Professional cricketers stay well away from the spooky mansion but it provides a poignant narrative thread for South Africa’s World Cup campaign as the Proteas march into their next match like ghosts, ever restless and with business unfinished.
While the Argentines are eyeing a first final appearance only three years after debuting, the Brumbies hope to reach the title decider a fourth time having won the competition twice.
John Terry, who is assistant coach at newly-promoted Premier League outfit Aston Villa, said Frank Lampard is excellent in dealing with pressure.
Abandoned by his mother when he was a baby and later adopted and raised on a pig farm in Stellenbosch, Paul Daniels lost both of his legs after suffering from meningitis. He has defied the odds to shine on the athletics track as a para-athlete.
Record seven-time champions Egypt rode their luck at times as DR Congo twice struck the crossbar in the first half but the Group A leaders held firm to join Nigeria as the first teams through to the knockout phase.
The 2015 runners-up lost by six wickets to a resurgent Pakistan, on the back of a brilliant unbeaten 101 by Babar Azam and three wickets from teenage paceman Shaheen Shah Afridi.
Lord’s denotes some sense of regality but it is little more than chance that the 18th Century cricketer who developed the site was named Thomas Lord.
Centre-back Omeruo headed a corner into the net on 73 minutes to earn the Super Eagles a second straight Group B victory after beating Burundi by the same score four days ago.
Novak Djokovic, aiming for a fifth Wimbledon title and his 16th Grand Slam crown, plans to play only one or two exhibition matches in the build-up to the grasscourt major.
The winners of next season’s PSL will take home a whopping R15 million – a 50% increase on last season’s prize money.
