Captain Ricky Ponting hailed the return to form of Mike Hussey as Australia gained a crushing 141-run win over South Africa on Friday.
It’s time for South Africa to revisit their strategy — and their arrogance — after the Wanderers whipping by Oz.
Proteas captain Graeme Smith said on Thursday his team would put video analysis to good use when they try to level the series against Australia.
South Africa’s bowlers will be under the spotlight in the second Test against Australia, which starts at Kingsmead in Durban on Friday.
South Africa were comprehensively outplayed in their 162-run defeat by Australia in the first Test, said captain Graeme Smith on Monday.
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/ 25 February 2009
Speaking on the eve of the first Test against Australia, which starts on Thursday, SA captain Smith said his players were ”relaxed and focused”.
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/ 20 February 2009
Australia arrived this week with bruised egos. They have a point to prove, but do they have the arsenal to defeat the Proteas on home soil?
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/ 17 February 2009
Australia will be a touring team under pressure, according to South Africa captain Graeme Smith.
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/ 16 February 2009
Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting says the pressure will be all on South Africa when the teams play for No. 1 Test team status.
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/ 26 January 2009
AB de Villiers and Hashim Amla eased SA to their most convincing win of the tour in Adelaide on Monday, clinching the one-day international series 3-1
Australia were in a near impenetrable position at the close of the fourth day of the third Test against SA on Tuesday.
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/ 19 December 2008
No SA player had any doubt the series would be hard work, but the first day in Perth put their minds to rest — it’s going to be very tough indeed.
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/ 10 November 2008
India capped a tight bowling display to record a crushing 172-run victory over Australia in their fourth and final Test on Monday.
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/ 4 November 2008
Ricky Ponting has been likened to inheriting a family business on the slide as Australian cricket comes face-to-face with reality.
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/ 31 October 2008
India’s Virender Sehwag grabbed three wickets as Australia reached 338-4 on the third day of the third Test against India on Friday.
World champions Australia are looking to put India’s veterans under pressure when their eagerly awaited four-Test series opens on Thursday.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting says he is insulted by claims from India’s Virender Sehwag that Australia cheated during a series victory in January.
If statistics and experience alone won cricket matches, Australia would be regarded as no-hopers in the Test series against India.
Twenty20 cricket will inevitably join the Olympic Games, says Australia captain Ricky Ponting.
West Indies captain Ramnaresh Sarwan scored a patient and determined 128 on Tuesday to take his side to a draw on the final day of the second Test against Australia.
Australia fast bowler Brett Lee produced a dynamic spell of swing bowling to set his side up for a series victory over the West Indies on Monday. At the close of the fourth day of the second Test, Australia led by 371 with four second-innings wickets in hand on a deteriorating pitch after winning the first Test in the three-match series.
Michael Clarke scored a fine 110 and then picked up two top-order wickets as Australia ended the second day of the second Test against the West Indies on Saturday with a 354-run first-innings lead. Clarke’s classy innings guided Australia to a commanding 479-7 declared.
Simon Katich fashioned his third Test hundred and overshadowed the 10 000-run milestone of captain Ricky Ponting to lead a solid Australia batting performance on the first day of the second Test against West Indies on Friday. Katich was undefeated on 113 as Australia reached 259-3 in their first innings when bad light stopped play.
Seamer Stuart Clark took five wickets to spearhead Australia to a 95-run win in the first Test against the West Indies on Monday. Resuming on 46-1 on the fifth day, the West Indies were all out for 191. They lost skipper Ramnaresh Sarwan and opener Devon Smith early and slumped to 117-6 at lunch, with Clark and pace bowler Brett Lee doing the damage.
Stuart Clark cut down West Indies’ top-order batting with his steady, accurate, if not menacing fast-medium bowling to tighten Australia’s grip on the opening Test on Friday. Clark has so far collected three wickets for 18 runs from eight overs, as West Indies, replying to Australia’s first innings total of 431, reached 115 for three.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting strode majestically to his 35th Test hundred to help his side recover from a shaky start in the opening Test against the West Indies on Thursday. Ponting used a West Indies attack hamstrung by the withdrawal of key strike bowler Jerome Taylor to serenely progress to 158.
Australian batsman Michael Clarke has scoffed at suggestions his team’s mantle as the world’s top cricketing nation is under threat after the retirement of players ranked among the all-time greats. Opponents have been hoping that the loss of players such as Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Adam Gilchrist will spell the end of Australia’s long dominance.
South Africa all-rounder Jacques Kallis was on Wednesday named as the Leading Cricketer in the World for 2007 by the 2008 edition of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, cricket’s major annual reference work. He became the fifth recipient of the award, introduced in 2004.
South Africa paceman Dale Steyn has risen to joint number one in the International Cricket Council (ICC) rankings for Test bowlers, alongside Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan. Steyn (24) joined Muralitharan after claiming eight to bowl the tourists to an innings victory in the second Test against India on Saturday for a 1-0 series lead, the ICC said on Monday.
Neil McKenzie and Hashim Amla moved up the International Cricket Council (ICC) Test rankings on Monday after outstanding performances in the drawn match against India. McKenzie, who made 94 and 155 not out, made his first appearance in the top 40 in four years and is ranked 36th in the world, while Amla’s 159 and 81 saw him shoot up 10 places to 24th position.
Indian batsman Rahul Dravid said on Saturday it had been beyond his dreams to achieve 10 000 Test runs. The 35-year-old Dravid became only the sixth player to reach the landmark while scoring 111 for his 25th century on day four of the first Test against South Africa.
Indian media on Wednesday rewarded the cricket team’s conquest of world champions Australia with front page banner headlines, celebrating a victorious end to an acrimonious tour. ”Triumph against all Oz” screamed the mass-selling Hindustan Times a day after the young Indian team completed a 2-0 whitewash of Australia.