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Cricket South Africa has warned players joining the Indian Cricket League (ICL) that it will not only ban them from playing for South Africa but will also keep them out of domestic cricket.”We view them as rebels,” Gerald Majola, the CSA chief executive, told , an Afrikaans newspaper. “They have joined a breakaway organisation.”But Majola added that the players could return to South African cricket if they cancelled their contracts with the ICL. “Once they have played even one game in the ICL tournament, it’s over and they will never be allowed to play in South Africa again.”Former internationals Nicky Boje and Lance Klusener have signed with the ICL and there are rumors that Andrew Hall, who quit international cricket last month and signed a three-year deal with Northamptonshire, could be also be joining the league.CSA’s decision follows that of New Zealand Cricket and the Indian board to ban players who joined the ICL. Apart from that, CSA, along with the boards of India, England and Australia had announced the launching of the Champions Twenty20 League to be played among the top domestic sides starting October 2008.

Ricky Ponting, the Australia batsman and captain was tonight named Test Player of the Year at the ICC Awards in Mumbai.Ponting, 31, topped the poll ahead of his team-mate Michael Hussey – who earlier was named ODI Player of the Year – Pakistan’s Mohammad Yousuf, Muttiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka and Australia’s Shane Warne. During the voting period between August 1 2005 and August 8 2006, Ponting scored 1791 runs at an average of 68.88. And during a remarkable few weeks he scored hundreds in both innings of a Test in three different games: against the West Indies at Brisbane and against South Africa in Sydney and Durban.”On behalf of the ICC, I would like to congratulate Ricky on winning this award, which recognises his prolific year,” Malcolm Speed, the ICC chief executive said. “The fact this award was voted for by Ricky’s peers and many vastly experienced former players and observers of the game shows the high regard in which he is held by the cricketing world and he is a worthy winner.”Earlier in the evening, Ponting was been named in both the ODI and Test teams of the Year, as chosen by the five-man panel consisting of Sunil Gavaskar, Arjuna Ranatunga, Waqar Younis, Allan Donald and Ian Healy.Previous winners of the award were Jacques Kallis in 2005 and Rahul Dravid in 2005.

Simon Katich will captain New South Wales in his return match from illness when they play Victoria in Melbourne on Sunday. Brett Lee has also been named in the 13-man squad and will bowl if he is not selected in the first Test against New Zealand at the Gabba on Thursday.Greg Mail, the opener, has been dropped from the ING Cup side but retained for the Pura Cup match against Victoria, starting on November 23.New South Wales ING Cup Phil Jaques, Aaron O’Brien, Matthew Phelps, Simon Katich (capt), Dominic Thornely, Brad Haddin (wk), Shawn Bradstreet, Brett Lee, Stuart Clark, Jason Krejza, Nathan Bracken, Stuart MacGill, Matthew Nicholson.New South Wales Pura CupPhil Jaques, Greg Mail, Matthew Phelps, Simon Katich (capt), Dominic Thornely, Aaron O’Brien, Brad Haddin (wk), Jason Krejza, Stuart MacGill, Matthew Nicholson, Nathan Bracken, Stuart Clark.

Stuart MacGill has been called up to the Australian Test squad as the replacement for the injured Brad Williams.Trevor Hohns, Australia’s chairman of selectors, today announced that MacGill had been called for after Williams was forced to pull out with a back injury. The selectors had to track MacGill down in Venice, where he is currently on holiday.MacGill, 33, has been playing for Nottinghamshire in the English County Championship this season, and has taken 25 wickets in nine games. MacGill had taken advantage of a break in the county schedule to escape to Italy, but he has now been summoned back to Australia immediately. The first Test against Sri Lanka starts next Thursday (July 1) at Darwin. MacGill’s legspin claimed seven wickets there last year against Bangladesh – and he added ten more scalps in the second Test.MacGill has played 32 Tests for Australia, taking 152 wickets, but he recently decided not to tour Zimbabwe for moral reasons and was then not originally picked for the squad to take on Sri Lanka.”It’s obvious that we haven’t gone for a like replacement for Brad Williams,” said Hohns. “But given we already have four fit fast bowlers in the squad, Stuart gives us some added flexibility. He is a proven Test performer and is match-fit, having spent the last few months playing county cricket.”

Roger Treherne (Southampton) – A Hampshire member for 50 years, who joined the committee in 1986 having played cricket for Hampshire Colts and Deanery Cricket Club.Roger was elected Chairman of the Members’ Committee in 2002 and retired from Marsh UK Ltd in the same year. He has had many roles within the committee including chairing the Hampshire 2000 fund raising year. Alongside Mike Taylor he organized the major dinner to mark the leaving of Northlands Road with over 1000 attending. He is committed to representing Members’ interests.Roger is married with 2 children and lists golf as his main other interest being a member of Stoneham Golf club.

All the planning in the world couldn’t cope with disruption such as the terrorist attacks in the United States caused for world sport, and as one of the first sports groups to have their plans upset, New Zealand’s cricket selectors have to re-think their summer.The almost inevitable prospect that a tour of Pakistan will not be possible, with the cut-off time being Friday next week, means the two New Zealand sides, One-Day Internationals and Tests, will join those sports trivia oddities as teams that never took the field of play.Pakistan is known to be hoping to organise a seven-match ODI in the wake of the abandonment of New Zealand’s tour, but that will depend on the international political scene.What the New Zealand selectors face is having to re-think their plans for the tour of Australia which gets underway at the start of November, or earlier if matches can be arranged.While the tour of Pakistan coincided with rehabilitation work being undertaken by world-class all-rounder Chris Cairns and recovery and managed workload being done by Dion Nash, it was another chance to test other players in the heat of battle to see how they would respond.That test, for all intents and purposes, will not now be undertaken and the selectors will be required to dish out some disappointments to prospective team members.The emphasis now falls on Test match play and fielding the strongest possible team for that most demanding of tours.Selection chairman Sir Richard Hadlee said the selectors would now have to totally reassess their thoughts.”There are only so many places available for Australia and with Chris Cairns available, and possibly Dion Nash, the competition is going to be tough.”We have to have the strongest team possible,” he said.Hadlee was hopeful that more games could be arranged in Australia.”Four first-class games before the first Test in Brisbane would be ideal. It doesn’t matter where, although we do already have one against Queensland before the Test, it is mainly to get used to the harder grounds,” he said.Coach Denis Aberhart has also had to do some rethinking about his own plans because of the loss of what would have been a team-building tour to Pakistan.”Pakistan is a difficult place to tour and to do well there the team has to work closely and fight hard. We were looking forward to doing that to build our confidence for Australia,” he said.But there was an opposite stance which involved the team preparing well and doing all the right things in their build-up to go into the Australian series fresh.”We’re waiting to hear from NZC what options we’ve got but the main thing is to have players continuing to work on fitness and skills on a daily basis,” Aberhart said.He was also working on programmes for players to get together in each of the main centres to work on maintaining skill levels.”It’s just a case of stepping back and going back into preparation phase, rather than game phase,” he said.

The BCB High Performance training programme that began in June this year has ended a few days early, but coach Mal Loye said he was satisfied with the players’ efforts during the camp. The programme had to be ended this week after rain forced the group to return to Dhaka on Monday from Bogra where they were supposed to play a few matches till September 12.”The effort from the players has been first-class throughout the four months,” Loye said. “I am really pleased with their progress. I am a little sad that we didn’t see them play towards the end. We had a change of play to go to Bogra but unfortunately the conditions and ground wasn’t right. We had to close the programme slightly early. But generally I am happy with the players.”They had played some matches during the early stages of the programme. This was the first HP camp undertaken by the BCB since 2007 when the programme was abruptly closed, and later replaced by the National Cricket Academy in Mirpur. The current HP unit has worked in the academy too.The 22-member HP squad included four international players – Sabbir Rahman, Mohammad Mithun, Jubair Hossain and Mustafizur Rahman. Rony Talukdar and Liton Das made international debuts while the uncapped left-arm spinner Saqlain Sajib was picked in the Bangladesh A team for their tour to India this month.Allrounder Mahmudul Hasan, who was in the 22-member squad, said his game had improved. “I have improved technically in my batting and I have worked on my balance while bowling,” Mahmudul said. “I have become slightly faster in the field too. I think everyone also got better physically too. My balance while batting is now better. While playing the on-drive, the bat used to turn and my head was a bit more bowed. I have corrected this.”Loye said that the players will be tested in the 2015-16 season’s National Cricket League which is supposed to begin later this month. Many of them had done well in last season’s domestic first-class and one-day competitions.”We had a programme in place to cover everything, whether it is T20, ODIs and Tests. The programme included playing in all conditions. It was an easy job for me, if I am being honest. Their efforts were outstanding.”The feedback we got from the players has been the best thing. They feel they have improved. Unfortunately we didn’t see them play. In this NCL coming up, hopefully we will see the fruits of our work.”Given that the programme’s goal is to ensure best-prepared players for international cricket, Loye hoped that the training programme would have helped create a competitive environment for the senior teams.”It creates a healthy environment when you have a number of players competing for a position. It gets players out of their comfort zone. Hopefully the HP did that to the national team and created a healthy atmosphere.”The programme put in place was excellent. As good as I have seen. We executed it very well. The players’ attitude towards it was first-class. Hopefully it was evident to show it was an exciting and interesting programme for their development.”Loye, who was appointed in May this year for two years, will return home to England and hopes to return next year for the new intake.

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Barbados and T&T to face off in 2014 final rematch

Kraigg Brathwaite’s unbeaten 80 off 120 balls followed up a dominant spin bowling performance by Barbados to see off Windward Islands by seven wickets in the second Nagico Super50 semi-final on Thursday night at Queen’s Park Oval to set up a rematch of the 2014 final between Barbados and reigning title-holders Trinidad & Tobago.Eight of the ten wickets in the Windwards innings fell to spin as they struggled to 175 after choosing to bat first. Sulieman Benn claimed his third four-for of the tournament to lead the way in the field for Barbados but was well-supported by offspinner Ashley Nurse and fellow left-armer Jomel Warrican who took two wickets each.Nurse set the tone with a double-wicket maiden taking the new ball in the second over to remove Johnson Charles for a duck when the opener miscued a slog to short midwicket. The offspinner continued to choke off the runs and by the end of the opening powerplay he had figures of 5-2-12-1.Devon Smith and Tyrone Theophile saw off the threat of Nurse before targeting the pace of Jason Holder and Carlos Brathwaite to build a 74-run stand. However, the intervention of Benn and Warrican produced desired results for Barbados. After reaching the drinks break at 76 for 1 in 19 overs, Windwards’ batting slide was sparked by Benn on the first ball after play resumed as Smith drifted lazily out of his crease looking to drive and was stumped for 44.Benn proceeded to tear a hole in the Windwards middle order with wickets in each of his subsequent three overs. Theophile fell in the 22nd edging an attempted cut to slip before Andre Fletcher was trapped in front playing back to a good length ball in the 24th. Captain Liam Sebastien concluded the collapse of 4 for 19 when he fell in similar fashion to Theophile, though this time it was the keeper Dowrich who held onto the catch as the score became 95 for 5 after 26.Windwards reached 121 before the wicket of Sunil Ambris for 31 triggered another mini-collapse of 3 for 5 in seven balls. Warrican took out Ambris and Shillingford on back-to-back balls in the 35th before Nurse returned to induce a return catch off the bat of Keron Cottoy. Carlos Brathwaite wiped out the tail as Windwards were dismissed in 45.4 overs.Dwayne Smith’s poor tournament for Barbados continued when he fell on the first ball of the chase, playing around his pads to fall leg before to Mervin Matthew. Windwards couldn’t capitalize on the early breakthrough though and from there it was smooth sailing.Kraigg Brathwaite put on solid stands with Shai Hope and Jonathan Carter before a 96-run stand with Shamarh Brooks sealed the match with 33 balls to spare. Brathwaite coasted to his fifty off 95 balls in the 38th over with a flicked boundary through square leg. He survived a chance on 69 in the 43rd over but Fletcher muffed a simple stumping chance produced by Cottoy’s legspin. Windwards had given up hope of winning by that stage though and Brathwaite clinched victory two overs later with his ninth boundary through the leg side.

Lou Vincent, the New Zealand batsman, is in confident mood ahead of the ICC World Twenty20 though insists that, aged 28, now is the time for him to perform on a consistent basis.”It’s been my downfall before that I throw my bat a bit early on and make a monkey of myself,” he said in Johannesburg on Wednesday, “but in Twenty20 cricket, as an opener, the game is ideally set up for me. The new ball goes further and if I can set the run-rate going at a good rate and lay the platform for a big score then I’ll be satisfied.”If you look in the dictionary under Twenty20, it will probably say ‘a short game. You watch for three hours, you don’t fall asleep and you don’t ever leave your chairs. Three hours of wham! bam!’ That’s probably the longest definition ever in a dictionary and in Latin it probably just says ‘good times’.”But Twenty20 is fast and I’d like to see this tournament played every year.”Vincent is one of New Zealand’s more agile players, and he insists that fielding will have a vital role to play in the ICC World Twenty next week.”Fielding will make a massive difference, especially in a place like Durban,” he said. “It’s a bigger ground and the ball doesn’t travel so far down there on the coast, so it calls for a lot of twos when you are batting. The fielding side has to make sure they have their quicker guys on the boundary to attack the ball. The 10 or 15 runs they can save can be crucial at the end.”Vincent, who made an outstanding start to his international career in 2001, has since struggled to cement his place. Aged 28, he concedes that it’s now or never for him.”Early on, it’s an exciting time in your career and as you progress you have to adapt and learn as you go through all the ups and downs,” he said. “But then you come to the business end of your career when you’ve learnt the game and you need to keep improving. So I’m definitely taking this tournament very seriously, because I know that if I don’t perform I won’t be in the team.”It’s an exciting new era for us, we will miss Stephen Fleming, he obviously played a massive part in this team, but Daniel Vettori is taking over at an appropriate time, he’s been playing international cricket for the last nine or 10 years.”We’re all around 28 or 29 years old and it’s time for us, we’re all coming to the business end of our careers.”

Lancashire’s coach Mike Watkinson has signed a contract extension which will keep him at Old Trafford until the end of the 2009 season. Watkinson who has been with the club since 1982 and captained Lancashire to three trophies in the 1990s is in his fifth season as cricket manager.”There is a fine balance at Lancashire between trying to ensure immediate success and building for the future, that is something we have worked hard and carefully to achieve and this season has seen we are on the right track,” he said. “The Lancashire ECB Academy is well established, we continue to be the best at producing players for England at all levels, and we have a highly competitive squad with a great team spirit. Now we can carry on in the same vein and hopefully reap the rewards over the next few years.””We are delighted that Mike has accepted this opportunity to take the club forward,” said Jim Cumbes, the county’s chief executive. “When he was first appointed, he became our first full time cricket manager with the responsibility of looking at our whole cricketing set up and pulling it together. We believe that he has done a great job.”