Two sides with contrasting records square off in the first of two matches on Friday as Mumbai Indians host Pune Warriors. Mumbai, winners of last year's Champions League, got off to a winning start on the opening day of this year's Indian Premier League while Pune Warriors will be in action fo

New Zealand's impressive run at home this season has been slightly offset by the constant coming-in-between by South Africa who spoiled their party once again with a six-wicket win in the first ODI. The two teams meet again in the second match on Wednesday at Napier. New Zealand look to keep

After snatching victory from the jaws of defeat in the T20 series, South Africa will look to carry their momentum further as they clash with New Zealand in the one-dayers. The three-match series begins on Saturday, and New Zealand will be hoping that a change in formats will allow them to ov

Even the best psychologists in the world would be at odds to help the Sri Lankan players come out of the shock they must be under right now. South Africa on the contrary must be wondering what bigger targets to look for in the upcoming matches. The two sides clash again in the second ODI on Sa

What everyone believed to be impossible has indeed happened. Sri Lanka go into the final test of a test series in South Africa with any of the three series-results possible. After scoring their first win on South African soil, the Lankans will be high on confidence when they clash with the hom

Not very long both Australia and South Africa were the most attractive and powerful teams of the world, they are still dangerous for any opponent but certainly they have lost their sharpness a bit especially Australia. To gain their lost pride back they have been consistently trying hard, appl

The South African selectors have announced that AB de Villiers will be the captain of the side for the limited over format. E Villiers will take over the captaincy role of the ODI and the T20I sides from Graeme Smith, who had earlier stood down from the captaincy in a bid to concentrate on his

The Chennai Super Kings will play the Pune warriors India in the 29th game of the Indian Premier League. The game will be a home match for the Super Kings and will be played at the M Chidambaram in Chepauk in Chennai and will see the two sides try and fight it out for a chance to get back their mome

Pune Warriors will be facing Kings XI Punjab in their IPL debut game at Mumbai. The Warriors are led by Yuvraj Singh, who led the Kings XI Punjab in the first two editions of the tournament before he was replaced by Kumar Sangakkara in IPL 2010. Kings XI Punjab have gone in for a complet

South Africa defeated Australia in the second warm-up game for both the sides before the start of the World Cup 2011. This was Australia's second successive loss while South Africa won their second consecutive game. South Africa won by seven wickets and with many overs to spare. Unlike the last ga

South African captain Graeme Smith and Zimbabwean skipper Elton Chigumbura have slammed the Chennai wicket and called it unfit for ODI cricket. The two teams were involved in a practice match at the Chepauk in Chennai and found it to be under-prepared for this format of the game. According to Smit

India registered a remarkable one run win to pull level the series. South Africa looked all set to ease to a comfortable victory at Johannesburg on Saturday, but disciplined bowling from India and lack of direction from South Africa cause India to celebrate a much needed win. The series is ide

It was a one sided affair at Durban in the opening one day international. The Indians crumbled under lights and conceded a heavy defeat. But will it be a replay of the Test series? Where India were crushed in the opening Test match but they fought valiantly to draw series. The series is important

South Africa's Test and ODI captain Graeme Smith has acquired a fracture to his left hand's fourth finger. This could rule him out of the clash at summit; forthcoming home Tests series against India. Smith got struck on the hand by a fierce bouncer from Shoaib Akhtar in first game of the one d

Razzaq's innings at Sheikh Zayed Stadium might still be playing on South Africans as they take field for the fourth one day international at Dubai. Pakistan started shakily to the series but have started improving as the series is progressing. The two teams gear up for the fourth ODI at Du

South Africa might still be sitting in their rooms bewildered at what happened at Sheikh Zayed Stadium on Sunday. Charl Langeveldt and Albie Morkel might still be having night mares of Abdul Razzaq clearing his left leg and hitting them straight over their heads. Series has come alive su

South Africa sealed the series, taking uncatchable 2-0 lead winning the last game Potchefstroom with 11 overs to spare. As far as the results are concerned there have been no surprises. South Africa have shown their dominance by winning all T20 games and now winning two out of two ODIs.

South Africa seemed a much more improved side from the T20s on Friday. The grabbed the games with both hands and never looked in trouble. It was a batsmen's paradise at Outsurance Oval Stadium, Bloemfontein. The ball was coming on nicely and South African batsmen made full use of the conditi

South Africa and Zimbabwe, teams of different statures in international cricket face each other in two T20s and three ODIs in South Africa. The South Africans are an excellent team in all three versions of the game while Zimbabweans are only restricted to playing ODIs and T20s after their Test

The South African tour of West Indies will continue with the second T20I between the Proteas and West Indies and the game will be played on the same ground at the North South. South Africa will be going into this series after having crashed out rather meekly from the ICC World T20 and the West

West Indies and South Africa will be involved in a two match T20I series to be followed by five ODIs and three Tests in the West Indies. The first of the T20I will be played at the Queen's Park Oval at the Port-of-Spain in Trinidad. Both, the West Indies and South Africa have had a bad ICC World

South Africa will take on Afghanistan in the last league game of the ICC World T20 this year in the West Indies. The match will be played at Barbados and will be a night game, which means that it will begin at 2.30 am IST and end at 6.00 am. Afghanistan were handed over a drubbing by India in

The 29th game of the IPL this year will see the Rajasthan Royals take on the Delhi daredevils on Wednesday. Both the sides have won four games each in the tournament, and lost three, making it an even battle. And based on which side between Mumbai and Punjab wins the game today, it is going to b

The Rajasthan Royals will face the Kolkata Knight Riders in the 13th game of the Indian Premier League this time around at the Motera in Ahmedabad. This is a home game for the Rajasthan Royals. The Knight Riders have played three games so far and won two of them, whereas the Royals have both t

The Royal Challengers Bangalore will play the Rajasthan Royals in the 10th game of the Indian Premier League at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. The Bangalore side did not have a great first game in the tournament and lost to the Kolkata Knight Riders rather easily, whereas the Rajastha

The Brabourne stadium in Mumbai will host the second game of the third edition of the Indian Premier League. Mumbai will host Rajasthan in this match, as the two teams go head to head in trying to overcome their previous season's debacle and enter the semi-finals in this tournament. The Mumb

India will South Africa in the first of the three ODIs on Sunday. The game will be played at the Sawai Man Singh stadium on Jaipur, despite the terror threats found against the city. The last time the two sides were involved in an ODI series, it was in 2007, and the Indians had come back f

South Africa lost the services of their regular captain, Graeme Smith for the ODI series against India due to the finger injury he had sustained at the start of the second Test. He had managed to play the game after it was found that even Mark Boucher would miss the second game due to his back

The South Africans are hurting real badly after their loss to England in the second test match at Kingsmead at Durban. Such was the intensity of the collapse in the second innings, that it had all the critics pointing fingers at the South African captain with the likes of Clive Rice even point

The third test match between England and South Africa will be played at Cape Town in the New year. The tourists lead the series 1-0 after their convincing innings win at Kingsmead in Durban over South Africa. The hosts will be hurting over their previous loss. They had been dominant over t