London: English county Surrey announced on Tuesday their third major overseas signing this year when the London-based club revealed that South Africa's JP Duminy would be joining them in August.
Surrey, whose headquarters are at The Oval -- England's oldest Test ground -- started 2013 by announcing South Africa Test captain Graeme Smith, who has since suffered a season-ending injury, as their new skipper.
Australia great Ricky Ponting is currently filling in as Surrey's overseas star.
Duminy, 29, will replace Ponting after South Africa's tour of Sri Lanka and is available for six County Championship matches as well as the end of the domestic 40-over and Twenty20 competitions....
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11:01 PM, Jun 11, 2013
London: Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting marked his first-class Surrey debut with a century against Derbyshire in the County Championship on Saturday. Ponting has retired from international cricket and has joined Surrey for a brief spell while captain Graeme Smith is away on international duty. The 38-year-old batsman showed there is still life in the old dog as he cruised to his 81st hundred and shared a third-wicket stand of...
11:47 PM, Jun 01, 2013
London: Ricky Ponting has revealed he might not be able to resist the lure of the Ashes if Australia asked him to come out of Test retirement. The combative 38-year-old, who quit the international scene in December, is the most successful captain in Test history but lost three Ashes series including the last time the two teams met in 2011 when England won 3-1 away. The latest five-match battle against...
02:56 PM, May 29, 2013
Mumbai Indians entered this season of the IPL as serious contenders for the title and through some good cricket have set up a rematch of the 2010 final against Chennai Super Kings. Here, we take a look at how Mumbai's season has panned out. 1st match, v RCB in Bangalore - lost by two runs Royal Challengers Bangalore, inspired by Chris Gayle and indebted to Vinay Kumar, made a winning...
03:06 PM, May 25, 2013
Kolkata: Mumbai Indians regular skipper Ricky Ponting, who has been struggling with the bat, willingly opted out of the team for the crucial tie against Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens Wednesday. "Ponting himself opted to sit out today's (Wednesday) game. We wanted to get our foreign players' combination right, and he volunteered to stay out. It takes a big heart to take such a decision," stand-in skipper Rohit...
03:02 AM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: Mumbai Indians skipper Ricky Ponting said that Sachin Tendulkar and Rohit Sharma "felt" that 161 was a good score on the Feroze Shah Kotla track but poor bowling up front changed the equations in their IPL match against Delhi Daredevils here Sunday. "I don't think we were 30 runs short. When Sachin and Rohit were batting, they felt that 160-165 was a pretty good score on this track....
11:01 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Live updates from Game 28 of IPL 6 between Delhi Daredevils and Mumbai Indians at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. With their confidence severely dented after suffering six consecutive defeats, basement dwellers Delhi take on the star-studded Mumbai Indians side in game 28 of IPL 6 at the Feroz Shah Kotla on Sunday. Mumbai come into this match after being humbled by Rajastan Royals in their previous encounter which pushed them to...
02:53 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: Its an uphill task from here on for Delhi Daredevils. With their confidence severely dented after suffering six consecutive defeats, basement dwellers Delhi take on the star-studded Mumbai Indians side in game 28 of IPL 6 at the Feroz Shah Kotla on Super Sunday. Mumbai come into this match after being humbled by Rajastan Royals in their previous encounter which pushed them to fifth on the points table....
05:00 PM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: Sad at not seeing Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting performing well in the Indian Premier League (IPL), South African cricket legend Graeme Pollock said it is always a hard decision to know when to call it a day. While Mumbai Indians' skipper Ponting has already retired from international cricket, Tendulkar quit One-Day Internationals (ODI) in December last year. Tendulkar's mediocre form in Tests carried on to the IPL...
06:56 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Jaipur: Having slumped to their worst defeat in the tournament, Mumbai Indians' skipper Ricky Ponting has admitted that his and Sachin Tendulkar's poor form has affected the team's performance in the ongoing Indian Premier League. Opening the batting, Ponting and Tendulkar have just managed two half-century stands together out of five games. As a matter of fact, on three occasions Mumbai lost their first wicket in the opening over. Chasing...
02:23 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Jaipur: Rajasthan Royals offspinner Ajit Chandila is known for the hat-trick he took last IPL; but he would have any day traded that with what he achieved on Wednesday evening - getting batting legends Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting out. "You can take my hat-trick. These two wickets matter a lot more to me than my hat-trick last year ... It is like a dream come true for me. Taking...
10:25 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Jaipur: In the 11 previous matches in which they made 170 or more batting first, Rajasthan Royals had never lost in the IPL. True to history, that trend was maintained Wednesday at their home fortress of the Sawai Mansingh Stadium where they piled up 179 for 3 and defended that to beat Mumbai Indians by a whopping 87 runs. It was Mumbai's heaviest defeat ever in terms of runs. Having...
11:17 PM, Apr 17, 2013
With a hat-trick of wins, Mumbai Indians are making waves in IPL 6. The franchise that created a buzz before the season began by hiring John Wright as coach and Anil Kumble as team mentor, spent $450,000 on Ricky Ponting and then made him captain, doled out a whopping $1 million on Australian allrounder Glenn Maxwell and bought Western Australia fast-bowler Nathan Coulter-Nile for a surprisingly high price, is now...
08:08 AM, Apr 14, 2013
Live Updates from Game 15 of IPL 6 between Mumbai Indians and Pune Warriors at the Wankhede Stadium on Saturday. Mumbai are coming into this game after back-to-back victories against Chennai Super Kings and Delhi Daredevils. Pune got off to an awful start, losing two of their three matches, but came back strongly against Rajasthan Royals, winning the contest by seven wickets. ...
03:26 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Mumbai: Mumbai Indians pacer Mitchell Johnson Friday said having played for Australia under Ricky Ponting, who is currently leading MI in IPL 6, might prove to be advantageous for him as the skipper knows his game well. "I have been under his [Ponting's] captaincy for a lot of my career. I guess having Ricky as captain, I think he knows me pretty well. So that sort of helps a lot...
06:48 PM, Apr 12, 2013
