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/ 19 September 2007
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On a night of high excitement and fireworks both on and off the field, India beat England by 18 runs in their Twenty20 World Championship Super Eight match at Kingsmead, Durban, on Wednesday evening. Helped by a dazzling innings from Yuvraj Singh, India, who won the toss, made 218 for four in their 20 overs.
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/ 18 September 2007
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New Zealand beat England by five runs to squeak home in their Twenty20 World Championship Super Eight match at Kingsmead in Durban on Tuesday. It was more a case of England throwing away a probable victory — crazy run outs and some reckless batting cost England important wickets — and a possible place in the semifinals.
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/ 14 September 2007
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With the West Indies out of the Twenty20 World Championship, there is no pressure on South Africa in their group match against Bangladesh at Newlands on Saturday evening, Proteas skipper Graeme Smith said on Friday. ”It’s a free game for us to make sure we get our basics right,” he said.
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/ 11 September 2007
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A magnificent unbroken third-wicket stand of 120 by Herschelle Gibbs and Justin Kemp took South Africa to a thrilling eight-wicket victory over the West Indies in the opening match of the Twenty20 World Championship at the Wanderers on Tuesday night.
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/ 5 September 2007
South African all-rounder Shaun Pollock believes the start of the Rugby World Cup in France on Friday has taken some of the pressure off the cricket team ahead of the ICC Twenty20 tournament. ”We’re a sports mad country, but I think a lot of the expectations are focussed on the Springboks,” Pollock said at a press conference on Wednesday.
There is a serious amount of work to be done before the International Cricket Council Twenty20 World Cup tournament, which starts on September 11, said South African cricket coach Mickey Arthur on Monday, after the Proteas’ return from their 3-0 one-day international series victory over Zimbabwe.
”We need to meet them head on in every area,” England captain Jason Robinson said ahead of the first Test against South Africa in Bloemfontein on Saturday. Robinson acknowledged England could be seen as underdogs, but said that would have been the case even if more of the regular team had been in South Africa.
Cricketers are concerned that the amount of international cricket being played could be detrimental to the game. The chief executive of the South African Cricketers’ Association, Tony Irish, said on Thursday that the volume of cricket being played was one of the main concerns expressed by players in a recent World Cup 2007 survey.
Cricket South Africa denied on Monday that it had offered to host the one-day international (ODI) series between Australia and Zimbabwe. Earlier, the Australian government announced that it would not permit the Australian cricket team to travel to Zimbabwe for the three-match series, scheduled for July.
Senior cricket administrators are to meet on Thursday to review the Proteas’ performance over the past year. Among other things, the administrators will be discussing the team’s somewhat erratic performance at the Cricket World Cup in the Caribbean, where they lost four of the 10 matches they played.