Cricket writer · Journalist · Photographer
Three decades of cricket writing for the world's mastheads. A second body of work behind a camera.
Who
I started as a junior reporter and worked my way up through South Africa's national Sunday broadsheets. I'm now CricBuzz's South Africa correspondent, with bylines across ESPNcricinfo, The Guardian, the Sunday Times, Mail & Guardian and Business Day.
My writing has never been interested in flattering the sport or protecting its administrators. If a batter played with the yips, that's what the piece says. The Journalism section of this site includes my independent blog, Bulletproof Truth, in full — more than four thousand posts across a decade of South African and international cricket.
Journalism
“The highest risk of an injury is a previous unrehabilitated injury. So we have to ensure that the player is fully rehabilitated.” - Shuaib Manjra, fo…
JJ Basson's 11/99 on debut has launched him into South Africa’s fast bowling conversation. Telford Vice / Cape Town CRICKET is deceptive. When it look…
“The main focus coming into the series was on trying to put in a complete performance.” - Bjorn Fortuin Telford Vice / Cape Town SOUTH Africa came, sa…
Photography
“Sources whose thoughts don't pass through some safety filter before they're spoken — that's who's worth listening to. I try to write the same way.”Telford Vice
Journalism
Match analysis, selection arguments and the administrative stories the wire services won't run — on CSA, the Proteas, the T20 World Cup and the state of the game.
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