Proteas allrounder Dwaine Pretorious says he is excited to join the Mzansi Super League T20 side, Paarl Rocks. Pretorious was yesterday drafted to join the Cape Town based team after he was not retained by the Jozi Stars he played for last season. The MSL title winner with Jozi Stars last year, Pretorious, believes that there will also be a lot of players hoping to use the MSL T20 tournament to put their hands up for Proteas 2020 T20 World Cup squad selection.

Proteas allrounder Vernon Philander says he is looking forward to playing in front of the ‘hard to please’ PPC Newlands crowd after being drafted to join the Cape Town Blitz for this year’s second edition of the Mzansi Super League T20 tournament. The Western Province Cricket and Cape Cobras stalwart, Philander, says he is well aware of the expectations playing at your home ground brings to the fans.

Sean Everitt feels privileged to have been given the opportunity to coach the Sharks in the 2020 Super Rugby season after he was handed the reins earlier this week. The Currie Cup coach for the Durban side in the past few months, he will be assisted by attack coach, David Williams, while former Griquas coach, Brent Janse van Rensburg joins the technical team as forwards coach.

In an emotionally charged press conference on Tuesday, Toyota Cheetahs coach Franco Smith shared with members of the media that it was a very emotional time for him. The Cheetahs host the Xerox Golden Lions in the final of 2019 Currie Cup campaign at the Free State Stadium on Saturday.

Former South Africa Paralympic star Samkelo Radebe thinks that the Paralympic team going to the Tokyo Olympics in Japan next year will amass fewer medals compared to the Rio Olympics in Brazil. The team that went to Rio managed to earn 17 medals.

Supersport United coach Kaitano Tembo is confident that they will reach the MTN 8 final. Matsatsantsa played to a 1-1 draw with their arch-rivals Mamelodi Sundowns in Atteridgeville on Saturday. Supersport reached the last two finals of the competition but conceded an away goal but Tembo is not fazed by that.

Proteas batsman David Miller has revealed that he has not had any thoughts about retirement despite a disappointing year, including a poor World Cup with the national team. Several old heads have decided to call it quits since the disappointment in England. Dale Steyn, Hashim Amla, JP Duminy and Imran Tahir have all quit at some level or the other, while there had been question marks over the futures of several others.

Maritzburg United chairman Farook Kadodia believes there should be no restrictions on foreign signings in South African football as long as the players recruited are good enough to feature in the starting XIs of the clubs. The Premier Soccer League (PSL) currently has a quota of five foreign registrations on each of its top-flight members. However, there is no yardstick on what quality of player is being brought into the country.

Springboks, Western Province and Stormers scrumhalf Herschel Jantjies says he wants to make South Africans proud at the 2019 Rugby World Cup. The half-back recently made his Springboks debut during the successful Rugby Championships against Australia at the Emirates Airline Park in July.

The curtain came down on the 2019/2020 Premier Soccer League main transfer window at midnight with Mamelodi Sundowns and New Zealand international striker Jeremy Brockie’s loan move to Maritzburg United, the only notable deal on the day. United football manager Quinton Jetto walked in at the PSL head offices at approximately 22:38 last night, less than one and a half hour before the deadline.