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Shane Bond has been ruled out of the rest of the Test series against Pakistan due to a torn abdominal muscle. Bond was the Player of the Match in the thrilling win in Dunedin, where he took eight wickets for the game in what was his first Test in two years.
Bond suffered minor abdominal ...
New Zealand
Match facts
December 2-6, 2009
Start time 9.30am (0400 GMT)
Big Picture
Test cricket returns to a stadium originally designed to be the Lord’s of India, which retained the exclusivity of Lord’s but lost touch with the common man somewhere down the line. It houses the Ranji Trophy in ...
India
Dale Steyn is unlikely to be risked for the final one-day international against England at Durban to ensure he recovers from a hamstring strain in time for the Test series which starts on December 16.
Steyn missed the fourth ODI in Port Elizabeth after suffering the injury at Newlands when he ...
South Africa
Dale Steyn
Jacques Kallis
The hosts of the 2011 World Cup will enjoy home advantage for the quarter-finals and semi-finals if a proposal to this effect is approved by the ICC board. It means India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will play at home if they make the knockout stage but, if two of them play each other, the ...
Other
It isn’t only the crowds that Kevin Pietersen is having to battle in South Africa, but also his own form after a four-month injury lay-off following Achilles surgery. His innings during the one-day series have been unconvincing, but given the career he has already had, expectations were ...
England
Kevin Pietersen
New Zealand allrounder Grant Elliott has expressed his keenness to make a bigger contribution with the ball in the second Test against Pakistan in Wellington. Elliott bowled just two overs in New Zealand’s 32-run win in Dunedin due to his knee injury, leaving Shane Bond, Daniel Vettori, ...
New Zealand
Grant Elliott
Daniel Vettori
Iain O'Brien
Andrew Strauss has saluted his bowlers after England’s clinical seven-wicket victory over South Africa, just two days after a 112-run mauling in Cape Town. The architect of the turnaround was James Anderson, who took a career-best 5 for 23 to rip through South Africa.
Anderson started with ...
England
Andrew Strauss
James Anderson
The Victoria paceman Clint McKay has been called into the Australian squad for the second Test against West Indies after Ben Hilfenhaus was ruled out with knee soreness. The team’s medical staff had originally hoped Hilfenhaus would recover in time to make the trip to Adelaide for ...
Australia
Ricky Ponting
Chris Gayle will not quit as West Indies captain but acknowledges the three-day defeat in Brisbane was “downright embarrassing”. Gayle, writing a column in the Courier Mail, said he knows some critics think he is not right for the job.
“I’ve got a message for those people ...
West Indies
Chris Gayle
South Africa’s batsmen veered from the sublime to the ridiculous in the space of three days, as England demonstrated the staggering extent of their inconsistency in one-day cricket by following one of their heaviest thumpings with arguably their most dominant display of the year.
Led by ...
England
James Anderson
Adrian Barath became the youngest West Indian to score a Test century, but his outstanding solo rescue act on debut was wasted as they slumped to an-innings-and-65-run defeat. Barath, who is 19 and the tiniest player on the field, dwarfed and embarrassed his high-profile team-mates with a 104 ...
Australia
Match facts
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Start time 10.00 (08.00GMT)
Big picture
The scoreline says the series is all-square, but after such a convincing 112-run victory at Cape Town South Africa are now the side with the momentum. It shows how quickly situations can change in one-day cricket and, ...
South Africa
Morne Morkel
Muttiah Muralitharan, the Sri Lankan spinner, has said he may quit international cricket before the 2011 World Cup in the subcontinent.
Murali, on his fourth tour to India, his final overseas tour, is struggling to come to terms with the placid Indian pitches and a strong batting line-up which ...
Sri Lanka
Muttiah Muralitharan
Umar Akmal was seven years old when Shane Bond made his first-class debut. Twelve years later they met - Bond returning to Test cricket after a two-year exile, and Umar making his debut - and tried their darnedest to take their respective sides to a win in one of the Tests of the year. In [...]
Pakistan
Umar Gul
Iain O'Brien
Kamran Akmal
India achieved their biggest victory against Sri Lanka and in the process clinched their 100th Test win on the fourth day of the second Test in Kanpur. India’s previous best against their neighbors was a victory by an innings and 119 runs in 1994 and they bettered that with ease today. ...
Sri Lanka
Thilan Samaraweera
India will be without the services of opening batsman Gautam Gambhir, who will be attending his sister’s wedding, for the third Test against Sri Lanka in Mumbai. Gambhir has been in prime form in this series with centuries in each of the two Tests.
Gambhir’s spot is likely to be ...
India
Gautam Gambhir
Chris Gayle may not have been preparing to dance on the grave of Test cricket, as was the case in England earlier this year, but neither was he moved to defend it. Speaking on the eve of the first Test against Australia - a match that is expected to draw a relatively meagre 40,000 spectators [...]
West Indies
Chris Gayle
The thinness of resources in Pakistan’s middle order has opened the door for Misbah-ul-Haq to revive, once again, his international career. Misbah was dropped from all three Pakistan squads before the team left on its tour of New Zealand, following a poor run with the bat this year.
The ...
Pakistan
Misbah-ul-Haq
Fortress Newlands brought the best out of South Africa again as they levelled the one-day series with a crushing 112-run victory on the back of a blistering 85-ball 121 by AB de Villiers. There had been some strong words in the home camp after the defeat at Centurion and a refocused group of ...
South Africa
AB de Villiers
Six wins from seven starts … a statistic that looked like an anomaly is starting to take on a life of its own, as England continue their improbable dominance of South Africa in 50-over cricket. At Centurion on Sunday, Paul Collingwood marked his national-record 171st appearance with a ...
