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THANKS to a fine all- round performance the South African A cricket side have beaten the touring English side by four wickets in their Twenty20 match, which was played in Bloemfontein yesterday.

Shahid Afridi described Pakistan's defeat in the one-day series as "shameful" but was hopeful his players could lift their performance for the two-match Twenty20 series starting in Dubai on Thursday.

All-rounder Shane Watson and fastA bowler Mitchell Johnson will skip Australiaa s final one-dayA international against India today and head home instead.A World champions Australia clinched the seven-match series onA Sunday by taking a 4-2 lead with a six-wicket win.A A Cricket Australia said in a statement yesterday thatA Johnson and Watson were ...

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Kevin Pietersen is thrilled to be back in England colours after joining up with the rest of his team-mates in Johannesburg on Wednesday.

Photograph: Empics The England batsman Ed Joyce has agreed a new three-year deal at Sussex .

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Umpire Ahsan Raza, who was critically injured during the attacks on the Sri Lankan team on March 3, returned to international cricket in the third one-day between Pakistan and New Zealand Monday.

Still standing Shane Watson on the attack in the sixth one-day clash against India on Sunday.

James Anderson was left out of England's final tour match against South Africa 'A' on Tuesday as a precautionary measure after suffering some soreness in his right knee.

He'll bounce back: McGrath reckons he would pick a fit Lee for any team he played in.

Graeme Swann is certain the absence of captain Andrew Strauss from England's tour to South Africa over the next week will not hamper the tourists' progress.

South Africa began their season with a 45-run victory over neighbours, Zimbabwe, at Benoni yet were left with plenty to ponder after a battling century from Tatenda Taibu in a record sixth-wicket stand of 188.

TOP SCORER: Brendon McCullum stepped up again for the Black Caps against Pakistan with a knock of 76 in the third ODI.

Leicestershire have won the battle to sign former England seamer Matthew Hoggard, agreeing a three-year deal with the 32-year-old - who will also become the county's new captain.

England will begin their 2011 World Cup campaign against Holland in Nagpur - three days after the six-week tournament gets under way with Bangladesh hosting India.

Stuart Broad has not yet achieved the talismanic importance to the England team of an Andrew Flintoff, so the news that he jarred a shoulder in the opening match of the tour to South Africa on Friday is no cause for cursing cruel fate.

Joe Sayers knows how quickly things can change in cricket, so it is therefore no surprise to listen to him refusing to rule out his chances of touring Bangladesh with England's full squad early next year.

First one-day international: Benoni: South Africa 295-5 beat Zimbabwe 250-6 by 45 runs Ryan McLaren marked his South Africa debut with figures of 3-51 South Africa began their build-up to the forthcoming one-day series against England with a 45-run victory over Zimbabwe in Benoni.

Andrew Strauss continued his rich run of form with an unbeaten 117 to help England to an eight-wicket victory in their second tour match, against the Warriors at the De Beers Diamond Oval.