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McIntosh credits Wright for early success

Shortly after scoring his maiden Test century in only his second match, Tim McIntosh, New Zealand's new opening batsman, has credited former captain John Wright for fine-tuning his game

22-Dec-2008•Cricinfo staff

Gibbs recalled for Australia ODIs

South Africa have named three new players in the 15-man squad for the two Twenty20 internationals and five ODIs in Australia. While Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Wayne Parnell and Vaughn van Jaarsveld will look to make their debuts, Herschelle Gibbs and Makhaya Ntini

22-Dec-2008•Cricinfo staff

Hilfenhaus in for MCG as Krejza dropped

Ben Hilfenhaus has been called to provide Australia with another bowling option for the second Test on Boxing Day

22-Dec-2008•Cricinfo staff

Haddin backs Lee to hit his straps

Brad Haddin has backed Brett Lee to return to his best despite taking only one wicket in Australia's loss to South Africa in Perth

22-Dec-2008•Brydon Coverdale

Debutant Duminy lives the dream

Test debuts don't come much more rewarding than the one JP Duminy experienced in Perth

22-Dec-2008•Brydon Coverdale

Logie optimistic despite Bermuda's poor year

Despite his side's poor year, on and off the field, Bermuda's coach Gus Logie is nevertheless encouraged by the proposed groupings for next year's World Cup qualifiers and remains optimistic that Bermuda can qualify for the 2011 tournament

21-Dec-2008•Cricinfo staff

Prasanna's the best keeper in the world - Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara believes the Sri Lankan Test team has benefitted by having him play as a specialist batsman and let Prasanna Jayawardene take charge behind the stumps

21-Dec-2008•Cricinfo staff

Ponting ponders Hilfenhaus or Bollinger for Melbourne

Australia's inability to defend 414 in Perth has left Ricky Ponting considering bowling changes for next week's Boxing Day Test in Melbourne

21-Dec-2008•Brydon Coverdale in Perth

Switching it in style

Cricinfo presents the Plays of the day from the third day in Mohali

21-Dec-2008•Cricinfo staff

Australia's aura fades away

Australia's aura is fading by the day, and they face an uphill battle to avoid a home-series defeat to South Africa

21-Dec-2008•Brydon Coverdale in Perth

The short stuff was part of the plan - Edwards

Reflecting on his career-best performance of 7 for 87 on the third day in Napier, Fidel Edwards has said his ploy of bringing in variations to his bowling helped keep the New Zealand batsmen in check

21-Dec-2008•Cricinfo staff

Mushfiqur confident of tackling Muralitharan

Bangladesh wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim is confident his batsmen can negate the threat of Muttiah Muralitharan in the upcoming two-Test series at home against Sri Lanka, starting on Friday in Dhaka

21-Dec-2008•Cricinfo staff

Lee way for South Africa

Cricinfo presents the plays of the day from the fifth day of the first Test between Australia and South Africa in Perth

21-Dec-2008•Cricinfo staff

McGrath says Lee is on track

Glenn McGrath expects Brett Lee to return to his best with a couple of wickets and has encouraged the fast bowler to remain upbeat

21-Dec-2008•Cricinfo staff

O'Brien's 'best day' of cricket

Iain O'Brien said he enjoyed watching Tim McIntosh and Daniel Flynn occupy vital time at the crease and consolidate New Zealand's position after his career-best figures of 6 for 75 had kept West Indies to 305

20-Dec-2008•Cricinfo staff

'Tomorrow the most important day of the summer' - Lee

Brett Lee expects the final day at the WACA to be the most telling of the summer for Australia and South Africa as both aim to land the first blow in the battle of the world's top two sides

20-Dec-2008•Brydon Coverdale in Perth

Nielsen questions three-hour sessions

Australia's coach Tim Nielsen has questioned the wisdom of playing Test cricket well into the evening after stumps was not called until 8.03pm on the fourth day of Australia's match against South Africa in Perth

20-Dec-2008•Brydon Coverdale in Perth

'Relieved' Dravid happy to be contributing again

After a year when the words "wall", "falling" and "crumbling" were never far from the headlines, Rahul Dravid could have been forgiven for thinking he had become Humpty Dumpty

20-Dec-2008•S Aga

Smith 2.0 upgrade works wonders

Graeme Smith's century on the fourth day in Perth sent a louder message to Australia than any amount of verbal banter

20-Dec-2008•Brydon Coverdale in Perth

Mighty Mishra stands up to Flintoff

Cricinfo presents the Plays of the day from the second day of the second Test between India and England in Mohali

20-Dec-2008•Cricinfo staff

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