South Africa coach Mickey Arthur expects his line-up to showcase its ”brave” new approach to cricket as it chases victory at all costs in the third Test against Australia. ”If we go home having lost two-nil trying to give ourselves the option of winning, we’re going to he happy with that,” Arthur said on Wednesday.
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/ 29 December 2005
Andrew Symonds plundered 72 from 54 balls and delivered another crucial bowling burst on Thursday as Australia moved within four wickets of victory over South Africa. On the brink of omission in the second Test, Symonds followed his career-best bowling haul in the first innings with his devastating knock in a 124-run stand with Matt Hayden (137) before Australia declared at 321-7.
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/ 26 December 2005
Ricky Ponting and Matt Hayden shared a 152-run stand to nullify South Africa’s early breakthrough on Monday, lifting Australia to 162 for two at tea on day one of the second cricket Test. Ponting won the toss, decided Australia would bat first on a moist pitch and then joined Hayden at the crease in the third over.
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/ 17 November 2005
Russian Nikolay Davydenko hopes to take advantage of a depleted field after making it to the semifinals of the season-ending Masters Cup. Davydenko will be the highest-ranked player in the semifinals behind two-time defending champion Roger Federer.
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/ 12 October 2005
The International Cricket Council (ICC) will donate revenue from the Super Series Test match between Australia and the World XI to the Red Cross relief effort for the earthquake disaster in Pakistan instead of holding a separate charity match, ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed told a news conference on Wednesday.
Brett Lee and Shane Watson took four wickets apiece as the World XI crumbled meekly for 137, losing by 156 runs on Sunday and giving Australia a 3-0 sweep in the limited-overs Super Series. The two-time defending World Cup champion Australians confirmed their status as the number-one team in limited-overs cricket.
Shane Watson took three wickets and made a crucial run-out on Wednesday to help Australia to a 93-run win over the World XI and a 1-0 lead in the limited-overs Super Series. Openers Simon Katich (58) and Adam Gilchrist (45) led the scoring as Australia made 255 for eight after winning the toss and batting first.
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/ 13 September 2005
Australians under voting age woke to a new, unfamiliar experience and older generations were reacquainted with an unsettling feeling: England have won the Ashes. To clarify, England beat Australia for cricket’s most storied international prize late on Monday at The Oval in south London, where the Ashes were created in 1882.
Shane Warne took four wickets on Wednesday to move Australia within a wicket of a series sweep before Asim Kamal’s unbeaten 86 helped guide Pakistan to a 59-run lead on the fourth day of the third cricket Test. Asim shared an unbroken 53-run 10th-wicket partnership with Mohammad Asif (12) to frustrate the Australian attack.