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Bangladesh Under-19s beat South Africa Under-19s by five wickets in the first Youth ODI in Mirpur

ESPNcricinfo staff08-Apr-2015
ScorecardBangladesh Under-19 batsmen chased down the target of 161 set by South Africa U-19 in only 44 overs•Bangladesh Cricket BoardBangladesh Under-19s beat South Africa Under-19s by five wickets in the first Youth ODI at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur.The chase however wasn’t easy as South Africa fielded very well and slowed down the chase with effective spin bowling, particularly from left-arm spinner Sean Whitehead who was adjudged Man of the Match for his four-wicket haul.Saif Hassan and Pinak Ghosh added 56 for the first wicket in 16.5 overs before Whitehead accounted for both batsmen. Captain Nazmul Hossain Shanto steered the chase with an unbeaten 39 off 69 balls with four fours. Whitehead also took the wickets of Shafiul Hayet and Zakir Hasan. Bangladesh completed the chase with six overs to spare.Earlier having decided to bat first, South Africa had only reached 160 for 8 in 50 overs. They lost wickets in pairs until they were 96 for 6 in the 33rd over. Allrounder Dayyaan Galiem struck 38 off 61 with three fours to ensure South Africa batted out all the overs. Tony de Zorzi earlier made 35 off 76 balls.Legspinner Saleh Ahmed and offspinner Sanjit Saha took two wickets each while there was one wicket each for Abdul Halim, Mosabbek Hossain, Nihaduzzaman and Mohammad Saifuddin.

Kolkata Knight Riders offspinner Sunil Narine has been reported by the match officials for a suspect action following the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad on April 22

ESPNcricinfo staff24-Apr-2015Kolkata Knight Riders offspinner Sunil Narine has been reported once again for a suspect action following the game against Sunrisers Hyderabad on April 22 in Visakhapatnam.An IPL release said that Narine “will still be eligible to bowl in forthcoming IPL matches” and that he “may request a biomechanical analysis of the deliveries in question at the ICC and BCCI accredited testing facility, the Sri Ramachandra Arthroscopy and Sports Science Centre in Chennai.”Narine was first reported for a suspect action during the Champions League Twenty20 in October 2014, following Knight Riders’ group game against Dolphins. He was allowed to play their next game, the semi-final against Hobart Hurricanes, but all 24 deliveries of his spell were called suspect by the on-field umpires, meaning he was banned from bowling in the final, against Chennai Super Kings.Consequently, Narine skipped West Indies’ tour of India later that month, and informed the WICB about handling the rehabilitation process on his own. Despite not having played any competitive cricket since then, Narine was surprisingly picked by Clive Lloyd’s selection panel in West Indies’ World Cup squad on January 11 and two weeks later, he clocked his best bowling performance in List-A cricket, picking 6 for 9 to help Trinidad & Tobago to the NAGICO 50-over title.Narine, though, withdrew from the World Cup squad on January 27, stating that he did not want to rush back, and instead focused on remodeling his action, working with a very small group of coaches including former Pakistan offspinner Saqlain Mushtaq.In early March, Narine underwent tests at the ICC accredited centre at University of Loughborough and got a positive nod from the experts. However, when the clearance report from the Loughborough centre was submitted for review and clearance from BCCI’s sub-committee dealing with corrective actions, the board wrote back to Knight Riders saying Narine would have to clear another round of tests at the Sri Ramachandra University centre if he was to play in the IPL. It meant the BCCI was effectively cancelling the Loughborough report.While Knight Riders questioned how the board could discredit a report from an ICC-approved centre, the BCCI maintained that they were merely making their own assessment to be adequately convinced with the bowler’s action. Despite the protest from his team, Narine eventually took the retest and was granted a clean chit by a panel comprising former India captain S Venkataraghavan, former India fast bowler Javagal Srinath, and ex-international umpire AV Jayaprakash. Upon being cleared, a BCCI press release stated that Narine had “recommended to the BCCI that his name may be removed from the warning list of bowlers with suspect actions”.Since reworking his action, Narine has been extracting substantially lesser turn than before, and picked up only two wickets at an average of 73.50 from five IPL matches this season.

Sri Lanka Cricket has confirmed Pakistan’s full tour of the country in June and July. Two of the three Tests were originally set to be played in Colombo, but in a late change, Pallekele Stadium will now host the third Test, instead of the R Premadasa Stad

ESPNcricinfo staff08-May-2015Sri Lanka Cricket has confirmed Pakistan’s full tour of the country in June and July. Two of the three Tests were originally set to be played in Colombo, but in a late change, Pallekele Stadium will now host the third Test, instead of the R Premadasa Stadium. The other Tests will be played in Galle, and at the P Sara Oval.The five-ODI series is set to begin in Dambulla on July 11, with matches also scheduled for Pallekele, Colombo and Hambantota. The T20s that will cap the tour are both scheduled for the Premadasa Stadium. The first four ODIs have reserve days, and all except the match in Dambulla, are expected to be day-night encounters.Pakistan will also play a three-day encounter at Colombo Colts Cricket Club to prepare for the series. They had lost their last Test series on the island 0-2, in mid-2014. The forthcoming tour will be the sixth bilateral series between these two teams in six years, and the third Test series in 18 months.

Title contenders in any team sport are often characterised as much by an aversion to defeat as a thirst for victory

Paul Edwards at Edgbaston19-May-2015
ScorecardMark Stoneman gave Durham hope heading into the final day•Getty ImagesTitle contenders in any team sport are often characterised as much by an aversion to defeat as a thirst for victory. In the first three days of this match Warwickshire’s cricketers have shown their desire to win the game; in the final three sessions Durham’s players have a chance to further demonstrate their hatred of losing it. It is almost certainly all that is left to the visitors and it is worth more than five points.In the recent era known as BB (Before Barker) Durham welcomed this fixture, winning seven of the nine Championship games played between the sides. Since then they have lost four of the last six. That will be five in seven on Wednesday evening unless Paul Collingwood’s batsmen continue their prolonged resistance to an attack that has generally kept the ball up to the bat on an excellent pitch and accepted as collateral punishment the leaking of boundaries attached to this approach.Carrying Durham’s standard in the second innings was Mark Stoneman, whose technically correct 83 not out was a 161-ball act of penance for his carelessness in getting out on Tuesday evening. Also wearing a hair-shirt was Collingwood, although he has little reason for self-reproach after being last man out for 68 when having a swipe at Boyd Rankin in Durham’s first innings. When this pair trooped off at 6.50pm, they had helped reduce their side’s 265-run deficit to a manageable 76. While there is still work to be done to save the game, at least a start has been madeFor Warwickshire it was, yet again, Keith Barker who led his side’s thorough examination of the defensive technique of Durham’s top and middle order; and in the first half of the day Collingwood’s men failed the test. The left-arm seamer got rid of three more batsmen as Durham lost their last seven wickets for 135 runs in a mere 25.5 overs. Having then had the luncheon interval in which to rehydrate and recover, Barker was ready to lead his side’s attack when the follow-on was enforced.In his second over he removed Keaton Jennings, who completed a poor match by limply edging a catch to Rikki Clarke at slip; in his fifth he had Scott Borthwick lbw for 14 when a ball nipped back a shade and struck the rear leg. And there was still time for Barker to return and have Michael Richardson caught by Varun Chopra at slip for 47 after the Durham right-hander had added 72 with Stoneman for the third wicket in 18 overs. Calum MacLeod then put on a further 64 with the opener before he gloved a catch to Clarke at slip when unable to avoid a hostile delivery from Rankin who was then bowling around the wicket. Stoneman and Collingwood took care of business for the last ten overs of a long rain-interrupted day.Indeed, weather had provided a curious backcloth to the cricket. The wicket of Richardson fell just before the third and last break but there seems no doubt that this third day escaped comparatively unscathed in losing just 16 overs. Like 19th century American settlers, Durham’s players looked westwards with hope in their hearts but the expected rain did not arrive. Heavy showers had been confidently forecast yet while it poured elsewhere in the Midlands, at both Wantage and Grace Roads for example, Edgbaston’s Pershore Road remained mostly dry. Rather in the manner of pageboys in Shakespeare’s history plays, the groundstaff waited by the covers, doing little, saying nothing, but available to spring into action if summoned.They saw some pretty ropey batting in the morning session, when Durham declined from 50 for 3 to 182 for 8, 66 of the runs coming from the bat of Collingwood who at last found a stubborn partner in the No. 10 Chris Rushworth. Richard Jones took the first wicket when he bowled MacLeod off the inside edge with the fourth ball of the day. Barker then removed Richardson, caught at slip, Mustard, lbw for a golden duck, and Coughlin, middle stump uprooted, all in just six balls before John Hastings was leg before to Clarke for 14. That left Durham on 125 for 8 and people were wondering about a three-day finish.Instead they could enjoy the sight of Stoneman, middling a few, smearing others, but sticking around regardless.”We’re still in it and if we can now get a good session or two sessions in, we’ll have the chance of a few more points than we probably expected at the start of the day,” he said. “I’ve felt really good this season and ironically this is the worst I’ve felt at the start of an innings. Maybe I’ve gone at balls a little bit hard in the leave alone area. It was nice to have the opportunity to bat time with no pressure to set the game up, just take each ball as it comes.”One person unlikely to be bowling those balls, however, is Jones, who has aggravated a foot injury and is unlikely to take any part on the final day. That represents something of a fillip for Durham, who may need all the help they can get if they are to secure the draw. Although as Collingwood and Stoneman might observe, it is self-help that brings cricketers their greatest satisfaction.

Rajendra Chandrika is keen to move on from his forgettable debut against Australia in Kingston, where he registered a pair to become the 40th batsman to start his Test career in such fashion

ESPNcricinfo staff23-Jun-2015Rajendra Chandrika is keen to move on from his forgettable debut against Australia in Kingston, where he registered a pair to become the 40th batsman to start his Test career in such fashion.Chandrika, called up to replace an indisposed Marlon Samuels for the second Test, lasted a total of nine balls and 16 minutes in the match, falling to Mitchell Starc in both innings. He put his failures down to poor shot selection.”Once I reached the middle all I had wanted is to get off the mark in both innings but the shot selections were not good,” Chandrika told . “I just want to put that Test behind me and concentrate on the future. I still have a lot of cricket in me so one bad Test is not the end.”Coach Phil Simmons too had words of encouragement for Chandrika. “He has to understand that he can bat, or else he would not have been on the team. He has to keep that confidence in himself, correct his flaws and move forward in his career,” Simmons was quoted as saying by the .Chandrika had opened the batting for the WICB President’s XI in a tour game at North Sound and made 74 in the first innings before being dismissed for a first-ball duck in the second dig.

Trevor Bayliss, the new England coach, has hailed Alastair Cook’s captaincy in the first Test of the Investec Ashes series as “fantastic”

George Dobell12-Jul-20154:01

Are new England the real deal?

Trevor Bayliss, the new England coach, has hailed Alastair Cook’s captaincy in the first Test of the Investec Ashes series as “fantastic”.Cook has generally been considered a fine batsman but a limited captain, in the “lead by example” mould, but in Cardiff he shuffled his attack and positioned his field masterfully. Whether it was the placement of two short midwickets, the decision to recall Moeen Ali for an over before lunch on day four or the gamble to start with Stuart Broad on day three with the new ball just 10 overs away, almost everything Cook tried came off.Even Shane Warne, a vocal and remarkably repetitive critic of Cook’s leadership, was moved to admit it might have been his best game as captain.Bayliss was clearly impressed, too. While he expressed some gentle reservations about Cook’s batting in the game – quietly suggesting that he may be well served reverting to the style that brought him 9000 Test runs – he was appreciative of the captain’s efforts to set the tone for the team with a somewhat uncharacteristically aggressive innings.Trevor Bayliss on…

Mark Wood: “He’s a little bit of a joker. He always has a smile on his face. That type of approach rubs off on other people. But behind that he is one hell of a bowler as well. He can get the ball through at reasonably good pace, he moves the ball, he changes his angle on the crease, he makes the batter think and puts pressure on the batter. For him to come on after Broad and Anderson is one of the advantages we’ve got.
Moeen Ali: “I thought he bowled very well. He used variation and flight. He tried to get the ball up and down with top spin on it and beat the batter in flight. I’m not sure he bowled an actual doosra. I thought it was a topspinner.”
Australia’s response: “They will be hurting. They don’t like losing. They have a proud record and losing will mean they come out in the next game trying to prove a point and trying to make up for their performance in this match. We are going to have to be on our game to win more matches from now.”

“His captaincy in this game was fantastic,” Bayliss said. “He is a very calm operator and he is very well respected by the players in the team. His captaincy was top-notch.”He is obviously a fantastic batsman, but he didn’t score as many runs in this match as he would like. I thought his approach in the first innings – even though he only got 20 – sent a bit of a message to the rest of the players that here was the captain who was trying to be that positive batsman. Maybe that is a little bit out of his comfort zone that he was trying to show the way. Most of the good captains around are not only leaders of the team but they lead the way in their attitude.”My message to Alastair is to go out and play his own way. Yes, we were talking as a group about being mentally aggressive – not necessarily trying to whack sixes and fours – but if you are mentally aggressive, your feet start moving and you put away those boundary balls when they come along. Sometimes that message can take a little bit of time to sink in I suppose.”People like Alastair and Ian Bell have scored plenty of Test hundreds. My advice to them would be to go out and bat like you always have done. Those two guys are class players and can change their game to suit any situation. The rest of the guys can bat around them.”Bayliss did hint, though, that Joe Root would one day succeed Cook as captain. Asked whether he had ever had any doubts whether Cook was the right man to captain the Test team in this Ashes series, Bayliss replied: “The one thing you would say is: is there anyone to take his place?”Joe Root is the vice captain and I’m sure will do a good job in the future some time. It may be a little early for him as yet but he’s been given the job as vice captain to learn. I think that the decision to stick with Alastair has been justified because his captaincy in this game was fantastic.”While naturally delighted to see the side win in his first game as coach, Bayliss was keen to credit the players and the progress that had been made before he joined the coaching team. And while Paul Farbrace, the assistant coach and interim head coach for the series against New Zealand, was not named, it is clear Bayliss feels he has played a key role in the revival.”The players have been heading in the right direction over the last series with New Zealand,” Bayliss said. “They are interested in playing good, attacking cricket. I was lucky to come in at this time.”

Chris Rogers is still experiencing dizzy spells and will undergo further tests and treatment in London after he was deemed unready to travel to join the Ashes squad in Derby on Wednesday

Daniel Brettig22-Jul-2015Chris Rogers is still experiencing dizzy spells and will undergo further tests and treatment in London after he was deemed unready to travel to join the Ashes squad in Derby on Wednesday.Australia’s plans for the third Test in Birmingham now appear less than certain, with Rogers running out of time to recover fully from the after-effects of a blow he suffered above the right ear when trying to evade a bouncer from James Anderson on day two of the Lord’s Test.While doctors have ruled out concussion as the source of the dizzy spells, Rogers’ occasional losses of balance have continued after he first became distressed when at the non-striker’s end on the fourth and final morning of the match on Sunday. Australia’s team doctor Peter Brukner described Rogers’ injury as “damage to the vestibular apparatus” near the ear.There is now the possibility that he will have to be replaced for the Edgbaston Test, with Shaun Marsh the clear candidate to do so after standing in for Rogers during the earlier tour of the West Indies. Rogers missed both Caribbean Test matches after suffering a blow to the head from the Dominican net bowler Anderson Burton, and was relieved to know concussion had been ruled out in this case.”We took him to have an MRI scan on Sunday and the MRI was fine,” Brukner said. “We also got another scan there because sometimes you can actually have a small fracture associated with that injury, we had a specific scan, a CT scan, and that ruled out the fracture. We’ve ruled out brain, we ruled out a fracture, so we were left with the damage to the vestibular apparatus.”Today we took him to see a professor in London, who is an expert in the area of vestibular and balance. She also confirmed that she thought that was the cause of his symptoms, damage to that balance area. She’s ordered some more tests, which are basically balance tests – there are different components of the vestibular and balance system. There’s various tests that can identify which of these components is working and which one is damaged.”He’ll have a series of tests tomorrow in London. He’ll have one further test on Friday, to test the nerve to that area and then he’ll be reviewed by this professor on Friday afternoon. He’ll also have some treatment, there’s a physiotherapist who specialises in this area who is going to see him on Friday. There are various techniques they can use to help resolve some of these issues.”He seems to be improving very steadily and it’s a little bit early to say what’s going to happen. But if he continues to improve the way he does, he should be back playing cricket fairly soon. But as to exactly when, we can’t say. At this stage we certainly haven’t ruled him out of next week’s Test, it’s just a matter of seeing how he goes over the next 48 hours.”Brukner said that Rogers breathed an audible sigh of relief that concussion had been ruled out, for the consequences of such a diagnosis would likely have brought his tour and international career to an abrupt end. For now, though, he must wait for the current symptoms to subside.”Obviously he’s relieved it’s not a concussion injury. I think it’s fair to say that was a concern he had and we all had, given his recent history and so on,” Brukner said. “But that has certainly been ruled out. Obviously it’s a similar mechanism and he’s been hit in both cases, but it’s a completely different injury. It should resolve and there’s no reason to think there will be any ongoing issues with this balance problem. That’s about all we know.”He’s basically resting in his room, reading his Kindle. He’s just taking it easy for a couple of days. You manage this really similarly to the way you manage a concussion, you basically wait until the symptoms have resolved and once the symptoms have resolved, you start increasing the activity.”Brukner had given a more positive update earlier in the week, but Rogers’ continued suffering of symptoms leaves a decreasing amount of time for a full recovery in time for Birmingham.

Taskin Ahmed bowled a high-quality last over, giving away eight runs when the Netherlands required 17 to win, to help Bangladesh start their World T20 campaign with an eight-run win in Dharamsala

The Report by Mohammad Isam09-Mar-2016
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsTaskin Ahmed bowled a high-quality last over, giving away eight runs when Netherlands required 17 to win, to help Bangladesh start their World T20 campaign with an eight-run win in Dharamsala. The game had swung in nearly every over as neither team could take a hold of the contest.Mudassar Bukhari and Pieter Seelaar kept Netherlands in the hunt with a 16-run penultimate over, after Tom Cooper was dismissed off the first ball. Bukhari was run-out in the last over, and neither Seelaar nor Logan van Beek could find the boundaries.Ultimately, Tamim Iqbal’s unbeaten 83, as the rest of the Bangladesh batting line-up struggled, Mashrafe Mortaza’s boundary-less last three overs and Taskin’s accurate last over combined for Bangladesh’s win.The game was in Netherlands’ grasp when they needed 54 runs in the last five overs with seven wickets in hand. Captain Peter Borren started off the assault with a one-handed sweep through midwicket for four. Subsequently, he was dropped in the same region by Nasir Hossain before the same fielder caught him at the end of the over.In the next over, Mortaza, who conceded one four in his spell, was unlucky not to have Cooper’s wicket after the ball struck the off stump but the bails didn’t budge. Van der Merwe was removed later in the over though, the thin edge carrying to the Mushfiqur Rahim.Earlier, Al-Amin Hossain had removed Wesley Barresi in the fifth over, but his opening partner Stephan Myburgh and Ben Cooper kept the runs flowing. Nasir, then, provided Bangladesh with the breakthrough by having Myburgh bowled in the ninth over for a run-a-ball 29. Borren got into his work immediately, having reverse-swept Nasir for two boundaries in the same over. The next 26 balls yielded no boundaries off the bat.In the first innings, the pace pair of Timm van der Gugten and Paul van Meekeren combined to take five wickets for 38 runs in eight overs. Van der Gugten’s double-strike in the 15th over stalled Bangladesh’s late charge, and van Meekeren made up for his dropped catch in the first over with figures of 2 for 17.Tamim, who hit his first T20I fifty since December 2012, was the only batsman to thwart the bowling. His 58-ball 83, which was Bangladesh’s third highest T20 score, included six fours and three sixes.Tamim, while assessing conditions in the early part of his innings, took plenty of singles before lacing a beautiful cut off van Meekeren in the sixth over. His first six was a mis-hit that just cleared long-off but he showed his form with his next boundary – a late dab past short third man.After Shakib Al Hasan’s wicket, Tamim changed gears and hit van der Merwe for a straight six in the 13th over but survived a stumping chance off the following delivery. He smashed Logan van Beek for two fours in the next over but struggled to farm the strike as wickets fell frequently around him. He hit only one more four and a flat six, which came in the last over. The rest of the batsmen’s struggles showed just how important Tamim’s knock was.

Nayeen Qadir Bhatt, a schoolboy cricketer who represented Jammu & Kashmir, has died after being shot during a demonstration

ESPNcricinfo staff13-Apr-2016Nayeen Qadir Bhatt, a schoolboy cricketer who represented Jammu & Kashmir, has died after being shot during a demonstration in Handwara, in the state, on Tuesday. Bhatt, a batting allrounder, had been shortlisted for an Under-19 camp organised by the Jammu & Kashmir Cricket Association in 2015. He was 18.Bhatt had captained the Jammu & Kashmir team in the National School Championship in Delhi in 2015. He played for the Kashmir Gymkhana, a Srinagar-based club, and in the Downtown Champions League, a T20 competition in the Kashmir Valley.The incident occurred when the army reportedly opened fire to disperse a stone-pelting mob targeting their bunker in Handwara – a town a couple of hours northwest of Srinagar – over the alleged molestation of a schoolgirl by a member of the security personnel present in the area. Two others were killed in the incident.

The Gunners new boys were in brilliant form against Everton while stars from Manchester United & Liverpool also make the grade

GettyWayne Hennessey | Crystal PalaceThe Welsh goalkeeper made seven saves for Palace in their 1-1 draw against Newcastle United.AdvertisementGettyAntonio Valencia | Manchester UnitedValencia recovered possession five times and made two interceptions in his team's win over Huddersfield Town.Getty ImagesLaurent Koscielny | ArsenalAs well as finding the net, the France international made nine clearances in Arsenal's 5-1 win over Everton; the most of any player for the Gunners.ENJOYED THIS STORY?

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