Boeta Dippenaar

Chaminda Vaas rocked South Africa with some exceptional swing and seam bowling, taking 6 for 29 as Sri Lanka romped to a 313-run win to take the two-Test series 1-0 - their first series victory against South Africa

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The South Africans got off to a winning start in their tour of New Zealand, easily beating a strong Northern Districts team

Last week, West Indies were bundled out for 54 and seemed already to be sitting on a beach back home, resting up ahead of the England series

Shaun Pollock took 4 for 26 as South Africa won their second match of the five-game one-day series

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

Chasing under lights yet again in the second game of their one-day series against Pakistan, South Africa could not resist the pressure for long enough to make a realistic assault on their target of 268, falling short by 42 runs

Boeta Dippenaar did his best, fighting off heat and humidity, testing spells from Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Sami, the wiles of Mushtaq Ahmed and Shoaib Malik, and hundreds of insects swarming under the lights of the Gaddafi stadium, but in the end

Last year it was at Trent Bridge that the tone of the international summer changed

Jacques Rudolph and Boeta Dippenaar tightened South Africa's control of their match against Kent at Canterbury with some flourishing batting late in the day

Neil McKenzie boosted made the most of the rain-affected day for the South Africans against Somerset at Taunton

Seaside shuffle: Boeta Dippenaar on his way to 101 not out The South African tourists brushed Sussex aside at Hove, bundling them out for 114 and winning by 153 runs almost before the floodlights could have any effect

With the announcement of the final squad of 15 who will represent South Africa at the 2003 ICC World Cup, captain Shaun Pollock will carry the hopes of the hosting nation on his shoulders when the opening game against West Indies starts at Newlands

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

For once in this Standard Bank One-Day series Kenya were not utterly outclassed in Kimberley on Sunday

With Boeta Dippenaar at last running into form, South Africa sauntered to a seven-wicket victory over Zimbabwe 'A' in a one-day warmup match in Bulawayo on Friday

The tour has just begun on a great note and we haven't even left SA yet; a relaxing 2 days playing golf at Sun City

Shaun Pollock had some sympathy (but not all that much, mind) for Sanath Jayasuriya after South Africa had wrapped up the Standard Bank one-day international series against Sri Lanka with a crushing 99-run victory in the fourth match at Newlands on

With Jacques Kallis pacing his innings to perfection and Jonty Rhodes scampering hither and thither, South Africa made tracking down Sri Lanka's best score of the series seem pretty much routine as they won the third Standard Bank one-day