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The ministry of youth and sports in Bangladesh has announced a 13-member adhoc committee to run the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) for the next three months. Within this time the committee will have to hold elections under the amended constitution, the ministry confirmed in an ordinance on Tuesday.The decision comes in view of the the BCB’s current panel of directors’ tenure running out on November 28. However, the election of a new set of directors was stalled by diagreements between the board and the National Sports Council – the regulatory body for all sports federations in Bangladesh.The ministry have retained current BCB president Nazmul Hassan and Ahmed Sajjadul Alam, Mahbubul Anam, Enayet Hossain Siraj, Gazi Ashraf Hossain and Jalal Yunus, who were board directors between November 2008 and November 2012, on the committee.Former Bangladesh captains Khaled Mahmud, who has been a coach after retirement, and Naimur Rahman, who is the president of Cricketers’ Welfare Association of Bangladesh (the players’ representative body), are also on the panel.Among the other members, only one has a background in cricket management from outside Dhaka, while the rest are from various cricket clubs based in Dhaka. The list includes Lokman Hossain Bhuiyan (Mohammedan Sporting Club Ltd’s director in charge), Dr Ismail Haider Mallik (Abahani’s cricket secretary), Gazi Golam Mortuza (Gazi Tank Cricketers councilor) and Afzalur Rahman Sinha (president of Surjo Tarun club). AJM Nasiruddin is an administrator from Chittagong, though he too has been involved with Brothers Union, a Dhaka Premier League club.The naming of the adhoc members is big news in Bangladesh cricket but already fingers are being pointed at the lopsided choice by the ministry, which has gone for an all-Dhaka body rather than one that includes administrators from across the country.

ScorecardNottinghamshire will resume their second innings on 49 without loss against Championship winners Warwickshire, having wiped out their first innings deficit.The Bears were bowled out for 204 on a day shortened by rain, with Andy Carter leading the way for the hosts to finish with four wickets for 55 runs, Warwickshire allrounders Rikki Clarke and Ian Blackwell both making 37. Notts openers Neil Edwards and Sam Kelsall then put on 49 inside 13 overs before rain wiped out the rest of the day shortly after lunch.The day’s action means that the match has effectively becomes a single innings shoot-out, with Notts aiming for their first win since May to boost their chances of a second-placed finish in Division One.Warwickshire resumed their first innings on 139 for 6, with Blackwell and Clarke looking to increase their 42-run partnership for the seventh wicket. But Blackwell only added nine to his overnight score of 28 before he got a thick outside edge to a cut shot off Ben Phillips that was held at head height by Steven Mullaney at second slip.Clarke then offered no stroke to be bowled by Carter four overs later, with the lanky fast bowler softening up new batsman Chris Wright with a couple of venomous short deliveries. That paved the way for Paul Franks to have the tailender caught behind driving outside off stump, before Franks wrapped up the innings by having Jeetan Patel caught at first slip.While Edwards and Kelsall had been faced with batting in testing conditions at the start of the first day, the pitch seemed to offer less assistance to the Warwickshire seam attack second time around. The pair proceeded without real alarm and both had hit three fours when rain ended play, Kelsall on 25 not out and Edwards unbeaten on 16.

ScorecardRob Newton and James Middlebrook dug Northamptonshire out of potential trouble at West End with an unbroken stand of 72 after hosts Hampshire had threatened to get on top.Only 48 overs were possible because of morning rain, with the visitors reaching 170 for 5 after Hampshire captain Jimmy Adams decided to field first on a green wicket which helped his seamers early on.Niall O’Brien was first out for 20 in the sixth over, chasing an out-swinger from left -arm pace bowler James Tomlinson and giving wicketkeeper Michael Bates an easy catch. From that moment Northants went through a difficult period slumping to 98 for 5 before Newton and Middlebrook began the rescue with a defiant late partnership.Experienced second-wicket pair of David Sales and Stephen Peters took the score to 59 before David Balcombe, another bowler for whom the conditions were ideal, bowled Sales. Peters was third out at 87, held at slip by Liam Dawson off Chris Wood at the start of a spell in which three wickets fell in four overs.Peters had held up Hampshire with a brave 47 from 74 balls but in the next over Alex Wakely followed him back to the dressing room after edging Balcombe to Adams in the slips.Tomlinson came back to remove Andrew Hall to another edge into the slips, Adams again the catcher, and suddenly Northants were struggling. Then Newton and Middlebrook came together and although they had some uneasy moments, managed to survive until stumps on the first day of the Championship clash. Adams used six bowlers in a bid to prise them apart including left arm spinner Dawson but they held on to the close.Newton struck a six off Sean Ervine and six fours in his unbeaten 46 while the circumspect Middlebrook was 26 not out as their sixth wicket stand gleaned from 20 overs.Tomlinson took 2 for 27 and Balcombe, rediscovering his early-season form, had taken 2 for 16 from 12 accurate and testing overs.Hampshire, in second place and seeking an instant return to Division One, left out injured Dimitri Mascarenhas and batsman Bilal Shafayat from their squad to accommodate pace bowler Wood.

Bangladesh have brought back allrounder Shakib Al Hasan and medium-pacer Shafiul Islam to their squad for the Twenty20 matches in Ireland and the Netherlands in July. Teenage batsman Anamul Haque and allrounder Farhad Reza are the omissions from the squad that failed to make the final of the Twenty20 tri-series in Zimbabwe. Shakib had been rested for the tri-series.Akram Khan, Bangladesh’s chief selector, said Anamul had been left out so he could focus on the upcoming Under-19 World Cup in Australia this August. “He [Anamul Haque] has a lot of time and I think if he plays in the age-level World Cup, it will bring more maturity to his game,” Akram said. Anamul scored only 16 runs in three matches during the T20s in Harare.Shafiul returned to the side after being sidelined by a shoulder injury he sustained during the Asia Cup in March. “We have always maintained that we are not in favour of major changes in the team,” Akram said. “Shafiul is one of our first-choice pace bowlers so his return will be a boost.”The tour begins with a three-match series against Ireland between July 18 and 21 in Belfast. The second leg is at The Hague, where Bangladesh play Scotland on July 24 and Netherlands on July 25. It will be Bangladesh’s second preparatory tour ahead of the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka in September.Squad Mushfiqur Rahim (capt), Mahmudullah, Tamim Iqbal, Mohammad Ashraful, Junaid Siddique, Jahurul Islam, Shakib Al Hasan, Nasir Hossain, Ziaur Rahman, Elias Sunny, Abdur Razzak, Mashrafe Mortaza, Shafiul Islam, Nazmul Hossain, Abul Hasan.

As a travelling spectator during the last Ashes series, Tim Murtagh watched James Anderson’s dismantling of Australia’s batting with no little awe. Called up to play for Ireland against the Australians in an ODI in Belfast on June 23, Murtagh now has the chance to emulate Anderson – and he has happy memories of a past meeting with Michael Clarke and company to aid his search for wickets.Murtagh, 30, qualified for Ireland via his grandparents, leaving the move until a point in his career when he knew that an England call-up was out of the question. He had played for England at Under-19s level in 1999 but his medium-fast swing and seam has not caught the attention of the ECB since. England’s oversight is Ireland’s gain, at a time when Murtagh feels he is putting the ball more or less where he wants to.”I played Under-19s and I had no contact or been selected for any squad after that, so my chance is gone now, it probably disappeared a few years ago,” Murtagh told ESPNcricinfo. “They’re a very strong team, but certainly having grown up through the age groups, starting at Surrey and moving to Middlesex, I had ambitions to play for England. But it’s obvious they didn’t want to utilise my services, so the Ireland thing came in. I probably should’ve done it a few years ago if I’m honest. It’ll be a great opportunity to play international cricket.”I’m a much better bowler now than I was four or five years ago … all bowlers get to a certain stage where you start to know your game a lot better than you did as a youngster and just feel more confident because of that. Over the last few weeks my bowling has felt in really good rhythm, so hopefully leading into that Australia game I’m peaking at the right time. The last couple of years I’ve bowled better than at any stage of my career, so that’s some confidence I can take into the game in Belfast.”Murtagh’s interest in the England team extended to a visit to Australia for the Ashes of 2010-11, where he watched Anderson intently. Clarke, Ricky Ponting and others struggled to counter Anderson’s swing and accuracy, leaving Murtagh with hope that he could do something similar on what may prove to be a seaming Stormont pitch, given the rain that has drenched the UK and Ireland so far this summer. Murtagh is also bolstered by a tour match during Australia’s 2010 ODI visit, in which he deceived Clarke and Ponting and returned a snappy 3 for 43.”Any time you get Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke, guys like that out, it sticks in your memory,” Murtagh said. “It was a game I enjoyed. It was their first game in England for that ODI tour and they were a little rusty, and hopefully it will be more of the same [this time]. The Aussies will have come from back home from a series in the Caribbean, so it’ll take them some time to adjust back to English conditions and hopefully that’s something we can exploit in the game in Belfast.”They’re world-class players, but if we can catch them a little bit on the hop, it does take time to get used to conditions, especially with the amount of rain and dampness we’ve had around in the early part of summer, it might just take them a little bit of time to get used to that. We’ll have a team meeting and go through specific plans to all these guys, we’ve been sent footage of all the players from Cricket Ireland just to have a look through and start thinking about it.”Ireland’s summer is building towards the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka, but there is also the 2015 World Cup beyond. Murtagh said the team he had joined in camp in Dubai earlier this year was growing from a group “punching above their weight” to one that will become a genuine international force. The match against Australia will provide a useful measure of that growth.”The last few years watching them, they’ve punched above their weight and taken down some pretty big scalps in world cricket,” Murtagh said. “I think now having spent a bit of time out with them in Dubai, they’ve got some genuinely top-class players. I know from first-hand experience Paul Stirling, who’s at Middlesex as well, is I think one of the best T20 players going around at the moment and I’d be very surprised if someone doesn’t snap him up in the IPL in years to come.”We’ve got two games against Afghanistan in the summer as well, after the Australia game, and the points in those games will go towards that 2015 World Cup. Those are two very important games. Irish cricket wants to compete on the biggest stage now, qualifying for the T20 in Sri Lanka later this year is a massive thing, but that tournament in 2015 will be a massive thing as well. There’s some genuine top-class players that can perhaps prove a few people wrong and provide a few upsets in the years to come.”

Match facts

April 23-27, Windsor Park
Start time 1000 (1400 GMT)

Big Picture

Darren Sammy’s contributed this whole tour, but can he deliver a match-winning performance in Dominica?•AFP

Australia have retained the Frank Worrell Trophy but a drizzly draw is far from enough to satisfy Michael Clarke. He wants his first West Indies tour as captain to end in victory, and the Australians have that chance over the next five days in Dominica. The second-least populous nation that makes up the West Indies cricket team (after St Kitts and Nevis), Dominica is an unfamiliar venue for the Australia players, none of whom have played at Windsor Park before.Not that it’s that familiar to some of the West Indians either: the veteran Shivnarine Chanderpaul has played only one first-class game there. West Indies do have a Dominican player in their side, the spinner Shane Shillingford, and he should play a key role having been preferred to Devendra Bishoo, who has been released from the squad.West Indies might have lost the chance to regain the trophy but they can take encouragement from the Test in Trinidad, where they looked like making a real go of their chase of 215 on the final day until the weather intervened. They also dominated the first three days of the series in Barbados, so while Australia will enter the match as favourites, a 1-1 series draw is far from out of the question.

Form guide

(Most recent first)
West Indies DLDLL
Australia DWWWW

In the spotlight

Darren Sammy has made contributions throughout the Test series – in fact, throughout Australia’s entire tour – but this would be the perfect time for him to play a match-winning role. In Barbados, he removed Australia’s openers and made a handy 41 himself in the first innings and in Trinidad he showed a willingness to promote himself up the order when the situation demanded it. If he can combine a fast-paced innings of substance with a few wickets, he will be one step closer to ending his first Frank Worrell Trophy series as captain on a high.Australia’s Test-only players have a six-month break after this match and as one of the few in that category, Ed Cowan would feel much better over the winter if he was coming off a big Test innings. Cowan has now walked out to bat ten times for Australia and has two half-centuries to show for it, but no hundreds. His contributions in this series – 14, 34, 28 and 20 – have not been failures but nor have they cemented his place in the side. The same could be said of his partner David Warner on this trip, but Warner already has two Test centuries to his name. At some stage, Cowan will need to take that next step as well.

Team news

Fidel Edwards finished the Trinidad Test with what the captain Sammy described as “a slight niggle” and he could be replaced by Ravi Rampaul. Bishoo has been released from the squad, so there is no chance of West Indies picking two spinners. The Guyana batsman Assad Fudadin has joined the squad but is unlikely to find a place in the starting line-up.West Indies (possible) : 1 Adrian Barath, 2 Kraigg Brathwaite, 3 Kieran Powell, 4 Darren Bravo, 5 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 6 Narsingh Deonarine, 7 Carlton Baugh (wk), 8 Darren Sammy (capt), 9 Shane Shillingford, 10 Kemar Roach, 11 Ravi Rampaul.Injuries have forced Peter Siddle and James Pattinson to head home, which will mean a return for Ryan Harris after he was rested following his Man-of-the-Match performance in the first Test in Barbados. Michael Beer bowled well in Trinidad but is expected only to hold his position if the Windsor Park pitch looks especially spin-friendly. It appears more likely that the left-arm fast bowler Mitchell Starc will come in for his fourth Test.Australia (possible): 1 Ed Cowan, 2 David Warner, 3 Shane Watson, 4 Ricky Ponting, 5 Michael Clarke (capt), 6 Michael Hussey, 7 Matthew Wade (wk), 8 Ryan Harris, 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Ben Hilfenhaus, 11 Nathan Lyon.

Pitch and conditions

Windsor Park is still in its international infancy. In its first Test, between West Indies and India last year, only a third of the wickets fell to spin. In the two four-day matches played at the venue during the domestic competition that has just finished, no team managed 300 in an innings. The forecast suggests there could be showers throughout the Test.

Stats and trivia

• Shivnarine Chanderpaul needs 82 runs to reach 10,000 in Tests
• Should West Indies win, it will be the first time since 1999 a Test series between the two sides has not been won by Australia
• Kemar Roach’s ten-wicket haul in Trinidad was the first time a West Indies bowler had achieved the feat in a Test since Corey Collymore claimed 11 against Pakistan in Jamaica in 2005

Quotes

“I’m pretty sure all the boys will want to make this Test a good one for themselves personally and for the team because we’ve had a really good summer, we want to finish on a high before we get stuck into one-day cricket and the Twenty20 World Cup.”
“When Australia came here everybody didn’t give us a chance, but we’ve played a brand of cricket that we want to get used to. That said we’ve still got to get the victories and that’s what we’re looking for. To level a series against Australia would be another stepping stone for us.”
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ScorecardOnly groundsmen had anything to do at The Oval•PA Photos

Wet days at cricket and trips down Memory Lane go hand in hand. While rain prevented so much as a ball being bowled today, Surrey gave those few hardy souls who were present every opportunity to reminisce by announcing details of a special match to be played here on Sunday July 8.As part of the celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of Jamaica’s independence, an Old England side will take on an Old Jamaica XI at a ground which, over the years, became like a second home to visiting West Indies teams.The line-ups are to be finalised but it is hoped that Ron Headley, Courtney Walsh and Michael Holding will be among those turning out for Jamaica. But whether or not, at 58, he plays on July 8 – or pursues his second, gentler career of commentating – Holding has already had a big input by recommending The Oval as the ideal venue for a Jamaican party.It is no wonder, really. Back in the 1970s, especially, this part of south London rocked to a Caribbean beat when West Indies took on England with the ground heavily populated by dancing, singing and music-making supporters of the visitors. They seldom had anything less than a victory to cheer – and one of their favourite sons, Holding, chose this venue to produce a performance awesome by even his sky-high standards.In 1976, the Jamaican with the silent run-up and thoroughbred action returned match figures of 14 for 149 as West Indies won by 231 runs, even though England managed 435 in their first innings. As an exhibition of fast bowling it was just about impossible to beat and those who saw it live still purr with delight whenever Holding and The Oval are mentioned in the same breath.Mind, another fast bowler born in Jamaica produced an even more starting performance, in terms of destruction, at The Oval. And Devon Malcolm, who is scheduled to represent Old England in July, did it for the hosts.Whether or not Malcolm actually said “you guys are history” after he was hit between the eyes by a bouncer while batting against South Africa in 1994 is neither here nor there. What we know for certain is that Big Dev responded to the indignity of being felled by producing perhaps the most hostile spell of his career to take nine for 57.Great memories. And no doubt there will be plenty more doing the rounds come July at what should be a joyful occasion.As for the present, there was little to cheer at The Oval today. It did stay dry long enough, though, for Worcestershire to win what could be a vital toss. They have neither Holding nor Malcolm to call on but will still fancy their chances of doing damage with the ball.

Mohammad Ashraful has not been awarded a contract by the Bangladesh Cricket Board for 2012. The BCB announced contracts for 15 players after the meeting of its board of directors on Sunday, with a salary hike of 10% from last year.

BCB’s list of contracted players for 2012

Grade A+ – Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Tamim Iqbal, Abdur Razzak, Mashrafe Mortaza
Grade A – Mahmudullah, Imrul Kayes
Grade B – Rubel Hossain, Shafiul Islam, Nazmul Hossain
Grade C – Nasir Hossain, Jahurul Islam
Rookie Grade – Nazimuddin, Shuvagata Hom, Elias Sunny

The contracts were divided into five categories, with A+ being the highest grade. Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Tamim Iqbal, Abdur Razzak and Mashrafe Mortaza retained their A+ grading from last year. Imrul Kayes, with a grade A contract, and Shafiul Islam, with a grade B contract, received upgrades.Ashraful missed out after a woeful 2011, in which he was in and out of both the Test and one-day teams. He had averaged just 5.28 in seven one-dayers, and 28.25 in two Tests. He was not a part of the squad that impressed in the recently concluded Asia Cup.Nasir Hossain, who has averaged 42 for Bangladesh in 14 ODIs with a hundred and three half-centuries, was included for the first time in the list with a grade C contract. Batsmen Nazimuddin and Shuvagata Hom, and left-arm spinner Elias Sunny who claimed a six-for on debut against West Indies in October, were awarded rookie grade contracts.Shahadat Hossain, Junaid Siddique, Syed Rasel, Raqibul Hasan, Naeem Islam and Suhrawadi Shuvo missed out on contracts this year.

MS Dhoni has said the India dressing-room has had a good laugh at the reports of a rift•AFP

MS Dhoni has blamed the media for quoting him selectively to Virender Sehwag, to elicit replies that suggested a grave communication gap in the team. He said no such problem existed, and there was no need to straighten it out. He did, though, say it created an awkward situation because it was possible Sehwag might have actually believed what the press told him. He hadn’t, Dhoni added.However, a reading of the transcripts (below) of the two press conferences in question confirm a variance in statements between the captain and his deputy.”You must have asked him something,” Dhoni said at his pre-match press conference on Saturday. “Why don’t you ask yourself the same question?”You have the press conference on tape. It will be interesting if you watch the whole press conference. You will get the answer yourself of what exactly I said. And what exactly I meant. Often what’s important is, you can’t see just that particular answer. Maybe the build-up from the first question as to what you are answering [is important]. Often we don’t answer because the first part of the first question that we answer is actually an answer of the second question or the third question. If you see the whole press conference, it will offer a valid point as to what was said.”Dhoni said the dressing-room had had a good laugh at the reports. Asked if he was happy with the communication flow within the team, Dhoni said, “Yeah, yeah. It has always been there. It is not this series or last series. It has been perfect. And we enjoy it actually when things like this happened. It’s the talk of the dressing room. We try to get the positives out of it. It’s half an hour of good talk in the dressing room, because that’s the best we can get out of it.”Reproduced below are excerpts from the two said press conferences with all relevant questions and the build-up that led to Dhoni and Sehwag saying what they did.The first one is, from February 19, after India had lost to Australia. This is MS Dhoni answering questions.Q: MS, you mentioned that the top order needs to perform, but we are in the second stage of this tournament. Do you reckon the best XI should be playing now? Or do you want to continue…
Dhoni: You have to see what the best XI is. If you talk about the best XI being the players who have scored runs in the tournament then also we may find it difficult to feature the XI. Or if you talk about the number of games we have played or the experienced guys have played, so it’s about everyone going. Everybody needs to contribute. Gautam has done well, he needs to keep on going because he is among the senior guys who will be batting up the order. Then you have Virat who has done well, Rohit who is getting his chances and then Raina also. So we need to contribute as a unit, and that’s what should be the key. You want to field a very good fielding side also. We have seen in these close games that you can’t really afford to score always 20 more runs just because your fielding is not good enough on the big field. We have to be careful and hopefully it will be sorted out.Q: Is this series more about bringing something home after a disastrous Test series or is it about building a team for the 2015 World Cup?
Dhoni: It should be both because you want to do well. As I said you know the opposition team played well, they outplayed you but at the end of the day you feel bad, in the sense if you are not winning games you feel bad. We want to get a bit of both. You want the youngsters to play the games but of course we need to get into the finals first because it’s important to get into the finals. Then it’s a three match series in the finals. You have to be consistent in two games to win the tournament. But you want to see these youngsters, they will be coming here again and again. Maybe for the next World Cup also. They should know how you need to play in these situations or conditions against a bowling attack that is world class, so overall you want to get the best for the side.Q: Coming back to what you say, will there be a scenario – we are at the business end of the tournament, you haven’t made the final yet – will there be a scenario where you play all three – Sachin, Sehwag and Gambhir?
Dhoni: That may happen. It will affect our fielding in a big way, which means there will be more pressure on the batsmen to score those extra 20 runs, but if the middle order does not perform consistently well you may have to go with the experienced guys at the top of the order, and let the scoring do, you know, from the bottom-most batsmen. In the sense, 5, 6 and 7.[A break, and then this question.]Q: You spoke about the fielding in the case you play all the three seniors. Is it really – suppose if Viru [who didn’t play that day] plays instead of either Rohit or Raina, is it worth 20 extra runs in the field?
Dhoni: Definitely. Because people often talk about that one run, but that one run that you save, it changes the strike and if the next ball, the batsman plays a big shot – a six or a four, it can have a big impact. If you see, the last few games that we played, we got two or three run outs and that really had a big impact.Also, what we need to see, it’s not only these three players that we are talking about. We also have quite a few other players who are slow on the field. It will just add on to that and we will be left with just two or three really good fielders. It’s not that these fielders are bad but for this environment and these conditions and big outfields, they are slightly on the slower side. They will be exploited. Once the ball goes to them, the Australians or the Sri Lankans will try to exploit the doubles or three runs. It means it will put more pressure on their body because the throwing needs to be good and the diving needs to be good, so they will be under constant pressure. So ultimately it will be a pressure game.This was reported as it was, and two days later Virender Sehwag took questions.Q: Do you agree with Dhoni when he says that you, Sachin and Gambhir can’t be played together in the same XI because you are slow fielders?
Sehwag: I don’t think so, we played together in the World Cup and we won games. Just because we want to give chances to youngsters and it’s good for every team, just keep rotating players and they will get good … and they will be fresh for next game, so that’s what I think.[A break, and then this question.]Q: Were you surprised when you heard that Dhoni came out and said if you three play together, you will concede 20 runs more. And did you have a chat with him?
Sehwag: No we didn’t know that. I didn’t know what he said and what’s going on in media. But we decided, we had a meeting, he chatted with everyone, with Gautam and myself and Tendulkar. He explained that he wanted to give chances to youngsters, so youngsters can play all the matches here, and the next World Cup is also here, so they’ll get to know the idea of how the wickets behave in Australia, so when they come for next World Cup, so they will prepare themselves.Q: The thrust of Dhoni’s argument the other night was that top three batsmen – you, Gautam and Sachin – could concede 20 runs extra. Good fielders but slow fielders.
Sehwag: We are same for the last 10 years. Nothing has changed.Q: Even if you concede 20 runs extra, Sehwag plays a big knock, you win the match single-handedly. These youngsters are saving 20 runs, but aren’t scoring…
Sehwag: You have to ask Dhoni again. What he told us is, he has to give chances to youngsters. They will come here and play the next World Cup. That’s what he told us.Q: Will you have a chat with him?
Sehwag: Why should I have a chat with him? When he has said he is the captain, he is the leader, if he and coach thinks we should give breaks to the top order, that’s fine, I am okay with that. I don’t have any issues with that.[A break again.]Q: Do you feel you, Tendulkar and Gambhir are liabilities in the field?
Sehwag: Have you seen my catch?Q: You said that the reason given to you three separately was they wanted to give the youngsters more chances. Now, you come to know through us that the other night another reason was given. Will you now have a chat with him?
Sehwag: I am available for all the matches. It depends on the captain and the coach what XI they will pick. If they give me the reason that we want to give chances to youngsters and you take a break, I am happy with that.*07:54 GMT, Feb 26: This article’s introduction has been changed

Nike Knights 96 for 5 beat Rwenzori Warriors 90 for 8 by five wickets
ScorecardNile Knights won the delayed all-Ugandan final of the inaugural Twenty20 East Africa Premier League, defeating Rwenzori Warriors by five wickets. Originally scheduled for November, heavy rain had twice caused the game’s postponement.The Knights won the toss and put the Warriors in to set at Gymkhana grounds Saturday evening, and tight bowling restricted them to 90 for 8. As is often the case in the format, spin proved the key as Davis Arinaitwe (3 for 14) and Raymond Otim (1 for 14) proved hard to get away.Arthur Kyobe gave the Knights a flying start with 29 off 17 balls, including five fours and a six, and by the time he was dismissed him the Knights were almost halfway to their target. Man of the Match Jonathan Ssebanja (3 for 5) put the skids under the middle order as 41 for 0 became 58 for 5, but Benjamin Musoke made an assured 26 not out to steer his side home finishing the match with a six