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Wicketkeeper unbeaten overnight but Warwickshire turn the screw at Edgbaston

Jon Culley at Edgbaston19-Aug-2019Such is the romance that has come to be associated with Somerset’s quest for their first County Championship in 144 years of history that lovers of cricket are cancelling September holidays in the hope of being at Taunton to witness a doubtless tearful celebration.Whether it will be worth it remains in the balance. As things stand, the side they will meet in the last fixture of the season, the 2017 winners Essex, who beat them at Chelmsford in June, are in pole position. Four matches remain after this isolated, mid-Blast round, yet Somerset could do without losing ground at this moment.They might not find it easy to prevent that happening. Having winkled out two important wickets in the final session of the opening day, when Sam Hain and Adam Hose were dismissed before they were able to inflict too much damage, they picked up an early bonus on day two when Rob Yates, whose maiden century had been the thorn in their flesh on Sunday, was out to only the seventh delivery of the morning.Yet their bowlers failed to build on that, gaining only one extra bonus point and, more importantly in the context of potentially taking the 16 points for a win, allowing Warwickshire, themselves casting anxious glances at the one team behind them in the Division One table, the luxury of passing 400 for only the second time this season.Then came a pretty torrid start to their reply, encompassing three wickets lost for 15 runs between the eighth over and the 11th, including a first-ball duck for Babar Azam, their Vitality Blast star, on his red-ball debut for the county.By the close, they had recovered to a degree, thanks in large part to Steven Davies, who showed his adaptability by opening in a rejigged top order and willingness to graft as necessary in finishing 11 runs short of a hundred. Somerset, though, are still 103 runs away from the follow-on target and lost George Bartlett in the penultimate over, a moment of celebration for 19-year-old debutant George Garrett in claiming his maiden first-class wicket.Jack Brooks had made what they had hoped would be a decisive morning breakthrough as Yates, stretching to drive, edged to gully. When the former Yorkshire seamer followed up by having Tim Ambrose caught behind four overs later to claim the second bowling bonus point in the 102nd over, all looked well.Helped by a remarkable gully catch by Roelof van der Merwe as Henry Brookes somehow offered him a leading edge as he shaped to clip Jamie Overton to the short Hollies Stand boundary on his leg side – which he had already cleared with a square cut off Brookes – Somerset had the seventh wicket at 338 in the 107th over and were into the Warwickshire tail.And it did look more like a tail than is customary in a team that generally bats deep, with Oliver Hannon-Dalby making a rare appearance at No. 10 ahead Garrett.In the event, it was a while before they had a look at either, thanks primarily to Michael Burgess, who made it his business to use the aforementioned short boundary to his advantage whenever the Somerset bowlers gave him the opportunity, hitting 52 off 58 balls in a manner that was very easy on the eye.He and his captain, Jeetan Patel, added 66 in 13 overs to claim a fourth batting point and take the total beyond 400, to which Hannon-Dalby celebrated his promotion by making his first score in double figures since he giddily hit 11 not out and 13 against the same opponents at Taunton in May. At the other end, young Garrett manfully survived 22 deliveries to mark his maiden first-class innings with a red-inker and two runs.As if that were not enough to furrow Somerset brows, a positive response in terms of quick runs on the board was rapidly undermined as Tom Abell was bowled shouldering arms and Hannon-Dalby continued to influence the game by gaining the desired reward for bowling into James Hildreth’s pads. He then reaped an unexpected bonus when Babar, who has been drafted into Somerset’s red-ball team in place of his compatriot Azhar Ali, clipped a legside half-volley direct to midwicket.Azhar’s return to Pakistan for a training camp meant a rejigged top order with Davies opening with Abell. Happily for Somerset, he looked comfortable in the roll from the outset, anchoring a 63-run partnership for the fourth wicket that ended when Tom Banton edged behind off Will Rhodes, who was unlucky during an impressive spell when Tim Ambrose was not quite able to grasp an inside edge offered by Davies on 72.

Which team picked up which player, and who did not receive a bid? Here’s the list

ESPNcricinfo staff27-Nov-2018

Sold players

Hanuma Vihari (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 2 croresShimron Hetmyer (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 4.2 croresCarlos Brathwaite (Base price INR 75 lakhs) sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for INR 5 croresGurkeerat Singh Mann (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 50 lakhsMoises Henriques (Base price INR 1 crore) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 1 croreAxar Patel (Base price INR 1 crore) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 5 croresJonny Bairstow (Base price INR 1.5 crores) sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for INR 2.2 croresNicholas Pooran (Base price INR 75 lakhs) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 4.2 croresWriddhiman Saha (Base price INR 1 crore) sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for INR 1.2 croresJaydev Unadkat (Base price INR 1.5 crore) sold to Rajasthan Royals for INR 8.4 croresIshant Sharma (Base price INR 75 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 1.1 croresLasith Malinga (Base price INR 2 crores) sold to Mumbai Indians for INR 2 croresMohammed Shami (Base price INR 1 crore) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 4.8 croresVarun Aaron (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Rajasthan Royals for INR 2.4 croresMohit Sharma (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Chennai Super Kings for INR 5 croresDevdutt Padikkal (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 20 lakhsAnmolpreet Singh (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Mumbai Indians for INR 80 lakhsSarfaraz Khan (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 25 lakhsShivam Dube (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 5 croresVarun Chakravarthy (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 8.4 croresAnkush Bains (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 20 lakhsNathu Singh (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 20 lakhsColin Ingram (Base price INR 2 crores) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 6.40 croresSam Curran (Base price INR 2 crores) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 7.2 croresHeinrich Klaasen (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 50 lakhsBarinder Sran (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Mumbai Indians for INR 3.4 croreLockie Ferguson (Base price 1 crore) sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for INR 1.6 croresSherfane Rutherford (Base price INR 40 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 2 croresAnrich Nortje (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for INR 20 lakhsOshane Thomas (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Rajasthan Royals for 1.1 croresHardus Viljoen (Base price INR 75 lakhs) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 75 lakhsHimmat Singh (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 65 lakhsNikhil Naik (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for INR 20 lakhsArshdeep Singh (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 20 lakhsHarry Gurney (Base price INR 75 lakhs) sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for INR 75 lakhsPankaj Jaiswal (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Mumbai Indians for INR 20 lakhsMilind Kumar (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 20 lakhsDarshan Nalkande (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 30 lakhsShashank Singh (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Rajasthan Royals for INR 30 lakhsSimran Singh (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 4.8 croresRasikh Salam (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Mumbai Indians for INR 20 lakhsPrithvi Raj (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for INR 20 lakhsLiam Livingstone (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Rajasthan Royals for INR 50 lakhsKeemo Paul (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 50 lakhsPrayas Ray Barman (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 1.5 croreAgnivesh Ayachi (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 20 lakhsHarpreet Brar (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 20 lakhsMartin Guptill (Base price INR 1 crore) sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for INR 1 crore – re-presented in accelerated auctionYuvraj Singh (Base price INR 1 crore) sold to Mumbai Indians for INR 1 crore – re-presented in accelerated auctionAkshdeep Nath (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 3.6 crores – re-presented in accelerated auctionJalaj Saxena (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 20 lakhs – re-presented in accelerated auctionM Ashwin (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 20 lakhs – re-presented in accelerated auctionRuturaj Gaikwad (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Chennai Super Kings for INR 20 lakhsShubham Ranjane (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Rajasthan Royals for INR 20 lakhs – re-presented in accelerated auctionJoe Denly (Base price INR 1 crore) sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for INR 1 crore – re-presented in accelerated auctionB Ayyappa (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 20 lakhsShrikant Mundhe (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for INR 20 lakhs – re-presented in accelerated auctionManan Vohra (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Rajasthan Royals for INR 20 lakhs – re-presented in accelerated auctionAshton Turner (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Rajasthan Royals for INR 50 lakhs – re-presented in accelerated auctionRiyan Parag (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Rajasthan Royals for INR 20 lakhs

Unsold players

Manoj Tiwary (Base price INR 50 lakhs)Cheteshwar Pujara (Base price INR 50 lakhs)Alex Hales (Base price INR 1.5 crores)Brendon McCullum (Base price INR 2 crores)Chris Woakes (Base price INR 2 crores)Chris Jordan (Base price INR 1 crore)Naman Ojha (Base price INR 75 lakhs)Ben McDermott (Base price INR 50 lakhs)Rahul Sharma (Base price INR 50 lakhs)Adam Zampa (Base price INR 1 crore)Khary Pierre (Base price INR 50 lakhs)Fawad Ahmed (Base price INR 50 lakhs)Sachin Baby (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Ankit Bawne (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Armaan Jaffer (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Ayush Badoni (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Sheldon Jackson (Base price INR 20 lakhs)B Indrajith (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Anuj Rawat (Base price INR 20 lakhs)KS Bharat (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Arun Karthik (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Aniket Choudhary (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Ishan Porel (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Rajneesh Gurbani (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Chama Milind (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Tushar Deshpande (Base price INR 20 lakhs)J Suchith (Base price 20 lakhs)Yuvraj Chudasama (Base price 20 lakhs)Zahir Khan (Base price INR 40 lakhs)KC Cariappa (Base price INR 20 lakhs)R Sai Kishore (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Usman Khawaja (Base price INR 1 crore)Hazratullah Zazai (Base price INR 50 lakhs)Reeza Hendricks (Base price INR 50 lakhs)Shaun Marsh (Base price INR 2 crores)Saurabh Tiwary (Base price INR 50 lakhs)Hashim Amla (Base price INR 1 crore)James Neesham (Base price INR 75 lakhs)Angelo Mathews (Base price INR 2 crores)Rishi Dhawan (Base price INR 50 lakhs)Corey Anderson (Base price INR 2 crores)Parvez Rasool (Base price INR 50 lakhs)Jason Holder (Base price INR 75 lakhs)Luke Ronchi (Base price INR 75 lakhs)Mushfiqur Rahim (Base price INR 50 lakhs)Kusal Perera (Base price INR 75 lakhs)Glenn Phillips (Base price INR 50 lakhs)Vinay Kumar (Base price INR 50 lakhs)Kane Richardson (Base price INR 1 crore)Abhimanyu Mithun (Base price INR 50 lakhs)Morne Morkel (Base price INR 1.5 crores)Dale Steyn (Base price INR 1.5 crores)Praveen Dubey (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Qais Ahmad (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Satyajeet Bachhav (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Rilee Rossouw (Base price INR 1.5 crores)Daniel Christian (Base price INR 1 crore)Manpreet Gony (Base price INR 50 lakhs)Ali Khan (Base price INR 40 lakhs)James Pattinson (Base price INR 1 crore)Himanshu Rana (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Lewis Gregory (Base price INR 40 lakhs)Vishnu Vinod (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Patrick Brown (Base price INR 40 lakhs)Jaskaran Singh (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Sandeep Warrier (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Fabian Allen (Base price INR 50 lakhs)Sikandar Raza (Base price INR 75 lakhs)Sairaj Patil (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Swapnil Singh (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Lalit Yadav (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Laurie Evans (Base price INR 40 lakhs)Jamie Overton (Base price INR 40 lakhs)Akash Parkar (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Karn Kaushal (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Mayank Dagar (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Zeeshan Ansari (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Kedar Devdhar (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Tanmay Mishra (Base price INR 20 lakhs)Aman Khan (Base price INR 20 lakhs)

Former England Women’s captain Charlotte Edwards is giving the USA Women’s squad a leg-up in their preparation for the ICC Europe this summer by visiting Texas this week to run a women’s coaching camp.

Peter Della Penna14-Apr-20173:20

‘There’s a real hunger in USA for female coaching’ – Edwards

Former England Women’s captain Charlotte Edwards is giving the USA women’s squad a leg-up in their preparation for the ICC Europe T20 Qualifier this summer by visiting Texas to run a women’s coaching camp.”Part of what I’m over here for is to help prepare them, talk to them about T20 cricket,” Edwards told ESPNcricinfo. “I’ve had a little bit of a chat with the girls around the strategy behind it. I’m just trying to help them as much as I possibly can in preparation for that tournament, which is huge for them.”Edwards arrived in Texas last Saturday and worked the next day with six players of the women’s squad who were invited to join the USA men’s team at a high-performance camp last weekend at Moosa Stadium in the south Houston suburb of Pearland. She has remained in Pearland to conduct a four-day camp that began on Thursday and is specifically targeted for 30 women’s squad players to train during the Easter holiday weekend.This isn’t the first interaction Edwards has had with the USA women’s squad. She was part of the inaugural MCC women’s tour to North America in September and played a couple of matches against USA women in Philadelphia, including one at the historic Merion Cricket Club. At the time, Edwards had said she would be interested in making future visits to stay involved with the USA women’s programme and has followed up on her pledge by coming to Texas this week.”I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the MCC here in Canada and the United States,” Edwards said. “For me, I just saw a passion for learning and wanting to be better and I think there was just a hunger here for obviously some female coaching. I’m a person of my word and I said I’d come back.”Back in September, that opportunity wasn’t there then and it’s great. Once I heard that they’ve got that opportunity to play in a T20 Qualifier, it’s enormous.”Edwards says she has already noticed improvements in the women’s players since her first visit and is hoping to do what she can on this trip to enhance their tactical skills and match awareness, identifying those as key areas for improvement. She believes women’s players in the USA are disadvantaged in tactics simply by lack of match opportunities at club level – there are approximately 100 women’s players registered nationwide – to be able to test out methods and learn from experience.”There’s many things I kind of want to help with,” Edwards said. “I think growing their awareness of the game and obviously having played a lot myself, hopefully I can pass on a lot of advice and experiences that I’ve been through. Upskilling them, that’s always important. Working on their skill development, giving them options especially in terms of the batting. I think that’s where probably I’m hopefully going to be a real asset to them.”We’ll be doing a lot of scenario work. They obviously don’t get that much chance to play cricket so we’ve got to create that as much as we can over the four-day camp which I’m really excited about.”Charlotte Edwards arrived in Texas last Saturday and worked the next day with six players of the women’s squad•Peter Della Penna

USA women’s captain Nadia Gruny said she was eager to work with Edwards again after their initial meeting in Philadelphia last year. Gruny was one of the six women’s players invited to the men’s camp last weekend and said that Edwards had already begun to make a difference from day one of her interactions with the half-dozen members of the USA Women’s squad, offering unique insights on the women’s game that the players were unable to get from other coaches.”We worked with her last September and seeing her again in April, it’s quite a lot of months, but at the same time it feels like there is some continuation; it doesn’t feel like it was a long time ago,” Gruny said. “Having Charlotte with us, we’re able to relate to her a lot better because she’s a woman player and she understands many of the nuances of the women’s game that may be different to the men’s game.”For example, women that haven’t as much strength as most of the men, the pace of the spinners, what to expect from the bowlers in a typical women’s game. So just being able to relate to us with our game specifically has been a big help.”When asked about the possibility of joining USA’s coaching staff in a formal capacity for the T20 Qualifier, which is scheduled for August 12-20 in Scotland, Edwards said she would have to decline due to her commitments in England’s Kia Super League. But she is keen to pass along whatever she can before then, starting with this week’s camp in Texas. The eagerness of the players to soak up tips is a major reason why Edwards said she is offering her support to the USA Women’s team.”I think they’re just growing in confidence the whole time,” Edwards said. “I think the opportunities they’re now getting in terms of being [at the men’s national camp] for the week, they’ve loved it. They’re relishing all the opportunities they’re getting and they’re improving.”What stood out to me is we were doing a really good fielding session with Trevor Penney and just their resilience, their real hunger to want to be better and I think that’s something you can’t coach. Them willing to take stuff they’re learning in the nets into the match situations. I just think they’re growing in confidence all the time which, hopefully, they’ll just continue to do that.”

Justice AP Shah, who was appointed as the BCCI’s ombudsman to deal with conflict of interest, will also handle all investigations involving charges of misconduct against BCCI administrators

ESPNcricinfo staff27-Nov-2015Justice AP Shah, who was appointed as the BCCI’s ombudsman to deal with conflict of interest, will also handle all investigations involving charges of misconduct against BCCI administrators said its president Shashank Manohar. He added that any punishment thereafter would be determined by the board.The 67-year old Shah is a former Chief Justice of Delhi and Madras High courts. He was appointed as the first-ever BCCI ombudsman last month as Manohar, in his second term as board president took a stance against the issue of conflict of interest and said Shah would “enjoy the complete freedom and authority like the judicial body.”However, since Shah is an ombudsman he would not have the power to oust a BCCI official. “Even with regard to the administrator, the enquiry (should there be complaints of indiscipline, misconduct against him) would be conducted by the ombudsman,” Manohar told the . “He will submit his report. Because the administrator is a board member, he cannot be removed by the ombudsman. So the Board has to take a call and I don’t think when the ombudsman gives a report holding a person guilty, the board would say that ‘No, no, he’s not guilty.’ He will have the last word in conflict of interest issues, but with regard to the administrator, he will submit a report.”Manohar said having an independent authority conduct a probe against an administrator, a disciplinary panel comprised of BCCI officials, would remove the perception of bias. He even presented the case of former IPL chairman Lalit Modi, who was banned by the BCCI in 2010.Incidentally Manohar was the BCCI president at the time and part of the three-man disciplinary panel that handed Modi the ban. “There should not be even an allegation of bias. In the earlier system three people used to sit on the disciplinary committee; the president was a must with two other members of the board. In Lalit Modi’s case, he raised an objection against me that I have a bias against him. Then he raised an objection against Arun Jaitley also and then he raised an argument of bias against Chirayu Amin also. I am not going to give an opportunity to any administrator to say this is a biased enquiry. So now the enquiry will be conducted by an independent person who has nothing to do with the Board.”

Middlesex have signed New Zealand left-armer Mitchell McCleneghan as a mid-season replacement for Kyle Abbott in the NatWest Blast

ESPNcricinfo staff19-May-2015Middlesex have signed New Zealand’s left arm paceman Mitchell McClenaghan, as an overseas replacement for Kyle Abbott in this season’s NatWest T20 Blast campaign after Abbott’s spell with the club expires at the end of June.McClenaghan is currently playing for the Mumbai Indians at the Indian Premier League, where he is among the leading wicket takers in the competition, with 14 at an average of 22.50.He will be in contention to make his NatWest T20 Blast debut for Middlesex against the Sussex Sharks at Lord’s on July 2 and will be available for the final six group matches of Middlesex’s NatWest T20 Blast campaign.McClenaghan did not have an impressive stint at Lancashire in T20, but his stock has risen on the back of some skilful, wholehearted displays with Mumbai Indians and his figures have given Middlesex additional confidence that he can answer their needs.Middlesex’s managing director of cricket, Angus Fraser, commented: “Replacing one high quality overseas fast bowler with another was not easy but we have managed to do this with the signing of McClenaghan.”Mitchell’s style, left arm fast, gives him a point of difference and his skill has allowed him to take wickets wherever he has played. We look forward to welcoming him to Lord’s at the start of July, for what we hope will be six important and exciting games.”

Pakistan returned home to a rousing welcome after winning the ODI series against archrivals India and drawing the Twenty20 series 1-1

Umar Farooq07-Jan-2013Pakistan returned home to a rousing welcome after winning the ODI series against archrivals India and drawing the Twenty20 series 1-1. Large throngs of people waited outside the Lahore International Airport to greet the team on their success in the historic tour.Pakistan, after dominant performances throughout the series, came close to taking the ODI series 3-0 in Delhi. But India fought back and avoided what would have been their first whitewash since 1983-84. Pakistan, however, flourished throughout the series and were, distinctly, the better side.”The significant part of the series was the young lot stood up to take the team’s veins,” Misbah said. “Throughout the series, the young and new players contributed in the victories.”I will give credit to the whole team but there were few youngsters like [Mohammad] Irfan, Junaid [Khan] and Nasir Jamshed – who have really impressed. They have proved themselves against world’s best batting line-up and have outclassed them. They have a bright future and if they continue to perform like this, they will go way forward.”Nasir Jamshed, 23, led the batting with consecutive centuries in Chennai and Kolkata and ended up as the leading run-getter in the series with 241 runs. His Man-of-the-Series-winning performance helped him climb 45 places in the ODI rankings to a career-best 31st.”It was the great tour for me not because I have scored runs but the centuries I scored helped my team to win the matches,” Jamshed said. “Riding on my current form I would like to continue the runs feast in the upcoming South Africa tour.”Mohammad Hafeez, the T20 captain, too had a magnificent series. He became the number one allrounder in ODIs following success with both bat and ball in the series.”It was series we have been waiting desperately,” Hafeez said. “The team played with full focus and proved how good we are. It’s the victory of the whole nation and the highlight of the series were the trio – Irfan, Junaid and Nasir.”As the team, along with the PCB chairman, Zaka Ashraf, emerged at the arrival gates, the chants of Pakistan Zindabad (Long live Pakistan) and the beats of traditional drums resonated in the chilly winter evening. In a brief ceremony at the gates, Ashraf garlanded both the captains – Misbah-ul-Haq and Mohammad Hafez – and said that it was a special win beating India in India.”It’s a unique honor for us that we defeated India in their own country,” Ashraf said. “Our team is very disciplined and organised, the way our captains have performed, I think they deserve congratulations from everyone in the country. The way they have fought in India, they deserve appreciation.”

Stuart Broad found himself in a familiar position for England captains – trying to explain a calamitous display against spin bowling

David Hopps in Colombo23-Sep-2012Stuart Broad found himself in a familiar position for England captains – trying to explain a calamitous display against spin bowling – as his side, dismissed against India for 80 in 14.4 overs, registered England’s lowest total in Twenty20 internationals.”It doesn’t change our destiny a huge amount – we still hop on a bus to Kandy in the morning,” Broad said. “It is not like tomorrow is going to be a different day. It is not as if we have to go home or anything.”It was understandable, indeed it was necessary, that Broad found consolation in the fact that both sides had already qualified for Super Eights and that, for the sake of their travelling supporters, England and India were already locked into matches in Pallekele (near to Kandy) or Colombo respectively, irrespective of whether they finished first or second in the group.But that underplayed the psychological effect that a defeat of such magnitude will have on a relatively untried England batting line-up that had grown in confidence during the warm-up matches but which collapsed spectacularly when faced by the first real test against significant opposition.As Broad had mentioned destiny, he did bring to mind Freud’s theory of repetition compulsion – a psychological phenomenon in which a person (or in this case the England cricket team) repeats a traumatic event, or its circumstances, over and over again.Freud’s theory says the patient does not remember anything about what he has forgotten or repressed, but just acts it out until the end of time, which is a depressing thought for when England next face spin bowling in Asia as well as an intriguing challenge for the team psychologist. The alternative, of course, would be to listen instead to Mushtaq Ahmed, the spin bowling coach, and start hitting the ball down the ground.”Our error today is we lost early wickets,” Broad said. “Spinners always enjoy bowling to new batsmen. We talked the other day about how we need to hit straight and hard and today to lose the first couple of wickets across the line was a bit disappointing. Hitting straight was a much better option than going across the ball.”England’s display was so woeful that when they lost their ninth wicket at 60 they were in danger of recording the lowest score in T20 internationals, undercutting Kenya’s 67 against Ireland. Somehow, they avoided that. But this was their heaviest defeat, by runs, in T20 internationals.There was no alibi for the batsmen and Broad was not about to give them one. There was no sharp turn – there may be as the tournament progresses so if England do reach the semi-finals and face India once more at Premadasa it could be worse – and India’s 170 for 4 was, at most, 10 over par so the target did not demand the impossible.”I don’t think the wicket turned massively to be honest,” Broad said. “The guys getting out said it was just skidding on a little bit. There was a little bit of turn, Harbhajan bowled very nicely with his top-spinner going well but no, I don’t think it was a raging turner or anything.”We made it easy for India in the end. We will have to learn from our mistakes and there were some pretty clear ones in the batting line-up. Young guys seem to learn pretty quickly.”He did not entirely exonerate the bowling, where England suffered in this match by giving Tim Bresnan a run out as a fourth seamer, in defiance of a dry pitch, because of their conviction that the ball will seam and swing in Pallakele and he will play in their opening Super Eight tie against West Indies or Ireland on Thursday as a result. The fielding was also scrappy by England standards, but these were details compared to the car crash of a batting performance.”I think we were a little bit sloppy in places: we had a few soft twos in the outfield,” Broad conceded. “We didn’t hit our lengths as well as we could up front. But I think it was the lowest first-innings score on this ground so far in the tournament. We thought it was very chaseable. The wicket was pretty flat, although it didn’t have the pace in it that it had the other night.”It will be interesting to see what the Pallakele wickets offer. There has been talk that in the Sri Lankan Premier League it seamed around a bit. We knew it was a bit dryer at the start but we wanted to try a different balance of side with the four seamers in a game that we could afford to lose. It was a risk that we took and it didn’t help us.”Sunil Gavaskar, the former India captain, was quick to point out England’s deficiencies. “This is a sorry display from England,” he said. “There’s been a lack of footwork, application and the will to stick around and fight it out.” It was accurate enough but England regard Gavaskar as a serial critic; perhaps this is a comment that will be heading for the dressing room wall.

The Bangladesh allrounder Shakib Al Hasan took a career-best 7 for 32 to send woeful Middlesex spinning to a remarkable 111-run defeat at Lord’s and keep Worcestershire firmly in the County Championship Division Two promotion race

10-Sep-2010
ScorecardThe Bangladesh allrounder Shakib Al Hasan took a career-best 7 for 32 to send woeful Middlesex spinning to a remarkable 111-run defeat at Lord’s and keep Worcestershire firmly in the County Championship Division Two promotion race. Middlesex, set 178 to win when Worcestershire were bowled out after an hour’s play on the final morning for 256 in their second innings, crumbled to 66 all out in 31.1 overs.Shakib took three wickets in an over at one stage, and the turn he got from the wearing surface was just too much for the Middlesex batsmen. Only the first-innings centurion Owais Shah, with 25 in his final innings for the county, seemed to have any idea of how to flourish against Shakib’s left-arm spin – until, that is, he holed out to mid-on.Gareth Berg was then caught at slip two balls later, pushing forward, and the last ball of Shakib’s sixth over saw Tim Murtagh slice a wildly optimistic drive to point. That burst left Middlesex reeling at 54 for 7, but they had already been in deep trouble. Alan Richardson, playing against the county he left at the end of last season, had struck twice with the new ball while Shakib had removed Dawid Malan just before lunch and Dan Housego just after the interval.Richardson had John Simpson lbw for a first-ball duck during his opening over, before angling one across Scott Newman to have the left-hander caught low down at second slip by Daryl Mitchell in his fifth over. Malan, having scored the single which completed his 1,000 first-class runs for the season, fell for 2 when he moved across his crease and had his leg stump clipped as he missed an attempted flick off his pads.Housego was lbw on the back foot as he tried to defend against Shakib, and Shah’s rush of blood – which produced a simple catch to Jack Shantry – merely hastened the end as the Middlesex lower order surrendered with barely a whimper.Toby Roland-Jones was lbw to Shakib, going back to a well-flighted ball when he should have been forward, and Neil Dexter – the home side’s last hope – was brilliantly caught for 21 by Vikram Solanki at backward short leg off Moeen Ali’s off-breaks. Fittingly, Shakib picked up the final wicket when Steven Finn attempted a mow to leg but succeeded only in skying a catch to wicketkeeper Ben Cox.The day had begun with Worcestershire just 116 ahead on 195 for 7 in their second innings and when Moeen fell for 81 – having added just 10 to his overnight score – and Shantry quickly followed for a duck, caught at the wicket off Pedro Collins, it seemed as if the match was going Middlesex’s way.But Gareth Andrew more than doubled his overnight 34 by going to 73 with some cleanly-struck blows and Richardson hung around to help him add an important 34 for the last wicket.Yet the victory target still seemed well within Middlesex’s reach – until Shakib began to weave his web of destruction. Worcestershire are now at home to Sussex in next week’s final round of Championship matches, and could yet pip Glamorgan for the second promotion place.

Mohammedan bundled Gazi for 40, edged past Sheikh Jamal but were no match for Abahani

Mohammad Isam06-Apr-2024

Key takeaways</h2Abahani Limited romped to nine successive victories in the Dhaka Premier League after trouncing old rivals Mohammedan Sporting Club and Legends of Rupganj to top the points table after week three. Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club and Mohammedan remain second with seven wins each, while Gazi Tyres Cricket Academy suffered two massive losses.Bowling dominated play this week as only two teams crossed the 250-run mark while there were 12 hauls of four wickets or more. Left-arm quick Abu Hider took 7 for 20 – the second best List-A figures in Bangladesh history – to bundle Gazi Tyres for 40 in 12 overs. Mohammedan chased the total down in 6.2 overs with nine wickets to spare.

Best batters – Anamul tons up, Mohobbot shines on debut

Parvez Hossain Emon remained the top run-getter despite three low scores. Meanwhile, his Prime Bank team-mate Tamim Iqbal breached the 400-run mark this week. Sheikh Jamal’s Saif Hassan, Abahani’s Anamul Haque and Brothers Union’s Abdul Mazid struck hundreds.Anamul struck his 15th List A century, an unbeaten 107, with seven fours and four sixes, spanning 118 balls, to help Abhani beat Gazi Group Cricketers by seven wickets. Gazi Tyres’ opener Mohobbot Hossen Roman struck 63 off 47 balls on List A debut against Rupganj Tigers at a strike rate of 134.04.

Best bowlers – left-arm pacers rule

Left-arm quicks Hider, Maruf Mridha and Ruyel Miah are now the top three wicket-takers in the DPL. Hider overtook Maruf with his seven-wicket haul to climb to the top of the tally, while Ruyel’s second five-wicket haul, against Gazi Tyres, earned him a spot among the top three.

Best match – Saif’s resilience can’t take Sheikh Jamal over the line

Before a defeat against arch-rivals Abahani and a big win against Gazi Tyres, Mohammedan started the week by beating Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club by five runs in Fatullah.Defending 200 runs, Mohammedan’s bowlers didn’t allow Sheikh Jamal to settle. Saif kept them going with a half-century but retired hurt after 33 overs – 60* at the time – due to cramps. He returned in the 44th over and remained 84* off 120 balls but couldn’t finish the job. Kamrul Islam Rabbi was the bowler who kept him down and successfully defended 14 runs in the last over.

Points to ponder

There’s no stopping Abahani who crushed Mohammedan with 90 balls to spare. If they win the last two games of the first phase, it will be tough for the rest of the Super League teams to topple them.City Club finally won a game but there was no such luck for Rupganj Tigers who remain winless in eight games. After winning two games last week, Gazi Tyres got hammered this week: 84 all out against Gazi Group Cricketers and 40 all out against Mohammedan. The latter is the second lowest List-A total in Bangladesh.

Players to watch – Saif Hassan

Saif’s all-round skills came to the fore this week. He made 115 and took 2 for 44 against Prime Bank, apart from his three-wicket haul against Legends of Rupganj, both in winning causes. Mahidul Islam Ankon is the only uncapped player among the top run-getters in this year’s DPL. The Mohammedan wicketkeeper-batter has struck six fifties in nine outings so far, and looks primed for some time in the Bangladesh A side in the coming months.

Glamorgan allrounder will serve until February 2025, having succeeded Daryl Mitchell in 2021

ESPNcricinfo staff08-Feb-2023James Harris, the Glamorgan allrounder, has been re-elected for a second term as chair of the Professional Cricketers’ Association.Harris, 32, took over from the previous incumbent Daryl Mitchell in 2021, and will remain in the post until February 2025 – the maximum four-year stint permitted by the PCA’s constitution.”Being re-elected is a huge honour,” Harris said. “I’ve really enjoyed the first two years. Having an extra two years will be brilliant and I’m really looking forward to pushing through some meaningful change in my second term.”Harris’ first term coincided with the sport’s recovery from the Covid pandemic, and in addition to representing the organisation in Parliament, at the DCMS Select Committee hearings, he has also overseen the PCA’s increased commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.iAs a Director of the Professional Cricketers’ Trust, he also helped raise funds for the PCA’s charitable arm by cycling over 1,000km to and from Cardiff, via Headingley and Lord’s.”The PCA has a huge role to play in the evolution of the game worldwide, we need to make sure that we’re moving forward with the game, keeping pace with the game, because there’s so many opportunities to play around the world in different tournaments which wasn’t available 10 years ago,” Harris said.”I think with the opportunity for players to travel and improve their game around the world, there really is no better time to be a professional cricketer than right now and I can only see that trending in one direction as we move forward.”PCA Chief Executive, Rob Lynch, said: “I’m really pleased that James has been elected by his peers to take on a second term as Chair of the Association.”A lot has happened in the world of cricket in the last two years and James has been as been at the forefront of the change in England and Wales.”I’m looking forward to continuing our strong working relationship and strategic planning for the next two years is already under way in this crucial point in the history of our game. With key priorities assessed to ensure we continue to champion the interests of professional cricketers in this country, we will be updating our members in the coming weeks through the AGM, Rookie Camp and pre-season meetings with all 26 domestic squads.”