Cricket News

Mark Boucher, the South Africa wicketkeeper, lost respect for some of Australia's players following events during the tour of Australia

Mickey Arthur, South Africa's coach, reflects on the tour to Australia as the hardest time of his professional life

Australia trounced South Africa by 57 runs at Sydney on Sunday, but Ricky Ponting pinpointed the toss as the deciding factor, despite another swaggering fifty from Adam Gilchrist

Adam Gilchrist generated a high-energy batting performance that gave Australia the ideal warm-up for the VB Series finals as they thrashed South Africa by 57 runs at Sydney

Australia will head into next week's VB Series finals with all major areas firing after an 80-run victory

Readers' feedback to the issue of racism in Australian crowds

Australia's cricketers are bracing themselves for a hostile reception when their tour of South Africa begins later this month

Cricket Australia has called for lifetime bans on supporters found guilty of racial abuse

The ICC has asked Goolam Vahanvati, India's solicitor general, to investigate incidents of racial abuse that have taken place in Australia

Gerald Majola, the CEO of the South African board, has threatened to boycott future tours of Australia if the racial abuse towards his players continues

Racist crowd taunts at Australian grounds this summer have increased to include Sri Lanka, according to the Sydney Morning Herald

Ashwell, South Africa's middle-order batsman, has been named vice captain of the side following Jacques Kallis's departure home due to a shoulder injury

South Africa have reportedly considered walking off the field if their players are subjected to further racial abuse on the tour of Australia

Andrew Hall grabbed two wickets in two balls in a brilliant display of one-day death bowling, as South Africa snatched a thrilling nine-run victory from the jaws of defeat

Following a career-best bowling analysis in Australia's crushing 59-run win over South Africa at Melbourne yesterday, Brett Lee has been hailed by Ricky Ponting as perhaps the best one-day bowler around

Brett Lee secured a career-best return and Phil Jaques enjoyed a record-breaking one-day entry as Australia easily accounted for South Africa

Adam Gilchrist, Australia's most successful one-day opening batsman, is expected to be demoted to No. 7 when he returns to the side next week

Virender Sehwag's remarkable double-century against Pakistan at Lahore this week was not sufficient to lift him up from seventh position in the latest LG ICC Player Rankings

Johan van der Wath, the Eagles allrounder, has been called up to South Africa's VB Series squad

Sri Lanka completed their first win of the VB Series by a convincing 94 runs at Brisbane to throw the tournament wide open