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12-Aug-2012
ScorecardAbdur Rehman marked his Clydesdale Bank 40 debut with 6 for 16 – a Somerset record in 40-over cricket – to help them to a five-wicket win over Nottinghamshire at Taunton.The Pakistan left-arm spinner extracted turn and bounce from the pitch as Nottinghamshire struggled to 206 for 9, having been 96 for 1 in the 14th over. Riki Wessels hit 53, Michael Lumb 41 and Graeme White 39 not out.Somerset needed only 29.2 overs to reach their target, Craig Kieswetter leading the way with a rapid 44 and skipper Marcus Trescothick seeing his side home with a responsible 87 not out off 69 balls with 10 fours and a six.Rehman, who was given the new ball, switched ends twice during three spells and made the ball turn with increasing venom. His first victim was Alex Hales, lbw reverse sweeping for 7 with the total on 19.There was no sign of the carnage ahead as Wessels and Lumb put on 77 for the second wicket in good time before Lumb carelessly pulled a to midwicket off Gemaal Hussain. Having switched to the River End, Rehman bowled Wessels middle stump with a ripper that pitched on leg and then had Adam Voges caught at slip by Trescothick for 1.Hussain produced a beauty to clean bowl Chris Read for 10 and it was 133 for 5 in the 25th over. Samit Patel was then caught behind for 22 advancing to drive the left-arm spin of Arul Suppiah.Rehman reverted to the Old Pavilion End to take three more wickets. Steve Mullaney was caught behind and Jake Ball taken at slip by Trescothick, both victims of turn, before Luke Fletcher drove to Steve Kirby at mid-off.That meant the new overseas signing had bettered the previous best 40-over bowling spell by a Somerset player, set by Sir Viv Richards when he took 6 for 24 against Lancashire at Old Trafford in 1983.The home side’s reply was given a whirlwind start by Kieswetter, who smashed four fours and a six off the first five balls of the third over, sent down by Patel.When England’s one-day wicketkeeper departed for 44, Peter Trego smacked 26 off 20 balls to keep the momentum going and all the while Trescothick was building towards his first meaningful score since returning after ankle surgery.He reached his half-century off 30 balls, with seven fours and a six. James Hildreth failed, offering a catch to slip to give White a second wicket on what was proving a good day to bowl left-arm spin, but Jos Buttler contributed 26 to put Somerset on the verge of victory.

Sri Lanka’s top order made the most of their practice game against Emerging Cape Cobras, before their spinners got a good work-out to seal a 78-run win at Brackenfell Sports Field

ESPNcricinfo staff10-Jan-2012
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Sri Lanka’s top order made the most of their practice game against Emerging Cape Cobras, before their spinners got a good work-out to seal a 78-run win at Brackenfell Sports Field.The fixture was not on the original tour itinerary, but was added on a request made by the Sri Lankan team management. Batting first, Sri Lanka lost their captain Tillakaratne Dilshan cheaply, but were stabilised by a 123-run second wicket stand between Mahela Jayawardene and Upul Tharanga. Jayawardene had endured a barren Test series, and his poor run seemed set to continue when he offered opening bowler Brendan Young a return catch, but it was put down.Jayawardene capitalised with 74 at better than run-a-ball, while Tharanga chipped in with a half-century in his first game on the tour. Thereafter, the Sri Lankans were propped up by chirpy cameos from the youngsters in the middle order – Lahiru Thirimanne and Dinesh Chandimal. Legspinner Alistair Gray slowed down the visitors with three strikes in the middle overs, but Lasith Malinga and Ajantha Mendis slogged efficiently, striking three sixes between them to the push the score to 296 for 9.The Emerging Cape Cobras’ chase got off to a poor start when they lost their biggest name, Richard Levi, for a duck in Malinga’s opening over. Gray, the other opener, continued to have a good game, though. He made 93 off 126 balls to keep the home team in the hunt, but the spinners made frequent incisions at the other end. Mendis and Rangana Herath accounted for six of the victims as ECC’s chase lost steam to collapse from 127 for 2 to 218 all-out.Sri Lanka play the first of five ODIs against South Africa on January 11 in Paarl.

It’s time to get the calculators out. The permutations throughout the penultimate round of Championship matches have been many and varied but now some numbers really need to be crunched

Andrew McGlashan at Liverpool09-Sep-2011
ScorecardPaul Horton again missed his hundred but his innings was just what Lancashire needed•Getty Images

It’s time to get the calculators out. The permutations throughout the penultimate round of Championship matches have been many and varied but now some numbers really need to be crunched, especially for Lancashire and Hampshire as they try to keep themselves in touch at either end of the table.Events at Edgbaston – where Warwickshire forced Nottinghamshire to follow-on – are also vital and Lancashire need to at least match the result of the hosts otherwise they’ll be a distant third-favourite in the race for the pennant. Hampshire, meanwhile, are still in with a chance of maintaining their Division One status but they really need victory here to put pressure on Worcestershire. They will need to chase whatever target is on offer and Lancashire can decide what that is after closing 202 ahead following a superb final session.Their hopes for a significant first-innings lead were dented by Sean Ervine’s fine 128 which helped the visitors to keep the gap to seven runs. It left four-and-a-half sessions for either side to manoeuvre a position and Lancashire made the advances as Paul Horton, who fell in the 90s for the fourth time in the campaign, and Stephen Moore added 168 for the first wicket, the team’s best opening stand of the season.There was clear intent from the pair in the hour prior to tea as they scored at four-an-over but without taking risks although Horton was given a life on 25 when he was dropped at slip off Danny Briggs on his way to fifty off 76 balls. Progression wasn’t quite as brisk during the start of the final session as Dimitri Mascarenhas bowled his first nine overs for eight runs but the pace picked up again later.Horton, though, continued to lead the way including a well-struck six over deep midwicket and also used the reverse sweep when Briggs tried to nullify scoring options by coming over the wicket. However, three figures again eluded him – he has also been stranded in the 90s twice in the CB40 – when he picked out deep square-leg.Moore had played second fiddle with a half-century off 122 balls, but Lancashire showed their intent as Glen Chapple came in at No. 3. They will need to decide overnight exactly what they want to set Hampshire. An aggressive hour of batting in the morning will push the lead towards 300 although it will be hard work to bowl a side out.Hampshire began the day still 159 behind, but Ervine and Michael Bates took their sixth-wicket stand to 88 to frustrate Lancashire. The new ball had been taken first thing despite the impact of the spinners, yet Chapple and Kyle Hogg both bowled well enough to be deserve a reward with numerous deliveries missing the edge.With a view to Hampshire’s future it was an important innings from Bates who is an excellent gloveman yet doubts remain over his batting. The county tried to sign James Foster to replace Nic Pothas but it would be good to think they are willing to invest in a talented young player who can develop. Bates certainly didn’t look out place during his near two-hour innings which ended when he was superbly caught at short cover.It was spin that had again provided the breakthrough as Gary Keedy struck in his first over. Despite the breakthrough, though, Lancashire ran out of time for a full hand of batting points as Hampshire reached the 110-over mark on 309 for 6 with Ervine remaining firm having reached his first hundred of the season from 169 balls. Slowly wickets fell at the other end as Dimitri Mascarenhas edged to second slip and Keedy claimed his fifth when he clubbed to mid-off.At that point, shortly before lunch, Lancashire still had a chance of a lead of around fifty but Briggs then provided valuable support to Ervine in a stand of 59. The relative ease with which Briggs batted showed that, while help was offer from the surface, it remained good for batting. However, he was dropped at slip on 10 which cost precious time. He became the first, and only, wicket of the innings to fall to pace when he drove Chapple to cover and the innings ended when Ervine picked out long on.

Sri Lanka are the only team close to full strength for the tri-series, but New Zealand could benefit the most from the tournament

Siddarth Ravindran in Sri Lanka08-Aug-2010In its dual role as commercial hub of the North Central Province and site of the holy Golden Cave Temple, a UNESCO world heritage monument, Dambulla has long attracted a varied set of visitors. In 2010, the town seems out to add aficionados of the one-day game to that bunch, laying out 14 ODIs for them in fewer than three months, a feast even Sharjah didn’t offer during its salad days as a cricketing venue.The tickets are cheap, the weather is reasonable, and the pitch isn’t one of those featherbeds which make bowlers despair over their choice of career, but bussed-in school kids made up a chunk of the sparse crowd during the Asia Cup in June, and things aren’t likely to be too different for the
upcoming tri-series.The players involved won’t be bothered by that, though. The teams will be using the tournament to figure out their combinations for next year’s World Cup in the subcontinent. India and Sri Lanka had talked of building up to cricket’s showpiece tournament during the Asia Cup but could not zero in on a settled batting order. The tri-series will be New Zealand’s first one-day tournament in five months, and gives several of their newcomers a chance to test themselves in conditions alien to those at home.For what it’s worth, the tri-series could also cause a major reshuffling in the one-day rankings. Australia are runaway leaders with a 14-point lead, but the next five teams are separated by only seven points. India are second, but that spot could be taken by either New Zealand (now fourth) or Sri Lanka (now sixth) by the end of the tournament.Teams will find it simpler to capture that second spot if their captains win the toss often. The floodlights at Dambulla are a bit dodgy and, more importantly, the pitch assists bowlers more under lights than in the afternoon, making the toss more vital than it should be. Sri Lanka had been the dominant team in the league phase of the Asia Cup, but they lost the toss and the final partly due to the lavish movement the Indian bowlers extracted from a previously benign track.In a time when three-day gaps between Tests are the norm, even if teams have to travel to a different venue, the tri-series follows a leisurely schedule despite being played entirely in Dambulla. There’s a two-day break between each match, giving teams ample time to visit the many archeological
heritage sites in Sri Lanka’s famed Cultural Triangle.

Sri Lanka

The home side is the only one close to full strength and should start as favourites. After looking good for much of their previous two series, Kumar Sangakkara’s team finished poorly in both and were left with only the moderate reward of a shared Test series, something Sri Lanka will want to redress.Their batting order is settled till No. 5, but the Sri Lankan think-tank is still figuring out their best players for the remaining slots. With Thilina Kandamby having fallen out of favour, Thilan Samaraweera, Chamara Kapugedera and the recalled Chamara Silva are battling for two places. The absence of Muttiah Muralitharan means the tournament is a chance for the spinners Suraj Randiv, Ajantha Mendis and Rangana Herath to make cases for a permanent place.

India

Sri Lanka must be among MS Dhoni’s favourite destinations for one-day cricket: his captaincy record in the country is four titles in four tournaments. Adding a fifth could prove difficult, though, because India are without four first-choice players – Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan – which leaves Dhoni with a very young team: 11 members of the squad are 25 years or younger. The good news for him is that most of the youngsters have played plenty of cricket in Sri Lanka and are familiar with the Dambulla pitch as well.The pace attack, which was ineffective during the Tests, is beefed up by the return of Ashish Nehra and Praveen Kumar, but India’s slow-bowling combination will be interesting to watch. Pragyan Ojha had a successful Test at the P Sara Oval, but with Ravindra Jadeja making the XI for his all-round skills, will India go in with two left-arm spinners (in addition to the part-time bowling of Yuvraj) or will offspinner R Ashwin get an extended run?

New Zealand

New Zealand Cricket has smartly lined up matches in all three World Cup host nations in the run-up to the 2011 tournament. The absence of match-winners, such as Daniel Vettori, Brendon McCullum and Jesse Ryder, means New Zealand are a long shot for the tri-series title, but with so many players with so little experience of the subcontinent, they could be the team that benefits the most from the tri-series. The other plus for Ross Taylor’s side is that, while the other two teams have only a few days and no matches to switch from Test to one-day mode, New Zealand have tuned up for the tri-series with two convincing warm-up wins in Sri Lanka.

Mayank Yadav bowled a 156.7 kph delivery in his match-winning spell of 3 for 14 in four overs at the Chinnaswamy Stadium

ESPNcricinfo staff02-Apr-2024Two Player-of-the-Match awards in his first two IPL games, the most deliveries north of 155 kph in the IPL, and the fourth fastest delivery (156.7 kph) in the history of the league – Mayank Yadav, Lucknow Super Giants’ 21-year old tearaway, is already in elite territory after his match-winning spells against Punjab Kings on Saturday and Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Tuesday.His searing spell of 3 for 14 in four overs at the Chinnaswamy Stadium included the wickets of Glenn Maxwell and Cameron Green, batters accustomed to facing high speeds on bouncy pitches in Australia, and a well-set Rajat Patidar”Feeling really good to get two Player-of-the-Match [awards] in two games but I’m more happy that we won both games,” Mayank said after LSG’s 28-run win against RCB. “My aim is to do well for the country for as many years as I can. This is just the start, and my focus is on the main goal.”Mayank said his favourite wicket was that of Green, who was beaten on the outside edge and bowled by a delivery so fast that the ball flew off the stumps and cleared the boundary on the first bounce.”You need quite a few things to bowl at this pace – like diet, sleep and training,” Mayank said. “If you want to bowl fast, it’s important to be perfect in everything. My focus is on my diet, and also on my recovery – like [taking] ice bath.”Related

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The LSG captain KL Rahul was keeping wickets and said one of Mayank’s balls hit his gloves “really, really hard.””So happy to see Mayank bowl the way he is bowling in the last couple of games. He has quietly, patiently waited for two seasons in the dugout,” Rahul said. “[He] missed out last year because of injury unfortunately. But he has been in Bombay with the physios, working really hard.”He understands bowling 155kph is not easy. At a young age, he has already had a few injuries… He has a great temperament, and I’m enjoying seeing him bowl from 20 yards behind the stumps. That’s where I’d like to be when he’s bowling!”LSG opener Quinton de Kock said Mayank was “bowling rockets”.”Glad to have him in our team. He’s bowling really well,” de Kock said. “Normally as a youngster, a guy with express pace, you get caught up with a lot of things. But he’s keeping it really simple and doing really well.”RCB captain Faf du Plessis said it was difficult for batters to judge and adjust quickly to the “new action” of a young fast bowler.”Especially if there’s a bit of pace behind it, it’s really promising,” du Plessis said. “So it takes batters a few times just to get used to someone’s action, just to see how the ball is coming out of the hand. So really impressive to see his pace. But more impressive for me tonight was his ability to control length and bowl with some really good discipline. That’s more impressing – pace combined with accuracy.”

Matthews bowled the final over with Heat needing just six to win and conceded only three runs, to break an eight-game losing streak for Renegades

AAP18-Nov-2023Melbourne Renegades have broken an eight-game losing streak in a thrilling two-run upset win over Brisbane Heat, with skipper Hayley Matthews proving the hero in the final over.The Heat needed six runs to win at the start of the 20th over bowled by Matthews, but the West Indies star conceded just three runs to keep Nicola Hancock and Courtney Sippel quiet at Brisbane’s Allan Border Field.Earlier, Matthews was due a match-winning score and she delivered with her best and most influential innings of the WBBL season, scoring 46 off 28 balls to help Renegades post 169 for 7.Heat opener Grace Harris kept her side in the hunt in the chase with a powerful 65 from just 36 balls before a late flurry by Jess Jonassen and Hancock put them on the brink of victory at the end of the 19th over.Matthews took the early wicket of Georgia Redmayne and two slick catches before her heroics in the final over to restrict the Heat to 167 for 9.With the bat, Matthews played strokes all around the ground. She was looking ominous in the closing overs until she was bowled by seamer Hancock, who finished with her career-best figures of 4 for 20.Opener Emma de Broughe made a classy 42 at the top of the order and supported Matthews well.The Renegades were 134 for 2 in the 16th over before Hancock and part-timer Harris pegged them back. Harris picked up 2 for 16 with her offspin.The loss could be costly for the Heat who stay in third position on the WBBL table on 14 points, two behind leaders Perth Scorchers.

“It always helps to practise with the mindset that you’re a couple of wickets down and have to get say 100 runs in eight overs”

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Moody: Hetmyer showed how to navigate a difficult run chase with a calm head

Twelve overs into their chase at Motera, Rajasthan Royals were going at less than a run a ball, and they needed 14 runs an over with four batters already back in the dugout. It seemed lost-cause territory, Gujarat Titans well on their way to their fourth successive win against this opposition. But Shimron Hetmyer, Royals’ big finisher, had been training for just this kind of situation.Related

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After the game, which, with some help from his captain Sanju Samson, he won for Royals with four balls to spare, Hetmyer explained. “I just practise it really. It always helps to practise with the mindset that you’re a couple of wickets down and you have to get say 100 runs probably in eight overs. You just try to program your mind that way, and so far it’s working.”Samson got things moving in the 13th over, hitting Titans’ lynchpin Rashid Khan for three successive sixes. The following over Hetmyer, on 4 off seven balls at the time, took Alzarri Joseph for a four and a six, and from there the big hits never ceased. Samson fell to left-arm wristspinner Noor Ahmad in the 15th, but only after taking him for a four and six, before Hetmyer and Dhruv Jurel took full toll on Joseph again, going 6, 4, 6 in a 16th over that went for 20. Shami, Titans’ best bowler on the night, managed to prise out two wickets in the penultimate over but was himself dispatched for 16 runs by Jurel and R Ashwin. That left Hetmyer, now on 48 off 24, on strike for the final over, with just seven runs to get, and facing up to the spin of Ahmad.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

“I was actually pretty happy, to be honest, to be facing [a spinner in the final over],” Hetmyer said. “But I think he had bowled pretty well tonight. So I was just thinking, if I can just get a double off the first ball and then just see what happens after that.”What happened was Hetmyer received a short one from Ahmad, and duly pulled it into the stands to seal an improbable chase with time to spare. And this was a win that Hetmyer “really wanted”. “Just really wanted to win against these guys because they beat us three times [in the league phase, in the qualifier, and in the final] last year,” he said. “So it was a kind of revenge really.”It might have seemed improbable from the outside, but Samson said he knew this chase was not beyond his team. “With the start we had while batting [being reduced to 4 for 2], it was very important to know how good a wicket this was. With the quality of bowling they had in the powerplay, we had to respect them.”But we knew at this ground, on this wicket, chasing would be really nice with the power we have at the end.”Titans will take due note. As their captain Hardik Pandya said after the game: “The game is never over till it’s over. So I think this is one more lesson for us.”

Muzarabani, Williams and Chatara are also back after recovering from their respective injuries

ESPNcricinfo staff17-Mar-2023With Sikandar Raza and Ryan Burl returning for national duty after their franchise commitments and Sean Williams, Tendai Chatara and Blessing Muzarabani back from their injuries, Zimbabwe have named a full-strength squad for their upcoming ODI Super League series against Netherlands.Raza, Burl, Williams, Chatara and Muzarabani all missed the two-Test series against West Indies in Bulawayo last month, and Zimbabwe lost that 1-0, drawing the rain-affected first Test and going down by an innings and four runs in the second.While Raza has been busy with Lahore Qalandars at the PSL, which will get over tomorrow, Burl was away playing for Sylhet Strikers in the BPL first and then for Rhinos and Northerns in Zimbabwe. As for Muzarabani, he had been out since last November with a recurrence of an old quad muscle injury, while Williams and Chatara both suffered injuries during the white-ball series against Ireland in January – Williams fractured a finger and Chatara picked up a thigh-muscle injury.

ODI series schedule

1st ODI – March 21
2nd ODI – March 23
3rd ODI – March 25
All games to be played at Harare Sports Club