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Swann moves to No.3 in rankings

Graeme Swann has crowned a remarkable year, in which he has taken 54 wickets in 11 games, by rocketing to No. 3 in the world rankings, ahead of Muttiah Muralitharan

31-Dec-2009•Cricinfo staff

Procter calls on South Africa to show fight

South Africa's convenor of selectors, Mike Procter, has called on the team to show their "character" after the innings-and-98-run drubbing against England at Durban

31-Dec-2009•Andrew McGlashan in Cape Town

Fiery Broad treated 'same as everyone else'

Stuart Broad has defended his on-field behaviour after recent criticism since the start of the series against South Africa

31-Dec-2009•Andrew McGlashan in Durban

Broad exorcises his Durban ghost

Stuart Broad can now remember Durban for the good times. His fourth-afternoon spell put England on course for their crushing innings-and-98-run victory

31-Dec-2009•Andrew McGlashan in Durban

Joker Swann proves his serious talent

For a long time it appeared that the five overs Graeme Swann bowled in a one-day international against South Africa, at Bloemfontein, on the 1999-2000 tour might be the sum total of his England career

30-Dec-2009•Andrew McGlashan in Durban

Swann five seals innings victory

England's cricketers needed just 18 overs on the final morning at Durban to wrap up a thumping innings-and-98-run victory in the second Test

30-Dec-2009•The Bulletin by Andrew Miller

Finding the top of off

Plays of the day from day four at Durban

29-Dec-2009•Andrew McGlashan in Durban

Swann and Broad stun South Africa

A sensational collapse of six wickets for 23 in 71 balls left South Africa clinging to the wreckage of their second innings at Kingsmead

29-Dec-2009•The Bulletin by Andrew Miller

Collingwood sent for scan on dislocated finger

England suffered an injury scare shortly before the start of the fourth day's play in Durban when Paul Collingwood dislocated his left index finger during fielding practice

29-Dec-2009•Andrew McGlashan in Durban

Gusting winds and gutsy knocks

Plays of the day from the third day of the second Test between South Africa and England at Durban

28-Dec-2009•Andrew McGlashan in Durban

Cook and Collingwood set England platform

Alastair Cook produced a performance of limitless concentration and increasing authority to post his tenth Test century in his 50th appearance

28-Dec-2009•The Bulletin by Andrew Miller

Ripping reviews and Steyn's long handle

27-Dec-2009•Andrew McGlashan in Durban

Strauss cameo sets England platform

Andrew Strauss took a leaf out of Dale Steyn's batting textbook, and launched England's innings in the same aggressive manner with which South Africa's No. 10 had closed that of his own team

27-Dec-2009•The Bulletin by Andrew Miller

Smith mix-up thickens the plot

Plays of the day from the first day of the second Test at Durban

26-Dec-2009•Andrew McGlashan in Durban

Cutting it fine

Plays of the day from the first day of the second Test at Durban

26-Dec-2009•Andrew McGlashan in Durban

England make inroads after Smith and Kallis stand

South Africa's old guard of Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis combined superbly in a third-wicket stand of 150 to claw their side into the ascendancy on the opening day of the Boxing Day Test at Kingsmead, but England claimed five wickets in 17 overs

26-Dec-2009•The Bulletin by Andrew Miller

Series lead up for grabs

Cricinfo previews the second Test between South Africa and England in Durban

25-Dec-2009•The Preview by Andrew Miller

The key to momentum awaits

If either side can take the series lead in Durban then they really will have the momentum

25-Dec-2009•Andrew McGlashan in Durban

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