South Africa

Preview West Indies believe they aren’t too far away from putting a winning performance together Big picture If you’d given South Africa a 2-0 Test series sweep and an opportunity to win the T20I rubber with a game to spare before they’d set off for West Indies, they would have taken it in a heartbeat.

News Rajah managed the men’s national team from 1992 till his retirement in 2011 Goolam Rajah, the former manager of the South Africa men’s cricket team, has died of Covid-19-related complications in Johannesburg. Rajah was 74. He had spent most of the last two months on ventilator in a hospital in the city, but succumbed

Report Heinrich Klaasen was left out of the XI and Aiden Markram given an opportunity at No.5 West Indies chose to bowl v South Africa For the third match in succession, Kieron Pollard won the toss and asked South Africa to bat first in Grenada. The series is locked at 1-1 and West Indies will

Preview South Africa’s seam-bowling allrounders yet to get a look-in with the team looking to firm up for the T20 World Cup. Will they play on Tuesday? Big picture The third day of a Test match is known as “moving day,” when teams expect the course of play to tilt one way or the other.

Report South Africa opt against change in balance despite lack of sixth bowling option West Indies won the toss and chose to bowl first vs South Africa Twenty-four hours have passed since West Indies beat South Africa convincingly in the opening T20I of this match series but little else has changed. The home side have

Report However, South Africa benched both seam-bowling allrounders Andile Phehlukwayo and Wiaan Mulder West Indies chose to bowl vs South Africa Chris Gayle, Kieron Pollard, Andre Russell and Dwayne Bravo will all appear together in a T20I after six years on being named in the West Indies XI to play South Africa in the first

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

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