Cricket News: Dale Steyn set to join English county Hampshire

The Proteas ace will join the county in June as he looks to return to full fitness after a series of injuries.

Veteran Proteas fast bowler, Dale Steyn will join English county side, Hampshire for the 2018 domestic season.

The 34-year old has been on the sidelines for three months after suffering a heel injury during the opening Test of the home series against India at Newlands in January.

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He will join up with the county in June, a month before South Africa is set to tour Sri Lanka for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals and one T20 international.

Steyn will also fill in for Proteas teammate, Hashim Amla, who joins the county for the first three months of the season.

Hampshire Director of Cricket, Giles White, says he hopes the stint at t

Cricket News: Aiden Markram breaks into top 10 in the latest ICC Test Rankings

The 23-year old joins two other Proteas at the top of the batting rankings, while Kagiso Rabada remains the best bowler in Test cricket.

Proteas opening batsman, Aiden Markram has had a fairytale start to his international career and it has been further underlined by him surging up the ICC Test Rankings into the top 10 in the batting category.

The 23-year old made his highest score in Test cricket during the first innings of the fourth and final Test against Australia at The Wanderers, when he piled on the misery on the troubled visitors, eventually getting out for 152, his second triple figure score of the series.

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He finished as the leading run scorer with 480 runs at an average of 60, to climb up to ninth spot in the rankings, one spot below opening p

Twitter tributes for Morkel as he bows out of international cricket: #MyMorneMoments

Morne Morkel’s international career came to an end on Tuesday, but not before this special tribute.

Morne Morkel bowed out of international cricket in fine style as South Africa registered a historic 3-1 series victory against Australia by winning the fourth and final Test by a mammoth 492 runs, the highest victory run margin in history.

The 33-year-old was in the thick of the action as he bowled what would become the final delivery of the series, where Aiden Markram effected the run out which would bring the contest, as well as a 12-year Test career, to a close.

Though his achievements in the side have been largely understated when compared to some of his relatively ‘superstar’ teammates, they haven’t gone unnoticed by the public, as well as former teammates, who paid a tribute by remembering some of his memorable moments through the hashtag, #MyMorneMoments on Twitter.

From his rather comical ‘tool shed’ moment, to his flying catch in the recent

South Africa vs Australia 3rd Test preview: Session times, playing XIs, pitch and live stream

With the boardroom talk all concluded, the focus is now on the field as the Proteas prepare to take on Australia in the much-anticipated third Test at Newlands.

SA vs Australia, 3rd Test

Date: Thursday, 22 – Monday, 26 March.

Time: 10:00 (SAST).

Venue: Newlands, Cape Town.

Live Stream & TV:
SABC 3,
SuperSport 2 (South Africa),
Channel 9 (Australia)
Sony Ten 1 & Sony Ten 3 (India),
Sky Sports Main Event (UK).

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Overview
The much anticipated third Test between South Africa and Australia kicks off at Newlands on Thursday.

The four-match series has been fraught with controversy stemming from questionable conduct by players fro

Ind vs SA: After AB de Villiers, Faf du Plessis ruled out of ODI, T20I series

South African skipper Faf du Plessis and batsman AB de Villers have been ruled out of ODI and T20Is series against India due to a finger injury.

Faf’s absence would be a massive blow for the hosts as their start batter AB de Villiers was already ruled out from first three ODI matches due to injury.

Faf du Plessis had injured his finger during the opening ODI match between India and South Africa in which he scored his ninth hundred to take the Proteas to 269/8. Following the mediocre target, visitors chased the total with ease and won the match by six wickets.

“I just got a blow (to my finger), so hopefully it will be fine for the next game,” Faf du Plessis had said in the post-match conference.

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