South Africa in New Zealand 2012, Test match Schedule

Date	Match Details	Time (IST)	Place
Mar 07 - 11	South Africa v New Zealand, 1st Test	03:00 (Mar 7)	Dunedin
Mar 15 - 19	South Africa v New Zealand, 2nd Test	03:00 (Mar 15)	Hamilton
Mar 23 - 27	South Africa v New Zealand, 3rd Test	03:00 (Mar 23)	Wellington

South Africa in New Zealand 2012 Complete Series Schedule

David Hussey Dream for to Play Test Cricket

David Hussey will turn 35 in July this year but the veteran batsman has not given up hopes of playing in the next World Cup in 2015 and also making a late Test debut for Australia and the he feels that it will be tough for the selectors to keep him out of the side if he keeps.

"You want to be in a winning World Cup, it's probably second to playing Test cricket for Australia," said Hussey, who will be 37 by the time of the next World Cup.

He said he had also taken heart from the way his brother Michael had fought back last summer, after critics had called for his head ahead of the Ashes series and they are both stubborn people say you're too old or you've lost your form or you're not good enough to play at the level, you get your back up and want to get out there and prove a lot of people wrong, he said.

ICC Hall of Fame

The Indian batting legend Sunil Gavaskar was inducted into the International Cricket Council's Hall of Fame and he was presented with the Hall of Fame cap by India's 1983 World Cup winning captain Kapil Dev in the induction ceremony took place at the residence of Ajay Sethi in Dubai and the Sethi is the Director of the Channel 2 group.

ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat and former Pakistan captains Waqar Younis, Ramiz Raja and Aamir Sohail were present during the occasion for the gavaskar has played for India at the International level for 16 years, representing the country in 125 Test matches and 108 ODIs. He was the 1st player to cross 10,000 runs in Test cricket and he also held the record of the most number of centuries at one time.

Gavaskar was thrilled to receive the cap from Kapil Dev who was his captain at the ICC Cricket World Cup 1983: "Kapil is somebody who I consider as the greatest Indian cricketer and to receive this cap from him is a real big plus, a real big honour and the Kapil and I have had some wonderful times playing in the Indian team to being part of the World Cup winning squad is a memory that will always stay with me Kapil lifting the Cup at Lord's is something that I will always treasure and to receive the cap from him makes this occasion even more special."

ICC Test Player Ranks: Sachin Tendulkar in 10th position

Sachin Tendulkar 3 places to be the only Indian cricketer in the list of top-ten batsmen in the ICC Player Rankings for Test released here on Tuesday and he is placed at 10th position along with Pakistan's Azhar Ali, who scored a match-winning 157 during the 2nd innings of the 3rd and final Test against England in Dubai earlier this week.

India's pace spearhead Zaheer Khan remained static at the 10th spot with an aggregate of 697 points and the Saeed Ajmal consolidated his 2nd position, achieving a career-best rating of 835 points and he is won the player of the series award for claiming 24 wickets in the 3-0 drubbing of England.

Pakistan Won Test Serie 3-0 and Whitewash against England at Duba

3rd Test: England v Pakistan at Dubai (DSC), Feb 3-6, 2012

Pakistan 99 & 365

England 141 & 252 (97.3 ov)

Pakistan won by 71 runs

Saeed Ajmal is the Man of the Series

Pakistan are now just three points away from 4th ranked India and Australia

Pakistan had entered the series in 5th position on 99 rating points and moved to 108 points and now, are within striking distance of the top four for the first time since 2007.

England have placed their lead in jeopardy before they head to Sri Lanka for a two-Test series starting next month.

For England, it was its first series loss since 2008-2009 when it suffered a 1-0 series defeat to the West Indies while it is the first time since the 2006-2007 Ashes in Australia that England has lost all the Tests of a series.

Pakistan's 3-0 series win has also kept alive South Africa's chances of finishing as the number-one ranked side at the 1 April annual cut-off date and with it, win a prize of USD 175,000.

Clearly blown away by Pakistan's supremacy in their adopted home. Team Misbah is the one everyone would want to beat.

England Also Could Win Only at Home Says Former Pakistan skipper Wasim Akram.

Pakistan 0-2 in the ongoing three-match Test series in the UAE

The 45-year-old also felt that even England also could win only at home.

England, who defeated India 4-0 at home last year to snatch the No.1 tag from them, are now trailing Pakistan 0-2 in the ongoing three-match Test series in the UAE.

"It's (World No.1) a very misleading number," Akram said.

"England are lions only at home and their weaknesses are always exposed on foreign tours of a top side is one that can handle every condition in West Indies did it in the 1970s and 80s. Pakistan did it for while under Imran Khan, when we were playing to australia have done that in the 1990s," he added.

Stating that he was "proud of Pakistan", Akram said,

Australia Won Border-Gavaskar Trophy and Series Won 4/0 and Whitewash aginst india.

Chasing a world-record target of 500 to win the fourth Test, India resumed on 6-166 and were bowled out for 201 in 58 minutes of play at Adelaide Oval.

Australia 7 for 604 dec and 5 for 167 dec beat India 272 and 201 (Sehwag 62, Lyon 4-63, Harris 3-41) by 298 runs.



"The bowlers in this series have been absolutely outstanding and it certainly gives the batsmen a lot of confidence," said Hussey who averaged 58.6 in the test series.

Paceman Peter Siddle, who claimed 5-49 in India's first innings of 272 on a flat batting track and had figures of 6-96 for the game, was named man of the match.

Siddle said patience was the key to his haul of 23 wickets at 18.65 in the series.

Captain Michael Clarke, who scored 626 runs at 125.2 in the series including a triple hundred and a double ton, won the player of the series award.

Ex-skipper Ricky Ponting, who averaged 108.8 in the series, said he was just glad to make a contribution.

"We're heading in the right direction," said Ponting, 37

"The disappointment of last summer has inspired a few of us. There's been a bit of fire in the belly and we've known we've had to get better," Clarke said of Australia's 2010/11 Ashes defeat.

Australia's preparations for their 2013 Ashes tour

Australia's next Test series is in the West Indies in April.