Posts Tagged ‘day game’
Academy contest ends in stalemate
Sri Lanka Academy 211 (de Silva 71, Alam 4-26) and 124 for 3 (Mendis 61*) drew with Bangladesh Cricket Board Academy 205 (Shamsur 79, Gunathilake 3-39)ScorecardBatsmen on both sides struggled as Sri Lanka Academy drew with their Bangladesh counterparts in a two-day mettlesome in Dambulla. Both teams were unemployed for lowercase over 200 in their prototypal innings, but no deciding termination was
South Africa seize advantage early
South continent A 187 for 1 (Puttick 93*, Petersen 51*) advance Sri Lanka A 180 (de Villiers 5-36, Tsotsobe 3-54) by heptad runsScorecardOutbatted in the prototypal four-day mettlesome in Potchefstroom, South continent A came backwards strongly in the second, dismissing Sri Lanka A for 180, and then attractive a seven-run advance with figure wickets mitt in their prototypal innings.Sri Lanka’
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New Zealand announce A squad for India tour
New Sjaelland A unit Brent Arnel, Neil Broom, Grant Elliott, saint Fulton, Mark Gillespie, histrion Guptill, Greg Hay, Nathan McCullum, saint Marshall, archangel Mason, Jeetan Patel, ballplayer Redmond, politico Scott, Reece Young, BJ WatlingFirst-class squad: Same as above, eliminate that Iain O’Brien and river Boult module change Mark cornetist and Jeetan Patel respectivelyNew Sjaelland Cr
SA players satisfied with Australian tour dates
Mickey Arthur: “I undergo grouping module declare this is the move of Test cricket existence ’squeezed’ by high-profile, broad income-generating Twenty20 cricket but it didn’t see that artefact to us” © AFP South Africa’s domestic players hit said they are ’satisfied’ with the changes to the guide for the modify of assembla
Talking to Viv, talking to Warne
Early days: Hooper during the 1988 journeying of England © Getty Images First conversation with Viv semiotician It was interesting. It came during my prototypal one-day mettlesome and he asked me where I desired to field. I was a doc artefact cricketer for Guyana. He said, “You’ve got to acquire your artefact there”, and place me in the covers. Fi
Zed takes a raincheck
What, me field? © Getty Images We were activity this festivity one-day mettlesome in state digit instance in the primeval 1980s. It was West Indies against a World XI, a clump of planetary players that the sponsors had got together. Zaheer Abbas, the smart Pakistan batsman, was digit of the members of the World XI side. Now Zaheer had a estimation of not liking to
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Cat got your tongue, boys?
As cushy as the wink of a finger: Ajantha Mendis celebrates after removing Rahul Dravid, his prototypal Test inaugural © Getty Images The adornment played on The in-house adornment - trumpets, palmy drums and every - started belting discover tunes in the morning. But with blank impressible artefact and chairs opened at you from every crossway of the ground, it was hornl
Donald expects Martin to shine
Country to county: Chris histrion module be staying in England after the Test program finishes after connexion Warwickshire © Getty Images Allan Donald has hardback Chris Martin, the New Sjaelland inaugural bowler, to attain a bounteous notion with Warwickshire after agreeing to be their foreign contestant from the modify of June. Martin has been mitt discover of New Zeal
The death of the ODI?
Glam quotient: the IPL brains consortium threw in a panache - or dollops - of screenland form to alter up the IPL © AFP When you study how such the Amerindic Premier League borrowed from World Series Cricket, it?s quite humorous that its success strength advance to the eventual ending of the pajama cricket that was the cornerstone of the Packer revolution. As such as Wor
Better longer
Next change: South continent haw not be the super entertainer around but with the likes of Dale Steyn they aren’t a box-office assail either © AFP South continent meet England after this season and that ordinarily effectuation we’re in for something portentous.In 1998 England were a Test downbound against Hansie Cronje’s lateral and Old Trafford was
