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Justice DK Jain met all three members of the CoA, along with the BCCI top brass in Delhi on Thursday

Nagraj Gollapudi07-Mar-2019The controversy surrounding Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul over their remarks on an Indian television chat show earlier this year will be the first case the BCCI’s newly-appointed ombudsman, Justice DK Jain, will adjudicate on. The decision was taken after Justice Jain met all three members of the Committee of Administrators (CoA), along with the BCCI top brass including its chief executive Rahul Johri, in Delhi on Thursday.It is understood that there is no timeframe for Justice Jain to take a final decision, which he would arrive at after a thorough inquiry, including calling both players to record their views. Both Pandya and Rahul have already apologised to the BCCI and the CoA twice in writing before returning to play. Pandya is currently recuperating from a back injury while Rahul is part of the ODI squad playing against Australia.ALSO READ: ‘Humbled’ KL Rahul uses suspension time to work on techniquePandya and Rahul were suspended by the CoA on January 11 for their offensive comments on the chat show , which was aired in the first week of 2019. Both players were subsequently called back home from the limited-overs tour of Australia.At the time, the two members of the CoA, Vinod Rai and Diana Edulji, were split on the next step. While Rai was in favour of banning the players for two matches, Edulji wanted the matter to be addressed properly through an inquiry process. The BCCI legal team’s opinion was sought, and the CoA was told that as per the BCCI’s constitution, only the ombudsman had the authority to carry out the inquiry.Consequent to the intervention of amicus curiae PS Narsimha on January 24, the CoA provisionally lifted the suspension allowing Pandya and Rahul to play, but pointed out that allegations of misconduct against them would be dealt with once the ombudsman took charge.The ombudsman’s position had been vacant since 2016 until the Supreme Court appointed Justice Jain in February, while also adding Ravindra Thodge as the third member of the CoA.

Spin-bowling allrounder Anna Peterson, who was the Player of the Match in the third ODI, has been named as replacement

ESPNcricinfo staff06-Feb-20190:49

‘It’s easier to transition to the T20s after playing the longer format’ – Satterthwaite

New Zealand wicketkeeper-batsman Bernadine Bezuidenhout has been ruled out of the T20 series against India, owing to a fractured middle finger of her right hand. Spin-bowling allrounder Anna Peterson, who was the Player of the Match in the third and last ODI on February 1, has been named Bezuidenhout’s replacement, and will join the squad in Auckland on Thursday.Coming off an underwhelming run in the three-match ODI series where she scored 22 runs in two innings took two catches, Bezuidenhout was struck on the hand when batting at the Basin Reserve nets ahead of the T20I series opener on Wednesday. New Zealand head coach Haidee Tiffen confirmed Bezuidenhout will return home to rest.”You never like to see players miss out due to injury and it’s no different in Bernie’s case but unfortunately it’s just part of the game,” Tiffen said. “We wish her a speedy recovery and know she will be doing everything in her power to get back on the park.”Peterson, meanwhile, finished as the hosts’ leading wicket-taker with five wickets in two innings in the ODI series, and the second across teams, behind India’s Poonam Yadav.Anna Peterson is congratulated after one of her three wickets•Cricket Australia/Getty Images

“Anna joins the side and brings with her experience as well as an option with both the bat and ball,” Tiffen said of the 28-year-old Peterson. “She will slot right in having already been with the squad for the ODI campaign.”New Zealand lost the three-match ODI series 1-2 but their captain Amy Satterthwaite was excited to see what the new faces can do during the T20I series that starts on February 6.Meanwhile, New Zealand Test opener Jeet Raval has been named captain of the New Zealand XI side for a one-off 50-over tour match against Bangladesh, in Lincoln on Sunday. Rachin Ravindra, the Under-19 batting allrounder, has also been included in the squad.”We’ve identified Rachin as a player of interest for a significant period of time now,” selector Gavin Larsen said. “He did a very good job for the NZ A team in both the UAE and at home against India A and we believe another day of international cricket would be very advantageous for him.”New Zealand White Ferns: Amy Satterthwaite (capt), Suzie Bates, Sophie Devine, Caitlin Gurrey, Katey Martin (wk), Frances McKay, Leigh Kasperek, Hannah Rowe, Amelia Kerr, Lea Tahuhu, Rosemary Mair, Hayley Jensen, Anna PetersonNew Zealand XI to face Bangladesh: Jeet Raval (capt), Andrew Fletcher, Rachin Ravindra, Finn Allen, Dale Phillips, Katene Clarke, Sean Solia, Max Chu (wk), Theo van Woerkom, Iain McPeake, Andrew Hazeldine, Jamie Brown

Australia’s team performance manager Pat Howard will play a reduced role in talks over the next payment deal between the players and Cricket Australia

Daniel Brettig23-Aug-2016Australia’s team performance manager Pat Howard will play a reduced role in talks over the next payment deal between the players and Cricket Australia, with fellow senior executive Kevin Roberts set to work as the Board’s chief negotiator.The decision to sideline Howard arrived ahead of the formal start to the MOU negotiating period, on October 1, in which CA are expected to pressure the Australian Cricketers Association for a change to the fixed revenue percentage model that has endured since the ACA was formed in 1997. Australian players are entitled to a share of between 24.5% and 27% of annual cricket revenue depending on performance.Howard was a leading figure in a pair of fractious pay negotiations over the past four years, debating the last MOU signed with the men in 2012 and then finding himself in several stoushes with the ACA over an agreement for women’s pay earlier this year.Roberts, who has been an industrious figure at CA since becoming the first person in history to resign as a Board director to join management, has been deemed better placed to deal with the ACA both as a personality – he played first-class cricket where Howard did not – and also because he is based in Melbourne where most talks will be held.”Kevin will take a lead role and that’s fine,” Howard told ESPNcricinfo. “He heads up strategy and human resources and it makes sense to do industrial relations. I will be across it, I’m involved the whole way along. But you’ve got CA located in Melbourne, the ACA’s located in Melbourne, I’m on the road a fair bit, so it makes perfect sense.”I’m across the whole thing; I was the only one left who was sitting at the last negotiation so I have a reasonable amount of IP [intellectual property] in this, and I see what works on the road. So Kevin will take that role. It actually makes sense when you remove the personalities. I was there last time because it worked for the organisation.”There had been some scepticism among the players about Howard’s dual roles as the senior executive chiefly accountable for the national team’s performanc,e while at the same time bringing his forceful personality to bear in collective bargaining between the players and the Board.”It was really challenging, but a role I’d done before,” Howard said. “In many roles, your manager has to decide where your remuneration is but also be really positive about where you’re going to grow. I’m very much a link between the playing group and CA, between the strategy and the team.”I’m well aware I want to win as much as anyone and make sure the team has got the resources to win – how do we give ourselves the best chance of winning? I want to give the team the best chance of winning, and you try to do that for the best bang for your buck.”Since the 2012 deal, the ACA has lost its chief executive Paul Marsh to the equivalent role at the head of the AFL players association, and this year has also seen the departure of the head of operations Graham Manou to a talent pathway role at CA. The Board chairman David Peever was outspoken in favour of bypassing unions in negotiations with employees during his former role as managing director of the mining company Rio Tinto, and the chief executive James Sutherland gave little away when asked whether the fixed revenue model would be challenged in coming talks.”I don’t know whether it will be up for debate or not, but certainly from our perspective we’ll take a position of having discussions behind closed doors,” Sutherland said. “I certainly don’t intend to go into detail as to what our position might be on the MOU at this time.”

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.

Coach Simon Helmot confident she will be available for their third game in Adelaide despite busy schedule

Alex Malcolm15-Oct-2022India captain Harmanpreet Kaur will miss Melbourne Renegades opening two WBBL matches in Mackay but coach Simon Helmot is confident last year’s player of the tournament will be available for their third match in Adelaide despite a heavy workload at the Asia Cup.Harmanpreet will captain India in the women’s Asia Cup final on Saturday in Sylhet just 24 hours before Renegades open their WBBL campaign against Adelaide Strikers in north Queensland.Workloads have become a major issue for the elite female players this year with Smriti Mandhana withdrawing from the WBBL while Australia captain Meg Lanning is on an indefinite break from the game.Harmanpreet has played 16 T20Is and six ODIs for India since late June including tours to Sri Lanka, England, which included the Commonwealth Games, and the Asia Cup in Bangladesh. She also played in the ODI World Cup earlier this year in New Zealand during February and March.Helmot was confident she will be fine to join the Renegades after the Asia Cup final for the full WBBL but he said they would carefully monitor her workloads when she arrives in Australia.”Obviously, she’s heavy into the Asia Cup at the moment so hopefully as soon as that finishes she can jump on a plane and come and join us up in Mackay or in fact, in Adelaide,” Helmot told ESPNcricinfo. “So that’s when we expect her. I’m expecting her to miss the first two matches, and then we’ll have to check how she’s feeling and how she’s going.”She’s played a heck of a lot of cricket recently. But having had a few messages over WhatsApp with her in recent times she’s really excited about coming back. She had an awesome time [last season]. She was player of the series and she was such an important player, not just runs but 15 wickets as well, and her support and leadership for Soph [Molineux].”Related

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Workloads have become a major topic of conversation among the senior players in the women’s game with the rise of T20 domestic leagues on top of a burgeoning international schedule that is set to get busier over the coming years under the new women’s Future Tours Programme. A women’s IPL is also set to be launched next year.The WBBL runs over six weeks and is a full 14-game tournament plus finals. There is more travel involved for all the teams this season than the last two with Covid bubbles and hubs a thing of the past.Helmot is acutely aware of workload management having spent more than a decade travelling on the men’s international T20 circuit. He has coached in both the IPL and CPL this year alone. He is keen to have the Renegades’ female players take control of their own preparation to ensure they stay physically and mentally fresh.”I don’t know all the answers,” Helmot said. “But what I do know is that for the Melbourne Renegades, every single training from today onwards is optional. Most of these girls are still going to want to train. In fact, there’s times where I’ll need to suggest or recommend or enforce that they’re not training. And that’s hard.”Some have had a heavy workload coming into this competition. And so we will be careful in how much we train and what training looks like and the intensity because the most important thing is the 14 matches. I think now the players can make more decisions for themselves.”

Coach enthused by the growth of a “fantastic” bunch as team eyes 42nd Ranji Trophy title

Srinidhi Ramanujam18-Jun-2022Three-hundred-and-eighty-two days into his job, Amol Muzumdar can now heave a sigh of relief after coaching Mumbai to within touching distance of a record 42nd Ranji Trophy triumph. They will meet Madhya Pradesh in the final, which begins on June 22 in Bengaluru.Getting the team “back on track in red-ball cricket” was his priority since he took over the reins as the head coach from Ramesh Powar in June 2021, and the months of hard work have come to fruition.Muzumdar’s mantra for success was simple: follow the process that is working in the dressing room and show complete commitment till the end.Related

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• 'These guys are good enough' – Muzumdar revels in impact of next gen

“This is a different generation you are dealing with here,” Muzumdar says of Mumbai’s legacy and handling the current bunch of players. “I personally feel it is another game [the final]…””We haven’t looked at the quarter-finals or the semi-finals or the finals. There are systems that are working in the dressing room, and we would like to follow that till the last ball is bowled in the Ranji Trophy season. That was our commitment at the start of the season.”The process that he is talking about also emphasises on an individual’s progress – that is giving him “immense pleasure” – rather than the team’s result. Despite just managing to sneak into the knockouts, players have stepped up for Mumbai.Suved Parkar scored a double-century on debut; Sarfaraz Khan hit 153; Shams Mulani picked up a five-for, hit a fifty against Uttarakhand and then scored back-to-back half-centuries against Uttar Pradesh; Yashasvi Jaiswal has cracked three consecutive hundreds; Hardik Tamore rose to the occasion in the absence of the experienced Aditya Tare; Armaan Jaffer played the long innings; and the bowlers collectively chipped in at important stages to turn the tide.Shams Mulani leads the bowling charts with 37 wickets this season•ESPNcricinfo Ltd

So when everyone knew what they were doing, the outcome was visible.That apart, one of the things that Muzumdar and the team were also particular about was managing the workload of the bowlers and ensuring they didn’t feel burnt out.Decided even before the start of the season was a five-bowler strategy without looking back at it. The result? Left-arm Mulani now leads the bowling charts with 37 wickets, the pace duo of Dhawal Kulkarni and Mohit Avasthi has accounted for 26 strikes, and offspinner Tanush Kotian has 18 wickets to him.And more importantly for Mumbai, all of them have played all five matches.”The bowling unit has been fantastic, they’ve been putting in the effort throughout – 365 days,” Muzumdar said. “Trainers and physios have done a fantastic job. Dhawal has led the pack nicely. He has been the sort of a guy who mentors and takes them under the wings and gives them the freedom to do that.”Shams Mulani’s… terrific performance this season. He didn’t pick up a wicket this match [semi-final], but he has been wonderful this season so far. There are some tweaks that have happened during the season and that’s paying off.”Muzumdar feels that the “bold” gen next has the “sense of the Bombay legacy” growing up in the of Mumbai, and that every player values the coveted Mumbai cap.For instance, this is what Muzumdar said to Jaiswal before the knockouts: “If you like batting, you show me. There is no point talking in the dressing room. If you are between those 22 yards, you can display that you like batting”.And Jaiswal proved it by adding three centuries on the trot. Interestingly, in the semi-final, he swallowed 54 deliveries to get off the mark to eventually to get out on 181. Mind you, Jaiswal was playing first-class cricket immediately after being with Rajasthan Royals, tuning up for T20 cricket, until just days before the Ranji quarter-finals.”The only difference [in this generation’s approach] is how you take it and how you bring it to the dressing room; how you keep that dressing room light,” Muzumdar added. “It should not be heavy. That’s been the goal.”This generation has been fantastic. I keep telling them if you keep working on your game, the world is your oyster. There’s no looking back. Look at the opportunity. It’s been wonderful working with them, [and] just shaping them. Seeing them grow gives me immense pleasure.”Keeping the group motivated was a “different challenge this season” as Ranji was played in two phases, but Muzumdar said that the team bonding sessions with the National Security Guards (NSG) in October last year and an in-season fitness program during the month of April and May for the Ranji players who were not part of the IPL also helped.All said and done, the final is only four days away, but Muzumdar is not fretting over their opponents Madhya Pradesh or their coach Chandrakant Pandit, who had led Mumbai to two Ranji titles, as well as Vidarbha twice recently. Pandit was also the team’s coach back in 2016-17 when Mumbai had last reached the Ranji final.”There are a lot of things that happen in a season – a lot of ups and downs, out-of-form players and so many things to deal with,” Muzumdar said. “We would like to follow our process and focus on what we’ve done in our dressing room”.