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ScorecardPunjab took only 39 overs to bowl out Railways on the final day•ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Left-arm spinner Varun Khanna’s eight-wicket haul, his maiden five-for, helped Punjab complete an innings win against Railways in Mohali and move to the top of Group B.Defeat appeared imminent for Railways when they resumed the final day on 125 for 5, still 283 runs away from making Punjab bat again. Railways lost their first wicket in the 10th over of the day for the addition of 20 runs, when Khanna removed Karn Sharma. However, overnight batsman Arindam Ghosh put on 50 runs in the company of Arnab Nandi (33) before Khanna had Nandi caught and bowled.The other significant partnership for Railways came through Ghosh and Krishnakant Upadhyay who added 40 runs for the ninth wicket. But it wasn’t long before the last two wickets fell, and Ghosh was left stranded on 98. Railways’ innings lasted 39 overs on the fourth day.
Scorecard Seamer B Ayyappa’s 6 for 71 was instrumental in Andhra securing the first-innings against Mumbai in Vizianagaram, after the visitors fell seven runs short of Andhra’s 244.Resuming on 158 for 5, Mumbai inched forward through Siddhesh Lad and Abhishek Nayar, and closed in on the 200 mark when Nayar was run out in the 80th over. Mumbai lost two more wickets in the next 10 overs, for the addition of 36 runs: Ayyappa dismissed Dhawal Kulkarni and, more crucially, Lad for 86 and later cleaned up the tail to collect his maiden five-wicket haul.Andhra then batted solidly in their second innings to ensure they walked away with three points.
ScorecardUttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh shared a point each in Moradabad, following a strong batting display from Madhya Pradesh. In reply to UP’s 686 for 7, MP, who began the day at 234 for 3, were buoyed by a 150-run stand for the fourth wicket between Aditya Shrivastava and Devendra Bundela. Shrivastava, playing in only his fourth first-class match, made his way to 169 before being caught behind off Ankit Rajpoot. Rajpoot also accounted for Bundela, who scored 80, in his next over, but Harpreet Singh, the No.7 batsman, held firm at his end, striking an unbeaten 88 to lead his team to 531 for 7, and denied UP a first-innings lead. Rajpoot was UP’s best bowler, taking 4 for 87.

Manchester United are eyeing up a summer move for rumoured Liverpool transfer target Fabio Carvalho, according to a fresh transfer claim.

The Lowdown: Liverpool keen on Carvalho

The Reds and manager Jurgen Klopp brought in Luis Diaz during the January transfer window and they were also strongly linked with a move for Carvalho.

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The 19-year-old has been a star performer for Championship leaders Fulham this season, scoring seven goals and registering five assists.

Pundit Kevin Phillips has even branded Carvalho as ‘exciting’ whilst Fabrizio Romano says the teenage talent is someone ‘Klopp wants’ at Anfield personally.

While Liverpool are expected to return for him at the end of the campaign, a new update suggests acquiring his signature may not be easy.

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The Latest: Man United join the race

According to The Daily Star, United are also keen on signing the Englishman, having sent scouts to watch him against Manchester City in the FA Cup fourth round.

The Red Devils are ‘planning a hijack bid’ to sign Liverpool’s target this summer as they eye a ‘last-ditch attempt to stop him heading to Anfield’.

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The Verdict: Why join United over Reds?

While this is a worrying claim from a Liverpool perspective, the Reds would likely be the more appealing proposition at the moment, with their bitter rivals seemingly in turmoil on and off the pitch, by their past standards.

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Carvalho would surely jump at the chance to work under Jurgen Klopp and the fact that he is an advocate of youth means he would likely get a chance to shine, as has been the case with his former Fulham teammate Harvey Elliott.

There was a time when it was United who the young English players wanted to join but the current situation is now very different, which is a testament to the job Klopp has done.

In other news, a foreign source has made a Liverpool transfer claim. Read more here.

Sourav Ganguly to miss the action at Kochi © Getty Images

Sourav Ganguly, who pulled his right hamstring while fielding in the first one-dayer against Australia in Bangalore, has been rested for the second game in Kochi as a precautionary measure.The team management has informed that the injury is not serious, and that Ganguly should be available for the remainder of the series. Ganguly went off the field in the 27th over of the first ODI at Bangalore.”An MRI scan was performed on Sourav’s right hamstring this morning and it has determined no injury to the region,” Niranjan Shah, the secretary of the BCCI, said in a statement.”Based on the findings, a vigorous rehab approach will be commencing immediately. On the report of team physio John Gloster and other analysis, the team management feels that Sourav will progress quickly and hence it was decided to rest him for a game.”Ganguly was confident of regaining his fitness for the third game. “Thankfully, it’s a strain and not a tear… I should be available for the third match,” he told the Kolkata-based . The team’s cricket manager, Lalchand Rajput, also echoed his views: “It’s not a tear, but Sourav has to rest … one can’t take a chance.”Meanwhile offspinner Harbhajan Singh admitted to the same newspaper that he was recovering from a stiff neck. “I can now turn my head to the left… I’m much better and should be available for Tuesday’s match.”The second one-dayer gets underway on October 2 while the third, at Hyderabad, is scheduled for October 5.

‘We’re not interested in debates through the media or in litigating matters in the media’ © Getty Images

The war of words between the International Cricket Council and the Board of Control for Cricket in India has intensified further with Malcolm Speed, the ICC chief executive, suggesting that India could not aspire to become a cricketing force without putting its own house in order.While refusing to be drawn into the specifics of the criticism leveled at ICC by Lalit Modi, the vocal vice-president of the BCCI, on several occasions, most recently in a comprehensive discussion on Cricinfo’s Round Table, Speed said money power alone could not make India a formidable force in world cricket.”I have an old-fashioned view,” said Speed when asked if the BCCI were usingtheir superior monetary position to flex their muscle. “I judge sportsorganisations on the basis of three things: 1. How the team performs. 2. Howthe board looks after its stake-holders in terms of facilities on thegrounds, and 3. How well they use resources like population toproduce great cricketers.”The population aspect had been highlighted by Modi in his Round Table discussion to explain how it both brought in huge revenues, in terms of a captive audience, and also spurred the Indian board to greater efforts. Speed, however, chose to focus on a different aspect of the same issue.”Let us look at New Zealand. They are in the semi-final of the ChampionsTrophy with a population of four million. They don’t have a lot of money,but they are consistent. India last won a [ICC] cricketing event in 1983.I am very sure in 2007 it will be great if India win. It would mean thatthe power that India has, the population and booming economy, is beingreflected in the performance of India. It helps to have money to do that,but it is not always necessary.”Both Speed’s and Modi’s comments were the latest in the BCCI’s long-running skirmish with the ICC on several issues revolving around marketing rights, including the Members Participation Agreement (MPA), which deals with advertising during ICC events. The BCCI has refused to sign the MPA, saying it impinged on the rights of the players and the board in its present form.Speed refused to react to Modi’s recent allegations against the ICC andclearly stated that their silence on the matter was a deliberate move.”The ICC has said very little,” he continued. “We see long articles, longletters to newspapers. We’re accused of being the East India Company andlots of suggestions of inappropriate behaviour. We’ve deliberately notsaid anything. We’re not interested in debates through the media or notinterested in litigating matters in the media.”He reiterated his thoughts on Modi, the same ones he’d outlined a few weeks back, asserting that hehadn’t been to a single ICC meeting and was just shooting off opinionsinstead of sticking to facts.Modi, however, had asserted that there was an underlying ‘attitude’ problem to the whole standoff. “I will tell you what the problem is,” he had said on Round Table. “The ICC wants a ‘Yes’ man. That is the actual problem. They want somebody that they can deal with and who is going to listen to them. In our case he has to deal with the whole committee – the decision-making process which was one person is not there anymore.”On his part, Percy Sonn, the president of the ICC, echoed his views but added that hewas optimistic about the future. “I’ve had discussions with Sharad Pawar,the BCCI president, and even had a half an hour discussion with the primeminister [Sonn met the prime minister two days back] of the country,” he stated. “Whatever has happened in the past, the future is rosy. We cannot respond to allegations in newspapers. We cannot stoop to the level to involve 96 other countries to get involved in comments of an official who doesn’t represent his country in ICC.”

Pakistan’s proposal to appoint neutral umpires and discuss the itinerary for the series against India early next year could not be discussed at the recent Asian Cricket Council (ACC) meeting in Kuala Lumpur because no representative from the Indian board was present.Saleem Altaf, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) director, who attended the meeting, told reporters that no official from the Indian board was present at the meeting. India are scheduled to tour Pakistan from January next year, although the itinerary is yet to be finalised. This, as well as a decision on neutral umpires for the ODI series, will now be taken after discussions on the phone between representatives of the two boards.Pakistan will be using two neutral umpires during the ODI series against England after they sought and received approval from the English board. Altaf also told reporters that an itinerary for the Asia Cup, to be held in Pakistan immediately after the series against India, will be finalised soon.

Damien Martyn acknowledges applause for his hundred© Getty Images

Damien Martyn
On his innings
Good to make a century, happy about it. I think we got good partnerships. We lost too many wickets by the end of the day but if we can make 450-plus we’ll be happy to take it.On the pitch
It’s still going to nip around, that’s the hope for our quicks, who should get a lot of assistance from it as the game goes by.On how this century compared with the last one
The two were very different centuries. The last one came when we had our backs to the wall. Today, we were just looking to be positive, play our shots and get a good score on the board in the first innings.On playing well on the subcontinent
It’s just that we have been playing a lot of cricket here in the last 12 months. It’s satisfying to get these runs in tough, spinning conditions against world-class bowlers. As a batsman you have to do well against the best and I am happy that I did.On Kartik’s bowling
I thought he bowled really well. He realised early on that there was not much spin on the wicket and varied his flight and pace beautifully. It was tough to score off him and there were patches when we struggled against him.On stepping up a gear after reaching 100
We always play positive cricket and with myself and Clarke in, we were looking to score well. But I had been playing my shots early on as well and not just after the 100. It’s disappointing that I got out and [that] a couple of other wickets fell before close of play. Murali Kartik
On playing Test cricket after a gap of nine months
The last tour was Pakistan, but the best thing is to play for your country. Every time you play for your country you try to give it your best shot. It’s not every day that you do brilliantly well, but as long as you gave it your best when you take a shower at the end of the day, it feels good.On when he knew he was going to play
I only got to know this morning that I was playing for sure. But I was kept on standby since Harbhajan [Singh] was not feeling well.On whether it has been painful to be out of the Indian team
I wouldn’t say it has been painful. But the way my career has shaped up, I’ve always been in the shadow of Anil [Kumble] and Harbhajan. Those two have done exceptionally well for the country and I’ll have to bide my time.On the suggestion that he is a much-improved bowler since Sydney
I wouldn’t put it that way. People are probably saying that because in the first innings in Sydney they took me on.On which wicket was the best of the day
Lehmann’s wicket came at a time when we weren’t getting breakthroughs. But Gilchrist’s wicket was also important – we all know how dangerous he can be. Gilchrist and Clarke took the game away from us in Bangalore.On the pitch
The pitch is on the slower side. It did seam for the fast bowlers in the morning and there’s a bit of bounce, but it is on the slower side.On his blond highlights
I like the salt-and-pepper look. By the time my hair naturally turns grey I may not have any left.

Cricket Australia today announced a squad of Commonwealth Bank CricketAcademy (CBCA) players to travel to India next Tuesday, to take part in theMRF Trophy tournament starting on August 2.The 12-player CBCA squad will compete in the 12-team round-robin competitionagainst some of India’s leading senior sides.It is the first time that the Academy has participated in the MRF Trophytournament and will provide players with an opportunity to assimilate tovarying playing conditions. Teams have been divided into four groups ofthree teams each. Each group will play two two-day league matches againsteach other, with the top two teams from each group qualifying for thequarter-finals.The CBCA side will play the strong Railway Sports team in their openinground match and then play the Oil & Natural Gas Corporation XI, who haveproduced Indian Test players Mohammad Kaif and Virender Sehwag through theirteam.The two-day quarter-finals will be played on August 7-8, while thesemi-finals (August 10-12) and final (August 14-16) will be three-daymatches.CBCA head coach Bennett King said the opportunity to participate in thetournament was an important part of developing Australia’s young cricketersand exposing them to different playing conditions.”We have a duty to prepare our developing cricketers, for all types ofconditions, should they one day tour the sub-continent in a national side,”King said. “Providing the opportunity for players to familiarise andappreciate the conditions first-hand is an invaluable experience for them.”The CBCA squad is:The team members are: Adam Crosthwaite (Victoria), Chris Duval (SouthAustralia), Callum Ferguson (South Australia), Matthew Innes (Victoria),Shane Jones (Victoria), Trent Kelly (South Australia), Rhett Lockyear (NewSouth Wales), Steven Magoffin (Queensland), Scott Meuleman (WesternAustralia), Aaron Nye (Queensland), Luke Ronchi (Western Australia), PeterWorthington (Western Australia). Support staff, Bennett King (head coach),David Moore (senior coach), Max Pfitzner (physiotherapist), Shaun McMahon(performance co-ordinator).When the players return from the tour they will return to their states andprepare for the Institute Challenge, to be held from August 23-30 in farnorth Queensland.

Does the unbridled arrogance of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union know no bounds?Not satisfied with extending its rugby season into February, and even January if you take the publicity-absorbing Super 12 warm-up games into account at one end of the year, and dipping into November at the other end, it now determines when other sports can play some of the most important games of their own seasons.Earlier this week the news that all the planning that had gone into Otago’s three-day game with the touring England cricket team has been thrown into disarray because the all-conquering Super 12 organisers had decided to plonk a game on Carisbrook in the middle of the time allocated for the cricket match.This is no ordinary cricket match. It represents 125 years of Otago Cricket, a not insignificant milestone.It also represents about 112 years of co-operation between sports officials over the use of the main ground in Dunedin.But not only Otago is affected.Canterbury Cricket’s hopes of utilising Jade Stadium for their game with England for their own 125th celebrations have also been compromised by yet another allocation of a Super 12 match in the middle of a game.Any claims that cricket might have had for the matches have been walked all over like All Black forward packs would have done over opponents in the days they were fearless, a distant memory which probably tests the recall powers of some of those administering that code.The itinerary for the England cricket tour has been out for nearly two months now.Does anyone responsible for drawing up the rugby itinerary care to consult a calendar before putting their oh so important claims on a venue?Not satisfied with upsetting Otago and Canterbury cricket officials, the Super 12 organisers have struck again in Wellington.They have scheduled a Super 12 match on the same evening as New Zealand’s World Champion softballers, the Black Sox were to have a match in Wellington against the team they beat in last year’s World Series final in South Africa, Japan.Before even considering the affrontery of the jumped-up buffoons who are assaulting the very sporting fabric of the nation, spare a thought for the softball fraternity.This is a group of people without access to the money that is freely thrown around at everyone else’s expense in rugby circles.This is a team that lives on the poverty line in the money stakes.This is a team that actually wins a world event, unlike their rugby playing cousins who have everything laid on for them but still can’t make it.They have one chance in four years, in eight if you count their success in 1996, to capitalise on their success, in terms of money, interest and self-promotion.And what does big bully rugby do?It dumps on them hugely.The NZRFU displays an attitude towards its position in New Zealand sport that would not be out of place in Taleban repression manuals. In truth they probably didn’t even consult sports calendars to see if there was a clash.Would it have been too hard for rugby to have worked in with softball and perhaps made a gala occasion of the event? Softball one night, rugby the next?Not on your Nelly.That might have represented a weakening of rugby’s grip on public attention.It’s the same in Dunedin and Christchurch. Was it really that hard to make an adjustment to allow cricket to celebrate a significant occasion?Rugby has a responsibility in this country. It might be all powerful with access to money undreamed of by other sports.But it also needs to lighten up in its attitude to “competitors”.The latest three examples do nothing to endear the NZRFU to the rest of the sporting populace.It would be a generous gesture from the overbearing Godfathers of the New Zealand sports scene if they immediately announced they were going to have a look at the scheduling of the games concerned in the best interests of sport in this country to see if changes could be made.However, generosity and the NZRFU can’t be mentioned in the same breath at the moment.(DISCLAIMER) The views expressed in this article are not necessarily those of New Zealand Cricket.

ScorecardSuresh Raina hit nine fours and a six in his 94-ball 104•PTI

In a game that was continually interrupted by rain, Suresh Raina’s century underpinned a solid all-round performance from India A as they subdued Bangladesh A by 75 runs and claimed the series 2-1. Raina’s 116-run partnership with Sanju Samson – 90 off 99 balls – boosted India A’s total to 297 for 6 before their seamers and spinners colluded well to unhinge the visitors.Bangladesh A’s chase began on a discordant note, as Soumya Sarkar played Dhawal Kulkarni onto his stumps in the second over. They slipped to 4 for 2 nine balls later as S Aravind celebrated his India call-up by having Anamul Haque caught at mid-on. After a 21-minute rain interruption, their target was revised to 290 in 46 overs.Bangladesh A kept losing wickets at regular intervals as the spinners – Kuldeep Yadav, playing his first game of the series, and Karn Sharma – ensured there was no let up in the pressure created by the seamers. Liton Das and Mominul Haque added 44 for the fourth wicket, but Kuldeep dismissed both of them in quick succession to ensure the chase was in free fall. Sabbir Rahman produced some sparkling strokes, but by the time rain interrupted again, Bangladesh A were at 141 for 6, a considerable way behind their D/L par score of 216.India A had opted to bat at the toss, but early morning conditions meant runs would only come drip by drip. The home side also had to contend with Mayank Agarwal’s departure in the third over after he nicked Shafiul Islam to the wicketkeeper. Unmukt Chand, who had been stuck in single digits for 32 balls, and Samson, promoted to No. 3, began mending things patiently.The scoreboard read 35 for 1 at the end of 10 overs, largely due to an energetic display by the Bangladesh A new-ball bowlers. Al-Amin Hossain’s open-chested action resulted in plenty of inward movement and Shafiul got the ball to lift off a length. But, as India A coach Rahul Dravid observed at the start of the series, the Bangalore surface tended to calm down after an early hostile phase.Chand and Samson, by then, were up to speed with the pitch’s character, and were also helped by some anodyne bowling from Sarkar. Rubel Hossain was cranking up the pace at the other end but Chand took him on, dispatching a brace of boundaries, the second one almost daring the deep point to catch him out. Samson, meanwhile, played some cracking punches, pulls and late cuts but their 82-run partnership was terminated when Chand was bowled by Arafat Sunny after he attempted to cut one that came in with the angle.Raina’s entrance invigorated the innings further as he and Samson took turns to jump out of the crease against the spin of Nasir Hossain and Sunny. Both batsmen favoured the wallop over midwicket apart from their signature strokes: Raina repeatedly executed the swat to the leg side while Samson relished the inside-out shots.Samson was 10 runs short of his maiden List A century when Rubel produced a neat trick: a ball that had been veering in held its line, beat the batsman and bowled him. Kedar Jadhav and Gurkeerat Singh, who was selected in India’s ODI squad, were dismissed in quick succession as well, but Raina simply dialled up the intensity of his assault.He completed his century in 91 balls, and along with Rishi Dhawan, who turned to unconventional shots for an unbeaten 15-ball 26, pushed the team’s score past 290. Raina fell with two balls to go in the innings, but by then he had done sufficient damage, helping India A ransack 87 runs in the last 10 overs.

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Anjum: India were always ahead of the par score

India Women created history at the MCG on Friday, where their ten-wicket win resulted in their first bilateral series victory over Australia Women in any format. In a rain-affected T20 contest the Australians reached 8 for 125 from 18 overs, led by captain Meg Lanning with 49, but they failed to take a wicket during the chase and India reached their revised target of 66 with five balls of their allotted 10 overs remaining.India’s bowling was tight and their work in the field was outstanding after Mithali Raj won the toss and sent Australia in. Jhulan Goswami set things off on a fine note by bowling Grace Harris in the first over of the match and she picked up a second wicket when Beth Mooney lofted over the cover fielder Anuja Patil, who ran back with the flight to complete a brilliant catch that left Australia at 2 for 28.Patil’s sharp fielding again came to the fore when she snapped up the ball at short mid-on and threw down the stumps at the non-striker’s end to find Ellyse Perry short attempting a quick single, and Australia were 3 for 33. While Lanning was at the crease Australia still had hope of a competitive score, though, and her 70-run partnership with Jess Jonassen steadied the innings.But the match arguably turned on a piece of great fortune for India when Jonassen drove straight back down the pitch and the ball clipped the fingers of the bowler, Harmanpreet Kaur, and ricocheted back onto the stumps to have Lanning run out for 49 off 39 balls. Jonassen (27) slog-swept a catch to deep midwicket in the same over.The Australians struggled to find the boundary in their remaining overs and the left-arm spinner Rajeshwari Gayakwad proved hard to get away, and picked up two wickets in an over. India made a fine start to their chase through Raj and Smriti Mandhana and when rain arrived in the eighth over of the chase they were ahead of the D/L target on 0 for 52.The rain eventually relented but only to allow a further 2.1 overs with India needing a further 14 runs on the re-adjusted D/L score. Raj and Mandhana cruised to victory with five balls to spare, Raj finishing on 37 from 32 balls and Mandhana on 22 off 24. India had an unassailable 2-0 lead with one match still to play.