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Surrey opened their Friends Life t20 campaign with a 17-run victory over Essex at The Oval

13-Jun-2012
ScorecardSurrey opened their Friends Life t20 campaign with a 17-run victory over Essex at The Oval. The hosts managed just 128 for 8 but defended that total, despite the visitors starting their chase with a 44-run opening partnership between Mark Pettini and Ravi Bopara in just six overs.When Pettini edged Jade Dernbach behind the wicket, the complexion of the game altered and by the time the score had been doubled, Essex were in deep trouble. The visitors lost seven wickets in 10 overs, three of them to the spin of Gareth Batty, who finished with 3 for 20.Batty trapped Owais Shah leg before wicket and two overs later gained the prized scalp of Bopara, who top-edged a reverse sweep and was caught by Matt Spriegel at backward point for 28. James Franklin completed Batty’s haul when he skied off a leading edge to mid-off as the visitors’ reply fell away alarmingly.As the panic button was pressed, a horrendous mix-up between Graham Napier and Franklin found both batsmen at the same end, with Napier departing for one as the innings disintegrated.Surrey’s significant partnership came from their sixth wicket pairing of Gary Wilson and Zafar Ansari, who added 40 after coming together with the score on 68 for five shortly after the halfway stage of the innings.Wilson top-scored with a run-a-ball 33 which included three of the 15 boundaries recorded by the home side, whilst Jason Roy contributed 22 from 19 balls. The pick of the Essex attack was Napier, who found line and length from the start to pose problems for the home batsmen throughout his four overs.Napier struck twice with successive deliveries in his opening over, taking a return catch off Rory Hamilton-Brown who skied the ball off a leading edge before Zander du Bruyn fell first ball when he lost his middle stump to a text book yorker.Napier ended with the impressive figures of three for 16 from his four overs, while last year’s leading bowler in the competition – left-arm spinner Tim Phillips – claimed 2 for 19. Phillips was to later finish unbeaten on 16, one of only three Essex batsmen to reach double figures in this South Group game.

Gary Kirsten has been appointed coach of the South Africa team

Firdose Moonda06-Jun-2011Gary Kirsten has been appointed coach of the South Africa team for a term of two years. He will be joined by Allan Donald as bowling coach, and Russell Domingo, who coached the Warriors, as an assistant.”I’m delighted by the appointment and consider it a major honour,” Kirsten said at a press conference in Johannesburg. “It’s nice to be back … it’s nice to be among my people and to be working within that space.”Kirsten will begin his term as coach on August 1 and his first assignment will be a home series against Australia. He took over from Corrie van Zyl, who was an interim coach for 14 months after Mickey Arthur resigned following the home series against England in 2009-10.This is Kirsten’s second stint as coach of an international team. He finished a two-year term with India in April, after helping them win the 2011 World Cup and become the No. 1 Test team. At the end of his tenure, Kirsten indicated he would take time off to be with his young family.”There was a lot to consider from my side, from a personal perspective and from my time with Indian cricket,” he said. “A cooling off period was necessary.” Kirsten will have four months off from the end of his time with India to his starting date with South Africa.Kirsten described his new role as that of “team director/head coach” who would be at the helm of the “coaching team” which may also employ the services of a fielding coach on a contractual basis. CSA chief executive Gerald Majola said that after the board decided to appoint Kirsten, he was allowed to compile his own team of coaches, which included Donald and Domingo.Donald, who recently lost the Australia bowling job to Craig McDermott, turned down an offer from New Zealand Cricket in order to take up the role with South Africa. He was approached on Friday, when “some of my bags were packed” for New Zealand but did an about turn immediately “When I got the call from Gary it took me all but half a second to say yes,” Donald said. “It was almost like the very first call from Doctor Bacher in 1991, saying you are going to India and representing your country.” Donald will travel with the South Africa A team to Zimbabwe at the end of June for a tri-series which also involves Australia A.Donald’s appointment means Vincent Barnes’ contract will be terminated at the end of June. Barnes has been involved as South Africa’s bowling and assistant coach since 2003 and was hopeful of continuing his involvement. “He was offered the job of coaching Bangladesh and has turned it down,” Majola said. “We have offered him a role at the High Perfomance Centre and are waiting for him to respond.”The assistant role will be filled by Domingo, who was coach of the A side when they played Bangladesh A in April this year. He has been coach of the Warriors franchise for the last four seasons and won both the MTN40 and Standard Bank Pro20 titles in the 2009-10 season. “It is a positive for me having worked with a lot of players at South Africa A level,” Doningo said. “I suppose I can give Allan and Gary a little bit of insight into the players.”Kirsten did not discuss whether he would travel extensively, as it was initially thought he would not accompany the team on lesser tours. He indicated, however, that Domingo was being groomed for bigger things when he said, “There might well come a time when I feel that we can be quite flexible within our coaching staff.”

Vikram Solanki has received three penalty points under the ECB’s discipline code, following an incident during Worcestershire’s drawn County Championship fixture against Sussex at Hove on May 25-27

Cricinfo staff03-Jun-2010Vikram Solanki has received three penalty points under the ECB’s discipline code, following an incident during Worcestershire’s drawn County Championship fixture against Sussex at Hove on May 25-27.Solanki was reported by Umpires David Millns and Nigel Llong for a Level Two breach of the code (throwing the ball at or near a player, umpire or official in an inappropriate and dangerous manner).The points he has received will remain on his record for a period of two years. The accumulation of nine or more penalty points in any two-year period will result in an automatic suspension.

This will be the first time the two teams face off in the longest format

ESPNcricinfo staff26-Jul-2024 • Updated on 27-Jul-2024Afghanistan are set to face New Zealand in a one-off Test in September. The match will be played in Greater Noida in India. This will be the first time the two teams face each other in the longest format.This will be Afghanistan’s 10th Test, and their third in 2024 – the most they would have played in a calendar year.It will also be their first Test at the Greater Noida Sports Complex Ground, which has previously served as Afghanistan’s adopted home ground.The Test is likely to be from September 9 to 13. That’s roughly one month before New Zealand’s three-Test tour of India, with the first of those games set to begin on October 16. New Zealand will tour Sri Lanka for a Test series in between – the dates are yet to be announced.”We are delighted to host a quality New Zealand Test team for the first time in our cricketing history. This is a testament to the hard work we have put in through numerous discussions and meetings with different boards on the sidelines of the various ICC Board Meetings,” ACB Chairman Mirwais Ashraf said. “The Blackcaps are an outstanding all-format team in world cricket, and we hope to reach an agreement with New Zealand Cricket for white-ball bilateral matches in the future.”Following the New Zealand Test, England, Australia, Pakistan and South Africa will be the only countries to not have played against Afghanistan in a Test match yet. Australia had pulled out from hosting them in a Test in 2021 citing humanitarian reasons.Australia had also pulled out of three-match T20I series scheduled for August this year, meaning Afghanistan had a hole in their schedule which will be partly filled by this New Zealand TestIn their two Tests so far in 2024, Afghanistan have lost to Sri Lanka and Ireland. They had also lost their one-off Test in Bangladesh last year, and their last win in the format came in March 2021, when they beat Zimbabwe in the UAE. In all, Afghanistan have a commendable 3-6 win-loss record in their first nine Tests.

Capitals’ playoffs hopes hang by a thread, while Kings need big wins to improve their net run rate

Ashish Pant12-May-20235:14

Moody: Punjab need to rethink their top five

Big Picture – Kings and Capitals in must-win territory

With five wins and six losses in 11 outings, Punjab Kings have seen more downs than ups so far in IPL 2023 and are currently eighth on the points table. But such is the mid-table logjam that a win in their next outing could potentially catapult them to fifth. Their net run rate, however, is -0.441, the third-worst in the league, so they need big wins in their remaining games to have a genuine chance of making the playoffs.First up, they will have to get past Delhi Capitals, who are languishing at the bottom of the points table and have their playoffs chances hanging by a thread. Capitals are on eight points from 11 games, and to make it to the top four, they not only have to win all their remaining games but will also require other results to go their way. A loss will bring the curtains down on their IPL 2023 campaign.The two teams are yet to face off this season, and there is not much to separate between them as far as the head-to-head record goes. They have met 30 times in the IPL and have won 15 games each. Capitals have, however, won the last four encounters between these sides.Kings have been better travellers this year, having won four of their six away or neutral games, and will hope for this trend to continue. They might want to sort out their top order, though. While Shikhar Dhawan, who returns to his home ground, where he has a stellar IPL record, has shown consistency, his opening partner Prabhsimran Singh has blown hot and cold. They also do not have a settled batter at No.3. Kings brought back Bhanuka Rajapaksa for their last game, but he failed to make much of an impact. Their middle order has shouldered most of the run-scoring responsibility this season, but in Delhi, where the pitches have been among the slowest-scoring in the tournament, Kings will want their top three to fire.Capitals return home after a loss in Chennai. They bounced back well after five successive losses to start their tournament but have failed to put up a collective display or, for that matter, a settled team. The two spinners, Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav, have been their only shining lights this season, and Capitals will hope they can tie up Kings’ power-packed middle order.Teams batting second have won four of the five games this year in Delhi, so the toss could be a factor.Rilee Rossouw and Phil Salt are likely to be part of Delhi’s overseas-player-heavy top order•Associated Press

Team news – Kagiso Rabada for Sam Curran?

Capitals have lately picked four overseas top-order batters – of whom Mitchell Marsh offers a bowling option – and fielded an all-Indian bowling attack. Batting was Capitals’ weaker front through the first half of the season, and with David Warner, Phil Salt, Marsh and Rilee Rossouw doing well, they’ll likely stick with that overseas combination, especially with Anrich Nortje having travelled back to South Africa for personal reasons.Kings do not have any injury concerns, but Sam Curran’s form with the ball might be an issue. He has gone in excess of 11 runs an over in the last five games and has only picked up seven wickets in 11 outings, with an overall economy rate of 10.28. Kings could consider bringing in Kagiso Rabada for Curran to beef up the bowling attack, though that would compromise their batting depth. They might also get Matthew Short in for Rajapaksa at No. 3.

Form Guide

Delhi Capitals: LWWLW
Punjab Kings: LLWLW

Impact Player Strategy

Delhi Capitals
Manish Pandey and Khaleel Ahmed are likely to remain Capitals’ batting and bowling Impact Subs, respectively.Probable XII: 1 David Warner (capt), 2 Phil Salt (wk), 3 Mitchell Marsh, 4 , 5 Rilee Rossouw, 6 Axar Patel, 7 Aman Hakim Khan, 8 Lalit Yadav, 9 Ripal Patel, 10 Kuldeep Yadav, 11 Ishant Sharma, 12 Sam Curran is key to Punjab Kings’ depth and balance, but his bowling form has been a worry•Associated Press

Punjab Kings
Kings went with three overseas players in their starting XI in their last game, with Nathan Ellis coming in for Rajapaksa in the second innings. They could retain a similar pattern in the next game. If not, it is likely Prabhsimran Singh swaps with a bowler, as has been the case for most of their games this season.Probable XII: 1 Prabhsimran Singh, 2 Shikhar Dhawan (capt), 3 , 4 Liam Livingstone, 5 Jitesh Sharma (wk), 6 M Shahrukh Khan, 7 Harpreet Brar, 8 Rishi Dhawan, 9 Sam Curran/Kagiso Rabada, 10 Rahul Chahar, 11 Arshdeep Singh, 12

Numbers that matter

• Warner has fallen to Rabada five times in 14 T20 innings but has a strike rate of 149 against him.
• The Capitals captain enjoys batting against Rahul Chahar. He has hit him for 61 runs in 34 balls and has a strike rate of 179.41.
• Dhawan has fallen to Kuldeep twice in six innings and strikes at only 91.89 against him.
• Rossouw has fallen to Arshdeep Singh three times in three T20 innings and is yet to score against him.
• Kings’ batters have the second-best run rate in overs 16 to 20 in IPL 2023 – 11.65 – behind Gujarat Titans.
• On the flip side, Kings bowlers have the second-worst economy rate from overs 16 to 20 – 11.20. They are only behind Mumbai Indians.

Pitch and conditions

Delhi is one of only three venues this season, along with Lucknow and Guwahati, that are yet to produce a 200-plus total. While conditions in Delhi have not been as bowler-friendly as those in Lucknow, where teams have scored at an average run rate of 7.10, they haven’t been the most batter-friendly either. Only Lucknow, Hyderabad and Chennai have produced a lower run rate than Delhi’s 8.65 so far.

The Big Question

Test quick’s stunning wicket-taking form continued, taking four out of five for Victoria as Jake Weatherald smashed a century and Daniel Drew finished 96 not out

Alex Malcolm09-Feb-2022Scott Boland picked up where he left off in the Ashes claiming four of five wickets to keep Victoria in the hunt after a century from Jake Weatherald and 96 not out from Daniel Drew put South Australia in a strong position on the opening day at Adelaide Oval.Boland was a one-man band for the visitors after the Redbacks won the toss and batted on a good batting strip. He knocked over Jake Carder and Travis Head in the same over before returning later to remove Weatherald for 122 and Test keeper Alex Carey.Boland claimed all four left-handers from around the wicket. He pinned Carder and Head on the crease and both were plumb lbw in almost identical fashion, within three balls of each other, to leave the Redbacks wobbling at 3 for 77. Head, who was player of the series in the Ashes, fell without scoring.But Weatherald and Drew took control of the match with an excellent 153-run stand. Weatherald put a difficult summer with the bat behind him striking 10 fours and two sixes on his way to his eighth first-class century. He played with typical aggression square of the wicket, punishing anything loose. Drew, playing in just his second first-class match and his first since 2019, struck 13 boundaries in his 243-ball stay. His 13th boundary came in the final over the day to move within four runs of a maiden first-class century but he faced three dots from Jon Holland to finish unbeaten on 96 at stumps.Drew might have got there without Boland’s disruptive spell with the second new ball. He picked up Weatherald from around the wicket with the opener closing the face to a ball that straightened off the seam and the leading edge ballooned to cover. Carey attempted a booming drive eight overs later and was bowled off the inside edge by a ball that just nibbled back off the seam.The only other Victorian bowler to break through was Mitchell Perry who removed Henry Hunt early in the day. Sam Harper took an outstanding juggling catch diving to his right for the first wicket of the morning.

England legend falls short of century in final first-class appearance against Glamorgan

ECB Reporters Network08-Sep-2020The third day of Warwickshire’s Bob Willis Trophy match against Glamorgan at Cardiff will be remembered as the day when Ian Bell left the batting crease for the final time at the end of an illustrious 20-year career, signing off with an ever-impressive 90 to put his side in a match-winning position going into the final day.Bell finished with a career aggregate of 20,440 runs, and an average of 43.58, having scored just 66 in six innings this season prior to his tally of 140 in this match.It was also a memorable day for Dan Mousley. The 19-year-old wasn’t born when Bell made his debut in 1999 and having shared a partnership of 70 with the retiring stalwart in the first innings, the youngster struck his maiden Championship half-century in the second before being caught for 71 late in the day.In the morning session, Bell had strode to the wicket to a standing ovation from the gathered coaching staff and media, and was deserving of the guard of honour by Glamorgan on his final walk to the middle.Glamorgan had had an early breakthrough when Timm van der Gugten had Rob Yates caught impressively in the slips by Nick Selman and after switching ends, Michael Hogan struck to remove Will Rhodes, also caught by Selman, to end the batsman’s campaign with an average of 53.Bell and Hain then looked to move the game beyond Glamorgan’s reach, the scoring rate increasing rapidly as they put on 76 by lunch, adding a further 67 in the afternoon session.He and Hain had frustrated Glamorgan with a partnership of 143 as Warwickshire extended their second innings lead to 210 runs at tea. Unbeaten on 46 at lunch, Bell reached his half-century from 63 balls shortly after the resumption, with the eighth boundary of his innings when he struck Hogan through the off-side.He followed up his 50 in the first innings with an another impressive knock in the second as he shared in a third-wicket stand with Hain, who brought up his second half-century in successive matches, in 106 deliveries with seven fours. It was their first century stand since facing Glamorgan at Colwyn Bay in 2018 at a time when Bell struck a double century there, along with two unbeaten centuries at Edgbaston amassing 425 in those three innings against Glamorgan.Dan Douthwaite finally removed Hain for 65, the batsman edging behind to Cullen as Bell, ultimately unsuccessfully, continued to search for one last century before playing on.Michael Burgess and Mousley resumed after tea with their side 227 for 4, but having turned to spin after Lukas Carey’s side injury, Glamorgan had a further breakthrough when slow left-arm bowler Owen Morgan removed Burgess, playing across the line, to claim his first wicket of the season and give Cullen the simplest of catches behind the stumps.Mousley continued to pile the pressure on Glamorgan, and reached his half-century in Championship cricket in 62 deliveries. His partner Alex Thomson was then caught at long-on with a heave off spinner Callum Taylor.A brief shower brought proceedings to a halt at 335 for 6, with one over lost, and Mousley was caught on the cover boundary off Douthwaite soon after the resumption. The declaration came at 347 for 7, setting Glamorgan a target of 331 with five overs remaining in the day, which openers Nick Selman and Joe Cooke safely negotiated, despite a last ball shout for LBW against Cooke by Liam Norwell.

Tom Kohler-Cadmore unbeaten on 77 as hosts end opening day on 282 for 3

David Hopps at Headingley13-Jul-2019Yorkshire 282 for 3 (Ballance 111, Kohler-Cadmore 77*) v SomersetThe World’s Most Famous Umpire (retired) was holding audience once more at Headingley and one thing was firmly on his mind. “Forty-four years,” he said. “Forty-four years.” Cricket has seen a lot of changes since Dickie Bird stood in the first World Cup final, but what hasn’t changed is his love affair with Yorkshire cricket and all connected with it.Wherever he went, he was accosted by people asking him if he had ever witnessed a worse example of dissent than that seen from Jason Roy in the semi-final of the World Cup, 2019 vintage (at least one well-known Yorkshire and England cricketer was adamant that he should have been banned from Sunday’s final, a legitimate opinion that nevertheless might not entirely fit with the yearning of the nation) and whether he was about to put in a bid for Boston Hall which Geoffrey Boycott has just put on the market for a cool £2.85m.HD Bird indicated that he plans to keep his hand in his pocket which is pretty much what Roy seemed to be telling umpire Kumar Dharmasena.Beneath his gaze, Yorkshire’s batsmen were making Somerset labour, reaching 282 for 3 in the day with admirable discipline, and a sense throughout that they viewed it as a bridgehead for 450. Bird was elsewhere by the time Gary Ballance delivered his fifth Championship hundred of the season, but somewhere on the ground he would have been pushing Ballance’s claims for the Ashes. England’s selectors are unlikely to listen; Roy’s disdainful World Cup is more likely to excite the selectors.Ballance fell to the second new ball when Tim Groenewald came around the wicket and appeared to seam one away, the batsman’s drive pouched in his midriff at second slip by Jamie Overton. Somerset, who had opted to bowl, had got within 15 minutes of the close without finding much justification for the decision – and even that delivery appeared on the replay to have seamed out of a foothole.Ballance had played with great certainty nevertheless and his one chance came on 110 when James Hildreth put him down at first slip off Overton, only for him to fall in the following over. He was particularly severe through extra cover on Jack Brooks, who had received the warmest of welcomes from the crowd on his return but who in the circumstances probably didn’t want his “local knowledge” to be referenced by his coach, Jason Kerr, when it came to deciding whether to bat or bowl.England might be in a World Cup final, with the usual talk of inspiring a new generation, but with The Hundred only a year away, the dominant mood in county cricket is not of hope, but of foreboding. Witness the Somerset member who suggested at a recent forum that this would be the last Championship worth winning. The implication was, that being so, it would be best if Somerset finally did just that.Fifteen points clear of Essex, their only realistic challengers, with five matches remaining, Somerset remain well placed to win their first title, but shoving Yorkshire in on a decent batting surface – perhaps taking too much notice of what was overhead than what was down below – was not the best way to go about it.They lack two key bowlers here with Jack Leach and Lewis Gregory both on Lions duty and, although the attack remains strong, they bowled OK, no better than that. By mid-afternoon, the captain, Tom Abell, took on a bowling spell with the sort of brisk, stoutly-faced military march back to his mark that suggested things were not going awfully well.For the offspinner, Dom Bess, to bowl 23 overs on the opening day encapsulated that things had not gone to plan. Somerset are about to loan Bess to Yorkshire for the T20 Blast (he also spent a month with them in the Championship), so they will be doubly delighted that he got a good shift in, although such are the mental complexities of the loan system that they might have had strangely mixed feelings when Will Fraine christened the Emerald Stand, which was being used for the first time in a county match, by depositing him into the seats without a care in the world.Bird had earlier shivered at the mention of the new stand which he says like its predecessor still demands too many pairs of thermal underwear for a man born as far south as Barnsley. Bess asked the umpire to check the ball when it was thrown back to him – presumably because it was encased in ice.Yorkshire have understandable hopes that Fraine can become a regular opening partner alongside Adam Lyth, but in both cases batsman error contributed to Somerset’s picking up of two wickets late in the first session. When Lyth mistimed a cut against Bess to cover and Fraine succumbed to an uppish leg-side clip against Brooks, they were symptomatic of characteristic misjudgements.But Ballance and Tom Kohler-Cadmore did not waste the opportunity, playing with draining consistency in a stand of 199 in 62. “We needed to be disciplined after last week’s defeat at Essex and we were,” said Ballance. Nowhere was that change of approach more apparent than in Kohler-Cadmore, who played judiciously and picked the Overton twins off through the leg-side at regular intervals. He was unbeaten on 77 by the close.