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SA20 venues face a power problem

The six stadiums will have to ensure that they have an independent power supply for lights during the tournament

04-Jan-2023•Firdose Moonda

India set up dream final after brushing Kenya aside

India ended the Kenyan fairy tale, Sourav Ganguly leading the way with an unbeaten ton

14-May-2020•Anand Vasu

ICC hands official warning to Durban, Port of Spain

The ICC has handed official warnings under its pitch and outfield monitoring process to Kingsmead in Durban and the Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain

08-Sep-2016•ESPNcricinfo staff

Kingsmead and Queen's Park Oval outfields rated poor

The match referees of the Durban and Trinidad Tests, Andy Pycroft and Ranjan Madugalle respectively, have rated the two outfields for the matches as "poor"

24-Aug-2016•ESPNcricinfo staff

Relaid Kingsmead outfield raises concerns

While all eyes are on the pitch for Durban's first-ever Test match in August, peripheral vision will move to the outfield which has failed to recover completely since being relaid last month

18-Aug-2016•Firdose Moonda

England take heart from South Africa flux

ESPNcricinfo previews the first Test between South Africa and England at Durban

24-Dec-2015•The Preview by Andrew Miller

India to play South Africa at football world cup stadium

South Africa will meet India at the Fifa World Cup stadium in Durban next year for a Twenty20 match expected to attract the biggest crowd to ever attend a cricket match in South Africa

14-Jun-2010•Cricinfo staff

IPL franchises race to get a base

With just three weeks left for the IPL to begin in South Africa, the eight teams have begun a race against time to get their player combinations and practice bases in place

28-Mar-2009•Nagraj Gollapudi

Rain hampers Kingsmead preparations

Heavy rain in Durban over the last week has left preparations for this Thursday's deciding Test between South Africa and West Indies behind schedule

07-Jan-2008•Cricinfo staff

'We are in a fortunate position now' - Arthur

Talking to the media before the Kingsmead game, Mickey Arthur spoke of "pent-up energy" and how badly the team needed to play to break up the monotony of endless practice sessions

21-Nov-2006•Dileep Premachandran in Durban

'You can't just blindly play your bowlers' - Dravid

Having spent most of the current season practicing while game after game got rained off, Rahul Dravid was eager for the series to get underway after Sunday's washout at the Wanderers

21-Nov-2006•Dileep Premachandran in Durban

Venues announced for Twenty20 World Championship

Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town have been chosen as the three venues for the inaugural ICC Twenty20 World Championships in September 2007

21-Nov-2006•Cricinfo staff

Rushed job to get pitches prepared

The groundsman at Durban's Kingsmead Stadium is a man under pressure as he battles to prepare pitches for the second and third matches in the Afro-Asian Cup

19-Aug-2005•Cricinfo staff

Smith and Kemp power South Africa to another big win

Graeme Smith's third one-day century - all of them in the last 24 days - and a stunning late burst from Justin Kemp, whose half-century came from only 19 balls, hoisted South Africa to 329 for 6 after they were put in at Durban

27-Feb-2005•The Bulletin by Steven Lynch

Pollock to miss second ODI

Shaun Pollock will miss South Africa's second one-day international against Zimbabwe at Durban, to allow more time for his injured ankle to heal

26-Feb-2005•Cricinfo staff

Rains return to frustrate England

England's hopes of rescuing their one-day series in South Africa were dashed by the vagaries of Durban's weather, which closed in towards the end of South Africa's innings and stayed for good at the beginning of England's

11-Feb-2005•The Bulletin by Andrew Miller

England look to Pietersen for inspiration

From 1-0 up to 3-1 down, England's one-day campaign has taken a decided turn for the worse

10-Feb-2005•Andrew Miller

'South Africa got out of jail,' says Vaughan

"An epic!" declared Michael Vaughan, as he strode in to face the media after the second Test at Durban had ended in a nailbiting draw

30-Dec-2004•Andrew Miller

Darkness - and de Villiers - thwart England at Durban

Darkness drove the players from the field just before 4.30pm at Durban - around half-an-hour before the scheduled close - handing South Africa a lifeline after England had seemed certain to wrap up the match, and with it a 2-0 lead

30-Dec-2004•The Bulletin by Steven Lynch

'I think we were a bit lucky at the end there'

Graeme Smith admitted that fortune had smiled on South Africa in the closing stages of the second Test at Durban, but praised the tenacity of his team, since lesser sides might have crumbled in the face of such a turnaround

30-Dec-2004•Andrew Miller

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