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Scheduling clash and building works contrive to leave marquee contest as online-only event

George Dobell09-Sep-2020The final of the Bob Willis Trophy looks almost certain not to be televised.When the competition was devised a few months ago, it was hoped the final – a five-day match to be showed at Lord’s – would be something of a showpiece for the game.But with spectators still not allowed to return to grounds and a combination of practical issues preventing Sky from broadcasting the game, spectators will have to make do with on-line streaming instead.Those practical issues include scheduling clashes. There are IPL games throughout the final – which is due to start on September 23 – while England’s women also play against West Indies on September 23 and 26.Building work at Lord’s is also problematic. As part of their plans to redevelop the Nursery End of the ground to increase capacity and improve spectator experience, the MCC have knocked down the Compton and Edrich stands and are currently in the process of rebuilding them. As a result, Sky feel their attempts to provide the quality of coverage which they desire may be compromised.There is not currently any discussion with the BBC about broadcasting the game instead of Sky.As a result, those wanting to watch the game live will have to do so on-line. The ECB have confirmed they will stream the game free of charge, while other platforms – not least the websites of the two counties involved – are also likely to carry the game. It is expected the streaming will be carry a live audio commentary.The match will be contested by Essex, the current county champions, and Somerset, who were runners-up last year.

The total prize money of $10 million will be the same as it was in the 2015 World Cup

ESPNcricinfo staff17-May-2019The winner of the 2019 men’s World Cup will walk away with a monetary reward of US $4 million, with the runner up getting half the amount ($2 million), as the ICC, on Friday, announced details of the total prize money on offer for the 10-team tournament.The total prize money of $10 million will be the same as it was in the 2015 World Cup, which was contested among 14 teams with Australia defeating New Zealand to take the trophy and the winner’s cheque.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

The prize purse for both the winners and the runners-up is an increase from 2015, when the winning team was awarded $3.75 million, while the runners-up were given $1.75 million. The prize-money pot for the 2015 World had seen an increase by 25%, from $8 million previously to $10 million.In the 2019 edition, the two losing semi-finalists will get $800,000 each, also an increase compared to the 2015 edition, where losing semi-finalists were awarded $600,000. The winners of each league-stage match will receive $40,000 each, and teams whose campaigns end at the league stage will get $100,000 each.The 2019 World Cup format is similar to the nine-team edition played in 1992, where each team plays the others in the round-robin phase, with the top four advancing to the semi-finals. The 46-day tournament will be played across 11 venues from 30 May to July 16.The ICC also announced its panel of commentators for the World Cup, which starts from May 30. The 24-member panel features World Cup captains Graeme Smith, Nasser Hussain, Kumar Sangakkara, Wasim Akram, Brendon McCullum, Shaun Pollock, Mike Atherton, Sourav Ganguly and Michael Clarke. Clarke, who had led Australia to victory in 2015, will be making his ICC TV commentary debut. The panel also features other experienced commentators like Ian Bishop, Simon Doull, Michael Holding, Melanie Jones, Isa Guha and Alison Mitchell, as well as Sanjay Manjrekar and Harsha Bhogle.

The opener celebrated his national call-up with an unbeaten second-innings 81 as Queenland clinched their first Shield title in six years

The Report by Peter English27-Mar-2018
ScorecardQueensland joyfully accepted a desperate declaration and charged to their first Sheffield Shield title in six years during a rain-interrupted conclusion at Allan Border Field in Brisbane on Tuesday.Tasmania gambled after a lengthy delay in the hope of a last-minute heist, but Queensland moved swiftly through the South Africa-bound Matt Renshaw to secure the nine-wicket win.Renshaw learned of his national call-up during the day, and he celebrated it with an unbeaten second-innings 81. While he waits to learn whether he replaces Cameron Bancroft or David Warner in the fourth Test, he warmed up with a muscular display of 12 fours and two sixes, including crashing a cut to the boundary for the winning runs.Queensland are full of potential and this was the right result perhaps, but neither side was able to show their full wares in a truncated game. Tasmania returned on the final morning at 0 for 10, with Alex Doolan and Jordan Silk trying to transform the game into a T20 contest and an unlikely victory push.As the batsmen opened their shoulders, Queensland spread the field. At one point during the 160-run stand, everyone but the bowler and wicketkeeper was on the boundary. Silk cleared the ropes twice in his 74 and Doolan was even more destructive in his unbeaten 82 off 74 deliveries, striking four sixes before bad light and heavy rain arrived at the stroke of lunch.That meant the outfield was unsuitable for play during the four-hour delay. This forced Tasmania into declaring at 1 for 166, setting Queensland 128 in at least 32 overs, but the locals would not be stopped. Joe Burns kept Renshaw company with 41 on the way to the state’s eighth Shield trophy.Queensland’s golden age began under Stuart Law’s captaincy in the 1990s and included players of the stature of Allan Border, Matthew Hayden, Carl Rackemann, Andy Bichel, Michael Kasprowicz and Andrew Symonds. The current squad is filled with young faces and even the committed cricket fan might struggle to recognise anyone other than Burns or Renshaw when they are wearing whites.Captained by Jimmy Peirson, the side has the 33-year-old paceman Luke Feldman as its elder statesman, but is mostly a band of up-and-comers alongside the journeyman from England, Charlie Hemphrey. Until Tuesday, Burns was the only player in the side to have lifted the Shield, when Queensland beat Tasmania at the Gabba in 2011-12.Queensland finished the group rounds comfortably on top, winning a game more than any other opponent, and its players were able to stare down Tasmania’s regularly-interrupted challenge throughout this contest.After the first-day abandonment, Tasmania posted a healthy 477, but Queensland went further in their response, with everyone contributing at least double figures. The coach Wade Seccombe, who was the wicketkeeper in the state’s first Shield victory in 1994-95, now has the opportunity to build the outfit into a unit craving long-term success.

Melbourne Stars restricted Perth Scorchers to 7 for 134 before chasing it down with 16 balls to spare for a seven-wicket win

The Report by Geoff Lemon in Perth14-Jan-2017
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsMichael Beer led a strong bowling performance from the Melbourne Stars, who razed Perth Scorchers at their home venue•Getty Images

After so many run-fests in this year’s Big Bash League, including Chris Lynn’s fireworks and Hobart Hurricanes’ record run-chase, there was finally a day for the bowlers. No sooner had the Sydney Sixers been kept to 99 for 9 at the SCG than the Perth Scorchers staggered to 134 for 7 at their home ground in the west.Ben Hilfenhaus, Michael Beer and Scott Boland reduced the Scorchers to 4 for 13, which then became 5 for 34 when Marcus Stoinis had recent Test debutant Hilton Cartwright skying a top edge behind the wicket.Ashton Agar and Tim Bresnan piled on 51 unbeaten runs for the eighth wicket that lifted the Scorchers to a respectable total, but it provided few alarms for the visitors. Rob Quiney bashed 35 off 23 balls at the top of the order, Kevin Pietersen ran the middle with a steady-paced, unbeaten 44, and Stoinis produced the late hitting to finish it off. The Stars’ triumph followed up from their win at this venue last season, made it three in a row against Perth.Key performanceWestern Australia’s best-regarded export must be beer, thanks to the Little Creatures Brewery on the shorefront of Fremantle. But locals at the WACA must have been wishing their state’s authorities hadn’t sent a certain spinner back across to Melbourne alongside those kegs of golden ale.Former WA left-armer Beer basically ended the contest in the first-eighth of the game. He opened the bowling to tie down Shaun Marsh and Michael Klinger for three runs, leading to Klinger’s desperate pull shot against Ben Hilfenhaus that knocked down the stumps. Beer’s arm balls then nailed the in-form Ian Bell lbw for a golden duck, and Cameron Bancroft the same way, trying to sweep. The next over, he took a low catch at short fine leg off Boland to dismiss Marsh.A one-run over and a missed stumping later, Beer finished with four overs, two wickets, a dozen runs conceded, and thirty thousand former members of his home crowd looking askance at Scorchers coach Justin Langer.The middleIf Twenty20 cricket is a game played at high pace, it can also be over very quickly. With such a squeeze put on the top of the Scorchers innings, there were few places for this game to go. Andrew Tye coming out to bat after four overs of a T20 wasn’t quite Mitchell Johnson batting in the seventh over of a Test, as per Trent Bridge in 2015, but it was still an incongruous sight.Tye did respond to the challenge, clouting 42 off 33 balls in the middle order, including four to the rope and one over it. Johnson was there too, but only had to watch the bench as Agar and Bresnan got through unbeaten.The Scorchers were able to dismiss the dangerous Luke Wright and new Test star Peter Handscomb cheaply, but with Quiney and Pietersen scoring freely around them, those dismissals didn’t come early enough to produce any pressure. After all the thrilling finishes of recent weeks, you could allow the BBL a foregone conclusion.The cameoIf there was one thing fans of the longer game were looking forward to, it was Johnson versus Kevin Pietersen. The pair most famously clashed during the 2013-14 Ashes series in Australia, when Pietersen was England’s top-scorer across their 5-0 whitewash, before he was ejected from the side in an acrimonious parting of ways.Johnson may not be the terror that he was then, making the red ball leap off the pitch at speeds into the mid-150 kilometre-per-hour range. But he was still operating well into the 140s with the white ball on his adopted WACA deck, and wasted no time sending some short balls up into his rival’s ribcage.It didn’t overly bother Pietersen though, who got away with facing only three balls from Johnson initially, then three more in Johnson’s fourth over. The last of those wasn’t one Pietersen was keen on, after seeing Stoinis wear a fast delivery square in the box, but there was no choice but to take the euphemistically-named leg bye.Heavy traffic at the topThe Scorchers grabbed the top spot on the table by virtue of net run-rate after beating Brisbane Heat in their previous match, but are now vulnerable with both teams on eight points and Brisbane with an extra game in hand. The Sydney Sixers also have eight points, but like the Scorchers, only have one game to play, while the Stars have joined those three teams on eight, but, like Heat, have two games left.That means any of these sides could still make the top-two and host a home final, even at this late stage of the season. Mind you, any of the bottom-four sides could end up on eight points: Hurricanes and Sydney Thunder by winning one game, Strikers and Melbourne Renegades by winning their last two. The Sixers, especially, could be vulnerable on net run-rate if the Stars knock them in the last game of the regular season.

Dharamsala will host the World Twenty20 match between India and Pakistan

ESPNcricinfo staff11-Dec-20153:56

World T20 groups evenly matched – Richardson

Dharamsala will host the World Twenty20 2016 match between India and Pakistan on March 19 while the tournament semi-finals will be played in Delhi and Mumbai, according to the fixtures released by the ICC on Friday. The men’s event will be played in two stages between March 8 and April 3, while the Women’s World Twenty20 is scheduled between March 15 and April 3.Chennai, which was in danger of being cut as a host city due to the disputed stands at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, has been allotted women’s matches.India, Pakistan, New Zealand and Australia are placed in Group 2 of the Super 10s stage while South Africa, England, West Indies and Sri Lanka are in Group 1. Two teams will join the Super 10s after the first stage of the tournament, to be held in Dharamsala and Nagpur between March 8 and 13.The eight teams competing in the first round have also been split into two groups. Bangladesh, Netherlands, Ireland and Oman have been slotted into Group A, while Group B comprises Zimbabwe, Scotland, Afghanistan and Hong Kong. The top team from Group A will join India, Pakistan, Australia and New Zealand in Group 2 of the Super 10s stage, while the top-placed team from Group B moves to Group 1.The opening match of the Super 10s stage will be played between India and New Zealand on March 15 in Nagpur. The hosts will then play Pakistan on March 19, the qualifying team in the group on March 23 in Bangalore and Australia in Mohali on March 27.The top two sides from each of the Super 10s groups will move into the semi-finals. The semi-finals of the men’s and women’s tournaments will be played in Delhi and Mumbai on March 30 and 31 respectively, with the finals in Kolkata on April 3. Pakistan, should they qualify, will play their semi-final in New Delhi regardless of whether they place first or second in their group; the other qualifier from their group will play the semi-final allotted to Mumbai.This will avoid a scenario where Pakistan play in Mumbai, where a local political party, the Shiv Sena, has for several years “banned” Pakistan matches in that city. The most recent protest was in October, when Shiv Sena held protests at the BCCI office in Mumbai over talks between the India and Pakistan boards for a proposed series. Following the protests, the ICC withdrew Aleem Dar from the last two ODIs of the South Africa series [the fifth match was held in Mumbai] and former Pakistan cricketers Wasim Akram and Shoaib Akhtar, who were in India on commentary duty, also returned home early.Defending champions Sri Lanka will begin their campaign against the qualifying team on March 17 in Kolkata, before playing West Indies in Bangalore on March 20. Their matches against England and South Africa will be played in Delhi on March 26 and 28 respectively.The women’s tournament will kick off from March 15 with India taking on Bangladesh and New Zealand playing Sri Lanka. The 10 teams in the women’s competition have been split into two groups. Three-time champions Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Ireland are in Group A, while Group B features England, West Indies, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The top two teams from each group will progress to the semi-final stage.

An aggressive all-round display by India, including another match-winning century from Dinesh Karthik and a five-wicket haul from Umesh Yadav, inflicted a stinging 243-run defeat on Australia

Nagraj Gollapudi in Cardiff04-Jun-2013
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsDhoni and Karthik put on 211 runs for the sixth wicket to effectively take the game away from Australia•Associated Press

An aggressive all-round display by India, including another match-winning century from Dinesh Karthik and a five-wicket haul from Umesh Yadav, inflicted a stinging 243-run defeat on Australia in the teams’ second warm-up match.Karthik was the batting star of the match, scoring his second consecutive ton in the warm-up fixtures, strengthening his case for a place in India’s starting XI in the tournament. “I think he has earned his place in the side and we’ll just have to see who misses out when we play against South Africa,” MS Dhoni said after the game. “I’d like him to play at the top of the order but we’ll [have to wait and] see.”The game was virtually over 54 minutes into the chase, when Australia were reduced to 34 for 6 in the face of some fierce fast bowling from Yadav, who picked up a five-wicket haul in his first, and only, spell of five overs. Yadav, who got married last Wednesday, had joined the Indian squad three days later and had been rested in the first warm-up match against Sri Lanka on Saturday.Australia’s troubles started in the second over when Matthew Wade, opening ahead of Phillip Hughes, played on while attempting a pull. David Warner’s horrific run continued as he went for an expansive stroke against a full delivery that was moving away, only to be caught brilliantly at first slip by R Ashwin. This was Warner’s third duck in his last four innings.In the fifth over, George Bailey misread the line of a Yadav delivery that seamed away and was bowled for 1. Four overs later, Hughes went for an exuberant pull and played on. Mitchell Marsh was unlucky, given caught behind to a delivery that seamed in and flicked his trousers on its way to MS Dhoni. Australia’s hopes were extinguished when Shane Watson, who had scored a match-winning century against West Indies, attempted to cut Ishant Sharma and joined the club of Australian batsmen who played on.India had also found themselves in a similar trap at 55 for 5. That they recovered from that precarious position was solely due to the mature batting between Karthik and Dhoni, whose 211-run partnership powered India’s fightback.Though only one wicket fell to a spinner, the pitch wasn’t exactly a grassy, seamer-friendly one. Although it had good bounce and carry, there was not much lateral movement.Karthik, who hit an unbeaten 106 in the victory against Sri Lanka at Edgbaston, was once again at ease. As he had done with Virat Kohli, during their 185-run stand against Sri Lanka, Karthik shared the workload with Dhoni. One of the major reasons Australia failed to dominate either of the batsmen was because both ran fast between the wickets, and they rotated strike constantly without worrying about the run-rate.At the start of the batting Powerplay, which Karthik and Dhoni took from the 34th over, India were 137 for 5. They scored another 34 runs during those five overs of field restrictions. While that began the charge, India completely turned the game in the final ten overs, as they smashed 100 runs to muscle the total past 300, a score which looked remote when Karthik and Dhoni first came together.Dhoni brought up his half-century with a six over long-off against Marsh in the 40th over, and then slapped a flat one-bounce boundary, before a six over the point boundary made it the most expensive over of the match with 22 runs. Under pressure, the Australian bowlers failed to bowl to their fields and erred in their lengths.Dhoni even pulled out his patented helicopter stroke against James Faulkner for a one-bounce four to midwicket. That took him into the nineties but he was not nervous as he went for a straight hit a couple of deliveries later, but failed to clear Mitchell Johnson at long-off.His departure did not slow Karthik, who got to his second century in as many matches with a mistimed pull against Mitchell Starc, as the top edge flew over the wicketkeeper for a boundary. But later he hit two spectacular fours: a flick past fine leg followed by a chopped drive against yorker-length deliveries from Starc. Karthik piled on 35 runs from 19 deliveries in the final five overs as India’s total swelled to winning proportions.

The weather was the winner as Leicestershire’s County Championship Division Two game against Essex at Grace Road ended in a tame draw

19-May-2012
ScorecardThe weather was the winner as Leicestershire’s County Championship Division Two game against Essex at Grace Road ended in a tame draw.Essex were set a victory target of 270 in 60 overs, but in gloomy conditions umpires Peter Willey and Jeremy Lloyds finally abandoned the game at 3.45pm, with Essex on 30 for 2 from 12.2 overs. The draw earned Essex 10 points and Leicestershire nine.A steady drizzle throughout the morning prevented any play before lunch, and Leicestershire resumed their second innings on 148 for 3 with 26 overs having been lost because of the stoppage.But, in an attempt to fashion a positive result, Leicestershire were fed a diet of declaration bowling, and thrashed 158 runs off 7.3 overs before calling a halt to the carnage.Ned Eckersley smashed 70 off 19 balls, hitting 13 fours and two sixes, Wayne White hit 50 off 12 and Ramnaresh Sarwan went from his overnight 61 to 98 in a matter of minutes before skying a catch to midwicket.Adam Wheater conceded 86 runs in four overs and Mark Pettini 72 in 3.1 overs to enable Leicestershire to declare on 306 for five and set Essex 270 to win in 60 overs, but the chase never materialised.Alviro Petersen was run out by a direct hit on the stumps from Josh Cobb and Billy Godleman edged behind chasing a delivery outside the off stump from Robbie Joseph.One ball later the umpires decided the light was not good enough to continue and, with no sign of any improvement, abandoned the game after an early tea had been taken.

Centuries from Lahiru Thirimanne and Kumar Sangakkara helped the Sri Lankans reach a strong position against Essex

ESPNcricinfo staff10-Jun-2011
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Kumar Sangakkara struck form with an unbeaten century•Getty Images

The Sri Lankans had a satisfying opening day against Essex as centuries from two top-order batsmen left them in a strong position. The man likely to take the place of injured captain Tillakaratne Dilshan in the third Test, Lahiru Thirimanne, and the out-of-form former captain, Kumar Sangakkara, both made hundreds on a rain-hit day to make it a day of toil for the Essex bowlers.It was not Sangakkara who led the side but Thilan Samaraweera, who chose to bat. The rain which has dogged much of the tour followed Sri Lanka to Chelmsford, and only 14 overs were possible before lunch, with three stoppages of play. Tharanga Paranavitana, who has made plenty of runs on the tour, and Thirimanne began brightly putting on 53 before showers forced an early lunch.Paranavitana nicked to the wicketkeeper soon after the break to give left-arm medium-pacer Tymal Mills his first wicket in first-class cricket, and that proved to be the only breakthrough for Essex till about half an hour before stumps as Thirimanne and Sangakkara put on 152 for the second wicket.Thirimanne, a 21-year-old left-hand batsman who plays for Ragama, was reprieved at third slip on 11 by Tom Westley and he capitalised on the chance, making his maiden first-class century outside Sri Lanka. He hit 15 fours in his innings but it was Sangakkara who was the more adventurous batsman, sprinting to an unbeaten 148 by stumps with the help of 23 fours and a six. Thirimanne retired at tea, to give the other batsmen a hit.Sangakkara added 67 with highly-rated Dinesh Chandimal and the Sri Lankans had cruised to 290 for 2 before Ravi Bopara, leading Essex for the first time, struck twice in an over late in the day. He removed Chandimal and Samaraweera in the space of three deliveries but it wasn’t enough to prevent it from being Sri Lanka’s day.

Ireland will be without teenage left-arm spinner George Dockrell, who impressed during the World Twenty20, when they take on Australia in an ODI on June 17

Cricinfo staff04-Jun-2010Ireland will be without teenage left-arm spinner George Dockrell, who impressed during the World Twenty20, when they take on Australia in an ODI on June 17. Cricket Ireland named 13 players for the one-off match in Clontarf and the only ones missing from the squad that went to the Caribbean are Dockrell and Nigel Jones.”It’s a pity that George can’t make the game, but he has exams which are obviously important to his future,” Ireland coach Phil Simmons said. “He’d been bowling really well and settled in superbly to international cricket. That has helped us offset the retirement of Kyle McCallan, and the injuries to Regan West.”Wicketkeeper Niall O’Brien had decided to postpone surgery on a fractured finger so that he would be able to play Australia.Simmons said playing Australia was a chance for his players to showcase their talents and added that, though Ireland may have lost that “surprise factor” when playing Full member countries now, they had “certainly gained their respect”. “We’re playing on home soil, in familiar conditions, and with the backing of our home fans. No-one treats us lightly any more, as they know if their game drops, we are ready to pounce.”I’ll be looking for the players to play with the same intensity that they showed in the West Indies. We did really well in the field against both West Indies and the eventual winners England.”William Porterfield, the Ireland captain, said his players had been talking about playing Australia since the fixture was announced. “You can’t help but be motivated by the chance to play the world champions, especially in front of the home supporters,” he said. “We all had a month together in the West Indies, and that tour was fantastic for both team spirit and preparing the squad for the international year ahead. There may be a few cobwebs as it’ll be six weeks since our last game, but everyone has been playing some sort of cricket. With the majority of the squad being full-time in cricket now, I don’t think there’ll be any problems with rustiness.”It’ll be a great experience playing against players of the calibre of Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke, Mike Hussey and Mitchell Johnson. We’ll certainly not be overawed though – we’ve played in three world cups now, and have got over that stage of our careers. It’ll be a great occasion for everybody in Irish cricket, and hopefully a day to remember.”Squad: William Porterfield (capt), Trent Johnston, Andre Botha, Peter Connell, Alex Cusack, Gary Kidd, John Mooney, Kevin O’Brien, Niall O’Brien, Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Andrew White, Gary Wilson.

Sunrisers struggle to post testing target despite Alice Macleod fifty

ECB Reporters Network19-May-2024Central Sparks launched their Charlotte Edwards Cup campaign with an emphatic victory as they defeated Sunrisers by seven wickets at New Road, Worcester.In a season-opener between the teams that finished in the bottom two slots last season, Sparks started in style this time round thanks principally to a dazzling unbeaten 79 from just 48 balls by Davina Perrin.Sunrisers batted first and were lifted to 138 for 6 by Alice MacLeod’s 39-ball 54 against an attack led by Hannah Baker and Emily Arlott.It looked a slightly under par total and so it proved as Perrin, who hit two sixes and 13 fours, and Australian overseas player Courtney Webb made short work of the chase with an unbroken fourth-wicket stand of 83 in 47 balls. Mady Villiers took 2 for 36 but Sparks cruised to 142 for three with 36 balls remaining.Put in on a glorious day at New Road, Sunrisers were given a bright start by Joanne Gardner who dominated an opening stand of 40 in 35 balls with Grace Scrivens but then both fell in three balls. Scrivens hesitated over a very tight single and was beaten by Perrin’s throw and Gardner was bamboozled by the flight of Baker’s first delivery and bowled. When Arlott bowled Villiers through a slog and Baker also bowled Cordelia Griffith, Sunrisers had slumped from 40 without loss to 50 for 4 in 19 balls.MacLeod and Jodi Grewcock batted with composure to add 50 in six overs and the former ensured her side had something to bowl at before missing an attempted sweep at Arlott and falling lbw to the penultimate ball of the innings.Sunrisers, who lost all seven games in the Charlotte Edwards Cup last year, needed to strike early with the ball and they did. They removed both openers in the first 13 balls as Ami Campbell hammered Eva Gray to point and Abi Freeborn was lbw through a failed sweep at Villiers.When Sparks skipper Eve Jones chipped Villiers to mid-off, it was 59 for 3 and the visitors still had a chink of hope but Perrin’s cleanly-hit onslaught, with measured and positive support from Webb, soon extinguished it and Sparks eased to victory.