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Proteas coach Mark Boucher, ever candidly, reminded everyone ahead of the Test series between his charges and England starting on Thursday that the on-field skirmishes of the two nations always creates a huge amount of hype.
LONDON: For a chess championship, the attire is a bit unusual: everyone is wearing swim trunks and goggles.
Jagbir Singh is a former India field hockey player who represented India in two Olympics in 1988 (Seoul) and 1992 (Barcelona). He was also part of the bronze medal winning Indian team in the 1986 Asian Games and the silver medal winning team in the 1990 Asian Games.
England and South Africa will be squaring off against each other in the first Test of the three-match series on Wednesday. The first Test match will be played at Lord's Cricket Ground, London, while the other two will be played at Old Trafford, Manchester and Kennington Oval respectively. Earlier in July, South Africa claimed the three-match T20I series 2-1 while the ODI series ended on level terms at 1-1 after the third ODI was washed out due to rain. It will be interesting to how Ben Stokes-led England approaches the Test series, after making the 'Bazball' word the talk of the town.
The England and Wales Cricket Board's (ECB) strategic advisor Andrew Strauss warned English cricket chiefs on Monday not to "bury their heads in the sand" as the Twenty20 era pushes the sport into a period of unprecedented change. With lucrative Twenty20 leagues taking more space in the cricket calendar, the traditional dominance of the five-day Test format is under threat. Players are increasingly being forced to choose whether they want to specialise in the short or longer forms of the sport.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday announced the first ever Women's Future Tours Programme (FTP) that confirms the bilateral international tours for 10 teams over the next three years and incorporates all three formats of the game. "A result of a joint effort from Members, the FTP ensures more matches for teams with the enhancement of the ICC Women's Championship (IWC) to a 10-team event. With teams featuring in more matches across formats in bilateral series, over 300 matches will be played as part of the 2022-25 FTP," stated an official release.
MELBOURNE : The knives are not yet out for Dave Rennie but a shocking run of injuries has left the Australia coach on shaky ground ahead of daunting tests against world champions South Africa and a resurgent New Zealand.
South Africa captain Dean Elgar says he does not fear "Bazball" as the Proteas seek to inflict England's first Test defeat of their swashbuckling new era under the leadership of Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum.