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Party dawg turns bulldog

How South Africa's bright new all-round hope got serious and got going

11-Apr-2009•Andrew Worling

Last man standing

Can Australia's captain rebuild an empire ravaged by age and retirement?

10-Apr-2009•John Stern

Australia ride on bowling resurgence

Stats review of the Test series between South Africa and Australia

23-Mar-2009•Siddhartha Talya

Harris leaves 'buffet bowler' tag behind

The Australians must have been waiting for table service at Newlands, where they failed to handle what Harris dished up in a Man-of-the-Match performance that earned him his best match figures of 9 for 161

22-Mar-2009•Brydon Coverdale in Cape Town

Centurion Johnson morphs into an allrounder

The Mitchell Johnson allrounder debate is over. His captain says he's an allrounder. He says he's an allrounder. The figures from this tour back them up

22-Mar-2009•Brydon Coverdale in Cape Town

Sublime de Villiers repays Arthur's faith

AB de Villiers' contribution of 163 continued his brilliant series, which had been the intention when the coach Mickey Arthur declined to push him up to open

21-Mar-2009•Brydon Coverdale in Cape Town

Defiant Prince returns with a bang

Ashwell Prince's return century was also an innings of defiance, not so much against a limp Australia attack but against the shabby way he had been handled by the selectors

20-Mar-2009•Brydon Coverdale in Cape Town

Unbalanced Australia pay the price

There was just one problem for Australia - five spare bowlers, no extra batsmen - which meant there was no one to cover for an injured batsman

19-Mar-2009•Brydon Coverdale in Cape Town

Laying claim to the room at the top

An exciting new left-hander of Indian origin may just be the answer to South Africa's opener crisis

18-Mar-2009•Azad Essa

Hosts underdogs at Australia's favourite venue

Stats preview of the third Test between South Africa and Australia in Cape Town

18-Mar-2009•Siddhartha Talya

128 and done

The world's most experienced Test umpire hangs up his boots after the Newlands Test

18-Mar-2009•Brydon Coverdale

End of South Africa's innocence

South Africa's greatest strengths on their triumphant tour of Australia were unity and dignity. Those two qualities are disappearing fast

12-Mar-2009•Brydon Coverdale in Cape Town

The dead rubber that transformed a team

A dead rubber it may have been, but the victory in Sydney provided Australia's rookies with invaluable self-affirmation of their abilities at international level

10-Mar-2009•Alex Brown

Australia miss full-time spinner

The lack of a full-time slow bowler to tie down an end for long chunks of the day while also probing for wickets could prove detrimental to an Australian attack full of young and heavily burdened bodies

09-Mar-2009•Brydon Coverdale in Durban

Australia have their 'Phil', and how

Don Bradman on Friday. George Headley on Sunday. It's a shame Test matches don't span three innings per team or Phillip Hughes could have tried to knock off Garfield Sobers on Tuesday

08-Mar-2009•Brydon Coverdale in Durban

Australia look to avoid a Melbourne

If Johannesburg began as the mirror image of Perth until a changed ending, the second Test in Durban is starting to resemble the corresponding match in Melbourne

07-Mar-2009•Brydon Coverdale in Durban

Pace is back

Dale Steyn is the world's No. 1-ranked fast man and Mitchell Johnson is second on the list and on day two in Durban they showed that a fast-bowling community screaming out for new stars is in good hands

07-Mar-2009•Brydon Coverdale in Durban

Hughes carves his name in Australia's history

When Phillip Hughes went into triple-figures with a pair of consecutive sixes he became Australia's most youthful Test centurion in 43 years

06-Mar-2009•Brydon Coverdale in Durban

Flat South Africa slow off the blocks

In the first two sessions of the opening day the South Africans' minds were elsewhere when they should have been focused on making a bold statement to give their series a much-needed boost

06-Mar-2009•Brydon Coverdale in Durban

Hot shots and Hot Spot

Brydon Coverdale presents the plays of the day from day one in Durban

06-Mar-2009•Brydon Coverdale in Durban

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