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New Zealander makes unbeaten 73 to put contest out of Leicestershire’s reach

ECB Reporters Network10-Jun-2021Lancashire 172 for 8 (Allen 73*, Griffiths 4-24) beat Leicestershire 156 for 5 (Steel 54*) by 16 runsLancashire Lightning’s New Zealand opener, Finn Allen, made an unbeaten 73 off 51 balls as his side made it two wins out of two in this year’s Vitality Blast with a 16-run victory over Leicestershire Foxes.Allen batted through his side’s innings of 172 for 8 and that total proved just too many for the visitors, who finished on 156 for 5 despite Scott Steel’s 54 not out.Having opted to bat first, Lancashire skipper Dane Vilas saw his openers, Allen and Liam Livingstone, score 31 runs off the first three overs but that healthy progress was ended by Gavin Griffiths, who dismissed Livingstone for 25 and Alex Davies for a golden duck with his first two balls.Griffiths completed a rare double-wicket maiden but Lancashire’s brisk run-rate was maintained by Jos Buttler, who made 22 off 16 balls before he was caught at long off by Ben Mike off Colin Ackermann.Related

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Vilas made 16 and Steven Croft included a straight six in his 21 but Griffiths returned to dismiss both Croft and Luke Wood and it was left to Allen to take Lancashire to a defendable total. He succeeded in this task, reaching his 50 off 41 balls and he celebrated his half-century with a straight six off the Afghan fast bowler Naveen ul Haq.Griffths was the most successful Foxes bowler, taking a career-best four for 22 but Ackermann returned his customary fine figures off 2 for 22.Needing to score at 8.65 runs per over, the Foxes took 47 runs off the first 4.3 overs before Josh Inglis was bowled for a 19-ball 34 when attempting to reverse-sweep Danny Lamb. Arron Lilley holed out at deep midwicket for four in Parkinson’s first over and the three Lancashire spinners began to control the game.Livingstone dismissed Ackermann and Tom Hartley’s superb figures off one for 18 included Lewis Hill’s wicket. The Foxes needed 73 off the last six overs but Steel and Rishi Patel maintained the pursuit, both batsmen taking sixes off Lamb’s third over.With 42 needed off three overs Patel hit Parkinson for a straight six before being caught at long on by Croft for a 17-ball 32 when he tried to repeat the shot. Steel and Patel’s 52-run partnership off 31 balls left the Foxes with a hope of scoring the 32 needed off the final two overs but Lancashire’s seamers held their nerve.

Hayley Jensen equaled her career-best to help pull Sri Lanka from a brisk start

Report by Andrew McGlashan22-Feb-2020Sophie Devine wants to lead by example as New Zealand captain it was no surprise that she was unbeaten to marshal her team to a victory that stretched them for stages. In the end, though, the margin was comfortable with 14 balls to spare as Sri Lanka’s lack of power with the bat beyond Chamari Atapattu again hurt them.However, it was Sri Lanka who made the early running and they were 51 without loss after the powerplay with New Zealand a little untidy and getting a touch nervous that the target could be troublesome. Amelia Kerr made the first breakthrough, then it was Hayley Jensen who played the key role by equalling her career-best, the pair taking 5 for 37 in eight overs as Sri Lanka’s second 10 overs brought just 52 runs.Devine, who is in the form of her life, was dropped on 18 but while she anchored the innings – shelving the full-on aggression seen recently – it was Maddy Green who seized the moment to put New Zealand ahead of the rate with a perfectly paced middle-order innings.Atapattu applies pressureNew Zealand nearly broke through in the opening over but Green could not quite cling on to a chance at point to remove Hasini Perera that would have been an early contender for catch of the tournament. Overall, though, in the early exchanges Lea Tahuhu bowled a touch too short on a surface offering enticing carry. Atapattu, who enjoys batting in Australia after two hundreds on the tour late last year, collected a couple of early boundaries. Jess Kerr’s first over cost 13 with the aid of five wides and four byes – Rachel Priest was untidy behind the stumps – and Atapattu signed off the powerplay with a magnificent lofted cover drive for six. New Zealand knew they were in a contest.Power fades awayThe theme of Sri Lanka’s batting is what is there beyond Atapattu, especially when it comes to scoring at the rate required in T20Is. It wasn’t quite a lone hand here – Perera played nicely in the opening stand of 60, showing inventiveness to scoop over fine leg, although the strike-rate was 71 and Harshitha Madavi scored at a run-a-ball – but there remained a stark contrast. Once Atapattu fell, jabbing a full delivery off the toe of the bat back to Tahahu, New Zealand claimed full control on the innings. Outside of Atapattu’s five fours and two sixes there were only three further fours and a late six for Madavi. In fact, from when the opening stand was broken the remaining 12.2 overs brought 67 for 7. Jensen was key to this with a fine spell of wicket-to-wicket medium pace and clever use of cross-seamers, including two wickets in two balls in the 15th over.Contrasting powerplaysThere wasn’t a blazing start from New Zealand against some accurate Sri Lanka bowling. The first three overs brought just 10 before Devine slotted away a couple of boundaries against Achini Kulasuriya, but in the fifth over Priest was found short, beaten by Madavi’s direct hit, from a poor piece of running which continued her below par evening. After six overs, New Zealand were 25 for 1, half of what Sri Lanka had, and they had to make sure they did not leave themselves too much to do.Fielding hurts Sri LankaIf Sri Lanka wanted to secure a first-ever victory over New Zealand they had to hold their chances, but both Devine and Suzie Bates were dropped. Bates’ came before she had scored and got a thick edge to slip where Madavi spilled it. Devine’s key reprieve came two overs later when she tried to break the shackles down the ground, Ana Kanchana unable to steady herself under the catch at long-on. Still, at the halfway mark New Zealand had not quite broken the back of the chase and then Bates drove a catch to cover against young spinner Kavisha Dilhari. However, Dilhari’s second over is where the game took its major shift as 14 came off it including a free hit – after a front-foot no-ball called under the new system by the TV umpire – was flicked over midwicket by Green, who batted superbly to take the pressure off Devine. With the target close, Devine was dropped again at deep midwicket which highlight one of the major differences of the night.

Steve O’Keefe claimed four wickets but a result always appeared unlikely on the final day on a placid surface

Alex Malcolm10-Dec-2018Steve O’Keefe bagged four wickets and Jake Lehmann made a half-century as New South Wales and South Australia played out a tame draw on a very flat surface at the SCG.South Australia began the day 143 runs behind the Blues with only two results really possible. They batted sensibly and conservatively to ensure a loss was taken out of the equation.The Redbacks top five all faced a minimum of 71 balls with no player scoring less than 22. The opening pair put on 47 before O’Keefe claimed his first of the day with Conor McInerney given out caught at bat pad.Jake Weatherald sliced a ball to backward point for 36 before Kelvin Smith chopped on to one that kept low for 22.Callum Ferguson was claimed by a superb catch from Moises Henriques at silly mid-off, scooping a ball one-handed that would have landed on the cut strip.Lehmann held his nerve throughout to reach his second half-century of the match and pass fifty for the fifth time this Sheffield Shield season. He was one of only two players not to fall to O’Keefe with debutant Greg West claiming both Lehmann and Tom Cooper late in the day. The game was called off with South Australia six down and 78 runs ahead.

Since the revised playing conditions will come into effect midway through both series, the ICC has decided to let them go ahead as per the old rules

Nagraj Gollapudi09-Sep-20172:15

New rules, new face

The new set of ICC playing conditions, effective September 28, will not be applied for the limited-overs series between England and West Indies, and Australia and India. This decision has been taken because the revised rules come into play midway through both series and the ICC wanted to avoid the resulting discrepancy.So, the first games of cricket with teams not losing a review for an umpire’s call verdict on DRS, and umpires having the authority to send players off the field for bad behaviour will be the Test series between Sri Lanka and Pakistan, and between Bangladesh and South Africa beginning in the last week of September.Three months ago in June, the ICC cricket committee had taken suggestions from the Marylebone Cricket Club, custodians of the laws of the game, and approved various changes to the playing conditions.These included restrictions on bat sizes, introduction of DRS in T20Is, and an amendment to the run-out law so that batsmen are no longer dismissed if their bat pops in the air at the time of the stumps being broken after having been grounded behind the crease initially. Catches and stumpings will also be permitted off deliveries where the ball makes contact with the protective helmet worn by a fielder or wicketkeeper.The ICC has also made it mandatory for all international matches to have DRS with accredited ball-tracking and edge-detection technology once the new rules take effect. However, reviews will no longer be reset after 80 overs in a Test match.

Jack Leach finished with 6 for 42 as Somerset completed a 32-run Specsavers County Championship victory over Warwickshire on the third morning at Taunton

ECB Reporters Network08-Sep-2016
ScorecardJack Leach claimed six second-innings wickets to finish off Warwickshire at Taunton•Getty Images

Jack Leach finished with 6 for 42 as Somerset completed a 31-run Specsavers County Championship victory over Warwickshire on the third morning at Taunton.Resuming on 131 for 8, needing a further 53 to win, the visitors battled for 14 overs before being bowled out for 152, Rikki Clarke ending unbeaten on 55.Lewis Gregory was the other wicket-taker as Somerset took 19 points to keep alive their hopes of a maiden Championship title. Warwickshire had to be content with three points and are not yet out of relegation danger with only one game remaining.The first half hour saw Clarke and Chris Wright carefully build on their ninth-wicket stand against the spin of Leach and Roelof van der Merwe.Clarke reached his half-century off 138 balls, with eight fours and a six, and the pair had reduced the deficit to 37, with the stand worth 86, when an inspired piece of captaincy by Chris Rogers brought the breakthrough.He introduced Gregory from the River End and, with his fourth delivery, the seamer had Wright caught behind for 45.”I brought Lewis on because I felt the batsmen were getting into a rhythm against our spinners,” Rogers said. “I just had a bit of a feeling that a change of pace might cause problems.”Such decisions often come down to luck and it’s nice when they go your way. It makes you look like you know what you are doing!When Clarke took a single off Leach’s third ball of the 58th over, Somerset moved in for the kill, surrounding last man Josh Poysden with close fielders.The tail-ender got an inside edge and Marcus Trescothick ended the game with the 394th first class catch of his Somerset career, at leg-gully, breaking a club record set by Jack White, whose career ended in 1937.The wicket sparked jubilant celebrations on the pitch and the home side could celebrate an unlikely win after being bowled out for 95 on the first morning.”It wasn’t the sort of pitch I would want to spend my career batting on,” Rogers added. “Each ball behaved a bit differently and that creates questions in the minds of batsmen, which makes them tentative.”But our spinners are bowling well and I’d take the same sort of wicket in our final home game against Notts if it means winning the title!”However, Warwickshire’s captain, Ian Bell, was more critical of the surface that Somerset had laid on.”The pitch wasn’t dangerous in any way so there was no cause for complaint,” he said. “The ECB want wickets that turn, but I don’t think that sort of surface is great even for the development of spinners.”It may bring them more wickets, but they will then find themselves bowling on slow low tracks if they step up to international level.”As for Warwickshire’s prospects for the final throes of the season, Bell added: “It’s disappointing because we are now right in the mix at the wrong end of the table. The game summed up our Championship cricket this season because we were good in spells, but not consistent enough.”We have a big final at Lord’s to look forward to so we can’t afford to dwell on this defeat. But whatever happens we need to look at our four-day cricket because there have been problems stretching back to the end of last season.”

The USA Cricket Association may be on the road back to court after a California sports lawyer has filed a request for arbitration on behalf of the family of a junior cricketer claiming “unfairness and lack of transparency in the USACA U-19 selection proce

Peter Della Penna25-Jun-2015After fighting off legal action from a dismissed board member and contested election results in recent years, the USA Cricket Association may be on the road back to court, after a California sports lawyer has filed a request for arbitration on behalf of the family of a junior cricketer claiming “unfairness and lack of transparency in the USACA U-19 selection process” held from May 23-25 in Los Angeles.Jeremy Evans, the lawyer representing Shyam Patnam whose son Aravind was not selected in the final 14-man squad due to travel to Bermuda next month for the ICC Americas U-19 Division One tournament, states that Mr. Patnam personally requested an arbitration hearing with USACA and filed the paperwork within the two-week deadline laid out in the USACA Constitution but that USACA’s failure to respond is a violation of due process. Multiple USACA administrators who were contacted by ESPNcricinfo about Evans’ legal notice declined to comment. Evans has requested an expedited hearing due to the USA U-19 team’s scheduled departure for Bermuda on July 4 for a tournament whose winner will advance to the ICC U-19 World Cup next year in Bangladesh.”Mr. Patnam does not wish to challenge whether his son is a bad or great cricket player,” Evans wrote in his notice to USACA dated June 8. “He wishes that his son would have had a fair shot to make the team where, among other reasons, clearly several players did not try out yet made the team thus raising serious questions as to the selection process.”Mr. Patnam also sent a letter on June 1 to USACA to demand not just an arbitration hearing, but that a total of seven players included in the 14-man squad be removed for various reasons. Three players selected did not attend trials while Patnam claims the other four underperformed but benefited from nepotism by being the sons or close friends of current or former USACA administrators. Patnam requested that their spots in the USA U-19 squad be filled by his son Aravind, former USA U-15 player Anirudh Srinivas, and five other players “who performed well during the trials.””The whole ordeal and the unfair process, which we think has been unethical, has caused our children severe agony and depression,” Patnam wrote. “They have seen that it helps to be the child of a selector or a USACA official, or an ex-official, with no need for any talent of significance to be on the US team. The agony they are going through right now is severe and indescribable.”

Opening batsman Meg Lanning blitzed a century off 45 balls to lead Australia Women to an emphatic victory in the third ODI against New Zealand Women

ESPNcricinfo staff17-Dec-2012
ScorecardMeg Lanning pulls during her record-breaking hundred•Getty Images

Opening batsman Meg Lanning blitzed a century off 45 balls to lead Australia Women to an emphatic victory in the third ODI against New Zealand Women in Sydney. The nine-wicket win, achieved in the 22nd over of the chase, ensured the Rose Bowl will remain with Australia, who led the four-match series 2-1.Chasing a target of 178, Lanning sped off in top gear while her opening partner Alyssa Healy complied a half-century that was nearly a run a ball. Lanning got to her half-century in 23 balls and her century in 45, setting new Australian Women’s records. The record for the fastest century was previously held by Karen Rolton, who scored 100 off 57 balls against South Africa in December 2000.The Australian openers added 146 runs in 17.1 overs before Lanning was dismissed by Nicola Browne, the solitary wicket-taker for New Zealand. She had scored 103 off 50 balls. Healy was unbeaten on 62 off 69 when the winning runs were scored.The victory had been set up by Australia’s bowlers, who dismissed New Zealand for 177 in the 46th over. The visitors had got off to a solid start, with the openers adding 53, before both fell off successive deliveries. New Zealand lost their third and fourth wickets in the space of one run, and from 75 for 4 they continued to slump. Erin Osborne was the best of Australia’s bowlers, taking 3 for 32 in ten overs. There were three run-outs in the New Zealand innings.

A round-up of the action from the Sheffield Shield 2011-12 matches

ESPNcricinfo staff25-Nov-2011Tasmania edged ahead of Victoria, into third place on the points table, with a 93-run win at the MCG. Victoria had resumed on 226 for 4, chasing a mammoth 412. Centurion Chris Rogers could add only 12 runs to his overnight score of 106, and the lower order could not get going. The only contribution down the order came from Clint McKay, who hit a smacked a few boundaries in a knock of 45 to reduce the margin of defeat.Rogers was eventually snapped up by rookie Jackson Bird. He edged behind as the quick, who was in his second first-class game, went on to complete a five-for in the innings and ten-wicket haul in the match. He was named Man of the Match for his efforts.Only 30 overs of play were possible on day one of the South Australia v Queensland match at the Adelaide Oval. The hosts chose to bat and had four of their top-order batsmen knocked over before rain forced an early close. New-ball bowler Matthew Gale caused most of the damage, trapping Daniel Harris lbw, and getting Tom Thornton and Callum Ferguson to edge to the keeper. South Australia finished the day on 4 for 75, as Luke Feldman had Tom Cooper bowled just before play was called off.In another rain-affected match, Western Australia got to 0 for 37 against New South Wales on day one of the game at the SCG. The openers Marcus Harris and Wes Robinson played patient innings, with strike-rates in the 20s, after New South Wales had put them into bat.

Steven Finn, who is not part of England’s one-day set-up in Australia, has been named in the England Lions squad for the tour of the West Indies in January 2011

ESPNcricinfo staff15-Dec-2010Steven Finn has been named in the England Lions squad for the tour of the West Indies in January 2011 where they will play in the first-class competition. Ravi Bopara, who was dropped from the limited-overs squad that played against Pakistan in September, also returns to Lions duty.All those currently involved with the England Performance Programme in Australia having secured a place in the Lions touring party and are joined by Bopara, Adil Rashid, the Yorkshire legspinner and Glamorgan paceman James Harris. Chris Woakes, who has been included for the one-dayers in Australia in place of the injured Stuart Broad, will replace Finn halfway through the tour and the squad will be captained by James Hildreth.Finn, 21, has not yet come into the reckoning for a place in England’s one-day squad and was left out of the 17-man group to face Australia next month, but Bopara’s inclusion seems to put paid to the possibility that he might force his way into the side for the World Cup, which takes place from February 19 to April 2. The same may be true for Kieswetter, who is part of England’s squad for two Twenty20s against Australia on January 12 and 14, but has lost his place in the one-day team to Steve Davies.The team will be participating in WICB’s first-class regional tournament against each of the other seven competing teams – Barbados, Combined Campuses and Colleges, Guyana, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago and Windward Islands. The squad will depart for the Caribbean on January 24 and return to the UK on March 28 to prepare for the domestic season.”The tour of the West Indies gives those players who have been working hard throughout the first part of the winter an opportunity to test themselves in a competitive environment and to continue to put forward a case for inclusion in England squads over the summer,” said England national selector Geoff Miller.”The England Performance Programme and England Lions tours are often crucial stages in a player’s development and offer coaches and selectors an insight into whether players have the potential to develop into world class cricketers and thrive on the international stage. This is a balanced squad combining players who have had considerable exposure to international and first-class cricket with younger players who have already shown considerable promise.”England Lions squad James Hildreth (capt), Jimmy Adams, Jonny Bairstow, Ravi Bopara, Danny Briggs, Maurice Chambers, Jade Dernbach, Steve Finn (first half of tour only), Andrew Gale, James Harris, Craig Kieswetter (wk), Adam Lyth, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Ben Stokes, James Taylor, Chris Woakes (second half of tour only)

A summary of the fifth round of matches in New Zealand’s domestic one-day competition

Cricinfo staff28-Dec-2009Martin Guptill’s scintillating innings made light work of a challenging chase as Auckland cruised to a five-wicket win over Canterbury in Christchurch. Canterbury’s start was thwarted by the loss of their openers before Peter Fulton and Johann Myburgh steadied the ship with a 93-run stand. Scott Styris accounted for Fulton when he was a shot away from his half-century, but Myburgh had set his sights on a big innings. Craig McMillan provided the impetus with a typically belligerent 57 that included five fours and two sixes. The fifth wicket raised 90 in 73 balls before McMillan’s dismissal triggered a flurry of wickets that denied Canterbury the finishing flourish. Myburgh was run out off the penultimate ball of the innings for 112, setting Auckland a steep chase of 283. Guptill, however, was intent on making it a no-contest and took charge of the match with a calculated assault from which only Rob Nicol and Chris Martin escaped. Striking 20 fours and three sixes off 137 balls, Guptill put Auckland in sight of victory through useful stands with Richard Jones, Ravi Bopara and Styris, before falling for 156.While Guptill’s effort scuppered Canterbury’s chances, Central Districts faced no such problems from Otago, easing to a 59-run victory in Dunedin. The toss was one of the few things that went right for Otago, who were immediately on the back foot with Central Districts’ rapid start to the innings. Neil Wagner and Yasir Arafat engineered a strong comeback, getting three wickets for seven runs to stifle the momentum. However, their joy was short-lived as Timothy Weston and Jacob Oram rebuilt the innings with a 121-run stand that set Central Districts up for a strong finish. While both batsmen missed hundreds, the lower middle-order ensured that their work did not go to waste as Kieran Noema-Barnett, Graham Napier and George Worker pushed Central Districts to 297 before a late spark from Ian Butler bowled them out in the last over. Despite getting starts, none of the Otago batsmen were able to play the anchor role and they floundered to 125 for 5 just after the halfway mark. Butler was again in the thick of action, trying to spark a lower order revival, but steady spells by Central Districts’ back-up bowlers ensured that the script ended in their favour. Oram picked up 3 for 48 as Otago’s innings folded in the 45th over.Wellington completed a 22-run win against Northern Districts in a rain-affected encounter at Seddon Park. Kane Williamson’s 70 was the mainstay of Northern District’s innings, while Michael Parlane and Anton Devcich chipped in with useful contributions. Dewayne Bowden, Andy McKay and Paul Hitchcock took two wickets apiece to keep the score down to 223. Wellington’s chase looked to be on course when the heavens opened in the 35th over of the chase with the score on 156 for 4. Mathew Bell’s responsible 40 had taken charge of the chase when the D/L method adjudged Wellington the victor.