South Africa captain Graeme Smith described Friday's victory in the fourth ODI as 'awesome and a great team effort'.
The India batting ace will play in a Twenty20 match at The Oval in June for victims of the Asian tsunami.
Indian vice-captain Rahul Dravid led the Test batting honours for the second straight week.
Only 18,435 spectators filled the 53,000 capacity Telstra Dome
Rahul Dravid top-scored with 66 as the ICC World XI registered a 12-run victory over Victoria in a practice match.
Dale Steyn has been close to the milestone for more than a year now but, at the age of 34, time is running out for the speed merchant to become South Africa's most prolific wicket taker.
The Asia XI captain said his batsmen still "needed hard work in the nets over the next two days" to win the series.
Jacques Kallis became the first South African batsman to top the PricewaterCooper list in their latest ratings of Test cricketers.
Swashbuckling West Indies opener Chris Gayle described it as a 'special occasion' to become the first cricketer to score 10,000 runs in twenty20 cricket.
India won the second One-Day International against South Africa by 22 runs on Wednesday, to draw level (1-1) in the five-match series. Rajneesh Gupta presents some interesting numbers from the match played in Indore.
India won the second One-Day International against South Africa by 22 runs on Wednesday, to draw level (1-1) in the five-match series. Rajneesh Gupta presents some interesting numbers from the match played in Indore.
Kagiso Rabada regained his top spot among bowlers crossing the coveted 900-point mark in ratings even as Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin climbed up a couple of notches to be placed fourth in the ICC Test Player Rankings, released on Tuesday.
South Africa beat New Zealand by four wickets an hour after tea on the third day to wrap up a 2-0 series win
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India Abroad -- the newspaper published from New York and owned by Rediff.com -- releases a special edition honouring the 11 winners of the India Abroad Person of the Year Award.
Fast bowler Shaun Pollock took four for 32 as England were shot out for 139 in the first innings of the second Test.
"He is hungry to race again and fitter than ever thanks to a new training program," said his manager.\n\n
Graeme Smith also moved up seven places to 12th in the batting ratings.
The Best versus The Rest super series will witness the top Test team play the rest of the world's finest players in September 2005. Select your Test and ODI teams.
A seven-wicket victory over South Africa in the fourth ODI gave them a 4-0 lead in the five-match series.
'It was the Mughals who first established standard units of measurement and maintained offices of meticulous record keepers and auditors, departing from the more haphazard methods of earlier regimes.' 'By the end of the 16th century, their revenue and judicial administrations exhibited an obsessive preoccupation with order, the efficient management of time, and a spirit of rational self-control -- all of them characteristics of early modernity,' point out Sheldon Pollock and Benjamin Ellman.
South Africa could overtake top-ranked Australia on the ICC Test Championship Table if they win their upcoming series against Pakistan
Kohli's much-hyped stint at Surrey was eventually ruled out after he suffered a neck injury.
South Africa's hopes of victory in first Test were foiled by some dogged batting and the weather.\n\n
South Africa reached 342 for five, a lead of 23 runs, at stumps on Day 2.
List of players who have claimed hat-tricks in the Cricket World Cup.
South Africa seamer Dale Steyn grabbed his first Test wicket after an injury absence of 14 months as the hosts fought back against a fired-up India on an enthralling first day of cut-and-thrust cricket in the opening Test at Newlands in Cape Town on Friday.
New Zealand beat South Africa by five runs in third ODI to go 2-1 up in the six-match series.
'I felt Test cricket is just beyond my reach.' 'And slowly, slowly, I started doing well.' 'In the second Test against Pakistan, I scored a fifty and when we went to Sialkot I played a series-saving innings, which was a game changer for me.' 'At that stage that was the most important innings of my life.'
World Cup hosts South Africa slumped to their heaviest defeat in one-day internationals on Wednesday when they lost by 182 runs to Pakistan.
South Africa needed just three overs of the fourth day's play to win the second Test by an innings and 18 runs.
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