coach of the Hollywoodbets Dolphins for the 2019/20 season starting with their CSA 4-Day Franchise Series clash with the Multiply Titans on 7 October in Pretoria. Khan, who served as assistant coach to Grant Morgan for two and a half seasons, is born-and-bred in KwaZulu-Natal and played his entire domestic cricket career for the Dolphins, KZN Coastal and KZN Inland. He notched up 333 caps i…

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Inaugural Sunfoil KZN DSR Elite Tournament a resounding success

Durban – The newly formed Sunfoil KZN DSR Elite Tournament concluded recently with the event being the pinnacle event of the successful Sunfoil KZN DSR Hubs Tournament at Michaelhouse in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. The tournament pitted teams from all over the country against one another in the Under 15 and Under 19 age categories. Ultimately it was the Easterns Under 19 team and the KZN Under 15 side that came out on top in their divisions.…

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