Neil Manthorp
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Neil Manthorp is a South African writer and broadcaster based in Cape Town. He is best known internationally for his coverage of cricket
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With the end of apartheid in 1990, he decided to return to South Africa, where he set up his own sports agency, MWP Media, in 1992.
He has stayed there ever since, apart from the necessary travel required to follow sport, which has taken him to all the cricketing corners of the world.
's elevation to Test status.
He is a regular commentator for SABC radio and television and has also joined the host radio teams in West Indies, New Zealand
, Australia
and England
- where he preferred Test Match Special
's pork pies to their chocolate cake. He writes for newspapers and magazines and recently completed his fifth book "The Proteas: 20 Years, 20 Landmark matches" marking the 20th anniversary of South Africa's return to international cricket.
As well as cricket, he also writes on golf and rugby.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
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Biography
Manthorp was born and educated in England, but considers himself very much a South African. When he was a year old, his parents emigrated from the North of England and Manthorp spent his formative years in South Africa before returning to England to complete his schooling. With South Africa isolated in sport due to apartheid, he stayed on in Britain and began his journalistic career in 1986, commentating and writing freelance.With the end of apartheid in 1990, he decided to return to South Africa, where he set up his own sports agency, MWP Media, in 1992.
He has stayed there ever since, apart from the necessary travel required to follow sport, which has taken him to all the cricketing corners of the world.
Career
He has covered more than 40 tours and 120 Test matches since South Africa's return to international cricket and ZimbabweZimbabwe
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...
's elevation to Test status.
He is a regular commentator for SABC radio and television and has also joined the host radio teams in West Indies, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
and England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
- where he preferred Test Match Special
Test Match Special
Test Match Special is a British radio programme covering professional cricket, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 , Five Live Sports Extra and the internet to the United Kingdom and the rest of the world...
's pork pies to their chocolate cake. He writes for newspapers and magazines and recently completed his fifth book "The Proteas: 20 Years, 20 Landmark matches" marking the 20th anniversary of South Africa's return to international cricket.
As well as cricket, he also writes on golf and rugby.