South Africa suffered a major blow with Graeme Smith finally deciding his elbow had all done all it could. But the team now had to do without the skipper’s resources at a time when the hosts are in the ascendancy and the visitors, well, not...
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When Andre Nel top scores in an innings with thirteen runs to his name, it has to mean that the side is in trouble. South Africa did not know what hit them as England and Stuart Broad raced through the line up on a rather troubled day for the...
To say that this man has been a thorn in South Africa’s flesh is an understatement. Kevin Pietersen has created headaches yet again in a one day match and with the captain in such thunderous form, who cares about the rest of the line up?
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There was perhaps only one real funny moment for South Africa and that was when Morne Morkel briefly forgot his way to the dressing room. It had Kevin Pietersen pointing it out to his bowlers and had the South Africans balcony pealing with...
This is the kind of shake up that can, at best, be called dramatic. This has been a dramatic week for cricket in England and there is much sorrow and all the joy has been put on caution.
England have unveiled a new captain, though not...
It’s official. Kevin Pietersen takes over the reins of the England captaincy. Not quite as dramatic as the manner in which both skippers stepped down on a single day after the South Africans made history and drew another nail into the heart of...
It had to come yet again when Graeme Smith had made a valuable century for his team against England. Nasser Hussain handed the captaincy to Michael Vaughan overnight and now England have both captains, Michael Vaughan and Paul Collingwood, ...
When South Africa won the heroic Lord’s Test in 1994, a popular sports magazine in India ran a cover story calling Kepler Wessels ‘captain courageous’ for his invaluable century that made victory possible for the touring visitors and...
SA Eating out of England’s hands?
Pietersen missed it going for one. Paul Collingwood would let it the opportunity to slip past. The man most unwanted in the dressing room had come to England’s aid. His retort: a gigantic six off Paul...
The muddle in the England dressing room is not about picking Steve Harmison at Edgbaston or of missing Matthew Hoggard at Headingley. England cannot seem the find the rope ever since they lost their way at Lord’s. History is dangling the...
Luke Wright slammed a 38-ball half century and did everything else he could in his debut match against India at The Oval. Despite that, the swashbuckling youngster may still find himself warming the bench as England think-tank is all set to bring...
In a high scoring encounter, India defeated England by 9 runs to level the seven match series 1-1. After a dismal show in first one dayer Rahul Dravid decided to bat first on a sunny Bristol. India got off to a rollicking start, thanks to some...
England's charismatic all-rounder, Andrew Flintoff is back in the 14-member one-day squad and has been included for the first four of the seven matches, of the Nat West series against India. Flintoff recovered from an ankle injury, which left the...
Andrew Flintoff, sidelined for the first two Tests of the series against West Indies has been ruled out of the remainder of the series and perhaps for the rest of the summer. ECB confirmed that he would be undergoing a third bout of surgery on his...
England has been performing below par at the World Cup with none of the player's delivering to potential and here the team is up for a Herculean task facing the Lankan Tigers in their super 8 encounter this Wednesday.
The woes double for Fletcher's...
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