REUTERS – Pace bowler Stuart Broad has gone top of the International Cricket Council (ICC) rankings after his brilliant display in England’s series-clinching victory against South Africa in Johannesburg on Saturday. Broad took six wickets for 17 runs in a devastating burst as England bowled the hosts out for 83 in their second innings. England […]
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Stuart Broad decimated South Africa’s top order with a magical spell of fast bowling that yielded five wickets and left England on the brink of victory at tea on day three of the third test on Saturday. The hosts limped to the interval on 71 for eight after Broad returned figures of […]
By Mark Gleeson JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Joe Root scored an unbeaten 106 and shared a swashbuckling partnership with Ben Stokes as England put the brakes on a hostile South African attack to reach 238 for five at the close of the second day of the third test on Friday. Bad light and rain brought a […]
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Joe Root and Ben Stokes shared a rapid unbeaten partnership of 71 to put the brakes on a hostile South African attack and lift England to 162 for four at tea on the second day of the third test on Friday. Replying to South Africa’s first-innings total of 313, Root scored the […]
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Former South Africa international Gulam Bodi has been charged with attempting to fix matches in the country’s domestic Twenty20 competition, the country’s cricket authorities said on Thursday. Bodi, who played two one-day internationals and one Twenty20 match for the national side in 2007, has been charged with “contriving to fix, or […]
South Africa spinner Dane Piedt was released from the test squad, a sign that the hosts will field four fast bowlers in the third test against England.
By Mark Gleeson JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – England expect results in both the remaining cricket tests against South Africa, with captain Alastair Cook saying he was excited at the prospect of wrapping up the series when the third test starts at the Wanderers on Thursday. England won the first test in Durban by 241 runs but […]
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – AB de Villiers said he is still motivated to perform in all forms of international cricket and hopes the responsibility of being appointed South Africa test captain will improve his performances. The 31-year-old, one of the most explosive batsmen in the game, has taken over from Hashim Amla who resigned the leadership […]
