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Essex put a spanner in the works of Sri Lanka’s preparations for the Natwest Series as they inflicted a six-wicket defeat at Chelmsford. The top-order problems which hit Sri Lanka in the Test series were again on full view as they stumbled to 172. Essex were guided home by half-centuries from Mark Pettini and Ryan ten Doeschate.Put into bat by Darren Gough, who was leading Essex, Upul Tharanga and Sanath Jayasuriya made a deceptively confident start, adding 48 for the first wicket. However, when Gough made the first breakthrough by dislodging Tharanga, the batting again folded like a pack of cards.It was the unheralded, and relatively unknown, talent of Jahid Ahmed who did most of the damage on his one-day debut for Essex. He removed Jayasuriya and Russel Arnold before returning to put a dampener on Prasanna Jayawardene’s fighting 46, which at least gave the score some respectability from 77 for 6. Ravinder Bopara continued his impressive form with three wickets, including Tillakaratne Dilshan and Farveez Maharoof.Pettini set off rapidly in the chase, punching some powerful boundaries in a brisk half-century. At 84 for 3, Sri Lanka still had a sniff of pulling themselves back into the match, but without their spearheads of Muttiah Muralitharan and Chaminda Vaas the attack lacked bite. ten Doeschate took over the charge when Pettini fell to Maharoof and with James Foster added 52 to carry Essex home.Sri Lanka continue their build-up against Somerset, at Taunton, on Sunday ahead of the Twenty20 international against England at The Rose Bowl on Thursday. The Natwest Series starts at Lord’s on June 17.

Surrey have been docked eight points for ball-tampering during their Championship match against Nottinghamshire, at The Oval earlier this month. There will be a further nine-point deduction, suspended until May 31, 2006, which will come into effect if Surrey or any Surrey player is found guilty of ball-tampering in the next 12 months.Gerard Elias QC, the chairman of the ECB’s discipline committee, issued a statement today, saying that even though the umpires officiating at the game warned Surrey about the condition of the ball, further ball-tampering occurred.Surrey accepted that there had been ball-tampering, and launched an internal investigation, but where unable to establish the guilty party. Elias said: “The report indicated the club’s intention to apply its own internal disciplinary procedure to reflect the serious view the club takes of such a blot on its reputation and that of cricket in general.”Surrey’s chief executive Paul Sheldon added: “This whole incident has been a huge disappointment to the club, and it wishes to offer a full and final apology to everyone who has been affected. The firm and decisive action taken indicates how seriously the ECB and the club have treated the case. It clearly shows our determination to ensure that this cannot be tolerated in the game. As stand-in captain, Mark Ramprakash handled a very difficult situation with characteristic professionalism. We can now draw a clear line under the whole issue and put the matter behind us.”The ECB took into account Surrey’s admission and prompt action when deciding on their punishment, but an eight-point loss will still hurt them in a tight top division of the County Championship.Meanwhile, on a busy day for disciplinary issues at the ECB, a hearing has been announced into Steve Kirby’s conduct during the Championship match between Glamorgan and Gloucestershire at Cardiff on May 6-9. Glamorgan complained that Kirby roughed up the ball when it was hit into the car park, but Gloucestershire maintain that it was just natural wear and tear. That hearing will take place on June 6.

Mumbai 236 for 0 (Jaffer 121*, Mane 105*) trail Tamil Nadu 294 (Karthik 109*) by 58 runs
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Wasim Jaffer and Vinayak Mane gave a lesson in partnership-building as Mumbai reached a commanding 236 for no loss at the end of the second day’s play at Chennai. The openers’ batting approach was a direct contrast to yesterday, when the Tamil Nadu batsmen had created their own pitfalls on a featherbed of a pitch.When play began this morning, MR Shrinivas hung on for 52 balls and added 25 with Dinesh Karthik. They were completely at ease in their 53-run stand and nudged the score towards the 300 mark. However, Nilesh Kulkarni was brought on after the medium pacers failed to strike, and trapped Shrinivas with a quicker one in his second over.And there began Tamil Nadu’s grind, under the blazing sun. Mane started in a great hurry, pulling Shrinivas to the midwicket fence in the second over of the innings. A few more neat drives followed, before he nearly paid the price for going after every ball. An inside edge missed the stumps by inches, and Ramakrishnan Ramkumar grassed an uppish flash off the very next ball. A few balls later, he flashed again, and this time, Karthik only managed to get his fingertips to it. Mane was on 15 when he survived these nervy moments, and that was the last whiff of a chance that either batsmen offered.Mane creamed three consecutive fours of C Ganapathy, and that set the tone for the rest of the day. Jaffer, who had had a quiet day till then, latched on to the momentum. A silken straight-drive off Shrinivas loosened the leash, and he deftly used the angles against the spinners. Two shots stood out for their exact placement: a delicate sweep off Sridharan Sriram, who was firing it in on leg stump with a strong leg-side field, and a late cut that beat both third man and deep point.Jaffer took just 55 balls to race from 50 to his hundred. There was a smooth air about the whole innings, with hardly any shots played in the air. Jaffer rated this knock, which included 17 fours, as one of the best innings of his career. “The 314 that I scored in my second first-class game was special,” he said, “but this one will rank as one of the best. I have played in three Ranji Trophy finals and have missed out on scoring a hundred in the previous ones. I was extremely keen to get this one.”Mane’s century, his third on the trot, was characterised by some well-controlled sweeps. There was a patch after tea when he swept almost every ball from the spinners, sometimes picking it from way outside off. Fittingly, he reached his hundred with a swept single, and was eager to cash in on his great form and carry on for much more. “I was disappointed when I didn’t make a double-hundred in the semi-final,” he said. “I will try and get a big one this time.”Those are ominous words as far as Tamil Nadu are concerned. This was the highest partnership for Mumbai against Tamil Nadu, and thoughts go back to March 1996, the last time a Ranji Trophy final was played in this stadium. On that occasion, Karnataka kept Tamil Nadu on the field for the best part of three days, and pummeled 620 for 8, before romping to the title. And to realise how bad things could still get for Tamil Nadu, you only had to listen to Jaffer say: “It would be great to get a second triple century.”

Sitting in an office with a blizzard howling outside, Durban seemed a million miles from snowy Canada rather than a few thousand.Yet as Bangladesh wickets continued to tumble, the desire was to be somehow instantly transported across the Atlantic to witness perhaps Canada’s finest cricketing hour.Bangladesh are not a powerhouse in world cricket, and Canada have beaten them before, in the ICC Trophy.But few gave Canada a chance of winning a single match at this World Cup.The last competitive cricket Canada had played as a team was in August.Most of the team has not seen grass for some months, instead they’ve practising indoors in Toronto.Theirlong-time coach Jeff Thomas was replaced by Gus Logie just six weeks before the World Cup, and lack of money prevented a pre-World Cup tour.This was a day-night match, and the first opportunity the team had to play under lights was last week. Excuses were ready for what seemed likely to be a disappointing trip to South Africa after the excitement of qualifying in Toronto in 2001.The main hopes might have been John Davidson and Ian Billcliff, both of whom are Canadian by birth, but ply their cricketing skills in the Southern Hemisphere, Davidson for South Australia, and Billcliff in club cricket in Auckland, after a varied first-class career.But on the day this was truly a team effort.Davison and Billcliffcertainly played their part, Billcliff with the top score, a much-needed steady innings in the middle-order after wickets had tumbled, and Davison with two crucial wickets.However, the hero was Austin Codrington – he had only managed two wickets in the 2001 ICC Trophy, and his best bowling in the Toronto leagues last summer was three for 33. His five wickets were taken with accurate pace bowling, of good line and lengthwith a little movement.Then there was Ashish Bagai, the young ‘keeper who learned his cricket in Toronto – three catches, one of which was as good as any you’ll see, behind the stumps in this World Cup, and not a single bye. Fazil Samad took two good catches at slip and his brother two more as substitute, including a stunner to dismiss Khaled Mashud.Sanjay Thuraisingam had hardly bowled since August, with work commitments preventing him taking part in the Red Stripe Bowl, and back problems keeping him out of the lead-up matches, yet he bowled six aggressive overs, taking a crucial wicket.The veteran Davis Joseph at 39, made the first breakthrough and took a second wicket to break an important partnership. Desmond Chumney had adismal run in the warm up matches and some would be surprised to see him in the team today.He and Ishwar Maraj together got Canada off to a solid start and, if not for an unfortunate run-out, he might well have made a more substantial contribution. The fielding as a whole was magnificent – certainly world-class, with some great catches.Joe Harris failed with the bat today, but was triumphant as a captain. He never let up in the field, realising that wickets were critical, and deserved full credit for bringing this disparate group of players together as a team.”It’s the best day of our lives” hesaid.It’s also perhaps the greatest day in Canada’s long cricket history, and one that has brought a little bit of warm South African sunshine to the cold Canadian winter.

Uttar Pradesh were 197/3 in relply to the Bengal first innings score of 207 all out, on the second day of the Vijay Merchant under-16 knock-out quarterfinal match at Narendrapur, near Kolkata on Sunday.Tahir Abbas with an unbeaten 71 off 157 balls with the help of seven boundaries and opening batsman Ravi Kant Shukla who made 64 (9 fours) in 129 balls were the arhcitects of the UP reply. Shiva Kant Shukla made 35 and Aris Alam 21 in the UP innings. Earlier in the day Bengal resumed at 176/6 and were bowled out for 207 in the 116th over. Praveen Gupta picked up two more wickets in the morning to finish with the figures of 39.4-23-44-5 to take the bowling honours.

Legspinner Amit Mishra has been recalled to India’s Test squad for the tour of Sri Lanka in August. Mishra, 32, last played a Test in 2011 and he took legspinner Karn Sharma’s place in the team that had travelled to Bangladesh in June. It was the only change to India’s 15-man squad.Mishra has not played a Test since the 2011 tour of England, where he played two matches and took three wickets at an average of 106.66. In the 2014-15 Ranji Trophy season, Mishra played six matches for Haryana and took 10 wickets at an average of 20.40.”Amit Mishra has always been part of our thinking,” India’s chairman of selectors Sandeep Patil said in Delhi. “If you remember, even last year he was in the reserves [for the West Indies series]. The final authority of picking the XI is the role of the captain and the team management. Why A was not played and why B was picked it is not what we get into. Looking at the conditions, we have picked him for this SL tour.”Karn and fast bowler Mohammed Shami were not considered because of fitness problems. Karn had been ruled out of India’s tour of Zimbabwe in July with a fractured finger, and Shami is presently recovering from knee surgery.Opener KL Rahul had missed the Test in Bangladesh because of dengue fever and his replacement Shikhar Dhawan made a hundred in that game, leaving India with three openers – M Vijay being the third – to choose from in Sri Lanka.The selectors have not picked a reserve wicketkeeper in the squad as back up for Wriddhiman Saha. “We have a standby wicketkeeper we have nominated,” Patil said. “Secretary and selectors, we are aware who is the wicketkeeper nominated if there is injury on the SL tour.”Does he have the technique or not, time will tell,” Patil said of Saha batting at No. 6. “We have backed him looking at his performance in domestic cricket. The kind of experience he carries. You immediately cannot replace someone like Dhoni and come in and deliver the results. But we certainly feel that Wriddhiman is the right option and looking at his ability in batting as well, he should strike a good balance.”BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur also said Virat Kohli would turn out for India A in the second unofficial Test against Australia in Chennai from July 29-31.”Virat Kohli had requested the selection committee for some match practice and wanted to play a game against Australia A,” Thakur said. “He will be playing the second four day game against Australia A.” Patil, however, confirmed that Cheteshwar Pujara would lead India A in the game.Squad: Virat Kohli (capt), Varun Aaron, R Ashwin, Shikhar Dhawan, Harbhajan Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Wriddhiman Saha, Ishant Sharma, Amit Mishra, Rohit Sharma, M Vijay, Umesh Yadav, KL Rahul

The Indian Premier League’s Mumbai-based franchise has been named their team ‘Mumbai Indians’. Sachin Tendulkar, the team’s icon player, will captain the side, which also includes Sanath Jayasuriya and Shaun Pollock.”Mumbai Indians is a nice combination of senior players and youngsters, so I think we all will be looking forward to go out there, put up a perfect unit and perform well,” Tendulkar said after unveiling the team’s logo at a promotional event in Mumbai. “Twenty20 cricket is hugely popular everywhere and I have no doubt the IPL will be a hit.”Tendulkar said he was looking forward to open the batting with Jayasuriya: the last time he did so was back in 1998, while playing for the Rest of the World XI against MCC at Lord’s in a charity match held in memory of Princess Diana.The team logo for the Mumbai Indians has the Sudarshan Chakra with the team’s name engraved in it. The team’s colour – blue – is the same as that of the Indian national side.The franchise, owned by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd, was bought for US$ 111.9 million, making it the most expensive of the eight franchises. The team has three Sri Lankans in Jayasuriya, Lasith Malinga and Dilhara Fernando, while Pollock and Loots Bosman are the other overseas recruits. Robin Uthappa and Harbhajan Singh are the other India nationals in the side, which has promising local players in Abhishek Nayar and Ajinkya Rahane.

New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has announced two provisional women’s squads to train over the next season. The squad for New Zealand’s tour of Australia in July and August will be picked from the provisional squads.A big absence is veteran Rebecca Rolls, the side’s wicketkeeper who retired from all forms of cricket in March. Batsman Emily Drumm who is playing overseas, has been left out. The selection panel who were re-appointed in the run up to the World Cup, named the uncapped Rachel Candy, Lucy Doolan, Rachel Priest and Amy Satterthwaite. Internationals Ross Kember and Beth McNeill, who were not in the team that toured India, also find a place in the squad.The two squads will train together at a camp to be held at NZC’s High Performance Centre at Lincoln University on June 9 and10. This will be followed by separate camps – the national squad on September 22 and 23, and the A squad on September 29 and 30.New Zealand
Haidee Tiffen , Suzie Bates, Nicola Browne, Sarah Burke , Selena Charteris, Sophie Devine, Maria Fahey, Sara McGlashan ,Aimee Mason, Rowan Milburn , Louise Milliken, Sarah Tsukigawa ,Helen Watson, Ros Kember, Beth McNeill, Rachel Candy, Lucy Doolan , Rachel Priest , Amy Satterthwaite.New Zealand A
Kendra Cocksedge, Amanda Cooper, Ingrid Cronin-Knight, Maree Hannay, Megan Kane, Zara McWilliams, Katey Martin, Prashilla Mistry, Megan Murphy, Elizabeth Perry, Megan Wakefield