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  South African cricket team - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
South Africa is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and one-day international status.
The ICC reinstated South Africa as a Test nation in 1991 after the deconstruction of apartheid, and the team played its first sanctioned match since 1970 (and its first ever one-day international) against India in Calcutta on 10 November 1991.
South Africa hosted the 2003 cricket World Cup, but failed to progress beyond the group stage due to a misunderstanding of how many runs they needed to score in a rain-affected run chase.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_African_cricket_team   (871 words)

  
 For South Africa Captain of Rugby Captain of Cricket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
His major coaching feat was to convince the South African side that all fifteen players in the team were capable of scoring a try and that all were equally important in the overall game plan, not just one or two heroes.
On the cricket field, where he was a fine wicket keeper, but a nervous starter when batting, Castens claim to fame is that in 1894 he captained the first South African cricket team on a tour overseas, which was to the United Kingdom.
Moving on now, to Castens cricket career, and in particular to the 1894 tour of the United Kingdom, it is apparent that he did not enjoy the same success, both as a player and captain of the side, as that which he achieved on the rugby field.
www.angelfire.com /biz4/bigbrian/cricket.html   (2133 words)

  
 New Zealand cricket team: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Imran khan (mohammad imran khan niazi, born november 25 1952) was a pakistani cricketer (1971-1992) and captain of the pakistani cricket team...
The english cricket team is a national cricket team representing england and wales....
The pakistani cricket team is a national cricket team representing pakistan....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ne/new_zealand_cricket_team.htm   (2988 words)

  
 Cricinfo - South African cricket team to play in previously disadvantaged areas
The South African team will be based in Cape Town for the initial league stage of the 14-team tournament and will have two warmup practice games in the Western Cape before their opening World Cup match at Newlands on February 7.
For several years now, it has been a policy in South African cricket for visiting international teams to play matches in previously disadvantaged areas as part of their tour itineraries -- but this is the first time that the SA national team will do so.
Dr Ali Bacher, executive director of the 2003 Cricket World Cup (CWC), today (Wednesday) announced that the CWC policy committee have approved that each of the competing international teams play at least one of their two warmup practice games in a previously disadvantaged area in the provinces in which they are based.
content-usa.cricinfo.com /southafrica/content/story/106742.html   (513 words)

  
 South African TV : South African Culture - KuduClub.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
South Africa battled hard for survival but were eventually all out for 297 to lose by 112 runs and miss by five overs a series-saving draw in the second test against Australia at Kingsmead.
South African cricket coach Mickey Arthur was very relieved that the Proteas scored their first victory of note on their Australian tour, beating the Queensland Bulls by 94 runs in a day-night match played at the Gabba.
South African cricket coach Mickey Arthur believes their limited overs tour to India enabled him to broaden the base of potential national players, with an eye on the 2007 World Cup in the Caribbean.
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 Sports betting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In sports such as baseball, where certain teams can be heavy favorites against weaker opponents (sometimes as much as -350 or higher), the moneyline system requires that a hefty sum be risked on the favorite, while enticing underdog players with a higher payout.
Examples include guessing the number of goals each team scores in a soccer match, betting whether a wide receiver in a football game will net more or less than a set amount of total yardage, or wagering that a baseball player on one team will accumulate more hits than another player on the opposing team.
The team wagered upon might be 50-1 to win the Super Bowl, which means that the bet will pay 50 times the amount wagered if the team does so.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sports_betting   (3465 words)

  
 rediff.com: SA very strong at the moment, says Cronje
The South Africans had a harrowing time at Bombay airport, landing at midnight and then having to wait two hours for their baggage to pass through customs.
South Africa, the second most powerful cricket nation behind Australia, are coming off a 2-1 Test win over England at home, besides winning the triangular one-day series against England and Zimbabwe.
The South African squad is: Hansie Cronje (capt), Shaun Pollock (vice-capt), Gary Kirsten, Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis, Daryll Cullinan, Peter Strydom, Lance Klusener, Mark Boucher (wicket-keeper), Allan Donald, Nicky Boje, Mornantau Hayward, Hendrik Dippenaar, Clive Esksteen.
www.rediff.com /sports/2000/feb/17sa.htm   (575 words)

  
 South America - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about South America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
During the period 1990–95, the process of deforestation in South America alone resulted in the loss of 24 million ha/59 million acres of tropical rainforest.
South America is a compact land mass and has a fairly regular coastline, except in southern Chile, where sunken valleys have resulted from subsidence that has left mountain peaks as islands.
The continent's summer rainfall is of a monsoonal type, but differs from that of Asia in that there is no movement outwards of high-pressure air owing to the continent being as a whole warmer than the surrounding seas during all seasons.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /South+America   (696 words)

  
 CNN/SI - Cricket - South African sports boss queries 'all-white' team - Tuesday November 24, 1998 04:22 PM
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) -- The head of South Africa's sports control body, the National Sports Council (NSC), said Tuesday he was concerned with the composition of the nearly all-white South African cricket team to face the West Indies in an historic first test starting on Thursday.
In his statement Bacher said that the United Cricket Board of South Africa always intended to have a player of color in the national side.
South Africa plays the West Indies for the first time in a test on home soil at the Wanderers stadium in Johannesburg on Thursday.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cricket/news/1998/11/24/nsc_sportscouncil   (444 words)

  
 SA cricket: a great start to 2004 - SouthAfrica.info
He proved to be a consistent wicket taker, picking up five wickets in the first Test, six in the second, six in the third, and four in the fourth to end the series with a healthy haul of 22 wickets at 23.18 each.
After all, it was the same team, the West Indies, that beat South Africa in the first match of the 2003 World Cup and that had a severely negative impact on the Proteas' chances of qualifying for the Super Sixes, something that they eventually failed to do.
South African cricket captain Graeme Smith led the Proteas to a 3-1 win over the West Indies, while averaging nearly 70 with the bat.
www.southafrica.info /what_happening/sports/sa_windies_tests.htm   (1094 words)

  
 South African View: Supporters rally behind captain's integrity
SOUTH Africans, cricket lovers and those who would struggle to know a googly from a chinaman are all struggling to come to terms with yesterday's allegations emerging from India.
Pastor Ray McCauley, the unofficial chaplain to the South African cricket team, was astonished by the news.
The next 10 days in South African cricket were supposed to be a celebration of the game and a chance for a measure of revenge for that World Cup semi-final defeat by Australia last year.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/2000/04/08/scsafr08.html   (422 words)

  
 United Cricket Board of South Africa Media Statement
Responding to an article in the a London newspaper by Colin Bryden yesterday, Mr Majola said that Rajah was a long-serving manager and that the UCBSA was confident in him and in the manner in which he had conducted himself on the tour to Australia.
Mr Majola added that it was not fair for the media to compare the South African team on tour away from home in Australia with the Australian team on their home soil as had been done in the article in question.
Team manager Mr Rajah explained that the players had requested that their Christmas lunch, which was referred to in Mr Bryden's article, be kept as a private family affair.
www.icricketer.com /references/ref1_01jan02.shtml   (193 words)

  
 The Tribune...Sports Tribune
With only two teams to be eliminated from the Super Six before the semi-finals of the tournament, Zimbabwe, with four points in their kitty, will have to win just one match to make it to the last four.
Blacks cricket in South Africa reached its peak in the 1950s and 60s when a national team played the Kenya Asians in reciprocal tours in 1956 and 1958.
Cricket is not a game like soccer in which a last goal may change the complexion of the game.
www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99jun05/spr-trib.htm   (3492 words)

  
 rediff.com: cricket channel - The King Commission Interim Report
UCBSA managing director Dr Ali Bacher has spoken to South African captain Hansie Cronjé, who is adamant that the allegations contained in press reports in India are completely untrue.
South African captain Hansie Cronjé is a man of enormous integrity and honesty.
He was concerned with the security of the Australian team (which was to play South Africa at Durban on 12 April 2000).
www.rediff.com /cricket/2000/aug/25inter1.htm   (2477 words)

  
 Proudly South African
South African cricket captain, Shaun Pollock, and coach, Eric Simons, and their team-mates in the SA squad declared their allegiance to Proudly South African by signing a campaign flag.
Proudly South African was established to create new jobs and protect existing jobs in South Africa by increasing demand for South African goods and services and promoting consumer awareness of SA products.
South African cricket captain Shaun Pollock said he and the national team were thrilled to be officially Proudly South African.
www.proudlysa.co.za /level2/media.asp?include=../docs/news/2003/0213.html   (303 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Sport
South African skipper Hansie Cronje, who had predicted that his team will be much tougher than it was when it suffered a 1-2 defeat in the 1996-97 tour of India, delivered his promise while his counterpart Tendulkar completed his second tenure as captain on a totally disappointing note.
that the team supports the captain and the crowd is also behind the team,” he said, brushing aside questions on whether he would consider the job again after a couple of years.
Complimenting South Africa for their fielding and batting and their disciplined approach, Tendulkar said he did not give up despite the visitors batting it out for two days to pile up a huge first innings lead.
www.tribuneindia.com /2000/20000307/sports.htm   (5059 words)

  
 The Hindu : Sport : Twenty20 concept is thrilling: Rhodes
He said the selection of the South African team was more consistent during the ODI series against England, which the host won 4-1.
On the International Cricket Council's decision to allow the flexion of the bowling arm till 15 degrees, he believed it would be a difficult law to implement.
Rhodes said South Africa was maintaining high fielding standards, with even a big-made paceman such as Andre Nel throwing himself at the ball rather than taking the easy option of using his foot.
www.hindu.com /2005/02/18/stories/2005021805041800.htm   (401 words)

  
 sport.iafrica.com | cricket world cup | news Pollock sacked as skipper
Shaun Pollock was sacked as captain of the South African cricket team on Saturday following the country's dismal World Cup campaign, the United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCBSA) announced.
"On recommendation from the national selectors and with the input from the national cricket committee, the general council of the United Cricket Board of South Africa has decided to relieve Shaun Pollock of the captaincy of the South African national team with immediate effect," said a UCBSA statement.
The South Africans are due to leave on March 28 for Sharjah to play in a tri-nations series with Sri Lanka and Pakistan before joining India for another three-nation tournament in Bangladesh.
sport.iafrica.com /cricket_world_cup/news/218885.htm   (525 words)

  
 United Cricket Board of South Africa
The South Africans lost to Australia in the final of the last tournament which was held in New Zealand in 2002.
"I trust the cricketers will use this tournament as the springboard from junior to senior cricket and could be the beginning of a career in which the sky is the limit for the committed, said the Chief Executive Officer of UCBSA, Gerald Majola.
South Africa is in Group B with England, Nepal and Uganda in a tournament that runs from 10th February to 06th March 2004.
www.cricket.co.za /?aId=103665&sportCategory=supercricket/ucb   (226 words)

  
 India4u - News Online
For Goolam Raja, manager of the South African cricket team, every trip to India is memorable and a means to refresh his Indian roots.
Raja was the assistant manager of the South African cricket team when India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka jointly hosted the 1996 World Cup.
Speaking about his days growing up in South Africa as a kid, Raja said the fact that he was of Indian origin did not matter because it was a well-integrated society there.
www.india4u.com /india4unews/newsview.asp?ID=3135   (599 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Cricket - Boucher to lead South Africa in second test - Wednesday March 06, 2002 08:26 AM
Posted: Wednesday March 06, 2002 8:26 AM CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- Mark Boucher was appointed captain of the South African cricket team for the second test against Australia on Wednesday, after Shaun Pollock was ruled out of the game with a side strain.
The suspension is pending the outcome of a commission of inquiry into his conduct over refusing to play for the South Africa test side.
Cullinan, 35, was recalled to the national team for the second test against Australia starting at Newlands on Friday, but withdrew over a contractual dispute with the United Cricket Board (UCB).
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cricket/news/2002/03/06/cullinan_ban   (427 words)

  
 Battered South Africans face New Zealand
Fleming said he believed New Zealand had brought a strong squad to South Africa, highlighting the inclusion of fast bowler Shane Bond, whose form in a recent series against the West Indies showed he was back to full fitness after a long battle against injury, and fit-again all-rounder Jacob Oram.
The South African players dispersed immediately after their two-wicket defeat in the third Test against Australia Tuesday and will have a complete rest from cricket until they assemble before the first Test against New Zealand.
Jacques Kallis, who captained South Africa in the third Test against Australia in the absence of the injured Graeme Smith, admitted: "There is that danger that we've played some hard cricket and the guys might not be ready but we've been given 10 days off to get mentally prepared for New Zealand.
thatscricket.oneindia.in /news/2006/04/06/0604kiwis-proteas.html   (586 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Cricket | Cronje's lasting influence
Four months on from his tragic death in a plane crash, it is clear that much as he may have betrayed his sport for the sake of a few dollars more, Cronje is held in great affection even by those whose careers he nearly ended.
A South African broadcaster who questioned the appropriateness of Frans Cronje's involvement with the national side on air last week was the subject of several calls from unhappy viewers.
Cronje's support base among cricket fans remains strong and the process of restoring the image of the former captain continues apace.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/cricket/2288707.stm   (654 words)

  
 AM Archive - South African cricket inquiry report handed down as team arrives in Brisbane
South African cricket inquiry report handed down as team arrives in Brisbane
But on the same day the report was handed down in Capetown, the South African cricket team arrived in Brisbane for a training camp to prepare for a three-game series against Australia in Melbourne.
South African captain Shaun Pollock told Caitlin Shea he hasn't been told what's in the report, and he's not all that concerned either.
www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s162708.htm   (482 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Cricket | International Teams | South Africa | S Africa appoint Arthur as coach
Cricket South Africa announced the 37-year-old's appointment at a news conference in Johannesburg on Thursday.
Despite South Africa's improvement under Jennings, it was former 'A' team coach Arthur who got the nod in a lengthy selection process that saw the likes of Steve Waugh, Tom Moody and Geoff Marsh linked with the job.
South Africa's first series under Arthur will be at home against New Zealand in October.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/cricket/other_international/south_africa/4562945.stm   (458 words)

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