South Africa have called-up uncapped batsman Rilee Rossouw to replace injured Quinton de Kock for the second Test against the West Indies.
The 25-year-old has yet to play a Test, with his international experience limited to nine one-day games and three Twenty20 matches.
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The West Indies have followed England in replacing their one-day captain less than two months before the World Cup after replacing Dwayne Bravo with Jason Holder.
Holder, who turned 23 last month, has been named to lead the squad in the five ODIs in South Africa next month.
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Dale Steyn is the finest seam bowler on the planet, says Bob Willis.
South Africa star Steyn produced a breath-taking spell of bowling at Centurion on Saturday morning, taking 6-34 to help the Proteas skittle out West Indies and win the first of three Tests by an innings and 220 runs.
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South Africa wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock is a doubt for the World Cup after being ruled out of the rest of the series against the West Indies due to injury.
De Kock injured his left ankle while warming up before play on the third day of the first Test and a scan revealed a torn ligament.
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Jonathan Trott has been named as captain of an England Lions squad to tour South Africa early next year.
Trott was named in a provisional touring party back in October less than a year after a stress-related illness caused him to quit the senior England side’s Ashes series.
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Nottinghamshire have signed South Africa Test star Vernon Philander and Australia’s Ben Hilfenhaus as their overseas players for the 2015 season.
Philander, 29, a key component of South Africa’s feared pace attack, has previous county experience with Kent, Middlesex and Somerset.
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Jacques Rudolph will captain Glamorgan in all formats of the game after he was announced as club captain.
South African Rudolph, who joined Glamorgan in September 2013, takes on the captain’s responsibilities after an impressive run of form in the 2014 season.
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West Indies batsman Assad Fudadin has been ruled out of the remainder of the Test tour of South Africa after fracturing a finger during fielding practice on Wednesday.
The 29-year-old fractured the little finger on his right hand in the warm-ups on the opening morning of the first Test in Pretoria.
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South Africa captain Hashim Amla believes his team is will continue winning Test matches despite the retirement of two of the country’s greatest players.
Speaking ahead of Wednesday’s first Test against the West Indies at Centurion’s SuperSport Park, he dismissed suggestions his side will suffer without Jacques Kallis and Graeme Smith.
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Fast bowler Liam Plunkett and batsman Sam Robson were in impressive form for an England Performance Programme XI in South Africa.
Yorkshire paceman Plunkett took 4-36 against North West Dragons in Potchefstroom while opening batsman Robson contributed an unbeaten half-century as the tourists made 103-1 before the close of play on day one of the two-day match.
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Sean Abbott, the Australian bowler whose bouncer fatally injured Phillip Hughes, claimed career-best figures of 6-14 as New South Wales defeat Queensland in the Sheffield Shield.
There had been worries the 22-year old paceman may have been too traumatised to play again after Hughes died from being hit by one among his ascending balls in the Sydney Cricket Ground last month.
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Quick bowler Sean Abbott has bowled for the very first time since delivering the fateful ball that caused the departure of Phillip Hughes two weeks past.
Abbott was given the ball in the 13th over on the very first day of a four-day match between his New South Wales state side and Queensland at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
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Sean Abbott continues to be named in the New South Wales squad for their Sheffield Shield battle with Queensland on Tuesday.
The quick bowler is a part of a 12-man squad for the four-day game at the Sydney Cricket Ground, the exact same place where his illfated bouncer hit Phillip Hughes to the neck on November 25 – Hughes expired in hospital two days after.
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Australia captain Michael Clarke is winning his fight to be fit for the first Test against India after returning to training after harm.
Clarke, 33, has fought having a consistent hamstring injury in recent weeks as well as a return of the situation in the initial one-day international against South Africa compelled him to sit out the rest of the five-match series.
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Australia captain Michael Clarke is winning his fight to be fit for the first Test against India after returning to training after harm.
Clarke, 33, has fought having a consistent hamstring injury in recent weeks as well as a return of the situation in the initial one-day international against South Africa compelled him to sit out the rest of the five-match series.
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Brad Haddin has requested the Australian people to get behind the team when they take to the field for next week’s first Test against India in Adelaide.
Australia’s players are back in training for Tuesday’s series opener only days after assembly at Macksville in New South Wales for the funeral of the teammate Phillip Hughes.
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Australia have added Shaun Marsh to their squad for the rescheduled first Test against India.
The Western Australia batsman – blown off to get some of ducks in the most recent of his nine Tests against South Africa in February – joins brother Mitch Marsh in the squad.
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The funeral for cricketer Phillip Hughes turned right into a party of his life on Wednesday despite the despair and sadness still apparent from his departure.
Australia captain Michael Clarke as well as the remaining evaluation squad were joined by former and present players from all over the world together with friends as well as family from Hughes’ hometown of Macksville to the northern shore of New South Wales.
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Australia captain Michael Clarke will become a pall bearer at Phillip Hughes’ funeral in the first hours of Wednesday morning.
Hughes is going to be entombed in Macksville in New South Wales on Wednesday, six days after he died from a devastating harm resulting from ball striking him in the rear of the head during a Sheffield Shield match.
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South Africa have recalled left-arm spinner Robin Peterson for the three-Test home series against the West Indies.
Peterson returns as the sole specialist spinner as Imran Tahir has been dropped and Dane Piedt is ruled out through injury for the top-graded Test nation.
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