Match facts Saturday, November 2, 2013Start time 1330 local (0800 GMT) Big Picture The series couldn't have meant more differently to the two sides. It is tied 2-2, is headed into a decider in Bangalore, and what do Australia do? They take, Mitchell Johnson, self-admittedly their Man of the Series, and put him on a flight to Australia so he can present a case and prepare for the Ashes. India,...
Botham, Jayawardene open Murali Cup
Ian Botham and Mahela Jayawardene opened the 2013 Murali Cup in Kilinochchi on Friday, as the five-day tournament began in five venues across Sri Lanka's northern province. The Murali Cup aims to promote unity and reconciliation as well as the development of cricket, in the post-war regions of the country, by bringing men's and women's teams from the south to play sides from the north and east.
Jayawardene,...
Forrest ton earns Queensland points
Queensland 7 for 400 (Forrest 129, Hartley 89, Botha 4-103) lead South Australia 387 by 13 runsScorecard Peter Forrest made the ideal start to putting behind him the difficulties of his previous Sheffield Shield season with a hundred to earn Queensland first-innings points against South Australia on a friendly batting surface at Glenelg. Forrest and Chris Hartley, the captain who was laid low...
Kohli says proper technique behind his quickfire tons
Virat Kohli has said his two manic centuries within 13 days of each other - off 52 and 61 balls - were a result not of brute force but his solid technique. The two innings were instrumental in India's completing successful chases of 350-plus scores. India are the only team to have done so twice. "That's the main thing when you want to take on bowlers who're bowling at 150kph," Kolhi said. "If you...
Nov
01
Chetty fifty guides SA to win
South Africa Women 123 for 3 (Chetty 51*) beat Sri Lanka Women 119 for 4 (Madushani 63*, Kapp 1-15) by seven wicketsScorecard Trisha Chetty compiled an unbeaten 54-ball 51 to set up South Africa Women's seven-wicket win over Sri Lanka Women in the first T20. Set a target of 120, South Africa made a brisk start as openers Lizelle Lee and Chetty added 42 in nearly six overs, before Lee was dismissed....
NZ uneasy but focused on bigger goals, says Mills
Kyle Mills, the New Zealand fast bowler, has conceded that the series defeat to Bangladesh has made the team uneasy, but said the side is also focused on a long-term goal of the 2015 World Cup. New Zealand lost the second ODI in Mirpur by 40 runs to concede the three-match series to Bangladesh. The loss was also their sixth successive defeat against Bangladesh in completed matches, dating back to...
PCB without chairman until next court ruling
The PCB's ongoing legal existential crisis took another twist on Thursday when it emerged that Najam Sethi and the five-member Interim Management Committee (IMC) remain effectively suspended, until at least after the weekend. That meant, after a bizarre couple of days, that there was no current board chairman or any kind of body running board affairs. The confusion over the status of Sethi and the...
Bangladesh discover new match-winners
Bangladesh have moved on from a one-man show to a team that has a new performer on a daily basis. That they won yet another home series without Shakib Al Hasan shows their progressBangladesh won another home ODI series against a higher-ranked team by believing in their abilities. They batted first after winning the toss in Mirpur where, in late October, dew is already a major factor, particularly...
Oct
31
Venue allocation short on cricketing reasons
"Centralising venues" is a limp explanation for the curious fixture list for India's tour of South AfricaDuring South Africa's sporting isolation, the marquee fixture of the cricketing summer was a north-south derby: a first-class match between Western Province and Transvaal played in Cape Town over New Year's. There were times in the last few months when those fixtures were reminisced about with...
Tighter ship could balance IPL's post-Sahara losses
The loss of the Pune Warriors franchise will hurt the BCCI financially. But in a volatile market, an eight-team IPL may work in the board's favourThe BCCI's decision to pull the plug on Pune Warriors, the IPL's most expensive franchise, after its protracted stand-off with Sahara India Pariwar will doubtless affect the board's revenues but an eight-team tournament could also have some positives for...
Read drops one-day captaincy
Chris Read has committed his future to Nottinghamshire with a new two-year deal, but will hand over the limited-overs captaincy while retaining leadership of the Championship team. Towards the end of the 2013 season, when Nottinghamshire secured the Yorkshire Bank 40 title at Lord's and battled to avoid Championship relegation, Read had put talks about his future on hold. His batting form slumped...
Time to 'think about' new ODI rules - Dhoni
Until a couple of weeks ago, India had never chased down a target over 350. Now, they've done it twice in three completed matches. While India's chase of 351 against Australia in Nagpur on Wednesday featured more success for Shikhar Dhawan, another Virat Kohli special and helped the team draw level in the series with one to play, it left captain MS Dhoni questioning the new ODI rules once again. ...
Oct
30
Rain helped, but Rubel made the difference - Anderson
New Zealand allrounder Corey Anderson has said that the rain interruption in the first ODI worked in their favour but Rubel Hossain's hat-trick made the difference once play resumed. Rubel's six-wicket haul got Bangladesh off to a good start, and made sure they defeated New Zealand for the fifth time in as many completed games. "The rain actually brought it back to where we would have liked it,"...
Andy Pick resigns as USACA High Performance Manager
Andy Pick has resigned as USACA High Performance Manager after just two months on the job. The abrupt end to Pick's tenure comes in the wake of a USA men's national team training camp in Florida from October 18-20, during which a series of incidents occurred that Pick says were not in line with how a professional organisation should operate. At the top of the list of his reasons for stepping down...
Rubel gets his confidence back
Injuries and several underwhelming performances stood in Rubel's way in the past. Against New Zealand, the 'introvert' showed a different side to himselfRubel Hossain's international career of nearly five years has been one of constant ups and downs, the likes of which not many of his team-mates can relate to so early in their careers. The six-wicket haul and hat-trick which triggered the 43-run win...
Uncapped Babar replaces Steve Massiah
Steve Massiah, the former USA captain, will not be traveling with the team to UAE for the ICC World T20 Qualifiers, as he was unable to get time off work. Massiah, 34, was officially announced as part of USA's squad when the ICC unveiled the tournament rosters last week , but a USACA spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday that he had been replaced by the uncapped 21-year-old batsman Fahad Babar. Babar...
Oct
29
Venkatapathy Raju to work with UAE spinners
Venkatapathy Raju, the former India left-arm spinner, is currently on a 10-day visit to the UAE to help in the development of spinners in the country. Raju, now the Asian Cricket Council's (ACC) development officer for UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, and Thailand, is working with spinners at the Under-19 and senior level. "It is always a nice feeling to work with the younger cricketers," Raju told the National....
South Africa win 2-0 after rain abandons third ODI
Match abandoned Sri Lanka Women 164 (Atapattu 58, Kapp 3-38) v South Africa Women 2 for 0 in 1 overScorecard South Africa women won the three-match ODI series 2-0 as rain washed out the third match in Potchefstroom after the hosts's pacers reduced Sri Lanka to 164. Sri Lanka were asked to bat and got off to a slow and precarious start as they lost Yasoda Mendis for a duck in the second over to Marizanne...
No Glamorgan T20 deal for Jones
Simon Jones's prospects of extending his career in Twenty20 have been dealt a blow after he was not offered a contract for next season's NatWest T20 by Glamorgan. Jones, the 34-year-old former England fast bowler, retired from first-class and List A cricket at the end of last season but hoped to play on in the shortest format. But in domestic cricket, his future will not be in Cardiff as new chief...
Khawaja, Marsh, Doolan in Australia A squad
Usman Khawaja, Shaun Marsh and Alex Doolan will contend for Australia's Ashes No. 6 spot among the batsmen given an early sight of England through selection for Australia A in the tour match against the visitors at Bellerive Oval from November 6. The trio are part of a team that mixes potential Test aspirants with cricketers further back in the queue, after the selectors weighed up the merit of their...
Oct
28
Mohnish Mishra returns in style after suspension
As the Madhya Pradesh team was going through its warm-up drills at Holkar Stadium on Sunday morning, ahead of its Ranji Trophy season-opener against Railways, MP coach Mukesh Sahani noticed that Mohnish Mishra, the vice-captain, was stiffer than usual. Sahani wasn't surprised, since Mishra was marking a return to top-flight cricket after serving a one-year suspension imposed by the BCCI for having...
Sylhet wins, Cox's Bazaar misses out
The ICC has retained Sylhet as one of the venues for next year's World Twenty20, after being convinced by the BCB that the stadium will be ready in time. There is still some development work left at the stadium, but the extended deadline of November 30 is being seen as adequate time to complete the work. Sylhet has been given 28 matches, the most for one venue in this tournament, which includes 22...
Ontong blitz leads Cobras to victory
Cape Cobras 286 for 6 (Ontong 97) beat Titans 285 for 7 (Behardien 89, Davids 80, Williams 3-41) by four wicketsScorecard Titans pushed past a wobbly start to set up a competitive target, but Justin Ontong proved the difference, as his whirlwind 97 took Cape Cobras to a thrilling victory, their third in the Momentum One Day Cup. Set 286 to win, Cobras began solidly with Andrew Puttick and Dave...
Cricketer dies after blow to head
A 32-year-old former South African first-class cricketer has been killed after being struck on the side of the head during a Border Cricket Board Premier League match at Alice in the Eastern Cape. Darryn Randall was taking part in a match between Old Selbornians and Fore Hare University when he took the blow while attempting a pull shot and collapsed at the crease. He was rushed to Alice Hospital...
Oct
27
Du Preez, Ismail seal series for South Africa
South Africa Women 274 for 3 (Du Preez 79*, Kapp 72) beat Sri Lanka Women 207 for 8 (Siriwardene 68, Ismail 3-34)Scorecard South Africa Women took an unassailable 2-0 lead courtesy of three top-order half-centuries, as they beat Sri Lanka Women by 67 runs in the second ODI in Potchefstroom. Sri Lanka elected to field, but early breakthroughs were a difficult commodity as 21-year old Lizelle...
Ranji pitches and points system in focus
With another Ranji Trophy season set to begin, the familiar complaints about the quality of pitches and the points system are in the spotlight again. Too many sides are happy to roll out flat tracks and convert matches into first-innings batting shootouts. There were a few exceptions like Rohtak and Mohali, where bowlers enjoyed themselves last season, but in many other venues centuries came easily....
Haryana not overawed by Tendulkar factor - Jadeja
Ajay Jadeja, the former India allrounder, finds himself playing a part in what is likely to be Sachin Tendulkar's final domestic match and, while relishing the prospect of an unexpected encounter, says his team won't be overawed by the occasion. Jadeja, who came out of retirement to lead Haryana in the Buchi Babu tournament, and will now do the same against Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy, says he isn't...
All eyes on Delhi's Sehwag and Gambhir
Delhi: The Sehwag and Gambhir show? By Vishal Dikshit Where they finished last seasonAfter losing (3) more matches than they won (2), Delhi finished fourth in group B behind Uttar Pradesh, Baroda and Karnataka. Despite enforcing a follow-on against Vidarbha in their last match of the season, Delhi fell three wickets short of a quarter-final berth. Big PictureSince winning the title in 2007-08,...
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