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Derbyshire stay on course for knock-out stages with five-wicket win

ECB Reporters Network30-Apr-2019An unbeaten 119 from Wayne Madsen steered Derbyshire to a five-wicket victory over Warwickshire to keep them on course for the knock-out stages of the Royal London One-Day Cup.Warwickshire had to win to have any chance of emerging from the North Group and half-centuries from Alex Thomson and Alex Mellor took them to a competitive 288 for 7 with Mark Watt taking 2 for 32.But Madsen was dominant and, although Thomson followed his unbeaten 68 with 3 for 57, Alex Hughes made 69 as Derbyshire won with 21 balls to spare to eliminate Warwickshire.Warwickshire had to win to stay in contention but they were struggling when they lost three wickets for 15 runs to slump to 113 for 5 in the 22nd over.Ed Pollock top-edged a return catch to Logan van Beek and Dominic Sibley edged the last ball of the first Powerplay before Luis Reece took the key wicket of Sam Hain.Hain had scored an unbeaten 161 in the previous game and looked set for another significant innings until he tried to cut Reece and was caught behind for 34 in the 17th over.With Watt’s accurate and disciplined spell accounting for Will Rhodes and Liam Banks, the innings stalled until Thomson struck the first boundary for 10 overs.He pulled Ravi Rampaul for a six and two fours in an over to give Warwickshire renewed momentum which increased when Mellor twice drove Critchley for six in an over which cost 19.Mellor top-edged a pull but Thomson and George Panayi added 58 before Henry Brookes drove van Beek for six in the last over to give Warwickshire a challenging total.Billy Godleman drove and cut Brookes for three consecutive fours but was bowled by Thomson for 40 and Reece was caught at slip when he cut the spinner onto the wicketkeeper’s thigh.Tom Lace miscued a pull at Jetan Patel’s first ball but Warwickshire’s bowling was too inconsistent to apply any sustained pressure and Madsen played with authority from the start.He drove Patel for two consecutive fours to reach 50 from 43 balls and, with Hughes, took the game away from Warwickshire.Hughes drove Thomson for six and repeated the shot in his next over before he drove Patel back over his head in the 33rd to take the target below a hundred.Patel was Warwickshire’s best hope but Madsen never allowed him to settle, driving him for six and the stand was worth 134 in 22 overs when Hughes was well caught at mid on off Thomson.Madsen completed his fifth List A 100 from 92 balls and sealed Derbyshire’s third victory with his fourth six in the 47th over.

Set 179 to win in 24 overs in a rain-interrupted match, Hong Kong sneaked home by two wickets, with three balls to spare

ESPNcricinfo staff06-Sep-2018Peter Della Penna

Hong Kong have qualified for the Asia Cup on the back of a two-wicket win over UAE in the final of the Qualifiers at the Kinrara Academy Oval in Kuala Lumpur.Sent in to bat, UAE were 65 for 3 in the 16th over when rain halted their innings, reducing the game to 24 overs a side. The over reduction forced UAE to accelerate, and they managed to do so, scoring 111 in their remaining 8.3 overs. Opener Ashfaq Ahmed slammed 36 off 11 after the rain break to finish on 79 off 51 balls, and there were useful cameos from Shaiman Anwar, Muhammad Usman and Adnan Mufti too.But they also lost six more wickets in the process, and the seamer Aizaz Khan finished with figures of 5 for 28 as UAE finished on 176 for 9.Chasing a DLS-adjusted 179-run target, Hong Kong found themselves 147 for 7 in the 20th over, needing 32 to win off the last 27 balls. The match could have swung either way, and Tanwir Afzal and Scott McKechnie ensured it was Hong Kong who sneaked home, hitting two sixes and a four while putting on 29 for the eighth wicket. Tanwir fell when the equation was three off seven but McKechnie and Ehsan Nawaz took the side home with three balls to spare.Ashfaq and Chirag Suri gave UAE a 54-run opening stand before Tanwir trapped Suri lbw for 11. Aizaz dismissed Rohan Mustafa and Rameez Shahzad in quick succession, just before the rain break. After play resumed, the UAE batsmen switched gears as Ashfaq and Shaiman Anwar added 58 in just 24 deliveries for the fourth wicket. The duo took a particular liking to the offspinner Ehsan Khan, who leaked 55 from his three overs.However, both Ashfaq and Shaiman fell in the same over to the left-arm spinner Nadeem Ahmed, before Aizaz picked up three wickets in the penultimate over of the innings.Nizakat Khan got Hong Kong’s chase off to a flier, smashing Mohammad Naveed for three successive fours in the third over of the innings. Nizakat and Anshuman Rath added 64 for the first wicket in just six overs before the offspinner Rohan Mustafa got UAE their breakthrough by bowling Nizakat for a 20-ball 38. Amir Hayat and Kinchit Shah fell in the next over, making it 68 for 3.At 84 for 4, Christopher Carter and Ehsan Khan joined hands and put on 53 for the fifth wicket to move Hong Kong to within 44 runs of the target with more than six overs remaining. UAE struck back with three quick wickets, but Tanwir and McKechnie kept calm to ensure Hong Kong finished on the right side.

Stokes missed the second Test at Lord’s this week due to his appearance at Bristol Crown Court, and was omitted from an unchanged 13-man squad for the Trent Bridge Test

ESPNcricinfo staff13-Aug-2018The ECB has left the door open to a recall for Ben Stokes for the third Test against India at Nottingham this week, pending the outcome of his trial for affray.Stokes missed the second Test at Lord’s this week due to his appearance at Bristol Crown Court, and was omitted from an unchanged 13-man squad for the Trent Bridge Test, which gets underway on Saturday.Jamie Porter and Moeen Ali have been retained alongside the 11 men who completed an innings-and-159-run victory on Sunday, a match in which Stokes’ direct replacement, Chris Woakes, was named Man of the Match for his maiden Test century and four wickets across two innings.

England squad

Joe Root (capt), Alastair Cook, Keaton Jennings, Ollie Pope, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Jos Buttler, Chris Woakes, Sam Curran, Adil Rashid, Stuart Broad, James Anderson, Moeen Ali, Jamie Porter.

However, in a press release, the ECB added that they “will make an assessment of Ben Stokes’s availability after the trial in Bristol has concluded”, a turn of phrase that suggested that he could be added to the mix if the court finds in his favour.The trial, which entered its sixth day on Monday morning, has reached the summing-up stage, with the jury expected to retire overnight to consider their verdict in a case that involves one other co-defendant, Ryan Ali. A third defendant, Ryan Hale, has already been acquitted due to a lack of evidence.Regardless of the outcome of the trial, the ECB’s Cricket Disciplinary Commission (CDC) is due to meet within 48 hours of the verdict, to consider what sanctions – if any – should be directed at Stokes and his England team-mate, Alex Hales for their parts in the incident outside Mbargo nightclub in the wake of their ODI victory in Bristol on September 24. Hales was not on trial.Stokes, who was withdrawn from the Ashes pending prosecution, returned to international action in New Zealand in February.England have two days off in the wake of their Lord’s victory, and are due to reconvene at Trent Bridge on Thursday, which would be the realistic cut-off for Stokes’ inclusion in the squad, given the need to train ahead of the Test. His last involvement in the series was a three-wicket burst on the final morning of the Edgbaston Test, which sealed a thrilling 31-run win.Speaking after the Lord’s victory, England’s captain Joe Root made light of Stokes’ absence, particularly in the wake of Woakes’ impressive return to the team.”Ben is obviously a huge part of this squad, so it’s a miss him not being here this week,” Root said. “But what it did do was create an opportunity for Chris to come in and perform – and boy, he didn’t disappoint did he? He was outstanding.”It’s nice to see guys really taking opportunities, and that’s something we really want to harness as an example to the guys in and around the squad – ‘when you get your chance, make it as hard as possible to leave you out’.”It’s a great headache to have for us, going into next week.”Trevor Bayliss, England’s head coach, praised the way in which Stokes’ team-mates had put his issues to one side and kept their focus on in-field matters, and anticipated that the Trent Bridge selection would once again be a straight choice between the extra seamer or a second spinner in Moeen Ali.”The results speak for themselves,” he said. “The guys are able to put anything off field out of their mind and concentrate on what they’re doing, and this was the perfect example.””We were all set to play the second spinner in this match if conditions suited, but with the weather around we didn’t have to make that decision. We went with the extra quick and it worked out.”On the deliberations of the CDC, as and when Stokes’ verdict is passed, Bayliss did not expect to be involved.”After the incident in September last year, the disciplinary committee met and made some decisions and we weren’t consulted then,” he said.

If Mushfiqur does sit out of the Christchurch Test, Nurul Hasan may get his maiden Test cap

Mohammad Isam18-Jan-2017Mushfiqur Rahim has been kept under observation for multiple injuries but it is his thumb that’s more worrying than the blow to the neck he suffered on the fifth day of the first Test. According to team physio Dean Conway, he will need more time to recover from the finger injury.”His finger injury is worse,” Conway told reporters. “The hairline crack that has been found is new. He will need to give more time for this injury.”At the same time however, local doctors have reportedly advised him not to take the field for at least a couple of weeks even though the neck scan revealed no damage. Conway said that Mushfiqur may need at least three weeks to fully recover from the hit on the neck.”Doctors in New Zealand usually advise not playing for three to four weeks. In England they advise not taking the field for two to three weeks. In that regard, Mushfiqur may need three to four weeks to return,” he said.If Mushfiqur does sit out the Christchurch Test, wicketkeeper Nurul Hasan will step up and make his Test debut.

Leicestershire’s Clint McKay starred with bat and ball in blustery Canterbury, where 15 wickets fell in a day to leave the visitors with a real chance of ending a Championship winless run that dates back to September 2012

Press Association05-May-2015
ScorecardClint McKay took six wickets and then helped shore up Leicestershire’s position with the bat (file photo)•Getty Images

Leicestershire’s Clint McKay starred with bat and ball in blustery Canterbury, where 15 wickets fell in a day to leave the visitors with a real chance of ending a Championship winless run that dates back to September 2012.Having conceded a first-innings deficit of 118, Division Two bottom side Kent appeared to have Leicestershire on the run at 86 for 7 in their second innings, until McKay waltzed to a quickfire 43 from 36 balls and wrestled the initiative back Leicestershire’s way. The visitors will go into the final day of a fascinating tussle on 189 for 8 and a lead of 307 over a Kent side who are defending a 10-year unbeaten record against the east Midlands county.After a 15-minute delay to mop up overnight rain, Kent appeared set for a fair first-innings lead at the start of day three as fourth-wicket partners Joe Denly and Sam Northeast extended their stand to 139 – Kent’s best of the summer to date.However, Denly’s demise leg-before for a stoic 84, coupled with the arrival of the second new ball, sparked a dramatic collapse that saw Kent lose their last seven wickets for 53 runs.Northeast, who battled to his third half-century of the campaign, also missed out on a century when he fell lbw to Charlie Shreck for 84 then McKay ran through the tail to finish with 6 for 54 – the best bowling figures by a Leicestershire bowler since Robbie Joseph bagged 6 for 47 against Glamorgan in the opening match of 2012.Batting again soon after lunch, Leicestershire struggled initially against Kent’s rookie paceman Ivan Thomas, who found his range for the first time in the match to send both Matt Boyce and Ned Eckersley packing.The visitors lost three more wickets for as many runs in the run-up to the tea interval when Mitch Claydon trapped fellow Australian Mark Cosgrove lbw, leaving Darren Stevens to dislodge Angus Robson and Neil Pinner with naggingly accurate away swingers.Only 199 runs ahead on 81 for 5 at the interval, the visitors were in danger of throwing away their healthy position when Kent won two further lbw appeals soon after the restart, but McKay was having none of it. The willowy Australian clattered seven fours and a six in his cameo knock and featured in a crucial stand of 62 inside 13 overs with Rob Taylor before Stevens made him his eighth victim of the game by plucking out off stump with a shooting leg-cutter.Taylor remained unbeaten on 33 at the close, together with Jigar Naik, to restore Leicestershire’s ascendancy and take their side into the final day as favourites to secure a first four-day win since an edgy two-wicket victory over Gloucestershire at Grace Road in September 2012.

India fast bowler Zaheer Khan has said he is only a few weeks away from regaining full fitness, as he prepares for selection for the Australia tour starting next month

ESPNcricinfo staff06-Nov-2011India fast bowler Zaheer Khan has said he is only a few weeks away from regaining full fitness, as he prepares for selection for the tour of Australia that starts next month.India’s premier strike bowler suffered a hamstring injury at the start of the Lord’s Test in July, and was then diagnosed with a right ankle impingement that required surgery, forcing him to miss the entire tour. His absence was one of the reasons for India’s poor tour of England, where they were whitewashed 4-0 in the Tests and failed to win any of the limited-overs games. Zaheer, who hasn’t played for India since, has been training at the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore.”I’m in a pretty good state of mind right now because I’ve learnt to handle things better. I feel I’m just a couple of weeks away from regaining full fitness,” Zaheer told the .” I only have to complete all the formalities of passing the fitness test. I am excited about playing a few first-class games. I have spent the last few weeks at the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore, was in rehab, worked on my fitness and now I feel good. I have started bowling in the nets. I have to keep going at it for another week or two and I’ll be ready for a four-day match.”Zaheer was among several players who broke down in England and the team management and players were criticised for poor injury management and lack of preparation against a strong England Test side. Zaheer had skipped the West Indies tour that preceded the England trip to rest. He insisted, though, that he was fit for the England tour.”Before I left for England, I don’t think I was short of any preparation,” Zaheer said. “In retrospect, I think I did the right thing by opting to go to England and again the right thing to opt out and go for surgery.”He also insisted that he wasn’t hiding any injuries before the tour. “Ahead of the England series, for seven to eight months, I was playing with an inflammation, but that didn’t hamper my performance,” he said. “It is just unfortunate that the inflammation ruptured on the tour of England. But would that mean I was hiding my injury? No. I wouldn’t say so.”He said the injury lay-off has only increased his hunger to get back into the team. “I think you need those insecurities to be around you. They help you be on your toes and make you battle-hungry. I am glad I don’t feel all that secure or that I’ve created any kind of a zone for myself. In fact, I am looking forward to prove myself all over once again.”

Marcus Trescothick has admitted he is lost for answers when it comes to Somerset’s record of falling at the final hurdle after they came up short against Surrey at Lord’s in the Clydesdale Bank 40 final

Andrew McGlashan18-Sep-2011Marcus Trescothick has admitted he is lost for answers when it comes to Somerset’s record of falling at the final hurdle after they came up short against Surrey at Lord’s in the Clydesdale Bank 40 final. It meant a fifth runner’s-up position in two seasons for a county that is gaining the reputation of not being able to go that one step further.Somerset slumped to 79 for 5 in the final – with Trescothick the first man dismissed – and although Jos Buttler’s 86 carried them 214 it didn’t prove enough to seriously challenge Surrey in a Duckworth-Lewis run chase. It left Trescothick fielding familiar questions which he fielded with honesty as he said everything the team had tried to overcome their finals’ jinx had failed.”What more can you say to justify it or tell you what’s wrong? I don’t know if I’m honest,” he said. “We’ve looked at different things but it’s not working out when we get to this point. It’s another kick in the teeth”I’m out of ideas to try and improve. I’m out of answers. We didn’t bat as well as we could do, whether that’s nerves I don’t know. It’s something we need to address and it needs some honest answers.”He also acknowledged how tough the result would be for the Somerset supporters. “I apologise for putting everyone through this,” he said. “We are playing great cricket for 99% of the season and we all love coming to the big finals. We’ve got to give it our best – and will do – to keep fighting to get the right result.”However, despite the latest setback he still sees a bright future for Somerset and believes the fact the team keep getting close to gaining silverware shows how much is being done right.”I take a lot of comfort from that,” he said. “A lot of teams would swap. We are in the top five teams in the country and getting into positions to win things. It takes the edge off by not winning but we are doing a hell of a lot right. We could be a special team; at the moment we just aren’t quite good enough.”For Trescothick’s opposite number, Rory-Hamilton Brown, there were very different emotions as Surrey followed Championship promotion with a trophy. Hamilton-Brown also played a key role with the bat as he made 78 off 62 balls, although he lost out on the match award to Jade Dernbach who took 4 for 30, he was excited about the prospects for the team”The way I see it, a lot of change has been made over the last three years at the club,” he said. They are changes that needed to be made and this is just a start of what I think we can achieve. It lets the guys know that what we are doing is right and if we keep putting in the hard work we’ve got a very successful future ahead of us. We’ve worked really hard. We’ve had a fantastic finish to the season.”

Sri Lanka Cricket is organising a Twenty20 league in July and August 2011 featuring their top players as well as internationals from India, Australia, Pakistan, West Indies and South Africa

ESPNcricinfo staff04-May-2011Sri Lanka Cricket is organising a Twenty20 league in July and August 2011 featuring their top players as well as internationals from India, Australia, Pakistan, West Indies and South Africa. The tournament, which will have five regional teams led by senior Sri Lankan cricketers, is the latest in a series of Twenty20 leagues, with some degree of international participation, that have been created over the past few years.The league will be run by the Singapore-based Somerset Entertainment, which won the organisational rights and is now looking at securing a TV deal. It is understood to have approached around 35 international players including Yuvraj Singh, Kieron Pollard, Chris Gayle, Yusuf Pathan and Shahid Afridi, and most of Sri Lanka’s leading cricketers.Salaries in the league will be on the lower side; one estimate suggested three salary slabs with the highest at $30,000, which is what a mid-level player would get for each game of the IPL.The BCCI is understood to have given the league its blessing and the tournament’s timing – it will coincide with India’s Test series in England – will suit India’s limited-overs specialists. An Indian player, who was one of the first to be approached by the organisers, said he was made to understand that the tournament was being held with the approval of the Indian board.”I was made an offer during last season of Ranji Trophy,” the player told ESPNcricinfo. “I did not agree at the time but they [the organisers] said it is not as popular a league as the IPL so money won’t be that big. We left it by saying we can talk more as the time goes. Perhaps a new offer could come after the IPL.”While the league will be a lower-profile event compared to other Twenty20 tournaments, it is likely to benefit from the fact that many players will be free from international commitments at that time. It is also likely to draw in several players who are no longer active in international cricket. Shoaib Akhtar is one player who is understood to be a certainty for the tournament and Herschelle Gibbs is also believed to have been approached.The league will also be a boon for players from Pakistan, who currently are not part of the IPL and whose international exposure has been limited because of security issues.

A round-up of the third day of the third round of the Regional Four Day Competition

ESPNcricinfo staff21-Feb-2011The Guyana bowlers gave Windward Islands a serious scare on the third day of their encounter in St Vincent but Windwards held their nerve to seal a four-wicket win. Guyana had been reduced to 98 for 9, a lead of just 17, in the second innings and were on the verge of a big defeat at stumps on the second day. But the last-wicket pair of Rajindra Chandrika and Brandon Bess stretched it to 57. It proved insufficient but it was one that gave the Guyana bowlers a window of opportunity. The spin pair of Veerasammy Permaul and Devendra Bishoo had Windwards reeling at 35 for 6 at one stage and had given Guyana a fair chance of a shock win. But captain Liam Sebastien resisted with a 46-ball vigil for seven runs while Gary Mathurin made an unbeaten 14 to steer their team to a tight win.A five-wicket haul from Jerome Taylor gave Jamaica a two-run lead over Barbados at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown. Barbados had been in a strong position at the end of day two, on 220 for 4 against Jamaica’s 324 in the first innings. But Taylor’s strikes and the Barbados’ middle order’s failure to convert starts into substantial scores tilted the scales. Among the right Barbados batsmen who went past 20, only two reached a half-century, the highest being 76. Jamaica extended the lead to 116 by stumps with eight wickets still in hand. Marlon Samuels led the response, unbeaten on 58.Combined Campuses and Colleges were in a dominant position against Leeward Islands at the end of the third day in Antigua. Kjorn Ottley made 84, supported by opener Romel Currency and wicketkeeper Kyle Corbin. The lower order, with Kevin Mclean and Floyd Reifer, also chipped in to set Leewards a target of 370. Leewards struggled in their chase, slipping to 70 for 5 and are in danger of being defeated. Carlos Brathwaite picked up two wickets.England Lions fought back to seize the initiative on the third day against Trinidad and Tobago in Port of Spain. T&T had been in a strong position at 173 for 2 with their experienced hands Runako Morton and Daren Ganga on the second day. But seamers Jade Dernbach and Liam Plunkett, backed up by the spin of Adil Rashid and Danny Briggs, dismissed the middle and lower orders cheaply to secure a 42-run lead. In their second innings, the England Lions had been coasting at 157 for 1 but lost three wickets in a space of nine runs. Jimmy Adams and Andrew Gale struck half-centuries. At stumps, they led by 227 with six wickets in hand.

The 2010 Champions League Twenty20 will see two groups of five teams each competing in a round robin format

Cricinfo staff29-Jun-2010

How the tournament works

The ten teams are divided into two groups of five each, who play a round-robin format
Group A: Chennai Super Kings, Victoria, Warriors, Wayamba, Central Districts
Group B: Mumbai Indians, Lions, South Australia, Royal Challengers Bangalore, winners of West Indies domestic Twenty20
The top two teams from each group then progress to the semi-finals.

The 2010 Champions League Twenty20 will see two groups of five teams each competing in a round-robin format, with the top two sides from each group going through to the semi finals.The set-up is a departure from the 2009 edition, which had four groups of three teams, with the two teams from each group advancing to another league stage which determined the semi-finalists. Despite the change, the tournament features the same number of matches – 23 – as last year. The matches have been evenly distributed across four venues, with each stadium hosting at least five games.The Mumbai Indians open the event on September 10th against the South African side Lions at the Wanderers in Johannesburg, which also hosts the final on September 26. Mumbai and Lions are part of Group B, along with South Australia, Royal Challengers Bangalore and a team from the West Indies that will be determined in late July.The teams drawn in Group A are the 2010 IPL champions Chennai Super Kings, Australia’s Big Bash champions Victoria, South Africa’s Pro Series champions Warriors, which is a combination of the Eastern Province and Border first-class teams, as well as Sri Lanka’s Wayamba, which represents the North Western Province, and New Zealand’s Central Districts.The 2009 champions, the New South Wales Blues, did not qualify for the 2010 Champions League.There are a number of players who are eligible to play for two teams: Jacques Kallis (Warriors, Bangalore), Mark Boucher (Warriors, Bangalore), Makhaya Ntini (Warriors, Chennai ), Kieron Pollard (South Australia, Mumbai), Dwayne Bravo (Victoria, Mumbai) and Cameron White (Victorian, Bangalore).New Zealand’s Ross Taylor is the first player to qualify with three teams – his home province Central Districts, and ‘away’ teams Victoria and Bangalore. Bravo and Kieron Pollard could join Taylor if T&T emerge as champions of West Indies’ domestic Twenty20 competition.If a player chooses to play for an ‘away’ team rather than his ‘home’ team (the team from the country he is eligible to represent in international cricket), the ‘away’ team must pay US$200,000 compensation to the ‘home’ team. No compensation is payable to an ‘away’ team if a player chooses to play for his ‘home’ team.That being the case, South Australia are already resigned to losing Pollard and are waiting to learn whether Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi will be available. Pollard and Afridi were key components in the Redbacks qualifying for the lucrative Twenty20 event, but they were not part of the state’s 20-man preliminary squad for the tournament.