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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

As might have been expected ever since the whole of the first day was lost to rain Sri Lanka's three-day match against KwaZulu-Natal at The Oval in Pietermaritzburg fizzled out to a tame draw on Saturday

Another abbreviated day for Sanath Jayasuriya's Sri Lankans and another day of frustration for the tourists' senior batsmen as time starts to run out ahead of the first Test match against South Africa at Kingsmead on Boxing Day

With Gary Kirsten away playing for South Africa so often this season, Herschelle Gibbs has had little chance to bat with his opening partner as he sits out the remainder of his ban from the international game

For Neil McKenzie, it certainly has been a season to be jolly

Boland scored an easy 58-run over Griquas in the Standard Bank Cup in Paarl on Friday, thanks to a fine 106 from skipper Louis Koen

Man of the match Pieter Strydom ended the game tantalisingly poised on a hat-trick as Border wrapped up a comprehensive 125-run victory over the Dragons with 8.3 overs to spare

An unbroken sixth-wicket partnership of 42 between wicketkeeper Wayne Murray and left-arm spinner Robin Peterson carried Eastern Province to the top of the Standard Bank Cup table, as they leap-frogged Easterns with their fifth victory in as many

Sri Lanka gained the second victory of their South African tour when they beat a KwaZulu-Natal XI by 57 runs at the Chatsworth Oval on Tuesday, but they may well have been left wondering exactly what had been achieved

With an utterly charming Neil McKenzie century as the cornerstone, South Africa produced their best one-day performance of the summer to crush Sri Lanka by 95 runs in the second game of the Standard Bank Series at Buffalo Park on Sunday

Border made light work of a promising Northerns Titans top order that flattered to deceive as they were beaten by four wickets in their Standard Bank Cup match at Supersport Park on Sunday

The Border Bears made light work of a promising Northerns Titans top order that flattered to deceive as they were beaten by four wickets in their Standard Bank Cup match at Supersport Park on Sunday

South Africa were given the ideal preparation for their CricInfo Women's World Cup semi-final clash with Australia on Monday when, courtesy of a Linda Olivier century, they subdued a lively Ireland side at Hagley Oval today

Herschelle Gibbs reminded South African fans what they'd been missing in his enforced absence from the international scene and served notice to the country's selectors that he is running into form just in time for the lifting of his ban with a superb

Ashraf Mall's career-best 77 brightened and otherwise lacklustre match, which Natal won by five wickets with 3.4 overs to spare

Free State batted themselves to a 33-run Standard Bank Cup victory over Griqualand West on a superb batting surface which yielded almost 600 runs

Another solid batting performance by Pierre de Bruyn and a five-wicket haul from Andre Nel enabled Easterns to claim a comfortable 59-run victory over North West in their Standard Bank Cup match in Potchefstroom on Friday evening

Six weeks off while South Africa played out the Test series against New Zealand have clearly done Jonty Rhodes no harm whatsoever

Karen Rolton had already established herself as one of the dominant figures of the CricInfo Women's World Cup but in the space of just 20 overs against South Africa today she made an indelible mark on the tournament

Like few other sports cricket has the ability to make itself look silly