The veteran all-rounder will lead a 14-member squad to play against India and Ireland in place of Graeme Smith.
South Africa could overtake top-ranked Australia on the ICC Test Championship Table if they win their upcoming series against Pakistan
The India batting ace will play in a Twenty20 match at The Oval in June for victims of the Asian tsunami.
Top teams need to find young players to replace their retiring big names, says ICC chief Malcolm Speed.
Makhaya Ntini said he used to avoid travelling in the team bus and preferred running to the stadium to deal with the isolation.
India, who need 354 runs to win, were reduced to 38 for 2 on day four of the second Test.
Jacques Kallis became the first South African batsman to top the PricewaterCooper list in their latest ratings of Test cricketers.
South Africa beat India by 80 runs in the fourth ODI to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series.
The fast bowler claimed 4 wickets for 13 runs as South Africa beat India by 157 runs in the second ODI.
They have been badly handicapped by injuries to their captain Graeme Smith and all rounder Jacques Kallis.
One of the greatest pacers to have played the game of cricket, Dale Steyn, on Tuesday announced his retirement from all forms of cricket.
Kagiso Rabada's hunger for success and an impeccable technique to release the ball easily makes him a modern-day South Africa legend, reckons former fast bowling great Allan Donald.
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.
South Africa lead the five-match series 2-1. The next game is on Friday in Durban.
Gilchrist is one of five Australian batsmen now in the top 10 along with Ponting, Symonds, Hussey and Clarke.
The South African fast bowler, who injured his left knee, has been ruled out of the third Test against Australia.
South Africa captain Graeme Smith described Friday's victory in the fourth ODI as 'awesome and a great team effort'.
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.
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.
The Asia XI captain said his batsmen still "needed hard work in the nets over the next two days" to win the series.
World Cup hosts South Africa slumped to their heaviest defeat in one-day internationals on Wednesday when they lost by 182 runs to Pakistan.
Fast bowler Shaun Pollock took four for 32 as England were shot out for 139 in the first innings of the second Test.
A seven-wicket victory over South Africa in the fourth ODI gave them a 4-0 lead in the five-match series.
New Zealand beat South Africa by five runs in third ODI to go 2-1 up in the six-match series.
South Africa crushed the Pakistan Cricket Board XI by 176 runs in a one-day tour match on Tuesday.
South Africa needed just three overs of the fourth day's play to win the second Test by an innings and 18 runs.
Pakistan were 243 for seven in their second innings at tea, a lead of just 139 on the fourth day of the first Test.
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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