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Neil McKenzie had the best view of all of Shaun Pollock's majestic maiden Test century on the opening day of the third and final Castle Lager/MTN Test match against Sri Lanka at SuperSport Park

If Shaun Pollock couldn't quite work out how South Africa contrived to lose the sixth and final Standard Bank one-day international at the Wanderers on Wednesday, then neither could Sri Lankan captain Sanath Jayasuriya fathom how the side batting

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wherever the Sri Lankan women's cricket team go, the crowds should follow

Sri Lanka made short work of securing the first victory of their three Test tour with an eight-wicket victory over Eastern Province inside two days