South Africa AB de Villiers

South Africa Sitting Pretty at the End of Third Day’s Play After de Villiers’ Hundred

 January 5, 2015   R K Gupta

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Resuming from the overnight score of 227/3, South Africa added 194 on the third day and the 92-run first innings lead pushed the West Indies into a cautionary mode. The icings on the cake were the two wickets that South Africans took by the end of the day. Thus, when the West Indies begin proceedings […]

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Tale of Two Cities: Cricket Crawls in Cape Town; Sangakkara Lights up Wellington

 January 4, 2015   R K Gupta

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On the second day of the Cape Town test, West Indies managed to post a reasonable score but they could have done better. South Africa began well but after losing a couple of wickets; they slowed down to some restrictive bowling by the West Indians. It wasn’t the short of batting pace that the Newlands […]

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Dale Steyn

West Indies Stutter On First Day of Cape Town Test Even As Dale Steyn Becomes South Africa’s Top Wicket Taker

 January 3, 2015   R K Gupta

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West Indies went into the second test against South Africa, determined to do well in their last outing after a wash out at Port Elizabeth and hopeless loss in the first test at Centurion. Despite losing an early wicket, the Caribbean side tried hard to recover but couldn’t prevent a middle order rout. Regardless, they […]

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South African cricket

South Africa & West Indies Both Failed to Beat the Weather at Port Elizabeth

 January 1, 2015   R K Gupta

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It was test match, more about frequent interruptions and called off playing sessions than any action in the middle. Despite that, patience on part of players on both sides was laudable. A drawn game in test cricket has a funny side to it. It can be a hard-fought encounter, where one side would try to […]

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women Cricket

Indian Eves Thrash Their South African Counterparts in the Only Test Match Played at Mysore

 November 21, 2014   R K Gupta

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South African women arrived on their India tour to play a one-off test match, three ODIs and one T20 game. They began their campaign with the 4-day test match at Srikantadatta Narasimha Raja Wadeyar Ground in the city of Mysore on November 16, 2014. In women’s cricket, this was the 137th test match, which India […]

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Sri Lanka

Sunday & Monday Results See India, South Africa and Sri Lanka Reach Semifinals

 April 1, 2014   R K Gupta

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Last four league games were a curious mix of lop-sided affairs, dead rubbers, unexpected losses and an apt demonstration of spin bowling. While no one expected Bangladesh to beat Pakistan, their meek submission on March 30 was a big disappointment to home fans. Same day, the India-Australia match strangely became a no-contest game at the […]

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South Africa Cricket

Netherlands Unruffled Even in Defeat As South Africa Enter the Semifinals on Saturday

 March 30, 2014   R K Gupta

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The Dutch displayed the never-say-die spirit yet again and made the strong New Zealand side work for their victory in the end. Netherlands put on a very creditable 151 in their 20 overs and until the 14th over of the New Zealand innings, held the advantage, as the Kiwis required more than 9 runs in […]

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England

South Africa, England Emerge Victorious On An Enthralling Thursday At Bangladesh

 March 28, 2014   R K Gupta

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It was a great Thursday for cricket lovers at Zahur Ahmed Chaudhury Stadium in Bangladesh’s port city of Chittagong. In a late afternoon match, Netherlands nearly pulled off another miracle, before narrowly losing their game against the mighty South Africans, who should be indebted to Imran Tahir for saving them the blush. In the game […]

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South Africa Cricket

Tale of Two Games at Chittagong – A Heart-Stopper & A Lop-Sided Affair

 March 25, 2014   R K Gupta

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It seemed odd that JP Duminy was chosen as the player-of-the-match at the end of an absolute thriller between New Zealand and South Africa at Chittagong on March 24, 2014. In fact the award should have gone to Dale Steyn for making the real difference. Steyn, single-handedly spoiled New Zealand’s party and brought cheers for […]

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Graeme Smith

Farewell Test for Graeme Smith Ends with Australia’s Series Victory

 March 6, 2014   R K Gupta

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Post the Ashes-Series, Australia sent the miserable England cricket team home empty-handed. Then they packed their bags and went for the African safari. They have since been busy and already successfully recorded a test-series win against South Africa. For the last time yesterday, the Proteas played under the stewardship of arguably the modern era’s most […]

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