England’s Test debutant Ben Foakes enjoyed a champagne day on the second day of the first Test against Sri Lanka at Galle, completing a century on Test debut and taking two catches and a stumping.
‘We know we’re the lowest-ranked team and we have a massive task ahead of us, but we’re here to cause upsets. We’ve been working really hard the last couple of years. We’d love if we could automatically qualify for the next World Cup. That’s quite a realistic target for us.’
Two Northern Districts batsmen playing in a List A match in Hamilton, New Zealand, on Wednesday, smashed 43 runs off a single over to set a new List A record. The luckless bowler? Pretoria-born Willem Ludick.
After a terrific start with the ball, the Proteas Women were found wanting with the bat against the Australian Women in their final warm-up match ahead of the start of the Women’s World Twenty20 in the West Indies.
Kevin Roberts, the new chief executive officer of Cricket Australia, has announced more cuts as he begins a major management restructuring at the troubled organisation.
The Proteas Women had the Australian Women on the canvas before a late Aussie batting charge (followed by another failure with the bat by the Proteas) saw them lose their final warm-up match by 51 runs.
Anrich Nortje returned figures of 18.4-5-51-5 at Kimberley on day one of the 4-Day Franchise Series match between the Knights and Warriors at Kimberley, Nov 5-8 2018.
The Momentum Friendship Games moves to Bloemfontein for its third stop of the season when Standard Bank Rocklands Regional Performance Centre (RPC) will pit their skills against Grey Bloem on Wednesday.
Highveld Lions captain Temba Bavuma is happy with his side’s progress after day two of their 4-Day Franchise Series match against log-leaders the Cape Cobras in Paarl.
