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The 29-year-old had fared modestly for Barbados Tridents before the injury, scoring 185 runs in seven innings

ESPNcricinfo staff02-Sep-2018Australia batsman Steven Smith will miss the rest of this year’s CPL with a side strain. The injury was revealed by his Barbados Tridents captain Jason Holder at the toss ahead of their game against St Lucia Stars on Sunday at Kensington Oval.A subsequent interview with the side’s head coach Robin Singh revealed that Smith has left for home to receive treatment for the injury.Smith was signed as replacement for Shakib Al Hasan after he became available to play in the CPL for the first time following his one-year suspension from international cricket for his role in the ball-tampering scandal during Australia’s tour of South Africa.The 29-year-old had fared modestly before the injury, scoring 185 runs in seven innings while also taking three wickets, though he was Man of the Match in one of the only two wins this year for the bottom-placed Tridents by scoring 63 and taking 2 for 19 against Jamaica Tallawahs in Florida.

Ravi Bopara was run out from the last ball and the Vitality Blast match at Chelmsford ended in a tie

ECB Reporters' Network21-Jul-2018
ScorecardRavi Bopara was run out from the last ball and the Vitality Blast match at Chelmsford ended in a tie. Needing two runs to win, Bopara failed to beat Colin Munro’s throw from square leg, though umpire Jeffrey Evans had to go to the TV umpire to confirm the decision.Bopara had hit 39 from 26 balls to take Essex within a whisker of only their second T20 victory of the season. Dan Lawrence had laid the foundation for the chase of 171 with the highest T20 score of his career. His 49 came off 36 balls with four fours and a six. Chris Wood kept Essex in check until the late fireworks with 3 for 27 from his four overs, but it was not quite enough for victory.Sam Northeast finished with an unbeaten 73 from 50 balls that included four sixes as Hampshire posted 170 for 5. It was a comparatively pedestrian innings compared to the 38 from 17 balls, three of them sixes, by New Zealand opener Colin Munro that looked as if it would set the tempo for a huge Hampshire total after opting to bat.Bar two overs from Matt Quinn that went for 27 and 19, Essex kept a tight rein. Adam Zampa’s 2 for 30 was only spoilt by some late hitting by Northeast. Fellow spinner Simon Harmer took 1 for 21 from his four overs, and Ravi Bopara conceded 19 from his three.Essex openers Adam Wheater and Varun Chopra had put on just 4 when Chopra fell to Ryan Stevenson’s first ball, a short delivery, and was caught behind.Wheater bookended Fidel Edwards’s opening over with sixes over midwicket before he was the second of two wickets in four balls when he charged spinner Mujeeb Ur Rahman’s first delivery and was stumped. Tom Westley had just beaten him back to the pavilion after dragging on against Wood for 9.Ryan ten Doesechate and Lawrence steadied the ship with a fourth-wicket stand of 44 in five overs that included a big six over long-leg by the captain. But ten Doeschate perished when he top-edged a pull off Edwards to the edge of the ring.Lawrence showed his range of shots with a straight four off Dawson followed by a clip to third man next ball for another boundary. Bopara, moving beyond single figures for the first time this season, helped take the target to 60 from 30 balls.Lawrence passed his previous highest score in the competition with an effortless pick-up over square leg for six off Edwards to take him to 48. But he attempted to reach his first half-century in style, and only hit Wood flat to Munro on the long-off fence.Suddenly the asking rate was 41 from three. Harmer helped it along with a reverse-swept six off Rahman and Bopara added a second in the over midwicket. With 27 required from 12 balls, Harmer went lbw to Wood but Neil Wagner hit a straight for six followed by a four to make it 13 from the last over.Bopara hit the first ball from Stevenson for a straight six with James Vince falling awkwardly after colliding with Rilee Rossouw in an attempt to make the catch. A single gave Wagner the batting, but he went to the third ball when caught on the boundary by Dawson. Bopara refused a run from the next but thumped the fifth through the covers for four. Two needed from the last ball – and the dramatic conclusion.Hampshire had started their innings slowly, but the loss of Vince for 1 to a skier at mid-on only inspired Munro to take charge. Northeast finished off Jamie Porter’s second over with a six over midwicket, and then the New Zealander showed anything Northeast could do, he could do better.Munro followed with sixes off the first two deliveries from Quinn in an over that included a third six over midwicket plus a free-hit that was expertly caught by ten Doeschate, albeit in vain.Zampa was unfortunate that two successive misfields on the bumpy outfield went to the boundary, but hit back when he bowled Munro playing a reverse sweep. Rossouw was Zampa’s second victim with a nick behind and Tom Alsop went for an ill-advised reverse sweep and was lbw to Harmer.Hampshire had slumped to 70 for 4 and added only 33 runs in eight middle overs. Indeed, such was their sluggish scoring that the fifth-wicket partnership between Northeast and Liam Dawson needed 50 balls to reach fifty.However, Northeast saw off Zampa’s final two balls with sixes to cow corner that also brought up a 41-ball half-century. Wagner broke the 71-run stand when Dawson hit him high to wide mid-on where Lawrence took it on the move over his shoulder. Dawson’s 32 had been at a run a ball.

Rahul Tripathi, Maharashtra’s 24-year-old middle-order batsman, batted sensibly through a tense morning session in Jaipur to help them seal three points by taking the first-innings lead

The Report by Sidharth Monga24-Oct-2015
ScorecardFile Photo – Ashok Menaria struck seven fours for his unbeaten 37 as stumps were drawn on the third day in Jaipur•ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Rahul Tripathi, Maharashtra’s 24-year-old middle-order batsman, played sensibly through a tense morning session to help them seal three points. Then he went on to score his second first-class century, playing his 14th match. Maharashtra began the day needing 75 runs with five wickets in hand and the new ball nine overs away, but lost the more aggressive Chirag Khurana early. Tight and intense, but not threatening, bowling followed. Tripathi absorbed all the pressure, and was helped along by an industrious No. 8, Shrikant Mundhe, who had also contributed with three wickets on a deceptively flat surface.After taking a 91-run lead, Maharashtra pushed Rajasthan to the brink with three wickets by the time they came back into credit. All three Rajasthan batsmen who fell, though, appeared shocked at the belated decisions. It was, admittedly, hard to tell if the umpires had made a mistake, except that when left-hand batsman Vaibhav Deshpande fell lbw, he did so to a right-arm seamer bowling over the wicket and to a ball pitched short of a length. Rajasthan now hoped captain Ashok Menaria and import Rajat Bhatia could hang in for one point.Rajasthan began the day thinking they could use Nathu Singh before the new ball which is generally handed to Deepak Chahar and Aniket Choudhury. But the young quick who has been selected for Board President’s XI let the side down. His first over went for 10 runs. It could have been worse had Khurana successfully flicked away a leg-side half-volley. Rajasthan changed plans, and brought on Choudhury and Chahar. They bowled tight spells, five runs came in the next five overs, the pressure built, and then Chahar took a splendid overhead return catch off a leading edge to send Khurana back.With two overs to go to the new ball, Rajasthan went to Nathu again, who again provided a drive ball and two no-balls to give Maharashtra the fillip they needed. That meant Rajasthan had to go back to their other two trusted bowlers, who had already bowled for a bit. Choudhury got four really good deliveries in, but the fifth trickled off the edge to third man for four and the sixth was driven by Mundhe through cover for four. Chahar bowled from the other end, and he bowled too full too. Tripathi drove him for four and three first two balls. With 15 runs off four balls, Maharshatra had taken decisive steps towards tipping over Rajasthan’s 318 and claiming the lead.Curiously Ashok Menaria didn’t use the left-arm spin of Kukna Ajay until the lead had been conceded, two hours into the day’s play. Even on day two, when Kukna had taken two wickets in three overs, his end was changed. Choudhury was used for eight straight overs at the top of the innings. Nathu, who had bowled four overs before lunch on day two, was used for the whole hour after the break. Menaria will have to revisit his captaincy.There was nothing missing in Tripathi’s application, though. In the 94th over of the innings, he punched Nathu in front of point for two runs that put Maharashtra into lead. The dressing room applauded, but Tripathi, who was 76 off 179 now, acknowledged it with just one glance towards them. His celebration came with a pulled boundary next ball. Menaria now went to spin, and on cue Kukna produced the wicket, but by then Mundhe had done his job with 37 runs off 77 balls.Tripathi went to work towards his century now, and only after reaching his century – a chip over mid-off – did he play some adventurous shots. He finally fell for 119 off 250 balls.

The BCCI will issue a fresh tender for the broadcast, internet and mobile rights to cricket in India on March 10 and appears to have marginally raised its base price per game for its broadcast rights

Tariq Engineer07-Mar-2012The BCCI will issue a fresh tender for the broadcast, internet and mobile rights to cricket in India on March 10 and appears to have marginally raised its base price per game for its broadcast rights, despite having to cancel its previous contract with Nimbus Communications over payment problems.According to , the board’s marketing committee, which met in Mumbai today, has set the price for category A games at Rs 31.25 crores per match (approx $6.4 million) plus Rs 1 crore (approx $198,000) while category B games were set at Rs 3.40 crores (approx $6.75 million) plus Rs 1 crore. Committee chairman Farooq Abdullah did not specify which of the game’s three formats fall under each category, nor why a separate rate of Rs 1 crore was mentioned, though one possibility is that the Rs 1 crore is the base price for the board’s digital rights. The contract with Nimbus had a base price of Rs 31.25 crores (approx $6.20 million) per game for each of the three formats purely for the broadcast rights.The BCCI tried to sell its digital rights as a separate property last year, but found no takers at the original base price of Rs 3 crores(approx $595,000) per game. They then reduced the base price to Rs 2 crores (approx $397,000) but still did not receive a single bid for the rights to stream India’s home games live on the internet.The rights in the new tender cover television, internet and mobile for global territories for the period July 2012 – March 2018, the board said in a statement. The tender will be made available until March 26 and the marketing committee will meet in Chennai to open the bids on April 2.The board was forced to issue a new tender after it terminated its contract with Nimbus in December 2011, claiming the latter had defaulted on its payments. The matter has subsequently been referred for arbitration, with the Bombay High Court ruling that Nimbus must deposit Rs 305 crores (approx. US$61 million) with the court as security for the amount the BCCI claims it is owed by the company.The base price set by the board was much anticipated as the previous price of Rs 31.25 crores per match, agreed to by Nimbus, was widely thought to be unsustainable, especially in the light of India’s recent poor performances in both England and Australia. The team has lost eight away Tests on the trot, did not win any of the five one-dayers in England and failed to make the final of the triangular-series in Australia. However, these rights are for matches in India, where the team has performed much better, winning the World Cup in April, beating England in the ODIs and West Indies in Tests and ODIs in 2011.”Everything was discussed,” Abdullah told reporters after the meeting. “How the shape of the next tender should be. The contract with Nimbus has ended. The difficulties and deficiencies in the previous tender were looked into and rectified, and care has been taken those are not repeated in the new tender. It will be a global tender for six years.”The new tender will give a chance for new people to come in. They can bid either for the whole thing (broadcast, internet and mobile rights) or in parts. It will enable people to come in larger numbers. We expect to generate more interest.”

Lancashire’s hopes of winning their opening three Championship games for the
first time in 15 years remain very much intact despite the efforts of Darren
Stevens whose unbeaten century frustrated Glen Chapple’s bowlers on the second
day of their Champions

28-Apr-2010

ScorecardLancashire’s hopes of winning their opening three Championship games for the
first time in 15 years remain very much intact despite the efforts of Darren
Stevens whose unbeaten century frustrated Glen Chapple’s bowlers on the second
day of their Championship match against Kent at Old Trafford.Replying to the home side’s first-innings total of 320, Rob Key’s batsmen had
struggled to 97 for 7 before Stevens’ 92-run eighth-wicket partnership with
Matt Coles changed the contest.Stevens had made 101 not out by the time Kent were bowled out for 213.
Lancashire added 68 to their first-innings lead of 107 before bad light and rain
ended play 15 overs early, but they had lost Tom Smith, for his sixth successive
single figure Championship score, Paul Horton and Stephen Moore in the process.This leaves Glen Chapple’s side with a lead of 175 with seven wickets in hand
and two days of this fluctuating contest still to play. However, while Lancashire’s Sajid Mahmood will look back on the day with pleasure – he claimed 5 for 55 from 18.5 overs – it was Stevens’ innings which altered the balance of the game.Mixing doughty defence with uninhibited aggression, the former Leicestershire
all-rounder, who had taken four wickets in Lancashire’s first innings, clubbed
two mighty sixes and 10 fours in his 129-ball stay at the wicket.When Makhaya Ntini was last man out – caught at leg gully off the back of the
bat attempting to avoid a Mahmood bouncer – Lancashire’s lead had been reduced
to a healthy advantage, but nothing like the abundance they had envisaged
earlier in the day.Stevens needed his luck – Chapple dropped a steepler at deep mid-on when he was
53 – but he perhaps deserved a little good fortune and his performance spiked
the guns of a home attack led by the fired-up Mahmood.Most of Kent’s top order were unable to cope with Lancashire’s purposeful and
well-directed new-ball bowling in the pre-lunch session. Only Geraint Jones survived for long, and even he came in for lunch knowing he had ridden his luck.Chapple started the rot, and also claimed his 700th first-class wicket for the
county, when he moved one away from Key and in the next over, Joe Denly received
a savage lifter from Mahmood which he gloved to Sutton.Martin van Jaarsveld then fell for Chapple’s three-card trick and tamely gave a
catch to backward short-leg Simon Kerrigan, who had been deliberately placed
there a few balls previously.When Sam Northeast sliced Tom Smith to Ashwell Prince in the gully, Kent were
53 for 4 and thoroughly in the cart. Jones’ irresponsible slash gave Mahmood his second wicket three overs after the break, Smith’s swing then accounted for James Hockley and a stunning one-handed diving catch by Steven Croft in the gully saw the end of Simon Cook.While wickets fell at the other end, Stevens had been adopting a policy of
selective aggression and he maintained this policy in company with Coles, who
offered useful support with 33, as Lancashire’s hopes of enforcing the follow-on
sagged.

Kevin Pietersen doesn’t do humble pie as a rule, but on this trip it’s been forced down his gullet by the shovel-full

Andrew Miller in Chittagong12-Mar-2010Kevin Pietersen doesn’t do humble pie as a rule, but on this trip it’s been forced down his gullet by the shovel-full. He was once able to give the impression that his game had no weaknesses (other than an occasional tendency towards over-confidence), but in Bangladesh he has been carved open by the unlikeliest opponents of them all.Even in his hour of apparent renaissance, his new and unfamiliar vulnerability manifested itself as he fell for 99 to the left-arm spin of Abdur Razzak for the third time in three innings. But after the month he’s endured, he was simply grateful to have overcome the worst.”Probably at the end of your career you look back and think one run could have made a difference to me personally, but I’d have taken 99 this morning, that’s for sure,” he said. “Sometimes you hit a patch when you don’t know where your next run is coming from, and I’ve had that for the last couple of weeks. But I knew I needed to work on something, and I’ve done it.”That something was his weakness against left-arm spin, and to Pietersen’s credit, he didn’t even try to shy away from his uncertainties. In the past, to discuss such a topic openly would have been an unacceptable show of weakness, but he has realised as acutely as anyone that his problems are way out in the public domain. Recognition, as they say, is the first step to recovery.”I’ve had to make an adjustment to the way I play left-arm spin,” he said. “With umpires giving more lbw decisions on the front foot, and the boys bowling a lot more for lbw, you have to make adjustments. I’ve made them with some really hard work with Andy Flower, who was a really fantastic player of spin, and some really kind words from Rahul Dravid. I just got a really nice message from him today saying ‘it worked’.”Duncan Fletcher has also been offering his tuppen’orth, as England’s former coach revealed in his Guardian column this week, and with an assortment of advisors of that calibre, allied to Pietersen’s unstinting appetite for hard work, it’s little wonder that he’s managed to turn his form around. Nevertheless, he first had to digest his glut of information, and churn through countless hours in the nets, before the dividends could be revealed at the crease.”At the end of the day they don’t bat for you but you’ve got to find information,” he said. “I’ve played with Rahul in Bangalore, and I’ve played a lot of Test match cricket against him, and in two weeks, I’ll be spending four weeks with him [at the IPL]. It’s great to spend time speaking to people like that and he’s helped a heck of a lot.”I’ve felt fine against the seamers since [the Twenty20s in] Dubai, but it’s just been left-arm spin I’ve had to work out. I won’t stop learning and I won’t stop working hard, which I love, because you are never too good for anything. This morning I figured the hours I’ve put into net practice this week were bound to pay off at some stage.
“Everyone is human, everyone goes through a patch where they struggle, but I’ve never stopped trying,” he added. “I’ve missed [being in form]. It’s been a terrible 12 months in terms of my injury and my form in South Africa, where I was losing my balance, feet going nowhere. I feel really good at the moment, really rock solid, but that’s not going to stop me working on my game.”On the subject of his dismissal for 99, which was the second time he had made that score and the fifth time he’d fallen in the nineties all told, Pietersen was equally philosophical. “Funny things happen to cricketers on 99 all around the world. I’ve had a 99, I’ve had a 97, I’ve had a 96, I’ve had a 92 … yeah, it’s not nice. But I can tell you getting out for 20 the other day wasn’t nice, getting out for 1 in the one-day series wasn’t nice. It’s never nice getting out.”One man who hasn’t had that feeling so far in this game is Alastair Cook, who emulated Pietersen’s feat of a century in his first Test as captain, and has the chance to resume on Saturday on 158 not out, with a double-century in his sights and the opportunity to push for, in the words of his mentor, Graham Gooch, a “daddy”.”Alastair has done an amazing job today and first of all ‘Chef’ needs to get his highest score in Test cricket and then go and get 250,” said Pietersen. “It was brilliant. I did say to him that emotion took over my hundred [on captaincy debut] at The Oval and I got out the next ball. So I said to him to dig deep, I said ‘you’ve got a big, big hundred to score here’. A hundred is great, but 158 is even better.”

Half-centuries from Tom Haines, Tom Alsop and James Coles help put visitors in driving seat

ECB Reporters Network04-May-2024Sussex 357 for 5 (Pujara 104*, Coles 72, Alsop 64, Haines 58) lead Derbyshire 246 (Tickner 47) by 111 runsA century from Cheteshwar Pujara led a dominant Sussex batting display on the second day of the Vitality County Championship Division Two match with against Derbyshire at Derby.The Indian maestro scored an unbeaten 104 – his ninth hundred in three seasons with Sussex – with Tom Haines, Tom Alsop and James Coles all making half-centuries as the visitors closed on 357 for 5, a lead of 111. Sussex’s position would have been even better but for two late wickets for Luis Reece to keep Derbyshire in the game.The home side had earlier taken their first innings to 246 thanks to a career-best 47 from Blair Tickner who shared a ninth wicket stand of 68 with Jack Morley before Coles took 2 for 6 with his left-arm spin to finish off the innings.The cloud cover of the first day was replaced by patches of blue sky, making batting a more comfortable proposition and Tickner and Morley took advantage.Tickner pulled an Ollie Robinson no-ball to the ropes and there was more frustration for the pace bowler when Tom Clark put down a difficult low chance at second slip with Morley on 6.The pair completed a 50 stand from 75 balls and Tickner was in sight of a maiden first-class half-century when he made room to force Coles and was bowled by a quicker ball.Morley had played the supporting role, displaying sound defence, but with Tickner gone, he became more expansive and came down the pitch to dispatch Jack Carson over long-on for six. Derbyshire were closing in on a batting point when Morley used his feet again to try and force Coles through the off side but missed the ball and was stumped.Although their score was higher than had looked likely when the eighth wicket went down at 163, early wickets were needed to put Sussex under pressure and Daryn Dupavillon obliged in his second over. The South African fast bowler moved one back in from outside off to bowl Clark but the bowling was too inconsistent and Haines pounced on anything that was slightly offline.He reached his 50 which came from only 38 balls in the first over after lunch and the stand with Alsop was worth 90 when he played on aiming to cut a ball that was too close to him for the stroke.The sight of Pujara walking out to bat on a ground where he made a double-century two years ago was an ominous one from a Derbyshire point of view and he was soon working the ball around with a quiet assurance.Alsop reached his 50 with consecutive fours off Reece but two overs before tea, he aimed to work Anuj Dal through midwicket and was lbw.At the interval, Sussex were trailing by 50 and with Coles playing positively from the start, they began to take a grip on the match in the evening session. Coles launched Morley over long-on for six before Pujara reached 50 from 74 balls, the same number Coles needed to complete his when he pulled Zak Chappell to the fine leg boundary.The partnership was worth 141 when Coles drove Reece low to mid-off and after Pujara punched David Lloyd to the cover boundary for his 10th four to complete a century off 158 balls, Reece bowled John Simpson with one that straightened.Derbyshire claimed the new ball before the close but Pujara and Carson stood firm to ensure it was the visitors day.

Batsman set to enter IPL auction as international exile continues

Matt Roller22-Jan-2021Alex Hales’ prospects of an England recall remain unchanged, despite his rich vein of form for Sydney Thunder which has propelled him to the top of the Big Bash League’s run-scoring charts.Hales’ innings of 110 off 56 balls against cross-town rivals Sydney Sixers on Friday night was enough to take him past Josh Philippe in the race for the ‘golden bat’, but he said after the game that he had received no contact from the England selectors ahead of the white-ball tour to India in March which comprises three ODIs and five T20Is.”No, nothing at all – nothing from that end,” Hales told Fox Sports when asked if he had heard anything from the England management. “At the moment, I’m just enjoying my cricket and I’m going to keep trying to score as many runs as I can, enjoying myself, and see what happens.Related

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“Obviously that’s the peak of cricket, playing for your country. At the moment, I’m just going to focus on the process of scoring runs and enjoying my cricket, and if that’s the end result then brilliant.”Hales was de-selected from England’s 2019 World Cup squad immediately before the tournament after it came to light that he had returned a second positive test for recreational drugs, and he has not been part of a squad since.Eoin Morgan, England’s white-ball captain, has repeatedly stressed that Hales’ actions had caused a “breakdown in trust” and demonstrated a “complete disregard” for the team’s values. While he has never officially drawn a line under Hales’ England career, 22 months have passed since his last international appearance.Hales overtook Josh Philippe in the race for the Golden Bat on Friday night•Getty Images

Hales’ case is not helped by the fact that England are overflowing with top-order options, particularly in T20 cricket. Jonny Bairstow shifted into the middle order in their most recent series with Jason Roy, Jos Buttler and Dawid Malan forming the top three, while players like Tom Banton, Phil Salt and Liam Livingstone missed out on the squad altogether.And his prospects of a recall were dealt a further blow on Thursday when Ed Smith, the national selector, said that he did not anticipate the situation changing in time for Hales to win a recall for the squads to tour India, leaving his chances of a comeback before the T20 World Cup in India looking slim.”I think at the moment, I would expect things to stay as they are,” Smith said. “No doors are closed – there’s been no final decision. It’s not that it’s going to be the same indefinitely, but at the moment, if I had to make a prediction, I would say we would stay as we are.”Smith said that it was an “unfair inference” to suggest Hales would not be picked again under Morgan’s leadership, but stressed the importance of captains’ opinions in the decision-making process.”I would say every captain is very important for selection, and that goes for Joe Root, too,” he said. “But in terms of responsibility, selectors take responsibility for a selection of squads, while working closely with all the coaches, and especially the captain. We all work together, and we all take responsibility for our decisions.”ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Instead, Hales is set to play for Islamabad United in the Pakistan Super League from February to March, following the conclusion of the BBL season. His runs helped Karachi Kings to the title in November, but he has been traded back to the franchise he represented in 2018 and 2019 ahead of the 2021 edition.It is understood that he will enter next month’s IPL auction, and he will hope that his form over the last two years will be enough for a team to pick him up. A handful of overseas openers, including Banton, Roy and Aaron Finch, were released by their franchises this week, boosting his chances of being signed.Hales is the leading run-scorer around the world in T20 cricket since the start of the 2019 Vitality Blast, averaging 32.21 with a strike rate of 147.93 in that period. He has played more innings than anyone else in that time, across five different leagues, and demonstrated his skill and experience in his belligerent innings on Friday. His hundred – his fourth in T20 cricket – included nine fours and eight sixes, helping the Thunder to break their losing streak as they piled on the highest total in BBL history.”The last few games hadn’t quite gone to plan so for us to turn up in the Sydney derby was really good,” he said. “It’s about trying to find that balance between which bowlers and which ends to attack, and what stage of the partnership to go at. It’s finding that balance between having that positive intent and not throwing your wicket away, which I’d done a few times this year in the 40s, so to go on and get that big score was really pleasing.”

Players unavailable due to scheduling and workload management ahead of India’s tour of Australia in January 2020

Annesha Ghosh27-Sep-2019India’s T20I captain Harmanpreet Kaur, vice-captain Smriti Mandhana and 19-year-old Jemimah Rodrigues, who has been on the radar of at least two teams, are unlikely to feature in the first standalone Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) – set to start much earlier than usual – from October 18 to December 8.The tournament is likely to clash with India’s month-long tour of the Caribbean, leaving the players with a very limited window towards the end of what will be the fifth season of the WBBL. ESPNcricinfo understands that the Indian team, currently playing a T20I series at home against South Africa, is tentatively slated to depart for the Caribbean on October 23. India will also play three ODIs against South Africa, with the last match on October 14.Scheduling aside, it is understood that the players were keen to be fresh for India’s tour of Australia next year which will feature a tri-series involving England – from January 31 to February 12 – ahead of the Women’s T20 World Cup to be held there in February-March. India will take on hosts and defending champions Australia in the tournament opener on February 21.The scheduling meant Sydney Thunder did not offer a contract extension to Harmanpreet, a key player in their line-up since 2016-17. Harmanpreet, however, was approached by the Melbourne Stars. Mandhana, who was contracted with the Hobart Hurricanes, was set to continue for a second consecutive edition. She had earlier been part of the Brisbane Heat in 2016-17.Rodrigues’ wait for a WBBL contract is set to continue. She enjoyed a breakthrough KSL season for Yorkshire Diamonds, finishing the season as the second-highest run-scorer. Her fearless approach in limited-overs formats has impressed many – including Australia captain Meg Lanning – since her international debut in February last year.Rodrigues’ high-scoring exploits on foreign soil – in South Africa (February 2018), New Zealand (earlier this year) and in the KSL, coupled with her chart-topping tally at the Women’s T20 Challenge at home in May, made her a sought-after player among two WBBL franchises.”The BCCI doesn’t discourage any of our women’s players from taking part in overseas leagues as long as their participation [in those tournaments] doesn’t clash with their national duties,” BCCI’s general manager (cricket operations) Saba Karim told ESPNcricinfo. “In this case, there’s an international series to be played, so that will automatically be on top of their list of priorities.”The standalone WBBL marks a departure from its preceding four seasons. With the exception of the women’s final last season which was accorded a standalone slot, on Australia Day, the women’s competition had traditionally run parallel to the men’s tournament.

They toppled a Dhoni-less Chennai Super Kings side to secure a vital victory after three losses on the trot

The Report by Liam Brickhill17-Apr-20193:30

TaitL Rashid does things the Warne way

Sunrisers Hyderabad broke Chennai Super Kings’ winning streak, and secured a vital victory after three losses on the trot, with a six-wicket win at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. Super Kings were without their talismanic captain MS Dhoni, who was rested after pulling up with back spasms in their last game. And aside from a 79-run opening stand between Shane Watson and Faf du Plessis, their innings lacked oomph. Despite the slowness of the track, their 132 for 5 was sub-par and after David Warner’s rapid fifty had set the innings up, Jonny Bairstow closed the match with an unbeaten 61.With stand-in captain Suresh Raina having opted to bat, halfway through their innings Chennai would have been pleased with their progress at 80 for 1. But just 52 runs came from the next ten as the innings fizzled out. The much-hyped showdown between Vijay Shankar and Ambati Rayudu came to nought, but in truth Super Kings could have done with a little more fire in the belly at the death.ALSO READ – Ambati Rayudu v Vijay Shankar – the non-fight after the mega hypeIndeed, Warner’s response at the top of Sunrisers’ chase showed that there were quick runs to be made despite the slowness of the pitch. Warner dominated the Powerplay and left Sunrisers’ brittle middle order with a very easy job to complete. Bairstow ensured there were no slip-ups, and a struggling Sunrisers unit took down the table-toppers with 19 balls and six wickets to spare.Watson, du Plessis lay platform
With three single figure scores and a duck in his last five innings before Wednesday, Watson came into this match without much form to speak of. Neither Watson nor du Plessis looked in particularly world-beating touch when the openers crawled to just 15 from the first four overs. The pressure was on, and a wicket at that stage could have been disastrous, but the experienced pair shrugged it off with five fours and three sixes in the next five-and-a-half overs to set the innings up.Rashid finds his length (eventually)
Rashid Khan’s mid-match comeback mirrored his team’s. One sensed a big moment when he was introduced in the eighth over with both openers set, but his first ball was a half tracker that was spanked to the square-leg boundary and Rashid leaked 14 from his first two overs as he struggled to find his length and repeatedly dropped short. His third changed the complexion of the match. With du Plessis and Watson having fallen in quick succession of each other either side of the halfway mark, Rashid finally got things right in his third over, nipping out Suresh Raina and Kedar Jadhav in the space of four deliveries – both batsmen unsuccessfully reviewing their dismissals – as Super Kings slipped to 99 for 4.Jonny Bairstow and David Warner get together•BCCI

Bhuvneshwar keeps it tight
Super Kings might still have made a fist of things at the death from that position, and they may well have been looking to target Bhuvneshwar Kumar in that regard. He had an economy rate of 12.6 between overs 16 to 20 heading into this game, and was seen practicing various versions of the cutter with head coach Tom Moody on the eve of this match. The extra work clearly paid off, and Kumar gave away just 15 runs in his last two overs – and just five off the final over of the innings – to stall Super Kings’ charge. Rayudu managed to get a couple away, but Ravindra Jadeja’s innings completely failed to launch as he finished with 10 not out from 20 balls.Warner moves back into the fast lane
Since his 55-ball hundred against Royal Challengers Bangalore almost three weeks ago, Warner had scored 146 runs off 140 balls at a strike rate of 104.28 coming in to this match. Despite his two fifties in the interim, Warner hadn’t been able to set the pace as he usually does, part of the reason Sunrisers had lost their last three matches. But tonight Warner once again rocketed through a Powerplay that brought 68 runs, racking up a fourth consecutive fifty-plus score against Super Kings at a strike rate of 200. At the other end, Bairstow faced just nine balls in the first six overs, but thanks to Warner the asking rate had been brought down to just 4.64 when he fell, toe-ending an attempted loft to mid off.Bairstow takes it home
Despite Warner’s quick runs, Sunrisers still had Imran Tahir to deal with. Warner had plundered three boundaries in a row in Tahir’s first over, but the legspinner recovered to have Kane Williamson caught and bowled in his second. However, Bairstow saw Tahir off and punished the other bowlers. Karn Sharma was swatted for two clean sixes in his first over, and Bairstow added a third off him to end the game in the 17th over. Though a couple of wickets fell at the other end, Warner’s knock had broken the back of the chase and Bairstow’s sealed the result.