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Harris suffers broken thumb Paul Harris, South Africa's left-arm spinner, has suffered a fractured left thumb but will be able to play his part with the ball for the rest of the first Test against Bangladesh.
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Bangladesh stumble after Shakib's five Bangladesh staged an impressive fight back with the ball on the second day in Bloemfontein, but familiar frailties were exposed with the bat as they lost three quick wickets. Shakib-Al-Hasan's five wickets restricted South Africa to 441, before Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel claimed early blow.
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Gibbs joins Glamorgan Herschelle Gibbs has received a vote of confidence from Glamorgan only weeks after he was dropped from the South Africa team.
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Fletcher joins South Africa to help tour planning Duncan Fletcher, the former England coach, has been drafted in as part of South Africa's set-up as they step up their preparations for the tour of Australia next month.
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Titans make perfect start A round-up from the opening matches in the MTN Domestic Championship.
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Mushfiqur and Kayes find form in drawn game Imrul Kayes boosted his prospects of a debut in the first Test against South Africa in Bloemfontein, which starts on November 19, with an 86 in the Bangladeshis' drawn two-day tour match against the South African Airways Challenge XI in Kimberley.
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Arthur wants to capitalise on 'bruised' Australia Mickey Arthur, the South African coach, has backed his team to take advantage of an Australian team low on confidence when the three-Test series starts on December 17. Australia failed to defend the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in India, losing the four-Test series 2-0, and Arthur felt South Africa were in with their best chance of beating them in a Test series.
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Shahadat restricts hosts to 265 The South African Airways Challenge XI could not build on the superb start given by their openers. The opening pair put on 170, but Shahadat Hossain derailed the innings with three top-order wickets and the middle-order batsmen failed to regain the momentum.
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Kirsten backs South Africa down under Gary Kirsten, the former South Africa opener and now India coach, has said his former team have a great opportunity to win a series in Australia for the first time.
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Raqibul and Kayes earn Test call-ups Batsmen Raqibul Hasan and Imrul Kayes have earned call-ups to the Bangladesh Test squad after the selectors chose to retain the one-day squad that played South Africa for the two Tests against the same opposition starting November 19 in Bloemfontein. Fast bowler Nazmul Hossain made a return to the squad four years after playing his only Test against India in Chittagong.
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