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Pakistan’s swing bowlers were the highlight of the first day of the first Test against Australia at Lord’s today, dismantling the Aussie order to the tune of 229/9.The two Mohammads - Asif and Aamer - each bagged three wickets i...(
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I initially compiled this article yesterday and was about to save it when an earth leak tripped the power. I lost everything. I couldn’t face rewriting it and in a rage stormed off to watch a rerun of Gran Torino.Clint Eastwood is the...(
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South Africa completed their thorough dismantling of West Indian cricket early on the morning of Day 4 of the third and final Test in Barbados, winning the third Test by seven wickets and the three-Test series 2-0.When added to their wins i...(
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Has Paul Harris become superfluous to South Africa’s needs over the course of one Test? The evidence seems to suggest so.He has been comprehensively out-bowled by Johan Botha in the Test series against the West Indies - Botha has only...(
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England beating Australia in any form of cricketing competition is usually enough call the OBE engraver into premature action, whilst a series win gets the Buckingham butler busy.That should have been the case for England on Sunday when the...(
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Far be it from me to bring up The Pollock Era, stirring faded nightmares and running goosepimples of horror up your arms, but a reflection on bad things past often provides illumination on matters present.I do not recall Shaun Pollock’...(
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The West Indies did their level best to hasten the death of Test cricket in St Kitts today with one of the most fantastically turgid batting displays I’ve ever had the misery to endure.On a dead pitch, voluptuous with runs and pregnan...(
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South Africa would have been satisfied to have scored three centuries in a declared first innings of 543/6 in the second Test against the West Indies in St Kitts - until the Windies proved it wasn’t exactly a rare, monumental feat.I s...(
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Having lost their last eight games against the touring South Africans (two T20Is, five ODIs and the first Test) the West Indies have one last chance to salvage their miserable summer in the second Test, which begins in St Kitts on Friday.Un...(
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Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel proved beyond doubt they are the most devastating new-ball pairing in Test cricket when they ran through the West Indies in the first Test in Port of Spain like a rhino through butter.Although I should probably t...(
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The Proteas are in the unenviable position of having to play a three-Test series against a weak West Indies side on boggy pitches on the far side of the world, while the rest of humanity tunes into the FIFA World Cup which is happening righ...(
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There I was, minding my own business and dreaming of better days, when all of a sudden there He was, wherever I turned my gaze: Steven Finn.He’d quietly and unobtrusively been worming his way into my subconscious for a while, as count...(
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I feel safe calling it a foregone conclusion that South Africa will hand the West Indies their sorry asses in the upcoming three-match Test series.The last time the Windies beat South Africa in a Test series was also the first time, when th...(
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South Africa squeaked out a one-wicket win in the fifth and final ODI against the West Indies in Port of Spain on Thursday to record another series whitewash against the Islanders, who once again snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.The...(
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Mark Boucher’s 292nd ODI - today’s game against the West Indies in Port of Spain - was also the first time he has ever taken the field for South Africa without the wicketkeeping gloves.Out he strutted like anybody’s dear o...(
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You’ve probably read about the bizarre situation that occurred in the fourth ODI between the West Indies and South Africa in Dominica last Sunday, when Chris Gayle not only pulled Sulieman Benn from the attack but sent him packing fro...(
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South Africa chased down 304 runs in Dominica today to extend their ODI winning streak against the West Indies to 10 in a row, with a series whitewash just around the corner.A brilliant last over from Dwayne Bravo almost soured matters some...(
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It amazes me that England took so long to get Eoin Morgan into the Test side - despite his reputation as a limited overs spanker of note I’ve always thought he’s too good a cricketer not to play Tests.I suffered numerous argumen...(
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South Africa has a chance to slit the throat of the beast before it can recover from its recent beatings when they square off against the West Indies in the third ODI at Windsor Park in Dominica on Friday.If my headbanging days at The Fring...(
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The first man, woman or child to accuse me of being a T20 denialist will - co-incidentally - be the first corpse found rotting in the rushes on the banks of the Nile, the horn of a unicorn driven through their festering occiput.Far be it fr...(
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