“Both teams come into the tournament with a clean slate”
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South Africa all-rounder JP Duminy has said that his side cannot afford to be overconfident heading into their Champions Trophy opener against Sri Lanka on Saturday.
Billings scored 138 runs in six matches at an average of 23 in this year’s IPL
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Sam Billings will not be returning to the Indian Premier League (IPL) and will instead stay in England.
“This could be the defining period for this team”
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Former South Africa captain Graeme Smith believes that the Proteas will be in for a tough challenge during their upcoming tour of India, which starts next month.
“Our toughest challenge the last few years has been having success away from home”
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In order to get prepared for their tour of the United Arab Emirates in October, where they will play Pakistan, Cricket Australia have announced that they are planning to import soil from India.
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“They have a very good chance of getting to the semi-finals”
South Africa Twenty20 captain Faf du Plessis has announced that he believes Australia are the team to beat in the upcoming World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.
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Boycott believes match-fixing will plummet if the Indian government were to legalise betting
The Indian Premier League (IPL) match-fixing scandal has taken the entire cricketing world by surprise, but former England captain Geoffrey Boycott believes the only way to ensure another serious event like this never occurs again is to legalise betting in India.
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Pakistan and Ireland played two ODIs in May
Cricket Ireland chief executive Warren Deutrom has announced that the national team would highly consider being the first international side since Sri Lanka in March 2009 to tour Pakistan if security protocols were up to standards.
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Steyn is determined to ensure that this year’s series does not end as a draw
India’s tour of South Africa in December this year is already proving to be a highly-anticipated series between two of the best Test nations around at the moment, but Proteas pace spearhead Dale Steyn believes his side should be able to defeat the Indians without any major problems, given the fact that India tend to struggle in foreign conditions.
Singh noted that India are looking for revenge after being whitewashed by Australia last year
Having decimated Australia in the First Test in Chennai by eight wickets, India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh is confident the national team can go on to whitewash the Australians 4-0 after the tourists did the very same thing in front of their own fans at the beginning of 2012.
