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South Africa Academy bounced back from their narrow loss in the first game to thump the Bangladesh Cricket Board Academy by an innings and 63 runs inside three days in Pretoria. Roelof van der Merwe was the star of the show with a half-century and seven wickets to his name in the hammering.Bangladesh were forced to follow on after van der Merwe, a left-arm spinner, induced a collapse to bowl them out for 163 in reply to South Africa’s 416. Their highest partnership of 39 between Marshall Ayub and Shamsur Rahman was broken by van der Merwe, when he dismissed Ayub to take the first of six wickets in the innings. In his next over, he had Rahman, Bangladesh’s top scorer in both innings, caught for 37.Day two begun with South Africa comfortably placed on 339 for 5, as their first three batsmen had chipped in with half-centuries each. van der Merwe had himself contributed an unbeaten 57 and in the first 19 overs of the day the South Africans added 77 more – van der Merwe contributing 22 – after which they picked up 11 Bangladesh wickets in 65.5 overs – van der Merwe taking six.Trailing by 217 runs, Bangladesh began day three by losing two wickets in the first ten overs. Rahman batted for more than two hours for his 45 in the second innings but with wickets steadily falling at the other end, and more than a day to bat out, it was a futile effort. After he fell to CJ de Villiers, Bangladesh lasted only 40 more balls. de Villiers and Basheeru-Deen Walters picked up five wickets each for the match.Now with honours even, the two Academy sides will meet for three one-day games between August 20 and 24.

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It was another quiet weekend for the New Zealanders taking part in Sydney club cricket last weekend.In Eastern Suburbs 238 against St George, James Marshall scored 23. St George had scored 410/4 declared and were 52/1 at stumps.Scott Styris scored 24 and 12 in his two innings for Gordon. He took one for 42 as North Sydney responded to Gordon’s 153 by scoring 207/9 declared. Gordon were 212/6 at stumps.Bruce Martin took two for 83 off 30 overs for Manly-Warringah. Mosman scored 340 and Martin scored 20 in Manly-Warringah’s 229 in reply.Joseph Hill made a duck for Randwick-Petersham who scored 262 with Daryl Tuffey taking one for 54 for Sutherland. They were 263/7 at stumps.Brendon McCullum scored 19 in UTS-Balmain’s 31/5. Northern District were 314/5 with Neil Maxwell, formerly New Zealand Cricket’s marketing manager and Canterbury player, taking four for 61. McCullum took two catches while keeping wicket.

Bashley (Rydal) opener Neil Thurgood and BAT Sports off-spinner Richard Dibden have won the season’s first Southern Electric Cricketer of the Month awards.Thurgood won the batting prize after scoring 219 runs, while Dibden’s 11 victims edged out BAT team-mate Terry Rawlins for the May bowling award.Australian all-rounder Jeff Anning won the Premier Division 2 batting plinth after scoring 218 in his debut month for Rowledge, with Lymington’s Glyn Treagus taking the bowling honours.Mark Parker’s 270 runs in three knocks for St Cross Symondians, which included a century and two scores of 50 and more, earned the Division 2 batting award, with Andy Cattle’s nine-wicket haul for Leckford getting the bowling prize.Leading Premier League individual performancesPREMIER LEAGUE DIVISION ONE
Batting: Russell Rowe (South Wilts) 315, Roger Miller (Andover) 259, Luke Ronchi (Bashley Rydal) 239, Neil Thurgood (Bashley Rydal) 219, David Banks (BAT Sports) 186, Mark Miller (Andover) 161, Alistair Gray (Liphook & Ripsley) 161, James Hibberd (Calmore Sports) 151, Paul Draper (South Wilts) 150.Bowling: Terry Rawlins (BAT Sports) 15, Mackie Hobson (Havant) 14, Richard Dibden (BAT Sports) 11, Paul Draper (South Wilts) 11, Phil Loat (Havant) 9, Chris Wright (Liphook) 9, Richard Taylor (Andover) 8, Christof Bothma (Calmore Sports) 8.PREMIER LEAGUE DIVISION TWO
Batting: Jeff Anning (Rowledge) 256, Gary Hounsome (United Services) 219, Jason Laney (Hungerford) 211, Tim Richings (Sparsholt) 210, Andy Heyes (Sparsholt) 182, Danny Peacock (Lymington) 180, Max Smith (O.T. & Romsey) 179, Peter Hammond (Hampshire Academy) 178.Bowling: Steve Green (Easton & Martyr Worthy) 11, Martin Taylor (Winchester KS) 11, Jason Williams (Hungerford) 11, Damien Carson (United Services) 10, Mike Ball (Sparsholt) 10, Glyn Treagus (Lymington) 10, Simon Williams (Trojans) 10, Rhys Oxley (Winchester KS) 10, Nick Wood (O.T. & Romsey) 10.PREMIER LEAGUE DIVISION THREE
Batting: Mark Parker (St Cross Symondians) 270, Will Prozesky (Purbrook) 222, Matt Digweed (Hartley Wintney) 220, Colin James (Paultons) 213, Graham Pardey (Bashley Rydal II) 201, Ian Turner (Hambledon) 198, Chris Baumann (Waterlooville) 191, Michael Heffernan (Alton) 178.Bowling: Andy Cattle (Leckford) 13, Adie Heath (Flamingo) 12, Mark Stanley (Purbrook) 11, Will Mariner (St Cross Symondians) 11, Julian Ballinger (Alton) 10.COMBINED LEAGUES – FIELDING
Wicketkeeping: John Harris (Hursley Park) 10, Luke Ronchi (Bashley Rydal) 8, Dave Banks (BAT Sports) 8, Warren Gilmour (United Services) 8.Catches: Ben Adams (St Cross Symondians) 7, Paul Draper (South Wilts) 6, John Rowe (Hartley Wintney) 5, Raj Naik (Winchester KS) 5.

Worcestershire County Cricket Club can confirm they will play India at New Road over 4 days commencing Wednesday 31st July.Tickets are now available in advance from the Ticket Office on 01905 337921 priced £9 for Adults. Admission for adults on the day will be £11.Since the match is being played during the school holidays, a specially reduced price for all children 16 and under of just £2 will be available for advance purchases and on the day. A Family ticket is also available in advance for just £20.Chief Executive, Mark Newton, is delighted the tourists will be visiting New Road, "During the Natwest Series, India proved what an exciting team they are and we are committed to putting out as strong a team as possible for this match. Last year’s match against the Australians was a sell out and we expect there to be strong interest for this match."

Eastern Province fast bowler Mornantau Hayward has withdrawn on medicaladvice from the President’s XI to play India ‘A’ in Chatsworth this weekend.He has been replaced in the team by Easterns’ Andre Nel.Hayward aggravated an ankle injury bowling in the nets yesterday, said SANational Team physiotherapist Craig Smith today. “He saw the specialist thismorning and has been advised to rest the ankle for another week. Nantie willhave a week of rest and intensive physiotherapy. We hope he will beavailable for the last four Standard Bank One-Day Internationals againstAustralia,” Smith added.

The West Indies Cricket Board has a new Chief Financial Officer. He is 38-year-old Barry Thomas, a fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants in his native Trinidad & Tobago. He brings with him 15 years’ experience in the manufacturing and financial services sectors.Thomas received his early training at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he functioned at an Audit Senior level in the Audit and Business Advisory Services department, focussed on clients in the manufacturing sector. Most recently he was Financial Controller/Manager, Information Systems in the Young Sing Group.Thomas replaces compatriot Richard Jodhan, who resigned from the post nearly a year ago, after serving West Indies cricket for almost a decade. Jodhan was asked by the Board to stay on until a new CFO could be recruited and hired.”We would all like to thank Richard for his services to West Indies cricket and wish him success in any future endeavours” remarked Gregory Shillingford, chief executive officer of the WICB.”At the same time, we are delighted that we have been able to attract an experienced candidate like Barry to the post of Chief Financial Officer. We believe that he will become a key member of our senior management team and that he will make a significant contribution to the growth and development of West Indies cricket.”With the last year being tough financially for the WICB and the loss of one of our main sources of revenue — overseas tour guarantees — Barry has been recruited to help us prudently manage our resources at this time,” Shillingford noted.Thomas, whose appointment took effect on 1st May, 2002 says that he is “looking forward to joining the WICB and playing a major part in enhancing the organisation’s financial practices and procedures as it takes regional cricket forward.””West Indies cricket has now become a tremendous commercial enterprise, and I am looking forward to using my training and experience in financial management to help ensure that the organization is well-run and that a sustainable future is secured.” Thomas commented.Thomas has already moved to St. John’s, Antigua, where the WICB’s headquarters are located, with his wife, Eleanor, and two children, Gabrielle, aged six, and Christopher, aged four.

England A’s tour of the West Indies ended prematurely today when they wereknocked out of the Busta International Shield after a seven wicket defeat byGuyana at Bourda.Their hopes of reaching the final were dashed when they were quickly bowledout for 247 in their second innings, leaving Guyana plenty of time – 70overs – to make the 205 runs needed for victory which earns them a place inthe final against Jamaica next weekend.It brings to an end their undefeated record which has spanned more than sixyears and 43 games and it may also bring to an end of the England A touringtradition which started in 1989/90 with a tour to Zimbabwe.Next winter, the England and Wales Cricket Board’s Academy is expected to beup and running with England’s second layer winter touring party likely to beselected from its ranks.Within hours of losing the semi-final after a lacklustre day for thetourists, they were due to board an early morning flight out of Georgetownheaded for Barbados with the journey home to England planned for Friday.But as far back as Saturday when they failed to capitalise on a decentbatting track, making 293 in their first innings, England A were on the backfoot. Today, resuming on 165 for three, they lost their last seven wicketsin 90 minutes for just 82 runs leaving Guyana with the rest of day to gatherthe runs.Only Chris Read, who was the gamble selection in this game after adisappointing tour, showed any capacity for keeping the scoreboard tickingover without taking too many risks. He finished unbeaten on 29 but EnglandA’s total never looked sufficient to put their opponents under any pressure.Seonarine Chattergoo and Azumeel Haniff gave their push for victory acomfortable start by putting on 40 for the first wicket but the next pairingof Haniff and Travis Dowlin made certain of their final place with a standof 102. Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who has been out of cricket with an injuryfor three months, hurried proceedings along with 49 from 43 balls and scoredthe winning run to send England A out of the competition after an eight weekcampaign.”Our first innings was the main problem,” said skipper Mark Alleyne afterthe game.”We didn’t bat as authoritatively as we should have done. It was hard workfor the first hour but we got through that and should have posted a 350 +total. On reflection, we should have chosen some different shots today butit was difficult because they were being negative – they didn’t have tochase the game, we had to do all the running and they could put as manypeople on the boundary as they liked.”We needed time to bowl them out so we were trying to get to a total so wecould get a good seventy overs out of them and we fell short, but it was achance we had to take. It was our only chance of winning the match andgetting through to the final.”I’m not too worried about the England A record. The only way we could getthrough to the final was to win the match and to win the match we had totake a chance of losing it. The easy option was to not try and win it and wewould still have been on the flight home so I would rather have taken thepunt and try and win the game,” he said.”There were some good performances. Chris Schofield did well again thoughwhen the pressure is on, he maybe is not as consistent as he would like tobe. Chris Read came back well. After a quiet tour, I felt he kept and battedreally well in this game and we are pleased that we went with him because itwas a huge game and he didn’t let us down. Bowling wise, the guys tried hardbut no one really starred in this match.”The most disappointing thing about all this was that when the pressure wasreally on, we didn’t really react as positively as we can do. We have to bea bit better than that – we let a few things upset us a bit and lost a bitof focus but once again, I would hope that if it happened again, we wouldcope a lot better.”

Alec Stewart has been appointed England captain for the second and final npower Test Match against Pakistan at Old Trafford which starts on Thursday week. Stewart took over the captaincy midway through the First Test at Lord’s, when Nasser Hussain sustained a thumb injury which has ruled him out of cricket for the next three to four weeks.Stewart said: “I am delighted to have been given the opportunity to captain England on a temporary basis at Old Trafford. It’s a great honour to lead your country, and I much look forward to the game”.Stewart is unworried by the prospect of adding the responsibilities of captaincy to his existing dual role of England batsman and wicketkeeper. “I had no problem with that when I was England skipper for the first time. I did all three jobs during the 1998 Test series against South Africa, which England won. And when you’re put in charge of a good side that’s been winning, it obviously makes captaincy that much easier.”England lead 1-0 in the series after taking just three days to beat Pakistan by an innings and 9 runs in the First Test. No decision has yet been made on who will captain England in the NatWest Triangular one-day series between England, Pakistan and Australia in June.

An ICC inspection team has raised serious concerns over the preparedness of two key World Cup venues – Eden Gardens in Kolkata and the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai – in time for the tournament, which begins on February 19, 2011.Its interim report says the original November 30 deadline for completion of construction, which neither stadium has met, is likely to be over-run by at least a month and warns that, if construction at these venues is not completed by January 15, “it is not possible to confirm that the venues will be in a suitable condition to be handed over by January 31”.The inspection team, headed by ICC events manager Chris Tetley, visited the World Cup venues in India in late November and early December. In its evaluation – first reported in the – it listed the pending work and expressed doubts over its completion by the end of the year. The report quotes Professor Eugene van Vuuren, the ICC’s Stadium Consultant, as saying construction programmes were likely to be completed by late January at the earliest. “This pre-supposes no unforeseen delays or further impacts on construction by the current poor weather.”Beyond the construction work, there are a number of other tasks that will also need to be finished before any games can be played. These include landscaping and necessary beautification of the grounds, interior finishing and furnishing, the installation of entry gates, certification by local authorities, and the installation of temporary infrastructure required specifically for the World Cup.The report is reminiscent of the situation with the Commonwealth Games in Delhi earlier this year, where venues and other facilities were completed at the last moment and after widespread criticism by various stakeholders – athletes, officials, administrators – and the global media.Tournament director Ratnakar Shetty said this was the first he was hearing about the report but added that he was confident of the work being done in time. “There are two parts of the job that have to be completed in the Wankhede Stadium: the last of the construction and the finishing of the details,” he told ESPNcricinfo. “The construction will stop by December 31, after which the rest of the work will be done to finish the access to the stadium and all the smaller details.”I’m quite confident it will be done by January 15, which is two months before the Wankhede Stadium’s first World Cup game. In any case, the major work at Wankhede is already done, with regard to the corporate boxes and the bucket seats.”He said the World Cup organisers would want the ICC to carry out another visit to the Wankhede, Eden Gardens and three Sri Lankan venues around January 15.The report was especially scathing about the condition of Eden Gardens, which it said had more unresolved issues than any other venue, and of the local administration. “Unfortunately, the venue administration did not recognise the requirements of the event and were often unwilling to discuss or agree to what was required. There was a tendency to rely on experiences of previous World Cup matches which took place in 1996, and are not wholly relevant to the needs of stakeholders for CWC 2011.”The report states that “a meeting with Mr Dalmiya [president of the Cricket Association of Bengal] was useful in explaining a few of the issues; however he was not present for discussion on the detailed requirements of the inspection team.”It said a decision would soon be taken on whether to start building the roof on two of the blocks – if the roof was not built, the chances of completion would be greater and there would be no impact on staging World Cup matches.Construction work apart, the outstanding issues include:

• Tickets and hospitality currently offered for the use of ICC sponsors are unacceptable
• Sightscreens at both ends need to be raised
• A suitable location for the D/L Manager needs to be found. The upstairs room is not appropriate
• The anti-doping and medical rooms need to be separate facilities and not shared
• An overflow location for media and NRH needs to be identified and demarcated
• Uninterrupted back-up power is required for the floodlights and replay screens

The Wankhede Stadium, it said, would be an “excellent facility for international cricket” when completed but noted “there is still much to be done”. The pending work includes:

• Uninterrupted power supply for the floodlights and replay screens
• A significant amount of one-way tinting to be placed on glass frontages above sightscreens at both ends
• The umpires changing room needs to move from the designated space under construction to the location allocated to the medical and anti-doping rooms
• The anti-doping and medical rooms need to be separate facilities and not shared

The interim report concludes by stating, “It will be necessary to re-inspect both venues and take a decision on the viability of staging the World Cup matches as currently scheduled.”