Will Luke

Cricinfo previews the second Test between South Africa and Bangladesh at Centurion

At least it was relatively quick and painless. South Africa's pace attack demonstrated the vast gap in class, picking off Bangladesh's batsmen like skittles in an alley to complete a comprehensive innings-and-129-run victory in the first Test in Bloemfont

Graeme Smith extended his exceptional record against Bangladesh with another hundred, and Hashim Amla made 103, as South Africa's international summer began in imperious style on the first day in Bloemfontein

South Africa eased past a plucky Bangladesh by 12 runs in the Twenty20 at Johannesburg

Stanford, Warne, Stanford, Jones and more Stanford

South Africa have far sterner tests on the horizon - tests with and without a capital 't' - but they avoided a potential season-opening howler by walloping their neighbours Kenya by 159 runs in the first of two ODIs in Bloemfontein

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A thumping and unbeaten 45 from the Stanford Superstars' stand-in captain, Sylvester Joseph, led his side to a convincing 22-run win over Trinidad & Tobago in the first match of the eagerly anticipated Stanford Super Series

Back from the verge of oblivion, MIddlesex's 39-year-old captain has found redemption in the unlikely form of Twenty20

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With the possible abandonment of Sri Lanka's tour of England next year, Kevin Pietersen is just one high-profile member who could reap the financial benefits by appearing in the IPL

England's new captain may not be too experienced, but no one could be more up for the job

Will Luke speaks to Aftab Habib and Kabir Khan, the coaches of Hong Kong and Afghanistan, ahead of Division Four of the World Cricket League

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England's hopes of securing a 5-0 whitewash over South Africa were denied by the Welsh rain, as the fifth and final ODI at Cardiff was abandoned after only three overs of play

England took an unassailable 3-0 lead at The Oval, but for England's new and irrepressibly positive captain, he and his team have greater goals in their sights

For two sides possessing such hulking heavyweights as Graham Napier and Justin Kemp, the final of the Friends Provident Trophy appeared destined to offer big runs and lavish hundreds. And yet for all the power contained Essex's lineup, it was left to Gran

A disciplined bowling performance by England limited their target to a gettable 197 on the penultimate day at The Oval. The one man to stand in their way was AB de Villiers who fell three short of a fine hundred, but with the weather forecast set fair, En

Hashim Amla stroked his ninth Test fifty as South Africa reduced the deficit to just 12, on a shortened third day at The Oval

A superb, even 100 from Kevin Pietersen, his first hundred as England captain, provided the mainstay of England's 316 on the second day against South Africa at The Oval