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In the wake of South Africa failing to reclaim the No. 1 Test ranking in their recent series against England, Mickey Arthur has quit as the team’s coach. The resignation, effective immediately, means Cricket South Africa’s High Performance Manager, Corrie van Zyl, will stand in as interim coach for the Proteas’ forthcoming tour of India [...]
The ICC has announced it will undertake an independent investigation of the application of the umpire Decision Review System, specifically the procedural issues surrounding the use of the technology, as applied in the fourth Test between England and South Africa this January. The announcement of the investigation follows the ECB’s lodging of an official complaint [...]
An entertaining century from Mushfiqur Rahim couldn’t save Bangladesh from defeat to tourists India in the first Test of the two-match series in Chittagong, where Virender Sehwag’s popularity remains rock bottom. India won by 113 runs, having looked in trouble when setting a first innings total of just 243 – Sachin Tendulkar weighing in with [...]
Pakistan have registered a complaint over the “unjust and discriminatory” decision to omit all of their players from this year’s Indian Premier League. None of the 11 Pakistani players up for auction were snapped up by IPL franchises, meaning that talents such as Shahid Afridi, Umar Gul, Sohail Tanvir, Abdul Razzaq and Mohammad Aamer – [...]
England and Middlesex all-rounder Eoin Morgan will play for the Royal Challengers Bangalore in this year’s Indian Premier League after being bought at auction today, but Test spinner Graeme Swann has been left on the shelf. Dublin-born Morgan, 23, will team up with Kevin Pietersen in Bangalore after the Royal Challengers shelled out $222,000 (£134,000) [...]
A sixth Test match of the summer, which brought a fifth win, a fourth successive 3-0 series victory over Pakistan, and two superb innings from the captain all added up to one very happy Ricky Ponting when the Australian skipper faced the press overnight. The Aussies wrapped up a comfortable series victory with a 231-run [...]
Alastair Cook will captain England on their tour of Bangladesh, which starts next month. Fresh from their 1-1 series draw in South Africa, England will use the trip to Southern Asia – where they’ll play three One-Day Internationals and two Tests – as a chance to rest regular skipper Andrew Strauss and James Anderson, the [...]
A double century to Ricky Ponting has led the Australians to a commanding 519-run total against an imploding Pakistan side in Hobart. The Australian captain survived a review for caught behind early on the third day, which exhausted the fielding side’s use of the system, before going on to build his century into 150, and [...]
A second century by Graeme Smith in as many innings has put South Africa in a commanding position in Johannesburg, but England rightly feel hard done by that they didn’t have their man out for a less than quarter of that. The Proteas skipper’s 105-run knock was instrumental in guiding the home side past England’s [...]
The promised green wicket at Johannesburg delivered the desired result for South Africa as England were bundled out for 180 within two sessions on the opening day’s play. It may have been raining wickets before tea, but afterwards it just rained as play was suspended during the fifth over before resuming under lights after 5pm [...]