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England Test captain Andrew Strauss announced his retirement from all professional cricket with immediate effect yesterday, insisting  his decision to quit had nothing to do with the ongoing Kevin Pietersen saga. Strauss said he had been

South Africa's interest in the singles in the US Open at Flushing Meadows is over. Kevin Anderson lost his first round match yesterday,  6-4, 6-2, 7-6 to fourth seeded Spaniard David Ferrer, less than 24 hours after Channele Scheepers was

Schedule of South African athletes and teams competing in the London Paralympic Games on Thursday (SA times). Anthony Dawson, Wendy Moller: Equestrian team test grade 2 final, 10am Roxanne Burns: Track cycling, women's individual C4 pursuit

Defending champion Novak Djokovic and triple women's winner Serena Williams have stormed into the US Open second round at Flushing Meadows in New York. World number two Djokovic needed just 73 minutes to beat Italian Paolo Lorenzi 6 1 6 0 6 1

Hashim Amla inflicted another record-breaking hundred on England as South Africa won the second ODI by 80 runs in Southampton on Tuesday. Amla's 150 saw him become the fastest player to reach 3,000 ODI runs as he reached the landmark in just his

The Sunshine Tour has announced the addition of two more European Tour co-sanctioned events to its 2013 schedule. The Nelson Mandela Challenge will be played from the 6th to the 9th of December in either Port Elizabeth or Durban and the Zwane

 Two-time US Open winner Retief Goosen has had surgery to alleviate a back injury which has plagued the 43-year-old for much of the season. He did not indicate how long he expected to be out of action but said on his website that the

Cricket Ireland has confirmed that the four game Twenty20 series against South Africa A has been cancelled. Following the postponement of the game on Monday, and with a mixed weather forecast for the week ahead, Cricket South Africa (CSA

Olympic champion Andy Murray battled into the second round of the US Open on Monday night while defending women's champion Samantha Stosur and third seed Maria Sharapova cruised in their opening matches. Britain's third-seeded Murray dispatched