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Stokes insists under-fire Chris Silverwood retains dressing room’s support

ESPNcricinfo staff02-Jan-2022Ben Stokes has insisted that he has never held any ambition to be England’s Test captain on a permanent basis and that Joe Root and Chris Silverwood retain the “thorough support” of the dressing room.Root enjoyed a remarkable period with the bat in 2021, breaking England’s record for most runs in a calendar year, but has come under fire for his captaincy during the Ashes with Geoffrey Boycott, Michael Atherton, Ian Chappell and Ricky Ponting among his more high-profile critics.Stokes, England’s designated vice-captain, led the Test side against West Indies in July 2020 when Root was on paternity leave and stood in as ODI captain against Pakistan last summer following a Covid-19 outbreak. He is widely seen as the only viable candidate to replace Root, but insisted that he had no intentions of doing so.Related

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“I’ve never really had an ambition to be a captain,” Stokes told reporters in Sydney. “That’s totally Joe’s decision. He shouldn’t be forced into doing it. I’m sure Cooky [Alastair Cook] felt the same way. He did it for so long. When he knew his time was up, his time was up [but] those discussions haven’t been entered anywhere near Joe.”I don’t sense that at all with Joe. He’s brought this team a long way. He’s done some great things. Obviously this series hasn’t gone too well – not from a captaincy point of view but from a team and results point of view. Unfortunately, the captain and coach bear the scrutiny for that but there are 10 other guys out there in the field beside the captain.”Captaincy is more than about setting fields, picking the team, making decisions out there in the middle. A captain is someone you want to go out and play for. Joe Root is someone I always want to play for.”Stokes also threw his support behind Silverwood, who on Sunday became the latest confirmed Covid case in England’s touring party and is self-isolating in Melbourne with his family. Silverwood looks likely to pay for England’s crushing defeat with his job but Stokes insisted that he retained the players’ support.”At the end of the day, the most important people’s opinions are those guys in the dressing room and they’ve got our thorough support,” he said. “Chris Silverwood… he’s a real players’ coach. He stands up for you as individuals and players as well.”All the hype in the media recently about their futures, it’s your [the media’s] job to write that. But they know full well they have the support of everyone in there and that’s all that matters.”Chris Silverwood is under growing pressure•Getty Images

Stokes has struggled to make an impact on his return to the Test side after missing the summer series against New Zealand and India due to a finger injury and then a mental health break. He has managed only 101 runs across six innings and has taken four wickets at 62.25, and described his own series as “pretty average”.”I look at things from a team point of view and obviously coming into the fourth game 3-0 down, there’s not a lot of positives when you say it like that,” he said.”Just getting back out there from a personal point of view – being back out amongst the lads has been great. I’d much rather the results were going our way and obviously they haven’t been. But you’re representing your country, representing England in an Ashes series, so you take the rough with the smooth.”We’ve shown in small stages that we’re capable… but we’ve not done it for long enough or consistently enough and Australia have managed to get through those periods where we’ve had the upper hand. It’s about doing it for longer than that and putting some pride back into the badge.”

PCB chairman Ramiz Raja has called in the board of directors for a meeting on Wednesday afternoon to take up the matter

Umar Farooq29-Sep-2021Wasim Khan, the PCB CEO, has resigned from his position four months before the end of his contract, the third big exit since the arrival of Ramiz Raja as the new chairman of the board. Wasim follows the departures earlier this month of head coach Misbah-ul-Haq and bowling coach Waqar Younis, both of whom left after Ramiz’s formal appointment.”When I arrived in 2019, there was a real need to build relationships and restore and enhance the global image and reputation of the PCB and Pakistan cricket,” Wasim said in a statement. “With decisive and strategic decision-making, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic, we succeeded in earning the goodwill and respect of the global cricketing family, which I am hopeful will lead to increased international cricket being hosted in Pakistan in future.”With a five-year strategy in place, new domestic structure in its third season and the investment in women’s cricket in an upward direction, I feel it is the right time to move on and reunite with my young family. They have sacrificed a lot so that I could fulfill my dreams of contributing to Pakistan cricket, which will always remain very close to my heart.”Related

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Wasim’s departure continues a period of uncertainty for Pakistan, with the new chairman starting to settle down, and the pullouts of New Zealand and England. That has affected Pakistan’s on-field preparations for the T20 World Cup; without the New Zealand and England T20Is, Pakistan will have played one out of the 12 games they had scheduled in the run-up to the event.Wasim had four months left on his current contract, though he had been verbally offered another three-year term by Ramiz’s predecessor, Ehsan Mani. He was, however, thought to be undecided about whether he wanted to take that up, primarily because he was unsure how secure his role would be should Mani move on. Ramiz’s arrival has brought with it considerable change already, not least in his more hands-on steering of the board than Mani’s.Ramiz has been the more prominent face of the PCB’s response to the fallout from the tour cancellations and has held multiple meetings with players of the men’s national team, as well as PSL franchises. Wasim is also believed to not have had any input in the appointments of Matthew Hayden and Vernon Philander on to Pakistan’s coaching staff – all situations and decisions in which a board CEO would ordinarily play a role.All this would’ve been a drastic change to the role Wasim had been in over since early 2019. Though the revamp of Pakistan’s domestic cricket was forced upon the board by the Prime Minister Imran Khan, Wasim was tasked with its implementation. He oversaw a difficult dismantling of the previous mix of departmental and regional cricket by implementing the provincial-team model – difficult because, in the shrinking of the player pool, a large number of first-class cricketers were overnight in danger of being bundled out of their careers and livelihood.After the New Zealand and England pullouts, Pakistan will have played one out of the 12 T20Is they had scheduled in the run-up to the World Cup•Getty Images

But, by revamping the PCB’s domestic cricket department and combining it with National Cricket Academies and turning it into a high-performance centre, more roles were created for some of the more established and senior first-class cricketers. Positions were also found for other players in the second XI sides of provincial teams as well as in newly-built city associations.Wasim was also a key figure in improving Pakistan’s status as a venue that is safe and welcoming for touring teams. But for the Covid-19 pandemic, Pakistan would have staged two entire PSLs in the country and under his tenure, there was also the return of Test cricket to the country. It could be argued that the groundwork for these developments was laid by the board administration before Wasim’s arrival, but the key move under him was that the PCB was not luring teams to visit by paying them extra money.Wasim’s personal relationship with key figures, especially in England, was instrumental in convincing teams to tour Pakistan. But, with New Zealand and England both pulling out – and with Wasim so closely associated in ensuring that Pakistan visited England in their time of need and in convincing players to undergo especially tough isolation in New Zealand – the fallout is bound to have reflected poorly on the progress he had made.Though his role was often curtailed by events and factors beyond his control, Wasim was the first CEO to be operating under a new board constitution in which the role actually had some influence. Previously, board chairmen have been all-powerful but under this constitution, the CEO held more say in the day-to-day management of board affairs.The chairman, as is becoming clear with Ramiz, still holds considerable power, but more at policy level. The chairman, according to the constitution, holds no final say in the selection of national teams for any series or event or has the power of naming a captain and vice-captain, with the CEO overseeing that responsibility and the chairman only allowed the final say, for which the chairman will be briefed by the CEO.But PCB will not name a replacement – permanent or interim – for Wasim at the moment. His departure is not expected to impact any operational matters and all signs point towards Ramiz, as chairman, taking on more of the role.

Players restricted to hotel-ground loop but allowed to mingle in the team room at the hotel

Nagraj Gollapudi12-Jan-2021Making the bed. Cleaning the toilet. No room service. Ordering food on apps. No access to the swimming pool. Not only will Ajinkya Rahane’s India have to deal with the mounting injuries on the field, they will also have to contend with new house – and housekeeping – rules on the final leg of their Australian journey. And it has rankled the Indian camp, which – along with the Australians – landed in Brisbane on Tuesday afternoon for the final Test at the Gabba, starting Friday.India were very reluctant to travel to Brisbane because of a combination of factors. The big one was the fear of being restricted in their hotel rooms when not at the ground, reminiscent of the two-week hard quarantine the visitors observed upon landing in Sydney in November.However, through lengthy deliberations over the past few weeks, Cricket Australia has assured BCCI that the Indian squad would not have to deal with a hard quarantine. As an example, though their movement would still be restricted between the hotel and the Gabba, they would be able to mingle in the team room. That finally paved the way for India agreeing to travel to Brisbane.What annoyed the squad, though, was discovering on their arrival at the team hotel that there would be no housekeeping. More than one person in the Indian camp said they had never been told about the DIY life at the hotel. Although they were not allowed to roam freely in Sydney during the third Test either, they had the room service and housekeeping facilities at the hotel. Here, not so. “There is a gym, a basic one,” one person said. “No pool, no room service, no housekeeping.”Related

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There is no in-house food or beverage option at the hotel either. It is understood that an external contractor has been hired to provide catering to the two teams but they cannot order anything customised. They do have the option, though, of ordering via food apps.One reason behind the absence of housekeeping and other hotel staff could be that the BCCI had told CA it would want the Indian squad to fly out of Brisbane immediately after the Test. To ensure maximum safeguards, it is possible CA agreed to having the bare minimum hotel staff to avoid unnecessary contact with a person outside the bio-secure environment.However, the Indian camp is not satisfied with the arrangements, especially considering there are some players traveling with families.The other major point of irritation for the Indian camp is the ban on using the hotel pool. Several players with niggles or injuries, including key bowlers – Jasprit Bumrah and R Ashwin – would want to utilise the swimming pool as part of the recovery process. However, the pools are off limits because of the fear of community spread of the Covid-19 virus.The Indians were also afraid of being asked to isolate for a further two weeks on their return to India from Brisbane because of one reported case of a person being infected by the new UK-strain of the virus in Brisbane. That would have affected their plans for the home series against England, starting February 5. As of now, though, there is no bar on travelers flying in to India from Brisbane.

The allrounder has said it will take another 24 hours before he knows the full extent of the injury

Mohammad Isam25-Jan-2021Shakib Al Hasan will have to wait another 24 hours before knowing the full extent of the groin injury he picked up during the third ODI against West Indies. Shakib pulled up while bowling his fifth over, and left the field after receiving the physio’s attention, leaving Soumya Sarkar to complete the over.Shakib did appear in the post-match presentation to collect his Player-of-the-Series award, completing a remarkable comeback to international cricket after serving a one-year ban. He took a four-wicket haul in the first ODI and scored a fifty in the third game. There’s fear, however, that the groin injury may affect his participation in the Test series that begins on February 3.”I don’t think we can say anything for sure right now,” Shakib said. “It doesn’t seem great, seeing how it is now. But we have to wait 24 hours before making a comment. I am very happy at the way we won the series. I would have felt better had I been at the ground the whole time in the last game. This is the only disappointment. Otherwise I am happy with my overall batting and bowling.”Shakib’s injury apart, it has been a mostly happy time for the Bangladesh team, particularly the newly-appointed ODI captain Tamim Iqbal, who began his stint with a 3-0 series win. Tamim said he was pleased to see his team-mates not let up despite clinching the series in the second ODI.”We played really good cricket, and the hunger to play well was very noticeable in the dressing room during all three matches,” he said. “It made me happy.”I didn’t see anyone relaxing after winning the first two matches. We are aware of the [World Cup Super League] points system so we had to keep in mind the issue of direct qualification. It makes every ODI important.”Tamim said the two players who were brought in today – Mohammad Saifuddin and Taskin Ahmed – deserved to be in the XI.”Saifuddin has been our first-choice fast bowler for a long time,” Tamim said. “He didn’t play the first two games since the team management thought he wasn’t 100 per cent fit. He had to come back into the XI.”Taskin was bowling unbelievably well in the two recent [domestic] tournaments. He didn’t disappoint us when we gave him the opportunity today. He bowled well today.”

Spin coach hopes seamers can expose England’s “long tail” on second day

Danyal Rasool21-Aug-2020Spin bowling coach Mushtaq Ahmed admitted Pakistan had found bowling in “tough conditions” hard work on the first day of the third Test, but maintained levelling the series remained within their grasp.On a day dominated by an unbroken 205-run partnership between Zak Crawley – who scored his maiden Test hundred and stands 29 runs from a double – and Jos Buttler, unbeaten on 87, Mushtaq admitted it would take time for a “very young bowling attack” to learn how to handle pressure.”It was quite tough,” Mushtaq said at the post-day press conference. “The weather played a huge role. The pitch was very flat, and the toss was vital on that pitch. And because the wind was there the whole day, it was very difficult for the bowlers to control their line and length consistently. It was tough especially for young bowlers like Naseem [Shah] and Shaheen [Shah Afridi]. They are new to Test cricket but they made a huge effort and they can be proud of it.”I think we are working on how to deal with being under pressure. When the opposition attacks your young bowlers, it naturally is difficult for them to handle it. But obviously, the credit goes to Crawley and Buttler. They played very well, and this is a flat first-day pitch. The wind made it even tougher, and that’s not an excuse, but it’s also reality.”ALSO READ: Crawley’s maiden ton puts England in driving seatThere were moments during the day when it appeared unlikely Pakistan would have to walk off at stumps quite so despondent. The visiting side had the better of the first half-hour with Shaheen coaxing a nick from Rory Burns to the slips in just his third over, while Crawley was put under pressure early on in a hostile spell where Shaheen honed in on the right-hander’s stumps. Even though England settled soon after and a sharp counter-attack guided them out of danger at lunch, Pakistan would strike back after the interval, England precariously poised at 127 for 4 at one point, with no specialist batsmen to follow.But England repeated the tactic that had served them so well before lunch, and indeed on the fourth day at Old Trafford. A quick counter saw Pakistan spread the field, and any thoughts they harboured of running through the England line-up were quickly replaced by more conservative ideas. That freed up Crawley, who looked invincible by then, and Buttler, who, in an over that seemed to herald a decisive shift in momentum, took Yasir Shah apart, smashing two sixes and a boundary in one over to bring up the 100-partnership.”When a spinner goes out with young quicks, he has two kinds of responsibilities,” Mushtaq said. “You have to ensure you’re not too expensive, and also be the man who needs to break partnerships. He bowled 29 overs in a spell, and it was all against the wind. All series, England’s plan has been to attack him so he doesn’t settle. So there’s a lot of pressure on Yasir, but we’d been telling him what a match-winner he is.”His responsibilities this series have increased. Previously, we used to have [Mohammad] Amir and other senior bowlers who kept a lid on the scoring, and that way Yasir was free to just attack. So the burden on him has increased but he bowled very well today, and he’s enjoying the challenge on. But they attacked him well, and without life in the wicket, he struggled.”Rory Burns sees an outside edge scooped up at gully•AFP

He also backed Naseem to come good after a challenging day despite bowling arguably the ball of the innings so far to get rid of the England captain, Joe Root. After a wayward start, he produced a pearler which seemed away from middle and off, and all Root could do was get a thick outside edge, a brilliant moment of play for Pakistan capped by wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan snaring a sensational diving catch from in front of first slip.It was one that caught everyone, not least Root, by surprise. But as figures of 17-4-66-1 suggest, it wasn’t all hunky-dory for the teenager. Mushtaq denied he was tired and needed a rest, instead emphasising the importance of experience for Naseem.”Naseem didn’t bowl too many overs in the first two Tests, so fatigue isn’t the issue,” he said. “To learn Test cricket, he needs to play Test cricket. The more he bowls and the more difficult conditions in which he bowls, the better it is for his career. He has the talent, but this is a learning process.”Today was a difficult day to bowl on, but he’ll learn from it and it will come good later in his career. Sometimes when you have tough days, you learn, and this is what Waqar [Younis] was teaching him, about how much effort to put in, and how to bowl to specific batsmen. The quicker he learns, the stronger Pakistan’s bowling attack will get.”We need to try and bowl them out in the first session under 400. That leaves us with over three-and-a-half days and an opportunity to put up a big total ourselves. You never know what can happen in the fourth innings, and we have to believe in ourselves. They may have had a good day, but we’ll come out fresh tomorrow.”The ball is still new, and even if one of our bowlers stands up and makes a contribution, they have a long tail. The pitch is flat and the conditions are there to be exploited. England’s bowlers will find it difficult, too, and we believe we can still win the Test.”

The state was seeking confirmation as to whether their elite sport exemptions remained

Daniel Brettig06-Aug-2020Victoria’s men’s and women’s squads stopped training at their Junction Oval training base in Melbourne on Thursday as the state association sought clarity on whether they could continue pre-season programs amid the state government’s ramp up of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions across the state, including an 8pm to 5am curfew.Until this week, the squads had been permitted to train under an exemption granted to professional sporting bodies, and the late arrival of updated regulations for the Melbourne metropolitan area had caused CV to pause scheduled training on Thursday as a precaution. A list of permitted workplaces was published about 1am on Thursday.CV is understood to have sought written confirmation of their ability to continue training under the exemption terms published early on Thursday morning, with sessions for both squads likely to resume on Friday or Monday at the earliest.Victoria’s players have been placed at a considerable disadvantage relative to other state squads, all of which have enjoyed far less stringent restrictions in the absence of any outbreaks comparable to the one currently sweeping Victoria.The relevant regulations on “Restricted Activities Directions” feature the following exception: “A person who owns, controls or operates a physical recreation facility in the restricted area may operate that facility if it is operated for the exclusive use of training of professional and high performance sports persons only.”A person who owns, controls or operates an arena or stadium in the restricted area may operate that facility for the purpose of providing an exclusive training venue for professional and high performance sports persons at any one time.”A person who operates a facility … must only permit to attend the facility a person who is necessary for the management of the facility or professional sporting training.”It goes on to give the examples of coaching staff and facility managers as necessary attendees in addition to the athletes themselves. In the accompanying regulations for “Stay At Home Directions”, the section on leaving home premises to attend work or education states: “A person may leave the premises only if it is not reasonably practicable for the person to work from the premises.”In concert with Cricket Australia, CV has been working through a range of scenarios for the men’s and women’s state squads ahead of the domestic season, dates for which are yet to be announced.”I’m just doing some pre-planning as to how it could look if we were forced to quarantine or get an exemption to be able to quarantine in one of the northern states or across the west,” CV’s cricket manager Shaun Graf told SEN Radio last month.”If we had to quarantine and these [Marsh Cup] games are later in September we’d be looking to have to get out of here if we were able to early September, hopefully get exemptions across the other states and play away from home. That’s one the scenarios I’m looking at, hence I’m looking at we could be away for anything up to two months.”

Abbas and Musa took two wickets each but Naseem was the most expensive bowler on show

Alex Malcolm16-Nov-2019Pakistan head into the first Test in Brisbane having only claimed seven wickets against an inexperienced Cricket Australia XI in their final two-day tour match in Perth which ended in a draw.Just four days after bowling out some of Australia’s leading first-class players for just 122 at Perth Stadium, the bowlers struggled to make significant inroads against a very young CA XI batting line-up in 40 plus degree heat on a flat WACA surface. CA XI did slump to 2 for 6 early but half-centuries to Victorian Jonathan Merlo and West Australians Matthew Spoors and Bradley Hope ensured the youngsters survived 79.5 overs before the players shook hands. Merlo and Spoors put on 122 in nearly a session and a half of batting while Hope finished unbeaten on 50.Back after missing the Australia A game, Mohammad Abbas bowled with typical frugalness taking 2 for 22 from 14 overs, including CA XI’s most credentialed player Jake Doran. Muhammad Musa also bowled tidily claiming 2 for 32 from 14 overs.But after Naseem Shah created a flurry of excitement with his burst against Australia A, he found the going much tougher at the WACA. He went wicketless in 12 overs and conceded 58 runs to be Pakistan’s most expensive bowler in terms of economy rate. Spinners Kashif Bhatti, Yasir Shah and Iftikhar Ahmed each claimed a wicket but unsurprisingly did not find much purchase on the day two WACA strip.Imran Khan and Shaheen Shah Afridi did not bowl after their strong performances against Australia A.

His unbeaten 89 took Ireland to an imposing total and his two wickets ensured it was well protected

ESPNcricinfo staff21-Oct-2019The tussle for the top-of-the-table standing in Group B of the T20 World Cup Qualifier tightened as Ireland completed a comfortable 35-run win over Oman. Oman slipped to third place after suffering their first defeat of the tournament, but they remained tied on four points with table toppers UAE and second-placed Ireland.Asked to bat, Ireland put on a dominant display with No. 3 Gareth Delany making an unbeaten 89 off 49 balls, a performance he would later back up with the ball.His knock formed the backbone of their 183 for 3, but the rest of the line-up played its part with opener Kevin O’Brien contributing a 28-ball 41 and No. 4 Harry Tector also making a 20-ball 28. On 39 from 28 at the fall of Tector’s wicket, Delany cut loose, his next 50 runs taking just 20 more deliveries. In this period, Delany struck six fours and two sixes, with his partner Mark Adair having to do little other than turn the strike over, as he finished with a nine-ball 11 in their unbeaten stand of 64 which came off just 30 balls.Oman needed a strong start and through Khawar Ali got just that as they raced to 47 in the sixth over despite the loss of opener Jatinder Singh for 10. But Delany couldn’t be kept out of the game much longer as he gave Ireland an opening with the wicket of Aqib Ilyas, who had just smashed him for consecutive fours.While Khawar continued on his merry way, bringing up his 50 off just 32 balls, Oman lost captain Zeeshan Maqsood for 3 just after. Disaster struck in the form of who else but Delany, who removed Khawar next over to leave Oman reeling at 77 for 4. Wicketkeeper Suraj Kumar and Aamir Kaleem, though, weren’t throwing in the towel yet as they added 32 in 20 balls to keep their team in the hunt. But their departure off successive deliveries from George Dockrell in the 13th over, with Kaleem run-out and Suraj stumped, dented their chances of posing a serious challenge in the final few overs. They eventually limped to 148 for 9 in 20 overs.

Ishant Sharma’s ninth five-wicket haul in Tests put India in the driver’s seat with three more days to go

The Report by Sreshth Shah23-Aug-20192:23

Feels great that Kohli, the captain, has faith in me – Jadeja

A blazing final spell from Ishant Sharma, in which he took three wickets in two overs, broke West Indies’ resistance on the second day of the first Test in North Sound.Ishant reduced West Indies from 174 for 5 to 179 for 8, tilting a see-sawing day in India’s favour. He picked up his ninth five-wicket haul in the process, finishing the day with 5 for 42, but it wasn’t his only contribution. Ishant’s crucial 19 runs, part of a 60-run partnership for the eighth wicket with Ravindra Jadeja in the morning, helped set up India’s 297.West Indies batted two full sessions on the day – losing three wickets after lunch and a further five after tea. At stumps, they were 108 runs behind with only two wickets in hand.They began their innings positively, with John Campbell and Kraigg Brathwaite seeing off new-ball spells from Ishant and Jasprit Bumrah without much trouble, with Campbell in particular looking aggressive. He found the boundary four times in the first seven overs, which forced Virat Kohli to bring in Mohammed Shami, who struck right away, as Campbell’s inside edge dragged a yorker onto his stumps.Brathwaite and debutant Shamarh Brooks consolidated over the next ten overs, but scored only 12 runs in the period. Ishant’s inswingers kept both batsmen in check, while Jadeja’s accuracy dried up the runs. When Ishant bowled full in the 18th over, Brathwaite tried to drive him straight back, but a turning bat forced the ball to pop up, knee-high, for Ishant, who was composed enough in the follow through, to hold on.Brooks looked mature in the middle, but he fell trying to cut Jadeja shortly before the tea break. At 50 for 2, he failed to pick the arm ball and made room to cut one that was too close to him. It found the outside edge, only to lob off the wicketkeeper’s thigh to first slip. Two quick wickets brought two new batsmen – Roston Chase and Darren Bravo – in the middle and they had to rebuild.Bravo took the aggressive route despite the three early wickets. Two fours set the tone for his innings, and a lofted six over long-on made it appear that he was not going to waste balls that were there to hit. But he was trapped lbw for 18 by Bumrah, who steamed in from around the wicket and struck Bravo in front of the stumps with a wobbly length ball, as he missed the flick. Bravo asked for a review but it was unsuccessful.Chase looked the most efficient West Indies batsman on the day, finding the gaps off the fast bowlers and unafraid to take on Jadeja. He smacked the left-arm spinner over long-on and even pinched seven runs off a Bumrah over. An exquisite cover drive off Shami for four in the 42nd over was followed by an inside edge that just missed the stumps, but Chase was gone next over anyway. Trying to flick Ishant, Chase, on 48, handed a catch straight to short midwicket, where an alert KL Rahul latched on. At that stage, West Indies were 130 for 5, still trailing by 167.Ishant Sharma holds on in his follow through•Associated Press

West Indies’ long batting order – with Shimron Hetmyer at No. 7 – briefly appeared handy. Hetmyer survived a vicious over from Bumrah, where he nearly edged a catch to slip, but soon found his footing. He sliced Jadeja over mid-off for a four, while Shai Hope kept the runs ticking. Searching for a wicket, Kohli introduced part-time offspinner Hanuma Vihari, but both batsmen, who play spin well, thwarted his efforts.Following a brief rain delay, play continued but Hope was soon dismissed and that ended the 44-run sixth-wicket stand. As Hope tried to defend a length delivery from Ishant, the ball cut away from him to take the edge and Rishabh Pant did well to dive forward, with the ball dipping towards his right.Jason Holder walked in late in the evening, and together with Hetmyer looked to see the day off. But Ishant wasn’t done. Hetmyer drove a full delivery back to Ishant who dived to hold on to the shin-high catch for his second caught-and-bowled dismissal of the day.That exposed West Indies’ tail and they were further dented when Kemar Roach fell three balls later, edging Ishant’s cross-seamed delivery to Kohli at second slip. Ishant’s fifth wicket was West Indies’ eighth. He could have had a sixth when Holder top-edged in the next over in the direction of third man, but Vihari – racing in – failed to reach there in time. As play ended, it was a day of missed opportunities for West Indies. Each of their frontline batsmen went into double digits, but no one managed a fifty.Earlier in the day, Jadeja and Ishant frustrated the hosts with the bat for the majority of the first session. Their effort helped India nearly reach 300, as the visitors added 94 runs to their overnight total of 203 for 6.India lost overnight batsman Pant in the day’s third over. From around the wicket, Roach found the outside edge with a ball that left the batsman who was trying to drive, only to be caught by Holder at second slip. Thereafter, Ishant bunted the few balls that were aimed at the stumps while patiently leaving those that weren’t. Jadeja dealt in ones and twos while picking boundaries whenever he found the opportunity to free his arms.Jadeja made use of the short ball he got from Holder when he went around the wicket and then pulled Roach’s short delivery for another four.The short ball, however, was not so easy for Ishant, although he did play at them with soft hands. He was often attacked with the deliveries aimed at his midriff, and many balls from Holder came off Ishant’s glove or handle. A few even fell marginally short of square leg, before Ishant fell to Shannon Gabriel, dismissed by a slow yorker outside the off stump. Ishant tried to dig the ball out, but only managed to roll it back onto the stumps.Shami lasted just one ball, and when No. 11 Bumrah walked in, Jadeja upped the scoring rate. He slapped Gabriel past the slip cordon to stamp his intent, and with Bumrah lasting 15 balls, Jadeja completed his 11th half-century by cutting through point. Playing as the only designated spinner in the team, Jadeja played a near-chanceless innings up until his fifty. Shortly after hitting the Test’s first six, Jadeja tried to hook Holder but ended up slicing a catch to wicketkeeper Hope, who collected his fifth catch.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s painstaking 216-minute 65 provided the platform as Lancashire recovered in style after losing early wickets against Surrey

Paul Edwards at Old Trafford28-Apr-2018
ScorecardHunger is so often the best sauce. Having lost the first day of this game to seven hours’ rain, spectators at Emirates Old Trafford gave themselves to Saturday’s cricket with fresh intensity. The fewer balls, the greater share of scrutiny perhaps, and few batsmen devote themselves to their craft more assiduously than Shivnarine Chanderpaul, whose ability to bat long has been valued by every county he has represented.By the tall-shadowed end of a long day, Chanderpaul’s painstaking 216-minute 65 might have faded from the memory and been replaced by the more obviously spectacular fifties struck by both Steven Croft and Jordan Clark. For their part, Surrey supporters could with justice pointed to the early breakthroughs made by Jade Dernbach or to the three wickets taken by Amar Virdi on a pitch which eased as the sun elbowed the early clouds aside.Yet it was still Chanderpaul who did the groundwork for a home recovery which was completed in evening sunshine and in an atmosphere of unfamiliar affluence by Clark. Whatever folk may say about the appearance of a 43- year-old in the modern game, Lancashire have particular need of Chanderpaul at a time when their top four batsmen, all of them hopeful of Test selection, have made one half-century in 20 individual attempts this infant season. Thus, the Guyanan will hardly have been too surprised to find himself walking out to bat inside the first hour of play with the scoreboard reading a sickly 23 for 3.By the time Chanderpaul departed, over four hours later and with those 65 runs against his name, Lancashire’s fortunes had been restored to the extent suggested by 206 for 6. He had added 88 for the fourth wicket with Liam Livingstone and a further 78 for the sixth with Croft. Surrey’s bowlers had failed to press home their early advantage and the final session was Lancashire’s.Indeed it could have been even better for Livingstone’s team had not Ben Foakes anticipated Croft’s sweep and taken a superb leg-side catch; and better still had not Ollie Pope dived at square leg – when still wearing his fielding helmet, if you please – to dismiss Clark for a 101-ball 78. Both those wickets were taken by Virdi, who had earlier persuaded Chanderpaul to forget the watchwords of his career and frolic down the wicket only to sky a catch to Scott Borthwick at mid-off.Shivnarine Chanderpaul helped dig Lancashire out of a hole•Getty Images

Those three dismissals may have taken a little glister off the Lancastrian day but they could not diminish its fundamental worth. Having collected their first batting point of the season just before Chanderpaul’s dismissal, the home side had added three more by the close. Most of those runs were scored by Croft, who reached his fifty with a six off a Virdi full toss, and Clark, who punished Sam Curran when Surrey took the new ball.The temper of the day had certainly been transformed from the morning session when Surrey carried themselves as though they expected to take wickets. And before long the bearing of the cricketers was translated into achievement as Lancashire lost three wickets for eight runs in the space of 15 balls. Haseeb Hameed was first to go when he pushed forward defensively to Dernbach but only edged a catch to Dean Elgar at slip. The departure of the England opener for 4 was followed exactly two overs later by that of Alex Davies, Lancashire’s No. 3 driving Dernbach to shortish mid-on where Matt Dunn dived to his left to take a fine catch.Two balls later Keaton Jennings was leg before to Curran to leave the home side in a familiar cart but that marked the lowest point in Lancashire’s fortunes. By mid-afternoon Surrey bowlers were fighting hard to restrict the batsmen, efforts that were assisted when second slip Borthwick dived full length to his right and grabbed a one-handed catch off the bowling of Curran to remove Dane Vilas.The fielder then milked the moment and posed motionless with arm and ball aloft, looking rather like the Statue of Liberty. But a couple of hours later it was the huddled masses in the Old Trafford pavilion who were celebrating unaccustomed prosperity. They probably thought it their Manifest Destiny.