There are plenty of professional cricketers who live with their heads in the sand. Most followers of the game would argue that the well-rounded Ed Cowan is not one of them. But Cowan has forced such a mindset upon himself since becoming a Test cricketer, trying his best to ignore criticism from past players and journalists, avoiding Twitter and the often mindless condemnation that it facilitates between...
Pune stadium to remain Warriors' host
Pune Warriors' IPL 2013 home matches will be held at the stadium at Gahunje on the outskirts of the city it has been confirmed, despite the ongoing dispute between the Sahara Group - which owns the Warriors franchise - and the Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) over the title rights of the stadium. The BCCI working committee was informed at a meeting in Mumbai on Friday that the Warriors' owners...
Steyn available for English T20
Dale Steyn, the South Africa fast bowler who tops the world Test rankings, is available to play Twenty20 cricket this summer after the end of the Champions Trophy. Warwickshire were offered first refusal for Steyn, who enjoyed a successful stint at Edgbaston in 2007, but they have chosen not to go ahead, leaving the way open for other counties to consider the option. At a time when England's FLt20...
NZ follow-on after Broad's six
Tea New Zealand 254 (McCullum 69, Watling 60, Broad 6-51) trail England 465 by 211 runs.Live scorecard and ball-by-ball details Stuart Broad, looking sharp and contented again, ripped out New Zealand's tail to finish with six wickets and secure a first-innings lead of 211 for England by tea on the third day of the second Test. Alastair Cook faced a tricky decision about whether to enforce the...
Mar
15
Brendan Taylor rues batting failure
Brendan Taylor, the Zimbabwe captain, rued his team's performance with the bat in the first Test in Barbados, where West Indies won comfortably by nine wickets. Several Zimbabwe batsmen, including Taylor, squandered starts in the first innings to post just 211 on the first day, and then collapsed in the second innings to be bowled out for 107. "It was a tough Test, we let ourselves down in the first...
BCCI to meet about massive tax bill
Friday will be a busy day at the Cricket Centre - the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai - with a host of meetings lined up. The most important will be the working committee meeting to discuss the income tax department's recent notice, and there will also be an IPL-centric conference. The tax authorities had slapped a Rs 2300 crore notice (approx. $433m) on the Indian board following a change in the BCCI's...
Swann surgery 'uncomplicated' - ECB
Graeme Swann is on course to return to action early in the English season after undergoing elbow surgery in the United States. The ECB described the operation in Rochester, Minnesota, during which bone fragments were removed from the elbow, as "uncomplicated" and said Swann will now begin a six-eight week recovery period, which gives him a timescale of returning to cricket in May. England's first...
Prior takes England to 465
Tea England 465 (Trott 121, Compton 100, Prior 82, Pietersen 73, Martin 4-130) v New ZealandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Put any score on the board, on any pitch, in any country and Matt Prior will find a reason to counter-attack. New Zealand fought back with bags on endeavour on the second day at Basin Reserve, but it all came to naught as Prior advanced his reputation as one of the...
Mar
14
South Africa focus on improving yorkers
Barring their superior performance in the second Twenty20 of the tour, Pakistan have not given South Africa many lessons to learn. It is a Pakistani fast bowler, though, that South Africa bowling coach Allan Donald is holding up as an example to his charges, because he wants them to emulate his exemplary ability to endanger toes. "It's Wasim Akram," Donald said in Centurion, where the team regrouped...
Scotland slump again to Dawlatzai
Scotland 125 and 144 for 9 (Dawlatzai 5-37) trail Afghanistan 275 by six runsScorecard Scotland ended day two battling to avoid an innings defeat after a second slump with the bat against Izatullah Dawlatzai. He added a second five-wicket haul to take Afghanistan to the verge of victory with Scotland still six runs away from forcing a fourth innings. Dawlatzai added 5 for 37 to his first-innings...
Big wins for Karachi, Abbottabad
Group A In Ghari Khuda Bakhsh, Karachi Dolphins crushed Bahawalpur Stags by ten wickets in a one-sided contest that lasted just 26.2 overs. The defeat left the Stags at the bottom of the points table. Batting first, the Stags couldn't find any momentum in their innings. The openers put on 22 runs, which turned out to be the most productive partnership, and they kept losing wickets thereafter....
Compton and Trott lay strong platform
Tea England162 for 1 (Compton 73*, Trott 68*) v New ZealandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Brendon McCullum must be ruing his luck - ruing his good luck, that is. He won the toss in Cape Town in January, chose to bat and saw New Zealand demolished for 45. He won it again in Wellington against England today, had a bowl instead and by tea could not avoid the realisation that he had blundered...
Mar
13
'I'd love to add to my one Test cap' - McLaren
Ryan McLaren's Test debut was memorable but not for anything he did. He was included in South Africa's all-pace attack that was tasked with squaring the series against England in early 2010. They did the job emphatically and bowled England out for under 200 twice to ensure South Africa won by an innings and 74 runs. The nature of the victory may suggest McLaren played some sort of role but his...
Joyce and Porterfield punish UAE
Ireland 272 for 2 (Ed Joyce 99*, Porterfield 82, Stirling 61) v United Arab EmiratesScorecard Ireland dominated the opening day of their Intercontinental Cup match against United Arab Emirates in Sharjah thanks to an unbeaten 99 from Ed Joyce and half-centuries from the openers, William Porterfield and Paul Stirling. The openers were cautious against a spin-heavy attack after they were put in to...
Afghanistan take lead after bowlers dominate
Afghanistan 150 for 4 lead Scotland 125 (Taylor 48*, Dawlatzai 6-57) by 25 runsScorecard Izatullah Dawlatzai took career-best figures of 6 for 57 to dismiss Scotland for a paltry 125 in the Intercontinental Cup in Abu Dhabi. After Afghanistan chose to field, Mirwais Ashraf dismissed both the openers in his first five overs and Dawlatzai ran through the Scotland batsmen after that, starting with a...
New Zealand facing a test of their stamina
Match facts March 14, 2013Start time 10.30am (2130 GMT) Big Picture Had the first Test been decided on a points decision, there is little doubt that most judges would have awarded it to New Zealand. After bowling out England for 167 - their lowest first innings score since 2009 - the hosts replied with 460 to take a first innings lead of 293; their third highest against England in completed...
Mar
12
Clarke sure friendships will endure
Michael Clarke is confident there will be no backlash against him from the four players axed for the third Test in Mohali over their failure to complete a task assessing themselves and the team. One of the four men dumped, Clarke's vice-captain Shane Watson, flew home to be with his pregnant wife after the suspension was announced but he also said he would use his time at home to reassess his cricket...
More work to be done before draw - Mushfiqur
Mushfiqur Rahim was wary of the work still ahead for Bangladesh to achieve an encouraging draw in the first Test in Galle, after the visitors amassed their highest-ever total of 638 in the first innings. Mushfiqur and Mohammad Ashraful provided the backbone of the mammoth innings with a 267-run fifth wicket partnership, in which both men eclipsed the previous highest score by a Bangladesh batsman....
Otieno, Karim set up Kenya stroll
Kenya 228 for 4 (Karim 65) beat Canada 227 for 8 (Gunasekera 72, Raza-ur-Rehman 70, Otieno 4-33) by six wicketsScorecard Kenya beat bottom-side Canada after completing a comfortable run chase with 14 balls to spare. There were solid contributions from all of the top order, opener Irfan Karim top-scoring with 65 for his maiden ODI half-century, after Elijah Otieno's four wickets helped restrict...
Scotland, Netherlands get ICC funding
Scotland and Netherlands have each been awarded a grant of $1.5m over the next three years as part of the ICC's Targeted Assistance and Performance Programme (TAPP). They are the second and third Associate Members, after Ireland, to benefit from the initiative, which is aimed at increasing the level of competition in international cricket. Both Cricket Scotland and the Netherlands board will receive...
Mar
11
Misbah ponders all-round failure
A batsman to see off more than half the overs, bowlers who could continually apply pressure, and committed fielding on the biggest ground in South Africa, is what Misbah-ul-Haq felt he needed in Bloemfontein. In other words, "everything went wrong," and he admitted as much. Everything from selection - Pakistan were a seamer short - to the toss, where AB de Villiers was happy Misbah sent him in, to...
Australia's batsmen must 'go against instincts'
Australia's batsmen must find a way to ignore their instincts if they are to have success in India, the team's batting coach Michael Di Venuto has said. Australia's captain Michael Clarke said after the Hyderabad Test he had been disappointed by the number of players who were out to cross-bat shots or hitting against the spin early in their innings, and the coach Mickey Arthur was angry at the sweeps...
Bracewell ruled out of second Test
Doug Bracewell has been ruled out of the second Test against England after failing to recover from the foot injury that kept him out of the Dunedin match. Ian Butler, the Otago seamer, has been retained in an unchanged 13-man squad for the Wellington Test which starts on Thursday. Mike Hesson, the coach, said a decision on Bracewell's fitness will be taken closer to the third Test in Auckland, which...
Haddin called in as cover for injured Wade
Brad Haddin could be in line to play his first Test in more than a year after Cricket Australia confirmed he would fly to India to be on standby for the injured Matthew Wade. Haddin was due to leave Australia on Monday to join the squad after scans revealed Wade had suffered a sprained right ankle while playing basketball with team-mates and support staff in Chandigarh on Saturday. Although Wade...
Mar
10
Anamul regrets throwing away disciplined start
Anamul Haque regrets the timing of his dismissal in his debut Test innings, but is hopeful that Mohammad Ashraful and Mominul Haque could take Bangladesh ably forward in the Galle Test. At the end of the second day, the visitors were two down and needed another 236 to avoid the follow-on. The third-wicket pair had added 70 runs by the close, Ashraful moving swiftly to 65. The team would hope for...
Sailkot go top after Amjad ton
Group A A maiden century by Mansoor Amjad took Sialkot Stallions to a five-wicket win - and thereby top of the points table - over Multan Tigers in Ghari Khuda Baksh. Multan's innings of 234 revolved around Sohaib Maqsood's 91. The rest of the batting, though, couldn't last long enough to provide him much-needed support. Wickets fell regularly after a second-wicket stand of 96. From 122 for...
Finn shines as England close in on draw
Tea England 382 for 4 (Finn 56*, Trott 10) and 167 lead New Zealand 460 for 9 dec by 89 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Steven Finn excelled in a new role as nightwatchman by striking a maiden Test fifty as England made steady progress towards saving the first Test in Dunedin. By tea on the final day, England had a lead of 89 with six wickets remaining, the job as good as done....
Ankle injury puts Wade in doubt for third Test
Australia wicketkeeper Matthew Wade is in doubt for the third Test after hurting his ankle while playing basketball in Chandigarh on Saturday. Brad Haddin has been placed on standby for Wade, pending the result of scans on Sunday morning, four days before the start of the Test. "Matt Wade sprained his right ankle playing basketball yesterday afternoon," Australia physio Alex Kountouris said. "His...
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