Today in SA sports history: May 22
1977 — Jody Scheckter driving a Wolf-Ford holds off Austria’s Niki Lauda in a Ferrari to win the Monaco Grand Prix by less than a second for his second triumph of the season.
1999 — The Proteas win their third World Cup match on the trot, smashing hosts England by 122 runs at the Oval. Herschelle Gibbs (60), Gary Kirsten (45) and Lance Klusener (48) pushed South Africa to 225/7 before Allan Donald (4/17), Jacques Kallis (2/29) and Steve Elworthy (2/24) ripped through the hosts, bundling them out for 103.
2004 — SA champion Thomas Mashaba underlines his potential star as he relieves Zolani Marali of the marginal IBO junior-featherweight belt at Carnival City. Marali, dropped in the eighth round, quit on his stool before the ninth.
2010 — Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers each score 102 to help the Proteas beat the West Indies by 66 runs in the rain-shortened first ODI in North Sound. SA posted 280/7 off 48 overs before bowling out the hosts for 215. Morne Morkel took 3/40 while Dale Steyn, Ryan McLaren and Johan Botha all bagged two wickets each.
2016 — Brad Binder makes it three in a row as he wins the Moto3 race at the Italian motorcycle grand prix at Mugello.
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