Steve Waugh flew into South Africa with his Australian Test team on Thursday and vowed to return for next year's World Cup by regaining his one-day place

Daryll Cullinan, the elder statesman of South African batting, and tyros Graeme Smith and Jacques Rudolph will all welcome Steve Waugh and his touring team in the South African A side's three-day game against Australia starting in Potchefstroom on

The KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins skipped past a couple of showers and the Western Province defences to retain the Standard Bank Cup by 28 runs in a disappointingly one-sided final at Kingsmead on Friday night

Australia won the battle but lost the war at the WACA on Sunday, beating South Africa by 33 runs, but failing to bag the bonus point that would have earned them a place in the VB Series finals

Australia won the battle but lost the war at the WACA on Sunday, beating South Africa by 33 runs, but failing to bag the bonus point that would have earned them a place in the VB Series finals

Less than a week ago South Africa were languishing at the foot of the VB Series table

The VB Series now stands intriguingly poised after South Africa roared back into contention with a 93-run victory over New Zealand at the Adelaide Oval on Sunday

In the least likely of all scenarios, South Africa and New Zealand share top spot on the VB series log with four points apiece after two matches in the tournament

In the least likely of all scenarios, South Africa and New Zealand share top spot on the VB series log with four points apiece after two matches in the tournament

South African captain Shaun Pollock and coaches Graham Ford and Corrie van Zyl have received the full backing of the United Cricket Board despite the furore that has enveloped South African cricket since the start of the third Test against Australia

Jacques Rudolph, one of the men unwittingly cast at the centre of the storm currently tearing South African cricket apart, flew home on Monday to say that he still hoped to play for his country

Nantie Hayward, Jacques Rudolph and Claude Henderson have all been cut from the South African squad for the one-day triangular series against Australia and New Zealand which will follow the third and final Test match against Australia in Sydney

Controversial United Cricket Board president Percy Sonn is on his own in believing that banned former captain Hansie Cronje should be allowed back into cricket at this stage

The crisis in South African cricket sparked by United Cricket Board president Percy Sonn's intervention in the team to play Australia in the third Test deepened on Thursday as rifts along racial and political lines became ever more clear

With South Africa having conceded the psychological and public relations advantage to Australia during the current Test series already won by the home team, the United Cricket Board of South Africa has taken the unprecedented step of issuing a vote

In a move that smacks ominously of desperation, left-arm spinner Nicky Boje is to fly to Australia on Monday at the request of the South African selectors "to give them an extra option as a spinner" ahead of the third Test in Sydney which starts on

Consider this for a statistic: in six previous tours to Australia, South Africa have never won a Test series

Western Province left-arm spinner Claude Henderson has replaced Nicky Boje in the South African squad which leaves for a three-Test tour of Australia on Saturday

India's 2001 tour of South Africa came to an end four overs after lunch on the final day of what, at this stage anyway, remains an unofficial Test match - a five-day international friendly, if you will

Former West Indian Test captain and ICC match referee Clive Lloyd said on Monday that cricket's authorities could and should have found a way around the Mike Denness controversy, which would have allowed the final match in the South Africa-India