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It has been rumoured that Graeme Smith has decided to quit T20 cricket and focus his attention on the other two, main formats of the game. Smith has called for a press conference for August 18 to discuss his future.

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The third and the final Test match of the three Test match series between West Indies and South Africa will be played at Bridgetown in Barbados. South Africa leads the series 1-0 after winning at Trinidad and drawing a high-scoring encounter at St. Kitts, on what was said to be a dead pitch.

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The second Test match between West Indies and South Africa will be played at St. Kitts and it will be wrap-up time for the visitors. Another victory here will win them the Test series as well, and while the interest for them will still be in it to make a clean sweep in the third and the final Test match of the series, the win at St. Kitts should relieve some of the pressure that the team had been under since the start of the tour.

Live Scorecard of second Test match, West Indies v South Africa

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The West Indies side would be glad that the ODIs and the T20Is are out of the way, but the test becomes more gruelling for them now. Three Test matches against a South African side, which has tasted blood will mean that the hosts, West Indies, have a fight on their hand; especially after having lost the seven limited overs game on tour in succession.

West Indies v South Africa, 1st Test, Live Scorecard and Commentary

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The fifth and the final ODI of the series between West Indies and South Africa will be played at Port-of-Spain in Trinidad after the game was earlier planned to be featured in Jamaica. But, catering to the player safety in the backdrop of the violence that had hit the island, the West Indies Cricket Board deemed it necessary to shift the game to Trinidad.

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The schedule for South Africa’s tour of UAE which will be Pakistan’s home for the tour has been announced. South Africa will play a T20I, five ODIs and a couple of Test matches on the tour.

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Hashim Amla hit his second century of the ODI series to lead South Africa to a 4-0 result against West Indies at Dominica. Amla assisted his side in overcoming a rather huge score of 304 to win the game.

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The Champions League Twenty20 in 2010 will see ten teams play the tournament, in comparison with the 12 sides which had played in the inaugural edition. This was announced by the Champions League after England had to pull out of the tournament because of the clash in dates with their own county league.

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Ryan McLaren ended with career best of 5/19 as South Africa began their campaign of the West Indies with a 13-run win at the North Sound in Antigua in the first T20I game. The two sides will play in another T20I today.

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Mark Boucher has been dropped from the T20Is and the ODI leg of the South African tour of West Indies. In place of Boucher, AB de Villiers will handle the wicket-keeping role. It has also been reported that the place of Boucher in the side is now untenable.

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