SA captain Graeme Smith said his team was on the right track to go all the way in the World Cup after an impressive demolition of Bangladesh.
Complicated draw system, home games for hosts and animosity towards Pakistan makes planning a problem for the Proteas.
South Africa will look to fine-tune their preparations for the knock-out rounds when they take on Bangladesh on Saturday.
Bangladesh cruised to a six-wicket win over The Netherlands on Monday which takes them to the brink of the World Cup quarter-finals.
Spinner Graeme Swann has been fined 10% match fee for using offensive language during England’s two-wicket defeat by Bangladesh.
Bangladesh’s ninth-wicket pair of Mohammad Mahmudullah and Shafiul Islam hammered 58 runs to send England crashing to a two-wicket defeat on Friday.
England hope to recover from twin injury blows and virtually ensure their World Cup quarterfinal place with a victory over Bangladesh on Friday.
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/ 20 February 2011
Favourites India launched the World Cup with fireworks from Virender Sehwag and the expected opening day big victory over their co-hosts.
Bangladesh was expected to come to a standstill later on Saturday when the country hosts India in the opening match of the Cricket World Cup in Dhaka.
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/ 17 February 2011
India will look to settle an old score against a confident Bangladesh when the co-hosts meet in the opening match of the World Cup on Saturday.
Bangladesh coach Jamie Siddons warned England’s bowlers "it doesn’t swing, it doesn’t seam in Australia" ahead of their Ashes defence ‘Down Under’.
More than 100 people were killed in a fire that razed a Dhaka neighbourhood, and rescue workers scrambled to pull bodies out of the debris on Friday.
The ICC says Bangladesh should have the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) for their next home series and wants broadcasters to pay for it.
Graeme Swann completed a maiden 10-wicket haul to help England overcome some stubborn resistance from Bangladesh in the first Test on Tuesday.
England batsman Kevin Pietersen failed to find form ahead of a two-Test series against Bangladesh, scoring just 20 in a drawn warm-up match on Tuesday
Irishman Eoin Morgan hammered a gutsy century under pressure to power England to a thrilling victory over Bangladesh in the second ODI on Tuesday.
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/ 14 January 2010
Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara hit half-centuries to lead Sri Lanka to a four-wicket win over India in the triangular ODI series on Wednesday
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/ 10 November 2009
Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan, lauded as one of cricket’s brightest prospects, believes his country can lift itself into the top tier of the game.
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/ 6 November 2009
A report by military experts says the adverse effects
of climate change will result in conflict over scarce
resources. Yolandi Groenewald reports.
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/ 26 September 2009
At the end of every year, after the monsoon rains, Noor Hossain dismantles his houseboat on the Bangladeshi delta and heads to the mainland.
Bangladesh’s coach has said he fears the postponement of Pakistan’s tour to the country will hit his team’s chances at this year’s Twenty20 champs.
The Bangladesh military on Tuesday launched its own probe into a savage mutiny by troops against their officers.
Troops fanned out across Bangladesh on Monday to hunt 1 000 fugitive soldiers blamed for a revolt by border guards that left 78 dead.
Tribunals will try paramilitary mutineers who killed at least 80 people, mostly army officers, as more than 70 others remain missing on Sunday.
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/ 28 February 2009
Bangladesh’s powerful army has reaffirmed its support for the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after a mutiny by paramilitary troops.
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/ 27 February 2009
Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina has passed the first major test of her premiership in facing down a deadly mutiny by underpaid border guards.
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/ 26 February 2009
Mutinous Bangladesh border guards have laid down their weapons and surrendered, freeing all their hostages in the process.
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/ 26 February 2009
Fresh gunfire erupted at a paramilitary camp in the Bangladesh capital on Thursday as troops took to streets in towns across the country.
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/ 26 February 2009
Mutinies by members of the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles have broken out in various towns around the country, police and witnesses said on Thursday.
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/ 21 January 2009
Raqibul Hasan scored an unbeaten 52 to guide Bangladesh to a series-levelling six-wicket win in the second ODI against Zimbabwe on Wednesday.
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/ 19 January 2009
Raymond Price grabbed 4-22 and hit two boundaries in the last over to lead Zimbabwe to an exciting win over Bangladesh on Monday.
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/ 14 January 2009
Shakib Al Hasan smashed an explosive 92 not out to power Bangladesh to a five-wicket win over Sri Lanka on Wednesday.