Statistical highlight for Shane Bond during Australia v New Zealand match
Andrew Bichel's 64 equalled the highest score by a number 9 batsman in Limited Overs Internationals
View ArticleFace lift continues at St. George's Park
The ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 has come and gone and EPCB were proud hosts of a very successful event
View ArticlePitch replacement programme at St George's Park
A couple of years ago EP Cricket embarked on a programme to replace its pitches
View ArticleKallis the only worry for South Africa
Jacques Kallis is a slight fitness worry for South Africa as they prepare for the second one-day international against West Indies at Port Elizabeth
View ArticleWest Indies falter after late recovery
Shaun Pollock took 4 for 26 as South Africa won their second match of the five-game one-day series
View ArticleTwo new faces in South African squad for first Test
Two uncapped players, AB de Villiers and Dale Steyn, have been included in South Africa's 13-man squad for the first Test against England
View ArticleJennings ready to let loose the young guns
Ray Jennings, South Africa's coach, was keen to downplay any suggestion that his team had gained a psychological advantage ahead of the first Test at Port Elizabeth, following England's emphatic...
View ArticleThorpe urges England not to panic
As a man who has helped carry England's batting through thick and mostly thin over the past decade, Graham Thorpe is not the type of character to allow himself to be fazed by one blip in an otherwise...
View ArticleThe real thing starts here
There was an eerie sense of calm surrounding Port Elizabeth on the eve of the first Test at St George's Park
View ArticleGreat, green and greased lightning
"The great, green, greasy Limpopo river ..." Celebrated in Rudyard Kipling's Just So stories as the place where the elephant got its trunk, and situated on the Zimbabwean border, it is not the most...
View ArticleFlintoff and Hoggard grab the initiative for England
England took three wickets in the morning - including both Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis for ducks - and four more in the evening session to grab the honours on the first day at Port Elizabeth
View ArticleThe virtue of patience
If it works for the Australians, then it's got to be the correct tactic
View ArticleStrauss's century double puts England on top
A stroke-filled century from Andrew Strauss put England in control of the first Test at Port Elizabeth
View ArticleHonours even at St George's
Three wickets from Makhaya Ntini helped South Africa fight back to end the third day at Port Elizabeth on even terms
View ArticleApathy in the Sleepy City
It would not have been fair to pass judgment until the apathy had been exposed in all its lack of glory
View ArticleEngland's batsmen reap what they sow
England would happily have accepted a first-innings total of 425, if it had been offered to them in the immediate aftermath of their drubbing against South Africa A
View Article'A hundred begging to be taken' says Butcher
The moods of Mark Butcher and Graeme Smith told a tale of two teams as they addressed the media at the end of the third day's play at Port Elizabeth
View ArticleEngland halted within sight of victory
England were on the brink of an historic victory in the first Test at Port Elizabeth, before bad light brought an early finish to the fourth day
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