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Shane Bond will have to watch the action from the sidelines © Getty Images

Shane Bond, the New Zealand fast bowler, has been ruled out of the first Test against South Africa with a knee injury.Bond has a painful inflammation on the outside of the right knee, an injury he has previously and which surfaced again in the warm-up match at Benoni. “He hasnt responded to treatment as we would have liked,” Black Caps manager Lindsay Crocker said. “He will have an MRI scan this weekend to determine the extent of the inflammation and therefore the best course of management. Only then will we be able to gauge the likelihood of his availability for the second Test.”Kyle Mills will take his place in the starting XI, as he did during thesecond Test of the recent series against the West Indies.Graeme Smith, South Africa’s captain, was also doubtful for the clash, owing to an injury to his ring finger, but, after two net sessions on Friday, he was confident of making the cut.”There will be some pain, but I’m sure I can handle that,” Smith told the SuperCricket website. “Sometimes, when you’re batting with an injury, it helps you to focus your mind, and I’m hoping that will be the case. The medical staff would rather I waited until the second test, but I really want to get out there and play.”We want to get off to a good start in this series,” Smith continued. “New Zealand are ranked above us in the test rankings, and we want to improve our ranking, so it’s very important to us that we win this series.”Smith acknowledged New Zealand as a tough Test side. “We have a lot of respect for New Zealand – they’re well-prepared, they’re streetsmart, and they’re not a team you can ever take for granted,” he said. “Stephen Fleming comes here touted as being the best test captain in the world, so the ball is in their court – it’s their opportunity to make a play. It’s up to them to prove how good they are.”We’re well prepared. We’ve gone through a couple of very tough months against Australia, and the guys are battle-hardened. We’re looking forward to a tough series, but one that we can close off. We had a lot of opportunities against Australia, but weren’t able to close them off, and we want to do that against New Zealand.”

Sussex 197 for 6 (Goodwin 59, Hopkinson 51) beat Nottinghamshire 195 for 9 (Patel 61*) by four wickets
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Samit Patel’s late onslaught wasn’t enough for Nottinghamshire © Getty Images

A fifth-wicket partnership of 103 between Murray Goodwin and Carl Hopkinson set Sussex on course for a leisurely four-wicket victory against Nottinghamshire, as they progressed to the third round of the C&G Trophy.Set 196 to win, Sussex endured an early alarm as Ryan Sidebottom made the new ball talk, removing both Ian Ward and Mike Yardy – the conqueror of Bangladesh – for ducks in his first over. Mark Ealham then added the scalps of Chris Adams for 21 and Matt Prior, flashing to backward point, for 28, as Sussex slipped to 71 for 4.But if Nottinghamshire had a faint glimmer of hope, then it was swiftly snuffed out by Goodwin and Hopkinson. Both fell with victory in sight, but Johannes van der Wath slapped a six and a four in quick succession to seal the match with three overs to spare.The game would have been a cakewalk for Sussex had it not been for an extraordinary blitzkrieg from Nottinghamshire’s No. 9, Samit Patel, who cracked three fours and four sixes in a 52-ball 61 not out. His exploits rescued Nottinghamshire from a parlous 111 for 8, but it was not enough. Nottinghamshire’s only other score of note was a classy 50 from their captain, Stephen Fleming.

Harbhajan Singh – should he have been on the tour? © Getty Images

Harbhajan Singh, whose injured right-hand middle finger was operated upon yesterday, has been officially ruled out of competitive cricket for five months.Andrew Leipus, the physio of the Indian cricket team who had accompanied Harbjajan to Melbourne for the surgery, said the ligament rupture on the knuckle of the finger would take two to three months to heal. That will be followed by rigorous physiotherapy for a couple of months. Leipus said, “It will be four to five months, before he can start bowling again.”However, the positive news for the Indian camp is that Zaheer Khan looks good to play in the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne after missing out the second Test due to a hamstring niggle. “He had a sprint this morning and felt good,” Leipus said, “He should be okay for the third Test. I’ll be upset if he doesn’t play at Melbourne.”There have question marks over whether Harbhajan should have been allowed to be on the tour, but Leipus said that the team management had banked on him pulling through the series. “He was fine before the tour began, but the injury flared up during the first Test.”Leipus added, “I was aware one day he would require to do an operation. I thought if he gets through the tour I would be happy. Sports medicine is all about balancing, keeping the guy going. He would’ve been better off with an operation then [last July].”Harbhajan will stay on with the team until the end of the tour under the care of Leipus, who said that the follow up and rehabilitation was critical to the success of the operation.

Somerset coach Kevin Shine was in a buoyant mood when I spoke to him at the County Ground in Taunton earlier today.”There is something special happening at the club at the moment, and there is a really exciting feel about the place.”The coach continued, “The whole club is linking together which is fantastic. Take a look at what is happening here this afternoon,Steffan Jones is working alongside the Somerset Academy boys, along with Mark Garaway and myself, which is how it should be, with the youngsters learning from the first team players.”The coach talked about some the new equipment which has been brought into use over the last few months. “Somerset are at the cutting edge of things with all of their new technology, there aren’t many other counties, if any, who are better equipped than we are.”Kevin Shine paid tribute to “backroom” staff, the trainers and the physios at the club, who have worked hard in the background over the winter months to ensure that the players are fitter and stronger than they ever have been.He also paid tribute to all of the players at Somerset for their attitude towards the new fitness and dietary regimes, “Everybody has taken it on board, from the first team right the way through to the Academy boys, and even down to the Under 12’s. Peter Bowler who is the oldest player on the staff has been a wonderful example for the youngsters to follow.”Meanwhile Steffan Jones who was working in one of the nets with a youngster from the Somerset Academy told me, “There’s only just over two months until the new season. I just can’t wait to get out there and bowling again.”

A fine spell of spin bowling by left armer Sreekumar Nair (4 for 27)and Chandrashekara (3 for 18) saw Kerala score a 3 run win over Goa inthe South Zone Ranji Trophy One day tournament match at the SouthernRailway Ground in Chennai on Tuesday.With the match being reduced to 35 overs a side due to wet groundconditions, Goa were set a target of 145. The Kerala seamer TinuYouhanan bowling a good line had opener A Amonkar (12) caught by Nairin his second over. This brought in Tanveer Jabbar (55) in to themiddle and with Kolambkar (19) took the score to 61. The Goa skipperPreveen Amre who replaced Kolambkar failed to impress, holding out toTinu Youhanan at Long on giving Sreekumar his first wicket.Jabbar at the other end was looking as compact as ever. Jabbar carriedon inspite of losing his partners at regular intervals. He was theseventh batsman to be dismissed with the score on 114. The fact thatGoa were running out of overs and wickets made Jabbar attempt aextravagant shot off Nair. Trying to step out and lift the bowler, hewas beaten and lost his off stump. Then K Angle tried valiantly torevive the Goan Innings. With eight to be scored of the last over thematch was heading to the wire. But an excellent final over by TinuYouhanan was Kerala scrape through.Earlier the match started as late as 12 noon after three inspectionsby the umpires. Kerala who were put into bat managed to put up 144 for7 on the board thanks to a 66 run fourth wicket partnership betweenopener MP Sorab (53) and skipper Sunil Oasis (36). Sorab, Oasis andKudua (11) none of the other batsmen managed to reach double figures.

As per Calciomercato, it appears Manchester City and manager Pep Guardiola have re-joined the race for a familiar target in Ajax defender Nicolas Tagliafico.

The Lowdown: Tagliafico targeted in 2020…

Reliable reports back in 2020 tipped Guardiola and the Sky Blues with a real interest in signing Argentina’s left-back back in 2020.

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Sky Sports claimed that City had earmarked Tagliafico as a player on the shortlist to replace makeshift defender Oleksandr Zinchenko if he were to leave Eastlands.

The broadcast giant were told of ‘early’ interest in the Eredivisie ace even before sporting director Txiki Begiristain made a decision on Zinchenko with City’s ace eventually staying in Manchester.

At the time, they would have had to invest substantially to acquire Tagliafico, with Sky journalist Rob Dorsett claiming that Ajax valued their man at £40 million.

Now, as reports suggest they will sell for as little as €7 million (£6m), it appears Guardiola’s men have re-entered the race for Tagliafico as that initial price tag plummets by 85%.

The Latest: Man City re-join Tagliafico race…

According to Calciomercato, the Premier League champions are back in the picture for Ajax’s full-back as City keep tabs alongside Napoli and Barcelona.

The Italian source adds that Tagliafico could now leave at the end of June, with his contract expiring in 2023.

The Verdict: Why?

The player is approaching 30-years-old and seemingly won’t have that much longer at the top level or in a physically demanding division like the Premier League.

Guardiola’s side also have Joao Cancelo who can operate on that side with the Portuguese star standing out as one of City’s most untouchable players this season.

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In place of the 27-year-old, Nathan Ake, Zinchenko and even Aymeric Laporte are capable of slotting in at left-back when required – begging the question why Tagliafico’s signing could be necessary?

Despite being labelled a ‘big-name’ and ‘good standard of player’ by former Premier League full-back Alan Hutton , we believe City have more than enough of those on that side.

In other news: Man City now preparing bid to sign new forward target in ‘special’ £67m man! Find out more here.

	Paul Collingwood isn’t too concerned about the lack of centuries from the England top order © Getty Images

Success breeds success in international sport. The England camp is a much more relaxed place now that the team is back to winning ways. The players have their families in tow and have taken over a marina on the northern side of Napier, where the third and final Test gets underway on Saturday. According to Paul Collingwood, the confidence gained from their 126-run victory in Wellington on Monday has reinstalled them as series favourites. “If we put in the performance we can do,” said Collingwood, “we should win.”England’s Wellington win was not without its flaws. Their catching was appalling and the top six batsmen once again made starts without threatening to build a big innings. But, having endured nine barren months since their last Test victory against West Indies in Chester-le-Street, Collingwood was content to be thankful for small mercies. “We still have areas to improve on, but we’d have taken that performance at the start,” he said. “We have a hell of a lot of positives to take into the next game.”It was a massive relief, and great to win,” said Collingwood, who joked that there’d been a few cobwebs gathering on the team’s victory song-sheet. “That’s what we play the game for. We’d gone a long time without a Test win so that starts preying on your mind, but I’m used to that over the years with Durham. It’s just one of those things. You’ve got to be confident in your ability to put in the big performances. You have to back yourself to go out there and do that, and there were some top performances last week.”Most of those performances, however, came at the bottom end of the team sheet. Tim Ambrose’s debut century was the stand-out batting performance, while the three seamers – James Anderson, Stuart Broad and Ryan Sidebottom – all excelled in helpful conditions. Collingwood was the pick of England’s specialist batsmen with a brace of half-centuries, but he knows full well that, on what is expected to be a flat and friendly track, the watching public will be expecting some centuries this week.Collingwood, however, warned that the more an issue was made of England’s lack of hundreds, the harder it would be to end the drought. “You can put too much pressure on yourself,” he explained. “You play your best cricket when you’re relaxed and reacting to the ball, and enjoying yourself with a smile on your face. You play your worst when you think ‘I must do this, I can’t do that.’ That’s when you start doing things wrong. If you say ‘I mustn’t drop short because he’ll smash it,’ that’s what you end up doing. That’s how life works, on a cricket pitch anyway.”Of the top six, only Alastair Cook has managed three figures this winter, and that innings came in a dead rubber at Galle before Christmas. Collingwood himself hasn’t made a Test hundred since June, while Kevin Pietersen – normally so dominant – has gone 10 consecutive innings without so much as a fifty. “We’re just one big ton away from opening the floodgates again,” said Collingwood. “It’s up to one of us to go out there and do that.”Apart from the reintroduction of Andrew Strauss at the expense of Ravi Bopara (and the odd rejig in the batting order), England’s top six has been unchanged since the Headingley Test last May, a situation that contrasts starkly with the treatment meted out to Steve Harmison and Matthew Hoggard after their failures in the first Test. But Collingwood denied that the players were stuck in the comfort zone.

	Of the top six, only Alastair Cook has managed three figures this winter. Collingwood hasn’t made a Test hundred since June, while Kevin Pietersen has gone 10 consecutive innings without a fifty

“With the records they have, they’ve proved they can play against different bowlers and in different conditions,” said Collingwood. “We’ve come up against some good bowling, certainly in the India series [in July and August] when they were swinging it both ways, and in Sri Lanka, which is a difficult place to score hundreds. I wouldn’t put it down to desire or concentration or anything like that. We believe we are better players than that.”Owais Shah is England’s reserve batsman in this series, but he was overlooked for Bopara in Sri Lanka, and seems to have slipped further down the pecking order without actually doing anything right or wrong. “Nobody’s position is safe, but that’s always been the case,” said Collingwood. “There’s always going to be people waiting in the wings, and you need to do your job in the England side or your position is in doubt. That’s healthy for the England cricket team. As long as we win Test matches, hopefully we’ll stick together as a batting unit and keep developing in different conditions.”Looking ahead to the Napier Test, Collingwood hinted that England’s approach with the bat would be more purposeful, but stopped short of promising a run-fest. “We’ll score as quickly as we feel we can without taking a risk, that’s generally what we’ve tried to do,” he said. “The first goal is to get 400 on the board to put pressure on the opposition. How quickly we score them goes down to how well they bowl at us. We’re not going to be reckless and go out and say we’ll score at four and a half an over. The pitch dictates that.”I wouldn’t say there’s more pressure than usual,” he said. “It wasn’t going to be a canter coming over here. They bat right down to Nos. 7 and 8 and they’ve got a lot of skill in the bowling, so they are a tough side to beat. We were expected to come over here and steamroller them, but that wasn’t the kind of thoughts in our minds. We knew we’d have to play well and play tough cricket, and we got well beaten in the first game.”

When asked, during the World Cup and before Lara’s departure, about the possibility of becoming captain, he said he was ready to seize the chance with both hands © AFP

It is, at one and the same time, the most coveted and the most hazardous job in West Indies cricket. Six optimists have held it over the past dozen years, one three times, another twice. None has lasted more than four years, two as briefly as one.In a period when the West Indies have plummeted from their unchallenged status as world champions to near rock bottom, its pressures have been so great that they forced Richie Richardson and Brian Lara to take a break from the game, the former to recover from the stress-induced condition “acute fatigue syndrome”, the latter to “seek the assistance of appropriate professionals”.It is against this background, and much more besides, that Ramnaresh Sarwan has been appointed captain of the West Indies team for the tour of England that starts in less than two weeks’ time. In addition to the troubled history of his recent predecessors, Sarwan takes over in the immediate aftermath of a disastrous World Cup campaign that has led to the retirement of Lara, for 15 years the indisputable centrepiece of the team, and the resignation of Bennett King, the head coach.He and his team must undertake the tour with an interim coach, a new manager and, hopefully if only temporary, a fitness trainer, a post incredibly missing from the support staff since December. They are issues that, outwardly at least, appear not to faze Sarwan.When asked, during the World Cup and before Lara’s departure, about the possibility of becoming captain, his answer was full of enthusiasm. He was ready, he said, to seize the chance with both hands.Bruce Aanansen, the West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) new chief executive, believed that what swayed the selectors towards Sarwan, rather than the other strong candidate, Daren Ganga, was mainly his knowledge of the game, the impression he had made on the few occasions he led the team and the respect the players have for him.One match may have been enough to clinch it. With Lara nursing a stiff back, Sarwan was in charge when West Indies defended a total of 234 for 6 against Australia in the group stage of the Champions Trophy in India last October. There was rare energy on the field – in the body language, the commitment and the aggression – as the usually unflappable Australians faltered.But that was over 50 overs. Now Sarwan has a long assignment ahead, featuring four Tests away from home against opponents who have a 7-0 advantage in the previous two series between the teams three years ago. It will be a stern test of his mettle. The challenge, at the age of 26, can either bring the best out of him as a leader in every sense [his Test batting average of 38.8 is one area that needs attention] or, like those before him, crush him.He was the youngest player in the history of first-class cricket in the West Indies, when he debuted for Guyana at the age of 15. He moved inevitably into the Test team four years later, announcing his arrival with a cultured, unbeaten 84 against a powerful Pakistan attack. Except for one injury or another, he has scarcely missed a Test or ODI since. Based on his grasp of the game’s tactical complexities, demonstrated from his days as a successful Guyana captain in the regional under-19 tournament, he was elevated to the vice-captaincy when Lara returned for his second stint in 2003.The four intervening years have been filled with contradictory messages. No sooner had he become West Indies vice-captain than Guyana chose Shivnarine Chanderpaul as their captain instead, following the retirement of Carl Hooper.A year later, Sarwan and six others were declared ineligible for selection in the first Test of the home series against South Africa, since they held Cable & Wireless contracts that the board deemed were in conflict with its deal with new team sponsor, Digicel. When Lara, also on C&W’s books but qualified because it was a pre-existing arrangement, quit the captaincy in solidarity, the board turned to Chanderpaul to lead the team.It was a role for which he was clearly unsuited and in which he was, equally clearly, uncomfortable. Sarwan had, by then, been reinstated as vice-captain but he was overlooked in favour of Lara’s third term when Chanderpaul stepped down and returned to the ranks.Sarwan remained the deputy, as he had been in Lara’s second stint, but was to endure another public indignity during last year’s tour of Pakistan. His form had faltered and his physical condition was questionable. He was hardly the only one in the team with such shortcomings but he was dropped from the second Test and told by Lara to “reflect and come back strong”. It was a ringing condemnation.Then, as soon as he came back, for the next Test, Umar Gul broke his foot with a wicked yorker. He recovered six weeks later only for Fidel Edwards to promptly pin his thumb against the bat handle in a Carib Beer Cup match and fracture it. As a result, he had little cricket leading into the World Cup but he was still the leading West Indies batsman, in aggregate (375) and average (46.87), in a tournament in which their cricket touched new levels of mediocrity.Such mishaps were not unfamiliar but he has bounced back from each. His courage is not in doubt. In a 2003 World Cup match in Cape Town against Sri Lanka, he was knocked unconscious by a bouncer from Dilhara Fernando, stretchered off the field with blood pouring from the cut and taken to hospital. An hour and a half later, he was back in the middle, batting in a cap rather than a helmet, and taking the West Indies to within six runs of an improbable victory with an unbeaten 47.The trial he now needs to overcome is not so much physical as mental. It always is for the captain of the West Indies.

Michael Vaughan is struggling to be fit for Yorkshire’s opening Championship game © Getty Images

Michael Vaughan is making a slow recovery from the knee injury, which forced him out of the current tour of India, according to the Yorkshire physiotherapist Scott McAllister.Vaughan has been undergoing an intensive programme of rehabilitation since returning from India to undergo further treatment on a right knee problem which was operated on last December. But hopes that he would be able to play in Yorkshire’s opening County Championship match, against Nottinghamshire on April 19, are now fading.”The only time schedule is how Michael’s knee responds, not the playing schedule,” McAllister told the . “We’re not going to push him and neither are England. It’s vital that he gets the knee right to ensure that when he does come back, he does so with confidence.”The encouraging thing is that Michael is progressing, step by step, slowly but surely. The signs are good, but at the same time we’re not getting over-excited about the situation.”There is also positive news on Simon Jones, who is hopeful of starting the season with Glamorgan, after he also returned from India after injuring his knee ahead of the first Test.”The knee is coming on well,” he said, “I have started bowling off a couple of yards and I’m sprinting up to full pace. I want to play for Glamorgan in the first couple of games and prove my fitness, and see where it takes me.”However, the fitness of Ashley Giles is still causing major concern as he has yet to start bowling since hip surgery in December. Giles flew home from Pakistan, missing the third Test at Lahore, and withdrew from the tour of India.His target had been to start the season with Warwickshire, but his recovery has been slow and Giles has admitted that the injury could be career threatening. Last week he told : “If the rehab doesn’t succeed, the alternatives are obvious. The specialist thought the hip would have done most of its healing after three months but that hasn’t happened.”

South Africa 214 for 0 (Smith 106*, de Villiers 103*) v West Indies
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AB de Villiers: second hundred of the series © Getty Images

Just over a year ago, Brian Lara won the toss for West Indies on a typically flat Antiguan wicket, and rattled along to a world-record 400 not out out of a gargantuan total of 751 for 5 declared. It remains to be seen whether Graeme Smith and AB de Villiers have that sort of landmark in mind, but in compiling an unbroken opening stand of 214 on the first day of the fourth Test, they ensured that South Africa maintained the momentum that has been steadily accumulating throughout the series.The opening exchanges of the first Test, when West Indies posted a forbidding total of 543 for 5 declared in Guyana, now seem an eternity away. Ever since then, it has been South Africa making all the running. By the time a rain-interrupted day was brought to an early conclusion, Smith and de Villiers had reached, respectively, their third and second hundreds of the series, and in both cases they had come in consecutive matches.South Africa’s opening pair provide a microcosm of their team’s progress in this series. Each time they have been asked to bat, their returns have just got better and better: 15 and 46 at Bourda, 117 at Port-of-Spain, 191 at Bridgetown, and now this. Both batsmen reached their hundreds moments before the rains rolled in – Smith with a straight drive down the ground off Chris Gayle, and de Villiers with a tickle to fine leg and a loud whoop of delight, one over later. It was his third Test century and Smith’s 11th, and left West Indies hoping that Lara will be able to respond with his 29th – as and when his moment comes.In 19 matches at the Recreation Ground, 19 innings have totalled more than 400 runs, and only seven have ended up fewer than 200, and by the close, it was not difficult to see which category this particular effort was destined for. Lara, gnashing his teeth in the slip cordon, could only ponder what might have been, because the writing was on the wall from the opening exchanges. Smith and de Villiers clobbered four fours in seven balls from the new-ball pair of Daren Powell and Tino Best, and after that they scarcely contemplated a backwards glance.de Villiers, fresh from a career-best 178 at Bridgetown, was once again the early aggressor, peppering the cover boundary with a succession of gorgeous fours. His only alarm came on 83, when he popped a leading edge into no-man’s land off Powell, and as he raced ahead in the run-scoring, Smith was content to take the back seat. Smith did, however, come perilously close to being run out on two occasions – once early in his innings, when Wavell Hinds missed the stumps with an underarm shy, and then – criminally – after lunch, when Narsingh Deonarine fumbled a simple effort with Smith floundering for his crease.

Graeme Smith: three hundreds in a row © Getty Images

Best, who was back in the side for the first time since the tour of England last July, was showcasing a new and unnatural bowling action – a legacy of the back trouble that has plagued him since he burst onto the scene. There were shades of Brett Lee in his upright, poised arrival at the crease, but in conceding 37 runs from nine overs, he was a shadow of the former bundle of energy who was putting the wind up Nasser Hussain and Mark Butcher this time last year.Disappointingly for West Indies, Best was unable to resume his partnership with Fidel Edwards, who has been rested amid fears about overdoing his workload so soon after his return from injury. Into his place came the 22-year-old debutant, Dwight Washington, who used his height to good effect in a decent first spell, but aside from one flashing carve over point from de Villiers, there was no threat of a breakthrough.West Indies’ only other change was the return of Deonarine, the Guyanese allrounder who stepped in during the contracts dispute and performed admirably in his one outing, at Bourda. He returned in place of Ryan Hinds, although it was South Africa who could boast the most significant recall – that of Shaun Pollock, who has recovered from an inflammation of his left ankle. He took his place in the side ahead of Andre Nel, who wrapped up the series with figures of 6 for 32 in the second innings at Bridgetown, but has been forced to sit this one out with a worrying recurrence of an old back problem.St John’s is no place for bad backs, however. With the likes of Jacques Kallis and Herschelle Gibbs tripping over themselves to get their chance on this featherbed, West Indies can expect another long, hot and draining day when play resumes half-an-hour early on Saturday morning. At this rate, their only respite is the rain.West Indies 1 Chris Gayle, 2 Wavell Hinds, 3 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 4 Brian Lara, 5 Shivnarine Chanderpaul (capt), 6 Dwayne Bravo, 7 Narsingh Deonarine, 8 Courtney Browne (wk), 9 Tino Best, 10 Daren Powell, 11 Dwight Washington.South Africa 1 Graeme Smith (capt), 2 AB de Villiers, 3 Boeta Dippenaar, 4 Jacques Kallis, 5 Herschelle Gibbs, 6 Ashwell Prince, 7 Mark Boucher (wk), 8 Nicky Boje, 9 Shaun Pollock, 10 Monde Zondeki, 11 Makhaya Ntini.