Pace the order of the day
The Proteas should consider a return to their seam strength for the second Test match against India in Pune on Thursday, writes PHILASANDE SIXABA.
The Proteas should consider a return to their seam strength for the second Test match against India in Pune on Thursday, writes PHILASANDE SIXABA.
Marizanne Kapp’s half-century was not enough to rally the Proteas Women after a poor start as they fell to an eight-wicket loss to India in game one of their three-match ODI series in Vadodara on Wednesday.
Proteas fast bowler Dale Steyn has backed Australia batsman David Warner to regain form in Test cricket.
Positional and personnel preferences have been a predictable theme ahead of this week’s second Test in Pune. Senuran Muthusamy, however, has risen above the obvious.
Spinner Senuran Muthusamy is eager to keep adapting to typically subcontinental conditions, ahead of the Proteas’ second Test against India in Pune this week.
Proteas captain Faf du Plessis is expecting the pitch for this week’s second Test against India in Pune to turn more than in last week’s series opener in Visakhapatnam.
Proteas fast bowler Dale Steyn will play for the Melbourne Stars in Australia’s 2018-19 Big Bash League.
Learning on the job is going to be essential for the inexperienced Proteas if they are going to bounce back in the last two Test matches against India.
Proteas star Quinton de Kock has broken into the top 10 of the International Cricket Council’s rankings for Test batsmen.
Interim team director Enoch Nkwe has implored the Proteas to be courageous and respond well in this week’s second Test against India in Pune, after Sunday’s heavy defeat in the series opener in Visakhapatnam.
Captain Faf du Plessis pondered the composition of the Proteas’ XI for this week’s second Test against India in Pune, after Sunday’s heavy 203-run defeat in the series opener in Visakhapatnam.
The Proteas suffered a heavy 203-run defeat before tea on day five of the first Test against India at the Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Sunday.
Former batsman Hashim Amla has suggested captain Faf du Plessis return to fourth position in the batting order, as the Proteas attempt to recover from Sunday’s heavy defeat to India in the first Test in Visakhapatnam on Sunday.
Former captain Graeme Smith questioned batsman Theunis de Bruyn’s decision-making, after the Proteas slipped to heavy defeat on day five of the first Test against India at the Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Sunday.
The Proteas neared heavy defeat at lunch on day five of the first Test against India at the Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Sunday.