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Whether Herschelle Gibbs was more relieved than pleased with himself was difficult to tell, but who could blame the 26-year-old for either emotion after his 79 had ensured South Africa's five-wicket victory in the fifth Standard Bank one-day

DEON Kruis singlehandedly took his maiden first-class hat-trick as Griqualand West ended the second day with a lead of 205

LOOTS Bosman and Jon Bastow provided the highlights on an otherwise forgettable opening day of this low-key match between two of the Supersport Series also-rans

Shaun Pollock had some sympathy (but not all that much, mind) for Sanath Jayasuriya after South Africa had wrapped up the Standard Bank one-day international series against Sri Lanka with a crushing 99-run victory in the fourth match at Newlands on

Nic Pothas provided the sort of innings that was once a regular feature of his repertoire, but has been missing for the last couple of seasons, to take the Highveld Strikers to a thrilling five-wicket victory with two balls of their 45 overs to spare

Goolam Bodi delivered his career best performances with bat and ball to guide Natal to an impressive nine-wicket win with al of six overs to spare

KIMBERLEY (January 10) - Griqualand West scored their highest total in a limited overs match to cruise to a comfortable 167-run victory over North West in the Standard Bank Cup on Wednesday evening

With Jacques Kallis pacing his innings to perfection and Jonty Rhodes scampering hither and thither, South Africa made tracking down Sri Lanka's best score of the series seem pretty much routine as they won the third Standard Bank one-day

If North West's scorecard in their Standard Bank Cup match against Free State was put into a time capsule, generations from now would still be asking how they managed to lose Friday night's encounter by five wickets

Doug Watson's highest limited overs score proved in vain as Northerns beat Natal by four wickets with 10 balls to spare

It wasn't so much a case of Easterns having their unbeaten record at Willowmoore Park this season wrestled from their grasp as of handing it over on a platter as they succumbed to Boland by seven wickets

Six months ago, in Shaun Pollock's first Test match as captain, a ragged South African side lost by an innings and 15 runs to Sri Lanka in Galle

Herschelle Gibbs has been recalled to the South African one-day team while Eastern Province all-rounder Justin Kemp comes in for the first time, it was announced at Newlands on Thursday

For the second day running South Africa clambered all over Sri Lanka, a masterly century from Daryll Cullinan standing out as the centrepiece of a dominant batting display as the second Castle Lager/MTN Test match continued to gallop along at

For much of the festive season the South African have been wondering out loud what it might be like to be play on an authentic home pitch

In nine Test matches against South Africa Muttiah Muralitharan has taken five wickets in an innings or more eight time, including a double against South Africa in the drawn first Castle Lager/MTN Test match that ended at Kingsmead on Saturday

Shaun Pollock probably couldn't have hoped for a better Christmas present: his 200th Test wicket and a handsome first innings lead over Sri Lanka, both on the same day and both at his home ground of Kingsmead

Just two days into the Castle Lager/MTN Test series and Sri Lanka's strengths and weaknesses in South African conditions have been sharply illuminated

After a storming start to their campaign, with five straight victories, Eastern Province suffered a second comprehensive defeat in succession when the Northerns Titans got home by six wickets with 15 deliveries in hand

CAPE TOWN, Dec 27 - Western Province's newfound ability to defend a total saw them edge ever closer to a Standard Bank Cup semi-final place with a 50-run victory over Free State although their ultimate fate rests in the hands of others