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Andrew Flintoff made a lively and successful return to competitive cricket following his ankle injury, with three wickets in a brilliant spell of bowling to help Lancashire beat Nottinghamshire by seven wickets.Flintoff was cleared by the England management to play in two Twenty20 matches for Lancashire, and a Championship game on July 18 in order to regain match fitness ahead of the second Test against Pakistan at Old Trafford on July 27. And here today, at Old Trafford, he looked back to his fearsome best showing no signs of the ankle injury which kept him out of England’s one-day series against Sri Lanka.The greasy pitch at Manchester was tailor-made for Flintoff who, like a bulldog released from his kennel, roared into Leicestershire’s top-order who had no answer to his pace and bounce. Graeme Swann, opening the innings, feathered one which climbed disconcertingly towards his neck; Paul Franks fished without moving his feet and David Alleyne, stuck in his crease to counter the pace, trod on his stumps to give Flintoff figures of 3 for 4 from his three overs.Not to be outdone, Dominic Cork took the Man-of-the-Match award with a similarly excellent spell. Bowling into a stiff wind, he picked up 4 for 16. At one stage, Nottinghamshire were in the perilous position of 14 for 5 until David Hussey (30) and Gareth Clough rescued their innings somewhat to haul their side up to 91.It was never a total Lancashire could fear, though, and thanks to a powerful unbeaten 62 from Stuart Law, they were home by seven wickets with overs to spare.

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An outstanding Test got the nail-biting finish it deserved, as a match which neither side deserved to lose finally went Sri Lanka’s way by the narrowest of margins – one wicket. Mahela Jayawardene’s magnificent 123 took them to the brink of the 352-run target but South Africa fought back spectacularly after lunch only to be denied right at the end, as Sri Lanka achieved the sixth-highest successful run-chase in Test history. A series scoreline of 0-2 does scant justice to the contest that unfolded.When the players trooped off for lunch on the final day at the P Saravanamuttu Stadium, with Mahela unbeaten on 117 and Ferveez Maharoof giving him company on 24, it was easy to imagine that only the formalities remained – the target was 19 runs away with four wickets in hand, Mahela was batting with utter serenity, and with Maharoof had overcome an iffy start to post a 62-run stand. As it turned out, that one-hour passage of play after lunch was fraught with heart-stopping tension and excitement, as Sri Lanka lost three wickets and managed just 19 runs in 13.3 overs.The drama heated up as a South African side which had seemed flat before lunch suddenly appeared to have perked up, with a definite game plan in mind. The loss of Makhaya Ntini – he didn’t take the field on the fifth day due to a hamstring injury – was a huge blow, but the rest of the bowlers made up for his absence. Dale Steyn started proceedings after lunch with a ring of three close-in fielders on the leg side, while Nicky Boje kept it tight and attacked with close-in fielders. Neither batsman was given room to play his strokes, and the pressure gradually told: after just eight came off seven overs, Mahela attempted to ease the pressure, charging down the pitch to play his favourite extra-cover drive. This time, however, he only managed to edge it to Herschelle Gibbs at slip, who finally made amends for the mistake he had committed when Mahela was on 2 (341 for 7).That suddenly brought South Africa back in the contest. Chaminda Vaas was completely tied down, as seven came off the next five overs, and when he tried to break the shackles, AB de Villiers plucked an amazing left-handed catch at gully to further put the result in doubt (348 for 8). Sri Lanka were now one big hit away from their target, and the next man in, Muttiah Muralitharan, attempted to do just that. It worked partially, when a lusty blow fetched him two, but then Hall bowled one perfectly straight, Muralitharan missed, the stumps were rattled, and Sri Lanka were 350 for 9. Maharoof took a single, and amid mounting tension, Lasith Malinga finally sealed the issue, clubbing a drive down the ground for the winning run.The drama at the end took the spotlight from the man who became only the fifth player to score more than 500 runs in a two-Test series. Over the last four months, Mahela has shown that he is ready to step up one notch from an elegant and stylish batsman to one who can deliver at the crunch. At Lord’s earlier this year his 119 helped saved the game from a near-hopeless position, and while his triple-century in the first Test wasn’t under extreme conditions, it still showed his ability to bat for long periods. Today, and over the last two days in fact, the pressure on him and his side was immense: a total of more than 350 had never been chased before in the fourth innings in Sri Lanka or by Sri Lanka, and while the pitch wasn’t a minefield, it was helping the bowlers enough to suggest that the task would be a tough one.On the fourth day Mahela was all class and assurance, and today he continued in similar vein, as Sri Lanka started the day with 90 needed. Unflustered by the bowlers or the match situation, he started the day in glorious fashion, creaming a flawless cover-drive off Andrew Hall, and then following it with a perfect cut shot when Boje pitched it short. The batsmen at the other end struggled – Prasanna Jayawardene was trapped in front by an inswinging delivery, while Maharoof survived two reprieves off consecutive balls – but Mahela was hardly bothered, clipping Hall down the ground and then slashing past point for successive fours to get to 98. The century came in the next over, with an easy drive down the ground for a single. And when the new ball was taken, Mahela remained immoveable, defending solidly against Steyn – who slowed down in pace but was far more consistent with his radar – and Shaun Pollock, accurate but hardly threatening.

South Africa almost pulled off a remarkable win in the end, but they only had themselves to blame for finishing second-best. The series scoreline could easily have been 1-1 had they held the chances that came their way. Gibbs had spilled Mahela when he was on 2, and as if that wasn’t enough, there was more largesse in the field on the final day, with Maharoof being the beneficiary: Mark Boucher missed a stumping off one which spun, bounced, and beat Maharoof’s defence, while Hashim Amla made a hash of a bat-pad chance at silly point off the very next delivery. Maharoof was then on 2, and ultimately finished on an unbeaten 29. Those blemishes, though, had a huge hand to play in making this match one of the most memorable in recent Test history.

Prasanna Jayawardene lbw b Hall 30 (279 for 6)
Mahela Jayawardene c Gibbs b Boje 123 (341 for 7)
Chaminda Vaas c de Villiers b Hall 4 (348 for 8)
Muttiah Muralitharan b Hall 2 (350 for 9)

The domestic first-class champions from India and Pakistan will clash in a four-day cricket match later this month, the Indian board confirmed today.The match between Uttar Pradesh, India’s Ranji Trophy winners and Sialkot, Pakistan’s Quaid-e-Azam Trophy champions, will be held in Dharamsala from September 27 to 30, Niranjan Shah, the secretary of the Indian board (BCCI) told Cricinfo.However, until yesterday the Pakistan board hadn’t been informed of the new date. “The schedule has been negotiated by our chairman with the BCCI,” Saleem Altaf, Director operations, PCB, told Cricinfo. “The match has already been postponed by a year and the PCB is very keen to go ahead with the match whatever the date. This is a good idea to have matches between the two domestic champions and we would like for it to go ahead.”The game was initially supposed to have been played between September 19 and 22. But it’s been learnt that the Indian board were keen to postpone it since three players from Uttar Pradesh (Mohammad Kaif, Suresh Raina and Rudra Pratap Singh) would be representing India in the DLF Cup at Malaysia at that point.Sialkot too might have missed some of their key players, including the likes of Mohammad Asif, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan and Shoaib Malik had the game began on September 19, as the Pakistan board were keen that they get a break after the tour of England to be ready for the Champions Trophy in October.It will be a revival of sorts for Indo-Pak first-class rivalry. The Super Wills Cup was held in 1989 when United Bank Limited (UBL) took on Delhi, the Ranji Trophy champions that year. The next edition was played between Wills XI from India and Habib Bank at the Feroz Shah Kotla at Delhi.The game between UBL and Delhi is significant because it heralded the arrival of one of the most destructive bowlers of all time, Waqar Younis. Imran Khan, the legendary Pakistan captain, was down with viral fever and watching the game on television when he spotted a young fast bowler troubling the Delhi batsmen. Imran immediately drove down to the venue, and made sure the youngster was picked up for the forthcoming Sharjah tour. Eight days later, the 17-year old opened the Pakistan bowling with Wasim Akram at Sharjah against West Indies.

ScorecardThe Eagles crushed the Zimbabweans by nine wickets at Kimberley in the opening match, a Twenty20, of their South African tour. Though the margin of victory was vast, the South Africa coach, Mickey Arthur, pointed out today’s match was Zimbabwe’s first Twenty20 encounter.Despite Arthur’s eagerness not to highlight the weakness of the tourists, the reality was that it took the home side only 11.4 overs to knock off the required 104 runs, losing just the one wicket – Loots Bosman for 23 – on the way.Davey Jacobs, the 23-year-old right-hander, took the attack to Zimbabwe, crashing three fours and three towering sixes in his unbeaten 53. His 55-run partnership with Jacques Rudolph, who guided 22 from 18 balls, came from just 37 balls as Zimbabwe were beaten with 50 balls remaining.It was a poor warm-up for Zimbabwe who now face South Africa for three one-dayers, the first of which is at Bloemfontein on Friday. Arthur, while pleased with the Eagles’ performance, added a note of a caution about the Zimbabweans which seemed rather out of place. “They have come off a good win against Bangladesh in the 50-overs version of the game,” he said, “and they are obviously more used to playing the longer form of cricket. I expect them to put up a better performance on Friday.”Zimbabwe had some solace in the way they started their innings. Terry Duffin batted intelligently to reach 40 from 38 balls, taking his side to 79 for 1 before he was bowled by Victor Mpitsang. That opened the floodgates as a procession of batsmen succumbed to the desire to thrash every ball out of the ground. Elton Chigumbura lasted just two balls before he swished wildly at a full ball from Victor Mpitsang and had his off stump flattened. Thandi Tshabala held on to a stinging return catch to get rid of Stuart Matsikenyeri, and after his dismissal Brendan Taylor and Hamilton Masakadza fell to identical heaves that failed to clear midwicket. With the tailenders exposed, the spectators were treated to the bizarre sight of a slip cordon being brought in for the closing overs of a Twenty20 game, and Zimbabwe’s innings whimpered to a close in the 19th over. Tshabalala, Mpitsang and Roger Telemachus each took three apiece as Zimbabwe lost their last nine wickets for 24 in just 7.1 overs.While their bowling performance was marginally more professional than their batting, with such a small total to defend Zimbabwe never had the Eagles batsmen under any sort of pressure. Ed Rainsford worked up some pace and movement, but was no match for Jacobs or Bosman. Anthony Ireland, the medium-pace opener, appeared woefully out of his depth against batsmen with plentiful experience in this form of the game and was taken out of the attack after only one over. Tafadzwa Kamungozi and Timycen Maruma, both under 20 and both making their Zimbabwe debuts, were brought into the attack and as expected neither were any match for the batsmen.As Arthur said, this was Zimbabwe’s first exposure to this format at any level, and they were playing against a championship-winning side who have eight international players in their squad. At the same time, the extent to which the Zimbabweans were outclassed cannot be ignored. On the plus side, these games are mercifully short. Compared to this match, their one-day series against the full South African side will be like Chinese water torture for Zimbabwe fans.

Virender Sehwag has been virtually ruled out of the first one-dayer against South Africa to be played in Johannesburg on Sunday after it was revealed that the dressing on his injured right ring finger would only come off on Sunday. “His [Sehwag’s] injury is not serious as such but the stitches would come off only on Sunday morning and we hope the problem doesn’t extend beyond the first game,” Greg Chappell, the coach, was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India.Sehwag suffered a cut on the finger during practice ahead of India’s tour match on Thursday, November 16, and required four stitches. He took no part in the game, which the Indians lost by 37 runs, but was present at the ground with his team-mates.India begin their one-day campaign on November 19, and while Sehwag might miss the first match, it is hoped that he will be fit in time for the second match, to be played at Durban on November 22. If Sehwag is ruled out, India now have to choose between Wasim Jaffer, who would be front-runner to partner Sachin Tendulkar at the top of the order, and Dinesh Karthik, the wicketkeeper batsman. Rahul Dravid too is an option, having often in the past stepped in as opener when the situation required.India are already without Yuvraj Singh, a key player in the one-day team, after he suffered an injury to the cruciate ligament of his left knee last month. Sehwag’s latest injury got India’s tour of South Africa off to an inauspicious start. Having gone through a lean patch in ODIs, Sehwag had shown signs of a revival in his most recent innings, a streaky half-century against Australia in the Champions Trophy clash at Mohali.In some good news for the Indians, though, Chappell has fully recovered from the food poisoning that laid him low and prevented him from supervising the practice session ahead of the warm-up match.

The local slogan for the Ashes is “It’s definitely on!” Finally, after 15 months of build-up, it’s definitely here. When the toss-winning captain chooses to bat on a fast Gabba pitch on Thursday morning the most hyped series will begin and the players will be the happiest of all.Both captains – and teams – have tired of questions and are ready to start answering with performances. “We just want to get started,” an impatient Andrew Flintoff said. “Now it’s time to get on the pitch and start going. It’s nice that it’s over.”But can the series live up to the 2005 model? And will the disappointment be justified if it doesn’t? It seems impossible that five Tests, which have already attracted record-breaking sales, could satisfy lead-up coverage that has continued to rise like floodwaters.Ricky Ponting has the most heavily magnified job in Australia as he begins a campaign that will define his career as captain. One Ashes loss was sloppy, but a second would be an etching no amount of minnow-belting could erase. Since The Oval last September Australia have won 11 of 12 Tests and their toughest contests came from South Africa, who are currently ranked sixth, and Bangladesh at the end of an exhausting stretch.Both sides’ preparations have suffered blips but England will offer Australia their greatest assignment since the 2-1 failure that sparked a boom of interest in both countries. Ponting has been a career cricketer since he was 16 and his heartbeat remains settled for run-of-the-mill matches. This time even he has been influenced by the occasion.

“The excitement is starting to overflow for everybody,” Ponting said. “I think it’s important that we keep a check on that. Not to get too carried away with things and not to try to make things happen too quickly.” England won the big moments at home last year and none will be larger than the opening session.Flintoff was the key cast member and he has grabbed another role by adding captaincy to his allrounder status. Pour in his recovery from an ankle injury and he faces an unenviable task to carry his nation.”The 2005 win was a huge achievement,” he said. “To have the opportunity to defend them in Australia is even bigger. If we can pull it off it will be something amazing.”England’s biggest decision hovers over whether to push for the extra batting credentials of Ashley Giles or the more aggressive bowling of Monty Panesar. Left-arm spin has not been Australia’s favourite method over the past decade and the choice will give a guide to England’s outlook for the series.Australia were forced into some restructuring due to Shane Watson’s hamstring injury, which gave Michael Clarke a chance and trimmed the attack from five bowlers to four. Shaun Tait was dropped from the squad on Wednesday and the final space will be fought between Stuart Clark and Mitchell Johnson. Clark’s experience and his Man-of-the-Series performance in South Africa last March give him the edge over the uncapped Johnson.The pitch will suit the fast men and the curator Kevin Mitchell junior tipped the surface to be the quickest of his tenure. It will have the usual green tinges but the captain who wins the toss will not follow Nasser Hussain’s mistake of 2002-03.”Since the rebuild of the stadium in 2000 it’s the quickest it’s been,” Mitchell said. “It will have early life, although I’m not sure how long it will last.” Mitchell could have been speaking about the series as a whole.Australia (possible) 1 Matthew Hayden, 2 Justin Langer, 3 Ricky Ponting (capt), 4 Damien Martyn, 5 Michael Hussey, 6 Michael Clarke, 7 Adam Gilchrist (wk), 8 Shane Warne, 9 Brett Lee, 10 Stuart Clark, 11 Glenn McGrath.England (possible) 1 Andrew Strauss, 2 Alastair Cook, 3 Ian Bell, 4 Paul Collingwood, 5 Kevin Pietersen, 6 Andrew Flintoff (capt), 7 Geraint Jones (wk), 8 Ashley Giles, 9 Matthew Hoggard, 10 Steve Harmison, 11 James Anderson.

The first day at Perth was all about Monty Panesar. Kept out of the side for the first two matches, Panesar leapt at the opportunity to make an impact, becoming only the second spinner ever to take a five-for in the first innings of a Perth match, after Bruce Yardley. Apart from those two, only Shane Warne and Abdul Qadir have taken three or more wickets in the first innings here.

Panesar also became only the fourth spinner to take a five-for at this venue in a Test, and the fifth to take one in all international matches. The only ones before him were Yardley and Bishan Bedi (both twice), and Daniel Vettori. Interestingly, four of the five five-fors here have been taken by left-arm spinners (Yardley is the exception): the only one in ODIs was by Ravi Shastri. The best that Shane Warne has managed is 4 for 83 against New Zealand in 1997-98.

Other stats47 – The opening partnership between Matthew Hayden and Justin Langer. It’s their highest in nine tries at Perth.6 – The number of times Matthew Hayden has been dismissed by Matthew Hoggard in Tests. Only Makhaya Ntini has nailed him more times. (Click here for the list of bowlers who have dismissed Hayden most often.)85.35 – Michael Hussey’s batting average. His last five innings have all produced fifty-plus scores, and he only has two sub-20 innings out of 23 in Tests. (Click here for his stats before this Test.)

Click here for the full Greg Chappell interviewThe turnaround for India on the tour to South Africa began with the senior players forming a core group and initiating a process that involved carving up responsibilities – including mentoring juniors – among themselves and plotting what eventually turned out to be a historic win at the Wanderers, Greg Chappell, the India coach has revealed. That process began in the four-day tour match at Potchefstroom, a match Chappell called the “turning point”.Chappell was in relaxed mood the morning after the 123-run victory – which, he said, would “certainly stop or slow down” the public debate over the team management – as he opened up to journalists on topics as diverse as Sourav Ganguly’s return, Sreesanth’s emergence, and how the team had turned things around.On reaching Potch, where the management realised that everything from that point onwards had to come from the playing group. “It couldn’t come from the coaching group, we had done pretty much whatever we could do.” The players had a team meeting on their own, without the coaching staff, and talked about getting together and being stronger as a group. They started each day with a 20-minute session, with one player taking responsibility for it.”All of that has really made a difference”, Chappell said. ” I think Potch was the turning point, where Rahul was able to impress upon the senior players the need for all of them to take up responsibility.”One of those senior players was, of course, Ganguly, and Chappell said he was a mentally different batsman to the one dropped from the side 10 months ago. “He’s got a will and a desire to play for India that is very strong, it showed through in Potch and in this Test.”Asked where he stood on Ganguly, Chappell said: “He’s got a lot to offer. And we saw some of it in this Test match. Hopefully, from this point, we can go forward without this cloud hanging over the head that there are personalities involved. It’s not about Greg Chappell or Sourav Ganguly; it’s about Indian cricket. And it’s about what a successful team needs to do. And if he does the things we saw from him in this game, he can have a long stint.”Chappell revealed how, at one of the team meetings, Ganguly made a comment that he’d learnt a lot, that there’s more to life than just cricket. “Sourav’s comments were along the lines of courageous, gutsy play and I think it was Sachin that asked him what he meant bycourageous, gutsy play and he talked about how, in these 10 months or so,he’s been able to reassess a lot ofthings and cricket’s not the most important and only thing in life andthis has taken the pressure off him from a batting point of view.”That feeling, Chappell said, allowed Ganguly to bat with “some freedom thatperhaps he’s not had in his batting for a long time”.For all its drama, Ganguly’s batting was overshadowed by Sreesanth’s bowling, and even Chappell expressed some surprise at just how quickly he’d come good. “We recognised some things in Sree last year and we felt that he had whatit took to do that sort of thing. But realistically, you don’t expect itto happen in the sixth or seventh Test match. You might expect one spellhere or there, or one day here and there, but to do it forthree-and-a-half days…”The experts had said Sreesanth’s success was due largely to his seam position, and Chappell agreed. “I’ve never seen anyone do that as consistently. It wasremarkable how well the seam came out every time. The good bowlers do thatconsistently over periods and probably three or four times in an over.He was doing it six times an over, time after time after time.”He pointed to the flip side of that success, the “huge” emotionaland physical strain, and said Sreesanth had been suffering from diarrhoea yesterday. “I’m sure that it was as much from the emotional strain than anything he might haveeaten.”Chappell was asked whether Sehwag was doing the job required of a vice-captain in the early part of the tour (he was replaced when the Test squad was announced). “He was doing his job, but it’s not just two people. You need four or five. I can’t comment on the Sehwag thing as far as the selectors’ choice to change the vice-captain is concerned.”Asked whether he’d give an honest opinion on Sehwag as he’d done with Ganguly in Zimbabwe, Chappell replied: “I don’t intend to do my coaching through the media. Virender and I have got an ongoing dialogue all the time, as with all the players.”Chappell was asked whether the Test win had affected his plans for the World Cup. “There are slightly different requirements for Test cricket rather than one-day cricket but I think it at least gives us some options for things to think about andconsider. I think we have to look at what those options are and we have to facereality. At the end of the day, we’ve got to give ourselves a chance of performing well in the World Cup.”He said winning the World Cup was “a pie in the sky”; instead, a realisticgoal would be to get to the semifinals. “Then it’s a new series. Anyone canwin it from there.”

Michael Hussey, the stand-in captain, says Australia will look to regain confidence for the World Cup in the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy after their shock CB Series finals loss to England. Hussey is leading the team for the three matches starting in Wellington on Friday after Ricky Ponting and Adam Gilchrist were rested from the week-long tour.”I just want us to focus on playing well in this Chappell-Hadlee series and we’re looking to win the series,” Hussey told reporters before the team left Melbourne. “We don’t want to focus on the World Cup and look too far ahead.”The team is excited, we’ve had a huge summer here in Australia, but we’re looking forward to getting away and playing some good cricket. We’re trying to change the momentum a little bit and get our confidence back a little bit, but I’m sure we’ll put in an excellent showing over there.”With Ponting and Gilchrist absent and Michael Clarke nursing a hip injury, Matthew Hayden is the only certainty out of Australia’s first-choice top four. Hussey batted at No. 6 throughout the CB Series and said team balance would dictate where he would slot into the order in New Zealand.”As captain you’ve got the luxury of getting to choose where you would like to bat,” he said. “I’ll sit down with John Buchanan and we’ll try to work out what the best balance for the team is and then I’ll fit in there.”If my role is best for the team coming in and playing that finishing role then that’s what I’ll do. If the team thinks I need to go up the order and try and bolster the middle-order in that way, or the team thinks I need to open the batting, then I’ll do whatever is best for the team.”Hussey, who averages 68.65 in one-day internationals, said he was in good shape despite two failures in the finals against England, when he fell to Andrew Flintoff for 17 and 0. “I still think I’m hitting the ball well in the nets but obviously my results haven’t been as I would have liked in the last couple of games,” he said. “I’m sure if I stick to my plans I can still be successful and consistent for Australia for a while yet.”

South Africa’s batting collapse in both its warm-up matches is not a cause for panic, says coach Mickey Arthur. South Africa were bowled out for 192 in their 35-run victory over Ireland and then for 199 in their seven-wicket loss to Pakistan.”Had the coin had fallen the other way and had we bowled first, it would have been different,” Arthur told the AFP about the match against Pakistan. “Our bowlers had a decent workout, but the only concern is that the top order still needs some runs.”The game was held up during South Africa’s innings as the batsmen complained about the pitch surface. Arthur said that it took the team 10 overs after the break to get back the intensity but denied that they had given up.”The last thing we wanted was to lose a player like Jacques Kallis [on an unpredictable pitch] as he is obviously crucial to our preparations. We were five down early and wanted 220, but ended up shorter than that.” Arthur also said he didn’t think that matches in the main competition would be played on such pitches.”I think it’s certainly going to be a bowl-first competition, but the toss is not going to be as crucial as it was today,” he said.Inzamam-ul-Haq, the Pakistan captain, agreed that the conditions were difficult when South Africa batted and there had been some concern. But on being asked if the pitches would favour subcontinental sides, Inzamam said that it was the quality of cricket and not the state of the pitches that mattered.Inzamam was happy with the team’s performance, however, and picked out Mohammad Hafeez, the opener, for special mention. “Hafeez is in form and he is a key member of the team,” said Inzamam. “He is now looking forward to the main competition. It always helps when a top-order batsman scores briskly.”Hafeez scored 49 against South Africa and added 74 runs for the second wicket along with Younis Khan. “There is a lot of confidence in the team and they are looking forward to the main tournament after morale-boosting performances,” Inzamam added. He also agreed that since people did not have high expectations of Pakistan winning, there was less pressure on the side.Bob Wooolmer, the Pakistan coach, said that all the players had got the much-needed practice. “All top six batsmen have got good practice,” Woolmer said. “As far as the win goes, since it was 13-a-side match, we do take it with a pinch of salt. We now need to win the main matches.”Pakistan’s first match of the World Cup is on the opening day of the tournament, against West Indies at Sabina Park in Jamaica, while South Africa’s first match is against Netherlands at Warner Park in St Kitts on March 16.