Amla as Captain

Hashim Amla has been selected as the captain of the South African team in ODI and T20 series against Australia.

Amla got the team command due to the fractured finger injury of Captain AB de Villiers, that is not available for the entire series. Amla has been assigned captain for two Twenty20 and three ODI matches against Australia.

Wicketkeeper batsman Mark Boucher returns to the one-day squad, while 23-year-old batsmanRichard levy is the only new face in the T20 squad.

Former captain Greame Smith got placed in both formats ODI and T20. the beginning of the series will be held in Cape Town on October 13 with Twenty20 match.

Twenty20 squad: Hashim Amla (capt), Richard Levi, Graeme Smith, David Miller, Colin Ingram, Johan Botha, Heino Kuhn, JP Duminy, Morne Morkel, Albie Morkel, Robin Peterson, Juan Theron, Wayne Parnell and Lonwabo Tsotsobe.

One-day squad : Hashim Amla (capt), JP Duminy, Johan Botha, Francois du Plessis, Graeme Smith, Mark Boucher, Jacques Kallis, Morne Morkel, David Miller, Imran Tahir, Robin Peterson, Dale Steyn, Wayne Parnell and Lonwabo Tsotsobe.

Shoaib Akthar's Contraversi

In his just-published biography " Controversially Yours", the temperamental Pakistan speedster has accused Tendulkar of being scared to face his scorching pace on a slow Faisalabad track.
He also claimed that Tendulkar and Dravid were not match-winners nor did they know the art of finishing games.

Vivian Richards, Ricky Ponting, Brian Lara and the likes of them are great batsmen who dominated with the bat and were truly match-winners. Initially, when I bowled against Sachin, I found these qualities missing. He might have had more runs and records, he lacked the ability to finish the game," he said in the book, to be formally launched on Friday.

Akhtar, who announced his retirement during the World Cup this year, also cited an example where he felt that Sachin was mighty scared to face him.

"I bowled (Sachin) a particularly fast ball which he, to my amazement didn't even touch. He walked away! That was the first time, I saw him walk away from me-- that, too, on the slow track at Faisalabad. It got my hunting instincts up and in the next match I hit him on the head and he couldn't score after that", Akhtar wrote.

"I think players like Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid weren't exactly match winners to start with, nor did they know the art of finishing the game," Shoaib said.

Akhtar who played for Shah Rukh Khan co-owned Kolkata Knight Riders during IPL has accused the Bollywood superstar and former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi of "cheating."

"Shahrukh and I talked about my not being happy with the money settled on me. Shahrukh and Modi got me to agree. I should have never listened to Modi and Shahrukh," he said in the book.

GOD OF INDIAN CRICKET-SACHIN

Sachin is the leading run scorer with 14,965 test runs and became the first batsman to pass 12000 run mark in test cricket.He is the second indian after sunil gavaskar to make 10,000 runs in test matches.Sachin tendulkar and Brain Lara are the fastest to score 10000 runs in test cricket.Both of them made it in 195 innings.He is the youngest batsman to reach milestone of 1000 runs and from 3000-12000 runs.Sachin Tendulkar is the third youngest player who has started his career.Tendulkar has played most number of test matches for india.He had played 181 test matches for india.In test history sachin is the top most batsman to hit highest number of centuries(51).Tendulkar has scored centuries against all test playing nations.Sachin played 425 matches who stands second to play most one day internationals and sanath jayasurya stands first with 453 matches.sachin has played in 94 different grounds.He holds the record of hitting 17 nineties in one day intenationals.He is the first player to cross 18000 runs in one day matches and had hit 48 centuries.And he has so many number of records and so he is called as god of indian cricket.