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Khulna Royal Bengals, playing in front of a packed Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium, beat Rangpur Riders by nine runs and have turned around their flagging campaign with two wins in a row

Mohammad Isam25-Jan-2013
ScorecardKhulna Royal Bengals, playing in front of a packed Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium, beat Rangpur Riders by nine runs. They have now turned around their flagging campaign with two wins in a row. Shahriar Nafees helped set up a competitive total on a pitch that was too slow for big hits before Shapoor Zadran rocked the top order of the opposition.The fightback made for excellent viewing too, as the Royal Bengals made 106 runs in the last 10 overs, after struggling for 44 for 4 in the first 10. The fielding display also helped stop the Riders, who had won their last two games quite handsomely, from clinching the tight game. Zadran, the Afghanistan left-arm fast bowler, bowled a mean spell to take three wickets in his first two overs, while Daniel Harris kept things tight with his medium pace.Riders’ Nasir Hossain continued his good form, but was the only batsman to put up a fight, hammering 70 off 49 balls with seven fours and two sixes. He found some support from Dimitri Mascarenhas, who was foxed by Sanjamul Islam to hand back the advantage to the Royal Bengals after their 33-run sixth wicket stand.Khulna’s Nafees batted like a captain should, taking responsibility of an innings that lacked direction. Lou Vincent fell early, and the Riders lost three further wickets, but Nafees assumed control. The emphatic pulled six he hit off Fidel Edwards, the same bowler who had struck his face two years ago, was symbolic of his confidence.Nafees scored 53 off 50 balls with five boundaries and two sixes, and added 70 runs for the fifth wicket with Harris, who stayed unbeaten on 48. Haris provided the final push to take his team to 150.

Jimmy Hansra will lead Canada’s 14-member squad for the Caribbean T20 in January

ESPNcricinfo staff18-Dec-2011Jimmy Hansra will lead Canada’s 14-member squad for the Caribbean T20 in January. The team will be participating in the tournament for the third consecutive year, which will be held in Antigua and Barbados.Canada managed just one win out of four in last year’s edition, beating Hampshire, and finished fourth in their group. The squad will leave from Toronto on January 6 and start the tournament five days later against Winward Islands. The other teams in their group are Leeward Islands, Guyana and defending champions Trinidad and Tobago.Squad: Jimmy Hansra (capt), Rizwan Cheema (vice-capt), Manny Aulakh, Jeremy Gordon, Ruvindu Gunasekera, Nitish Kumar, Usman Limbada, Salman Nazar, Henry Osinde, Hiral Patel, Raza Rehman, Junaid Siddiqui, Zubin Surkari, Hamza Tariq

England’s wicketkeeper, Matt Prior, admits there is a strong temptation to start thinking of Ashes glory in the wake of a crushing innings victory in the second Test at Adelaide

Andrew Miller in Melbourne09-Dec-2010England’s wicketkeeper, Matt Prior, admits there is a strong temptation to start thinking of Ashes glory in the wake of a crushing innings victory in the second Test at Adelaide, but he also believes that this particular squad of players has learnt its lessons from previous campaigns and will not allow themselves any let-up in intensity until the task has been completed.Against Australia at Lord’s in 2009, and then in Durban against South Africa five months later, England won the second Test of a major series only to allow their opponents to draw level – in the first instance at Headingley, where England were routed inside three days after being brushed aside for 102 on the first morning, and then at Johannesburg, where Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel reaped the rewards that had eluded them in the first three Tests.”You learn lessons,” said Prior, who played in all four of those contests, having been ever-present in the side since the tour of India in December 2008. “If you’ve got a group of people who’ve stayed together for a while and experienced things together, you learn from them as a team and as a unit. Certainly, we learned a huge amount from that South Africa Test series. To have a really impressive victory in Durban and underperform horribly in the next game [sic] we take a huge amount from that and learn a lot from it.”You’ve got to be careful you don’t fall into the trap of too much back-patting too early,” he added. “The tour’s gone well so far but it’s all in the past now. We learned you can’t look far ahead and you have to take every game and every day as it comes. That’s why the danger would be to starting thinking ‘oh, we’re 1-0 up, we can win the Ashes’. All these comments start flooding in and it’s tempting to start thinking like that, but you have to guard against it and not get too carried away.”Nevertheless, England’s caution does not preclude them from taking satisfaction in a job well done. On Wednesday, Andy Flower allowed himself a rare moment of euphoria in describing the victory in Adelaide as “the perfect game”, and Prior admitted that the last day of that match was “probably the proudest moment for me on a cricket pitch”.”Losing the toss on a very good track, we knew we had a huge task ahead of us,” he said. “Trotty’s run-out set the tone for the whole match, Jimmy’s spell to get Ponting and Clarke early, and the way the whole fielding unit got behind the bowlers. The way the whole team gelled was fantastic and it was a pretty much the perfect game, but as Andy said, it counts for nothing if we go into the next game and throw away the lead we have.”We’ve got to make sure we guard against any complacency. In the past, we’ve played good cricket and pretty poor cricket in the very next game. We’ve set ourselves a benchmark and we have to try to maintain it for as long as possible and stay consistent. If you want to win big series, you have to play consistently. You can’t have one great game and one poor one. We’ll certainly be guarding against that and making sure we’re working every day as we have been and never take our foot off the gas.”Prior’s personal contribution to the series has been extremely limited. He suffered a golden duck at Brisbane as Peter Siddle stunned England with a first-day hat-trick, and beyond that, he was not called upon to bat again until the fourth day at Adelaide, when he made a quick-fire 27 not out to set up a first-hour declaration. However, so long as England are in command of the contest, he does not mind in the slightest.”All the time I’m not batting, we’re scoring a lot of runs and giving ourselves a good chance of winning a Test match,” said Prior. “From that point of view, I’m absolutely delighted with how things have been going. The minute you get to a place where the team’s goal and the team’s target is more than the individual’s, that’s a very powerful place to be, and that’s what we have right now. Every single man in that dressing room knows the team’s goals will come before anything else, and they’re more than happy with that.”The unity of England’s squad has been plain to see, from their defence of Kevin Pietersen after claims that he is an “outcast” to the relaxed cameos that the players have been putting in on Graeme Swann’s video diary. While it is often said that team spirit is an illusion created in victory, Prior believes it is a more complex process than that.”It’s a number of things,” he said. “There are so many little things that come together, and the minute you start forgetting about the one percenters, it becomes dangerous. It’s very easy to look at the 200s, the big partnerships, the individuals taking five-fers, but it’s putting your arm round a mate when he’s struggling, celebrating someone else’s success, genuinely enjoying Cook and KP’s double-hundreds. You see the guys on the balcony, and that excitement is not made-up, it’s not fake. It’s very, very real, I can assure you. We’ve got a whole load of good mates in the dressing room.”Anyone who’s played team sport has probably been involved in a team like that at some stage,” he added. “When you do have that team unity, it’s very special, but it’s not something that just happens overnight. It’s been two years in the making, and when you get it, it’s a very special thing and is something you have to protect and make sure that you keep looking after.”The process will continue on Friday when England play their final warm-up match at the MCG, against a Victoria side that will contain four debutants in Ryan Carters, Alex Keath, Tom Stray and Jayde Herrick. “We’ve got a big game against Victoria coming up tomorrow and that’s as far ahead as we’ll look,” said Prior. “You can fall into a trap if you start looking too far ahead.”The match will be notable for the inclusion of all three of England’s reserve seamers, with Chris Tremlett the favourite to take the place of the injured Stuart Broad for the third Test in Perth next week. However, Prior doubts that the conditions in this contest will be anything like those that are anticipated in Perth.”Not really played here before but looks like it could be quite slow, tacky,” he said. “We’ll have to wait until tomorrow to see how well it plays, but it doesn’t look as though there are going to be many gremlins in it.”England XI (probable) 1 Andrew Strauss (capt), 2 Alastair Cook, 3 Ian Bell, 4 Paul Collingwood, 5 Eoin Morgan, 6 Matt Prior, 7 Steve Davies (wk), 8 Tim Bresnan, 9 Ajmal Shahzad, 10 Chris Tremlett, 11 Monty Panesar.Victoria Cameron White (capt), 2 Ryan Carters, 3 Aaron Finch, 4 John Hastings, 5 Jayde Herrick, 6 Michael Hill, 7 Jon Holland, 8 David Hussey, 9 Alexander Keath, 10 Clinton McKay, 11 Tom Stray.

After their strong performance in the first game of the Twenty20 Tri-Series against Uganda, the Kenyan spinners once again set up an easy victory over Scotland, running through the middle order to take a combined 6 for 72 in 16 overs, as Scotland crawled

Cricinfo staff01-Feb-2010
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David Obuya blasted seven fours and two sixes during his 48-ball innings•Thota Sreenivas

After their strong performance in the first game of the Twenty20 Tri-Series against Uganda, the Kenyan spinners once again set up an easy victory over Scotland, running through the middle order to take a combined 6 for 72 in 16 overs, as Scotland crawled to 109 for 9 in their allotted overs. David Obuya and Steve Tikolo’s unbroken opening partnership then overhauled the target with more than seven overs to spare.After Maurice Ouma won the toss and put Scotland in to bat, Tony Suji marked his return to the Kenyan national side with a mercurial performance in the field to spark early alarm in the Scotland line-up. In a tight opening spell before Kenya’s quartet of spinners took over, Suji snared the dangerous Ryan Watson for 13.In a dramatic over, offspinner Jimmy Kamande then bowled Fraser Watts and Jan Stander – Scotland’s matchwinner in yesterday’s game – in successive balls. Suji then swooped in to run Kyle Coetzer out, as bowler and fielder combined to complete a hat-trick of wickets.Suji was at it again a couple of overs later, running Gavin Hamilton out to leave Scotland teetering at 62 for 5. The collapse was not long coming, as Richie Berrington edged Tikolo through to Ouma in the same over. Shem Obado, the young offspinner, soon dealt with Simon Smith and Ross Lyons and had it not been for Majid Haq’s unbeaten 21, which included a six off the final ball of the innings, Scotland would have struggled to reach 100.In the face of such a paltry target, Scotland’s bowlers could not put any pressure on Obuya and Tikolo. The first over, bowled by Dewald Nel, cost 13 runs and Kenya reached 66 in the first six overs. Gordon Goudie, in his first Twenty20 game for Scotland, was dealt with particularly harshly and his solitary over went for 20 runs. Obuya, dominating the partnership, rushed to his highest score in Twenty20s before Kenya romped home to their second victory of the tournament in the 13th over.

KL Rahul feels scoring runs won’t be easy on the final day

ESPNcricinfo staff23-Jun-2025KL Rahul has compared the Headingley surface to a subcontinent pitch, saying run-scoring will not be easy on the final day of the first Test.India, led by Rahul’s memorable 137 and Rishabh Pant’s second century of the Test, set England a target of 371. England reached 21 for 0 at stumps, still needing 350 for a win, and Rahul expected a “very interesting” final day.”I think the first two days, being as hot as it was, the pitch has taken a bit of beating,” Rahul said in an interview with at the close of day four. “The crack seems like it’s opening up. There’s a bit of rough there, and the wicket is really dry. Mostly, it’s like a subcontinent wicket on day five.Related

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“[The] day five wicket won’t be as easy, but knowing how England play and their style of cricket, they’re going to come hard and try and score boundaries and try and score runs as quickly as possible. We need to keep that in the back of our heads and try and bowl as straight as we can. Try and be patient and really not give them those boundaries, make them earn their runs. It should be a very interesting day.”The match was evenly poised when play began on day four, with India two down and leading by 96 runs. They lost their captain Shubman Gill early in conditions ripe for swing bowling, but Rahul and Pant dug in. India managed only 28 runs in the first hour of play but lost just that one wicket, despite the ball moving around.”It was very different this morning,” Rahul said. “It almost felt like it was the first time we were actually in English conditions. The ball was seeming around, it was overcast. There was a bit happening from the wicket.”The first couple of days when we batted, there wasn’t much. There was a bit of swing in the air, but nothing off the pitch. But this morning it was a really good spell. I just felt like I needed to play tighter and make sure that we don’t lose too many wickets and make sure that I kill the first session. I was trying to play as straight as possible. At least defend as straight as possible.”KL Rahul recorded his third century in England•Getty Images

Rahul also said that playing the second unofficial Test for India A against England Lions helped him acclimatise to the conditions in England better and got him into that “tempo of playing Test cricket again”.”[I felt if] I get some time to spend in the middle, it would be really good just to bat against the Dukes ball, just get used to the cold conditions and windy conditions and just spend some time leaving a few balls and just getting that tempo again of playing Test cricket,” Rahul said. “That really helped me come here early and adjust to the conditions. Just get that tempo right and feel comfortable wearing the whites again and getting used to seeing the red ball coming at me.”That really helped me in terms of prep, and obviously, I’ve been here before, I’ve played a few Test series here. So I knew what to expect, but again, every series is different. This time the bowlers are different, the conditions are different, so it was just about switching on and trying to do the simple things right and yeah, coming here early really helped me.”Rahul praised Pant, with whom he forged a 195-run stand for the fourth wicket.”When Rishabh walks in, you just let him be,” Rahul said. “He knows what’s best for the team and for him and how he can do that. Obviously, everyone’s different. Rishabh’s a very different player. He does the job for the team, so you just let him be and make sure that he’s doing the simple things right. We’ve had a few partnerships before as well, so we enjoy batting together.”

He last played for Pakistan in a T20I against New Zealand in April this year

ESPNcricinfo staff24-Nov-2023Pakistan allrounder Imad Wasim has retired from international cricket with immediate effect. Imad, who announced his retirement with a post on social media, played 55 ODIs and 66 T20Is for Pakistan as a left-arm spinner and lower-order batter. He last represented Pakistan in April this year in a T20I against New Zealand in Rawalpindi.”In recent days I have been doing a lot of thinking about my international career and I have come to the conclusion that now is the right time for me to announce my retirement from international cricket,” Imad wrote on X. “I would like to thank the PCB for all their support over the years – it has truly been an honour to represent Pakistan.”Each of my 121 appearances across the ODI and T20I formats was a dream come true. It’s an exciting time for Pakistan cricket going forwards with new coaches and leadership incoming. I wish all involved every success and I look forward to watching the team excel.Related

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“Thank you to the Pakistan fans for always supporting me with such passion. A final thank you to my family and friends who have been so important in helping me achieve at the highest level. I now look forward to focussing on the next stage of my playing career away from the international stage.”Imad, now 34, was part of Pakistan’s Under-19 World Cup-winning side in 2006 and went on to lead Pakistan in the next edition, in 2008. He had to wait till 2015 for a Pakistan debut, in a T20I against Zimbabwe in Lahore. This was when international cricket returned to Pakistan six years after the attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore. He represented Pakistan in the T20 World Cup that followed, in 2016. In 2019, he captained Pakistan, in two ODIs against Australia in Dubai, when regular captain Shoaib Malik was out with an injury.In all, he took 44 wickets and scored 986 runs in ODIs. In T20Is, he took 65 wickets and scored 486 runs. His best performance with the ball, incidentally, is identical in both formats – 5 for 14.Imad is currently in Karachi Kings’ roster for the PSL, and recently played in the Hundred, the CPL and the LPL as well. He has also been a regular in the English county circuit. In fact, born in Swansea in Wales, he played his early cricket in the UK.

Change of ball precipitates home side’s collapse from security of 231 for 1

Paul Edwards05-Sep-2022Lancashire 272 for 8 (Jennings 119, Wells 84, Hill 6-26) vs YorkshireFrom one perspective, the Roses match has become a little shop-soiled this season. This, after all, is the sixth game between Lancashire and Yorkshire since mid-May and some of those sitting in the Emirates Old Trafford pavilion this afternoon could have told you that Lancashire have triumphed in three of them whereas Yorkshire have won none. For many others, Luke Wells and Keaton Jennings’ 180-run first-wicket stand counted for rather more than those victories in the Vitality Blast and the Royal London Cup because the runs were scored in the format that is the best test of a cricketer.Such divergent preferences are among the more benevolent reflections of cricket’s capacity to be shaped as time and structure require. They illustrate the richness of a game that is not simple and will never be made so, no matter how much advertising guff is thrown at it. Less than 72 hours before this match began, Tom Hartley and Matt Parkinson were skeltering around Lord’s and trying to bowl four overs as cheaply as possible. Over the next three days they will be charged with trying to dismiss Yorkshire twice on a pitch that should take spin.That plan and Dane Vilas’s decision to bat first were predicated partly on the home team’s ability to compile a substantial total and by the start of the evening session the confident belief was that Lancashire would amass so substantial a first-innings score that they might only have to bat once in a match for which they had selected two specialist spinners plus Wells. That conviction was strengthened as Jennings and Josh Bohannon added another fifty runs with Jennings becoming the first player in the honoured history of these games to make four centuries in consecutive innings. At 231 for 1, therefore, everything was more or less tickety-boo for Lancashire. Yet an hour or so later, tickety could hardly be glimpsed and boo was nowhere to be found. It all began when Bohannon cut Dom Bess into a puddle that was lying on the covers.That, of course, necessitated a ball change yet the oldest ball in the box offered to the umpires still had its gold lettering on it. Jennings would later say that he could see it “kick and zip” off the surface, so it was not surprising that the medium-pacer George Hill, who had earlier dismissed Wells for 84, was not bemoaning the change. Instead he seized the replacement ball and took five wickets for five runs in 41 deliveries to finish the day with 6 for 26, his best figures in any cricket, including school matches at Sedbergh, club games anywhere else and imaginary Tests in the back garden.George Hill celebrates success with the ball•Getty Images

Jennings, whose straight driving had been a delight, was bowled for 119 when he played fractionally across the line and lost his middle stump. Bohannon, having made 27, drove Hill to short extra-cover where the debutant Fin Bean took a low catch. Vilas fell for 2 to a brilliant one-handed effort by Tom Kohler-Cadmore, who dived to his left from first slip to complete the dismissal.Far more conventional snares by Kohler-Cadmore accounted for Steven Croft and George Balderson in the space of five balls and helped Hill complete his maiden five-wicket return in first-class cricket – his previous best had been 2 for 21 – and the session ended with yet more success for Yorkshire as Hartley and Tom Bailey fell to successive deliveries from Ben Coad.For a Yorkshire team still threatened with relegation Hill’s spell was greeted with a measure of delight that increased with every success. Before the ball was changed Jonny Tattersall’s players might have been anticipated facing a score in excess of 400 and their mood can hardly have been improved by the blow on the nose Adam Lyth received from a full-blooded clip to leg by Steven Croft which caused the opener to be led from the field. Deep in the evening session all the talk was of Jennings’ achievement in following his scores of 114, 132 and 238 with a fourth century and thus eclipsing Geoff Pullar and Herbert Sutcliffe, both of whom made three successive centuries in Roses games. Yet as Hill led his colleagues off the field he surely knew that the game is now evenly poised and that he was the player who had made it so.

England seamer says current system puts on-field umpires in “really difficult situation”

George Dobell12-Jun-2021Stuart Broad has called for the ICC to “do away with” the soft signal following a controversial moment on the second day of the LV= Insurance Test against New Zealand at Edgbaston.Broad was convinced that Devon Conway had been caught at slip by Zak Crawley when the batter had 22. But the on-field umpires were unsure and referred the decision to the TV umpire, Michael Gough, with a soft signal of not out. Gough subsequently confirmed that on-field decision despite replays suggesting Crawley had his fingers under the ball. Conway went on to make 80 and help New Zealand build a strong position in the game.Related

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While Broad remains convinced that was the wrong decision, he expressed sympathy for the umpires and called on the ICC to step in immediately to abandon the soft signal protocol.”You can see from our reaction on the field that we thought it was out,” Broad told Sky Sports before play on the third day. “Zak thought he had his fingers under the ball and you only have to look at Joe Root’s reaction at first slip and James Bracey’s reaction behind the stumps – who are a yard away from it – to know that that ball has carried.”But I feel for the umpires in this situation. It’s not the umpires’ fault that they’re 40 yards away – potentially 60 yards in white-ball cricket – with maybe an obscured view.”It’s actually the ruling that’s putting the umpires in a really difficult situation. It’s having to get a soft signal. You’re going upstairs because you’re not sure whether it’s carried or not. So then to have to give an opinion whether you think it has, puts the umpire in a really tricky position. Then the third umpire’s hands are tied a little bit with whatever that on-field call is.”So, my question is: do you think that the ICC need to look at changing that rule because it just seems to put their staff in a tricky position?”Asked if he thought the process should be changed, Broad replied: “I do, absolutely. When you calmly look at the pros and cons of the soft signal, the cons completely outweigh the pros. So to me that looks as if it’s a poor ruling.”