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A round-up of the Dhaka Premier League matches on November 25, 2014

ESPNcricinfo staff25-Nov-2014Prime Bank Cricket Club moved to second position in the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League after beating Mohammedan Sporting Club by four wickets. Shuvagata Hom took three wickets and made 47 runs to ensure victory in Fatullah.Batting first, Mohammedan made 185-8 in 50 overs with Naeem Islam making 56. Apart from Shuvagata’s three, Dilshan Munaweera picked up two wickets. Prime Bank reached the target in 43.3 overs with Saikat Ali starting off with 46 before Shuvagata top scored.Abahani cruised past Partex Sporting Club by six wickets at the BKSP-3. Partex were bowled out for 170 in 49.2 overs with Nasir Hossain and Nazmul Islam taking three wickets each. Later, Litton Das hammered a 49-ball 64 with ten fours and a six as they reached the target in 33.1 overs.Kalabagan Krira Chakra crushed Old DOHS Sports Club by 90 runs to compel them to their fifth loss in a row. Batting first, KCA made 220-8 in 50 overs with Jehan Mubarak making 50 and Tasamul Haque’s 30. Later Abdur Razzak took four wickets as Old DOHS were bowled out for 130 runs in 37.3 overs.

Australia A’s bowlers showed their Ashes potential as they ripped through Scotland’s batsmen in Edinburgh, wrapping up a win by 360 runs with a day to spare.

Callum Stewart at The Grange09-Jun-2013
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsJames Pattinson took seven wickets in the match•BCCIAustralia A’s bowlers showed their Ashes potential as they ripped through Scotland’s batsmen in Edinburgh, wrapping up a win by 360 runs with a session to spare.Only four Scottish batsmen made double figures as Chadd Sayers and James Pattinson impressed with both pace and swing to share seven wickets between them.It was a dismal Scotland second innings but rather than the first innings when the Scots got themselves out, this innings was much more down to the prowess of the bowling and fielding.Moises Henriques and Ashton Agar built on Australian A’s overnight lead, both claiming half centuries, before their second declaration of the match put the Scots in to bat before lunch. By the break they had lost three wickets and it only took another 19.1 overs for the tourists to wrap up victory in the afternoon session.Sayers claimed three wickets, taking a good catch off his own bowling to remove Josh Davey. He also induced a drive from Richie Berrington that he edged to second slip and gave Moneeb Iqbal a pair by trapping him lbw.Pattinson took four, taking two top order batsmen, including Matt Machan with a yorker, before cleaning up the tail. He ended up thanking the Scots for being such great hosts, and said he is looking forward to the rest of the tour.Calum MacLeod top scored for Scotland again, finishing with an unbeaten 30, hitting Nathan Lyon for four boundaries.Australia A now head off to Ireland for a four-day game, joined by the much-hyped Fawad Ahmed who arrived in Edinburgh today after a long journey from Melbourne via Dubai and London for a net session.

India have name an unchanged squad from the one playing in the Champions Trophy for the ODI tri-series in the West Indies, which begins on June 28

ESPNcricinfo staff17-Jun-2013India team for tri-series v WI, SL

MS Dhoni (capt/wk), Shikhar Dhawan, M Vijay, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Irfan Pathan, Amit Mishra, Vinay Kumar

India have named an unchanged squad from the one playing in the Champions Trophy for the ODI tri-series in the West Indies, which begins on June 28. The continuity is reflective of the team’s success in the ongoing tournament, where they have reached the semi-finals after winning all their group matches.The squad includes five seam bowlers in Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Irfan Pathan and Vinay Kumar, and three spinners: R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Amit Mishra. MS Dhoni, Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Dinesh Karthik and M Vijay constitute the batting.India will travel to the West Indies following the Champions Trophy, for the series that also includes the hosts and Sri Lanka.The make-up of the squad indicates that the Indian selectors, in relation to the one-day team, have turned their focus firmly on World Cup 2015. India had fielded a new-look team for the Champions Trophy, dropping seniors like Gautam Gambhir and Yuvraj Singh. These players as well as others – including Zaheer Khan, Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh – who had been central to India’s success over the previous decade but have had form and injury issues of late, remain sidelined.

Khulna Royal Bengals, led by Shahriar Nafees’ 71, claimed their first victory in five games as they beat Duronto Rajshahi by seven wickets in Mirpur

The Report by Mohammad Isam08-Feb-2013
ScorecardShahriar Nafees played a responsible knock for Khulna Royal Bengals yet again•Bangladesh Cricket BoardKhulna Royal Bengals claimed their first victory in five games, beating Duronto Rajshahi by eight wickets. Chasing 139 to win, the Royal Bengals, led by Shahriah Nafees’ 71, sauntered to victory in 19.2 overs.Nafees, like in the previous two wins by his team, was the key contributor in the victory. He struck eleven boundaries in his 52-ball knock, finishing the match with a six off Ben Edmondson with five runs required for victory. He guided the chase with two partnerships; he added 63 for the second wicket with Travis Birt, who made 23 off 26 balls with two fours and a six, and followed this up with a 54-run stand in 6.4 overs with Jehan Mubarak, who remained unbeaten till the end for a 27-ball 30.Earlier, Rajshahi had recovered to post a fighting total after they had slipped to 64 for 6 in the 11th over. Mukhtar Ali and Sean Ervine added 42 for the seventh wicket, and Mukhtar remained unbeaten on 41 to lead them to 138. Mukhtar hammered four boundaries and two sixes during his 30-ball innings.For the Royal Bengals, Krishmar Santokie took three wickets while left-arm spinner Sanjamul Islam and legspinner Noor Hossain picked up two each.Both teams played with different captains today; Lou Vincent led the Royal Bengals despite Nafees being in the playing eleven, and Tamim captained Rajshahi in place of Chamara Kapugedera.

Marlon Samuels was delighted to return to international cricket with a four-wicket haul that helped restrict Zimbabwe to 211 in the Barbados Test, saying he could be called “comeback kid”

ESPNcricinfo staff13-Mar-2013Marlon Samuels was delighted to return to international cricket with a four-wicket haul that helped restrict Zimbabwe to 211 in the Barbados Test, saying he could be called “comeback kid” after the number of comebacks he has made in his career. For him, he said, cricket was all about enjoyment, and that showed through in his keenness to contribute in all departments.”Cricket for me is basically fun, with batting, fielding, bowling. Whenever I get a chance to bowl I enjoy it. They call me ‘lucky arm’ now, I’ve been picking up some wickets recently. I’m just having fun and enjoying being back in international cricket,” Samuels said at the end of the first day’s play in Bridgetown.Zimbabwe chose to bat, and seemed to building a solid platform at 100 for 2, before the introduction of offspinner Shane Shillingford turned the innings. They lost eight wickets for 111 runs, with Shillingford and Samuels claiming seven between them.Samuels struck with his first ball, bowling Craig Ervine for 29. “He just pushed the wrong line and missed it. He had wanted me to bowl to him in a practice game, I told him I didn’t want to bowl,” Samuels said with a laugh. “So I finally got to bowl to him and got him out first ball, it was great.”The Zimbabwe batsmen, he said, might have been a bit complacent after seeing off the pacy trio of quicks – Tino Best, Kemar Roach and Shannon Gabriel. “After Zimbabwe faced our fast bowlers, maybe they became a bit relaxed against our slower bowlers. Everyone was looking [for us] to blast out the Zimbabwe batsman, but that didn’t happen today.”There was some wonderful bowling by Shillingford. He showed that the slower you bowled on the wicket you could also get some bounce as well and he did a great job.”But the day was not all rosy for West Indies, as they lost two wickets cheaply in reply (including nightwatchman Roach), going to stumps on 18 for 2. The pitch demands that their batsmen work hard on day two, Samuels said: “A couple of balls were very quick and a couple held up, so it’s a pitch where you have to apply yourself and runs will come. If you work hard as a batsman you’ll get some runs.”Runs on the board are already on the board. So we need to get past it [Zimbabwe’s total] first and then we’ll see where it goes from there.”Samuels is back for West Indies following two months out due to a facial injury; he was struck on the face by a Lasith Malinga delivery at the Big Bash League in Australia in early January. The time away helped him reassess his game, he said. “It was time for me to sit back and relax with the family, and reflect on what I’ve been doing around the world. I used the time to reflect on my work and put myself back in a position to achieve the goals I set out to get in international cricket.”

A round-up of the Ranji Trophy Group A matches played on January 6, 2015

ESPNcricinfo staff06-Jan-2015
ScorecardManoj Tiwary’s fifty led Bengal’s reply against Tamil Nadu•PTI Irfan Pathan made his comeback to first-class cricket by scoring 98 runs which helped lead Baroda to a strong score of 498. Baroda spinner Swapnil Singh’s also chipped in with a fifty on the second day in Lucknow. Uttar Pradesh’s steady reply was led by an unbeaten fifty from opener Tanmay Srivastava as they finished the day trailing by 395 runs.Baroda, 316 for 6 overnight, had Irfan on 15 and lost Penal Shah after he added only four runs to his overnight score. Swapnil joined Irfan with the score at 320 for 7 and they stitched a partnership of 139 runs to propel Baroda past 450. Playing a first-class match after more than a year, Irfan’s 98 featured 12 fours before he was bowled by Ali Murtaza. Swapnil went on to bat with the tail, scoring an unbeaten 73 with eight fours and three sixes. Murtaza took the last two wickets and finished with 4 for 103.UP’s opening stand of 49 was broken when Yusuf Pathan had Akash Verma caught for 12. However, Srivastava’s 69 not out, with Mukul Dagar, steered them to 103 for 1.
ScorecardPrasanna unlikely for rest of the match with injury

Tamil Nadu captain R Prasanna had to be stretchered off the field after colliding with Bengal’s Ashok Dinda at the non-striker’s end at Eden Gardens. Prasanna suffered a lower back injury and was straightaway taken to a hospital. Scans revealed he had a bulge in the disc. He is unlikely to play any further part in the match.

Manoj Tiwary’s unbeaten fifty led Bengal’s reply after Tamil Nadu lost their last four wickets for 38 runs on the second morning in Kolkata to be dismissed for 246. Bengal ended the day 63 runs behind TN after good starts from their top four batsmen who steered them to a solid 183 for 2.TN were 208 for 5 overnight but Ashok Dinda struck in the first over the of day to remove R Sathish. Laxmipathy Balaji’s 25-ball 2 kept the wickets at bay for nearly eight overs but medium-pacer Pritam Chakraborty’s two quick wickets reduced them to 228 for 8. TN were dented further when their captain R Prasanna retired hurt just after reaching his fifty, at the score of 236 and a run-out ended their innings in the 89th over. Dinda finished with 4 for 76.Bengal openers Rohan Banerjee and Arindam Das put on a solid opening stand of 74, which was broken by Balaji, when he trapped Arindam lbw for 48. Banerjee also fell seven overs later but Abhimanyu Easwaran (41*) and Tiwary (54*) put Bengal in a position of strength with an unbeaten stand of 81 runs.Karnataka v Jammu & Kashmir: Uthappa 156 powers Karnataka
Mumbai v Madhya Pradesh: Rawat, Jalaj Saxena lead MP’s fightback

Round-up of the ICC World Cricket League Division Four matches in Kuala Lumpur

ESPNcricinfo staff04-Sep-2012Singapore registered a comprehensive 112-run win over Malaysia, thanks to Christopher Janik’s 106 and Munish Arora’s half-century that took them to 230 for nine in their innings. Janik, who struck eight boundaries and two sixes, and Arora put on 138 runs for the fifth wicket, the defining and the only productive stand of the innings. Their first four wickets fell for 35 runs, and the last five collapsed for 29; the fifth wicket stand and a couple of other small partnerships took them past the 200-run mark.Malaysia too stumbled in their innings, except that there wasn’t any batsman to stage a recovery. They slipped to 14 for four and a partnership of 25 which followed proved to be their highest one, the chase of 231 looking beyond them. At 91 for 8 in 29 overs, Singapore’s victory was confirmed as the players walked off due to rain. The major damage was done by fast bowler Pramodh Raja, who took three wickets.Tanzania suffered a similar collapse to be bowled out for 82 and lost to Nepal by eight wickets in a match that spanned only 51.2 overs. Issa Kikasi’s 33 was the only score of note, as wickets kept falling regularly, courtesy seamer Paras Khadka and Basanta Regmi, who shared seven wickets between them. Tanzania were in danger of being bowled out for a far lower total as they were reduced to 19 for 5, but Kikasi and Benson Mwita briefly led a recovery.Nepal reached their target in the 20th over with Gyanendra Malla and Subash Khakurel scoring 28 and 20 respectively.Fast bowler Aftab Ahmed’s initial strikes were followed by offspinner Bashir Shah’s three wickets to help Denmark restrict USA to 86 for five, giving them victory by 56 runs (D/L) in a rain-shortened match. After having raced to 40 for no loss in the fifth over, they fell to 71 for 5 in the 20th over, as the Denmark bowlers bowled economically. Michael Pedersen, especially, kept a tight leash on the USA batsmen, giving away nine runs in his five overs.Denmark’s innings revolved around fifties by No.3 Andreas Lambert and Pedersen. The innings started slowly, and after being reduced to 57 for 3 in the 18th over, Lambert and Freddie Klokker, who scored 39, put on 65 runs in even time. A couple of wickets fell in the 38th over to leave them in a tricky position at 167 for seven, but Pedersen and Bashir added 60 in less than nine overs to take them close to the 250-run mark.

Warwickshire moved eight points clear at the top of the Division One table after last-day rain sentenced their their duel with Middlesex to a draw

04-Aug-2012
ScorecardWarwickshire moved eight points clear at the top of the LV= County Championship Division One table after last-day rain sentenced their their duel with Middlesex at Uxbridge to a draw.The match was intriguingly poised with all three results possible going into the final day with Middlesex set to resume on 104 for 3, 182 ahead overall. But the teams were frustrated by a string of torrential downpours which washed out the morning session.No play before lunch meant that only collusion between the captains or some excellent cricket out of kilter with the mundane fare which had largely passed on the previous three days could prise the match out of stale-mate. Neither was forthcoming.The home side extended their second innings to 181 for 6 before declaring at tea. That left Warwickshire requiring an implausible 260 from 40 overs and they cantered to 78 for 1 from 27 before shaking of hands.With both teams taking eight points from the match, Middlesex consolidated their position in mid-table while Warwickshire strengthened their position at the summit without playing like champions.It was a patchy display from the long-time Division One leaders who have not won in five championship games now after four rain-affected draws and a defeat. After the morning deluges, it looked for all the world like a ‘no play today’ scenario but, to the great credit of the Uxbridge groundstaff, play began at 1.45pm.The spectators wondered whether a deal might have been done to set up a chase but it quickly became clear that was not the case as Chris Woakes and Chris Wright took up to the attack to normal fields faced by regular batting.Wright struck a quick blow when, for the second time in the match, Eoin Morgan flashed loosely outside off-stump and edged behind. Neil Dexter reached his half-century off 108 balls while John Simpson attacked his way to 18 before lifting Wright to deep square-leg where Boyd Rankin took a good low catch.Jeetan Patel’s arrival into the attack was met by immediate aggression from Dexter who lifted him straight for six. The spinner enjoyed success in his next over, though, when Gareth Berg also looked for six but found only Rankin in the leg-side outfield.Dexter advanced to a season’s best unbeaten 84 off 166 deliveries before the tea-time declaration. The travelling Warwickshire fans wondered if their team might have at least an exploratory flirt with the chase but it was not to be.Openers Varun Chopra and Will Porterfield added a prosaic 47 from 15 overs before the latter cut a long-hop from spinner Ollie Rayner to Berg at point. That brought in captain Jim Troughton to take part in the final throes of a match which will not linger in the memory.

Alastair Cook admitted to the “lowest moment” of his career as England slumped to Ashes defeat in Perth and said several members of his side would be “playing for their future” in the remaining two games of the series.

George Dobell at the WACA17-Dec-20130:00

‘Australia batted England into submission’

Alastair Cook admitted to the “lowest moment” of his career as England slumped to Ashes defeat in Perth and said several members of his side would be “playing for their future” in the remaining two games of the series.The England captain said conceding a 3-0 lead in the five-match series “hurts like hell” and described the dressing room as “a tough place to be”. It is Cook’s first series loss as captain and England’s first Ashes loss in four series stretching back to 2006-07.But while accepting that “inquests” into the defeat were inevitable, Cook appealed for calm before conclusions are made about the reasons for the loss. In particular, Cook was keen to defend Andy Flower and refuted any suggestion that the England coach should step down.”I want him to carry on,” Cook said. “He’s an outstanding coach and an outstanding person. He’s a great person to have around, especially for me, as a captain and the advice he gives me. It’s not down to him why we’ve lost this. It’s down to the fact we haven’t had enough players in form.”Cook, who has averaged just 26.93 in his last eight Tests against Australia, also reasserted his determination to continue as captain, though he accepted he needed to reflect on some of his tactics and that there would be “people questioning my place”.”There’s always going to be theories,” he said. “There’s always going to be inquests when you lose. The simple fact of the matter is we haven’t had enough players in form with either bat or ball. People in the dressing room know that.”It’s a tough place my batting. I’m putting the work in but not quite getting the results. You can see the feet aren’t always going in the right place. I’ve had a couple of very good balls as well, which doesn’t help. And when I have got in at Brisbane and here, I haven’t gone on to make a bigger score.Alastair Cook admitted that senior players hadn’t performed so far in this series and will be playing for their places in the rest of the series•Getty Images”But I don’t think the captaincy is affecting my batting. There’s always a strain, but the challenge of being a captain is trying to deal with it. I can honestly say that when I go out there as a batter, I’m thinking as a batter. My mind is not thinking about what’s going on elsewhere.”Of course, if other people who make the decisions don’t think that way, we have to go by that decision. When you lose the Ashes in the way we’ve lost, there will always be people questioning my place and all that kind of stuff. That’s the first place you always look when you lose. As a captain, the buck stops with you. I have to look at am I managing the players right? Am I doing the right things out in the middle? We have to have some honest chats.”Cook also defended his players, despite admitting that several senior figures had endured undistinguished series and that many would be playing for their futures in the remaining two games of the series.”The first thing you do when you lose is look at the hunger and the desire. I can honestly say in our dressing room, both are there. We just haven’t had the skills to match it. Sport is not about trying at all; it’s about delivering. We know we tried as hard as we could and we haven’t delivered.”It’s not just Anderson and Swann who haven’t performed. A lot of us senior batters haven’t performed as well. It’s incredibly frustrating – I know as a batter when you’re not delivering what you’re capable of – there’s not a worse place to be as a player.”I’ll never feel let down by any of the lads that go out there and put on an England shirt. I look into their eyes and I see what they do in training. The way they go about their business and the effort, you don’t see all that.”I’m never going to be embarrassed. We haven’t been good enough, that’s the reason we lost. I’ll never be embarrassed for the way we go about things and the effort the lads put in. It’s a hard thing to say when you’ve been beaten and you deserve to get beaten. It’s never good to admit it, but we have.”When you lose, or even when you win, there’s so many good players around in England wanting to be in the 11 spots we presently hold. So we are always playing for our future. There’s always a balancing act with sides when you lose with trying to introduce new players. Are they better than the players you have?”

Fast bowler Chris Wright has made his move to Warwickshire permanent, signing a full-time contract with the county

ESPNcricinfo staff13-Oct-2011Fast bowler Chris Wright has made his move to Warwickshire permanent, signing a full-time contract with the county. He had spent some time with them last season, on loan from Essex, and enjoyed some success with the ball as Warwickshire fell agonisingly short of clinching the County Championship Division One title.”Chris made a tremendous impact during his short time in our bowling attack,” said director of cricket Ashley Giles. “His five-wicket hauls against Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire were crucial in our late-season charge.”Finishing as runner-up in the 2011 County Championship was a great achievement for this team, despite the final day heartache against Hampshire. However, that experience and signing of a player of Chris’ calibre will make us a stronger unit in 2012.”Wright, 26, claimed 22 wickets in four matches at an average of 24.31 in his part-time spell with Warwickshire last summer, having joined them on a one-month loan in August before his contract with Essex expired.Taking the new ball, he played a crucial role in Warwickshire’s ascent to the top of the Championship table, his five-wicket haul against Nottinghamshire at Edgbaston putting the county in pole position going into the final week of the season before Lancashire squeezed past them in a dramatic finale.