Cricket
Dale Steyn has been honoured by a leading cricket website for his match-winning bowling performance against India at Nagpur last year.
South Africa 250/9 (46/46 ov) Revised target D/L 268
India 234 (40.2/46 ov)
South Africa won by 33 runs (D/L method)
India won the toss and elected to field
South Africa 220 (49.2 ov)
India 223/8 (48.2 ov) India won by 2 wickets
SA World Cup squad
G Smith, J Kallis, D Steyn, AB De Villiers, H Amla, M Morkell, J Botha, JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, C Ingram, L Tsotsobe, R Peterson, M van Wyk, I Tahir, W Parnell.
India tour of South Africa, 2nd ODI:
India 190 (47.2 ov)
South Africa 189 (42.5 0v)
India win by 1 run
India tour of South Africa, 1st ODI
South Africa 289/9 (50 ov)
India 154 (35.4 ov)
South Africa won by 135 runs
England tour of Australia, 1st T20
Australia 157/4 (20 ov)
England 158/9 (20 ov)
England won by 1 wicket (with 0 balls remaining)
India 168/6
South Africa 147/9
India won by 21 runs
South Africa team
MN van Wyk, HM Amla, AB de Villiers†, JP Duminy, CA Ingram, DA Miller, RJ Peterson, J Botha*, WD Parnell, J Theron, M Ntini
India team
RG Sharma, M Vijay, V Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, YK Pathan, SK Raina, MS Dhoni*†, R Ashwin, P Kumar, A Nehra, MM Patel
Jacques Kallis faced more adversity on the fourth day than he did in the first innings and came up trumps again, winning the mental battle against the Indians
India tour of South Africa, 3rd Test: South Africa v India at Cape Town, Jan 2-6, 2011
South Africa 361 & 341
India 364 & 166/3 (82 ov)
Match Drawn
India won the toss and elected to field
Australia 280 & 281
England 644
England won by a Innings and 83 runs and wins the Ashes Series 3-1
2nd Test: South Africa vs India
India 205 & 228
South Africa 131 & 215
India wins the Test by 87 runs
During the Durban Test, a photo exhibition will be on display to mark 150 years of Indians in South Africa. It is a wonderful look at a history that began when the Truro, a British ship, arrived with 339 indentured migrants from Madras (as the city of Chennai was then known) on November 16, 1860.
Firm favourites they will probably be to win the second Test against India from Boxing Day, but the Proteas need to break a recent Kingsmead mini-hoodoo if they are to clinch the three-match series ahead of schedule.
Some people are reluctant to call him the best Cricketer ever. Others swear he has no equals and is by far the best. The fact is Sachin Tendulkar is on every Cricket lovers lips now, for what he did in the last 20 years.
Thursday 16 December 2010
Australia v England at Perth, 3rd Test
Live Broadcast on Supersport 6 – 04:00- 12:00
South Africa’s opponents beware: AB de Villiers could become your worst nightmare
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The Cricket season is now in full swing with the Top Test sides battling each other for various reasons. The Australians fight for their pride and to regain that Urn with the Ashes. England currently third, is steadily climbing up the ladder on their way to challenge India as the top Cricket Nation. The South Africa vs India series is one of the toughest ever and will result in a battle for Top spot. India is currently ranked first and South Africa second in the World.
Can you remember what you were doing on this day 18 years ago? The chances are that if you are a cricket fan and live in the Western Cape you would have been at Sahara Park Newlands watching the first ever ODI to be played in South Africa.
With a Test average of almost 65 over the last three years, AB de Villiers has firmly established himself as one of the top batsmen in the world
Some of todays best cricket news. India wins series 2 nil against Australia. The ICC has approved the creation of a league-style Test Championship and redrawn the lines of one-day cricket as part of an extensive restructuring of the international game
The Champions League Twenty20 has the potential to be one of the world’s biggest cricket tournaments, former Australia opening batsman Matthew Hayden said on Sunday.
Read on to see all the landmarks reached by the Proteas in this match.
A very dull draw though on a pitch called a tar road by commentators.
South Africa 352 & 206/4d
West Indies 102 & 293 (80.3 ov)
South Africa won by 163 runs