News They will serve as spin-bowling and batting consultant respectively Rangana Herath has joined Bangladesh as their spin-bowling consultant until the T20 World Cup, while Ashwell Prince will be their batting consultant during their upcoming tour of Zimbabwe. Both coaches will travel to Zimbabwe later this week to join the Bangladesh side for their series
South Africa
Preview A fit Temba Bavuma will lead South Africa for the first time in T20Is, against a West Indies side stacked with superstars Big picture Things should get more interesting from here. After two Tests of one-way traffic, expect a closer contest between West Indies and South Africa as the two teams step up preparations
News Bavuma, who missed the Tests with a hip injury and then a dislocated finger, is expected to lead SA South Africa allrounder Dwaine Pretorius has tested positive for Covid-19 and did not travel with the T20I squad to Grenada for their five-match series against the West Indies, which starts on Saturday. Pretorius is asymptomatic
News Steven Budlender has also been chosen as the lead independent director Lawson Naidoo has been elected the new chair of Cricket South Africa (CSA) and Steven Budlender has been chosen as the lead independent director at the first meeting of the new board. These elections complete the process outlined in the Memorandum of Incorporation
News The left-armer hopes that his success can help forge a path for South Africa’s spinners of the future Keshav Maharaj had an unorthodox start to the fourth and ultimately final day of the series against West Indies. He warmed up with a song, accompanied by his domestic team-mate Keegan Petersen. Amid giggles and a
News The coach praised the return to form of Quinton de Kock and leadership of Dean Elgar It started with a fire. On a chilly autumn evening, South Africa’s Test squad sat around the flames at their pre-tour bush camp and considered how they had fallen to No.7 on the Test rankings, their joint-lowest position.
Report West Indies were struggling at 109 for 6 at lunch in pursuit of 324 Lunch: West Indies 149 and 109 for 6 (Blackwood 5*, Roach 1*) need another 215 runs to beat South Africa 298 and 174 (van der Dussen 75*, Roach 4-52) Keshav Maharaj took a hat-trick to put South Africa four wickets
It was a wet, wet start to the day © AFP/Getty Images Lunch West Indies 149 (Blackwood 49, Mulder 3-1) trail South Africa 298 (de Kock 96, Mayers 3-28, Roach 3-45) by 149 runs South Africa were made to wait before they could start their second innings – and to increase their 149-run lead over
Wiaan Mulder ran through West Indies’ lower order © AFP/Getty Images Not only did Wiaan Mulder finish the second day of the second Test against West with South Africa’s best bowling figures, but he also picked up a very expensive bar bill. Mulder called “keg ball” on the first delivery of the West Indies’ innings,
Report Kyle Mayers and Kemar Roach end with three wickets apiece Lunch South Africa 298 (de Kock 96, Elgar 77, Mayers 3-28, Roach 3-45) vs West Indies Quinton de Kock fell four short of a second successive century in the series and Kagiso Rabada scored a 23-ball 21 to take South Africa to a shade
Kyle Verreynne works to the leg side © AFP/Getty Images “Stay boring,” was the advice Dean Elgar gave to Kyle Verreynne as the pair navigated a disciplined West Indies attack in seamer-friendly conditions on the opening day in St Lucia. Playing in just his second Test match, Verryenne found himself at the crease with South
Report Temba Bavuma and Nkrumah Bonner ruled out, Kyle Verreynne and Kieran Powell keep their places Toss West Indies chose to field vs South Africa Under cloudy skies and after a 15-minute rain delay, Kraigg Brathwaite won the toss and decided to field, having gone the other way in the first Test. The pitch in
News Piet Botha and Prasanna Agoram are the other additions in the Lions backroom staff Former South Africa international JP Duminy has been appointed head of the batting department for the Johannesburg-based Lions team for the 2021/22 season. This is Duminy’s first coaching job. The Lions, who have kept their name from the franchise system
Big picture The World Test Championship final, which starts on the same day as this match, may be the most important fixture in the Test format but for West Indies and South Africa, it’s just about the last thing on their minds. At least, if you believe Dean Elgar. Though acknowledging that “it’s going to
News New structure diminishes representation and power of Members’ Council, body made of provincial presidents who had resisted a majority independent board for almost a decade CSA has ushered in a new, majority independent board – with an independent chair – to bring an end to the tenure of the ministerially appointed interim board, which
News He had suffered a concussion while fielding, following a collision with his Quetta Gladiators’ team-mate Mohammad Hasnain Quetta Gladiators’ Faf du Plessis has been ruled out of the rest of PSL 2021. He will be flying back to South Africa on Wednesday night. du Plessis had suffered a concussion during the match against Peshawar
News South Africa fast bowler becomes latest international player to withdraw The Hundred is set to lose more big-name players as the competition battles to compete with international schedules and bubble fatigue. Days after it emerged that David Warner, Marcus Stoinis and Sophie Devine had pulled out, ESPNcricinfo understands that Kagiso Rabada is also withdrawing.
News South Africa created 14 catching chances in the first Test against West Indies and took 13 of them Dean Elgar had asked for centuries and five-fors in his first series in charge of South Africa’s Test team and, so far, Quinton de Kock, Lungi Ngidi and Kagiso Rabada have delivered. Though he didn’t say
File photo: Zimbabwe Cricket will appeal to permit the national men’s team to continue preparations for next month’s Ireland tour © Abu Dhabi Cricket The ongoing unofficial Test match between Zimbabwe A and South Africa A in Harare has been suspended, after a directive from the Zimbabwean government in light of rising Covid-19 cases, but
News Says the win gives South Africa “massive confidence not only moving into the next Test but moving into the next few years” Kagiso Rabada likened his emotions after his first five-for in Test cricket since March 2018 to the feeling a batsman has when he scores a hundred after a lean patch. However, he
News Replaced in the XI by Saim Ayub; second concussion in two days for Gladiators A concussion has ruled Faf du Plessis out of the Quetta Gladiators’ ongoing match against the Peshawar Zalmi in Abu Dhabi. du Plessis suffered a blow to the head when he collided with his team-mate Mohammad Hasnain during the seventh
News 19-year-old quick has big future, says captain, after three-wicket debut Despite slumping to an innings defeat before lunch on the third day of the first Test in St Lucia, West Indies had one undoubted silver lining in the form of their debutant fast bowler, Jayden Seales, whose fiery performance in a losing cause hinted
News Wicketkeeper says three-finger gesture was salute to friend Quinton de Kock dedicated his sixth Test century, and highest score in the format, to a friend who lost his finger in Afghanistan and to rhino conservation in South Africa. de Kock celebrated both his fifty and his hundred by holding his bat lengthwise to show
Report Jason Holder bags the only wicket during morning of toil for West Indies Lunch South Africa 205 for 5 (de Kock 44*, Mulder 21*) lead West Indies 97 by 108 runs South Africa made steady progress and only lost one wicket on the second morning of the St Lucia Test to stretch their lead
News Fast bowler hopes for more opportunities with seamer-friendly ball after five-wicket haul Lungi Ngidi hopes to have more opportunity to bowl with the Dukes ball after it helped him earn his second Test five-for in St Lucia. Ngidi, who took 6 for 39 against India on debut in January 2018, rated the Dukes ball
Report Teenager Jayden Seales, who has only one first-class match to his name, got his first Test cap for West Indies West Indies chose to bat vs South Africa South Africa’s four-pace-and-solo-spin attack will get first use of the St Lucia surface after Kraigg Brathwaite decided to bat first in the two teams’ first meeting
Preview It’s an opportunity for both South Africa and West Indies to find form and test out combinations Big picture Hello strangers. West Indies and South Africa meet so seldomly that they may wonder if the other still plays international cricket and they are about to find out they do, and quite similarly. While their
News van der Dussen and Shamsi win men’s ODI player of the year and men’s T20I player of the year awards Quicks Anrich Nortje and Shabnim Ismail were named South Africa’s men’s and women’s cricketer of the year respectively at CSA’s annual awards ceremony, which was held virtually on Sunday. Nortje became the 12th player
News New Test captain wants team to play “more and better cricket” as they rebuild their red-ball game Scoring hundreds, taking five-fors and becoming more consistent. These are on Dean Elgar’s agenda as South Africa embark on a(nother) new era next month. Elgar will lead the team on a two-Test tour of the West Indies
Boucher called de Villiers’ decision “unfortunate” © AFP/Getty Images Mark Boucher, the head coach of the South Africa men’s side, has revealed that AB de Villiers was not comfortable returning to the national squad in place of a player already in the system, effectively taking that spot. A day after de Villiers told CSA “once
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