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CSA Professional Domestic Women’s League Set To Resume This Week

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JOHANNESBURG: Cricket South Africa’s (CSA) Professional Domestic Women’s League will resume this weekend after a two-month demolish, with Hollywoodbets Dolphins and Western Province looking to consolidate their top positions in the remainder of the season.

The Durban-based Dolphins guide the way in the Women’s Provincial One-Day Cup, while the Cape outfit, Province, are in charge at the summit of the Women’s T20 Challenge.

The action kicks off with a double-header derby in Oudtshoorn as Province face neighbouring rivals Six Gun Grill Garden Route Badgers; first in a 50-over fixture, before locking horns in the T20 encounter.

The Badgers, third in both competitions, will be missing one key player for the games, the leading one-day run-scorer Tazmin Brits, who is also second on the rush charts in the T20 tournament, as she is involved in the Proteas’ Women ongoing tour of Australia.

Wins for the South Western Districts outfit will fade a long way towards reigniting their prospects for the season, and open the doors for the rest of the chasing pack.

Province presently guide the way in the T20 league with 24 points from six games, with DP World Lions (16 points) second and the Badgers following on 13 points, though they enact maintain a game in hand on the two sides above them.

CSA Director of Cricket, Enoch Nkwe, shared his sentiments on the resumption of the league;

“When CSA professionalised the women’s game this season, it was at the back of excellence, and the incredible skills showcased by our female cricketers.

“The CSA Professional Domestic Women’s League was designed to elevate the standard of women’s cricket and empower our talented athletes to not only showcase thrilling on-field action but also foster a high-performance culture, unity, and security within the cricketing community.

“We wish this league will continue opening doors to endless possibilities, create career stability, and create a platform that will inspire aspiring cricketers across the nation,” said Nkwe.

The other teams in the league only resume action next weekend. Meanwhile, in the one-day arena, the Dolphins (22 points) are narrowly ahead of Fidelity Titans (19 points), though the Tshwane-based team maintain played a game more.

Each team will play 10 matches in the competition – the leaders still believe four more compared to three for their nearest challengers.

The Badgers, presently third, enact gain a game in hand, but will be without their star player Brits as the season winds down to a close.

In the Women’s Division 2, round-robin matches will be followed by the National Women’s Week. This will include cross pool fixtures that will count for promotion next season.

Every single fixture plays and all-important role as there are no play-offs for both divisions. An automatic relegation/promotion kicks in when the season ends.

Every matches will be live on the CSA YouTube Channel and ball-by-ball action available on PitchVision.

Source: cricket.co.za

Hansie Cronje (South African Cricketer Who was Banned from Cricket for His Role in Match-Fixing Scandal): Hansie Cronje was a South African international cricketer. He captained the South African national cricket team in the 1990s. In 2000, he was implicated in a cricket match-fixing scandal and banned from the sport for life. He died in a plane crash in 2002. It was rumored that he was murdered on the orders of a cricket betting syndicate.

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The Randlord Mansions: History

The history of these mansions is also a story of urban warfare and preservation. In the 1960s and 70s, as Johannesburg expanded, many of the original Parktown estates were ruthlessly demolished to make way for the M1 Highway and the massive concrete campus of the Wits University Medical School. The “Parktown War” saw heritage activists fighting the bulldozers to save what remained of the city’s architectural soul. Today, several of the surviving mansions serve as corporate headquarters, schools, or museums, stripped of their private domesticity but preserved as monuments to a gilded age.

Interestingly, these mansions also played a secret role in the city’s political evolution. It was in the drawing rooms of Parktown that the “progressive” mining elite would meet to discuss the future of the country, often finding themselves at odds with the more conservative Boer government. Lady Florence Phillips, in particular, used her influence to found the Johannesburg Art Gallery, insisting that a world-class city needed world-class culture, not just gold bars. Today, walking the “Heritage Trail” through Parktown offers a haunting contrast; you stand in the quiet, manicured gardens of the victors, looking down at the pulsing, crowded city that their gold mines created. It is the ultimate “view from the top,” a reminder that the extreme wealth of Sandton today has its DNA rooted in the stone-and-timber palaces of the 1900s.