Besides coaching, the Indian pace ace will also play club cricket in the country.
Rishabh Pant's form would be an important sub-plot when India look to seize the advantage against South Africa
Tiny Cape Verde Islands catapulted themselves into surprise World Cup contention with a 2-1 victory away to South Africa.
The controversial Umpire Decision Review System will not be used during India's Test tour of South Africa next month, coach Corrie van Zyl said.
The league match between South Africa A and Australia A in the ongoing Tri Series cricket tournament slated for Tuesday has been postponed to Wednesday, August 12 and India A will cross with Australia A in the final match of the league phase on August 13.
Wishes poured in from all quarters for former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who celebrates his 39th birthday on Tuesday.
Some of the France players may not want to face South Africa in their final World Cup Group A game on Tuesday following a row over the expulsion of striker Nicolas Anelka, beleaguered coach Raymond Domenech said.
The FIFA 2022 World Cup will kick-off in Qatar on Sunday, November 20. Here is a list of the 26-man squads playing in the quadrennial global football extravaganza.
Salgaocar Sports Club would like to continue their winning streak when they take on upbeat Churchill Brothers Sports Club in the I-League clash at Nehru Stadium in Fatorda on Friday.
Hashim Amla says his team is not used to the hammering that it has received in the ongoing ODI series against India and the emphatic nature of defeat has taken the Proteas back to the drawing board ahead of the World Cup next year.
South African coach Ray Jennings asserts that his bowlers have taken the momentum away from India.
Prince also said that when the players told the leadership about the racial abuse they have been suffering, the reply was "it's only some people, not the majority".
Virat Kohli will be facing the toughest battle of his nascent ODI captaincy career when defending champions India take on South Africa in a do-or-die match of the ICC Champions Trophy, in London, on Sunday.
The former captain said that he will only make a comeback if he feels that he is good enough to play at the international level even though he has been a regular on franchise circuit.
MSK Prasad has just completed an eventful tenure during which he successfully oversaw the transition of leadership from Mahendra Singh Dhoni to Virat Kohli.
Attributing Kolkata Knight Riders' second Indian Premier League title triumph to Gautam Gambhir's leadership skills, the team's bowling coach Wasim Akram said he is the best among all the IPL captains this season.
With a record that was anything to be proud of, the only way India could have beaten the South Africans in the ongoing Test series was by using 'home advantage' to the optimum, says Bikash Mohapatra/Rediff.com.
Priyanka Goswami's timing of 1:28:45 broke the national record by over a minute.
Fabinho's first-half goal earned Liverpool a 1-0 win at Burnley
Australian cricket legends and former teammates Dennis Lillee and Greg Chappell will be seen in opposite dug-outs when they coach two different teams in an All-Star Twenty20 match in Brisbane on November 22.
Olympic quick takes - Brazil lifter Reis suspended from Games after positive drug test.
Images from Sunday's English Premier League matches.
New Zealand are looming as the popular dark horses for the cricket World Cup.
The 15-member Indian squad, which landed in the city in batches along with the support staff, will start their three-day training camp from Saturday at National Cricket Academy ahead of the first Test against Australia at Chennai, starting on February 22.
Rohit Sharma says the South African conditions are not a problem for the Indian batsmen and the fault lay mainly in the lack of big partnerships, which he said resulted in the visitors already losing the three-match series after back-to-back defeats.
Australia's bowlers must make the most of second new ball if they want to get anything out of the rain-disrupted first Test against South Africa after disappointing on the opening day, coach Mickey Arthur said on Saturday.
"Every match is important and poses a different challenge, there's nothing like preparation. We will go match by match. If we do better here then we will think of the SA series," he said.
India hockey coach Michael Nobbs defended the decision to drop a few senior players from the squad for next month's Olympic qualifier, insisting that form and fitness were the only criteria for selection.
'It's not about four or five bowlers; it's the balance that can get you 20 wickets. Like I have kept saying in the past, it depends on conditions' 'Competition for places, nothing like it. It goes to show everyone is one his toes, nobody will rest on his heels'
Ayew strikes as Palace hold Southampton to 2-2 draw
Italian coach Giovanni Trapattoni is to leave Salzburg at the end of the season to become manager of Ireland's national side, his Austrian club said on Wednesday.
Pakistan retained under-fire skipper Misbah-ul Haq and out-of-form Muhammad Hafeez, but dropped tall left-arm pacer Muhammad Irfan from the 28-man probables' list for the two-Test series against South Africa.
Match-fixing has returned to haunt Pakistan cricket with the parliamentary committee on sports summoning PCB chief Ejaz Butt, captain Younus Khan and coach Intikhab Alam to seek explanation for the team's Champions Trophy loss to Australia after allegations of deliberate underperformance.
His contract runs till 2013 after a recent renewal but India football coach Bob Houghton has hinted that he may quit if his side does not produce a good show at the 2011 Asian Cup.
Former Australia coach John Buchanan has rubbished media reports that he is all set to help England in their bid to wrest next month's Ashes from Ricky Ponting's men.
Russell had opted out of the three-match T20I series against India due to an injury, but he turned up for Vancouver Knights to play in the T20 tournament in Canada.
Former India players and parents of rebel trio Chetan Anand, Jwala Guttu and Shruti Kurien said V K Verma has neither badminton expertise, nor administrative ability or commitment to justify his position as president.
Jake Lehmann's strong form could force an awkward decision at the selectors table where his father sits.
South Africa are planning to pepper Virender Sehwag with short balls and cramp him for space in the second Test.
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