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Eoin Morgan and Kevin Pietersen have guided England to a seven wicket victory over Pakistan in the first of two Twenty20 matches between the sides in Dubai. Morgan, who finished with 67 runs from 51 balls, smacked two fours and a six from consecutive deliveries to hand England victory with nine balls to spare, while [...]
South African-born and raised Craig Kieswetter has given England selectors further pause for thought as he almost single-handedly guided the England Lions to victory over England in a Twenty20 match in Abu Dhabi. Kieswetter smashed 81 runs from 66 balls to top score for the England Lions and help them to a five wicket victory [...]
With the No. 1 Test ranking on the line in the second Test between India and South Africa, it was again Hashim Amla who led the Proteas batting in the first innings, with a top-score of 114. While Amla gained support from opener Alviro Petersen, who scored an even century, there as precious little support [...]
Umpire Mark Benson has raised his finger in Test cricket for the last time, ending his time as an international umpire to take up a contract with the ECB. “Umpiring at the top level has been a very rewarding experience for me and it is not an easy decision to walk away from it but [...]
It’s been a case of coaching musical chairs in the cricket world of late but as South Africa begins its search for Mickey Arthur’s replacement, New Zealand and West Indies have named their off-field leaders. The Caribbean side have named Ottis Gibson as their new head coach, and he’ll take up that role in time [...]
It was, perhaps, one of the most bizarre instances of ball tampering we’ve yet seen in international cricket. In the final match of Pakistan’s five match ODI series against Australia Shahid Afridi took the notion of taking a bite out of the cherry one step too far. The stand-in Pakistan captain was seen to bite [...]