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Both teams will picked based on performances during the tournament

Nagraj Gollapudi20-Feb-2020The one-off all-star match that was meant to preface IPL 2020 will now be played after the tournament. The match was originally scheduled to be played three days before the IPL, which begins on March 29, but due to operational reasons it is now set to be played after the tournament which ends on May 24. No date or venue has been finalised yet though.IPL Governing Council chairman Brijesh Patel confirmed the development, saying the two teams for the game would be picked based on the performances of the players in the tournament. “It will be after the tournament,” Patel, a former India batsman, told ESPNcricnfo. “We will see the performance of the players and on that basis the two teams will be selected.”The all-star match was originally proposed by the Patel and found support from the BCCI. ESPNcricinfo understands at the last IPL Governing Council meeting, held on January 27, it was decided to have a selection committee in place to pick the two teams. That meeting was attended by the BCCI’s top brass including Sourav Ganguly (president), Jay Shah (secretary) and Arun Dhumal (treasurer).In that meeting, the date for the all-star match was tentatively set as March 25 while Mumbai was picked as the venue, considering the tournament opener between defending champions Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings was scheduled at the Wankhede stadium on March 29.Subsequently, however, the BCCI realised it did not have much time to get various things in place including the availability of players as well raising a broadcast tender. The IPL begins barely 10 days after the three-match ODI series between India and South Africa, which ends on March 18 in Kolkata.Immediately after the ODIs against South Africa, five Indian players are set to travel to Bangladesh to participate in two T20Is between an Asian XI and a World XI, organised by the Bangladesh Cricket Board to commemorate the birth centenary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh’s founding father. The BCCI has not yet announced who will be going, but some prominent India players are part of the list of names approved.One of the officials, who attended the January IPL governing council meeting, said there is ample time now to float the tender and discuss the rights for the all-star match with Star, who hold the broadcast rights for IPL till 2022. It is understood a team lead by Patel was meant to meet up with Star to talk about the tender for the all-star match. That meeting is yet to take place. At the January 27 meeting it was also decided that the proceeds from the match will likely be used for a charitable purpose.

Centuries from Simon Harmer and Tom Westley put Essex in complete command against Surrey at the Kia Oval, where the champions ended day two facing their first defeat of a triumphant season

ECB Reporters Network25-Sep-2018
ScorecardCenturies from Simon Harmer and Tom Westley put Essex in complete command against Surrey at the Kia Oval, where the champions ended day two facing their first defeat of a triumphant season. At stumps, Surrey were 88 for 1 in their second innings – still 322 runs behind – after Harmer, Westley and Adam Wheater, with a punchy 68 from 105 balls, had swept Essex to 441 for 8 declared.Mark Stoneman, dropped on 5 off Matt Quinn by replacement keeper Michael Pepper – who dived across first slip but only succeeded in deflecting the edge into M Vijay’s left knee – moved confidently to 41 not out from 63 balls although Rory Burns gave Jamie Porter a simple return catch on 21 when Surrey’s captain attempted to flip a short ball to leg but got a leading edge instead.Harmer and Wheater added an unbroken 159 in 36 overs in the afternoon session, establishing a new seventh-wicket record for Essex against Surrey and piling on the agony for the runaway Specsavers County Championship winners after Westley’s dismissal in the last over before lunch.Wheater, however, had to retire hurt during the tea interval after failing to shake off a nasty blow to his right thumb, suffered four balls before the interval when former South Africa fast bowler Morne Morkel made one rear from a good length on a pitch that otherwise played much better than on the opening day.Harmer then saw Porter and Sam Cook both fall to the persevering Jade Dernbach, who finished with a creditable 4 for 95, before swiping off spinner Amar Virdi for six just over the head of the long-on fielder to reach only his second first-class century. The declaration came soon afterwards, with Harmer unbeaten on 102 from 156 balls, with 11 fours and two sixes – both off the suffering Virdi.Essex, the 2017 champions, were already in charge of the match when starting day two 130 runs in front at 197 for 2, but they continued to build a position of utter dominance after Westley quickly completed the 20th first-class hundred of his career.Resuming on 93, Westley took just 12 balls to go to three figures and went on to 134 before tickling a leg-side ball from Rikki Clarke to keeper Ben Foakes to leave Essex 282 for 6. But the afternoon session belonged to Wheater and Harmer as they crushed any realistic hopes of an unlikely Surrey fightback.Essex, who bowled out Surrey for a mere 67 in early bowler-friendly conditions, lost both Dan Lawrence and Ravi Bopara in the second day’s opening hour. Lawrence was leg-before to Clarke having battled through 77 balls to make 17, and Bopara had scored just 8 when he attempted a paddle-sweep against Virdi – in the last over before the second new ball was taken at 238 for 4 – and was bowled behind his pads.But Westley stood firm, joined in a fifth-wicket stand of 40 by Ryan ten Doeschate before the Essex captain edged Dernbach to gully to go for 27. When he was finally dismissed, Westley had batted for almost six and a half hours, facing 282 balls and hitting 21 fours.Wheater hit eight fours and a six over long-on off Virdi, but was replaced as keeper by substitute Pepper when Surrey batted again. And Essex needed another replacement when seamer Cook could not pass a concussion test – following a blow on his batting helmet during his brief innings, facing Dernbach – and so called up Matt Coles to deputise.

Hampshire captain was dropped from Test side when he believes he was on the brink of a breakthrough

Andrew McGlashan at Lord's29-Jun-2018James Vince was the first player to get the unwanted phonecall from the new national selector Ed Smith earlier this season when he was dropped from the Test side. A double century on the eve of the squad announcement wasn’t enough to save him after a winter which offered flashes of promise but too many flashes outside off stump.Vince remains understandably diplomatic about his omission, which came despite making 76 in the final Test against New Zealand, although he believes he was getting close to a breakthrough performance.”I think I’ve been treated very fairly and been given good opportunities before that,” he said. “I’m averaging 24-25, that doesn’t mean you should be selected for England. I understood it, but at the same time, 70-odd in the last Test then 200 the week before [selection], I felt I was going to get that big one in Test cricket and felt in a good place to do it in the first Test this summer.”On Saturday, the Royal London Cup final, against Kent at Lord’s, offers another chance in the spotlight, albeit in a different format to the one in which he relinquished his position.”I think every game is a big opportunity,” he said. “But, yes, tomorrow, not just for me but for everyone. There are some young guys making really good progress. It’s a chance for them to get noticed and for myself and some of the older guys to show they can do it on the big days.”England are certainly not short on batting options in the white-ball game – the dilemma of how to fit Ben Stokes back in the site is evidence of that – but there could yet be one spot in the World Cup squad up for grabs. Sam Billings, Vince’s opposite number in the final, has been left out of the squad to face India; Billings has had a frustrating time carrying the drinks while being unable to take the occasional chances that have come his way.It could well be that Billings does enough to be at the World Cup – he is a versatile cricketer, and brilliant in the field which is an important aspect – but there is a chance for others to make the selectors ponder too. Vince has scored 504 runs in the Royal London Cup, peaking with a magnificent 171 in the semi-final against Yorkshire, which followed a century against Somerset in the last group match.Vince’s ODI career has been limited to five matches. His debut came in Dublin on the occasion that Peter Moores was sacked in 2015; on a miserable day he didn’t get a bat then a year later made a half-century in his second outing against Sri Lanka. Three more matches followed in Bangladesh, when he filled the spot vacated by the absent Alex Hales, but he missed his chance to press for a permanent place with 53 runs in three innings and hasn’t featured since.”That is a very tough side to get into at the minute, bowling and batting, but the batting especially they are winning games,” Vince said. “All you can do is get yourself as high up the ladder to be the next guy in, whether it’s an injury or loss of form. At the minute there is probably no batter in the country who would expect to be in that side. So it’s a waiting game for the guys playing county cricket.”He is probably a long-shot to make the final World Cup squad because his best position in 50-over cricket would be among the top three, where England are already likely to have a natural reserve once Stokes fits back in, but a hundred in a Lord’s final – even in an era where the fixture carries less weight – would do no harm.

Kent maintained their Royal London Cup qualification hopes after beating Somerset by 28 runs under the DLS method in a rain-ruined floodlit game in Canterbury

ECB Reporters Network29-May-2018
ScorecardKent maintained their Royal London Cup qualification hopes after beating Somerset by 28 runs under the DLS method in a rain-ruined floodlit game in Canterbury. Reduced to 42 overs per side after heavy morning showers, Kent held sway throughout against the injury-hit west country visitors before a further deluge washed out the remaining 26 overs and confirmed Kent’s third successive south group win.”It was a thoroughly professional performance I felt and a refreshing way to win, given our last ball thriller down in Hampshire on Sunday,” Kent coach Matt Walker said. “We area learning and growing as a team and that is really pleasing to see. Players are starting work things out now after our two early losses and we’re looking like a decent side now.”Chasing Somerset’s 221 for 9, Kent made a disastrous start losing leading Royal London Cup scorer Daniel Bell-Drummond for a third-ball duck, caught behind wafting outside off against Lewis Gregory.The hosts regrouped sensible to reach 48 for 1 come the end of the batting Powerplay and had cantered to 88 for 1 through Joe Denly and Heino Kuhn when a sharp shower just before 8pm took the players off with Kent 28 ahead of the required rate.Bowling first after winning the toss, Kent made a flying start through Matt Henry, who was awarded his Kent cap before the game. The Kiwi paceman saw Johannes Myburgh dropped by Alex Blake off a rasping drive in his first over but, after the batsmen cantered a single, struck with his next ball to have left-handed Steve Davies caught at the second attempt by Blake, again at extra cover.In thundery, overcast conditions, the ball swung and nipped around off the seam under the floodlights and Henry struck in his next over by pegging back Myburgh’s off stump after he shouldered arms to an offcutter that moved up the slope.Peter Trego and James Hildreth took Somerset to 41 for 2 at the end of their nine-over batting Powerplay but, three runs on, Darren Stevens struck with his third delivery winning a leg before shout as Hildreth played back and across a shooting offcutter.One-time Somerset allrounder Calum Haggett accounted for former team-mate Trego by snaffling a sharp caught-and-bowled chance off a leading edge and Tom Banton chipped a Stevens slower ball low to Blake diving forward at short midwicket.After reaching 83 for 5 at the innings mid-point, Somerset’s skipper Gregory lofted a Stevens length-ball over the ropes at long-on for the first six of the match as Gregory and Matt Renshaw posted 51- and 53-ball fifties in turn during a stand worth 103. The partnership ended when Haggett had Renshaw caught at short fine leg paddle sweeping and then, four balls later, Roelof van der Merwe was caught at extra cover against Haggett.Gregory’s 61-ball stay for 60 ended when he heaved across one from Mitch Claydon to lose middle stump and Jamie Overton skied to the keeper, Kent’s captain Sam Billings who returned from a 10-match IPL stint with eventual winner’s Chennai Super Kings only 24 hours earlier.”We were pretty poor to be fair,” Gregory said. “It was a good toss to win what with the pitch having been under covers for most of the morning and with more bad weather expected, but we didn’t really adjust to conditions.”We found ourselves a few runs short batting, 221 might have been possible to defend, but we lose momentum and wickets at crucial stages. We were 65 for five at one point and you’re not going to win too many games from that point.”

Australia’s vanquished tournament favourites return home to the uncertainty of unemployment and the questions of a nation that expected them to be lifting the World Cup

Daniel Brettig21-Jul-2017Australia’s vanquished tournament favourites will return home to the uncertainty of unemployment and the searching questions of a nation that expected them to be lifting the World Cup trophy at Lord’s, rather then losing a semi-final to a supercharged India in Derby.Meg Lanning’s team signed short-term contracts to ensure they were paid throughout the tournament amid the pay war between Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers Association back home, but now join their male and domestic counterparts in awaiting the resolution of a dispute that is fast running out of time to avoid major commercial and competitive dislocation in the game.At the same time, Lanning and the coach Matthew Mott are expecting to face a concerted inquisition from CA’s team performance manager, Pat Howard, as to why the Australians failed to produce their best at the pointy end of the Cup. Defeat to India means Australia hold neither of the game’s two major trophies for the first time since 2009.”Normally there’s a pretty exhaustive review, Pat Howard, the boss, will certainly ask some questions,” Mott said. “So when we get home we’ll have to face the music I guess. [We’ll] go through what went right and what went wrong, and there’ll be a lot of questions asked because we came here with the expectation to win, we had the team that could have won the competition and we didn’t. So we’ve got to ask ourselves some tough questions. We’re hurting a fair bit at the moment but there’s certainly a lot of areas we have to work on.”We’ve got a culture where we throw things around and brainstorm a lot. We should have been blown off the park today and the fact we hung in there and kept it alive – we take that away. A bit of that Aussie spirit to the end there – Alex Blackwell’s innings was pretty special I think. So those sort of things, but we’ve come here to win and we go away losing semi-finalists. We’re very disappointed.”On a day when she was unable to lead with the bat, bowled by a superb swinging delivery from Jhulan Goswami, Lanning said her team had been unable to find the consistency to play the “perfect game” when both bat and ball were in sync. This was underlined by how Harmanpreet Kaur dominated Australia’s bowlers with an innings of rare ferocity, leaving too much to be done in the chase after early wickets fell to the moving ball.”We came here to win, so there’s not a whole lot of positives. I thought we played good cricket in patches, we weren’t really able to put the perfect game together,” Lanning said. “There were glimpses there but, to win a World Cup, you’ve got to be consistent and put performances together.”It’s definitely a very disappointing finish to the tournament. We came here to win, and we’re not going to get the chance to play off in the final. India were too good today; they outplayed us in all the facets of the game, so we’re going to have to look at a few things and see what we need to do, because all the teams around the world now are improving all the time.”The standard of this World Cup’s been as good as it’s ever been. So there’s a lot more teams competing up the top now, so we’re very aware of that and and given the result today we’ve got a fair bit of work to do to make sure we keep getting better and are able to beat sides like England and India who are in the final.”Mott said that in the field the Australians had not adapted quickly enough to Harmanpreet’s aggression, echoing the match against Sri Lanka when Chamari Atapattu hammered an unbeaten 178. On that occasion, Lanning had been able to respond in kind with a domineering innings of her own, but this time she could not, leaving deputy Alex Blackwell to mount a brave but ultimately fruitless rearguard.”We ran into someone who was red hot and just didn’t adapt quickly enough,” Mott said. “[It was] possibly the innings of her life but that’s two we’ve had in this competition that we haven’t reacted well to, so very disappointing. It was a good cricket wicket but they scored 40-50 too many. We needed to stop the hemorrhaging there when they were going; just needed some discipline there, and it just went to custard to be honest … they got far too many.”We just wanted a nice platform, but I think they bowled extremely well to knock a few of us over early. The ball was swinging and they hit the stumps, which is what we talk about doing, so that put us behind, and we always needed a platform I think. A couple of special innings by Villani and Alex was brilliant, but we just left too much, too late.”As for the prospect of returning home to unemployment, Lanning did not yet want to think about it. “We haven’t even thought about that to be honest,” she said. “We know CA and the ACA have been working in the background there, so that’ll all play out over the next couple of weeks but I don’t think any of the playing group or the staff have given it much thought.”

ESPNcricinfo previews the prospects of the six teams in the WCL Division Three in Uganda

The Preview by Peter Della Penna in Kampala22-May-20171:07

‘Chance to showcase cricket in Uganda’ – Davis Karashani

For the first time in nine years, the World Cricket League is back in East Africa as Uganda plays host to Division Three. Tanzania hosted Division Four in 2008, when Afghanistan were in the midst of progressing through to Division One that eventually paved way for an ODI status.This time around, the competition feature six teams – Canada, Malaysia, Oman, Singapore Uganda and USA – who have been in the wilderness, hoping to return like prodigal sons back to Division One, where they once belonged.For Canada, that was as recent as 2014, but Singapore and Malaysia – two countries who were staples of the World Cup Qualifier in the ICC Trophy era since its inception in 1979 throughout the 1980s and 90s – haven’t been to the World Cup Qualifier since 2001.As Uganda captain Davis Karashani told ESPNcricinfo on the eve of the tournament, teams “aren’t here to see mountain gorillas, they’re here to try and qualify for the next division”. Here’s a look at the prospects for the tournament with the top-two teams advancing to WCL Division Two.Uganda (sixth at 2015 WCL Division Two)
Home team advantage has been a massive factor in the WCL. In the current cycle that began in 2009, fifteen out of twenty host teams have been promoted. Six of those promotions have come in the last seven tournaments. On the previous two occasions that Uganda were relegated from Division Two, they bounced straight back with promotion from Division Three, at Bermuda in 2013 and Malaysia in 2014. After suffering relegation two years ago in Namibia, they are hoping to go right back up again.They dominated a five-match series against WCL Championship side Kenya in the lead-up to the tournament. Uganda’s biggest asset is their fielding and catching. Shrewd captain Davis Karashani, an offspinning allrounder, and coach Steve Tikolo form the management team while the heartbeat of the side for the last 15 years is Karashani’s fellow offspinning allrounder Frank Nsubuga. The third member of Uganda’s spin trio, Henry Ssenyondo, ensures the pressure never lets up.Uganda also hold the psychological edge over many teams, particularly Singapore after they stole a one-run win at Division Three in 2014. With Singapore needing 16 off three overs and four wickets in hand, Uganda snagged three wickets, including a run out off the final ball with three needed to win. In four career meetings, Uganda has also never lost to USA.Canada (fifth at 2015 WCL Division Two)
After appearing in three straight World Cups from 2003 to 2011, Canada is attempting to arrest a decline similar to Kenya’s. The administration has invested time and money over the last decade. The new generation squad is led by 23-year-old captain Nitish Kumar, with mystery spinning allrounder Nikhil Dutta and hard-hitting wicketkeeper Hamza Tariq forming the bedrock.The focus on blooding youth is also evident in 17-year-old opening batsman Bhavindu Adhihetty’s selection. However, Canada’s selectors are hoping the return of former captains Rizwan Cheema and Jimmy Hansra after some time out of the side will provide the side with the requisite experience to get them through the pressure and intensity of the tournament.Steven Taylor will lead a strong USA squad in their bid for promotion•Peter Della Penna

Malaysia (third place at 2014 WCL Division Three)
Malaysia don’t invoke fear, their depth isn’t quite the same as some of the others in the group but they have shown the capability to pounce on any team that underestimates them, such as Afghanistan in 2014. Captain Ahmad Faiz is their batting anchor at No. 3 while allrounder Khizar Hayat provides support in the middle order.Leading into the tournament, Malaysia was hammered at the Asian Cricket Council Emerging Teams Cup. But one of the few to emerge with credit was medium pacer Derek Duraisingam, who took 4 for 50 against Afghanistan and 3 for 52 against Sri Lanka. Malaysia will be depending heavily on him to get breakthroughs with the new ball.Singapore (fourth place at 2014 WCL Division Three)Singapore has always been talented but somehow manage to find themselves on the outside looking in on promotion. A crowd riot on the last day of the 2010 Division Five match between USA and Nepal in Kathmandu resulted in a DL adjusted target that helped the hosts stay above Singapore on net run-rate. Then in Malaysia, in the Division Three in 2014, a one-run loss to Uganda got in the way of promotion.Wicketkeeper Chetan Suryawanshi is their wildcard at the top of the batting order while Anish Paraam maintains balance in the middle. The unavailability of star 21-year-old Abhiraj Singh, who is currently attending Durham MCC University, is a setback for Singapore.USA (first place at 2016 WCL Division Four)USA has stumbled in each of their three attempts at Division Three. They defeated eventual champions Hong Kong by seven wickets in 2011, only to be bowled out for 44 by Papua New Guinea three days later on the way to relegation. In 2014, Jermaine Lawson ripped through Nepal’s top order before rain forced a restart on the reserve day. Lawson missed the replay due to injury and Nepal prevailed by nine wickets on the way to promotion.Before this tournament, two preparation camps were held in Houston in March and April. The team also travelled to Potchefstroom for additional warm-up games.A shaky middle order has been shored up by the addition of two former first-class players from India and Windward Islands, Ibrahim Khaleel and Camilus Alexander, respectively. Left-arm spinning allrounder Mrunal Patel was recalled after a strong show in the Southern California Cricket Association, where he finished as the leading scorer in 2016.Oman (second place at 2016 WCL Division Four)Oman gained twin promotions at Division Five and Four last year and then began 2017 with a semi-final appearance at the inaugural Desert T20.After not being part of both WCL events last year, wicketkeeper Sultan Ahmed will return to lead Oman. Fast bowler Munis Ansari struggled at Division Four and was dropped for the Desert T20, but was recalled to partner Bilal Khan, who clocked speeds close to 140 kph in the Desert T20, with the new ball.

A skilful performance from the left-arm duo of Mohammad Asghar and Wahab Riaz sealed Peshawar Zalmi’s 24-run win in their opening fixture against Islamad United in Dubai

ESPNcricinfo staff05-Feb-2016
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsFile photo – Wahab Riaz got the wicket of Islamabad United’ top-scorer Shane Watson•Getty Images

A skilful performance from the left-arm duo of Mohammad Asghar and Wahab Riaz sealed Peshawar Zalmi’s 24-run win in their opening fixture against Islamad United.Defending 145, Asghar’s slow, loopy spinners derailed Islamabad’s top order. He dismissed Babar Azam for a duck in his first over, Umar Amin for four in his second and then got the big wicket of Misbah-ul-Haq for 12 as Islamabad lost half their side for 66 runs. Shane Watson, who made 28, was their top-scorer, but he was dismissed by Wahab in the ninth over.Sam Billings and Andre Russell resisted, but both of them fell off successive balls and Wahab finished with 3 for 32. Asghar had a hand in those wickets too – he clung on to two sharp chances on the cover boundary and later played them down by saying he had large hands like most Pathans and so it would be hard to drop catches. So United fell to 121 for 9 and their second defeat in as many matches.In the first innings, Peshawar managed to reach 145 with Tamim Iqbal making a run-a-ball half-century. It ended up a crucial contribution considering Peshawar, having chosen to bat, had stumbled to 88 for 4 in the 15th over and needed a set batsman in the middle for Shahid Afridi and Darren Sammy to go hard at the other end. Their late hitting pushed the total past 140 in the death, though, none of Peshawar’s batsmen, barring Tamim, managed a score more than 16. For Islamabad, Russell took 3 for 31.

Mark Benson, who claimed a small place in cricket history when he became the first international umpire to have a decision overturned under the Decision Review System, has ended his professional career

David Hopps20-Jan-2016Mark Benson, who claimed a small place in cricket history when he became the first international umpire to have a decision overturned under the Decision Review System, has ended his professional career.Benson has withdrawn from the county circuit after a back surgery, concluding that standing over the stumps day after day is not conducive to a speedy recovery.Tillakaratne Dilshan was the batsman appealed successfully to the TV umpire, Rudi Koertzen, in 2008 after being given out by Benson in a Test between Sri Lanka and India in Colombo. Some would joke that India have had no time for the system ever since.Benson played one Test and one ODI for England in 1986 before taking to umpiring, winning a place on the ICC elite umpiring panel and was twice nominated as ICC Umpire of the Year.But DRS sat uneasily with him – and the ICC was forced to deny his hostility towards the system when in 2009 he walked out of a Test between Australia and West Indies in Adelaide on the second morning because of stress-related ill health.ESPNcricinfo reported at the time that he had “ranted” in the dressing room about the system which was then in its early stages and lacked the confidence in its procedures that – barring occasional blips – has been seen in intervening years.Benson twice ruled Shivnarine Chanderpaul not out following appeals for wicketkeeping catches. Asad Rauf, the TV umpire, upheld Benson’s first decision, to the fury of the Australia captain, Ricky Ponting. Benson’s second verdict was overruled by Rauf with little evidence for the reversal – Hot Spot not showing any contact between bat and ball.He had suffered heart palpitations in a Test in India, having to be guided from the field by Rauf, his on-field umpiring partner, and to nobody’s surprise ended his international career in 2010, at only 52, and returned to the county circuit.He also played a role in one of England’s biggest on-field controversies of the past 20 years, trying – and failing – to get England’s captain Paul Collingwood to withdraw a run-out appeal against New Zealand’s Grant Elliott after a mid-pitch collision with Ryan Sidebottom at The Oval. Collingwood quickly apologised as he was accused of England’s most embarrassing captaincy moment since Michael Atherton’s dirt-in-the-pocket ball tampering affair.Benson, who will be replaced on the ECB full umpire’s list by Billy Taylor, a former fast bowler for Hampshire and Sussex. is the second county umpire to call time recently. Martin Bodenham, the only person ever to referee at Premier League level and umpire in first-class cricket, has also retired.ECB Umpires List 2016: Rob Bailey, Neil Bainton, Paul Baldwin, Michael Burns, Nick Cook, Nigel Cowley, Jeff Evans, Russell Evans, Steve Gale, Steve Garratt, Michael Gough, Ian Gould, Peter Hartley, Richard Illingworth, Richard Kettleborough, Nigel Llong, Graham Lloyd, Jeremy Lloyds, Neil Mallender, David Millns, Steve O’Shaughnessy, Billy Taylor, Tim Robinson, Martin Saggers, Alex Wharf.

Sean Abbott and Steve O’Keefe each picked up two wickets as Queensland’s batsmen struggled on the first day of their Sheffield Shield match at the SCG

ESPNcricinfo staff27-Nov-2015
ScorecardSean Abbott finished the day with 2 for 39•Getty Images

Sean Abbott and Steve O’Keefe each picked up two wickets as Queensland’s batsmen struggled on the first day of their Sheffield Shield match at the SCG. At stumps, the Bulls were on 6 for 221 with Jason Floros on 72 and Jack Wildermuth on 4, and it had been slow going with a scoring rate of only 2.3 an over after Queensland chose to bat.Scott Henry was out hit wicket in the second over of the day and Abbott then struck in his first over, when he had Sam Heazlett lbw for 9. Abbott claimed his second when he had Marnus Labuschagne caught for 3, and Queensland were in trouble at 3 for 24. Nathan Reardon fell to the bowling of Moises Henriques for 23 and O’Keefe then bowled opener Matt Renshaw for 45.Floros and Chris Hartley rebuilt the innings with a 120-run stand that ended when Hartley was stumped for 48 late in the day off the bowling of O’Keefe. The players from both sides wore black armbands in tribute to Phillip Hughes, who died a year ago to the day after being struck by a bouncer in a Shield game at the SCG two days earlier.