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Glamorgan captain Michael Hogan picked up two wickets to give his side the edge at Lord’s

ECB Reporters Network27-Apr-2018
ScorecardGlamorgan captain Michael Hogan picked up two wickets to give his side the edge against Middlesex on a rain-shortened first day at Lord’s.Hogan got rid of his opposite number Dawid Malan, as well as opener Sam Robson, as Middlesex fought their way to 64-3 after being put in to bat.Only one over was bowled before the rain intervened – and in all the weather allowed Glamorgan to send down a total of 16.1 overs in the day.
Lukas Carey, who bowled unchanged from the Pavilion End, made the initial breakthrough for the Welsh side by having Max Holden caught behind.Sam Robson had seemed well-set as he carved two boundaries through the off side to reach 17 – but he became Hogan’s first victim, prodding at one that bowled him through the gate.Malan, playing his first innings of the county season, got off the mark with a leg glance for four but added just one more before he drove at Hogan and was caught at second slip just after lunch.However, Stevie Eskinazi – also returning to the Middlesex line-up after illness – looked in good nick and hit Hogan for successive fours to reach 31 not out before the rain returned.

Legspinner Todd Astle took 7 for 78 on the third day to dismiss Sri Lanka A for 234 in their second innings, leaving New Zealand A with only 19 to chase

ESPNcricinfo staff26-Oct-2015
ScorecardFile photo – Todd Astle took the second ten-wicket haul of his first-class career•Associated Press

Legspinner Todd Astle took 7 for 78 on the third day to dismiss Sri Lanka A for 234 in their second innings, leaving New Zealand A with only 19 to chase, which they did to secure victory with a day to spare in Lincoln. Astle’s performance gave him match figures of 11 for 133, his second ten-wicket haul in first-class cricket.The stage for Astle had been laid by a strong batting performance from New Zealand A in their first innings. Not only did they score big, they also scored quick. Dean Brownlie made 113 off 151 balls, and Henry Nicholls 137 off 152, to go with half-centuries from Jeet Raval, Will Young and Derek de Boorder. Sri Lanka A legspinner Jeffrey Vandersay ran through the lower order to finish with 5 for 128, but not before the hosts had amassed 519 at 4.37 per over to take a first-innings lead of 216.The Sri Lankans were steadily eating into that deficit in their second innings, with Minod Bhanuka and Kithuruwan Vithanage adding 110 for the second wicket. From 134 for 1, however, the visitors collapsed, with Astle and fellow legspinner Ish Sodhi running through the middle and lower order. Sri Lanka A were dismissed for 234 in 59.1 overs, and New Zealand A chased the target of 19 with nine wickets in hand.Astle had also taken four wickets in Sri Lanka A’s first innings, spinning through the middle order to help dismiss the visitors for 303, when they looked like getting more at one stage. His performance ensured that New Zealand A won all the matches in the series.

Chris Lewis has been released from prison in Surrey after serving six years of a 13-year sentence for drug smuggling

ESPNcricinfo staff09-Jun-20159:25

‘I made the wrong choices’ – Lewis

Chris Lewis, the former England allrounder, has been released from prison after serving six years for drug smuggling.Lewis, 47, was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in May 2009 for smuggling liquid cocaine valued at more than £140,000 into Britain hidden in fruit juice tins in his cricket bag. He was stopped at Gatwick airport after a flight from St Lucia the previous December.A former basketball player, Chad Kirnon, was also found guilty.”On a physical level jail has not been hard,” Lewis said after his release from High Down Prison in Surrey. “It’s a hard mental exercise to stop yourself from thinking negatively. For 24 hours a day you’re a prisoner. It’s nice to be back – and I don’t mean being outside – I mean back being me.”Far from excluding Lewis from its midst, English cricket – in the guise of the Professional Cricketers Association – plans to work with him to educate young players. Lewis will speak to first year county professionals at next year’s PCA Rookie Camp and also join the PCA team on the Association’s programme of pre-season county visits.This is the latest example of the PCA’s willingness to rehabilitate former cricketers who have committed a crime by involving them in education processes. Mervyn Westfield, who was found guilty of spot fixing, has also addressed young professionals about the dangers.Lewis, born in Guyana, retired from county cricket in 2000 after playing 32 Tests and 53 ODIs. Widely regarded as a talented maverick. He last played first-class cricket the summer before his arrest when he attempted a Twenty20 comeback with Surrey.He worked for Nottingham City Council and was also involved with coaching in Slough when he retired in 2000 but admitted he became afraid of what the future held and he ended up making poor decisions that led to him being jailed.”You are playing cricket, perhaps even hoping to get back into the England team, and within the space of a few months it’s actually all over,” he said. “There wasn’t a great deal of information around then for young players about what they should be doing or trying to do.”Yes, you heard the stories about having to plan for your future because cricket doesn’t last forever but what does that mean?”At the time I thought that planning was taking out a pension or taking out a life insurance which are things that I actually did. Standing here now you know planning is a lot more and it takes a lot more time and effort.”You try different things to try to generate cash. You are not talking about the same level of cash as when you played. You are talking about a level of cash that, now you are living a normal life – to sort that out. Coming back to play T20 for Surrey, that didn’t work and at the same time the old hips played up.”I had spent a bit of money. I had been away to Australia to train to try to get fit to come back to do the Twenty20 so money had been spent and nothing had been earned. I became afraid of what the future held and at that point the thinking actually went awry.Chris Lewis will work with the PCA educating young players after his release from prison•Getty Images

“I made choices that I shouldn’t have made and that were the wrong choices and that, in the end. I should say sorry for because they were the wrong choices, and I do say sorry for.”Jason Ratcliffe, assistant chief executive of the PCA, has remained in contact with Lewis throughout his time in prison and hopes that Lewis’s willingness to speak about his experiences will help current county players.”Whilst we can’t ever condone the trouble Chris got himself into, it’s our duty to help our members wherever we can,” Ratcliffe said. “It’s time to move forward and his story will prove to be a strong message for all current and future professional cricketers.”Lewis has been quick to express his gratitude. “The PCA has been extremely supportive right from the beginning of this situation,” he said. “Going ahead, I would like to become a part of that, whether it’s giving advice or whether it’s just tugging on the grey matter to find out what happened at this particular time.”If any of that can help any young player going ahead I am in. I am in 100 per cent.”As his career drew to a close, Lewis made revelations in the News of the World about spot-fixing within the England Test team, also claiming that he been offered money on behalf of Indian bookmakers to help fix an England vs New Zealand match at Old Trafford. He was not in the side at the time.

Imrul Kayes believes Bangladesh will need a “bigger comeback” than the one they made in Khulna if they are to save the second Test against Pakistan

Mohammad Isam in Mirpur07-May-2015Imrul Kayes believes Bangladesh will need a “bigger comeback” than the one they made in Khulna if they are to save the second Test against Pakistan. Imrul made a rapid 32 after the visitors declared on 557 for 7 at the stroke of tea on the second day, but failed to build on it, as Bangladesh slumped to 107 for 5.”As a top order we failed in this innings but we still have the second innings,” Imrul said. “We came into a good position after being on the back-foot in the last match. If we can get set in the second innings, it will be an even bigger comeback.”Two of us took the team to a good position in the last match, from a similar position. We have Soumya Sarkar to come and Shakib Al Hasan still at the crease. I think if we have set batsmen in the middle, like Shakib is a big player. If he and Soumya can put together a good partnership, we can reach a good position.”Earlier this week, in the first Test in Khulna, Bangladesh came back from a 296-run first-innings deficit to post 555 for 6 by batting out the last five sessions of the game comfortably. Apart from helping Bangladesh to their highest ever second-innings score, Imrul and Tamim added 312 runs for the opening partnership, breaking a 55-year old record for the highest first-wicket stand in the second innings of a Test.Imrul, having scored 150 in Khulna after keeping wickets for 120 overs, has reasons to be confident of another such comeback. But in Dhaka, the hosts are currently still 450 runs adrift of Pakistan, and 250 runs short of the follow-on mark with three days remaining in the game.Imrul said Bangladesh were looking to reach at least 358 before going any further. He felt that the discipline of Pakistan’s attack, who bowled slightly wide of the wicket, lured the Bangladesh batsmen into playing shots and giving away their wickets.”Our first target will be to avoid the follow-on and take it from there. They bowled well and with discipline. The match situation would have been different had it not been the umpire’s call in Tamim’s dismissal. But we can’t do anything about what has happened. We just have to look forward.”We were not batting in a hurry. We played our shots as they were bowling away from the body. It wasn’t that there was a lot of good balls, there were some. It is nothing more than that. They bowled well in Khulna. They bowled well here too but we got out and put ourselves under pressure. The batsmen try to take responsibility, but it doesn’t always come off.”The questions in the press conference on Thursday, however, hovered back to the start of the Test match and Mushfiqur Rahim’s decision to bowl first with just two seamers. Imrul felt that despite the bad luck associated with Shahadat Hossain’s injury, Soumya Sarkar did a decent role as the second fast bowler. He added that any captain will end up using a lot of bowlers if one of his specialists goes missing from the attack.”We have an experienced captain who understands the game well. We have coaches and a team management. There was something in the wicket on the first day. It was our bad luck that (Shahadat Hossain) Rajib got injured. We were playing with three pace bowlers. We had two catches taken which were eventually no-balls. If we could have properly used the conditions, they wouldn’t have scored so many runs.”The team selection is made with a plan in mind. A captain is in trouble if one of his bowlers can’t bowl any more from such an early stage. He has to make up the bowling attack in that injured bowler’s place. If our top bowlers had done a better job, there wouldn’t have been any need of the others. Soumya did his job as a bowler. He would have been the third seamer had Shahadat been able to bowl. I think the decision (to pick two front-line seamers) was taken to extend the batting line-up.”

Greg Shipperd, the coach of Victoria, has called on Cricket Australia to allow 12 players per side in the Sheffield Shield in future seasons to provide greater opportunities for players on the fringe of Australian selection

Brydon Coverdale17-Oct-2012Greg Shipperd, the coach of Victoria, has called on Cricket Australia to allow 12 players per side in the Sheffield Shield in future seasons to provide greater opportunities for players on the fringe of Australian selection. Shipperd’s radical proposal comes as Victoria consider how to juggle their surfeit of strong contenders for next week’s Sheffield Shield match against Tasmania, although he has been campaigning for such a change for some time.Last week, Victoria beat Queensland at the Gabba with a side featuring eight players who have represented Australia and two more – Jon Holland and Rob Quiney – who the Victorians believe have the potential to play international cricket soon. Since then, they have been bolstered even further by the return of Andrew McDonald and Glenn Maxwell from the Champions League and finding men to squeeze out of the team won’t be easy.Cricket Australia is especially keen for the left-arm spinner Holland to remain in the side despite the fact that he has bowled only 10 overs in the first two Shield matches of the season, on green, pace-friendly pitches. CA’s desire for Holland, considered by the selectors as one of the best two spinners in the country, to be given game time meant the in-form batsman Aaron Finch was pushed out of the side, and Shipperd believes there could be a better approach.”When I think about the future of Australian cricket … we should play 12 players, because we’re going to have to make a decision on someone who could play for Australia who’s going to have to sit on the bench,” Shipperd told ESPNcricinfo. “Yes, we could send them off to 2nd XI cricket, but if it was Jon Holland to miss out, or Clint McKay, or John Hastings, or resting Peter Siddle, is that the best thing for Australian cricket and that player and the competition? I don’t think so.”Last game [Finch and Holland both playing] would have happened. Our batting depth would have been better, our bowling depth would have been still as strong, but the game would have been tougher for the opposition. Likewise they would have been in a similar position. The game would have been tougher for us. I think it’s all about playing tough, competitive cricket for Australia to get back to No.1 and we’ve missed that opportunity. Yes, it’s still 11 against 11, but there’s a lot of good players out there that aren’t being exposed to the game across the course of four days.”The main problem with Shipperd’s suggestion is that under the existing ICC regulations, the Sheffield Shield would lose its first-class status if it moved to 12 players per side, with 11 batting and 11 fielding. ICC rules clearly define the conditions of first-class cricket, including that matches must be “of three or more days’ duration between two sides of eleven players”. There is leeway for teams to be tweaked mid-match if a player is called up for national duty, but there is no provision for games to start with more than 11 players per side.Cricket Australia is believed to be open-minded to Shipperd’s idea in principle, but not if it meant the loss of first-class status for the Sheffield Shield. CA has been willing to think outside the square in one-day cricket where there is more flexibility – their move to a 12-a-side split-innings format in the Ryobi Cup in 2010-11 was particularly adventurous – and Shipperd wants a similarly bold approach for the longer format.”I’ve been saying it for years now, it is just unfortunately falling on deaf ears at the playing cricket committee level [at CA],” Shipperd said. “They keep blaming the ICC but I think that’s a furphy. Cricket Australia have on many occasions been a leader in terms of going our own way, in terms of finding what is the right recipe for us.”It’s not always about jumping in to bed, so to speak, with a slow-moving ICC process. I think we’ve lost a couple of years of player opportunity and player development and toughening up our environment because we’re beholden to some archaic traditional view of what a cricket team should look like, with 11 players only.”Shipperd said other state coaches were supportive of the idea, as were medical staff around the country. The move would help with the management of young fast bowlers, for the workload could be spread among a larger attack in each first-class match.

International cricket could next year be held in Australia in April for the first time since 1877, with the possibility of Canberra hosting the national team for the first time

Brydon Coverdale29-Mar-2012International cricket could next year be held in Australia in April for the first time since 1877, with the possibility of Canberra hosting the national team for the first time. The has reported that Australia are likely to host New Zealand in two limited-overs matches in the first week of April 2013, as part of the city’s centenary celebrations.Canberra’s Manuka Oval has been the venue of two one-day internationals, between South Africa and Zimbabwe in the 1992 World Cup, and between India and Sri Lanka in 2007-08. It is also the site of the annual Prime Minister’s XI game, but it is the only state or territory capital yet to host the Australia team in a full international match.”We’re looking at the centenary year as not just a one-off big party, it’s about setting the groundwork for longer-term legacies,” Andrew Barr, the Australian Capital Territory’s sports minister, told the paper. “There certainly was interest from Cricket Australia as a longer-term goal to look at having more international cricket in Canberra and they’re seeing the centenary year as a great opportunity.”This is obviously a big thing for Canberra, we’ve never had the national team in the national capital so Cricket Australia, the Australian government, the ACT government were all very keen for that to occur and have worked very hard behind the scenes to get us to this point.”Should the plan go ahead, it will be the first occasion international cricket has been held in Australia in April since the second Test of all, which started at the MCG on March 31, 1877. A Cricket Australia spokesman confirmed that CA was keen to hold cricket in Canberra next year as part of the centenary celebrations, but said details were yet to be finalised.

A round-up of the second day’s games at the Under-19 World Cup

Cricinfo staff16-Jan-2010England had few hassles overhauling Hong Kong’s 185 on the second day of the Under-19 World Cup at the Bert Sutcliffe Oval. A dominant top-order display, led by Joe Root and James Vince, helped England chase their target in 30.1 overs. Root took the attack back to Hong Kong’s bowlers during the first Powerplay, adding 57 for the first wicket and an unbeaten 129 with the Man of the Match Vince thereafter. The pair nudged, flicked and cut singles regularly to whittle away at the scoreboard. Vince finished on 76 from 61 deliveries after hitting ten fours and a six.Hong Kong had been carried to 185 in 48.5 overs thanks to Niazkat Khan’s 69-ball 65 and middle-order roles from Irfan Ahmed and Mark Chapman. But the tone for their ultimately inefficient total was set at the top, when they lost their first three wickets – all bowled – to full, swinging deliveries. David Payne was the pick of the bowlers with 3 for 24 in his nine overs.Hosts New Zealand cruised to a victory in their first match, defeating Canada by nine wickets in Lincoln. Chasing Canada’s meagre total of 128 all out in 29.3 overs, New Zealand reached the target in just the 20th over for the loss of one wicket. James Neesham top scored with 47 from just 20 balls and added an unbeaten 55 with the opener Harry Boam who made 29 from 54 balls. Boam and Tom Latham, the son of former international batsman Rod, had put on 75 for the opening wicket.Canada’s effort with the bat, after they were put in, was forgettable with the No.8 Arsalan Qadir proving the most successful with 26 from 30 balls.They lost Hiral Patel earlier and then Doug Bracewell, son of former international Brendon, began with a double strike bowling his right-arm medium pace. Bracewell’s figures of 3 for 31 from seven overs earned him the Man-of-the-Match award. Logan van Beek, the grandson of former West Indies and New Zealand Test wicketkeeper Sam Guillen, chipped in with three wickets as well.Australia flexed their muscles over USA in Queenstown, securing a 108-run win after posting 262. USA had done well to dismiss Australia inside 50 overs, but a dramatic collapse to 28 for 7 left their chances of an upset win done and dusted. Leading the rout with a new-ball performance that would have made his father Craig proud, Alister McDermott slashed USA’s top order open. After having Steven Taylor lbw in the fourth over, McDermott sent back Ryan Corns and Henry Wardley in the space of three deliveries in his next over. Fellow new-ball operator Josh Hazlewood’s first-class experience with New South Wales came to the fore as he chipped in with three wickets, adding to USA’s woes.Hazlewood took two in two balls, missed the hat-trick, but snared his third wicket only a few balls later, with McDermott picking up his fourth. From a disastrous 28 for 7 in ten overs, they were boosted by Andy Mohammed’s 70 from 90 balls and 30 from the No. 9 Asad Ghous. Adam Zampa picked up three wickets with his legbreak googlies.Australia’s innings had earlier been carried by a series of useful contributions. The openers Nic Maddinson (32) and Tom Beaton (73) put on 82 in 12.3 overs, after which Jason Floros (33) and Tim Armstrong (39) propped up the middle order. The wickets were shared by five of seven bowlers used.Australia’s captain Mitch Marsh said after the win: “Wins are habits so we’re going to go into next game with some good confidence. I think we’ve still got a bit of work to do if we want to beat the better sides but to start with a good win today was great.”Bangladesh picked up a Duckworth-Lewis win by five wickets and with 112 deliveries remaining over Papua New Guinea in Palmerston North. The new-ball bowler Abul Hasan picked up four wickets, three of which dented PNG’s top and middle order after they chose to bat, while the spinners kept run in check. PNG were bowled out for 191 in 46 overs. Set a D/L target of 189 in 46 overs, Bangladesh suffered a top-order wobble but the lower middle order polished off the chase. The main contributor was Shabbir Rahman, who hit an unbeaten 51 from 45 balls. His innings was sandwiched between key knocks from Mahmudul Hasan (38) and Nural Hasan (24 not out from 17 balls).