Afghanistan rode on a late cameo from skipper Rashid Khan to post 115 for 5 against Bangladesh in their concluding T20 World Cup Super Eight match in St Vincent on Tuesday. His 10-ball 19, which included 3 sixes, enabled the team put up a respectable total after Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran got Afghanistan off to a slow, but steady start.
Dale Steyn wrecked the Indian first innings with career-best figures of seven for 51 and South Africa took two second innings wickets to leave India staring at defeat at the end of the third day in the first Test at Nagpur on Monday.
South Africa beat India by 48 runs (Duckworth/Lewis method) in a rain-affected fourth One-Day International at St George's Park, Port Elizabeth on Friday to level the five-match series 2-2.
From a near impossible win at the Gabba with a second-string side to walloping a hapless South Africa in their own backyard, 2021 can easily go down in the annals as 'one of the greatest in Indian cricket', opener KL Rahul said.
South Africa may have bowled India out for 223 in the first innings, but ace speedster Kagiso Rabada insisted that the home side's batters will have to dig deep to win the series-deciding third Test.
South Africa moved cautiously on to 214 for five in reply to England's 458 at the close on the second day of the first Test helped by a gritty performance from Temba Bavuma at Lord's in London on Friday.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar didn't mince words when he categorically said that 'things could have been different' had Aiden Markram's catch been taken or a couple of close run-outs been effected in the team's five-wicket defeat against South Africa on Sunday.
Images from Day 2 of the third Test between South Africa and India, in Cape Town, on Wednesday.
IMAGES from the 4th T20I between India and South Africa played in Rajkot on Friday.
South Africa African spinner Robin Peterson is optimistic that his side could force a result on the final day of the second Test and win the series against India at Kingsmead on Monday.
India captain Rohit Sharma is happy that his team got to 'learn a lot' in their eight-wicket victory over South Africa in a low-scoring chase on a tricky pitch in the first T20 International.
AB de Villiers survived being dropped early to smash a series-winning unbeaten 95 for South Africa who beat Pakistan by six wickets in the deciding match of their One-day international series on Sunday.
Sanju Samson made an unbeaten 86 in a losing cause in Lucknow.
Mayank Agarwal believes discipline and application were the key elements to India's commanding score of 272 for 3 on Day 1 of the first Test against South Africa on Sunday.
New Zealand, who won the toss and chose to bat, lurched to 187-8 before bad light ended play three overs after tea.
IMAGES from the opening T20I played between India and South Africa in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday.
Wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant said the failure of the Indian bowlers to claim wickets in the middle overs proved vital in their seven-wicket defeat against South Africa in the second ODI in Paarl on Friday.
South Africa beat Australia for the third game in a row when they won the second Twenty20 international by 17 runs on Sunday. Chasing 157 for victory on Sunday, Australia were derailed by off-spinner Johan Botha, who claimed two for 16 in four overs as the visitors crashed to 103 for five after 15 overs having been 63 for two at the halfway mark.
Zimbabwe join India, Pakistan, South Africa, Bangladesh and the Netherlands in Group 2 of the Super 12 stage.
IMAGES from Day 4 of the opening Test between South Africa and India, in Centurion, on Wednesday.
IMAGES from Day 1 of the 1st Test played between South Africa and India at Centurion on Sunday.
Opener Shikhar Dhawan rued the middle-order collapse after India's 31-run defeat to South Africa in the first One-day International, in Paarl on Wednesday.
Images from Day 4 of the 3rd Test played between South Africa and England in Port Elizabeth on Sunday
Virender Sehwag scored a sparkling half-century as India ended Day 2 in the first Test on 82 without loss. Hashim Amla had earlier in the day scored a brilliant 159.
'You want a certain type of wicket when you play at home and when you don't get it you still have to perform. The guys have worked hard, they have toiled a little bit when they have had to'
Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara have been a "bit of a headache" for South Africa and the hosts will look to get them out early on Day 3 of the series-deciding third Test, said Proteas batter Keegan Petersen, in Cape Town, on Wednesday.
The 29-year-old, who signed a Kolpak deal with Yorkshire in 2019 only to return to the South African domestic circuit this season, returned figures of 3 for 64 as India were bowled out for 202 in 63.1 overs on Day 1 of the second Test, in Johannesburg, on Monday.
A hapless Indian bowling attack was smashed all over the park by South African batsmen in the fifth and final ODI, which the home side lost by 214 runs, but captain MS Dhoni defended them, saying that the Wankhede wicket was "too true" to offer any assistance to them.
Images from the T20 World Cup Super 12 match between South Africa and India, in Perth, on Sunday.
'It was a wonderful all-round effort by Afghanistan'
IMAGES from the 1st T20I played between India and South Africa in New Delhi on Thursday.
India's head coach Rahul Dravid admitted that his team didn't play "smart cricket at crucial times", but backed the beleaguered K L Rahul to get better as a leader in the coming days.
Images from Day 2 of the third Test between Australia and South Africa at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Thursday
'I was a little bit more chilled when I got out there. Didn't have many high hopes, I think. But yeah, I've been pretty cooked over the last couple of days. Coincided with the sleepless night last night with the family over...'
The Indian team was just too good for the Irish and the gulf in standard was evident across all departments.
Images from the third T20 International between India and South Africa, in Indore, on Tuesday.
IMAGES from the first Test played between South Africa and India in Centurion on Tuesday
David Miller lavished praise on fellow teammate Heinrich Klaasen for his 'phenomenal' knock.
Images from the third One-Day International between South Africa and India, in Cape Town, on Sunday.
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