Justin Ontong

Despite their series defeat against Australia, India are hot favourites to bounce back in their two-Test series against South Africa which begins at Nagpur on Saturday

South African domestic round-up

South African domestic round-up

Hundreds for Benjamin Hector and Boeta Dippenaar entertained a small crowd in Bloemfontein, as Griqualand West and Easterns made up ground on Western Province in the latest round of Standard Bank Cup matches

Wins for North West, Free State, and Western Province in the fourth round of the SuperSport Series - but a tense draw between Easterns and Boland, and a dull one as Pool A KwaZulu-Natal are held by bottom -of-the-table Eastern Province

England 86 for 0 (Croft 31*, Ali 31*, Maynard 20*, Nazir 0-9) v Pakistan 65 for 4 (Nazir 27, Latif 24, Croft 2-4) Scorecard Robert Croft gave David Graveney, the chairman of selectors, who was watching on from the sidelines, a timely reminder

The South African selection panel has named 31 players* in a preliminary training squad in the run-up to the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup in South Africa

South Africa's already slender hopes of reversing the 3-0 defeat suffered against Australia earlier this year plummeted on Thursday when both captain Shaun Pollock and batsman Justin Ontong were ruled out of Friday's first Test at the Wanderers with

Already waiting on captain Shaun Pollock's fitness, South Africa suffered a further injury blow at the Wanderers on Wednesday when Justin Ontong pulled up with what appeared to be a hamstring injury

Justin Ontong, controversially included in the South African side for the third Test in Sydney last month at the insistence of United Cricket Board president Percy Sonn, has been retained for the first Test against Australia starting at the Wanderers

I think it took some guts and BMT for Ridley Jacobs to have hit the winning runs the way he did and hopefully in one of the games to come it will be me or one of the our guys in a similar situation winning it for our team

After four days of nip and tuck, it came down to the last ball

After four days of nip and tuck in Paarl, it came down to the last ball

A superb stand of 144 for the fourth wicket between two of South Africa's most talented young batsmen helped Boland into a competitive position in their Supersport Series Super Eights match against Eastern Province at Boland Park in Paarl on Saturday

Andre Nel, the Easterns fast bowler who made such an impact on Allan Donald recently, will travel to the West Indies with South Africa at the end of this month as backup to the great man

Boland reached an imposing 274 for four by stumps on day one of this Supersport Series Super Eight match at local rivals Western Province, on a day that saw two of their young batting stars play a large hand

Centurion - At some stage in the first week of the new century South Africa's national selectors might suddenly realise there are other teams to select than those for limited-over internationals