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West Indies Win 1st Test
2007-12-30 23:56:00 The West Indies won the first test by 128 runs, on the 4th day. It was an unexpected display, a fairytale win and their first test victory in 2.5 years. The West Indians dominated the game from the word go, the only time they looked to be in trouble was in their dismal second innings. ... More About: Test , West Indies
SA vs WI Day 3
2007-12-29 02:13:00 South Africa managed to add 73 runs before being all out on 195, a score that allowed the West Indies to enforce the follow on. The second biggest captaincy error was made when Gayle decided the Windies would come out to bat for their second innings instead of enforcing the follow on. The end result ... More About: Cricket , South Africa
SA vs WI Day 2
2007-12-28 08:47:00 On the first day the West Indies took the honours, but had in no way secured a stranglehold on the test. They made up for that on the second day with Chanderpaul continuing his run of scoring 50 or more in every innings this year, equalling the record with 7 in a row. South Africa ... More About: Cricket
Boxing Day Test Day 1: SA vs WI
2007-12-27 00:38:00 The two tests that started today had similar weather conditions leading up to the day. Both grounds were subjected to some rain which makes the decision after winning the toss slightly more challenging. W.G. Grace had some good advice: ‘When you win the toss - bat. If you are in doubt, think about it, then ... More About: Cricket , South Africa , Boxing , Test , West Indies
Boxing Day Tests
2007-12-26 01:43:00 Australia vs India Australia have won the toss and have elected to bat on a pitch that is supposed to be flat, however some rain from the last few days should make it a tricky start. Ponting believes it was a good toss to win, with some cracks already in the pitch. The Indian side have ... More About: Cricket , Australia , South Africa , Boxing , Tests
Preview of the West-Indies Tour
2007-12-13 21:20:00 The West Indians have recently been in South Africa, participating in the inaugural World Twenty20 Championships. In the warm up games they beat Kenya and New Zealand and looked set for their third straight win in the 20 over format in the opening match asainst South Africa as Gayle smashed 10 sixes in his 117 ... More About: Preview , Tour , West Indies
West Indies Tour to South Africa Fixtures
2007-12-13 21:18:00 December 2007 14 Makhaya Ntini Inv XI v West Indians D/N Buffalo Park, East London 16 South Africa v West Indies Pro 20 Sahara Oval St George`s, Port Elizabeth 18:00 9 South Africa A v West Indies Buffalo Park, East London 26 South Africa v West Indies Test Sahara Oval St George`s, Port Elizabeth 10:30 January 2008 2 South Africa v West Indies Test Sahara Park Newlands, Cape Town 10:30 10 South Africa v West Indies Test Sahara Stadium Kingsmead, Durban 10:00 18 South Africa v West Indies Pro 20 Liberty Life Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg 18:00 20 South Africa v West Indies ODI SuperSport ... More About: Cricket , Tour
Jon-Jon Smuts Debut
2007-12-08 18:24:00 Jon-Jon Smuts made his Supersport Series Debut against the Cobras on the 6th of December, making a 53 in his second innings. He is certainly a player to watch and hopefully will become a regular feature in the squad for the rest of the season. Dale Steyn showed why he is the best fast bowler in ... More About: Cricket
Jon-Jon Smuts and Mfuneko Ngam
2007-11-25 12:29:00 KwaZulu-Natal Inland v Eastern Province Click for scorecard Normally there would be no interest in a SAA provincial one-day challenge match between KZN and EP. However this match has two players that the South African public should keep a look out for. The first is Jon-Jon Smuts, who top scored for EP making 56. This is ...
Donald Bradman Classic Quote
2007-10-28 22:33:00 a great one from the great bradman. in an interview before he died the interviewer asked him how he thought he would go against the current english team “i think i would average in the 40’s”. the interviewer replied, “but don you played the best english teams ever and had an average much higher than that”. to which ... More About: Cricket , Classic , Donald , Quote
Smith on Garnett Kruger?s view
2007-10-10 20:58:00 Below is an extract take from an interview of Graeme Smith Neil Manthorp: Are you concerned about the perception that domestic success isn’t always duly rewarded? Ryan McLaren, for example, was the leading wicket-taker last season but was not given any international recognition Graeme Smith: It’s hard for selectors and coaches because they have to watch guys ... More About: South Africa , View , Ruger
Vice-Captains
2007-10-07 12:11:00 South Africa named their vice-captains on the morning of the test, with Ashwell Prince named as the test vice-captain and Justin Kemp the ODI captain for the series. Good choices and some order has been restored to SA cricket for now. More About: Cricket , South Africa , Vice , Captain
No Vice Captain?
2007-09-27 00:42:00 South Africa have still not appointed a vice-captain, hours before their first tour game gets underway against a Patron XI. The match is a 3 day warm-up game, and will be useful for some of the youngsters to get acclimatised to local conditions. I am not sure what is going on in SA cricket but Smith ... More About: Vice , Captain
South African Vice-Captain Crisis
2007-09-24 08:30:00 The Test side to take on Pakistan was announced the other day (click here) and was missing a vice captain. I wrote to Michael Owen-Smith, the media officer for Cricket South Africa about this. He has always come across as a nice guy and sure enough he got back to me and indicated that a ... More About: South African , Vice , Crisis , African
Reasons for SA Failing at Twenty20
2007-09-21 08:40:00 There are various reasons that contributed to the downfall of the SA side in the Twenty 20 championships. The make up of the squad is a very important aspect of this. Loots Bosman was injured just before the start of the championships and even though he expressed his desire to play the coach indicated he was ... More About: Graeme Smith , World Championships , Reasons , Squad
Twenty20 Semi-Finals
2007-09-21 01:29:00 On Saturday 22nd September, New Zealand face Pakistan at 11 am GMT whilst India face Australia at 4pm GMT More About: Finals , Semi , Fina
SA eliminated from Twenty20 World Championships
2007-09-21 01:26:00 South Africa have been embarrassed in the final group match of the inaugural Twenty 20 championships. Eric Simons might have an ironic smile on his face as this defeat brings back memories of the heartbreaking 2003 exit. After the 2003 debacle, Shaun Pollock resigned as captain and Pat Symcox stood down as a selector. In this instance ... More About: World , South Africa , World Championships , Championships
SA SQUAD FOR PAKISTAN
2007-09-20 14:13:00 SA SQUAD: Graeme Smith (captain), Hashim Amla, Mark Boucher, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Herschelle Gibbs, Paul Harris, Jacques Kallis, Morne Morkel, Andre Nel, Makhaya Ntini, Shaun Pollock, Ashwell Prince, Dale Steyn. I am very glad to see Dale Steyn is back in the line-up, and amused to see there is no appointed vice captain!!! More About: Pakistan , Squad
Previews of Australia vs Sri-Lanka, Pakistan vs Bangladesh and South Africa
2007-09-20 00:29:00 The last day of the group stages features two key matches out of the three on offer. The first match of the day at 10 am (8:00am GMT) is the decider between Australia and Sri-Lanka, the winner will join Pakistan in the semi-finals. It is hard to call a winner in this game, as Australia ... More About: England , Africa , South Africa , Bangladesh
5 Games to go
2007-09-19 08:15:00 Pakistan and New Zealand are through to the semi-finals, England and Bangladesh are out, Australia have to beat Sri-Lanka to qualify. Today SA face NZ, tomorrow they take on India. India have to beat England today in order to give themselves a chance of qualifying. The winner of this group will face Australia or Sri-Lanka, depending ... More About: Games
SA vs England Twenty20
2007-09-17 02:36:00 England won the toss and elected to field first, which was justified by the way that they started, with SA in trouble at 43/3 after 6 overs. This would be the first game where SA have needed their middle order and they stabilised the ship taking SA to 91 runs before Boucher was out. Pollock ... More About: England , Went
Twenty20 Fixtures for the group stages
2007-09-17 00:13:00 The first day on the group stages got underway on Sunday with New Zealand, Australia and South Africa winning their matches. The group stages finish on Thursday with the semi finals being played on Saturday and the final on Monday, a public holiday in South Africa. The remaining fixtures for the group stages: 17 PAKISTAN v SRI ... More About: Fixtures , Group , The G , Went , Ages
Day 5 Preview
2007-09-15 12:41:00 Today brings the last day of pool games. There is a lot of interest in how Bangladesh will fare against South Africa whilst Sri Lanka , rated by many as a side to win this competition face the unpredictable New Zealand!!! Both games should be highly entertaining and should provide an indication how the sides will ... More About: Preview , Twenty
Twenty20: Bangladesh?s victory over West Indies
2007-09-15 12:35:00 The matches played on Thursday the 13th started off with an unexpected result. The West Indies faced Bangladesh , needing a victory to advance to the next round alongside South Africa. The Bangladesh side had other ideas knowing a victory ensured they would go through. Bangladesh got off to a great start, with Syed Rasel picking ... More About: Victory , West Indies , Tory
Twenty20 Day 2 Summary
2007-09-13 08:24:00 ome might have thought that the 3 matches played today were foregone conclusions. Others like Ray Mali would have told you a different story about who would be victorious in the final game of the day. Zimbabwe was given a small total to chase and they managed to chase it down in the last over. Australia ... More About: Cricket , Andrew Symonds , Fixtures
Twenty20 Fixtures
2007-09-12 11:40:00 The fixtures are shown below, for the remainder of the tournament 12 New Zealand v Kenya Kingsmead 10:00 12 Pakistan v Scotland Kingsmead 14:00 12 Australia v Zimbabwe Newlands 18:00 13 West Indies v Bangladesh Wanderers Stadium 10:00 13 Zimbabwe v England Newlands 14:00 13 India v Scotland Kingsmead 18:00 14 Sri Lanka v Kenya Wanderers Stadium 10:00 14 Australia v England Newlands 14:00 14 ... More About: Cricket , Twenty , Cricket World Cup , Fixtures , Went
Twenty20 Day 1 Summary
2007-09-12 01:18:00 If ever the ICC were looking for a fairy tale start to a new venture, they would have to perform a miracle to improve on the start of the Twenty20 World Cup. Over 400 runs in under 40 overs. Pro 20 cricket was designed to entertain and if there are going to be more exciting ... More About: Summary , Went
World Twenty20
2007-09-11 01:36:00 Later on today the first World Twenty20 gets underway. Australia are the favourites, however if there was ever a game where the favourites are not guaranteed of making the semi finals this is it. The unpredictable nature of this form of cricket allows for a hero on either side to march to his own tune ... More About: England , Scotland , South Africa , Bangladesh
SA vs West Indies
2007-09-11 00:36:00 SA take on West Indies in the first match of the inaugural world Twenty20 Tournament and the home side are favorites to win this game. West Indies are missing Brian Lara and don?t have the firepower they used to. However they are fighters and it won?t be easy for SA to win this game. There ... More About: Cricket World Cup , Fixtures , Dies
Players to watch in the Twenty20 Championships
More articles from this author:2007-09-11 00:19:00 Australia Andrew Symonds and Adam Gilchrist. Symonds can win matches in this format, he is a brutal hitter which can swing the game into Australia?s favour and is my key man for an Australia assault. England Kevin Pietersen and Luke Wright. Luke has had a fantastic time in the English county season and has the ability to murder ... More About: Cricket , Watch , Players , Australia 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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