South Africa

Ireland coach Joe Schmidt is an equal opportunities employer, so Ian Madigan and Paddy Jackson shared the outhalf duties in training sessions during (...)

Simon Zebo and Matt Healy appear to be the leading contenders to replace the stricken Luke Fitzgerald tomorrow in the 32-man squad which departs for t(...)

Allister Coetzee was on Tuesday unveiled as the coach to lead South Africa to the Rugby World Cup in Japan, ending four months of speculation over wh(...)

Next up is a leisurely June Test series in South Africa. Joe Schmidt’s Ireland have not had it easy – the World Cup dream gone with O’Connell in retir(...)

Playing Test match rugby doesn’t require knowledge about the past anymore. For the players anyway. All that’s needed is a performance, recovery and o(...)

With 29 scheduled overs of a rain-interrupted third day to go England were still in the Test, hanging on by the fingernails but with a sniff of a cha(...)

Trevor Bayliss does not take much notice of the ICC rankings. They are, he reckons, for the fans, something to give a context to what is happening in (...)

Third Test, day one: South Africa 267-7 Until a frustrating unbroken eighth-wicket partnership of 42 against the second new ball, England had fought (...)

Hashim Amla has resigned as captain of South Africa with the all-rounder AB de Villiers to take over until the end of the four-Test series. The shoc(...)

South Africa have added bowler Hardus Viljoen to their squad for the second Test with England in Cape Town. The Proteas, who were soundly beaten in (...)