Globally schools sports have become increasingly competitive, and the creation of the Standard Bank Schools Pro20 Challenge follows this trend and also extends the bank’s long standing cricket sponsorship into South African schools.

The KwaZulu Natal selectors announced a strong team to play Griqualand West in the SAA Provincial Challenge at the Sahara Stadium Kingsmead from Thursday.

WAYNE PARNELL and Dale Steyn fought a gallant rearguard action but in the end they had been left with too much to do by an indifferent top order batting performance and finished two runs short in the first ODI against India at Jaipur on Sunday.

Asoka de Silva of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires was today honoured for completing a century of ODIs, a landmark reached during the recently concluded series between Australia and Pakistan which took place Down Under.

HASHIM AMLA has leaped up the ICC Test player rankings to No. 2 after his phenomenal form with the bat in the recently completed Test series against India.