South Africa take on Sri Lanka in the fifth match of the series, leading 3-1 so far. They won the series after winning the first three matches in a row and then went into the fourth game yesterday without too many of their frontline players. The home team still managed to get to 299 and shoul

More than the series result, it is now Sri Lanka's pride at stake that they will be playing for in the fourth ODI against South Africa at Kimberley. After being humbled through most of the tour, Sri Lanka were unlucky to lose out in the third ODI on the Duckworth-Lewis method. On the other han

Sri Lanka take on South Africa in the third of the five match series away from home and will look to ensure they can jeep the series alive. Two games and two defeats for Sri Lanka mean it is their last chance to keep the series alive and avoid the prospect of yet another series defeat. S

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

After winning their first test series on home soil in three years, South Africa plan to inflict more damage on the touring Sri Lankans when the two sides clash in the opening ODI of the five-match series at Paarl on Wednesday. The series will be the first bilateral series between these two sid

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

South Africa will play Sri Lanka in the second Test match of the series to be held at the Kingsmead in Durban. The match will begin from December 26 and will see the South Africans go into the game armed with a 1-0 lead. It was a rout in the first Test match. Sri Lanka struggled to bat, as has

South Africa enter only their second test series of the year when they take on Sri Lanka in the first test at Centurion from Thursday. Sri Lanka, on the contrary, will be hoping for their miserable year to come to an end already. Sri Lanka have had a wretched run since reaching the World Cup f

Australia will not mind having to play over five days as long as they are able to square the two-test series against South Africa. The second test match starts on Thursday at the Wanderers in Johannesburg. After an action-packed first test that saw the game see-saw within hours and wrapped up

Once the top two sides in the world, South Africa and Australia head into an unusually-short two-test series starting from Wednesday. Cape Town will present the home side its first test match since the New Year's test against India. Australia, on the other hand, are gradually picking up under

Like the Twenty20I series South Africa got a win in the second match of the series. South Africa won by 80 runs, but there is still one match to play to decide the winner of the ODI series between these two titans of Cricket. The deciding third match will be played in October 28 in Durban at 12:30

Once again South African batting line up collapsed; as a result they were beaten once again by Australia. This time the difference was 93 runs. These two titans will be facing each other once again in the second ODI on Sunday, October 23 at 8:00 GMT. Their first ODI was a rain affected match.

South Africa were beaten by the awesome Aussies in the first Twenty20I, but they did bounce back and got a win in the second Twenty20I against Australia in a very exciting match where hosts seemed clearly out of the competition when they lost 7 of their batsman relatively very early in the inn

The awesome Aussies defeated their arch rival South Africa by five wickets in the inaugural match of the Australia's tour of South Africa. Their second and final Twenty20I encounter will be played in October 16 at 18:00 GMT. Batting first the home side put up a competitive total of146 runs losi

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

Indian left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha will be appearing for the English county of Surrey in the ongoing season. He will play in both, the CB40 one-dayers and the County Championships from this month onwards. The BCCI has approved Ojha's NOC to play in the county championships. Currently, Oj

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

Australian captain Ricky Ponting has announced his resignation from the captaincy in all formats of the game but has said that he will be a part of the side if selected. Ponting announced to the media that the reason for the stepping down was the early ouster from the World Cup and said tha

India will go into their semi-finals as being one the best batting sides in the competition. Their middle order may have collapsed in the past in the tournament but one must need to see their performance in the quarter-final to understand the strength of their batting. On the other hand, the b

The third quarter-final of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 will be held on Friday, March 25, 2011. The game will be played between New Zealand and South Africa and will be played at the Shere Bangla Stadium in Mirpur. South Africa's form in the tournament has been commendable but then the cri

Bangladesh take on South Africa in the 39th game of the ICC CricketWorld Cup 2011 at the Shere Bangla Stadium in Mirpur. It is an important game from a different perspective for both the sides and rest assured, the two sides will be fighting hard to achieve that. For Bangladesh, the equati

South Africa will take on Ireland in the 34th game of the ICC Cricket World Cup on March 15. The game will be played at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata, the venue which was earlier to host the game between India and England but the game had to be pushed away due to the non-preparedness of the ground

India take on South Africa in the Cricket World Cup game of March 12 at the VCA Stadium in Nagpur. This will be one of the more looked forward to game in the competition as the sides will look to ensure that they win this game, and go into the next round with much more confidence than otherwis

Group B is the more exciting of the two groups so far. They have been able to create some magic through some close, exciting games and that has meant that there are many teams there which can still make it to the quarter-finals. On the other hand, in Group A, it is already known which teams wi

South Africa take on England in the 21st game of the Cricket World Cup to be played at the Chepauk in Chennai. The two teams are in different situations in the tournament so far and it does not change the fact that both the sides will want to win the game. South Africa came into the World Cu

Netherlands take on South Africa in the 16th game of the Cricket World Cup tournament. The game will be played on March 3 and will be hosted by the PCA in Mohali. This will be the first game that Mohali will host in this tournament. South Africa go into this game having convincingly beaten Wes

South Africa will play West Indies in what will be the seventh game of the World Cup cricket tournament. The match will be played at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi and will see the two sides fight it out in their first game each. The two teams go into the tournament in contrasting styles. South

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

The series is poised at two apiece as South Africa enforced a convincing win on India by 48 runs (D/L method) in the fourth game of the series. India who had gone 2-1 up in the series were backing themselves for a series win. South Africa inflicted a commanding win to set up a final encounter

Like the Test series, one day series has been thrilling as expected. India have deservingly gone 2-1 up after securing a 2 wicket win at Cape Town. This was India second exciting win in a row. The five match series now enters in final stage with the fourth game being scheduled to play at Port