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“What a difference a day makes”, goes the song, and that was the feeling on the second day of Hampshire’s Frizzell Championship match with Glamorgan at The Rose Bowl, when 14 Hampshire wickets fell to leave the home side in desperate trouble, facing an innings defeat.The County Championship was never supposed to be similar to 20/20 however seven Hampshire batsmen fell during the day, having got started, only to fall in the twenties.Dimitri Mascarenhas took the final wicket to fall of the Glamorgan innings, but as Hampshire started their reply they looked to the sky, which the previous day was permanantly blue, today was overcast and humid, made for swing bowlers. In Michael Kasprowicz they had just that, as the batsmen fell at steady intervals. Kenway, Adams, Crawley, Francis and Tremlett reached their 20 milestones, and when Hampshire were invited to bat again, Kenway and Adams for a second time joined in.Kasprowitz a strong swing bowler bowled long spells and was rewarded with a 5-wicket haul, as Hampshire finished with a woeful 185.Invited to follow on, this time it was skipper Robert Croft who did the damage, taking four wickets to leave the home side in the mire. Simon Katich broke the 20 run hoodoo to reach his half century, but he fell in the last over of the day, trying to pull Croft to deep mid-wicket only to find Alex Wharf waiting for the catch.

Speaking at The County Ground at Taunton this evening, Somerset Chief Executive Peter Anderson said, “Following my article on the Somerset web site regarding County Cricket it is interesting to notice that Australian Coach John Buchanan has joined in the criticsm of the County Championship.”The Chief execvutive went on, “This is a bit rich coming from him, having failed at Middlesex, presumably because the job was too much for him.”

Tim Nielsen, the new Australian coach, feels that the challenge for India’s ageing middle-order line-up will be to beat the hectic schedule and remain fresh for the tour to Australia. Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman – all in their thirties – will probably be playing in their last Test series in Australia later this year, but before that there’s plenty of cricket in store for the Indian team.”It’s interesting. Apart from the two opening batsmen, they seem to have gone back to a more experienced line-up,” Nielsen told the . “The challenge for them is, I suppose, they’ve got the Twenty20 World Series, then they’ve got the Test series against Pakistan and they come straight to Australia.”Nielsen said that Australia will have the edge as they wouldn’t have played as much cricket. “We will be relatively fresh compared with what they will be and that might be a positive for us. That will test these older players of theirs.”He also indicated that Australia had the firepower in their bowling to counter the Indian batsmen. “Two guys bowling at 150-plus kph is an exciting thing. Hopefully, they are all fit, firing and ready to go. The selectors will have a look at what the best combination is,” Nielsen said. “The great thing is, whether it be [Mitchell] Johnson, [Shaun] Tait, [Brett] Lee, [Stuart] Clark, [Ben] Hilfenhaus, there is lots of talent around that is screaming out for the opportunity.”Along with the Dravid, Tendulkar, Ganguly and Laxman, India’s Test team to Australia will also include the 36-year-old Anil Kumble. However, all five senior players won’t play the Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa. Also, Kumble has retired from ODIs while Laxman hasn’t played an ODI for India since December last year.

Warriors failed to chase down a target of 128 against Lions and their 21-run loss denied them a play-off spot in this season’s Ram Slam T20. With Titans already through to the final, the play-off will now be played between Dolphins and Cape Cobras at Kingsmead on December 9 and the winner will meet Titans in the final on December 12.Looking for their third straight win, the Warriors line-up imploded in the chase and folded for 106 in 18 overs. Dwaine Pretorius (3 for 19) and Eddie Leie (4 for 32) were the main wicket-takers for Lions.Pretorius ran through Warriors’ top-order, taking three wickets at the start to help reduce the side to 34 for 5 by the seventh over. Christiaan Jonker scored an attacking 45 but he played a lone hand and once he was dismissed by Leie in the 16th over, the Warriors lower order folded quickly.After being put in to bat, Lions’ innings was driven by contributions from Dominic Hendricks (35) and Devon Conway (20), which helped them recover from a shaky start of 40 for 3 in the seventh over. Pretorius’ run-a-ball 14 and Fortuin’s 13 in the latter half of the innings helped lift the score to 127 for 9. Basheeru-Deen Walters had the best returns among Warriors’ bowlers with 3 for 21, while Andrew Birch and Sisanda Magala ended the innings with two wickets apiece.Andre Russell’s all-round performance – 4 for 11 followed by a blazing 66 not out off only 23 balls – guided Knights to a comfortable four-wicket win over Titans in Benoni. The bonus-point win for Knights had no bearing on the positions of the two teams in the table – Titans, are already through to the final, while Knights finished last on the table, two points behind Lions.Put in to bat, Quinton de Kock and Graeme van Buuren tried to lift Titans’ innings taking them to 45 for 2 from a score of 9 for 2. The Knights bowlers, however, chipped away at the wickets limiting Titans to 136 for 9. Van Buuren top-scored with a 41-ball 57 that included six fours and three sixes. Chris Morris scored an 11-ball 21 in the death but Russell denied Titans a strong finish, taking three wickets in his final two overs.Russell walked in to bat with Knights at 54 for 4 in the ninth over and went on to smash seven sixes and four fours in his 66. Lungi Ngidi and Tabraiz Shamsi suffered the brunt of Russell’s attack, and conceded 32 and 42 runs respectively. His charge helped Knights chase down the target by the 16th over.

Ben Ackland’s unbeaten 71 guided Ireland to a six-wicket win against Scotland in the European Under-19 qualifier in Belfast and helped his side gain a berth in the Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia.Rain reduced the match to 35 overs-a-side and Scotland posted 157, boosted by Calum MacLeod’s 58, a knock which contained eight fours and two sixes. His partnership with Scott MacLennan (36) helped them recover from a shaky start at 47 for 4. Richard Keaveney, Graham McDonnell and captain Greg Thompson claimed three wickets each to bowl out the opposition in 34 overs.Another rain interruption reduced the target to 150 and the overs to 32. Ireland were rocked early in their chase by MacLeod’s double-strike before Ackland and Chris Dougherty combined to add 99 for the third wicket. Ackland’s knock came off 70 balls and included eight fours while Dougherty played the supporting act with a patient 37 off 77 balls which contained two fours.Thompson said that the senior team’s performance in the recent World Cup in the West Indies, qualifying for the Super Eights, impacted the nation’s cricket in a big way.”The seniors made the country proud in the ICC Cricket World Cup in the West Indies which, of course, was a huge motivation for all of us, while at the junior level we have won all the European titles,” Thompson was quoted in a ICC media release. “The team is shaping well and we look to be heading in the right direction.”Ireland have now qualified for their third successive Under-19 World Cup. Scotland, though, still have the chance to qualify for the 16th place. A play-off, at a venue and date to be confirmed next month, will be held between them and the top team in the Asia group, bar Malaysia. As hosts, Malaysia have received an automatic place – to encourage local support.In the third and fourth placed play-off match at Stormont, Netherlands demolished Denmark for 46 and eased to a nine-wicket win. Olivier de Geus and Graeme Davey led the rout with three wickets each in after rain reduced the match to 41 overs-a-side.

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A sensational opening partnership was followed by an even more sensational collapse as West Indies replayed one of the familiar tunes that has plagued them in recent times to surrender the opening game of the DLF Cup. A largely inexperienced Australia fought back remarkably, but this match was not about one team winning it. It was about another giving it away after having the opponents bedraggled.There are a few things a team can do when they need 108 runs in 26.4 overs with nine wickets in hand, when the opposition bowlers have been demoralised, and when the opening batsmen have rattled along at seven-and-a-half an over. But West Indies didn’t choose the conventional route. Once their openers went, the rest chose to self-destruct.Nine wickets fell for the addition of just 29. A little over ten years back – in the high-tension World Cup semi-final in Mohali, West Indies had folded in similar fashion and have made it a habit in recent times. Brian Lara went, in what has become a fairly common mode of dismissal for him, shuffling across the stump to be pinned lbw and what Dwayne Bravo and Ramnaresh Sarwan were doing – trying to improvise when the asking-rate wasn’t even five – is anybody’s guess. It was one royal mess.Let’s not forget Australia. First they made 279 on a pitch that was two-paced to start with, thanks to two cracking fifties from Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke. Then they kept their heads up even when Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Chris Gayle went bananas, and raised the bar in the field and refused to believe the match had slipped from their grasp.Glenn McGrath took a while to find his groove – it was the first time in nearly seven years that he’d bowled more than four wides in a match – but came back later with control. Mitchell Johnson, hammered for 39 in his first four overs, fought back spiritedly to claim two vital wickets; Shane Watson kept pegging away, brushed aside catching lapses, and ended with four wickets.The West Indies innings now seems like another match altogether. Not many West Indians can claim to outscore Gayle and it was a sight watching Chanderpaul go after the bowling in inspired fashion. The Australians have seen this side of him earlier – three years back, in the carnival atmosphere of the Bourda Oval at Georgetown, he unleashed the third fastest Test hundred – and there was little this new Australian line-up could do to contain him today.

The first boundary came only in the sixth over but the flood that followed was truly sensational. Nathan Bracken was carted for five fours in the space of nine deliveries – the midwicket fence receiving a peppering – before he was completely taken apart in the 10th over – when two wristy pick-ups produced a couple of sixes right from the Saeed Anwar textbook. Just as all the attention was focused on Chanderpaul, like some dormant volcano, Gayle awoke. At one point he had 17 off 26 balls and soon reached fifty off 43 thanks to a boundary-filled spell that was as emphatic as they come. He gave himself room, gave the bowlers a clear sight of the stumps, and violently deposited the ball into the stands. But his dismissal, slicing a shortish ball to point, signalled the beginning of the end.As for Australia, it was imperative that they got off to a rapid start. Shrugging off a rustiness that is likely to accompany a five-month break and adjusting to the vagaries of a virgin pitch, they cruised along to a healthy total. While both the left-handed openers – Phil Jaques and Simon Katich – struggled against the spongy bounce, or lack of it, Ponting adjusted almost immediately. His upbeat half-century, made at more than a run-a-ball, set the tone before Clarke bounced onto the stage and picked up the baton. Clarke was soon spreading the field – why would anyone bowl consistently on his pads? – and then settled into a rhythm of singles and twos. Being quick on your feet helps and Clarke, getting to the pitch of the ball, gave himself the best chance. Towards the latter stages he began backing away to the legside and whacking towards cover and, if not for a Dwayne Bravo slower ball that beat him, a hundred was there for the taking.There were good support acts as well with Katich sticking on adhesively and Mark Cosgrove providing a wonderful imitation of what Darren Lehmann used to bring to the table. Cosgrove is one of those batsmen who has the rare quality of irritating the opposition with his stroke production: shuffle, read length, flick; shuffle, read length, nudge. Suddenly he would burst forth and unleash a powerful stroke. Later he came on, ran in like a truck hurtling down a slope, and dismissed Wavell Hinds to open the floodgates. When he was batting Lara might have been tempted to tear his hair out; at the end of the game he might have actually turned bald.How they were out
AustraliaPhil Jaques b Edwards 2 (9 for 1)
Ricky Ponting lbw b Bradshaw 54l (107 for 2)
Simon Katich c Bravo b Smith 36 (122 for 3)
Mark Cosgrove c Lara b Smith 34 (191 for 4)
Shane Watson c Sarwan b Smith 2 (205 for 5)
Michael Clarke b Bravo 81 (258 for 6)
Brad Haddin b Haddin 24 (258 for 7)
Nathan Bracken b Taylor 1 (260 for 8)
West IndiesChris Gayle c Jaques b Watson 60 (136 for 1)
Shivnarine Chanderpaul c Haddin b Johnson 92 (172 for 2)
Brian Lara lbw b Johnson 1 (176 for 3)
Dwayne Bravo c Jaques b McGrath 1 (185 for 4)
Wavell Hinds c Haddin b Cosgrove 2 (196 for 5)
Ramnaresh Sarwan c Ponting b Watson 22 (197 for 6)
Carlton Baugh c Haddin b Bracken 0 (198 for 7)
Ian Bradshaw lbw b Watson 0 (199 for 8)
Jerome Taylor b Watson 0 (199 for 9)
Dwayne Smith c Haddin b Bracken 2 (201 all out)

Western Province completely dominated the opening day of their SuperSport Series match against Boland at the picturesque PP Smit Stadium in Bellville, ending the day in a commanding position at 347 for 3.The bulk of the day’s play was taken up by a huge 2nd wicket partnership between the left-handed pair of Gary Kirsten and Ashwell Prince, both challenging for places in the Test team. Their stand was worth 253, a new Western Province record.WP won the toss and took first use of a slowish pitch. The batting was equally slow, before Lloyd Ferreira fell to a good catch by wicket-keeper Steve Palframan. The Bolander’s joy turned to despair as the two diminutive WP batsmen then took the game away from them. Prince batted attractively, while Kirsten was at his gritty best.Kirsten reached his 38th First Class hundred in just short of 5 hours, off 217 balls; and Prince recorded his 6th FC century in 4 hours off 184 balls.Fittingly, their centuries were recorded off successive deliveries. Kirsten’s innings of 5 and a quarter hours came to a tame end when he holed out to Vinod Kambli’s tame off spin, and Prince followed shortly afterwards hooking Jacques van Wyk’s first delivery with the new ball straight to fine leg, having equalled his highest FC score.Captain HD Ackerman and Zimbabwean Neil Johnson raised another fifty partnership before close of play. The Boland attack was workmanlike without ever really threatening the talented home batsmen. Andrew Cyster impressed with his fielding on what was a demoralising day for the bowlers. Their overstepping was another headache, conceding no fewer than 26 no-balls during the day.WP scored 4.82 batting points, and Boland a single bowling point.

Stephen Fleming has expressed his concern for New Zealand’s chances in the forthcoming NatWest Series, saying his bowlers lack the penetration to bowl teams out and restrict the runs.New Zealand crashed to a 3-0 loss in the recent Test series, and came unstuck in their first warm-up limited-overs match against Derbyshire. A host of injuries have not helped matters, and Fleming was not upbeat about the bowling situation: “You do need variation through the middle, and to take wickets through the middle, otherwise teams score 250-300 quite regularly.”He added, “Going into the tri-series, one of my concerns is the ability to take wickets, that’s the best way to hold a run rate. Our bowling’s still flat, it lacks penetration on flat wickets.”The New Zealander’s fielding against Derbyshire was suspect as well, with Fleming himself dropping Hassan Adnan before he went on to win the game for Derbyshire. “That gave them a platform, I dropped a catch and he got a hundred which doesn’t help. I hate it … you want to do well and get on the winning side.”He added: “They’re only little things, we’re so close to having a good tour, but that’s just enough to be getting hurt. We’ve got to be careful we don’t get too dejected, there were some good things and it was our first hitout one-day wise, but we still should knock over county sides.”New Zealand face Essex in a day-night game at Chelmsford today, and are boosted by the return of Chris Cairns, who was rested for the game at Derby. Daniel Vettori, meanwhile, has been bowling in the nets and is slowly recovering from his injured hamstring. He has targeted the next warm-up match, against Northamptonshire this Sunday.

Gary Kirsten has been appointed as Western Province captain for the forthcoming season, with Ashwell Prince named as his deputy. Arthur Turner, the chief executive of Western Province Cricket Association, announced that a youthful squad of 21 players had been contracted for the season, with some being offered two-year contracts.Kirsten’s half-brother Peter has been given a two-year contract as coach of the senior side, while Barney Mohamed has also been given a two-year contract, to coach the B side and academy teams.Turner admitted that Gary Kirsten would not always be available for all matches because of his international commitments, but on those occasions, Prince would set up to the role, with Thami Tsolekile acting as vice captain.

Indian batting star Sachin Tendulkar, who pulled out of the threematch Test series in Sri Lanka because of a toe injury, will notattend the Indian Cricket Board’s (BCCI) Technical Committee meetingto be held at Baroda on Saturday.BCCI Executive Secretary, Sharad Diwadkar, told PTI here today thatTendulkar decided not to attend the meeting as he wanted to rest hisinjured toe. Tendulkar was one of the invitees along with leg spinnerAnil Kumble and former Test stars Krishnamachari Srikkanth and ArunLal.The meeting, to be chaired by former Indian skipper Sunil Gavaskar,will discuss the Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy formats.