DURBAN: Hashim Amla became the fastest player to notch up 5000 one-day international runs as South Africa handed West Indies a 61-run defeat in a rain-affected clash at Kingsmead on Friday.
CAPE TOWN: Debutant off-spinner Simon Harmer broke two promising partnerships as the West Indies reached 172 for four at tea on the first day of the third and final Test at Newlands on Friday.
LONDON: England fast bowler James Anderson ranks alongside South Africa's world No. 1 Dale Steyn and possesses more skill, his captain Alastair Cook said on the eve of the fifth test against India.
Opener Dean Elgar struck a magnificent century for South Africa but Sri Lanka came back strongly with four wickets in the final session to balance the scales on the opening day of the first test on Wednesday.