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Laxmi Shukla and Shib Paul were the stars of the day as Bengal made it to their first semi-final since 2006-07, bowling out Railways for 222, for a 48-run win

The Report by Rachna Shetty in Kolkata12-Jan-2014
ScorecardBengal dropped four catches soon after lunch, but their bowlers still got them home•Abhijit AddyaThe end, when it came, was swift. Laxmi Shukla and Shib Paul were the stars of the day as Bengal made it to their first semi-final since 2006-07, bowling out Railways for 222, for a 48-run win. This is Bengal’s third successive win in the Ranji Trophy and they will now meet Maharashtra in Indore.Light rain and overcast skies in the morning forced a delayed start to proceedings and after two inspections, the covers finally came off around 8.55am and play began more than an hour after the scheduled start. Railways began needing 154 and as has been the trend, the first hour provided riveting action.Off the first ball of the day, Arindam Ghosh got a thick edge to a ball from Paul, which then beat third slip to run away for four. The overnight pair of Ghosh and Nitin Bhille, however, played out the first half hour steadily, before drama returned in the form of Ashok Dinda.He trapped Bhille lbw with his first ball. In strode a familiar opponent – Mahesh Rawat, who had struck six successive fours off Dinda in the first innings. This time, however, things were a little toned down. On his second ball, Rawat shuffled across the stumps and survived a close appeal off Dinda, and then got off the mark the next ball with a straight drive for four.Rawat was troubled a bit by Dinda’s short bowling and a few close lbw appeals, but Ghosh looked comfortable and it seemed the pair were settling down for their first-innings encore. Inspiration for Bengal, however, came in the form of their captain, Shukla, who has been a talismanic leader for them this season. In his second over of the innings, Shukla had Rawat playing on to his stumps and it was enough to revive the team and the thin Sunday crowd at Eden.Three overs later, came another bit of inspiration – Paul, one of Bengal’s senior bowlers, bowled an outswinger that Ghosh nicked to Saha. His war dance-like celebrations were justified. In three overs, Bengal had managed to dismiss two of Railways’ best batsmen, who had nearly 1400 runs between them this season.Before he fell, however, Ghosh had played an innings of equanimity, opting to grind it out, instead of using unnecessary flourishes. When he did play his strokes, however, except for that edge in the morning, they were well-timed and well-placed. His 50 off 107 balls had eight fours.What Railways needed then was some calm batting, but perhaps the inexperience of their side showed through. Jonathan Rongsen struck two successive fours through the leg side off Shukla soon after lunch, but two deliveries later guided the ball straight to midwicket.Bengal dropped four catches soon after lunch – within ten overs – but the advantage was still firmly in their corner. Karn Sharma then hastened matters by handing a simple catch to substitute fielder Arnab Nandi at gully, prompting the bowler Paul to break into his version of the Gangnam Style.Things, however, got a little tense as the ninth-wicket pair of Anureet Singh and Krishnakant Upadhyay played stubbornly. Anureet hit a few fours, but Bengal came back with the wicket of Upadhyay, caught at deep-ish midwicket through a soft dismissal. The next ball sealed the result for Bengal as Sourav Sarkar bowled Ranjitkumar Mali for a first-ball duck.

Tim Southee, the New Zealand fast bowler, has spoken of revenge being a part of their motivating factors ahead of the three-match ODI series against Bangladesh, after the 2010 series where they lost 4-0

Mohammad Isam26-Oct-2013Tim Southee, the New Zealand fast bowler, has spoken of payback being a part of his team’s motivating factors ahead of the three-match ODI series against Bangladesh starting on October 29. He is one of eight players in the current ODI squad who were part of the 2010 side that lost 4-0.There had been several questions about that result ahead of the Test series, which ended 0-0 on Friday. But now that the ODI series is the next segment of the tour, the question of revenge is more forthcoming. When asked about it after training on Saturday, Southee replied in the affirmative. “Yeah, I guess so. The guys who were here four [three] years ago would want to put that right, but we are concentrating on building a good one-day team. We are improving and we want to keep doing that.”It was disappointing. But there were a few guys here from that series. We have performed very well in the last few ODI series. The guys are well-versed with playing on the subcontinent, having played here recently on A-tours.”The other survivors are captain Brendon McCullum, Kane Williamson, Ross Taylor, Kyle Mills, Grant Elliott, Nathan McCullum and wicketkeeper BJ Watling.New Zealand’s other motivation is their recent ODI record. They have defeated South Africa and England in bilateral series, and have a set of players who have done well in the limited-overs format.But Southee is aware of Bangladesh’s progress too, particularly their series win against West Indies at home last year, and having drawn the ODI series in Sri Lanka.”The Bangladeshis have improved a lot in ODI cricket in the last few years and they are very good in their own conditions. We are definitely looking forward to it,” Southee said.The three-match ODI series begins in Mirpur on October 29, and the ground will also host the second ODI on October 31. The third ODI will be played at the Fatullah Cricket Stadium. The lone Twenty20 match will be played in Mirpur on November 6 to conclude the tour.

أعرب حمزة الجمل مدرب الإسماعيلي عن حزنه الشديد بسبب الخسارة أمام الأهلي بهدف دون رد مساء الأربعاء في الدوري المصري.

وقال الجمل في تصريحات لقناة “أون تايم سبورتس”: “حزين جدًا، كان يهمنا أن نخرج بنتيجة إيجابية، عملنا مع اللاعبين فنيًا ونفسيًا، لكن واجهنا الأهلي على ملعبه وأمام جمهوره، وبمعنويات كبيرة لهم”.

اقرأ أيضا..تسرع وتراخي وإهدار.. كولر يعدد سلبيات لاعبي الأهلي ويتحدث عن الصفقات ورحيل فتحي

وأكمل: “كنا نريد أن نخرج بنتيجة إيجابية، لكن هناك ضغوطات كبيرة على اللاعبين، أرى أن فريقي قدم الروح والأداء الجيد، لكن أيضًا واجهنا فريقًا كبيرًا”.

وواصل: “لا بد أن نطوي صفحة مباراة اليوم أمام الأهلي، ونركز في اللقاء القادم أمام الداخلية لنحقق النتيجة التي نريدها”.

واختتم: “لا نريد أن نفكر في سلبيات، كان يهمنا أن نسعد الجماهير التي جاءت من الإسماعيلية، أنا حزين جدًا، لكن إن شاء الله الإسماعيلية كلها ستقف على قلب رجل واحد في المباراة القادمة”.

وبات الأهلي في صدارة جدول ترتيب الدوري المصري برصيد 72 نقطة، حصدها من 28 مباراة، محققًا الفوز في 22 لقاء وتعادل بـ6 مواجهات دون أي هزائم.

وفي المقابل، يحتل الإسماعيلي المركز الـ13 في جدول ترتيب المجموعة ولديه 34 نقطة، جمعها من الفوز في 7 لقاءات والتعادل في 13 مواجهة، ولديه 12 هزيمة.

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That’s how you carve a win•BCCI

On a hot Sunday afternoon, two bowling attacks got into a contest of who could bowl worse. Mumbai Indians outdid their Delhi Daredevils counterparts by a comfortable margin, and handed Daredevils their first win in seven attempts this season.To give credit where it’s due, Daredevils were ordinary for a much shorter duration. They only let things go after they had reduced Mumbai to 24 for 2 in six overs, giving Rohit Sharma full toss after full toss to deposit into the stands, and conceding 161 runs. Mumbai’s Jasprit Bumrah and Munaf Patel, though, were poor from the start, letting the hitherto struggling Virender Sehwag and Mahela Jayawardene run away with the chase after which the duo regained their touch too.The match couldn’t have started more differently. After Mumbai finally split the faltering box-office opening combination of Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting, Daredevils’ left-arm bowlers stifled the top order on a slow pitch. Finally included, Roelof van der Merwe made the biggest difference, with the wicket of Dwayne Smith in the third over.Everything was going in Daredevils’ favour. They got the danger man Dinesh Karthik with a deflection from Umesh Yadav in his follow-through, and Tendulkar was struggling to strike at a run a ball. They somehow took Mumbai to 57 for 2 in 10 overs, but then the deluge started. Andre Russell, for some reason replacing Morne Morkel, began with a full toss for Rohit to hit a six. In the next over, Shahbaz Nadeem dropped Tendulkar.In between the odd classy shot and heave, Rohit kept getting his loose balls. In all, he was given five full tosses, off which he scored 20 runs and was holed out on the last. These were not yorkers gone wrong, these were knee-high full bungers. Around more ordinary fielding, Mumbai kept prospering, but this was nothing compared to what was to follow.Bumrah, of the strange action, might have been rescued by dodgy umpiring in the previous match he played, but his angle and his gentle pace and length bowling was fodder for the batsmen this time around. His first over finished, Bumrah went to short fine leg to drop Sehwag off Munaf Patel. It shouldn’t take away from how poor the delivery was: short, down the leg side, with the fine leg up in the circle.Munaf didn’t stop doing that in his first two-over spell, and was consistently picked away on the leg side past the short fine leg. While Bumrah paid for that wide angle, Munaf was penalised for not bowling to his fields, and their next overs yielded 17 each. At 50 for 0 after five overs, these two had smelled blood, and you don’t let Sehwag and Jayawardene smell blood. David Warner may have wondered why he didn’t face such bowling when he opened the innings.Matching each other shot for shot now, they carved through some of the better bowling, whipping Lasith Malinga, reverse-sweeping Harbhajan Singh, delighting the home crowd that has refused to stay away despite all the losses, becoming only the third combination in IPL to have registered two hundred-run opening stands.What chance did Dwayne Smith stand? In his second over, the 10th of the chase, Smith was carved away for four by Sehwag and paddled away for a six by Jayawardene. And that six, coming as early as it did, brought the asking rate down to a run a ball. No collapse, fashionable as it might be, followed and the remaining 63 were got in just 45 balls.

Lendl Simmons felt “free” during his match-winning innings on Saturday, an innings that guided West Indies to an easy win against Zimbabwe in the first Twenty20 in North Sound. Simmons was returning to the side after being left out of the preceding ODI series, and he said he relished compiling the knock of 63 not out.”I enjoyed my knock today, that’s the way I like to play. It was good coming back into the team. I was feeling like myself again,” Simmons said after the match. “I came into this game in good form and it was matter of me going out and expressing myself. Once I got myself set, I looked to bat as deep in the innings as I could.”Simmons had last played for West Indies on the tour to Bangladesh in December. After that he had a satisfactory Caribbean T20 for Trinidad & Tobago, finishing the tournament fourth on the overall runs charts with 182 runs at 30.33.On return, Simmons opened the innings and batted through, ending the chase of 131 with a straight six in the 17th over. After a couple of sixes in the Powerplay, he slowed down a bit, going from 18 off 13 to 26 off 31, before launching once again. His 63 runs came off 49 balls and included six sixes.”It is always nice to have a good understanding with your batting partner and [the other opener, Johnson] Charles said the small target could be tricky, so he said one of us should ‘go at it’. I said ‘let’s both go at it’ in the first six overs,” Simmons said. “The sensible thing to do was to go with the breeze rather than against the breeze, so I decided to target those boundaries.”Simmons, who has a career strike-rate of 69 in ODIs and 122 in T20s, said he knows he does not have a reputation as a big-hitter, but he trusts himself to dispatch the balls that suit him. “I am not seen as one of the power-hitters in the team, but when I get [bad] balls I know I can clear the boundaries. I decided to rotate the strike here against the offspinner [Prosper Utseya] and I said to [Dwayne] Bravo I would look to take the attack to the bowler at the other end [North End]. It worked for us today.”Dwayne Bravo was involved in an unbroken 85-run stand with Simmons, which took West Indies home with eight wickets and 23 balls to spare.Zimbabwe captain Brendan Taylor said his team’s below-par batting performance was “frustrating”. Zimbabwe have been struggling to get off to solid starts with the bat all tour, with a top opening stand of 39 in four limited-overs games. Here they slumped to 28 for 3 in the fifth over, before Craig Ervine and Malcolm Waller attempted to repair the innings with a 60-run stand. None of the lower-middle order could build on the partnership though, leaving Zimbabwe with just 130 to defend.”It’s very frustrating that our top three batters are not getting starts,” Taylor said. “We can’t rely on our middle order to bail us out every time, but Waller and Ervine batted really well today.”We made it hard for ourselves, too many dot balls. It’s frustrating, we’re not playing as well as we can as a unit.”The one positive for Zimbabwe was fast bowler Chris Mpofu, who took both West Indies wickets while conceding 14 runs in his four overs. His performance came after a poor one-day series, in which he took two wickets at 61.00 with an economy rate of 6.65. Taylor had words of praise for him: “Chris is a good character, a strong character, and we knew he’d bounce back.”The teams will play the second Twenty20 on Sunday at the same venue.

Australia’s batsmen were again exposed by the moving ball in the hands of Sri Lanka’s seamers before the fourth ODI at the SCG was washed out

The Report by Daniel Brettig at the SCG20-Jan-2013
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Nuwan Kulasekara again exploited the Australia line-up’s uncertainty against the moving, bouncing ball•Getty Images

If it wasn’t 74, it still wasn’t pretty. Australia’s batsmen were again exposed by the moving ball in the hands of Sri Lanka’s seamers before the fourth ODI at the SCG was washed out.The Sri Lankan chase was at first delayed, then abandoned due to an outfield tardy in drying, after only 3.2 overs. At 0 for 14, the visitors stood a strong chance of overhauling the target and claiming the series.As it is, Australia are left with a feeling as unsatisfying as that experienced by the 22,521 spectators who were informed of the abandonment around 9pm local time. There are plenty of recurring questions about the hosts’ batting and they can no longer win the series themselves, their best hope a 2-2 tie after the final match in Hobart on Friday.Taking strike under overcast skies at the SCG after Michael Clarke won the toss, the Australians were confounded once more by the swing of Nuwan Kulasekara and a fast, swerving spell from Lasith Malinga. Rangana Herath wheeled away in a typically fastidious stint of slow left-arm.Kulasekara’s 3 for 30 was another immaculate display of swing at a shade sharper than medium pace, giving him a series return of 10 wickets at 12.90 thus far. It would take a particularly unobservant English seamer not to notice those numbers ahead of the Ashes.Of the batsmen only David Warner looked secure at the crease, though Mitchell Starc won the admiration of the SCG for a doughty rearguard. Australia’s struggles were heightened by a pair of poor decisions from the umpires Marais Erasmus and Paul Reiffel after Clarke had burned his team’s sole DRS referral with a wishful request to overturn his own lbw verdict.Needing to win the match to avoid a series defeat in four matches, Clarke named a team unchanged from the XI who were reduced to a humiliating 9 for 40 in Brisbane on Friday. Kulasekara had rended Australia’s batting at the Gabba, and he was to make critical breakthroughs again in Sydney. First he drifted a ball across Phillip Hughes, opening up the left-hander and coaxing an edge through to Chandimal, who took the gloves while Kushal Perera remained in the XI as a batsman.Clarke and Warner prospered for a time, Sri Lanka wasting their one review on an optimistic lbw appeal against the latter, but the ball continued to curve and at 50, the captain played around a delivery that moved into him and was pinned in front of the stumps. His attempt to have the call overturned showed only that the ball had struck him in line and would have plucked middle stump.A twitchy David Hussey was set up and knocked down by Malinga, who pushed the batsman back with a series of well-directed short balls then conjured an away swinger that found the edge and was held on the juggle by Lahiru Thirimanne in the slips. Hussey’s No. 4 post in the batting order appeared a position or two higher than his technique can presently stand.Bailey played down the line at similar deliveries bending away late and, after struggling to score early, started to form a useful stand with Warner, who played with calm, precision and power throughout. However, Herath teased out a presumptuous drive by Bailey, leaving Warner the hosts’ only hope of a decent tally.This was a strong innings by Warner, who punched a pair of superb cover drives through Herath’s neatly set fields. But on 60, he played Thisara Perera from the crease and was struck on the pads via an inside edge which was both audible and visible. This deflection somehow evaded Erasmus’ detection, and Warner could barely contain his fury when marching off the ground.The New South Wales allrounder Moises Henriques was similarly wronged by Reiffel when Herath won an LBW verdict from a ball pitching in line and straightening but also taking bat before pad, leaving Clarke and the rest of the dressing room to ponder the use of their one ODI referral in future.Starc and Matthew Wade resisted in the latter overs, but their efforts succeeded only in lifting Australia from the embarrassing to the merely mediocre – hardly the bar Clarke’s team had been striving to reach after their Brisbane misadventures. The rain offered plenty of time to ponder their shortcomings.

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David Willey and David Murphy frustrated promotion-seeking Hampshire by leading some defiant Northamptonshire tail-end resistance on another rain-interrupted day at West End.

16-Aug-2012
ScorecardDavid Willey and David Murphy frustrated promotion-seeking Hampshire by leading some defiant Northamptonshire tail-end resistance on another rain-interrupted day at West End.Hampshire desperately needed a quick breakthrough when play resumed on the second day of the championship match, and failed to get it. Northants, at one stage an unhealthy 98 for 5 after being put in, recovered by putting on 258 for the last five wickets as hosts Hampshire struggled to make the most of a wicket which offered the seam bowlers plenty of help.James Middlebrook made 65, Willey hit 54, Murphy scored 43 and there was some useful hitting by Lee Daggett in his unbeaten 26 as Northants went on to make 356. At the close, brought forward by bad light, Hampshire had responded by making 125 for 2 from 36 overs after rain had delayed the start of the day.Northants were 170 for 5 overnight and soon lost Rob Newton to a catch at the wicket by Michael Bates off David Balcombe but Hampshire had to work hard for their next success. Middlebrook and wicketkeeper Murphy put on 85 for the seventh wicket before left arm spinner Liam Dawson breached Middlebrook’s defences after an innings of 151 balls and which included ten fours.Left arm pace bowler James Tomlinson bowled Murphy at 301 but there was no stopping Willey who threatened to overhaul a career-best 76 made earlier in the month against Yorkshire. But at 356, Willey was caught in the slips off Chris Wood after an innings which included a six off Balcombe.Dawson bowled last man Luke Evans an over later with no further runs scored, leaving Hampshire with a big task to get back in to a match they need to win to maintain their promotion challenge. Tomlinson finished with 3 for 66 and Balcombe took 3 for 58 but Northants’ recovery was complete.Neil McKenzie and Jimmy Adams took Hampshire to 62 in the 18th over before McKenzie chased an out-swinger from Daggett and was caught behind for 31. Out-of-form Simon Katich followed at 85, playing around a delivery from Evans to be leg before but Adams and Dawson saw Hampshire through to stumps, still 231 behind and with two days remaining.Adams was 48 not out and Dawson unbeaten with 19 but second-placed Hampshire still have plenty of work to do to overhaul their opponents’ solid first innings total.

Chris Gayle’s 15-month international exile is over after he was formally recalled to the West Indies ODI squad for the forthcoming series against England, due to begin at Southampton on June 16

Daniel Brettig04-Jun-2012Chris Gayle’s 15-month international exile is over after he was formally recalled to the West Indies ODI squad for the forthcoming series against England, starting in Southampton on June 16.In keeping with the fractious and drawn out nature of the dispute that kept Gayle out of the team, his recall was confirmed after a meeting of more political than selection nature in St Vincent. Gayle and the West Indies Players’ Association chief executive*, Michael Hall, spoke with an array of political and cricket figures including the island’s prime minister Ralph Gonsalves, Antigua and Barbuda prime minister Baldwin Spencer, WICB president Julian Hunte, WICB director Elson Crick and the WICB’s legal officer Alanna Medford.The meeting, devised to smooth over any “residual matters” between Gayle and the WICB, was followed by the announcement of the squad for the limited-overs segment of the England tour, with Gayle returning to the ranks for the first time since the 2011 World Cup.West Indies’ ODI squad

Chris Gayle, Johnson Charles, Lendl Simmons, Darren Bravo, Kieron Pollard, Marlon Samuels, Dwayne Bravo, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Darren Sammy (capt), Dwayne Smith, Andre Russell, Tino Best, Fidel Edwards, Ravi Rampaul, Sunil Narine

“Directors of the West Indies Cricket Board recently met by teleconference and are pleased that consistent with his previous commitment Mr Chris Gayle has made himself available for selection to the West Indies team,” a WICB statement had said of the meeting. “The board believes that Mr Gayle’s stated commitment to West Indies cricket will be an asset to the team and looks forward to his contributions in that regard.”Gayle’s recall was first mooted during West Indies’ earlier home series against Australia, when he met with WICB officials to repair a relationship that had deteriorated around the emergence of Twenty20 and the rise of the Indian Premier League. It then dissolved entirely when the former captain criticised the coach Ottis Gibson and the WICB during a radio interview last year.In England the mood for Gayle’s return has gathered strength, pushed along by the words of Kevin Pietersen, who said it would be “brilliant for the game” if he was recalled, while the former West Indies fast bowler and widely respected commentator Michael Holding effectively challenged the WICB to stop delaying Gayle’s rehabilitation as an international player.Lendl Simmons is the other notable recall to the ODI team after he missed the home matches against Australia. Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard and Andre Russell also return to the team for limited-overs matches after completing their IPL duties.*15:44 GMT, June 5: The article had qualified Michael Hall as Chris Gayle’s agent. This has been changed.

Kruger van Wyk will make his Test debut for New Zealand on Wednesday after BJ Watling was ruled out of the first Test against South Africa due to a hip injury

ESPNcricinfo staff06-Mar-2012Kruger van Wyk will make his Test debut for New Zealand on Wednesday after BJ Watling was ruled out of the first Test against South Africa due to a hip injury. van Wyk, 32, will debut against the country of his birth as wicketkeeper in the absence of Watling, who won the battle between the two men for a place in New Zealand’s previous Test, against Zimbabwe in January.van Wyk will become the fifth wicketkeeper used by New Zealand in Tests in the past two years, after Brendon McCullum gave up the gloves in the longer format and was succeeded by Gareth Hopkins and then Reece Young. He is the second leading run scorer in the Plunket Shield this summer with 638 runs at an average of 91.14.The New Zealand physio Paul Close said Watling had played a full part in training over the past two days but there remained some risk that he would not get through the full five days of a Test match.”The decision was based on a re-assessment made after training today by BJ and myself,” Close said. “The nature of the injury is such that we were concerned about BJ’s ability to get through the match, based the high workloads required by a wicket-keeper batsman. He requires further assessment find out the best course of action and to determine how long it is until he’s back playing. “van Wyk will become New Zealand’s oldest Test debutant since Chris Kuggeleijn in 1988.Edited by Brydon Coverdale