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A hundred from Callum Ferguson and a career-best performance from rookie fast bowler Joe Mennie gave South Australia a chance to avoid defeat against Western Australia at the WACA

ESPNcricinfo staff07-Dec-2011
ScorecardA hundred from Callum Ferguson and a career-best performance from rookie fast bowler Joe Mennie gave South Australia a chance to avoid defeat against Western Australia at the WACA. Mennie took 7 for 96 to limit Warriors in their first innings, after which Ferguson’s 113 whittled the Redbacks’ deficit from 275 to 69.After the second day was washed out, the third began with the Warriors in command at 183 for 1. Wes Robinson was batting on 71 and Craig Simmons on 52. Mennie, playing his third Shield game, struck early, dismissing Simmons for 60. Robinson followed shortly after, lbw for 91 to an inswinging yorker from Peter George. The Warriors were 223 for 3.The next seven Warriors batsmen all made double figures but no one built on their start. Mitchell Marsh made a quick 38, off 30 balls, before he was bowled by Carl Tietjens. Mennie cut through the lower order, taking the last five wickets to dismiss the hosts for 368.Facing a huge deficit, the Redbacks made a poor start to their second innings, losing both openers to Nathan Rimminton to slip to 11 for 2. Recovery, however, was around the corner. Ferguson and Michael Klinger put on an unbeaten 195 runs for the third wicket, steering their team towards drawing level with the Warriors. Ferguson ended the day on 113 off 176 balls – he had got to 100 off 146 balls – while Klinger was on 80 off 189.

Fifteen-year-old legspinner Shaquana Quintyne has been included in West Indies Women’s 14-woman squad for their home one-day series against Pakistan that starts later this month

ESPNcricinfo staff17-Aug-2011Two uncapped players from Barbados – Shaquana Quintyne, a 15-year-old legspinner, and Kycia Knight, a 19-year-old wicketkeeper – have been included in West Indies’ women’s squad for their home one-day series against Pakistan that starts later this month.The two players impressed for Barbados during the recently-completed WICB Women’s Championships. Knight also plays football for Barbados. The other twelve players were all part of the squad for the tour of India early in the year.The team will be led by Merissa Aguilleira, who was one of six women cricketers given a central contract by the WICB last year. The other five players – allrounders Stafanie Taylor, Stacy-Ann King and Shanel Daley, batsman Deandra Dottin, and offspinner Anisa Mohammed – are also part of the squad for the four ODIs against Pakistan. The first match is on August 28.West Indies Women’s squad: Merissa Aguilleira (capt & wk), Shemaine Campbelle, Britney Cooper, Shanel Daley, Deandra Dottin, Pearl Etienne, Stacy-Ann King, Kycia Knight, Anisa Mohamed, Juliana Nero, Shaquana Quintyne, Shakera Selman, Tremayne Smartt, Stafanie Taylor

A blistering opening partnership between Robin Uthappa and S Anirudha set up an impressive win for India Green against India Blue in Nagpur

ESPNcricinfo staff12-Oct-2011
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsFile photo: Robin Uthappa struck a blistering ton and was involved in a double-century opening stand•Sivaraman Kitta/K SivaramanA blistering opening partnership between Robin Uthappa and S Anirudha set up an impressive win for India Green against India Blue in Nagpur, and secured their place in the final of the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy. India Green were asked to bat first once again, however, this time they made better use of the fine platform laid by their openers and piled up 348 for 9 in their 50 overs to all but shut India Blue out of the match at the halfway stage.Uthappa carried his form from the first match into this game, launching his aggressive knock with a lofted four to long-off and a well-executed pull off Irfan Pathan. Anirudha played the support role in the pair’s century stand in the previous game, but here he matched Uthappa shot for shot. He struck Irfan for two boundaries as well, before depositing a short ball on the leg stump from Pradeep Sangwan beyond long-on.The pair was aided by some wayward bowling from Irfan early on, as he repeatedly strayed on to the pads in an attempt to get the ball to swing in. India Blue captain S Badrinath tried to stem the flow of runs by bringing on Amit Mishra in the fifth over, but Uthappa and Anirudha continued to pick up fours and sixes at will. After the openers pummelled 34 runs off two overs, India Green had raced to 86 after eight. Unlike against India Red though, they did not waste their fine starts and pushed on to centuries, bringing the 200 up as early as the 23rd over.The bowlers finally found some relief after Uthappa retired. Mohammad Kaif struggled to keep the momentum going before rushing down the track and playing down the wrong line to hand Mishra his first wicket. Anirudha gifted his wicket away, lofting a full toss on the leg stump to midwicket off part-timer M Vijay. Uthappa returned after India Green lost Mohnish Mishra and Ishank Jaggi in quick succession, but could not match his early tempo, striking just one more four before P Parameswaran had him bowled. Sangwan claimed wickets late in the innings as the batsmen looked for quick runs, to finish with 4 for 58 form his ten.India Blue, who needed to win to make the final, made a poor start in the chase as Tanmay Srivastava edged behind off left-arm medium pacer Samad Fallah, with CM Gautham completing a spectacular diving catch. Vijay and Saurabh Tiwary did not let the asking-rate get out of reach though, in an 87-run stand for the second wicket at better than a run-a-ball. After Vijay fell, beaten by Iqbal Abdulla’s turn, Dinesh Karthik provided Tiwary with adequate support. The pair added 48 before Tiwary hit straight to Jaggi at long-off, cutting short his promising innings of 74 off 70. India Blue had one last go at the target through Karthik and Manish Pandey, before Karthik was adjudged lbw off Abhimanyu Mithun for 49.From then on, wickets fell at regular intervals and the required rate soared, and India Green closed out the game in the 42nd over courtesy a fine tumbling catch by Kaif to get rid of Sangwan. Badrinath, who had gone off the field during the first drinks break of the India Green innings, did not bat. Uthappa was named Man of the Match.India Green will play India Red in the final on Thursday at the same venue.

Jon Culley at Aigburth02-Aug-2011
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Chris Woakes earned Warwickshire a valuable lead of 91•PA PhotosAs an England selector, Ashley Giles has every reason to be thrilled with England’s exhilarating rise towards the top in Test cricket, even though in his day job, as Warwickshire’s director of cricket, he has to manage without Ian Bell and Jonathan Trott. He must be delighted, in particular, to see Stuart Broad and Tim Bresnan in such fine form with bat and ball.The bonus in their impressive multi-tasking contributions is that Warwickshire’s budding all-rounder, Chris Woakes, while still on England’s radar, has probably slipped back in status to ‘one for the future’ rather than someone with more immediate prospects of a Test call-up.This seemed to be confirmed by his omission from the England Lions side playing Sri Lanka A at Scarborough, a fixture that has been greeted with mixed feelings by quite a few counties, depriving them of key players as the Championship moves towards the business end.It has been difficult in particular, for instance, for Nottinghamshire’s Mick Newell, who coached the Lions in the Caribbean last winter. He has had to take on leaders Durham with a trialist and a debutant on board in place of Alex Hales and Samit Patel. Yorkshire, fighting relegation, are playing Hampshire at the Rose Bowl without Jonathan Bairstow and Joe Root.In the event, the decision not to pick Woakes, who deputised so ably for the injured Broad in England’s one-day sides in Australia in the winter, was a bonus for Giles, who as an England selector himself is hardly in a position to talk down his man’s claims. Having taken three key wickets on day one, the 22-year-old top scored with 60 to give Warwickshire an advantage that might be critical in their bid to win the game and displace Lancashire in second place in the table.Given the circumstances, with the ball swinging when the cloud cover thickened and the pitch offering bounce at one end and spin at the other, it was an innings with the maturity of an older player, although that hardly came as a surprise to Giles.”He is incredibly mature for his years and goes from strength to strength really and I see him as a genuine all-rounder, which might be his best route into the higher level,” Giles said.”He learns very quickly, picks up on everything you tell him and has a lot of ability with the bat and the ball.”Giles confirmed that care is being taken with the workload placed on Woakes after sore shins kept him out of cricket for a month between mid-May and mid-June but said his omission from the Lions had more to do with the type of players England wanted to look at in the Scarborough match.”We are having to monitor his workloads carefully after his injury. He is our go-to bowler because of his quality and ability but we have to be careful with him as well.”There was a possibility he would play for the Lions but we know a lot about what he can do and the side selected is a bit of a mixture of guys who are ready to go straight in and guys we wanted to have a look at, the likes of (Stewart) Meaker and (Jade) Dernbach in a four-day game.”People are always grumbling about me being a selector but I am only one of four full-time selectors and Dave Parsons (the ECB’s performance director) had a say as well.”The day had begun with Warwickshire 30 for 1 and ended with Lancashire pondering what might have been had Saj Mahmood not had one of those days that have coaches tearing out their hair.The tall fast-bowler can be devastatingly brilliant at times and it seemed it might be his day when his first delivery sent Jim Troughton’s stumps splaying in all directions, leaving a bemused batsman wondering what happened.What had happened, unfortunately for Mahmood, is that he had overstepped and the wicket did not count. And it was not the first time he would hear ‘no ball’ called as he began to pull up in his follow-through.By the time he had finished for the day, the sometimes England bowler had been no-balled no fewer than 12 times and his 12 overs had cost 86 runs, even though he had picked up a couple of good wickets when Laurie Evans was leg before to one that nipped back and Rikki Clarke to another that was full and straight.Troughton, who was on four when he was castled, profited from the reprieve, holding the innings together for almost 40 overs until, one short of what would have been a deserved half-century, he launched into a ball from Tom Smith that asked to be hit but succeeded only in hitting straight to cover, where Mark Chilton did well to hold the catch given the speed at which the ball was travelling.Along the way, as well as surviving Evans and Clarke, Troughton had seen Will Porterfield lbw playing across one from Kyle Hogg and Tim Ambrose caught behind off the same bowler when he thin-edged an ugly slash.Keith Barker made sound progress until he was caught at backward short leg as Gary Keedy began to find some turn and it was disappointing that Woakes’s innings also ended tamely when he also hit straight to cover, off Keedy.By then, however, Warwickshire were 62 in front and another flurry of runs from Jeetan Patel stretched the advantage to 91 before Paul Horton and Stephen Moore negotiated the last hour to cut the deficit by 32.

It was Sri Lanka who finished on a high after an impressive rearguard led by stand-in captain Kumar Sangakkara secured a draw at the Rose Bowl

The Bulletin by Andrew McGlashan20-Jun-2011
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsKumar Sangakkara was back to his best as he scored 119•Getty ImagesEngland’s fifth consecutive series victory was never in doubt since the third day of this match, but it was Sri Lanka who finished on a high after an impressive rearguard led by stand-in captain Kumar Sangakkara secured a draw at the Rose Bowl. Sangakkara filled in one of the few blank spots on his fabulous career record, with his first hundred in England, as the visitors showed impressive resilience with Thilan Samaraweera unbeaten on 87 when the weather closed in for one final time at tea.In what could be Sangakkara’s last Test innings in the country he took the opportunity to partially atone for a disappointing record which had included a previous best of 66. His first-innings waft against James Anderson suggested a player who wasn’t entirely focussed on his role, but with a match to save he batted with a steely determination not seen before in the series.His 25th Test hundred from 217 balls came with a push into the leg side and while there was no huge celebration he gave a contented salute around the ground. He had moments of luck during the innings, but on a lively surface that encouraged the quicks throughout a batsman needed a few things to go his way. By and large, though, he combated everything England threw at him with the style befitted a batsman holding a Test average of 56.A sure sign that his game was coming back together was in the cover driving – both off pace and later spin – although one of his doses of fortune came on 89 when, having not added a run in eight overs after lunch, he edged a rearing delivery from Anderson over first slip. His innings eventually ended when he drove Anderson to point ten minutes before tea, but with clouds building he had done enough.The unexpected part of Sri Lanka’s resistance came from Rangana Herath, the nightwatchman, as he helped add 75 for the fourth wicket which frustrated England’s attempts for early breakthroughts. However, the home side did have chances and weren’t at their best in the field. Anderson lured Herath into a drive when he had 5 but Andrew Strauss was distracted from the catch as Graeme Swann moved across into his eye line. Anderson then missed the opportunity to run out Herath with a throw from cover with the batsman well short of the crease.He would also have been given lbw on 19 had England opted to use the DRS when Swann hit him pad first. Yet, despite those chances it was an impressive innings from Herath who showed determination against the quick bowlers during the first hour then began to expand his strokeplay when Strauss was forced to rotate his options.The introduction of Jonathan Trott, whose first two overs cost 23, brought Herath to life as he swung him through midwicket off one knee and pulled him through square leg for another to hurry Sri Lanka towards parity. But Herath’s attacking intent eventually ended his innings when he missed a sweep at Swann.Samaraweera provided Sangakkara with excellent support as the deficit was erased before lunch and the time-runs equation started to favour Sri Lanka. They scored at such a rate – 222 runs came in two sessions – that the advantage grew steadily and England soon started to lose their drive to push for victory. They weren’t help when Stuart Broad (heel) and Chris Tremlett (leg) picked up niggles during their spells which left Strauss short of options.Samaraweera took his chance although was given a working over against the short ball by Tremlett and Anderson. A couple of edges flew wide or over the slips as the pacemen made an effort to break through, but he was quick to pick off the loose deliveries especially through the leg side. He also twice used his feet to loft Swann over the top during his second half century of the series, but was denied the chance to reach three figures when the forecast rain arrived.A series win should never be belittled, but England will have hoped for a more convincing margin than victory based on one crazy session in Cardiff. Their next Test challenge will is the eagerly anticipated visited of India, although before then they face Sri Lanka in one-day cricket. It’s a format that suits the visitors much better and they could be considered favourites.

Australia escaped their most serious spin challenge in the tournament on a pitch Ricky Ponting described as “basically rolled mud”

Brydon Coverdale at the Premadasa Stadium05-Mar-2011Australia escaped their most serious spin challenge in the tournament so far, thanks to the wash-out in Colombo, where they shared the points with Sri Lanka on a pitch Ricky Ponting described as “basically rolled mud”. The ability of Australia’s batsmen to handle top spinners in helpful conditions is one of the questions that has surrounded Ponting’s side, which now has two wins and a no-result and sits third on the Group A table.However, the Australians have a game in hand compared to the second-placed Sri Lanka, and they have what should be easy matches against Canada and Kenya coming up. The match in Colombo was reasonably evenly-balanced when heavy rain came and set in for the rest of the evening, with Sri Lanka at 146 for 3, but the sharp turn being displayed by Jason Krejza was a worrying sign for the Australian batsmen.The hosts picked Muttiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis and Rangana Herath, the first time all three had played together in an ODI, and Ponting knew the trio would be hard to counter. He said in the lead-up to the game that he had been surprised by the lack of spin in the earlier games in Sri Lanka, but a glance at the pitch on the eve of the match suggested it would be a different story this time.”That wicket is vastly different to the wickets that have been used in the previous games that have been played here in this World Cup so far,” Ponting said after the washout. “It seemed that they had a pretty good idea that it was going to be that slow and low and was going to spin a fair bit, hence the reason they played their spinners.”You could tell that it was going to be a lot different than the wicket that was played on the day before, because you could see that one right beside it. That one had a bit of grass on it, and the one we were going to use today was basically rolled mud. It spun quite a bit early in the game. What you associate with most one-day wickets is they generally don’t do much in the first innings of the game and they might just spin a bit towards the latter half of the second innings of the game. It appeared that this one was going to be a difficult one to chase runs on.”Kumar Sangakkara had set up an interesting contest with an unbeaten 73•Associated PressBut the Australians won’t know how their batsmen would have fared, as the dark clouds moved in during the second half of Sri Lanka’s innings. When the rain came, it bucketed down, and although it had stopped by an hour after the match was abandoned, there was plenty of surface water on the parts of the ground that had not been covered.It was a disappointing end to the most eagerly anticipated Group A match so far in the tournament. Shaun Tait bowled one of his best opening spells in recent times, finding significant outswing to add to his speed, while Krejza created opportunities with his turn and Kumar Sangakkara was looking determined to bat through the innings, having reached 73 not out.”I think it might have been a pretty good game of cricket,” Ponting said. “They had Sangakkara who played particularly well. At that stage of the game, 30 overs in and 140 on the board, we felt like we needed to make another breakthrough before the ball change, or around the ball change.”If we had done that around then and tried to expose their middle order, they had a longer tail today because they played all their spinners. I think we were only one breakthrough away, but saying that they had batted pretty well and it would have been a difficult run-chase considering the way the wicket was playing. I think it would have been a decent game of cricket. I’m disappointed for the crowd more than anything today.”The Australians will fly to Bangalore on Sunday and will have two days off before they start to prepare for their matches against Kenya and Canada. Sri Lanka head to Kandy to take on Zimbabwe on Thursday, before they leave home and tackle New Zealand in Mumbai.

Rashid Latif, the Afghanistan coach, hopes a tournament arranged in Pakistan’s border city of Peshawar will unearth new talent for his side

ESPNcricinfo staff29-Apr-2011Rashid Latif, the Afghanistan coach, hopes a tournament arranged in Pakistan’s border city of Peshawar will unearth new talent for his side. The tournament will feature six teams named after provinces in Afghanistan, with each team featuring three players from the national side.Afghanistan have become the fastest-rising Associate team after refugees escaping years of war fled to Pakistan and discovered a love for cricket. “We are playing a tournament of three-day matches in Peshawar followed by a Twenty20 and then a one-day tournament, and I hope these events will help us find more players,” Latif told .Latif, the former Pakistan wicketkeeper, took over as Afghanistan coach last year and helped them win the four-day ICC Intercontinental Cup, before guiding them to a shock win over Pakistan in the Asian Games Twenty20 semi-finals.In recent years Afghanistan has leapt up to Division One in the World Cricket League, which gave them one-day status, and they have since qualified for the World Twenty20 held in the West Indies last year. Latif hopes that the new tournament will help secure the progress the country has made.”We have also included the Afghanistan Under-19 team so that they can prepare for the qualifying round of the junior World Cup,” Latif said.Afghanistan’s Under-19 team won an Asian qualifying event in the UAE earlier this year and stands a good chance of qualifying for the Under-19 World Cup in Australia next year.Ahmed Taqseem, who is on the Afghanistan Cricket Board’s technical committee, felt the facilities available in Pakistan will help the Afghanistan side develop.”The facilities provided in Peshawar are world-class so playing here will give our players a chance to improve and this is a great help from Pakistan,” he said. “We realise that in order to improve at an international level we need to strengthen our domestic setup and we are endeavouring to do that.”Cricketing relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan are strong, with a six-member delegation from the Afghanistan Cricket Board meeting PCB chairman Ijaz Butt on Friday. Butt pledged that Pakistan would provide any support needed to develop Afghanistan cricket and appointed Amir Nawab as a coordinator for Afghanistan.

ESPNcricinfo previews Canada’s chances in the 2011 World Cup

Faraz Sarwat12-Feb-2011Canada deserve to be in this World Cup. They earned their place through a daunting qualifying tournament in 2009 where they were runners-up to Ireland, and made sure that upstarts Afghanistan were kept in check. The Canadian team proved that it knew how to win in difficult circumstances and moreover showed the promise of being equipped to deal with sterner challenges. The pity is that Canada have not selected key members of that battle-hardened team that got them into this tournament.The official line is that Canada are aiming for a quarter-final spot and that this will be Canada’s best ever showing in a World Cup. It is good to have goals, but one can’t help but get the feeling that the line has been crossed between healthy ambition and outright delusion. Thrusting five players from the Under-19 team into the World Cup squad was wholly unnecessary and puts a lot of pressure on the experienced players. That is not to say that the young players are not talented. One or two of them deserved to make the 15-man squad, but the rest simply aren’t ready. The veteran players like John Davison and Ashish Bagai know this and will concede it in private, but they now have their game-face on and will be doing their best to keep the vibe positive and the performance respectable.World Cup Pedigree
This will be Canada’s fourth World Cup. In 2003, Canada, playing their first World Cup in 24 years, made a grand return to the tournament by beating full-member country Bangladesh. And while the team saw some awful depths too (36 all out against Sri Lanka), John Davison played one of the great knocks in World Cup history with a magical 76-ball 111 against West Indies. In 2007, Davison led a significantly stronger team to the World Cup, but the format did not allow the team to flourish, and after three quick losses it was sent packing.Recent Form
Not good. In a recent Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies, Canada pulled off a comfortable win against Hampshire, before losing their next three games. A two-match ODI series at home last summer against Ireland was split at one game apiece.Expert Eye
Sunil Dhaniram: Canada must open the batting with Davison. He’s got to be up at the top where he’s been successful for Canada. Generally the batting lacks toughness and there will be pressure on Bagai in the middle-order. The young players must realise that the full-member countries will show no mercy – they will want to win early and get off the field. So Canada will need to show toughness. In the bowling, Henry Osinde is the key. He needs to see bounce in his first over and if he gets a wicket he’ll be fired up for the rest of the match, but if he gets stick early on, we’re done. Canada’s best chance of victory lies against Kenya, but only if they can get Steve Tikolo and Thomas Odoyo out cheaply.Where they are likely to finish
In the bottom three of Group A, if not dead last.Watchability
Canada will be a fascinating team to watch. Whoever Canada play, there will be runs and wickets galore. The Canadians are not shy about trying to play their shots and if the ball is there to be hit they go for it. In fact they will even try to hit balls that should be left well alone. Most of the batsmen are attacking in nature, but two are exceptionally good at it – and if one or both of Davison and Rizwan Cheema get set at the crease, it will be highly entertaining. The new-ball bowlers, Osinde and Khurram Chohan are only in it for wickets, and that has its own charm.Players in Focus
Davison’s return to Canada has been an unhappy one. He walked away from the team when the 30-man squad was announced, upset at the manner in which important and experienced players Ian Bilcliff and Geoff Barnett were excluded. Davison is a pro and will be focussed on the task at hand, but knowing that the team could have been stronger will no doubt irk him. Canada will depend on him for runs at a healthy strike-rate, and when he bowls he will be expected to keep things under control. His legacy as a World Cup hero is secure courtesy of his exploits in 2003 as well as scintillating half-centuries against New Zealand in that same tournament and in 2007. At 40, this is his last World Cup and he will want to leave his mark.This tournament is important for Cheema who has endured something of a lean patch of late. He started his career in 2008 with a bang, quickly building a reputation as someone who could take on world-class bowlers and win. He loves the spotlight and is chomping at the bit to play on batting tracks against the world’s best bowlers. If Cheema comes off, it will be a respectable day for Canada.Ruvindu Gunasekera is the most promising of Canada’s younger players. He deserves his spot in the World Cup team and has a taste of success having scored two solid fifties in back-to-back ODIs against Ireland at home. He will be keen to test his mettle against stronger teams, and a good showing at the tournament will cement his place in the team.

A Leeds United source has dropped a further worrying update regarding Stuart Dallas’ serious injury, Football Insider report.

The Lowdown: Femoral fracture

The Northern Irishman, who has started 121 of Leeds’ last 122 league games, became the latest Whites star to suffer a major injury this season.

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The 31-year-old was involved in a heavy collision with Manchester City’s Jack Grealish last weekend and had to be stretched off shortly before half-time.

Leeds have since confirmed the worst, with Dallas suffering a femoral fracture and facing a lengthy period on the sidelines. The versatile full-back has already undergone surgery on the problem, but it looks as if it could be even worse going off a recent update.

The Latest: Leeds source

FI shared a story regarding Dallas on Friday morning after being informed by a Leeds source.

They were told by the Elland Road source that Dallas’ injury is worse than first feared and that he could be out for 12 months, describing it as a ‘devastating’ blow.

The Verdict: Nightmare

Should FI’s reveal prove accurate, then Dallas looks likely to be unavailable for most of Jesse Marsch’s first full season in charge.

That would be horrible news, with Dallas regularly the go-to man to provide cover in a number of different areas. Dallas has also been the club’s third-best Premier League performer this season behind Raphinha and Liam Cooper, as per WhoScored, turning out at left-back, right-back and in midfield.

He has established himself as a Leeds legend with his displays over the last three seasons, and hopefully, he’ll have a setback-free recovery and return sooner than this latest timeframe has suggested.

In other news: Leeds officials sent abroad as Radz plots move for 56-goal attacker. 

There were no major surprises in Bangladesh’s provisional 30-man squad for the World Cup

ESPNcricinfo staff15-Dec-2010Bangladesh have announced their preliminary squad for the World Cup, and there were no major surprises in the 30-man pool. They have included allrounder Alok Kapali, who last played international cricket in 2008 before defecting to the ICL, and 21-year-old fast bowler Dolar Mahmud, who has not played for Bangladesh since October 2009.With 65 caps, Kapali is an experienced player, but was erratic in his six years of international cricket, averaging 19.83 with the bat and 49.75 with his legspinners, before becoming part of the exodus to the ICL. It was that exodus that opened the doors for Mahmud to made his international debut, though he couldn’t cement his place in the limited opportunities he got.Bangladesh are riding high after two series wins on the trot – a 4-0 drubbing of New Zealand in October and a 3-1 victory over Zimbabwe in a series which ended on Sunday. They have no further international matches scheduled before February 19, when the global tournament starts.Sri Lanka were the first team to announce their preliminary squad, doing so on December 13. All 14 teams participating in the tournament have to announce their preliminary line-ups by December 19, and zero in on the final fifteen before January 19 next year.Preliminary Squad: Shakib Al Hasan, Mashrafe Mortaza, Tamim Iqbal, Mohammad Ashraful, Imrul Kayes, Junaid Siddique, Roqibul Hassan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mahmudullah, Nazmul Hossain, Naeem Islam, Rubel Hossain, Shafiul Islam, Abdur Razzak, Suhrawadi Shuvo, Shahriar Nafees, Nazimuddin, Shamsur Rahman, Jahirul Islam, Sahagir Hossain, Syed Rasel, Shahadat Hossain, Mahbubul Alam, Dolar Mahmud, Mithun Ali, Nasir Hossain, Shuvogoto Chowdhury, Shabbir Rahman, Alok Kapali, Enamul Haque Jr.