A combination of injuries and illnesses compelled Pakistan into fielding a pace attack with only two Tests worth of experience in Centurion. It gave their bowling coach Mohammad Akram insight into their resources - a look into the future - and he said he was "pretty satisfied" with what he saw, although there are some concerns. The most obvious issue is that the 19-year old debutant Ehsan Adil may...
Could have been more ruthless - Henriques
As he walked out to bat in his first Test innings, Moises Henriques felt like his legs were made of jelly. The first-afternoon pitch looked like something that had been played on for a full five days already. R Ashwin was spinning Australia into a trance. Wickets were falling much too quickly for their liking. Plenty of fans and pundits back home had questioned the selection of Henriques, not that...
Shafayat ton rescues Tuskers
Mountaineers 475 for 7 (Lamb 157, Maruma 105*) and 13 for 0 drew with Tuskers 298 (Shafayat 67, Nyumbu 65) and f/o 312 (Shafayat 152, Williams 83)Scorecard Tuskers, helped by a defiant century by Bilal Shafayat, held Mountaineers for a draw after following on at Mutare Sports Club. Trailing by 134 runs at the start of the fourth day, Tuskers faced a tough task of saving the match with seven wickets...
Unplayable Finn lays platform for England
25 overs New Zealand 67 for 5 (Finn 2-6) v EnglandScorecard If occasionally knocking over the bowler's end bails can be deemed a weakness, it is the only blemish against Steven Finn at the moment. His new, shorter, run up is designed to address that issue and it has taken none of the pace and aggression away from him, qualities which again were too good for the New Zealand top order as England...
Feb
22
Fresh start for cricket-starved Zimbabwe
Match facts February 22, 2013Start time 0930 local (1330 GMT) Big picture Think of a match involving Zimbabwe in 2012 and you could be forgiven if you failed to recall a single one. Bizarrely, Zimbabwe played just eight internationals in total (three ODIs, four T20s and a Test), losing all, in a forgettable year. Their last one-dayer was 11 months ago, on the tour of New Zealand. They...
Australia calm despite Hyderabad blasts
Cricket Australia has denied reports the team will refuse to travel to Hyderabad for next week's second Test after bombings in the city on Thursday night. The two blasts, which killed at least 11 people, came on the eve of the first Test in Chennai and nine days out from the second Test in Hyderabad. Although it is too early to determine whether the second Test will be shifted to a different venue,...
Rankin hopes to reach Test heights
Being big and bad has helped many bowlers to a successful Test career and Boyd Rankin hopes his main selling points can help him become the next. At 6ft 7in, Rankin is brushing shoulders with contemporaries whose ability to look down on others has helped them into Test cricket. Steve Harmison, Chris Tremlett and Steve Finn have all recently been picked for England on their height and aggression (at...
BBL chief McKenna's dual roles under spotlight
Mike McKenna's contentious dual role as Cricket Australia's chief of commercial operations and custodian of its disciplinary codes is expected to be placed under the spotlight as part of the former AFL executive Adrian Anderson's review of CA integrity. While McKenna's job as CA's commercial head and executive in charge of the Big Bash League is not in question, ESPNcricinfo understands there have...
Feb
21
Tiger Pataudi 'liberated Indian cricket' - Gavaskar
Mr. N Srinivasan (president, BCCI), Mr. Wally Edwards (chairman, Cricket Australia), David Richardson (chief executive, ICC), chief executives of the Australian and Sri Lankan Cricket boards, Michael Clarke and the Australian cricket team, Mahi [MS Dhoni] and the Indian team, some of my former team-mates and other former cricketers, ladies and gentlemen. That was the easy part. Now comes the difficult...
Langer hopes to halt Hogan deal
Justin Langer, the Western Australia coach, will do "everything he can" to stop Michael Hogan joining Glamorgan for the English season. Hogan, a 31-year-old fast bowler, is set for a move to Glamorgan on a two-year deal as a British passport holder. The contract requires him to forego playing as a domestic cricketer in Australia. But Langer is desperate to keep him in Perth, describing him as a...
Sialkot go top after innings win
Karachi Blues 265 (Zaman 64, Haroon 61, Irshad 5-81) and 121 for 2 (Zaman 61, Rehman 47) beat Lahore Ravi 175 (Akmal 56) and 209 (Mirza 70, Akmal 54, Anwar 5-61) by eight wicketsScorecard With an all-round performance, the Karachi Blues secured an eight-wicket victory against Lahore Ravi at the Gaddafi Stadium. Lahore, after being put into bat, stumbled to 6 for 3. After a 48-run stand for the...
Gavaskar stresses primacy of Tests
Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar has called for balanced pitches to make sure Test cricket remains the prime format of the game. He said the shorter formats might be good for the globalisation of the game and might provide financial security to the players, but Test cricket remained the pinnacle. Gavaskar was speaking at the inaugural annual MAK Pataudi lecture in honour of former India captain,...
Feb
20
SA triumph in straightforward D/L chase
South Africa Under-19s 157 for 4 (Fortuin 62) beat England Under-19s 205 for 8 (Velani 78, Jackson 62, Sigwili 4-34) by six wickets D/LScorecard South Africa moved a step closer to a series whitewash with a six-wicket victory at Stellenbosch but their run chase was given a generous donation by the Duckworth-Lewis method. The game's second interruption for rain came as South Africa required 84 to...
Dhaka's different match-winners
Shakib Al Hasan and Mosharraf Hossain, two stars of Dhaka Gladiators' 43-run win against Chittagong Kings in the final of the BPL, faced dissimilar questions after the victory, for both are at different stages of their careers. Shakib was asked questions about cars he had won, and what makes they were. Mosharraf, the 31-year-old left-arm spinner, faced questions on stage fright, playing with stars...
Warner confident of playing first Test
David Warner is preparing to bat with a splint - and through pain - in the first Test in Chennai as he continues his recovery from a fractured thumb. Warner faced pace bowling in the nets on Tuesday and was due to take part in a full fielding drill on Wednesday in what was effectively the final hurdle he needed to clear to prove his fitness after sitting out of cricket since he was struck on the thumb...
NZ steady after early Anderson blows
25 overs New Zealand 89 for 2 (Taylor 37*, Williamson 32*) v EnglandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Ross Taylor, beginning to find form after his self-imposed international exile, and Kane Williamson dragged New Zealand up from an uncertain start on a good batting pitch in Napier, after Alastair Cook had won the toss and chose to bowl. James Anderson and Steven Finn applied a chokehold...
Feb
19
India lack BCCI support - Connor
Clare Connor, the ICC women's committee chairman and former England Women's captain, has blamed the BCCI for India's poor showing at the Women's World Cup. India finished in seventh place after failing to qualify for the Super Six stage with just one victory from the group phase. Connor has said the team did not receive the support they deserved from their board. Connor is now head of women's cricket...
Baroda win thriller after Yusuf ton
West Zone Yusuf Pathan found his touch again with a typically aggressive 116, off only 102 balls to help Baroda overhaul Saurashtra's 299 at the Poona Club Ground, but it was a tense affair with Baroda getting there by one wicket. It was a terrific knock under pressure as Baroda were in trouble at one stage at 29 for 3 and later 127 for 5. Jyot Chhaya joined Pathan at the fall of the fifth wicket...
Dhaka Gladiators vie for second title
Match Facts February 19, 2013Start time 1800 (1200 GMT) Big Picture Dhaka Gladiators will play with a Chris Gayle-sized hole in their line-up for the final. But credit to the make-up of their team. They take on Chittagong Kings, against whom they first lost a match before winning one. It is shaping up to be a close contest as the Kings have picked up momentum at the right time, but the Gladiators...
Ajantha Mendis takes 11 in innings win for Army
Army Sports Club strengthened their position atop the Group A ladder, while Tamil Union and Sinhalese Sports Club moved to the top of the Group B table, after the third round of the Premier League Tournament. Army recorded their second innings victory on-the-trot ,against the Lankan Cricket Club, while SSC took first innings points in their clash with NCC. Tamil Union won by eight wickets for the...
Feb
18
Semi-final postponed after washout
Chittagong Kings v Sylhet Royals - Match abandoned without a ball bowledScorecard Heavy rain in Mirpur from Sunday afternoon forced the semi-final of the BPL between Chittagong Kings and Sylhet Royals to be shifted to Monday. The match will now be contested from 6:00pm, according to the BPL governing council secretary Ismail Haider Mallick. The unseasonal rain began on Saturday evening, and even...
'Australia's technique found wanting' - Tiwary
Manoj Tiwary sounded the first unofficial salvo of an otherwise far 'kinder, gentler' run-up to an India-Australia series in a long time when he said that a good number of Australian batsmen had been "wanting" in their technique against the India A spinners on day two of their three-day practice match at the ICL Guru Nanak College Ground in Chennai. Tiwary, a free-spirited batsman, became the second...
De Kock's hundred gives Lions opening win
Lions 185 for 1 (De Kock 126*, Bodi 40) beat Cape Cobras 183 for 5 (Vilas 63, Phangiso 3-31) by nine wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Quinton de Kock starred with an unbeaten 126 as the Lions beat Cape Cobras to register an opening win in the tournament in Potchefstroom. The Cobras had set a target of 184, but their chances of winning the game were quickly quashed by a 124-run opening stand...
My dismissal the turning point - Misbah
Just as a captain is supposed to, Misbah-ul-Haq went down with his ship, as Pakistan lost the Newlands Test in four days, and with it the series. He went as far as to say he was responsible for their downfall, a brave but necessary admission from a leader who should not bear all the blame but was willing to do so. On 114 for 3, Pakistan were 100 runs short of what many thought would have been a total...
Feb
17
England short again as SA seal series
South Africa Under-19s 270 for 8 (Oldfield 82, Smith 49*, Shaw 3-45) beat England Under-19s 260 for 9 (Tattersall 83, Shaw 52, Valli 3-33) by 10 runsScorecard South Africa Under-19s held their nerve in another close finish to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the series. England again fell marginally short in their chase, despite a 48-run partnership in less than five overs for the ninth wicket...
West Indies want to win it for their people
"We have a strong belief in God. He works in mysterious ways. He performs wonders." Darren Sammy said that at an emotional press conference after West Indies had made an unbelievable comeback in the final to win the 2012 World Twenty20 in Colombo. Four months later, these could easily have been the words of Merissa Aguilleira before West Indies' maiden Women's World Cup final appearance, made possible...
Derbyshire announce 2012 profit
Derbyshire have announced a profit of £23,310 for 2012, a further sign that the club is in good health ahead of their return to Division One of the Championship. The club have generated a surplus for the second year running - and the sixth in seven - despite a wet summer that caused financial headaches for several counties. Derbyshire recently revealed plans to redevelop their Derby ground, with...
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