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A round-up of the semi-finals of the One-Day National Cup Division Two tournament in Pakistan

ESPNcricinfo staff25-Jan-2011An unbeaten century from Rana Adnan and a collective bowling performance helped Lahore Eagles secure a place in the final by beating State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) by 73 runs in Karachi. Adnan’s 100 off 115 balls held the innings together and his partnership of 77 with Hamza Paracha, who made 51, set a platform for a considerable total. The middle and lower order, however, failed to contribute and Lahore slumped from 212 for 3 to 265 for 8. Jalat Khan took 3 for 53 for SBP while new-ball bowler, Mohammad Naved, was economical during his seven-over spell of 1 for 21.SBP’s chase never got off the ground. Their openers fell for single-digit scores and, after a 63-run stand for the third wicket, the steady fall of wickets resumed. Adnan Raees top scored with 49 and no one else got over 40. Lahore’s new-ball bowler, Emmad Ali, took 3 for 34 while Saad Nasim and Waqas Aslam took two apiece. SBP were eventually bowled out for 192 in 40 overs.Riding on Azhar Ali’s unbeaten hundred, Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) chased the target of 273 to beat Karachi Zebras by six wickets and an over to spare in Hyderabad to secure their berth in the final. The chase had begun poorly, with KRL slipping to 19 for 3, before Ali led the revival along with Bazid Khan, who made 50. Bazid departed with the score on 117 but Ali Khan entered and blitzed 80 off 58 balls to shut Karachi out of the contest.Ali’s century had helped overcome Karachi’s strong total of 272 for 9, which was built around Asif Zakir’s run-a-ball 110. Rameez Aziz payed a supporting hand with 40 but there were no other contributions of note. Mohammad Irfan claimed 3 for 46 for KRL while Nauman Ali and Saeed Anwar jnr took two wickets apiece.

Cricinfo’s preview of the fifth ODI between Australia and West Indies in Melbourne

The Preview by Brydon Coverdale18-Feb-2010

Match Facts

Kemar Roach is back to full fitness and will add venom to West Indies’ attack•Getty Images

Friday, February 19, MCG

Start time 1425 (0325 GMT)

The Big Picture

The series is decided so there is little but pride to play for in this match. Australia want to finish the summer undefeated across all three formats, so they won’t be easing up despite resting some players. West Indies would love to leave the country with some positives ahead of their home series against Zimbabwe, so they will be keen for a consolation victory after their best hope of the series, the Sydney match, was washed out.It has been a long, tough season for West Indies in Australia. Three months ago they embarked on a Test tour in which they were competitive but didn’t win a match and there hasn’t been any one-day success either. Gayle is the only member of the squad to have been in Australia for the full three months, having played in the Big bash in between series. He has this ODI and two Twenty20s in Hobart and Sydney before he can head home, and even then there is barely any time to rest.”It’s been a long summer to be honest with you,” Gayle said. “For me personally I’ve been here about three months and we have to leave here and go straight into another series against Zimbabwe. It’s tough, I try to set my mind to it and just try not to be too negative and try to get the job done out there.”It’s tough on the players and I’m sure it’s tough on individuals because at the end of the day no one wants to lose and to be losing it kind of gets frustrating. But at the same time it’s our priority to try to get the job done and keep pushing the intensity and try to get a victory under our belt.”

Form guide (most recent first)

Australia WNWWW

West Indies LNLLL

Watch out for…

In the allrounder stakes, Dwayne Smith has taken a backseat to Kieron Pollard for West Indies in this series. But Smith’s 59 from 63 balls in Sunday’s loss at the Gabba proved his batting value and he is the tourists’ equal leading wicket taker with seven at 24.85. In the injury absence of Roach he was even given the new ball. If Smith and Pollard fire, it goes a long way to reducing the reliance on Gayle.Steven Smith is a man with a big future ahead of him and having made his Twenty20 international debut, he is set to play his first one-day international at the age of 20. A legspinner and powerful hitter with two first-class hundreds to his name, Smith has a strong chance of making Australia’s ICC World Twenty20 squad this year.

Team news

Having won the series already, Australia have taken the opportunity to rest Michael Hussey and Nathan Hauritz, which will allow Smith to play as the main spinner. Shaun Marsh missed the previous two games with a back problem and although he trained lightly on Thursday, the selectors were expected to be cautious with him ahead of the Twenty20s and the tour of New Zealand. That could mean an opening role for Brad Haddin, who is back after a two-match rest.Australia (possible) 1 Shane Watson, 2 Brad Haddin (wk), 3 Ricky Ponting (capt), 4 Michael Clarke, 5 Cameron White, 6 Adam Voges, 7 James Hopes, 8 Steven Smith, 9 Mitchell Johnson, 10 Ryan Harris, 11 Doug Bollinger.Kemar Roach missed the previous two games with a sore left ankle but is fit again and will add much-needed venom to the West Indies attack. It has been a disappointing series – and in fact a lean 12 months at international level – for Lendl Simmons, who has eaten up a lot of deliveries for few runs. West Indies might be tempted to go instead for Brendan Nash, who has not played so far in the limited-overs portion of the trip.West Indies (possible) 1 Chris Gayle (capt), 2 Travis Dowlin, 3 Narsingh Deonarine, 4 Wavell Hinds, 5 Brendan Nash, 6 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 7 Kieron Pollard, 8 Dwayne Smith, 9 Nikita Miller, 10 Ravi Rampaul, 11 Kemar Roach.

Pitch and conditions

The MCG pitch when the teams met for the first ODI didn’t have the raw speed it produced two days earlier for the Pakistan Twenty20 match. It wasn’t an easy surface to bat on and Australia’s 256 was more than adequate for a big win. The forecast for Friday in Melbourne is sunny and 29C.

Stats and trivia

• The Allan Border Medal night feels like an end-of-season party and Australia have found it hard to get back on task in previous years. In each of the past four seasons, the Australians have lost the next game they played after the Allan Border Medal ceremony
• Not since 2000-01 have Australia gone through a home summer undefeated in ODIs; they have a chance to achieve that feat on Friday
• It has been a series of low individual scores – Ricky Ponting’s 106 and Cameron White’s 63 from Sunday’s game are the two highest innings of the series
  

  Quotes

  “They’re on a high, so we’re up against it. But at the same time we’re going to be positive and try to get a win out there.”
  
  Chris Gayle“It’s been pretty exciting for me to be called up to this side, the boys have been really accepting. I’m sure that we’re going to want to finish the summer on a high with another win.”
  
  Steven Smith

Worcestershire fight back through Taylor, Libby but face uphill struggle to avoid defeat

ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay25-Sep-2025Worcestershire 123 and 270 for 6 (Libby 72) lead Sussex 350 (Simpson 129*, Taylor 4-106) by 43 runsJohn Simpson’s unbeaten 129 and six second-innings Worcestershire wickets kept Sussex in command on day two of the Rothesay County Championship clash at Visit Worcestershire New Road.A glistening fourth century of the season from the away side’s skipper saw Sussex add 122 runs to their overnight score, before they were bowled out for 350.With a deficit of 227, Jake Libby and Rehaan Edavalath added a century stand for the first wicket to throw the Pears a lifeline.Six wickets across the second half of the day however saw Worcestershire cling onto a slender lead of 43 runs heading into the third day with just four wickets intact.A resplendent morning at Visit Worcestershire New Road saw the home side land the first blow of the day when Tom Taylor bowled Jack Carson in the first over of the morning.A 53rd wicket of a remarkable season followed soon after for Taylor as Danny Lamb feathered a nick through to Rob Jones at second slip, to check the visitors progress at 245 for 7.Simpson registered his fourth hundred of a memorable Division One campaign, reaching the milestone in 138 balls and scoring 18 boundaries in the process, shortly after Ollie Robinson had departed for a brisk 24.Simpson kicked on as the visitors reached 350 and strengthened their grip on the match, before Matthew Waite’s introduction into the attack saw him take two wickets in four balls as he dismissed both Ari Karvelas and Jayden Unadkat, with Sussex all-out for 350 possessing a healthy lead of 227.Simpson finished unbeaten on 129, with his 19th first-class century the standout innings of the game.Libby surpassed 1000 first class runs for the season in the Rothesay County Championship early into the afternoon session as the Worcestershire reply got off to a cautious start.The shackles were freed by Libby however, as he moved through the gears with some dismissive pull shots through midwicket as Sussex’s opening bowlers grafted to no avail in the sunshine.Libby pressed on in fine style, reaching a third Division One half-century of the season in just 63 deliveries, as he and Edavalath added 113 for the first wicket on a pitch showing signs of flattening.Edavalath made 45 and Libby a superb 72, before the pair were dismissed inside four overs of one another, with Edavalath first lbw off a straightening Unadkat delivery and Libby following soon after having edged a ball behind to James Coles at slip to give the Indian seam bowler his second of the innings.Robinson collected his first wicket of the innings when he hurried Isaac Mohammed with a short ball to dismiss the teenager for 4.First-innings top scorer Dan Lategan and number five Rob Jones came together midway through the afternoon to add 63 for the fourth wicket with the hosts working hard to find a foothold in the game.Despite making it to the tea interval unscathed, Tom Haines ended the partnership in the 46th over of Worcestershire’s reply, as he pinned Lategan lbw for 30, with the hosts still 40 runs in arrears.Jones produced a gritty knock of 46, with Worcestershire heading towards the close at parity, but his wicket and the dismissal of Ethan Brookes handed Sussex back the initiative late on.

The wicketkeeper-batter has excelled in the finisher’s role in the IPL in the last three seasons, and is back in the reckoning after a stellar show for RCB

S Sudarshanan20-Apr-20241:57

Does Karthik have few more seasons of cricket left in him?

Dinesh Karthik will be 39 by the time the T20 World Cup starts in June. But he is showing no signs of slowing down and has said he would do “everything I can” to be on the flight to the competition in the West Indies and the USA.On the back of a stellar show for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in IPL 2024, Karthik is back in the reckoning as the wicketkeeper that bats in the lower-middle order. He has scored 226 runs, the third-most for RCB, at a strike rate of 205.45 primarily batting at Nos. 6, 7 and 8.”At this stage in my life, it would be the greatest feeling for me to represent India,” Karthik said on the eve of RCB’s game against Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens. “I am very, very keen to do so. There is nothing bigger in my life other than representing India in this T20 World Cup.Related

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“I also feel there are three very, very stable, honest people who are at the helm to decide what should be the best Indian team for the World Cup — Rahul Dravid, Rohit Sharma and Ajit Agarkar. And I am completely with them. I respect any decision that they take. But all I can say is I’m 100 percent ready, and I’ll do everything I can to be on that flight to the World Cup.”Ahead of the competition, Karthik had indicated that IPL 2024 will be his last and that he would also take a call on his international career soon. But the last three years in the IPL have liberated him to an extent that he made a strong case for the finisher’s role and made it to the T20 World Cup in 2022, which was his last outing for India.Dinesh Karthik kept RCB fighting with 83 off 35 as they chased 288•BCCI

No batter has scored more than Karthik’s 604 in the last three IPLs while batting at No. 6 or lower. And his strike rate of 175.07 is the best among those with over 280 runs in the said position since IPL 2022. He attributed his success to understanding his strengths and preparing accordingly.”These days as a player, you need to understand your strengths,” he said. “I’m not a [Andre] Russell or a [Kieron] Pollard who can just mishit a ball and get a six for it. So, I need to understand how I can beat gaps and what sort of balls I can hit for boundaries. And I realised there was a certain pattern in which bowlers were bowling to me, so I needed to try and work out a solution for that.”Hence, when I practice, I try and understand, okay, if this is what they’re going to bowl at me, how am I going to get a boundary, visualising a field that is going to be in place for me. So, I worked backwards, and that’s helped me really learn a couple of shots more, at the back end. It’s been great to go out there and express myself, and it’s been thoroughly enjoyable to do what I’m doing for RCB as a finisher.”Recently, India captain Rohit Sharma was heard on stump mic joking about Karthik’s World Cup aspirations. ” World Cup (Good going, DK! He has the World Cup in his mind),” Rohit was heard saying when RCB played Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium. In that match, Karthik scored an unbeaten 53 off 23 and helped RCB to 196 for 8 after walking in at 108 for 4 with under eight overs to go.”[I was] quite impressed, watching DK bat a couple of nights back, and Dhoni as well, came to play four balls, made a huge impact, that was the difference,” Rohit said on the podcast hosted by Michael Vaughan and Adam Gilchrist. “It will be hard to convince MS although he is coming to the US, to do something else. He is into golf now. DK will be easier to convince I guess.”

Marnus Labuschagne survived on the opening day at the SCG when he edged to slip

AAP05-Jan-2023Cricket Australia will consider changing the way broadcast vision is supplied to third umpires after a contentious not-out decision on day one of the third Test against South Africa in Sydney.Simon Harmer looked to have dismissed Marnus Labuschagne on 70 with a low catch in the slips. However, despite the umpire’s soft signal of out, third umpire Richard Kettleborough ruled that the ball had bounced before it entered Harmer’s hands.Kettleborough primarily reviewed side-on replays of the catch, but a front-on angle from the Seven Network threw the third umpire’s ruling into question when posted to social media on Wednesday.Related

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However, Kettleborough did not have access to the angle, because the third umpire is currently only provided with vision from the host broadcaster, Fox Sports.Cricket Australia CEO Nick Hockley defended the match officials’ ruling, but said CA was committed to conducting a review that would determine whether to provide the third umpire with footage from both television rights holders.”The broadcasting of cricket is probably the most complicated of any of the major sports,” he told . “We have a huge number of cameras. Yesterday was really, really fine margins.  The match referees and umpires are making the best calls they can with the information they have available.”It’s something we will think about and have a look at and review. We’ll have a look at it after the end of the Test match.”Low light and wet weather scuppered day one of the Test, most notably when play was brought to a halt for two-and-a-half hours in the afternoon.”It was extremely frustrating, particularly the combination of light and rain,” Hockley said.But neither playing through low light nor switching to a pink ball is the answer, according to Hockley, who is holding out for upgrades to the SCG’s lights.”Clearly the rules [about low light] are there with safety in mind,” he said.  “I think changing of the ball during play is really problematic. I think that introduces a little bit too much variability into the game.”I’m hopeful that with lighting upgrades, there’s a big move to LEDs from the traditional bulbs, that we’ll see fewer and fewer of these types of delays.”

Starc moves up as many as 10 places to reach eighth among ODI bowlers

ESPNcricinfo staff28-Jul-2021Sri Lanka’s Wanindu Hasaranga has leapfrogged Afghanistan’s new T20I captain Rashid Khan to be ranked career-best No. 2 among T20I bowlers. The ICC rankings list is led by South Africa’s Tabraiz Shamsi, who has a 72-point advantage following impressive returns on the tour of the Caribbean and Ireland earlier this month.As many as six wristspinners feature in the top 10 – the others being Adil Rashid (fourth), Adam Zampa (seventh) and Ish Sodhi (ninth). Hasaranga will have an opportunity to establish a lead over Khan, who is just one point behind, during the second and third T20Is against India this week. The 23-year-old legspinner picked 2 for 28 during the series opener in Colombo on Sunday.Bhuvneshwar Kumar, India’s vice-captain on tour, jumped four places to be ranked 16th, while Yuzvendra Chahal, whose tight spell reined in Sri Lanka in the first T20I, jumped 10 places to be ranked 21st. Fast bowler Dushmantha Chameera also moved up five places to 37th spot.

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The other gainers include India’s stand-in captain Shikhar Dhawan, who is joint-29th with Reeza Hendricks. The South Africa opener made a 48-ball 69, his sixth T20I half-century, in an impressive 127-run opening stand to help South Africa clean sweep Ireland in Belfast last week.In the ODI arena, Josh Hazlewood made significant gains following an excellent tour of the Caribbean, jumping to No. 2 after taking five wickets and starring in Australia’s 2-1 series win. His new-ball partner Mitchell Starc, who also came up with a Player-of-the-Series performance in picking 11 wickets, jumped 10 places to be ranked eighth. The list is headed by New Zealand’s Trent Boult.Among the batters, Alex Carey jumped three places to be ranked just outside the top-20 (22nd), while Avishka Fernando, who struck a match-winning half-century against India to lift Sri Lanka off the bottom of the World Cup Super League points table, is now ranked 52nd.

The South Africa-born batsman, who has enjoyed a prolific run for Wellington, will become eligible on August 28

ESPNcricinfo staff31-Mar-2020Devon Conway, the South Africa-born batsman who plays for Wellington, will be eligible to represent New Zealand from August 28, the ICC has confirmed.Conway left Johannesburg in September 2017, at the age of 26, to try and forge a cricket career in New Zealand. He had played extensively at provincial level, the second tier of South African domestic cricket, but had struggled to make an impression in his sporadic appearances in top-tier franchise cricket.The move to New Zealand has been vastly productive as far as Conway’s batting returns go: in 17 first-class games for Wellington, he has scored 1598 runs at the stellar average of 72.63, with four hundreds including an unbeaten 327 against Canterbury last October, only the eighth triple-hundred scored in New Zealand.The extent of Conway’s appetite for runs can be gauged by the fact that he topped the run charts in all three domestic competitions in the 2019-20 season – the first-class Plunket Shield, the List A Ford Trophy, and the T20 Super Smash – and in two of the three tournaments in 2018-19. Conway’s stupendous 2019-20 run also coincided with Wellington bagging the Plunket Shield and Super Smash double.With those numbers behind him, Conway seems almost certain to join the likes of Grant Elliott and Neil Wagner as South-Africa-born-and-raised cricketers to play for New Zealand.”It’s really awesome to have that solid date, 28th of August, as a reminder to say that you’re pretty close,” Conway said in a media teleconference on Tuesday. “In saying that, it doesn’t guarantee selection. So I am pretty pretty happy to hear about that, but you’ve just got to keep working hard and hopefully get an opportunity to break into that Black Caps team, which is pretty awesome at the moment – you’ve got world-class players there, and it won’t be easy to get into that team.”The ICC has granted Conway an exceptional circumstance dispensation, which means he can play in tour games before his August 28 eligibility deadline, leaving him available for selection for New Zealand’s tour of Bangladesh, which is scheduled to start on August 12, or for New Zealand A’s tour of India, which is set to begin on August 15.The COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the globe and putting all cricket – and all sport – in suspension, however, means those dates only exist on paper for now.”Little bit mixed feelings at the moment,” Conway said. “Obviously really happy to hear the news about my eligibility, but then again, in saying that, with regards to what’s happening at the moment throughout the world, just puts [everything] in perspective.”Conway has not been able to bat during the lockdown that’s in place in New Zealand, with all training facilities shut, but he’s continued to work on his fitness.”I’m trying to do as much physical work as possible, as it allows me, but I also try and focus on doing some of those eye exercises that are quite important to me, and using skills like boxing to stay active – I’m enjoying that recently,” Conway said. “There’s not a lot that we can do, but as much as you can do, it’s important to do during this period.”