Cricket News

The 2nd vital encounter of the Singapore Challenge between Pakistan and South Africa commenced with Pakistan batting first and piling up a moderate total of 227 for 9

South Africa has tied the inaugural Super Challenge 2000 series at Melbourne's Colonial Stadium at one match apiece with a eight run win in the third and final match of what has proved to be a very innovative and enjoyable series

The heavy overnight rain that engulfed Singapore rendered the Kallang Cricket Ground unplayable for the game without proper drying

As Australia and South Africa continued to play their part in expanding cricket's frontiers at Melbourne's Colonial Stadium today, so they added to their own inimitable legend

Cricket's excursion indoors in Melbourne today may have afforded the sport one of its more novel developments of recent years but there was no escaping at least one familiar refrain

All things considered, South Africa could not have asked a great deal more of Shaun Pollock and his overhauled team than has been forthcoming in Sri Lanka over the past five to six weeks

Divan Van Wyk continued his top form in the Costcutter U15 World Challenge 2000 with a superb innings to put South Africa in the driving seat in their semi-final against West Indies at Hove

For much of this afternoon, the spectators who had crowded into Galle International Stadium sat quietly on as their side drifted towards an apparently inevitable defeat

Sri Lanka may have lost the test series against Pakistan but they remain one the world's best sides in the world when it comes to one-day cricket

For the fishing folk of Moratuwa and the touring South African's, todays warm-up match at De Soysa Stadium was a relaxed and enjoyable affair

England Women produced another encouraging result in their preparations for the CricInfo Women's World Cup as they beat South Africa by 9 wickets in a rain-affected match at Trent Bridge

A career-best score and a brilliant runout by Melissa Reynard saw the England women's team to a 20-run victory in a low scoring match against South Africa at Chelmsford yesterday

A brief history of how the games dimensions came about

It was the sort of batting revival which was more in keeping with the World Cup than the emotion-charged early evening at an over-flowing Wanderers but South Africa came back almost from the dead to bury the Edgbaston ghost

As you would expect from World Cup champions, Australia bounced off the ropes and stubbed out South Africa's aim of wrapping up the Challenge Series at Newlands last night and head for the Wanderers on Sunday mentally better prepared

Durban - Shrugging off the nightmare trauma of the last 72 hours South Africa forgot the recriminations of Hansiegate for an evening and concentrated on beating Australia at Kingsmead in the opening match of the Challenge Series

Despite a stunning 185-run knock by Michael Bevan, the Rest of the World XI conceded a one-run defeat to mighty Asia XI in a thrilling limited-over match at the flood-lit Bangabandhu National Stadium Saturday

As they say, when it rains, it pours

Sharjah, March 28: One blistering over and it all made the difference

Sharjah, March 27: India came here with the reputation of being the favourites