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CricFever (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Johannesburg, Nov.20 (ANI): In an indirect rejoinder to South African cricket team coach Mickey Arthur, England captain Andrew Strauss has said that his team is in South Africa to make runs and win matches, and not to make friends. Strauss was responding to Arthur’’s comment that the England players were a touch too friendly with his [...]
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Cricinfo (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Andrew Strauss won the toss and chose to bowl first to take advantage of the moisture that is still lingering around the Highveld after a weekend of wet weather
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Hit refresh for the latest entries or set the page to update automatically using the button below. Email any questions, observations or gags over to andy.bull@guardian.co.uk Andy will be here from 12.30pm to bring you all the details from England's one-day international against South Africa. In the meantime we can tell you that play has been delayed by rain in Johannesburg, with a further pitch inspection...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Whether playing, training, warming up, warming down or simply travelling, the English sportsman is an accident waiting to happen Are the English the world's most injury‑prone people? Certainly the recent plague of afflictions visited on our football, cricket and rugby union teams suggests a nation whose inhabitants can't bend down to tie a shoelace without such twanging of sinew and muscle it...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Whether playing, training, warming up, warming down or simply travelling, the English sportsman is an accident waiting to happen Are the English the world's most injury-prone people? Certainly the recent plague of afflictions visited on our football, cricket and rugby union teams suggests a nation whose inhabitants can't bend down to tie a shoelace without such twanging of sinew and muscle it sounds...
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
THE England cricket team, led by Andrew Strauss, are ready to go toe to toe with the South Africans today as the one-day series takes off.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
• Captain reluctant to be drawn by Proteas provocation • England say lack of focus may work against hosts England's captain, Andrew Strauss, stood as a pacifist here today as South Africa's war of words raged around his head on the eve of the five-match ODI series which starts at the Wanderers tomorrow afternoon. England have been accused of being predictable and of undermining their young...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The Proteas have tried to inspire antagonism, but are England too nice to sledge? It must be frustrating for Graeme Smith and Mickey Arthur. Their normal whipping boy, Kevin Pietersen, is keeping an uncharacteristically low profile on this England tour. Perhaps he has matured; perhaps his missus is about to launch her solo career; either way, KP has deemed it fit to renounce his normal belligerence,...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
• Injury-hit tourists struggle to a morale-boosting victory • 'I was disappointed not to make three figures' says Trott South Africa did their best to make England feel at home here yesterday. Potchefstroom, cold and almost deserted, might have been Leicester in April. England, though, failed to respond to this show of hospitality. In their last warm-up match before the tour gets more serious,...
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Cricinfo (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Andrew Strauss returns to captain as England name their only 11 fit players for the one-day tour match against South Africa A.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
• Kieswetter pledges future to his adoptive country • Wicketkeeper tipped to play Test cricket with England Craig Kieswetter, Somerset's dynamic wicketkeeper batsman, has pledged his future to England following reports that South Africa were keen to reclaim the Johannesburg-born player. Kieswetter, 21, who has a Scottish mother and a British passport, was hastily added to England's Performance...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
England should not panic after their defeat on Tuesday, though the split captaincy is a cause for concern The first thing I would want to say to the England team now is don't panic. They may have been bowled out for just 89 by South Africa A in their warm-up match but previously they had played well, with convincing wins against two sound teams. As poor as the performance was, their defeat on Tuesday...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
• Paul Collingwood again takes charge of tourists • South Africa's captain lands first blow of phoney war Graeme Smith, the South Africa captain, has landed the first telling blow during England's tour of his country by questioning his opposite number Andrew Strauss's decision not to play himself in the two Twenty20 games this weekend. The tour proper starts here tomorrow night, with the...
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Cricinfo (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
England may yet need to call on the services of Andrew Strauss for their opening Twenty20 international against South Africa after Alastair Cook became doubtful with a sore throat
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
• Arthur sad to miss out on South African-born batsman • 'He wouldn't be in our top six but he'd be thereabouts' The South Africa coach Mickey Arthur is frustrated by the sight of Jonathan Trott playing for England. The 28-year-old played youth cricket for the Proteas having been born and raised in the country but has represented Warwickshire since 2002 courtesy of a British passport he...
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ssiss | 07/15/2009
English all rounder Andrew Flintoff has declared to retire from Test cricket at the end of this Ashes summer. But he still expects to play Twenty20 and ODI cricket. He is just intended to be fit for the second Test against Australia in the npower Ashes. Flintoff has missed 25 tests of last 48 Tests of England due to his injury and even suffering for uncertainty and fitness scare on the eve of the Lord's