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In the second Test match of India's 2001 tour of South Africa, at St George's Park, Port Elizabeth, match referee Mike Denness suspended Sachin Tendulkar for one game in light of alleged ball tampering. [9] Television cameras picked up images that suggested Tendulkar was scuffing the seam of the cricket ball. [10]
South Africa has been dubbed "the protest capital of the world", [1] with one of the highest rates of public protests in the world. [2]It is often argued that the rate of protests has been escalating since 2004, [2] but Steven Friedman argues that the current wave of protests stretches back to the 1970s. [3]
Australian cricket team in South Africa in 2017–18 South Africa: Australia: Dates: 22 February – 3 April 2018: Captains: Faf du Plessis: Steve Smith [n 1] [1] Tim Paine [n 2] [2] Test series; Result: South Africa won the 4-match series 3–1: Most runs: Aiden Markram (480) Cameron Bancroft (223) Most wickets: Kagiso Rabada (23) Pat Cummins ...
This was the first such end to a Test match in more than 1,000 Tests. The International Cricket Council (ICC), England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) later affirmed that the decision to award the match to England was in accordance with the Laws of Cricket. After the game, an email was leaked showing that Hair had ...
In response the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) cancelled an international soccer match against South Africa taking place in Zambia due to “prevailing security concerns in South Africa.” [9] [31] A Pick n Pay store (a South African-based supermarket chain) in Zambia was stormed following the riots in South Africa. [32]
The 2018 Australian ball-tampering scandal, also known as Sandpapergate, was a cricket cheating scandal surrounding the Australian national cricket team.In March 2018, during the third Test match against South Africa at Newlands in Cape Town, Cameron Bancroft was caught by television cameras trying to rough up one side of the ball with sandpaper to make it swing in flight. [1]
At the time of the match Herschelle Gibbs' innings was the tenth-highest individual score in ODI cricket, and the second-highest by a South African. Ponting set a new record for the fastest 150 in ODI cricket, reaching the total off 99 balls; Gibbs fell one ball short of matching this in the second innings.
Michael John Procter (15 September 1946 – 17 February 2024) was a South African cricketer, whose involvement in international cricket was limited by South Africa's banishment from world cricket in the 1970s and 1980s. [1] A fast bowler and hard-hitting batsman, he was regarded as one of South African cricket's top allrounders.