Cape Town (South Africa), Dec. 6: South African all rounder Jacques Kallis has revealed that coach Duncan Fletcher has a new plan to beat Australia.

Speaking from Cape Town, Kallis warned Australia to expect the unexpected in the three-Test series starting in Perth on December 17.

"We have worked well with Duncan and he has got some new ideas to beat Australia. He got some thoughts from the 2005 Ashes ... but he has quite a few fresh plans for Australia this time around," The Sun quoted Kallis, as saying.

Johannesburg, Dec. 4 : Cricket South Africa CEO Gerald Majola has said that the controversial selection policy on coloured players is set to be scrapped in three years after the resounding success within the national side, which now fields top performing non-white players ranked among the world''s best.

Plans have been made to continue the "target transformation policy" - often referred to as a "quota system" - for the next three years before discarding it for merit-based selection.

"The goal is to get merit-based selection at all levels of cricket," Majola told the Sydney Morning Herald last night.

Johannesburg - Two South African Nobel Peace Prize laureates have petitioned President Kgalema Motlanthe to establish a commission of inquiry into a controversial multibillion-dollar arms deal, The Star newspaper reported Wednesday.

In a letter dated December 1 and delivered by hand to Motlanthe's Cape Town office on Tuesday, former president FW de Klerk and archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu called on the president to appoint the commission by December 10.

Johannesburg - The nine South African cities hosting 2010 World Cup matches will bear the brunt of a 3.2-billion-rand (315 million dollars) cost overrun in the construction and upgrading of stadiums for the event, Business Day newspaper reported Tuesday.

The local organizers of the World Cup have been warning since July that the stadiums are likely to overshoot the original budget by more than 3 billion rand.

Sports Minister Makhenkesi Stofile confirmed the amount of the overrun in a written reply to a question in parliament from the opposition Democratic Alliance.