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Matthew Hoggard will have his back injury reassessed on Monday and is a doubtful starter for the second Test against India at Trent Bridge, starting July 27, after an MRI scan revealed irritation in a disc in his back.Hoggard was ruled out of the first Test currently underway at Lord’s after being sent to hospital following a back spasm. “His rehabilitation will be closely monitored over the next five days and he will be re-assessed by ECB medical staff on Monday,” the ECB said.”I feel mightily peeved,” Hoggard said in . “I bowled three balls and couldn’t run in to bowl any more. I kicked some stumps — not too hard or I could have ended up in traction — and realised straightaway that I wouldn’t be playing in the Test match.”Chris Tremlett was called up to replace Hoggard and made his debut today at the expense of Stuart Broad, the young Leicestershire fast bowler who many had tipped to play ahead of himEngland are now left without a single member of the 2005 bowling attack that won the Ashes. Andrew Flintoff is continuing his recovery from ankle surgery, Simon Jones is still only appearing in occasional one-day matches for Glamorgan and Ashley Giles is ruled out of another summer. It will also be the first time since the Oval Test against Australia in 2001 that none of Hoggard, Steve Harmison or Flintoff have lined up in a Test.However, Michael Vaughan would rather view the situation as a challenge than a concern. “It’s new and exciting to see,” he said. “It’s a brand new attack with no Harmison, Flintoff, Giles or Simon Jones. We had a great attack in 2005, but it’s new and exciting for us all to see how they react to playing in front of a lot of people, against a very good batting team. It’s going to be a great challenge for whoever plays.”While England have suffered a run of injuries to their bowlers in the last couple of years, Hoggard remained a constant member of the attack for 40 consecutive games until missing the final Ashes Test at Sydney in January. Since then he has also been hit by a run of injuries and missed two Tests against West Indies after picking up a groin strain at Lord’s in May.

Mohan de Silva, a former president and secretary of Sri Lanka Cricket, and Jayantha Dharmadasa, the current interim chairman, will both be standing in the forthcoming cricket board elections to be held on July 15. De Silva and Dharmadasa will be competing with Minister Sripathi Sooriarachchi for the highly coveted position of board president.De Silva – closely aligned with former president Thilanga Sumathipala in the past – was proposed for the elections by the Cricket Committee of the Sinhalese Sports Club. The club also proposed Michael de Zoysa and Nuski Mohomed as board secretary and treasurer respectively.De Silva’s likely backing by Sumathipala makes him the clear frontrunner to win the elections. Sumathipala and his allies have won all the elections contested since the 1996 World Cup. Their terms of office have been broken only by periodic Interim Committees appointed by the government.

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Daniel Vettori got into his stride early and wrecked Bangladesh with a superb spell of 6 for 28 as New Zealand romped to victory by an innings and 99 runs at Dhaka. Not one batsman had an answer to Vettori’s loop and bounce as he reduced Bangladesh’s second innings to a shambles in a few hours of mayhem. He was ably assisted by Paul Wiseman, as both spinners exploited the dry Bangabandhu pitch perfectly. It was especially satisfying for Vettori, who claimed his first five-wicket haul since November 2001.Rajin Saleh had played a painstaking knock in the first innings, but Vettori prevented a repeat in his first over. Making the ball fizz, he sneaked one past Saleh’s defensive prod and Brendon McCullum, the wicketkeeper, went up in celebration (41 for 3). Replays showed that Saleh did not get a snick. But there was no doubt about the other dismissals. Vettori had Manjural Islam Rana in two minds, and a hopeless prod resulted in a loopy catch to Mark Richardson at silly point. Then, Mohammad Ashraful (26) fended off a nasty lifter to Scott Styris at slip, while Tareq Aziz padded up to an arm ball (122 for 9).Meanwhile, Wiseman played the support act to perfection. He first ran out Nafis Iqbal (49) with an accurate throw, and then got among the wickets himself. Alok Kapali edged on to McCullum, while Khaled Mashud played a delivery straight to Styris at leg slip. Mohammad Rafique flailed valiantly, hitting 24 off 18 balls before edging the ball to slip just after lunch.The complexion of this game changed on the third morning, when Bangladesh failed to limit New Zealand, who fought hard to put up a respectable total and finally ended up with an imposing 402. What seemed a contest at one stage slowly descended into a rout.

ScorecardNew Zealand ended the third day of their tour match at Grace Road in the driving seat, but an injury to Craig McMillan, which left him doubtful for Thursday’s second Test, overshadowed their on-field success.McMillan was taken to hospital after being struck on his already-damaged left hand by Darren Maddy. Lindsay Crocker, the New Zealand manager, said that an X-ray had shown a fracture, but it was unclear if it was just the old injury or whether the blow had compounded the existing damage.”We won’t know that until tomorrow when the two X-rays have been compared,” he admitted. “If it’s just a bruise then he should be reasonably okay for the Test. But if it’s a new fracture or re-fractured then we are back to square one again.”McMillan had made an effortless 43 when he had to retire, and the other New Zealand batsmen were equally untroubled by a below-par Leicestershire attack. Stephen Fleming fell five short of his century, bowled by Maddy via an inside edge, Chris Cairns kept the sparse crowd entertained with as 53-ball 62, and Daniel Vettori smacked 77 as Leicestershire brought on their part-time bowlers.Set an almost impossible 553 to win, Leicestershire reached 68 for 2 by the close.

Saturday, April 5, 2003:::
“There was a lot of euphoria for the way we played during the tournament and a lot of people (in the Government) are proud the way we played. We received a rousing welcome when we got back to Nairobi.” Kenyan captain Steve Tikolo
Source: The Gulf News, United Arab Emirates”I would be interested in having a chat. Whether I am interested [in the job] would depend on that chat. Coaching New Zealand would be my main ambition but any team that plays one-day internationals and Test matches would appeal to me.” John Bracewell, on being approached by Sri Lanka for the position of coach
Source: The Guardian, UK”I would rather look at someone like Sandeep Patil, who has done a wonderful job with Kenya. I don’t want to discuss the merits of a foreign coach but I know we too have the people to do the job.” Former Indian star Kapil Dev, on the issue of a foreign coach for India
Source: The Hindu, India”[It is] more daunting than trying to hit a first-ball six.” Indian captain Sourav Ganguly to West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, on the prospect of making a speech in Bengali
Source: The Times of India, IndiaTuesday, April 1, 2003:::
“We are a very forgiving people. We feel that if the selectors recommend any player once, twice or three times, we should look at it,” West Indies Cricket Board president Rev. Wes Hall, on the appointment of Brian Lara as the new captain
Source: Ananova, UK
“We are the benchmark for other teams to aspire to, due largely to a thing called professionalism, which is what we all pride ourselves on,” Australia Test captain Steve Waugh
Source: BBC, UK
“Lara is a great player and he will no doubt fire up against Australia. He particularly likes facing Glenn McGrath. He likes to perform on the big stage, and playing Australia is as big as it gets for him,” Steve Waugh
Source: The Age, Australia
“I always thought that a batsman’s best years are between 28 and 36. At 30 I was looking forwards to the best years of my international career. But the selectors forced my hand and that was obviously not ideal for me,” Alistair Campbell, announcing his retirement
Source: Rediff.com

Craig White and Matthew Wood both thrashed centuries as Yorkshire enjoyed a run bonanza against Glamorgan at the Scarborough Cricket Festival today.Yorkshire finished the second day strongly placed on 433 for five, their first innings lead over Glamorgan being worth 210.In an early celebration of clinching the CricInfo Championship title – now a mere formality – White and Wood piled up 243 in 63 overs for the second wicket.Wood, who rejoined White at the crease in the first over of the day after retiring hurt last night, cracked 124 off 240 balls with 18 fours and two sixes before falling lbw to left-arm spinner Dean Cosker.But White continued to plunder runs off the Glamorgan attack and he was in sight of a maiden double century when his off stump was removed by Darren Thomas for 183 which included 25 fours and two sixes and was made off 273 deliveries.It was Wood’s fourth century of the season while White was left just three runs sort of equalling his career-best score which he set up a fortnight ago in the Roses match at Old Trafford.The 6,000 crowd were expecting some early fireworks from Darren Lehmann when the Australian came in at 353 for three but after making only a single he launched himself into a big drive and lobbed back a catch to Cosker during the spinner’s marathon spell.Michael Vaughan made an elegant 45 before chopping Steve Watkin into his stumps but Anthony McGrath and captain David Byas settled in together to cause Glamorgan more grief.A big cheer went up when Byas pulled Simon Jones for the boundary which took Yorkshire to 400 and secured maximum bonus points – so guaranteeing them the title if they go on to win the match – and Byas celebrated the moment by hooking the next ball for six.McGrath was unbeaten on 29 and Byas 31 at the close, the sixth wicket pair having put on 59 together.Wood said later: “I had six stitches put into my cheek after being hit but it could have been a lot worse and I just wanted to get back in the middle. Once I had struck that early six I felt much better and really enjoyed my partnership with Craig.”

Mumbai qualified for the Wills Trophy from the West Zone on Wednesdayby topping the table with the maximum eight points from their fourgames. In their last league encounter of the Ranji Trophy one daytournament, they registered a nine wicket victory over Baroda at theMotibaug ground in Baroda.Jacob Martin and Sameer Dighe, skippers of Baroda and Mumbai strolledout for a crucial toss as both Baroda and Mumbai were unbeaten intheir matches so far.Dighe won the toss and decided to chase a target as they had done inall their matches this season. Santosh Saxena (3/39) pushed Baroda onthe backfoot scalping Connor Williams (5) and Daulat Thorat (9) inquick succession. Kiran Powar ran out keeper Milap Mewada who did notface a delivery. Baroda were tottering on 33 for three.Jacob Martin (66) and veteran Tushar Arothe (76) put on a rescue actwith a 105-run partnership for the fourth wicket. Santosh Saxena brokethe partnership having Martin caught by Vinod Kambli and it was alldownhill for Baroda from there on. They folded up for 203 in 47.1overs. Allrounder Robin Morris chipped in with three for 30.Mumbai openers Robin Morris (56) and Wasim Jaffer (116 not out)continued their good form with the bat putting up their secondconsecutive hundred run partnership for the first wicket. Robin kepthis good form scoring his third half century of the tournament.Wasim’s 98-ball innings had two towering sixes and 15 hits to thefence. Robin put up two sixes and six boundaries in his innings.Mumbai romped home in 29.2 overs scoring at a rate of seven runs anover.

Boeta Dippenaar has urged Cricket South Africa (CSA) to revamp its racial quota system and focus on cricket rather than politics. Dippenaar, the new president of the South African Cricketers’ Association, wants administrators to choose players on cricket ability rather than race.His comments come in the wake of Charl Langeveldt’s decision in March to withdraw from the tour squad for India in protest at Andre Nel’s omission because of CSA’s racial transformation policy. Dippenaar worries keen youngsters may be deterred from aiming for international honours because of the policy.”If people had an aspiration to play for South Africa they will now think twice about doing so,” Dippenaar told Reuters. “I have always said the game should be surrounded by people with cricketing interests at heart and not people with political interests at heart. There’s a distinct difference.”We are on dangerous ground as soon as we start saying ‘x’ amount of players have to be white and ‘x’ amount of players have to be of colour,” Dippenaar said. “We don’t mind if the whole team is black if that’s the best team. Throughout the whole transformation process a lot of patriotism has been lost.”Dippenaar pointed to the example of England’s Kevin Pietersen, who left South Africa partly because of his disagreement with their policy on quotas. “No country can afford to lose a player of Pietersen’s calibre,” said Dippenaar. “That puts a question mark about whether we are doing the right things. We should never have allowed a player of his calibre to fall through our net.”

Sri Lanka’s World Cup star, Lasith Malinga, has joined Kent on a short-termdeal. Malinga, 23, will join the county for three weeks as a replacementfor the South African all-rounder, Andrew Hall, who has international commitments.Malinga, who bowls with a unique slinging round-arm action, grabbed fourSouth Africa wickets in as many balls during a World Cup Super Eight matchin March.”I am delighted to get the opportunity and I consider the experience to bea great one,” said Malinga. “I will try to maximise every opportunity at Kent for the betterment of mygame.”This is the first time I have played any form of domestic cricket in anothercountry and I am looking forward to an enjoyable three weeks in the Kentdressing room.”Kent’s director of cricket, Graham Ford, confirmed the deal and an officialannouncement from the county is expected tomorrow. “He is a top performer,” said Ford. “Andrew Hall was called up to return to South Africa so obviously we needed a replacement.”

A row has broken out inside Zimbabwe Cricket after the announcement of the Zimbabwe A side to take on Bangladesh later this month. The argument is said to be between a top unnamed ZC official and Bruce Makovah, the controversial convener of selectors, over the composition of the team.ZC last week named a heavily-depleted A-team squad which included mostly players who have not played first-class cricket. The side was chosen mainly from the weakened ZC National League which ran this year after a number of top clubs withdrew. They ignored players from the splinter local league, which was formed by the rebel clubs which broke away from ZC over administrative differences. This was despite insistence by ZC that players playing outside its own structures would be considered.However, the bone of contention appears to be within the ZC circles. Sources told Cricinfo that ZC interim committee members and some club officials had confronted Makovah, alleging that he had been biased against some players whose deserved to be picked.For example, the two best players in the ZC’s own National League, Mbekezeli Mabuza and Daniel Soma, were not included. The same goes for the batsmen, where players with glaringly better averages were picked ahead of lesser-performing ones.Bangladesh A will soon arrive in Zimbabwe for a five week tour.