Highlights: West Indies vs Proteas (1st Test, Day 2)
Temba Bavuma and Tony de Zorzi top-scored for the Proteas at the Queen’s Park Oval on Thursday.
Temba Bavuma and Tony de Zorzi top-scored for the Proteas at the Queen’s Park Oval on Thursday.
Half-centuries by captain Temba Bavuma and opener Tony de Zorzi anchored a resolute batting effort by South Africa against the West Indies in Trinidad on Thursday.
Aiden Markram lost his wicket before the rain arrived in Port of Spain on Wednesday.
The Proteas reached 45-1 before steady rain forced the abandonment of most of the opening day’s play of the first Test of the two-match series against the West Indies.
London Spirit’s Andre Russell insists a lack of interest more than a lack of money is why some leading West Indies cricketers have turned their back on the Test-match game.
England completed a comprehensive 3-0 whitewash of the West Indies on Sunday. Here’s what we learned from the series …
West Indies captain Kraigg Brathwaite is optimistic his side will be better for the experience of being whitewashed by England when they face South Africa next month.
Ben Stokes hit the fastest Test fifty by an England batsman as the hosts hammered the West Indies by 10 wickets to win the third Test at Edgbaston on Sunday.
Jamie Smith fell agonisingly short of a maiden Test hundred as England fought back from a top-order collapse to eye a series clean sweep of the West Indies at Edgbaston on Saturday.
The West Indies took three late wickets, including both England openers with successive deliveries, in a stirring fightback on Friday’s opening day of the third Test at Edgbaston.
West Indies all-rounder Kevin Sinclair has been ruled out of the series finale against England at Edgbaston after having his forearm fractured by fast bowler Mark Wood in the second Test.
England thrashed the West Indies by 241 runs in the second Test at Trent Bridge on Sunday to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in a three-match series.
Harry Brook’s unbeaten fifty guided England into a strong position at stumps on the third day of the second Test against the West Indies at Trent Bridge.
Kavem Hodge was proud to have emerged with a maiden Test hundred following a “brutal” encounter with Mark Wood at Trent Bridge on Friday after reminding the England fast bowler he had a “wife and kids at home”.
Kavem Hodge scored his maiden Test hundred as the West Indies made life tough for England in Nottingham on Friday.