Australia have registered their first ICC finals after 15 years. Before this hammering, they lost against England in the T20 World Cup 2010 final played in Barbados.
Kyle Verreynne hit the winning runs at the home of cricket on the bowling of Mitchell Starc in the WTC final 2025, following which the South African players celebrated the moment in style.
Aiden Markram was the star of the show with the bat for South Africa, scoring a fantastic hundred, to play a key role in taking South Africa over the finishing line in the run chase.
Australia have an uphill task of claiming eight wickets to defend 69 runs from depriving South Africa their first ICC title win after 27 years.
In the second innings of the WTC 2025 final, Aiden Markram notched up his eighth Test fifty in just 69 balls.
Mitchell Starcs is on cusp of winning WTC final twice in a row, this time at the expense of South Africa in England.
On day 3, match officials and players from both teams paid homage to Ahmedabad plane crash victims by donning black armbands and maintaining a moment of silence.
Australia have a 218-run lead over South Africa going into day three of the WTC 2023-25 final.
Following Jansen’s superb bowling numbers on Day 1 of the WTC 2025 final, former Australia skipper Ponting expects the lanky player to be one of the best all-rounders in red-ball cricket in the next couple of years.
In the seventh over of the game, Kagiso Rabada struck the reigning champions, picking up the crucial scalp of Usman Khawaja and Cameron Green.
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The left-arm speedster looked in brilliant touch with the ball for Punjab, grabbing 16 wickets in 14 outings.
Both the on-field umpires rushed into action to stop Tshepo Ntuli and Ripon Mondol from taking their issues to a whole new level.
In 2015, South Africa registered their maiden ODI series win in India by beating the MS Dhoni-led side by 3-2 and Rabada played a vital role in the success, chipping in 10 wickets in five outings.
Despite his absence from international cricket for extended periods, Anrich Nortje reiterated his passion and readiness to contribute to South Africa when called upon
Johnson appeared in IPL for six seasons from 2013 to 2018 and during that period, he served Mumbai Indians (MI), Punjab Kings (PBKS), and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR).
The Proteas Men will be led by Temba Bavuma, after he guided them to historic win against Pakistan.
Cricket Australia (CA) has decided to back its players who won’t show up in the remainder of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025.
Chloe Tryon earned the player of the match award for her impressive performance with both bat and ball against Sri Lanka in the sixth ODI of the women’s tri-series.
Shukri Conrad will be in-charge of the South African men’s cricket team in all formats until the conclusion of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2027.
Zimbabwe are set to welcome South Africa for a Test series on their shores for the first-time since 2014, with the first Test starting on June 28 in Bulawayo.
Following the controversy, Cricket Australia (CA) took stiff action against Warner and Smith. Both were banned for a year from the sport.
The Indian women’s cricket team will play a tri-nation ODI tournament with Sri Lanka and South Africa from April 27 onwards with the final scheduled for May 11.
Dussen looked in brilliant touch with his bat in the chase. Standing with his skipper Temba Bavuma in the middle, he built a run-a-ball 105-run partnership.
Kane Williamson and Rachin Ravindra stitched a 164-run partnership off 154 balls and handed New Zealand momentum in the second semi-final of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025.
Glenn Phillips smashed four consecutive fours on the bowling of South African pacer Marco Jansen at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.
At the start of the second semi-final of the Champions Trophy between South Africa and New Zealand, the fans on social platform X highlighted the empty stands at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.
New Zealand skipper Mitchell Santner won the toss and elected to bat first.
Earlier, seeing Markram doubtful for the knockout match, South Africa had called up spinning all-rounder George Linde as his cover to Pakistan.
It is to be noted that Markram experienced soreness in his hamstring and subsequently left the field during South Africa’s match against England on March 1.
India, who are playing all of their matches of the Champions Trophy in Dubai, due to security concerns and diplomacy issues with Pakistan, will also play their semi-final match at the Dubai International Stadium.
Ngidi’s magnificent catch ended Overton’s innings on a score of 11 off 20.
England’s batting lineup collapsed early in the Champions Trophy clash, losing three wickets within the first seven overs of their innings because of the South African pacer Marco Jansen.
In their third and final Group B clash of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, South Africa have missed out on the services of their captain Temba Bavuma, who is currently unwell.
In the Champions Trophy 2025, cricket buffs have got to see another major turnaround in Lahore which has made the ongoing competition intriguing.
Afghanistan are in the third spot with two points in Pool B, and they will play their next game against Australia in Lahore on February 28.
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On Tuesday, February 25, South Africa are scheduled to take on Australia at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi.
Against the Proteas’ formidable bowling unit, the southpaw Adam Gilchrist looked undeterred on day two of the contest and produced some exceptional strokes from his bat.
Rickelton was also a part of South Africa’s T20 World Cup 2024 squad but didn’t get a chance to appear in any matches.
Kane Williamson stayed unbeaten on 133 runs in 113 balls with 13 fours and two maximums, which secured New Zealand’s spot in the final of the ODI tri-series.
The sub-continent nation is hosting an International Cricket Council (ICC) tournament for the first time in 28 years as they last jointly hosted the World Cup 1996 with India and Sri Lanka.
India defeated South Africa in a convincing manner by nine wickets with 52 balls to spare, to successfully defend the Women’s U19 T20 World Cup.
At 22 years and 82 days old, Graeme Smith led South Africa in his first match against Bangladesh in 2003.
The tri-nation series will serve as a preparatory tournament for the venues in Lahore and Karachi, which have been revamped and refurbished ahead of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025.
It is to be noted that Nortje hasn’t played any international cricket since the T20 World Cup 2024 in the USA and West Indies.
Speaking of the Proteas, they will begin their Champions Trophy campaign against Afghanistan on Friday, February 21 at the National Stadium in Karachi.
It is to be noted that South Africa was among the first teams to qualify for the WTC Final after their two-wicket win over Pakistan in the first Test at Centurion.
Cricket South Africa has left the matter of potentially boycotting Afghanistan in the Champions 2025 clash, which is scheduled to be played at the National Stadium in Karachi on February 21, in the hands of ICC.
The next Test assignment for South Africa in Test cricket will be the World Test Championship (WTC) final against Australia in June.
South Africa last went past 600-run total in Tests against England at Newlands in Cape Town in 2016, and that match ended in a draw.
Apart from Temba Bavuma, his South African teammate Ryan Rickelton scored an hundred versus Pakistan in the second Test, staying unbeaten on 176 runs at the close of play on day one in Cape Town.
The right ankle of Saim Ayub was bandaged before he was taken to the hospital in a stretcher, while his return to action is yet to be confirmed.
South Africa are expected to play either Australia or India in the WTC final at Lord’s in London in the summer of 2025.
Babar Azam was dismissed on 50 off 85 by Marco Jansen during the first Test between South Africa and Pakistan at the SuperSport Park in Centurion.
The Indian bowling lineup spearheaded by Jasprit Bumrah managed to successfully defend the runs, stopping the power hitters of South Africa from scoring at a run-a-ball in the death overs.
Virat Kohli received player of the match award for his innings in the T20 World Cup 2024 final, which India won by seven runs against South Africa.
Pakistan have became the first team in men’s cricket to win three ODI series against South Africa in their own den, going past the likes of Australia and India with two each.
The CSA have opted to prioritise the utilisation of DRS for the white-ball matches as far as the South African women’s cricket team are concerned.
Jason Gillespie coached Pakistan to 2-1 Test series win over England recently after losing the first match by a big margin at home.
Anrich Nortje had recently opted out of South Africa national contract due to workload management.
Temba Bavuma spoke about how it’s important for players to perform at their best possible level, which would help them in not giving the opportunity to the critics to say anything about them.
This is India’s third highest win by runs in Test cricket history.
Kagiso Rabada utilised a new bat in his innings, scoring 23 runs in 40 balls, to help Kyle Verreyene reach a three-figure score in second South Africa versus Sri Lanka Test match.
Gerald Coetzee, who plays for Joburg Super Kings, might also miss out on start of SA20 in January 2025.
Gerald Coetzee picked up four wickets in the first Test against Sri Lanka at the Kingsmead in Durban during South Africa’s thumping win by 233 runs.
Lonwabo Tsotsobe was implicated in a match fixing scandal in connection with the Ram Slam T20 Challenge in the 2015-16 season.
Marco Jansen turned out to be the top performer of the day as the left-arm pacer registered a seven-wicket haul as Sri Lanka were bowled out for 42 runs.
The triangular series between India A, B, and South Africa U-19 teams will be held at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune between December 3 and December 12, 2024.
Lungi Ngidi is set to undergo rehabilitation programme, and his expected return date is sometime in January 2025.
South Africa will be looking to end the four-match T20I series on a high note with a win in Johannesburg, to level it up.
India are 2-1 ahead in the four-match T20I series with the final game set to be played in Johannesburg.
South Africa levelled the four-match series at 1-1 after defeating India in second game by three wickets in Gqeberha.
Tristan Stubbs and Gerald Coetzee shared an unbeaten stand of 42 runs in 20 balls for the eight wicket, to take South Africa over the line against India for a series levelling victory in Gqeberha.
Varun Chakravarthy’s first five-wicket haul in T20I career reduced South Africa to 66/6 while chasing 125-run target against India in second T20I.
India were reduced to 34/3 after six overs by South Africa in the second T20I.
India defeated South Africa by 61 runs in the first T20I, to take a 1-0 in the four-match series.
Aiden Markram’s South Africa got reduced to 44/3 in tje sixth over in pursuit of the 203-run target by the Indian cricket team in the first T20I of the four-match series.
South Africa won the toss and chose to bowl first against India in the first T20I in Durban.
After being appointed as the full-time captain of the Indian T20I team, Suryakumar Yadav and his players have made quite a statement with six wins on the spin.
South Africa will be taking on India for the first-time after losing to them in the T20 World Cup final earlier this year.
Suryakumar Yadav will be captaining India on T20I tour to South Africa, while Rohit Sharma will be at the helm for the national team against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) down under.
The right-hander is just 13 runs away from his second Test hundred as Bangladesh finished day three with a lead of 81 runs against the Proteas.
New Zealand were making their third appearance in the Women’s T20 World Cup final against South Africa.
South Africa have won 12 out of 14 Test matches against Bangladesh with the first match being played between them just over two decades ago.
South Africa are 68/4 in 16 overs in pursuit of 285-run target against Ireland in the third and final ODI of the series.
CSA remarked that they respect Tabraiz Shamsi’s decision and remain confident in his continued dedication to South African cricket.
In his 10-over spell, Allah Ghazanfar registered figures of 3/20, bowling two maiden overs against South Africa in first ODI.
India hosted South Africa for two Tests and five ODIs in the winter of 2000.
South Africa have a 1-0 lead in the three-match series against India after a washout in the second T20I.
South Africa registered their first win on the Indian tour in the T20I match after blanking in the ODI and Test matches.
Shafali Verma and Sneh Rana scored a double hundred and picked up an eight-wicket haul in an innings respectively, for India against South Africa in the one-off Test match.
India women’s cricket team declared the first innings at 603/6 against South Africa in the one-off Test match.
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