Archive for the 'Cricket' Category

Coach Fletcher’s resignation following poor performance

Friday, April 20th, 2007

By Stephen Larsen.
Former England captain and all-rounder Ian Botham on Wednesday sought for coach Duncan Fletcher’s resignation following the team’s poor performance at the World Cup, which saw them crashing out from the Super 8s.
England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chairman David Morgan is due to talk to reporters in Barbados on Thursday after the […]

South Africa maintains their record

Monday, January 29th, 2007

By Cindy Ferguson
South Africa’s win by five wickets on Sunday led by Jacques Kallis and Ashwell Prince against Pakistan reserved South Africa’s record of never having lost a home test series to a team from the Asian sub-continent.
The match took place in New Lands, Cape Town and the joint venture was the largest of a […]

Herschelle Gibbs infringed the ICC Code

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

According to the International Cricket Council (ICC), Richie Benaud, the former Australian captain will hear the South African Herschelle Gibbs’ appeal against his two-test ban.

By Camilla Mancini

During last Sunday match Gibbs was banned for two tests after being found guilty of a level three offence under the ICC code of conduct.

Gibbs was caught by the […]

South Africa vs. India Brought to an End by Weather

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

By Ally WhiteThe only thing that South Africa took was frustration after bad light cut short day two of the second Test against India in Durban. Sachin Tendulkar (46 not out) and VVS Laxman (10no) gratefully accepted the umpires’ offer of light half-an-hour into the evening session with the tourists on 103 for three in reply […]