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Daily News & Analysis
| 10 months ago
Andy Flower jetted off with his family on Tuesday for a four-day break with England's No?1 status looking increasingly vulnerable after the thrashing by South Africa in the first Test. England's team director deserves the rest but the one-sided...
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CricInfo
| 10 months ago
England have had an "honest" discussion about their failings during the first Test against South Africa, but Ian Bell insists the team can still lay claim to the No.1 Test ranking despite the innings margin of defeat and the fact they managed to take...
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News 24
| 10 months ago
Purely based on their current command of the ICC Test player rankings, it seems reasonably logical that South Africa ought to also shift to the top of the team leader-board very shortly indeed...If they do return to pick of the team crop, it will be...
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International Herald Tribune
| 10 months ago
Geoffrey Boycott has criticised England's batsmen after their first-test defeat to South Africa, saying they forgot about defence in the pursuit of their ambition to score runs. To save the match, England needed to bat out the final day at The Oval...
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News 24
| 10 months ago
Cape Town Humiliated by an innings by South Africa in the first Test, England's tenuously No 1-ranked Test cricketers had to take it on the chin from the UK media on Tuesday. At the same time, Proteas stars at The Oval like Hashim Amla and, on the...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 10 months ago
Dismissal of Kevin Pietersen in England's first innings The score was 251-2, Pietersen and Cook were looking secure, there was one over to go to the second new ball being available, and 11 overs left in the day. Jacques Kallis, well known for bowling...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 10 months ago
Hashim Amla and Jacques Kallis put the Oval pitch into perspective. They batted with superb technique, picked the length carefully and finished us by batting England out of the game. From then on it was a rearguard action but England batted nothing...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Suggested Topics This series was presented as the battle between the two most powerful bowling units in world cricket, but the evidence of the first Test suggested there was a disparity between South Africa's attack and that of England. England's...
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The Star
| 10 months ago
Surprise British Open champion Ernie Els had to settle for second place behind triple centurion Hashim Amla on the front pages of South African newspapers yesterday. South Africa's day of champions read the headline across the top of The New Age with...
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Fiji Times
| 10 months ago
A triple century by Hashim Amla and four strikes by South Africa's bowlers had England reeling on the fourth day of the first Test match at the Oval yesterday. Amla made 311 not out as South Africa made 2-637 declared; a first innings lead of 252.
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Andrew Strauss Series wins over Australia, home and away, India and West Indies helped England top the world rankings. But their position is under threat from South Africa, who outplayed them in the first Test at The Kia Oval. "Our attack has taken...
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CricInfo
| 10 months ago
South Africa celebrated their first win at The Oval in 14 attempts without their captain Graeme Smith, who dashed back to South Africa on a 7pm flight from London to be with his wife, Morgan Deane, for the expected birth of the couple's first child...
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News 24
| 10 months ago
Cricket South Africa (CSA) on Monday congratulated the Proteas on their brilliant innings and 12 runs victory over England in the first Test match the Oval in London. WIN: A limited edition signed Graeme Smith bat Full scorecard There is still much...
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News 24
| 10 months ago
South Africa achieved one of the most comprehensive wins in Test history when they beat England by an innings and 12 runs in the first Test at the Oval on Monday but captain Graeme Smith and coach Gary Kirsten pledged they would not take England...
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News 24
| 10 months ago
Placed in its context, South Africa's crushing triumph by an innings in the first Test against England at The Oval ought to go down among their most illustrious ever - especially if they now go on to earn a second successive series triumph on those...
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Chicago Tribune
| 10 months ago
England captain Andrew Strauss was left with a "sour taste in the mouth" after his team suffered a crushing innings and 12-run defeat by South Africa in the first test on Monday. In a battle between the world's top two teams, and with England's...
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CricInfo
| 10 months ago
Graeme Smith , South Africa's captain, praised an "incredible" innings from Hashim Amla and the exemplary performance of his bowlers after a difficult first day, in condemning England to a huge defeat in the first Test. Smith, playing in his 100th...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
England suffer innings defeat as Dale Steyn takes five Zeenews Sports Bureau The Oval: After Hashim Amla, it was Dale Steyn's time to shine at the Oval. The champion pacer dismissed four batsmen on the fifth and the final day as South Africa defeated...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Suggested Topics Ian Bell's admirable resistance foundered against Dale Steyn as England descended to an innings defeat in the first Investec Test. Bell (55) strove with great resolution and skill to try to make up for England's earlier deficiencies...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Suggested Topics Andrew Strauss has admitted England need to learn their lessons quickly after sliding to a humbling innings-and-12-runs defeat against South Africa at the Kia Oval. England, resuming on 102 for four, were always going to be up...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
It's easier to accept being beaten if everyone has given it their best to save the match, but you only have to look at some of the shots they played to get out and it's clear they gifted a lot of their wickets to South Africa...They have not been as...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
South Africa marched to victory in their first test against England at the Kia Oval, with the side getting all out for 240 to gift the Proteas a win by an innings and 12 runs. England needed a hero today after South Africa had theirs in the form of...
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News 24
| 10 months ago
South Africa on Monday took a one-nil lead in the three-match series against England, beating the hosts by an innings and 12 runs and securing their first win at The Oval after a masterful display of top order batting. WIN: A limited edition signed...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 10 months ago
As South Africa have been playing Test cricket for a hundred years, even allowing for a hiatus, it was some moment when Hashim Amla drove just over extra cover to bring up the country's first triple century. Amla would not have been allowed to play...
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News 24
| 10 months ago
Record-breaking batsman Hashim Amla has been lauded by his domestic franchise. The Dolphins, the team Amla represents at domestic level, said on Monday it was a "proud" moment for KwaZulu-Natal cricket when he became the first South African player to...
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News 24
| 10 months ago
South African sports minister Fikile Mbalula congratulated cricketer Hashim Amla and golfer Ernie Els on their respective successes on United Kingdom soil on Sunday...Els, meanwhile, won the British Open in the English capital that ended his 10-year...
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Times of Oman
| 10 months ago
Hashim Amla set a South African Test record with his innings of 311 not out on the fourth day of the first Test against England at the Oval yesterday. In the process he broke the previous South African individual Test innings record of team-mate AB...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Jacques Kallis guided a ball from Tim Bresnan to third man for the boundary that brought his second Test century in England and, after raising his bat, the all-rounder pointed towards his eyes. At that moment, Kallis seemed to be thinking not about...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Only one team has looked the best team in the world for the past three days of the first Test. It is not the one which officially soon they will be saying allegedly holds the ranking. England were left staring defeat in the face last night as South...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Hashim Amla, England's nemesis at the crease, astonished cricket followers around the world with his record-breaking triple century at The Oval and the Beard Liberation Front (BLF) was particularly impressed. So much so that the BLF, an informal...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Graham Gooch confident of getting draw A defiant Graham Gooch insisted England can still draw the first Test with South Africa at The Kia Oval...The hosts reached 102-4 by the close on day four, but still need a further 150 to avoid an innings defeat.
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International Herald Tribune
| 10 months ago
British Open champion Ernie Els said he was inspired by watching South Africa's cricketers turn the screw on England in the first test before going out to win his fourth major title on Sunday. South Africa batsman Hashim Amla made a record 311 not...
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CricInfo
| 10 months ago
When Graeme Smith declared South Africa's first innings with his team 252 runs in front and four sessions left in the game, he did something South African cricketers are not known for...Many observers expected him to allow the record run-scoring to...
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The Courier-Mail
| 10 months ago
NO Tour de France crown and now maybe no Olympics for Cadel Evans while we mourn Adam Scott's crash at the British Open. Evans has lost his Tour de France crown and now his London Games dream might be over . The Aussie has told national selectors he...
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International Herald Tribune
| 10 months ago
Hashim Amla emphasised his team came before personal goals on Sunday when he said he was more pleased to have put South Africa in a position to win the first test against England than to score a record 311 not out. Amla bettered the previous best...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
England need Hashim Amla's discipline England have been comprehensively outplayed by South Africa in this first Test, and their number one position in the world is seriously under threat...We talk about a lack of movement for the England bowlers, but...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Hashim Amla now 'an awesome batsman' Hashim Amla created history when he became the first South African to score a Test triple hundred in the first Test against England at The Kia Oval. The 29-year-old came to the crease with his team struggling on 1-...
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News 24
| 10 months ago
Cricket South Africa (CSA) on Sunday saluted Hashim Amla for his dual achievement of making South Africa's highest ever Test score and of becoming the first to make a triple century at this level. WIN: A limited edition signed Graeme Smith bat...
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The Hindu
| 10 months ago
AP England's Ravi Bopara (left) congratulates South Africa's Hashim Amla after he reaches his triple century during the fourth day of the first cricket test in London on July 22, 2012. Hashim Amla's epic triple century that took more than 13 hours...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
09 13 Zeenews Sports Bureau The Oval: It has proved to be a great test match for Hashim Amla. On day 4, he made history by becoming the first South African batsman to score a triple ton in Test matches...The talismanic right-hander first...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Suggested Topics Hashim Amla became South Africa's first triple-centurion as he and Jacques Kallis piled on England's misery in the first Investec Test...On a day when the home bowlers were on the wrong end of all the records and statistics, Amla (...
