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Nepal captain Paras Khadka has said that his team will play the same brand of cricket against Bangladesh which earned them an 80-run win over Hong Kong

Mohammad Isam in Chittagong17-Mar-2014

Nepal will face Bangladesh on Tuesday evening, but the two teams go back a long way, all the way back to 1996 when Nepal played their first ever cricket match, when both of them were Associate Nations. During the ACC Trophy in Kuala Lumpur that year, Nepal lost to their World T20 Group A opponents by a margin of a faster run-rate.Their paths have crossed at other levels of cricket: Under-15s, Under-17s, Under-19s, Under-21s, their women’s teams as well as the blind cricket teams of the two nations. But that ACC Trophy game was of utmost significance as it happened 50 years after the Cricket Association of Nepal was formed, and started their journey.Paras Khadka was too young to remember the particulars of that game but like most cricket fans in Nepal, they have followed the Bangladesh team on TV.”We have watched every player on TV and now we are playing against them,” Khadka said. “So we are looking forward to it. We get all the TV channels that you get here. More than pressure, it is an opportunity. We should not be thinking too much about being explosive. We should take it nice and slow, build it up.”Their 80-run win over Hong Kong in their World T20 debut was widely followed back home. Large crowds gathered in Durbar Squares in the capital Kathmandu, while the result was the front-page lead in several newspapers.On Tuesday, they will have another opportunity to gather their fans in front of large screens when they take on Bangladesh in their second Group A game in Chittagong.Khadka said that one of the biggest motivations for the team had been the support from back home, here in Chittagong and from the Nepal fans everywhere.”I think that (the fans) will be the next cover photo on my Facebook page,” Khadka said. “It was amazing, the kind of response we are getting back home. I think we have had this from the time we have qualified for this tournament. The interest has always been there, it is not that we have qualified and people are following us.”Every time we play in our home ground, there are 15-20,000 people who support us. People getting into a square and watching the game, such photos really motivates us to do better. The biggest factor for all our cricketers is for the fan following and passion. So we want to do well for the people and ourselves.”But the Nepal team hardly had the time to celebrate their win over Hong Kong, and Khadka added that they treated it like any other win over their Associate opponents. “There was no party. By the time we reached the hotel it was midnight. I think it is more about being happy to do well.”We have been playing against Hong Kong regularly, so it was another win. Of course it came in our debut match, but we didn’t want to be too overjoyed. We want to continue from what we have done yesterday and move forward.”Khadka is impressive on and off the field, and is perhaps the perfect ambassador for cricket in Nepal. He led the team very well against Hong Kong and has now stressed on the need for his players to play the same brand of cricket, against much stronger opponents. He is confident that they will play more comfortably, and will be geared up for a good contest.”We will play the cricket that we know. We can’t change anything. We are here to compete. We are not here for participation. Everybody is keen to do well. The nervousness of the World T20 debut is gone. We have managed to win well, but we have to start from scratch, from ball one.”We need to think positive.”

Zaheer Khan has said that dismissing New Zealand for 105 was one of the best collective Indian bowling efforts he has been part of

Abhishek Purohit in Auckland08-Feb-20140:00

‘Brilliant slip catches made the difference’ – Zaheer Khan

Zaheer Khan said the events of the third day had left the momentum of the Test with India•Getty ImagesZaheer Khan has said that dismissing New Zealand for 105 was one of the best collective Indian bowling efforts he has been part of. The performance brought India back from a first-innings deficit of 301, and Zaheer said the visitors had gained the advantage, having ended the day on 87 for 1 in their pursuit of 407.”Definitely one of the top spells we have bowled as a unit,” Zaheer said. “Brilliant performance by the bowlers. As a bowling unit we clicked. It was a collective effort. That is what is crucial when we get teams out for low totals. Last time I remember was in Trinidad in 2001, (when) we had a similar kind of innings where all the bowlers chipped with three wickets. That was a collective effort.”Ishant Sharma was the most successful of the Indian bowlers with a match haul of nine wickets, and Zaheer said it was good to see him convert his experience of 54 Tests into results. “He has come a long way. It is important that he picks up wickets. He has been around for a while. Definitely has the potential to create that impact at this level and happy that he is among the wickets.”Backing up the bowlers were Ravindra Jadeja and Ajinkya Rahane, whose sharp catches accounted for the key wickets of Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor. India had dropped a few in the first innings, and Zaheer said it was crucial they held them this time. “Important thing was brilliant catching as well in the slip cordon. We held our catches and that really made a difference.”India’s lengths were also different to the ones they bowled in the first innings. Their fast bowlers had overdone the short ball as New Zealand racked up 503 but the lengths were fuller in the second innings. Zaheer said different strategies were at work both times. “That was the plan in the first innings. We wanted to be aggressive as a bowling unit,” he said. “Bowling bouncers was one of our plans. In the second innings we went in with the approach that we have to focus on bowling areas and that really worked for us.”Zaheer said the pressure created by the Indian attack, and not the Eden Park pitch, was the reason for New Zealand’s capitulation. “Pitch is looking good. What really got to them was the pressure I guess and some disciplined bowling by our bowlers. I don’t think the pitch has changed a great deal. In fact, it has got better, if at all.”The pitch did not offer much as the ball got older. It was the new ball that produced wickets in the first three innings, and Zaheer said it was crucial to make it count. “With the Kookaburra ball, it is important to get those early breakthroughs and with the new ball there is always a bit more help. It is good that we have seen off the new ball today and tomorrow hopefully will be a better day for us.”India survived the new ball for the loss of only M Vijay and Zaheer said they were in front now. “Definitely. The momentum is with us and we will look to capitalise on that. It was important that we have a good start, which we got today. So it’s important to start well tomorrow morning.”

Fourteen overs spread over three sessions is not much to go by but Varun Aaron’s furious seven-over burst before lunch against Mumbai was another indication that his comeback from a long injury layoff is progressing well

Abhishek Purohit in Mumbai07-Dec-2013Fourteen overs spread over three sessions is not much to go by but Varun Aaron’s furious seven-over burst before lunch against Mumbai was another indication that his comeback from a long injury layoff is progressing well. Aaron returned to first-class cricket after two years this Ranji season following his recurrent back troubles. Into his fourth match, he’s taken 13 wickets at an average of 20.30. More heartening than the numbers was the pace, bounce, seam and swing he generated in those seven overs before lunch that claimed Wasim Jaffer and Sushant Marathe.Aaron was unplayable at times during that spell, straightening the ball on a tight line around off stump and getting it to climb sharply. He also slipped in the surprise yorker, nearly claiming Siddhesh Lad after making him think a short ball was forthcoming with a short leg in place. Often, deliveries took off from good length and flew high into the keeper’s gloves.”I think the first spell was very fast,” Shahbaz Nadeem, the Jharkhand captain, said. “I was standing at point and there were one or two deliveries that I could not spot at all. I saw them being released and then straight in the hands of the keeper. He bowled even quicker against Karnataka. If Varun is in rhythm, the nature of the pitch does not matter to him. What he did in the first spell was tremendous. The first two wickets were very important for us.”This wasn’t a helpful pitch, as Mumbai’s seamers had discovered and their keeper Aditya Tare admitted. To beat as good a batsman as Jaffer with pace and bounce on the cut needed some effort. “That [Aaron’s spell] shook us,” Tare said. “Wasim is a big batsman and in good form. That was a big wicket. The pitch isn’t all that great for a fast bowler and is kind of slow. But he bowled quick. But I think Umesh [Yadav] bowled a bit quicker [for Vidarbha in Mumbai’s previous game].”Aaron was used quite sparingly after lunch. He bowled two spells of two overs each in the second session and sent down only three overs after tea. Given his frequent breakdowns, Jharkhand did not want to extend their premier fast bowler as he seeks to rebuild his career. Aaron also did not go flat out like he had before lunch.”He is returning from injury after two years,” Nadeem said. “He is not a bowler who can bowl long spells. He is a bowler who will come for three-four overs and bowl quick. He requires more effort. In the two overs he bowled after lunch, he saw that the ball was not swinging. So I suggested that you stop and I’ll try the other bowlers.Nadeem did not think Aaron was holding himself back at all. “He goes all out each time he plays a game,” he said. “This season, every game he’s delivered spells where you can see he’s bowling quick and is on top of the batsmen. But as your shoulders tire, you automatically slow down. You lose your freshness. A fast bowler cannot bowl 145-146 kph every spell in days’ cricket. It can happen in one-day cricket, but in days’ cricket the second and third spells will come down to 140-141.”As long as Aaron can deliver a similar, energetic spurt on the third morning, Jharkhand will be glad to manage his workload for the remainder, if any, of the Mumbai innings.

A round-up of the Group A matches of the Ranji Trophy that took place on December 9, 2013

ESPNcricinfo staff09-Dec-2013
ScorecardGoa offspinner Amit Yadav finished with 7 for 69 in the second innings – his best figures in first-class cricket – to bundle Assam out for 208, and help the visitors to a comprehensive 10-wicket win in Guwahati, by virtue of which they also earned a bonus point. It was the second time in three matches that Yadav had taken seven in an innings, continuing an impressive return after a one-year ban for bringing the game into disrepute.Assam, who began the day at 31 for 4, needed another 128 runs to avoid an innings defeat, but they suffered an early blow when Niraj Patel was trapped lbw by Yadav for 5 in the 22nd over. Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad, who top scored with 67 after a rearguard first-innings effort of 101*, briefly stopped the slide by putting up stands of 86 and 59 for the next two wickets with Dheeraj Jadhav and Abu Nechim respectively, but once he fell in the 71st over, the team folded for 208. Harshad Hanumant Gadekar and Shadab Jakati chipped in with a wicket each, as they and Yadav ran through an Assam line-up in which seven of their batsmen fell for single digits.Goa needed just 50 runs for their second successive victory, and they achieved that paltry target inside 10 overs, without losing a wicket. As a result of the win, Goa have now gone ahead of Assam to fifth in Group C, with 15 points from five matches.
ScorecardMaharashtra picked up six points and moved to second place in the Group C table after beating Jammu and Kashmir by nine wickets in Pune. J&K added 106 to their overnight 333 for 6, thanks largely to Parvez Rasool’s unbeaten 64, and set Maharashtra a target of 124. It took the hosts only 26.2 overs to get there, with the loss of one wicket, as Harshad Khadiwale motored to an unbeaten 74 with 13 fours.J&K began the day 17 ahead with four wickets in hand, and lost their seventh after adding 16 to their total, Shrikant Mundhe dismissing Samiullah Beigh for 23. The wicket broke a 49-run seventh-wicket stand between Beigh and Ram Dayal that had defied Maharashtra for 29.5 overs. Mundhe struck again in his next over to have Dayal trapped lbw for 32. Waseem Raza then put on 36 with Rasool before Mundhe bowled him to complete his five-for. Last man Mohammed Mudhasir lasted 27 balls and helped extend J&K’s lead from 80 to 123 before he was bowled by legspinner Bharatkumar Solanki for 7. Rasool remained unbeaten on a 65-ball 64, having struck seven fours and two sixes.
ScorecardLeft-arm spinner Tushar Saha chipped in with wickets at regular intervals during his 57 overs, but Hyderabad’s ninth-wicket pair defied Tripura’s quest for first-innings points at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium with an unbroken 48-run stand that consumed 30.2 overs. Replying to Tripura’s 650, Hyderabad finished on 566 for 8 and the sides took a point each from the drawn match.Hyderabad started the day 258 for 1, with Akshath Reddy on 138 and Ravi Teja on 90 and added 250 runs for the second wicket. Reddy was stumped for 149, but Hyderabad continued the scoring as Hanuma Vihari put on 131 for the third wicket with Teja before being bowled by offspinner Viki Saha for 55.Hyderabad, at this stage, were 411 for 3. Over the course of the next 35 overs, they lost five more wickets – including that of Teja for 175 – while adding 107 to their total. Tushar took four of those five wickets, and when he had Alfred Absolem caught by KB Pawan for a duck, Tripura had two wickets in hand and most of the final session to survive.They did just that. Amol Shinde remained unbeaten on 35, having faced 96 balls in 126 minutes, 104 of which were spent in the company of No. 10 Lalith Mohan, who made 15.

Eoin Morgan, the England batsman, has signed up to play for the Sydney Thunder at Australia’s Big Bash League

ESPNcricinfo staff16-Oct-2013Eoin Morgan, the England batsman, has signed up to play for the Sydney Thunder at Australia’s Big Bash League. Morgan will join Michael Hussey and David Warner as the high-profile signings at the T20 franchise this year, for the league that begins on December 21.”I am really excited about getting the opportunity to join the Sydney Thunder for this season’s Big Bash,” Morgan said in a statement. “I have been a big admirer of the tournament and I’m looking forward to getting a chance to play in it.”Morgan, one of England’s premier limited-overs players, also plays in the IPL for Kolkata Knight Riders. He led a second-string England team against Ireland in an ODI recently, and in the one-day series against Australia following the 2013 Ashes. Morgan was not picked in England’s 2013-14 Ashes squad, and would most likely be on national duty only in the lead-up to the limited-overs series that starts on January 12.He tweeted about his keenness to work with Michael Hussey, who will lead the Thunder in the absence of Michael Clarke – away on national duty for the England Tests.

I'm delighted to announce that I have signed for Sydney Thunder @ThunderBBL Really looking forward to playing under Mike Hussey.

— Eoin Morgan (@Eoin16) October 15, 2013

Hussey was brought over from the Perth Scorchers, in a bid to revive the struggling Thunder – the team has won only two matches over the past two seasons. Warner, meanwhile, had re-signed with the Thunder after a season with their cross-city rivals, the Sydney Sixers. He had played the inaugural season for the Thunder, before leaving them after a dispute with the general manager John Dyson.

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‘Vamos em busca de um triunfo, sem nenhuma dúvida. Lutaremos muito para sairmos deste jogo com uma vitória, o que nos ajudaria muito na sequência da temporada. Enfrentaremos um grande adversário, que está motivado para chegar à final também. Não podemos vacilar. Temos que imprimir nosso ritmo de jogo para vencer’, disse.

Segundo o o defensor, o elenco tem lutado para evoluir na temporada e melhora a cada partida que disputa. A expectativa é que o time chegue forte no Brasileirão.

‘O elenco está em um ritmo forte, fazendo bons jogos e melhorando semana a semana seu rendimento em campo. A tendência é melhorar ainda mais nos próximos jogos. Vamos lutar muito para chegar na melhor forma física no Brasileirão’.

Australian cricket faces years of difficult times ahead until the nation’s domestic competitions can again be relied upon to provide effective preparation for young batsmen and spin bowlers. This grim view was not shied away from by Cricket Australia’s team performance manager, Pat Howard, as he sifted through the wreckage of the 347-run defeat at Lord’s, which has left many wondering how such a result could be possible two years after the Argus review highlighted many of the problems on display.In a frank discussion of what appears a dire medium-term forecast for the national team, Howard defended his decision to sack the former coach, Mickey Arthur, and replace him with Darren Lehmann a mere two weeks before the start of the Investec Ashes series. He also agreed with an emotional James Pattinson’s assessment that the lack of rest afforded the bowlers by an inept first-innings batting display at Lord’s had contributed to his back stress fracture.But the major conclusion Howard was prepared to draw from Lord’s was that problems in the Australian game will take years to remedy, requiring even stronger alignment between the states and CA to strengthen the club and Sheffield Shield competitions that have been left in disrepair while Twenty20 dollars have been chased with far more vigour than adequate grounding for Test match cricketers.”When Australia and Australia A play over the same weekend and the highest scores were Glenn Maxwell and Moises Henriques getting 60s and 70s [in Zimbabwe], our ability to bat a long time needs to improve,” Howard said. “We need to work with the states to enforce that message around batting for a long time and batting with patience. Making sure Sheffield Shield cricket goes into the fourth day so we start getting footmarks, we start getting spinners bowling more in the Shield so they get used to that as well.”There’s a big process there to get right, and it’s going to take time. I definitely need to work with the states to get this to a point where the Shield prepares players for Tests even better. We would love lots more people scoring big hundreds at home. Only two people got three hundreds in Shield cricket last year, Ricky Ponting and Chris Rogers. One of them is here and one you know plenty about, so the system has got to help provide that.”A minor victory for CA’s high-performance regime in their battle with the marketing and programming side of the governing body’s Melbourne office is a change to the 2013-14 summer, which will see the domestic limited-overs competition played as a whole early in the season, before a run of six consecutive Shield matches leading up to the final two Tests of the summer. The Big Bash League then takes hold until mid-February.”I am happy about the fact it is not going Shield, one-dayer, Shield, one-dayer – there are six games of red-ball cricket in a row at the start of the season,” Howard said. “No interruptions, no trying to hit it over the top, people are going to have to be patient and spinners will get some time to get wickets. I am hoping we will reinforce over that period the discipline of red-ball cricket. It’s an opportunity for the coaches to drill in those messages.”On the matter of Arthur, Howard said he did not retreat for one moment from the call to install Lehmann, on a basis the South African has described as “totally unfair”.”When you sit there and look and have conversations, and there were plenty of articles written about what was right and what was wrong, you knew there was something that needed to be dealt with,” Howard said. “It was dealt with and you make decisions not just for one week or two weeks but you make them for a period and who’s going to best galvanise the side. I don’t want to go into that particularly, but who was going to get the best out of this group, that was a simple decision.”Obviously there is a legal issue going. I can’t comment on that. But it’s never nice when you get moved on. It’s happened to lots of people. It’s never nice. On the ground it’s not affecting the players. They’ve moved on, gone on and feel galvanised with this group. Even though there are two Tests we lost, was one close, the other we didn’t play well enough, clearly … I don’t move away. It was the right decision.”

Chennai Super Kings coach Stephen Fleming has said he was “perfectly happy” with where MS Dhoni batted in the IPL final against Mumbai Indians and stated that the captain batted at No. 7 because he was there to win the game for the team

ESPNcricinfo staff27-May-2013Chennai Super Kings coach Stephen Fleming has said he was “perfectly happy” with where MS Dhoni batted in the IPL final against Mumbai Indians and stated that the captain batted at No. 7 because he was there to win the game for the team.Chasing 149 at the Eden Gardens, Super Kings were reeling at 3 for 3 within the first 10 balls, as they lost Michael Hussey, Suresh Raina and S Badrinath. But captain Dhoni came out to the middle only in the seventh over when they had lost two more wickets, of Dwayne Bravo and Ravindra Jadeja, with the score on 36, with Mumbai in control of the game.”He has a role to play,” Fleming said. “He was left not out at the end after recovering a pretty poor innings but the strength of the side is that we have key players that come in at key times and if you’ve watched most of the season you would have seen that.”Despite being unbeaten, Dhoni ran out of partners as wickets kept falling and the asking rate kept rising. His 45-ball 63, including five sixes, wasn’t enough as Super Kings fell short by 23 runs.”He is there to win the game for us,” Fleming said. “We have other players that should have put us in a position to win. They didn’t do that so he had to recover the situation. And hence he went in when he did. But I’m perfectly happy with where he batted.”Super Kings won 11 out of 16 league matches this season and won more matches than any other team away from home. But their franchise was affected by off-field issues after their top official, Gurunath Meiyappan, was arrested by Mumbai Police.”We actually had a pretty good IPL,” Fleming said. “It was…trouble-free up to the last week, [but] we as a team played very well. We’re usually inconsistent but we were probably the most consistent we’ve ever been and even in that semi-final we played well and deserved to be at the top.”I guess as a coach it’s very satisfying that we were able to maintain an element of consistency in a long and topsy-turvy tournament. But we just got through a lot in the last week and we didn’t respond that well and we would have loved to have responded well on the field but we were outplayed so hats off to Mumbai.”Super Kings played their fourth consecutive IPL final, and their fifth overall, but failed to get their hands on the trophy, like last year. Admitting to a lacklustre display in this year’s final, Fleming was keen to set the record straight next time.”Last year we lost when we played well, this year we lost playing poorly, well the batting side of it was poor. We’re still proud of making five out of six finals but we’d like to have won four out of five or three out of five, for sure. The fact that we won two is great but this certainly hurts and the goal now is to get into this situation again and try and rectify it.”Fleming was lavish in his praise for Mumbai’s bowling which routed Chennai to 39 for 6 in the eighth over. “I thought [Lasith] Malinga bowled an outstanding spell,” he said. “He took the new ball for them, which he hasn’t done for a while and they looked desperate. It was almost like they knew they were short of runs, that it was only a par score.”We just had to get through that first spell and it was something in the short break that we talked about and look with Mike Hussey, he got probably one of the best balls of the IPL and that certainly gives any side a lift and he has the same effect on us.”

Ryan Harris, the Kings XI Punjab fast bowler, has returned to Australia from the IPL after being diagnosed with an Achilles tendon injury

Amol Karhadkar25-Apr-2013Ryan Harris, the Kings XI Punjab fast bowler, has returned to Australia from the IPL after being diagnosed with an Achilles tendon injury. Harris left India on Tuesday, the night before he was named in Australia’s squad for the Ashes in England this summer.Harris, 33, had played in Kings XI’s first three games of the season before sustaining the injury. Once the nature of his injury was ascertained the Kings XI management, in consultation with Cricket Australia’s medical team, deemed it fit for Harris to return to Australia.If Harris’ rehabilitation goes as planned, he could recover well in time for the Ashes. “Harris has been ruled out for six to eight weeks, so it was best for him to be released and recover at home,” Arvinder Singh, the Kings XI chief operating officer, told ESPNcricinfo. “We will name his replacement in a day or two.”Harris has a history of injuries and this latest setback is unlikely to go down well in Australia. After missing most of the domestic season, Harris had recovered in time play three Sheffield Shield games. His haul of 19 wickets in those matches for Queensland earned him a place in the Ashes squad, which is being touted as Australia’s weakest since the 1980s.

West Indies captain Merissa Aguilleira’s unbeaten 34 helped the team clinch a narrow two-wicket win off the last ball against Sri Lanka

ESPNcricinfo staff01-Mar-2013
ScorecardWest Indies captain Merissa Aguilleira’s unbeaten 34 helped the team clinch a narrow two-wicket win off the last ball against Sri Lanka in the first of the three Twenty20s. In a match in which only four batsmen got into double-digits scores, Aguilleira’s innings turned out to be the difference.Sri Lanka chose to bat, but were in trouble soon as they lost their top five with only 39 on the board. They struggled the most against Shakera Selman, who had figures of 2 for 14, and Shanel Daley, who didn’t get a wicket but gave away only 10 runs in her four overs. Only two of Sri Lanka’s batsmen – Eshani Kaushalya and Dilani Manodara – got into double figures and helped the team crawl to 87.West Indies’ innings followed the same pattern as Sri Lanka’s for the most part. They were reduced to 27 for 4 after Kaushalya picked three wickets in her first three overs. Stafanie Taylor scored a vital 25 and when she was out with 29 runs still needed, the match hung in balance. Aguilleira saw three more wickets go down at the other end, but held her end and hit a boundary off the last ball when they required two runs.