Strauss joined an elite band of players to score centuries in their first Tests both home and away as England ended the second day on 227 for one.
Jacques Kallis took a career-best six wickets for 54 runs as South Africa won the fourth Test by 191 runs.
South Africa won the second Test by an innings and 92-runs.
The England captain is counting on the strike bowler to deliver against Zimbabwe.
Presenters Andrew Flintoff, Kass Naidoo, Zainab Abbas, and Jacqueline Shepherd will lead the coverage. They will be joined by cricketing stars from around the world, including Dinesh Karthik, Stuart Broad
PHOTOS from the 3rd Test Between England and West Indies on Sunday.
Royal Challengers Bangalore, which is captained by India skipper Virat Kohli, said the right decision has been taken.
IMAGES from Day 1 of the 1st Test played between England and South Africa at Lord's on Wednesday.
'I feel sorry for the spectators who have travelled and paid hefty prices having to watch this lottery on a very substandard pitch. It's a disgrace.'
John Edrich scored a triple Test hundred and over 100 first class hundreds in a magnificent career.
'I've had enough of umpire's call. Let's just ban umpire's call.'
IMAGES from the Indian Premier League match played between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Gujarat Titans in Bengaluru, on Saturday.
Speaking to Sunil Gavaskar, Michael Clarke and Mark Butcher, who were discussing the game in a television studio in Mumbai, Shastri came up with a rather interesting way to describe the tense moments of the game with Australia almost pulling-off a record chase.
The Army Day is celebrated on January 15 every year to mark Lieutenant General K M Cariappa taking over as commander-in-chief of the Indian Army in 1949 from General Francis Butcher, the last British commander-in-chief of India.
India Test skipper Virat Kohli has been named as the 'Captain of the Year'.
PCB lashes out at FICA for terming Pakistan unsafe
Rajneesh Gupta presents all the interesting numbers from the first day of the India-England Test at Trent Bridge.
Muslims around the world are celebrating Islam's biggest holiday with prayers, gifts, traditional visits with family and friends, and feasts. Eid al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice, commemorates what Muslims believe was Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son in accordance with God's will, though in the end God provides him with a sheep to sacrifice instead. In remembrance, Muslim faithful slaughter sheep, cattle, camels and other livestock in an act of sacrifice to show gratitude for their blessings, divide the meat into three equal portions and give some of it to the poor.
The Captain of the Year award was given to England's World Cup-winning, Heather Knight, the first for a women skipper
The MCC's World Cricket Committee which includes greats like Shane Warne, Kumar Sangakkara, Sourav Ganguly and Ricky Ponting, recently discussed the controversial umpire's call aspect of the Decision Review System.
How the world reacted to Smith, Bancroft and Lehmann
Opener Murali Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara batted superbly to make centuries on Day 2 of the 2nd Test in Nagpur on Saturday. Here are the statistical highlights from the day's play.
Neither DC nor LSG look like outfits that give you the vibe of a champion side
The Kashmir Files director Vivek Agnihotri on Tuesday said he will quit filmmaking if intellectuals, including Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, are able to prove that events depicted in his film are false.
IMAGES from the T20 World Cup semi-final match played between India and England in Adelaide on Thursday.
India is celebrating its 73rd Army Day on Friday. All Army Command headquarters celebrate Army Day to commemorate the country's soldiers. The day marks when Lt Gen K M Carriappa took over as commander-in-chief of the Indian Army from General Francis Butcher, the last British commander-in-chief of India, in 1949.
'She had the courage to not cow down before the entire law and order apparatus, to remain sane and human despite inhuman suffering meted out to her and her family.'
A selection of musings from around the cricket World Cup.
'Constitutional narratives are forged both inside and outside courtrooms,' says Rohit De.
You'll need extra eyes for the amount of OTT content available this week. Sukanya Verma invites you to take your pick.
Off-spinner R Ashwin, who has been phenomenal in home conditions, has made it to the Test team as the 12th man, while pacer Mohammed Shami has been included in the ODI team.
Angry Palestinian students protested against India's growing friendship with Israel at a university campus in East Jerusalem on Tuesday even as President Pranab Mukherjee was being conferred an honorary degree.
One of cricket's greatest players passed into the ages on Monday. Rediff.com salutes the legend.
