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Left-arm spinner Nicky Boje, out of action since April when he left South Africa's tour of the West Indies prematurely for shoulder and knee surgery, has been recalled to the South African squad for the next two games in the Standard Bank Triangular

Shaun Pollock got it wrong at the Wanderers on Friday night, but it was an error of judgement which was not to prove costly as South Africa opened the Standard Bank One-Day International with a six-wicket win over India

The uncertainties of the game not withstanding, it was a strange sight at the Wanderers on Friday to see the South African side being shoddy on the field

There was brilliant sunshine when India took on South Africa at the New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg on an October Friday afternoon

Rain won the day at Newlands on Friday when no play was possible on the opening day of the season's opening Supersport Series match between Nashua WP and Easterns

Three centuries, two of them from Indian master batsmen Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar, were fashioned in the first Standard Bank One-Day International at the Wanderers on Friday

Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak talks to John Ward about the South African tour, which was always going to be difficult but was particularly disappointing in that Zimbabwe lacked self-belief and failed to make the tourists fight for victory

Overnight and early morning rain on Friday has delayed the start of the Supersport Series match between Nashua WP and Easterns at Newlands

There was some good news, even if it came with a qualification, for India on the eve of Friday's opening Standard Bank One-Day international against South Africa at the Wanderers when touring captain Sourav Ganguly announced that both he and master

©AFP Sourav Ganguly in power glasses came down through the West Gate entrance of the Wanderers on a lovely Tuesday afternoon

Ajit Agarkar blasted India to an unlikely three-wicket victory over South Africa A at Willowmoore Park in Benoni last night, hauling the tourists out of deep trouble with uninhibited display of clean hitting

Ajit Agarkar blasted India to an unlikely three-wicket victory over South Africa A at Willowmoore Park in Benoni last night, hauling the tourists out of deep trouble with an uninhibited display of clean hitting

Jamaican fast bowler, Franklyn Rose has arrived in Johannesburg to join the Highveld Strikers for the upcoming 2001/2002 season

Led by a thunderous century from Thomas Odoyo, Kenya's batsmen savaged an inexperienced Gauteng XI attack on Tuesday to set up a 224-run victory in a one-day game at the Soweto Cricket Oval on Tuesday

Still no Allan Donald and still no Nicky Boje, but South Africa will take a 12-man squad of proven quality to the Wanderers on Friday for the first Standard Bank Summer Spice Series one-day match against India

Makhaya Ntini and Mfuneko Ngam became the first African players to receive one of South African cricket's highest awards on Monday when they were named among five 2001 Cricketers of the Year

The Spec-Savers Jumbos team will play against Border in their first match of the season in a Supersport 4 day match at St

South Africa will face the West Indies in the opening match of the 2003 World Cup and that, said 2003 CWC executive director Ali Bacher on Monday, is official

Kennedy Otieno carried his bat for an unbeaten 156 as Kenya settled convincingly onto South African soil with a comfortable 95 runs victory over a South African Country Districts XI in Pietersburg on Sunday

India's tour of South Africa kicks off in earnest, well, semi-earnest anyway, on Monday with what has become a traditional pipe-opener for touring teams against a Nicky Oppenheimer XI at the privately-owned Randjesfontein ground in Midrand