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NSW pacemen Tremain bags three wickets in rain-reduced 24-over game while Neser has suffered an apparent side strain

AAP14-Feb-2022New South Wales have overcome a nervous run chase against a Queensland bowling attack left without key paceman Michael Neser, scoring a five-wicket win in a rain-affected domestic day-night clash at the Gabba.Set a revised 101 runs from 24 overs after Queensland made 7-105 in 24.2 overs, NSW reached their target with 18 balls to spare.
Queensland were forced to defend the total without Neser, who succumbed to an apparent side strain after one legal delivery of the NSW innings.Picked in Australia’s squad to tour Pakistan in March, Neser seemed to hurt himself as he warmed up to bowl during the innings break.
NSW made heavy work of the run chase, slumping to 5-66 when opener Hayden Kerr was bowled by Mark Steketee (1-12) for 31 off 51 balls.But dashing young batter Ollie Davies steadied the innings with 26 from 29 balls and he found an able partner in 22-year-old wicketkeeper Baxter Holt.Holt made a quickfire 21 runs from 14 balls to help put the game out of Queensland’s reach.Jason Sangha, in his first match as NSW captain, won the toss and sent Queensland in on a seaming Gabba pitch under grey skies.
Bulls openers Usman Khawaja and Sam Heazlett made watchful starts before rain stopped play after the third over with Queensland 0-8.
It didn’t take long for NSW to make the breakthrough when play resumed as Heazlett (10) edged a delivery from Ben Dwarshuis that was eagerly accepted by Holt.Fourth Ashes Test hero Khawaja followed soon after, caught at second slip off Chris Tremain (3-25) for seven.Tremain struck again in the same over as he caught and bowled Matthew Renshaw for a duck, leaving the Queensland innings in disarray at 3-23.Queensland lost a further four wickets, including Marnus Labuschagne (13) and former Test opener Joe Burns (18), before rain intervened again in the 25th over.Jimmy Peirson top-scored for home side with an unbeaten 26 from 37 balls.Already missing key regulars Moises Henriques and Daniel Sams because of international Twenty20 duties, NSW also had to deal with two 11th hour withdrawals.Daniel Hughes was ruled out after testing positive for COVID-19 while Kurtis Patterson continues to recover from a broken finger.

Dutch international Sterre Kalis hits 87 in vain as Diamonds suffer first loss

ECB Reporters Network13-Sep-2020Central Sparks 218 for 4 (Jones 77) beat Northern Diamonds 217 (Kalis 87, Russell 4-28, Baker 3-26) by six wicketsCaptain Eve Jones hit a composed 77 to lead a successful Central Sparks chase of 218 as they inflicted a first defeat in five Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy games upon North Group leaders Northern Diamonds at Emerald Headingley.The six-wicket victory, secured with 3.2 overs to spare, keeps the race for a final spot at Edgbaston (September 27) alive going into next weekend’s last round of matches. A third win in five games for the Sparks cuts the gap from nine points to five at the top.That means to have any chance of qualifying for the final, the Sparks need to beat Lightning at Grace Road on Saturday with a bonus point (achieved by scoring at a run-rate 25% higher than your opponent) and hope the Diamonds lose against North West Thunder at Headingley. Then it would come down to net run-rate.Opener Jones helped her side recover from 0 for 1 in the first over of the reply under a sunny Leeds sky, sharing 123 inside 26 overs with second-wicket partner Marie Kelly, who made 49.Left-handed Jones played a calm hand and was strong on both sides of the wicket, a similar knock to the 87 from home No. 3 Sterre Kalis.Netherlands international Kalis had bounced back from three successive ducks to underpin the Diamonds 217 all out.For the Sparks, new ball seamer Liz Russell was excellent with 4 for 28 from nine overs, while legspinner Hannah Baker claimed 3 for 26 from 10.Having elected to bat, the momentum swung back and forth during the Diamonds innings. At 113 for 1 in the 27th over, with 21-year-old Kalis set at the crease on a good pitch offering only the odd sign of uneven bounce, they were looking at a total in the region of 250.However, they later slipped to 185 for 8 in the 45th, with three wickets apiece at that stage for Russell and Baker. Kalis played the anchor role expertly, calmly picking the gaps and putting away the bad ball in her 115-ball knock.She was supported by opener Rachel Hopkins, who made 35 – the pair sharing 85 inside 20 overs for the second wicket to advance from 28 for 1 in the seventh. Later, Beth Langston added an important 26 down the order to boost the target.The Sparks fightback was started by three quick wickets for Baker, who removed Hopkins, Ami Campbell and Alex MacDonald as the score slipped from 113 for 1 in the 27th over to 120 for 4 in the 29th. The Diamonds lost two wickets in an over on three separate occasions, the first of those being when Baker had Campbell caught at mid-on and MacDonald lbw sweeping two balls later.Another legspinner, Anisha Patel later did the same, getting Jenny Gunn and Bess Heath, before Russell returned at the death to get Kalis caught at mid-off and Phoebe Graham to leave the Diamonds 185 for 8 in the 45th.After an early Langston wicket with the new ball, the Sparks controlled the chase through Jones, who hit nine fours in 114 balls, and Kelly.There was a brief wobble when Jones chipped a return catch to legspinner Katie Levick and Langston trapped Millie Home lbw two balls later, leaving the score at 172 for 4 in the 40th over.But Poppy Davies (31 not out) and Chloe Hill calmed nerves with an unbroken 46. Hill finished with an unbeaten 23 and hit the winning runs.

India captain makes intervention from the middle after “Cheater!” chants directed at Steven Smith

Melinda Farrell at The Oval09-Jun-2019Virat Kohli expressed his sympathy for Steven Smith and apologised on behalf of the crowd after the former Australia captain was heckled by the India dominated crowd at the Oval.Kohli was batting when Smith was sent to field on the boundary at one stage of India’s innings. Spectators near Smith started chanting, “Cheater!” repeatedly but Kohli, in the middle, gestured to the India insignia on his helmet, pointed at Smith and clapped in an effort to quiet the crowd.”Just because there’s so many Indian fans here, I just didn’t want them to set a bad example, to be honest, because he didn’t do anything to be booed in my opinion,” Kohli said. “He’s just playing cricket. He was just standing there, and I felt bad because if I was in a position where something had happened with me and I had apologised, I accepted it and I came back and still I would get booed, I wouldn’t like it, either.”So I just felt for him, and I told him, I’m sorry on behalf of the crowd because I’ve seen that happen in a few earlier games, as well, and in my opinion that’s not acceptable.”Smith and David Warner have been booed and heckled repeatedly on the field since their return to the Australian team following their one-year bans over the ball-tampering incident at Newlands. But while Kohli has had various run-ins with Smith – most memorably when he suggested Smith had deliberately sought guidance from the dressing room while deciding whether to review a decision during Australia’s Test tour of India in 2017 – he said he felt for Smith in his current circumstance.”Look, I think what’s happened has happened like long back, the guy is back, he’s trying to play well for his side,” Kohli said. “Even in the IPL I saw him, it’s not good to see someone down like that, to be honest. We’ve had issues in the past. We’ve had a few arguments on the field. But you don’t want to see a guy feeling that heat every time he goes out to play.”What’s happened has happened. Everyone has known that. He’s come back. He’s worked hard. He’s playing well for his side now.”Glenn Maxwell became aware of Kohli’s gesture after the match and said he was not surprised with the aggressive Kohli on the field being different to the person they know away from the heat of the battle.”It’s nice to hear that, I’m not surprised by it because we do get along as individuals really well with him off the field,” Maxwell said. “What happens on the field, that’s for everyone else to write about but all we want to do is play our cricket hard. That’s what he does, gets in the opposition’s face which is great, but off the field I’m not surprised by that all.”

Yorkshire’s Martyn Moxon will chair the meeting at Edgbaston aimed at considering how to fight back against the lure of sundry worldwide Twenty20 leagues

David Hopps02-Apr-2018County cricket’s leading coaches will gather at Edgbaston next week in a crisis meeting to consider how to fight back against the lure of sundry worldwide Twenty20 leagues to the top limited-overs players in the country.The growing feeling within the counties is that they are paying reliable, long-term contracts to players – many of whom they have developed since childhood – who then rarely take the field.As cricket has no transfer system, or worldwide compensation agreement, the complaint is that English counties are running extensive coaching networks and nurturing players from an early age without adequate rewards for their efforts.A record number of England players are taking part in this season’s IPL, causing them to miss virtually half the Championship season, but at least when it comes to India’s T20 competition the counties can anticipate some levels of compensation.One proposal on the agenda is that county players contracted for an entire year must pass on a percentage of their earnings from winter tournaments like the Bangladesh Premier League, Australia’s Big Bash and the Pakistan Super League – so putting those tournaments on roughly the same level as the IPL.Others contend that overseas T20 leagues should pay loan fees, similar to the methodology used in football. If they can reach common accord, many counties believe they can prevent players switching from county to county in search of a softer deal.Former England coaches Ashley Giles and Peter Moores are expected at the meeting, as well as ex-England internationals such as Alec Stewart and Paul Allott.Representatives from 15 county clubs are confirmed to attend and such is the level of anxiety about county cricket’s plight that the only surprise is that three counties don’t see fit to be there.A prime fear is that more players will follow the example of Alex Hales and Adil Rashid in seeking a white-ball only future, which might suit England’s needs as they plan for the 2019 World Cup on home soil but could, if the habit became widespread, put the survival of England’s first-class game at risk.But the growing sense of dismay goes deeper than that. Equally disturbing for the counties are the players who will profess their loyalty in all forms of the game, but who then top up their salaries with several close-season T20 leagues, and as a result are either injured, fatigued or must undertake enforced rest periods imposed by England, during the county season.Players, for their part, contend that an impossible overcrowded fixture list, with international and club cricket battling for supremacy, leaves them with the sort of divided loyalties that they would rather not face as they seek to maximise their earnings.Yorkshire’s director of cricket, Martyn Moxon, will chair the meeting on April 10, which will seek solutions at a time when the ECB seems merely content to let cricket’s shifting sands move in whatever direction they wish.Moxon, who has developed into one of the county game’s more serious thinkers, is well placed to pass on concerns, also being on the ECB’s cricket committee, and well respected by the ECB chairman Colin Graves.Central to their concerns are the white-ball only contracts introduced by the managing director of England cricket, Andrew Strauss. These were introduced in September 2016 as a supplement to county contracts – roughly doubling their pay – but the counties now feel that England are getting their one-day specialists on the cheap.The situation is more equable in Test cricket where the ECB contracts the player exclusively – although even that makes it difficult for a county to make financial plans when a player suddenly loses that contract and is added to the county payroll.The ECB claims it wishes to protect the 18-team county system – the most successful professional club league in world cricket despite predictions of its demise for more than half a century – but the harsh fact is that counties barely see some of their top white-ball players in spite of most of them earning salaries above GBP100,000 a year.That situation is seen as unsustainable. Parasitical T20 leagues can ultimately destroy the host. The counties are seeking something more symbiotic – a form of mutual advantage – and, as the cricketing calendar seems to be the harshest form of economic free-for-all, they believe that time is running out to achieve it.

South Africa Women made a strong start to the five-match ODI series on their tour of Bangladesh with an 86-run win in Cox’s Bazar

ESPNcricinfo staff12-Jan-2017Handy contributions from their top-order, and legspinners Dane van Niekerk and Suné Luus, helped South Africa make a strong start to their five-match ODI series on their tour of Bangladesh, with an 86-run win in Cox’s Bazar. South Africa’s top-three struck half-centuries to lay the base for their 251 for 3 after they were invited to make first use of the surface at the Sheikh Kamal International Cricket Stadium. Luus and van Niekerk, the captain, then took five wickets between them, with the latter also proving economical, her nine-over spell costing South Africa just 23 runs, as Bangladesh were restricted to 165 for 6 in 50 overs.Lizelle Lee, South Africa’s wicketkeeper and opening batsman, razed the home team early with six fours and seven sixes as she zoomed to 87 off 71 balls. When she fell, she had scored the bulk of the 122 runs for the first wicket with Andrie Steyn, who was more sedate in her 68 off 123 balls. Following Lee’s dismissal, Steyn raised her maiden ODI half-century and added 79 more for the second wicket with Mignon du Preez. She was stumped off Salma Khatun, the offspinner, in the 43rd over. Khatun struck again, seventeen balls later, to have Chloe Tryon caught. But du Preez’s unbeaten 62, and a cameo of 20 from Marizanne Kapp, helped South Africa slap 37 runs off the last 25 balls.Khatun, despite her twin strikes, was expensive, ending her four-over spell with 2 for 30. Apart from her, only Nahida Akter, the left-arm spinner, was among the wickets. Akter was also economical, giving away just 45 in 10 overs in addition to the big scalp of Lee.Bangladesh crawled along for much of the first half of their chase. When Salma Khatun was caught behind of Luus, they had stumbled to 56 for 4. Rumana Ahmed, the Bangladesh captain, kept the fight alive with 37, but used up 80 balls. She added 52 for the fifth wicket with Nigar Sultana, the wicketkeeper-batsman. After Rumana’s dismissal, to a caught behind off van Niekerk, the onus fell on Sultana. She stayed till the end, finishing not out on 59. But despite her 90-ball effort that included seven fours and a six, Bangladesh fell a long way behind.While Luus (3 for 52 in 10) and van Niekerk dominated the wickets column, there were other impressive contributions. Opening bowler Marizanne Kapp and medium pacer Marcia Letsoalo stifled Bangladesh with economical spells of none for 10 in six overs, and none for 17 in 10 overs respectively.

Left-arm pacer Bilal Khan, playing his first T20I game, sliced through Hong Kong’s top order, setting up a crushing six-wicket win for Oman in Abu Dhabi

ESPNcricinfo staff21-Nov-2015
ScorecardOman’s Sultan Ahmed won the toss against Hong Kong’s Tanwir Afzal, and his bowlers did the rest•Hong Kong Cricket

Left-arm pacer Bilal Khan, playing his first T20I game, sliced through Hong Kong’s top order, setting up a crushing six-wicket win for Oman in the first T20 international in Abu Dhabi. Mehran Khan then snuffed out any hopes of a recovery, dismissing Mark Chapman and Tanwir Afzal. The collapse seeped into the lower order as well with Hong Kong barely managing to play out 20 overs. Bilal and Mehran claimed combined figures of 8-0-49-5, and debutant left-arm spinner Ajay Lalcheta picked up a wicket with his first delivery as Hong Kong stuttered to 106.Waqas Khan, coming in at No.8, top-scored with 19 off 28 balls with only three other batsmen getting double-digit scores.
Oman’s top order suffered a similar slide, as they were quickly reduced to 43 for 4, Tanwir Afzal striking twice. However, Zeeshan Siddiqui and captain Sultan Ahmed steadied the innings and took their side home with an unbroken 64-run partnership in 8.4 overs. Siddiqui and Ahmed stuck four fours each as Oman completed the chase with nine balls to spare.

A round-up of the Faysal Bank T20 matches on March 28, 2013

ESPNcricinfo staff28-Mar-2013
ScorecardMisbah-ul-Haq’s unbeaten 85 off 47 balls took Faisalabad Wolves to a seven-wicket victory over Karachi Dolphins at the Gaddafi Stadium. The victory ensured Wolves reached the semi-finals, while the Dolphins were ruled out of the final four.Batting first, Karachi lost opener Fakhar Zaman in the first over, but Shahzaib Hasan (51) and Khurram Manzoor (42) added 100 runs for second wicket to take Dolphins to a commanding position. Offspinner Khurram Shahzad broke the partnership, and the Dolphins lost three wickets quickly to be reduced to 157 for 8.In reply, Faisalabad began nervously, with Farrukh Shehzad and Khurram Shehzad out cheaply, leaving Misbah and Ali Waqas (39 off 40 balls) to do the repair work. The two added 67 for third wicket; Waqas smacked four boundaries, including two sixes, before being caught brilliantly at long-on by Anwar Ali, who dived forward to pouch a blinder.Faisalabad needed 69 off 45 balls. But Misbah kept his nerves to steer Wolves home safely with Imran Khalid (18); they added 73 runs for the fourth wicket. Azam Hussain and Akbar-ur-Rehman took one wicket each.
ScorecardSohail Tanvir’s all-round performance led Rawalpindi Rams to a 20-run victory over Bahawalpur Stags in a rain-affected match. Rawalpindi were put in to bat first in overcast conditions. Naved Malik (29 off 24) and Awais Zia (26 off 13 balls) put on 43 runs for the first wicket. Bilal Khilji (3-24) snapped two quick wickets to slow them down, but Umar Waheed’s run-a-ball 20, and Sohail Tanvir’s 28 off 16 balls helped Rawalpindi post an imposing total.Bahawalpur lost wickets regularly in reply. Besides Imranullah Aslam (15) and Kashif Siddiq (45), no other batsman scored in double figures. Seamer Hammad Azam was the most productive bowler for Rawalpindi, taking three wickets, as Bahawalpur were eventually bowled out for 96.
ScorecardIn a topsy-turvy contest, Lahore Lions limped to a three-wicket victory over Abbottabad Falcons. Abbottabad, after choosing to bat, lost wickets in a hurry. Besides Sajjad Ali and Hammad Ali, both of whom scored 20, the rest in the line-up didn’t provide much resistance, and Abbottabad were eventually bowled out for 94 off the final ball of the innings. Offspinner Adnan Rasool was the wrecker-in-chief, taking four wickets.In reply, Lahore lost an early wicket, that of opener Nasir Jamshed for 7, but a 51-run stand between Ahmed Shehzad and Umar looked to be taking them to an easy win. They then lost six wickets for 22 runs, but eventually reached their target in 17 overs.

Rahul Dravid announced his retirement from international cricket on Friday, ending a career that underpinned India’s rise to the top of the sport

ESPNcricinfo staff08-Mar-2012Rahul Dravid formally announced his retirement from international cricket on Friday, saying he was leaving the game sad but proud. It wasn’t an easy decision, he said, but he was comfortable with it because it was time to move on and let the next generation take over.The announcement was made at a press conference in Bangalore on Friday that was also attended by N Srinivasan, the BCCI president, and Anil Kumble, the KSCA president and Dravid’s former team-mate and captain.”You know that when you leave playing for India and the life that I have lived for 16 years, and five years before that of first-class cricket, it is tough,” he said. “It is all I have known all my grown life. From that point it was a difficult decision, but it wasn’t a difficult decision for me because I just knew in my heart that the time was right and I was very happy and comfortable in what I had achieved and what I had done. You just know deep down that it is time to move on and let the next generation take over.”It wasn’t a sudden or overnight decision, he said. “I don’t think that I made this decision made just on one series, it’s a culmination of a lot of things. Of course it would have been very nice to contribute and do well in the last series and play really well. These decisions are based on a lot of other things, not on one series.”I don’t think there was a eureka moment for me that said that this is the time I have to go. For each one it comes differently, for me it’s come with a bit of contemplation, a bit of thought, with friends and family. It is difficult … but you recognise that this moment has to come to everybody some day. While it will be difficult I have loved every moment of playing for India and for the Indian cricket team. In some ways it’s been an easy decision, because I just know that the time is right.”Dravid became the first of India’s senior-most cricketers – including Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman – to quit the game after a season of speculation surrounding their future. His decision follows a poor tour of Australia but he enjoyed a prolific run through 2011, scoring five centuries – including four in the Caribbean and England. However, he is set to captain Rajasthan Royals in the upcoming IPL season.The first public tribute came from Tendulkar, who said no tribute was enough for the “one and only” Dravid. “There was and is only one Rahul Dravid. There can be no other. I will miss Rahul in the dressing room and out in the middle,” he said.Dravid, who made his debut at Lord’s in 1996, scoring 95, ended his career as one of the greatest players of his generation and among the most accomplished ever. He scored 13,288 Test runs – behind only Tendulkar – in 164 matches, with 36 hundreds at an average of 52.31. His ODI career, which effectively ended in 2008 with a brief reprisal in 2011, was scarcely less successful – it yielded more than 10,000 runs and 12 centuries. He also has 210 catches, a Test record, in addition to 196 catches in ODIs.Behind the statistics, he will be remembered as the consummate team player, moving around in the batting order to suit the team’s requirements and keeping wickets when necessary – most strikingly in ODIs, when his double role gave the team balance on its way to the World Cup final in 2003. His remarkable fitness allowed him to play 93 consecutive Tests from his debut to December 2005.He will be remembered as one of the last classical Test match batsmen, renowned for his technique and a willingness to bat through difficult circumstances – and over prolonged periods – yet able to stroke the ball around when the mood struck him. He was the anchor of India’s famous middle-order, keeping the innings together while the strokeplayers – Tendulkar, Laxman and Ganguly – played a more attacking role. He appeared to especially flourish in partnership with Laxman, never more so than in the Eden Gardens Test of 2001.His batting qualities and efforts were often overshadowed by the flair of his team-mates yet they were brought into sharp focus over the past year with India’s Test team struggling through a period of transition. Dravid showed his class on the tour to England in 2011. In a series in which India were completely outplayed and none of their other batsmen scored more than 275 runs in the Tests, Dravid amassed 461, including three hundreds, two of them when opening the innings against a high-quality pace attack. However, that was followed by a poor series in Australia, which reopened the debate about his retirement.As a captain Dravid had mixed success; he led India in 25 Tests, winning eight and losing six. Under him India cemented a newly won reputation for being good travellers, winning Test series in Pakistan in 2003-04 – he captained in two out of three Tests – West Indies in 2006 and in England in 2007. His captaincy coincided with Greg Chappell’s controversial term as coach, though, and Dravid was clearly uncomfortable with the role.Yet he was seen as one of the game’s thinkers, meriting a place on the MCC’s cricket committee and delivering the Bradman Oration in December 2011 – the first cricketer from outside Australia to do so.Edited by Jayaditya Gupta