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Zimbabwe 256 (Dabengwa 79) and 417 (Williams 107, Taibu 78, Chigumbura 71, Utseya 57) beat South African Composite XI 353 (McLaren 80, Koortzen 80, Jeggels 53, Utseya 5-70) and 186 by 134 runs
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A Zimbabwe XI secured a comprehensive win over a South African Composite XI at Kimberley, battling back from a first-innings deficit to win by 134 runs on the final afternoon.Zimbabwe slid to 111 for 6 on the first day before Keith Dabengwa’s 79 steered them to a respectable 256. A brace of 80s from Adrian MacLaren and Petrus Koortzen enabled the home side to take a lead of 97, and it would have been more but for a marathon spell from Prosper Utseya, who finished with 5 for 70, on the second afternoon.Resuming on 42 for 2, still 55 in arrears, Zimbabwe lost Hamilton Mazakadza early on the third day, but then Tatenda Taibi, on a pair, and Sean Williams stole the show with a fourth-wicket stand of 184. The irony was that the selection of Williams, who completed his second first-class hundred, was opposed by some hardliners among the Zimbabwe selectors. When the two of them went, Zimbabwe were still in trouble on 270 for 6 before Elton Chigumbura and Utseya cut loose against a tiring attack.Set a target of 321 in almost a full day, Christopher Mpofu blasted out both openers as the SA Composite XI slid to 64 for 5. Riaan Jeggels and Wendell Bossenger steadied the ship and the for a time rain took the players from the field. But when they resumed it took only 15 balls for the Zimbabweans to grab the last three wickets and secure a well-deserved victory.

Rajesh Sharma, the young Punjab offspinner, has been reported to the Board of Control for Cricket in India for having a suspect bowling action, Cricinfo has learned. This follows recent proactive measures taken by the BCCI to empower match officials on this issue, including a two-day workshop conducted by S Venkataraghavan and Javagal Srinath, one a former ICC umpire and match referee and another a current ICC match referee.Sharma, it is understood, has been mentioned in separate despatches from match officials, including the match referee and the on-field umpires, to the BCCI expressing their concerns about his bowling action.Sharma has 76 wickets from 25 matches, including a career-best 6 for 143 in the last Ranji Trophy match he played, against Maharashtra. In that match, played at Kolhapur, he bowled a mammoth 61 overs, giving umpires VN Kulkarni and Subroto Porel plenty of opportunity to closely watch his action.So far Sharma has played a modest role in Punjab’s Ranji campaign, picking up 13 wickets from five matches. He’s had much more success in the Duleep Trophy earlier this season, where he topped the wicket-takers’ chart, picking up 17 wickets from three matches and was a crucial factor in North Zone winning the Duleep Trophy. North Zone beat Sri Lanka A in the final, with Sharma picking up nine wickets in the match. The umpires standing in that match were Amish Saheba and Suresh Shastri.Cricinfo has learned that one umpire initially believed that Sharma had a suspect action but was reluctant to call the bowler in a game. He expressed his concern to BCCI officials, who assured the umpire that he would have the backing of the board if he honestly believed a bowler had a problem and needed work.

ScorecardDisciplined bowling from Trinidad and Tobago aided by some indifferent batting restricted the Leeward Islands to a modest 155 for 8 on the second day of their severely rain-affected second-round match in the 2005-06 Carib Beer Series at Webster Park. Rayad Emrit along with spinners Dave Mohammed and Sherwin Ganga collected two scalps apiece, after the Leewards elected to bat in a match which has lost a day and a session due to rain and soggy conditions.Leewards batsmen Shane Jeffers, Austin Richards Jr, Runako Morton and Tonito Willett all got starts, but failed to carry on. Openers Jeffers and Richards began by mixing the occasional aggression with some watchful defense, but both left-handers had strokes of luck. Jeffers, on 31, got half-way into an attempted hook off a Mervyn Dillon bouncer, but the resulting top-edge flew high over the head of Gibran Mohammed, the wicketkeeper. Richards edged a drive off medium-fast bowler Richard Kelly, but the ball dropped just short of Daren Ganga at second slip.In their 47-run opening stand, however, they both executed some attractive drives, but Kelly made the breakthrough when he had Jeffers caught at square leg for 31 playing a tame hook. Richards, who was then joined by Morton, had to endure some chin music from Dillon and Kelly, before eventually succumbing to the persevering medium pace of Emrit, caught behind for 28.The home team were dealt a further blow just before tea, when left-arm unorthodox spin bowler Mohammed bowled Sylvester Joseph, the Leewards captain, for 2, playing an ill-advised pull. At tea, Leewards were 76 for 3, and T&T sustained the pressure in the final session.Emrit deceived Morton with a slower delivery that cut back and bowled the batsman off the inside edge for 23 and Leewards were 106 for 4. Two wickets – Willett for 24 and Cornwall for 4 – fell in quick succession to leave Leewards on 116 for 6. Willett, sweeping once too often to a full-length delivery from Mohammed, was trapped lbw and Cornwall, heaving at Sherwin Ganga’s offspin, was bowled. Carl Simon failed to trouble the scorers, edging Sherwin Ganga to slip.When bad light stopped play with five overs left, Omari Banks was not out on 26, with Alderman Lesmond on 2.

Sri Lanka’s Nuwan Zoysa is a serious injury concern ahead of Sunday’s opening one-day match against New Zealand after dislocating his finger during a warm-up match with Central Districts.The team management is hopeful that he will be able to participate in the tour but there is still uncertainty over the probablt healing time. No decision has so far been made about calling up a replacement from Colombo.Zoysa had started his tour brightly, whipping out both Central Districts openers, Craig Spearman and Jamie How, but later suffered a deep cut in a finger and a dislocation while attempting a return catch.Zoysa’s finger was put back in place by Sri Lanka’s physiotherapist, CJ Clarke, and was then taken to hospital for check-ups and stitches. Fortunately, x-rays showed no signs of a fracture.Sri Lanka have taken just 14 players to New Zealand to allow room for Muttiah Muralitharan to return once he has proved his fitness. Murali is now bowling up to seven overs per day and very close to being declared fully fit.Zoysa would have been a certainty for Sunday’s game after a successful return to one-day cricket this year but his place will now be taken by Dilhara Fernando or Nuwan Kulasekera.Sri Lanka are to move to Hamilton for a second practice game against Northern Districts on Thursday.

Surrey defeated Glamorgan by 58 runs at Whitgift School to move to the top ofDivision One of the National League.The home team were indebted to a graceful 101 from Mark Ramprakash and a violent 41by captain Adam Hollioake from just 16 balls as they compiled a formidable 298-5,with no less than 63 runs coming in the last 5 overs. A stand of 120 in 19 oversbetween Ramprakash and Graham Thorpe, who hit an unbeaten 77, laid the foundationsfor Surrey`s impressive total, and as a result of their efforts, there were already 213runs on the scoreboard when Hollioake arrived at the crease.Ramprakash, who hit a double-century on this ground in the Championship, proved his likingfor the school ground with a 91 ball century, striking 11 fours and three huge sixes -one of which cleared the row of houses in the adjacent Nottingham Road. Remarkably, itwas Jimmy Maher who proved to be Glamorgan`s most successful bowler, as Robert Croftturned to the Australian`s medium pace after the spin of Croft and Dean Cosker had beenstruck for 54 in 7 overs. Maher dismissed Ramprakash, Hollioake and Azhar Mahmood inhis three overs, but it still meant that Glamorgan needed to score at 6.6 an over.After Maher had departed in the third over, Robert Croft and Michael Powell launchedsome powerful drives before Croft was caught behind off Jimmy Ormond. Matthew Maynardcame in to play some sublime strokes and in the space of 12 overs he added 87 withPowell before the latter was bowled by Saqlain Mushtaq for 61.Glamorgan suffered another blow when Maynard on 37 had a severe bout of cramp in hiscalf. Fortunately, he was able to continue batting with a runner, but after adding onlya further four runs he was caught and bowled by Ormond.David Hemp then added a further 30 runs with Adrian Dale, but both weredismissed in successive overs, as Surrey tightened the screw. Despite some lusty blowsby the lower order, the task of scoring at nine an over proved too much, and Surreywon with 32 balls in hand to move four points clear of Gloucestershire at the top of the table.

It is with regret that the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lankainforms the cricket loving public that the proposed tour to Pakistan willnot be going ahead due to concerns over the safety of our players.The Pakistan Cricket Board extended an invitation to the BCCSL for the SriLankan team to play three One Day Internationals, following the cancellationof the New Zealand tour of Pakistan.Despite the uncertain global security situation which could especiallyeffect conditions in Pakistan, the Interim Committee of the BCCSL agreed totour in principle, keeping in mind the long history of friendship betweenSri Lanka and Pakistan, both in the game of Cricket and between the twoNations. This was provided that adequate measures would be available for thesecurity of players, as well as the Pakistani players, officials andspectators.”Our first concern was the safety of our players. We requested the PakistanCricket Board to make arrangements to evacuate our players by air, shouldthe need have arisen. However, despite the efforts of the PCB, it was notpossible to arrange the logistics for this and after a series of discussionsbetween the PCB and BCCSL, it was desided that the tour be called off,” saidVijaya Malalasekera, Chairman of the Interim Committee of the BCCSL.Both Sri Lanka and Pakistan, together with Zimbabwe, will next beparticipating in the Sharjah Champions’ Trophy in the UAE, which begins onthe 26th of October.

Live scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsIshant Sharma claimed his seventh Test five-for•AFP

India made up for all the time lost to rain on the first two days by reducing Sri Lanka to 47 for 6 and injuring Dhammika Prasad, Sri Lanka’s strike bowler on this pitch, but the hosts negated India’s advantage by adding 154 with their last four wickets and taking India’s first three wickets for seven runs. With India effectively 132 for 3 and the last pair of specialist batsmen already at the wicket, this was anybody’s game now.Fifteen wickets fell for 242 runs in 65.1 overs on a frenetic day where fortunes swung wildly. Yet again Prasad produced a wicket in the first over of the innings, and Cheteshwar Pujara, who carried his bat through in the first dig, became the only man to follow such a feat with a duck in the same Test. At lunch Sri Lanka would have drawn heart from the drizzle that didn’t cost the Test any time, but the heavy downpour at 4.40pm would have brought India relief, who yet again ran the risk of collapsing meekly after having watched runs from the Sri Lankan lower order.It might not result in a win, but if anything, this turnaround from Sri Lanka was even more remarkable than in Galle. Back then they had umpiring decisions and all the luck going their way; here they copped three rough decisions when batting. Upul Tharanga was given out off a no-ball even though the TV umpire had a look at the replays, Dinesh Chandimal – counterattacking his way to 23 off 27 – was given out lbw to a ball that hit him bail high and was on its way up, and Tharindu Kaushal was given out lbw off an inside edge.Debutant Kusal Perera, who ironically benefited from sloppy slip fielding from India, and Rangana Herath batted smartly in adding 79, the third-highest seventh-wicket partnership in Tests from under a score of 50. Against calculated risks from the lower order, tiring bowlers missed their rhythm. Coming back to bat with an injured hand, Prasad played around with the mind of Ishant Sharma, who had earlier starred with a rare five-for, and scored 27 off 23 to take Sri Lanka past 200.Not being able to bowl tails out and slips catching have been India’s twin tormentors in Test cricket of late, and they could do worse than to look at how they bowled in the first session of the day. The pitch didn’t allow crazy seam movement or variable bounce. India just put the ball in areas when uncertain batsmen edge it. Sri Lanka’s top order was uncertain.A certain degree of uncertainty could be expected of a rejigged batting order in the first Test since Kumar Sangakkara’s retirement. Tharanga came out to open on his comeback, Dimuth Karunaratane moved down, Chandimal moved up, and Perera batted at No. 7. This raw batting line-up could have done with some luck, which it turned out they didn’t have, but it didn’t seem like that in the first over after they had taken India’s last two wickets for an addition of 20 to their overnight total.Ishant Sharma, who had played dangerously with the crease when he batted for three balls in the morning, continued to do so. He might have been hitting out under team instructions, but more importantly, Ishant failed to stay in the crease with the first two balls he bowled. It looked like one of those bad days when everything goes against you when he produced Tharanga’s edge in the first over, but saw KL Rahul drop it diving in front of first slip. Rahul and slips would go on to gain more and telling mentions.Redemption nearly did not come for Ishant and Rahul. Tharanga, prone to offering these opportunities outside off, did so soon enough, and Rahul took a good low catch, but Ishant was asked to wait before he celebrated. Replays didn’t show any part of his foot behind the line, but mysteriously Tharanga was asked to keep walking. Umesh Yadav soon got rid of Kaushal Silva with the short ball again. Chandimal attacked attractively, but he fell to Stuart Binny, who on the second day had fallen to an outswinger that pitched and seamed back in to hit him on the back thigh. Binny repeated the dose to Chandimal, but replays showed the ball was likely to sail over the stumps.Ishant came back to deal Sri Lanka telling blows either side of the lunch break. With his first ball back, he had Angelo Mathews poking at one that held its line outside off. With his second ball after the break, Ishant asked a similar question of Lahiru Thirimanne, and the batsman responded with another edge. In between the two dismissals, Karunaratne played a loose drive to a wide half-volley from Binny.Having taken both those catches, Rahul – like Ishant – was on his way to turning his day around. But with Perera on 9, Sri Lanka 63 for 6 and Prasad retired hurt, Rahul dropped a simple offering off the bowling of Yadav. This wasn’t going to be Rahul’s last mistake.With Sanath Jayasuriya watching, the man he resembles at the wicket, Perera, went on to launch a calculated assault. In Herath, Perera found a determined ally. Perera hit nine fours in his 56-ball 55, Herath was more sedate, but the two had taken the sting out of India’s bowling by the time Perera fell top-edging a trademark Jayasuriya pull to cow corner. There was resistance from Kaushal, who scored 16 but stayed in the middle for 11 overs, but after benefiting from dodgy lbws in the first innings of the first Test, he was at the receiving end this time.One short of what could have been his second Test fifty, Herath was snapped up by Ishant just after tea with a ball just outside off and holding its line. Still, when Prasad began to run away from the stumps, India began to follow him and let Sri Lanka add more. With ball in right hand and heavy bandage on left, Prasad didn’t follow anybody. He produced the perfect ball to get rid of a man who had played 290 balls without getting dismissed. It pitched short of a length, on middle, squared the batsman up, and hit off.Rahul couldn’t draw any such comfort from having been done in by an unplayable delivery. For the second time in the Test he premeditated a leave without covering his stumps, and had the top of off pinged. Only this time the bowler was Nuwan Pradeep, who went on to repeat the Ajinkya Rahane dismissal with a ball moving in after pitching.

Australia 3 for 255 (Ponting 107*, Gilchrist 51, Clarke 48) beat New Zealand 7 for 254 (McCullum 96, Taylor 50) by seven wickets
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Ricky Ponting settled the first of several scores against New Zealand, his 24th one-day century leading Australia to a seven-wicket victory in the Chappell-Hadlee Series opener in Adelaide. He dodged the rain to drive them home with 45 deliveries remaining after a 25-ball fifty from Adam Gilchrist and Michael Clarke’s 48.Ponting’s run-a-ball hundred left New Zealand with no answers. He was as composed as ever, putting his bat where his mouth was, after promising to do his utmost to regain the title. He couldn’t have done much more, and received decent support from Clarke before he and Andrew Symonds finished the job.Australia may have taken the early honours, but New Zealand will be largely satisfied by the way they handled the pace as McCullum made good their pledge not to crumble against the fast men. McCullum earned his highest one-day score of 96, although their 7 for 254 was somewhat below par on a flat track.Daniel Vettori’s bold decision to face their speed demons first up appeared to be paying off when they were well-set at 1 for 115, yet two quick wickets for Shaun Tait, in his first international match at his home ground, and then McCullum’s dismissal to Brad Hogg, applied the brakes. Ross Taylor injected some late momentum with 50, as did Jacob Oram with an unbeaten 32, but Australia’s bowlers regrouped well and were backed up by decent fielding.Gilchrist and Hayden then raced to fifty inside five overs, almost as if Hayden was getting a taste for the Twenty20 he missed out on earlier this week. But when Hayden popped a soft catch back to Mills for 17 and Gilchrist perished soon after, not waiting to see if Taylor had taken the skier to deep cover off Chris Martin, Australia were temporarily stopped in their tracks.Ponting and Clarke then rebuilt, patiently at first – Ponting was even content to pat out a maiden to Martin – but they were beginning to move through the gears, including a fifty for Ponting, when the rain came. The 45-minute break, with no overs lost, merely upped the ante further, Ponting dashing to another ruthlessly efficient hundred from as many balls while Clarke blended seamlessly with him until falling to Kyle Mills. Symonds was then dropped by Oram early off Mark Gillespie but it hardly mattered as Australia were well up with the run-rate.New Zealand’s star was McCullum, who collected at nearly a run a ball and struck 12 fours and a six, and he was a ready example of how to attack fast bowling. He combined well with Jamie How in a stand of 99 and Taylor in a partnership of 52.The visitors admitted before the match that pace had been a weakness, but McCullum in particular stood up to everything that Australia – in the mighty form of Brett Lee, Nathan Bracken and Tait – could throw (er, bowl) at him. Though McCullum was cut in half more times than a busy magician’s assistant early on, it was soon his turn to do the slicing with some terrific drives and cuts until he carved out just short of a hundred.Tait, whose action was questioned before the game by New Zealand, also got the treatment with one over disappearing for three cover-driven fours, but he came back strongly in a crucial second spell which produced edges from How and Scott Styris. In his third, he cleaned up Vettori (18) with a yorker, by which time the damage was done. New Zealand now need a win in the second match at Sydney on Sunday to stay in the series, while Australia are one step closer to Ponting’s aim of adding yet another trophy to their cabinet.

Brett Lee believes he is prepared to take Glenn McGrath’s place as the leader of Australia’s fast-bowling attack and he said Stuart Clark was the perfect man to help him fill the hole left by McGrath.”From my point of view it is time to take over with the leadership role,” Lee told the . “I am never going to be the same type of bowler Glenn is. It is very hard to replace Glenn, period.”Lee, who took 3 for 75 in England’s first innings at Sydney and was on a hat-trick at one stage, said his form had improved markedly since the start of the series. “I have felt good the last couple of games,” Lee said. “I felt my rhythm and run-up were not great in the first three Tests, but it feels better now.”He said he had been working on his run-up with the Australia bowling coach Troy Cooley and had developed a shorter approach to the crease. Lee said with McGrath and Shane Warne bowing out at the same time, Clark’s emergence as a consistent wicket-taker would help his own bowling.”I am enjoying working in a partnership with Stuey because I feel when we bowl together from different ends we have fed off each other,” Lee said. “We played junior cricket together so we have been playing together for more than a decade and I’m hoping we can fill the void.”

Alastair Cook has been called up to the England squad as cover for Michael Vaughan. A decision on Vaughan’s knee injury has been delayed further with the medical team in England recommending that he rests, but he is rated as “very doubtful” for the first Test in Multan.Cook, the 20-year-old Essex left-hander, who struck a double century against Australia last summer, is a former England Under-19 captain. He was named in the ECB Academy intake for this winter and toured Sri Lanka with England A last year.David Graveney, the chairman of selectors, said: “Alastair Cook has been called into the squad as we felt we needed an opening batsman to provide cover not only for Michael Vaughan, but also for Andrew Strauss who is expected to fly home before the third Test to attend the birth of his child.”His rise has been meteoric since he was tipped by many as a future England opener when he started breaking batting records at Bedford School. Former England and Essex captain Keith Fletcher called Cook “just about the best young batsman I have ever seen” when he started to make his presence felt in the Essex 2nd XIs. He averaged 48.03 in the County Championship in 2005, hitting four centuries.”Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d been heading to Pakistan,” he told BBC Sport. “I’m very excited about it and can’t wait to get together with the rest of the squad. Peter Moores is doing a fantastic job [at the ECB Academy] and having been there for a couple of weeks I was just starting to feel the benefits.”The England coach, Duncan Fletcher, said that initially England were interested in Owais Shah and Robert Key if a replacement was needed. However, both players have recently undergone surgery meaning that Cook has been handed an unexpected opportunity to get his experience with the full England squad. “It’s unfortunate for Vaughan to be injured but a great opportunity for me and I will make the most of it,” he said. “David [Graveney] told me I was going as cover for Vaughan and to enjoy it.”An ECB statement said that the medical team will continue to assess Vaughan’s condition and a decision on his availability for the second and third Tests will be made in due course.