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Tasmania sneak to one-wicket trophy success
Tasmania crept home to end Victoria's plans for domestic domination as they lifted the FR Cup after a mostly wet and extremely tense afternoon in Hobart
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23-Feb-2008
Tasmania 9 for 131 (Birt 37*) beat Victoria 158 (Hussey 50, Doherty 4-18) by one wicket on D/L method
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Tasmania crept home to end Victoria's plans for domestic domination as they lifted the FR Cup after a mostly wet and extremely tense afternoon in Hobart. The one-wicket victory earned the home team's third limited-overs trophy and it was sealed following a gripping chase, which was originally 159 before being cut to 131 by the weather.
Bryce McGain almost snatched the game from Tasmania with 3 for 11 from five immaculate overs, but the legspinner's cool was matched by Travis Birt's calm. Birt's glide for three off the first ball of the final over ensured a great escape and sparked celebrations of relief at Bellerive Oval.
Full postPakistan and South Africa earn World Cup spots
A round-up of the fourth day of matches at the ICC Women's World Cup Qualifiers in Stellenbosch
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22-Feb-2008
South Africa 108 for 3 (Anderson 46*) beat Ireland 107 (C Joyce 43*) by seven wickets
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South Africa secured their place in the 2009 Women's World Cup after overpowering Ireland by seven wickets. South Africa have been a cut above the other teams seen in the tournament and proved too powerful as they knocked off the target with more than 22 overs to spare.
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"We're really relieved and very happy to have pulled it off," captain Cri-Zelda Brits said. "The team haven't let me down since I've taken over the captaincy and we've stuck at it and come to the party at this event with the bowling."
The victory was set-up by another impressive bowling performance. Ireland suffered an early setback when Isobel Joyce was caught behind for 0 and the innings never got off the ground. Sunette Loubser produced another miserly spell of offspin and claimed two middle-order scalps while sharp fielding engineered three run outs.
Cecelia Joyce fought hard and carried her bat with a determined 43, however the fact it took 143 deliveries show how difficult it was for the Irish.
Full postPonting's rut grows deeper with run out
"The pitch was really slow, very hard to get your timing and to penetrate the field," Michael Hussey, named Man of the Match for an unbeaten 64, said
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22-Feb-2008
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Australia secured their place in the CB Series finals with their win over Sri Lanka but the match was another one Ricky Ponting will want to wipe from his personal highlights reel. Ponting managed 11 from 34 balls to take his tournament tally to 64 at 10.66 and he even found a new way to sabotage himself, run out when he tried to take a single after hitting the
ball back to the bowler.
"When you're in a bit of a rut like I am you tend to find ways of getting out," Ponting said. "I was just trying to get myself in and get used to the pace of the wicket today."
Ponting nudged the ball back in the direction of Farveez Maharoof, who dived across to his right and threw to the wicketkeeper's end to have Ponting caught short in his ambitious attempt to keep the scoreboard ticking. However, he was confident it was not a case of bad judgment.
Full postDhawan guides North to title
Shikhar Dhawan's unbeaten 94 led North Zone to their second consecutive Duleep Trophy title
North Zone 340 (Bhatia 84, Yashpal 59, Trivedi 6-67) and 166 for 4 (Dhawan 94*, Bhatia 33*, Trivedi 2-42) beat West Zone 274 (Rahane 91, VRV Singh 5-91, Mishra 3-57) and 231 (Pathan 61, VRV Singh 5-86) by six wickets
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After having done all the hard work over the last three days, North Zone's batsmen ensured there would be no hiccups on the fourth morning, knocking off the 92 runs for the loss of just one wicket to lift their second Duleep Trophy in successive years, and their 47th in all. The first session at this ground has often been a tricky one for batsmen, but Shikhar Dhawan ensured North sailed through, applying himself superbly with an unbeaten 94 out of the target of 166 to seal the six-wicket win a minute before lunch.
Dhawan curbed his natural strokeplay in favour of solid batting, but still played some attractive shots to ensure that despite a strokeless innings from Yashpal Singh, who played 39 deliveries today without adding to his overnight score, the bowlers did not dictate play. It seemed the two were batting on two different pitches: Yashpal plonking a huge stride foot down the wicket and barely managing to survive while Dhawan was absolutely certain with his judgment outside off and did not succumb to the temptation of playing away from his body.
Full postBangladesh and Pakistan maintain unbeaten record
A round-up of the action from day six of the Under-19 World Cup
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22-Feb-2008
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Bangladesh U-19s 149 (Shuvo 56*, Harris 5-29) beat England U-19s 136 (Hasan 2-16, Nasir Hossain 2-20) by 13 runs
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Bangladesh, who were 49 for 7 at one stage, launched an amazing rearguard-act to clinch a 13-run scrap over England at the Royal Selangor Club in Kuala Lumpur to finish at the top of Group D. Both teams had already qualified for the quarter-finals, where Bangladesh will take on South Africa and England will face India.
After Bangladesh had managed 149, James Taylor started off England's reply in aggressive fashion, striking two fours in his 24 before he nicked Rubel Hossain to wicketkeeper Ashiqul Islam. It got worse for England with two run-outs on either side of Greg Wood's dismissal by Nasir Hossain - Ben Godleman and captain Alex Wakely returning to the pavilion after scoring 8 and 10 respectively. England had been reduced to 69 for 4, but Tom Westley (21) and Daniel Redfern (26) stemmed the rot by adding 44 runs for the fifth wicket. However, they failed to take their team to victory, and were bowled within the space of five balls by Suhrawadi Shuvo and Mahmudul Hasan. The two wickets sparked England's collapse, and they ended up losing their last six wickets for the addition of only 23 runs.
Full postVirat Kohli ton shuts out West Indies
Their spot in the Super League quarter-finals secured, top-of-the table India made a clean sweep of Group B with a 50-run win over West Indies at the Kinrara Oval
The Bulletin by Jamie Alter
22-Feb-2008
India U-19s 265 (Virat Kohli 100, Srivastava 51, Taruvar Kohli 50) beat West Indies U-19s 215 by 50 runs
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Their spot in the Super League quarter-finals secured, top-of-the table India made a clean sweep of Group B with a 50-run win over West Indies at the Kinrara Oval. Virat Kohli's crackling 74-ball 100 was the crux of his side's 265 for 5 after they were put in to bat on a slow pitch, and it didn't matter that India's bowlers weren't as smooth because West Indies made a mess of their chase and crashed out of the Under-19 World Cup.
Virat walked in with India 116 for 3 in the 28th over, after West Indies had removed half-centurions Tanmay Srivastava and Taruvar Kohli, sculptors of a patient 102-run stand for the second wicket. While the two had been a tad sluggish, Virat was away like a rabbit. His opportunities had been limited so far and the Indian captain showed his intent from the get-go, collecting pulled boundaries and pushing the close-in fielders.
Full postSpinners set up easy win for Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka's varied spin attack, led by the left-armer Navin Kavikara, performed a slow strangle act to set up a five-wicket win against Australia
The Bulletin by George Binoy in Penang
22-Feb-2008
Sri Lanka Under-19s 175 for 5 (Munaweera 43, Angelo Perera 43,
Priyanjan 43) beat Australia Under-19s 172 (Kavikara 3-20) by five wickets
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Sri Lanka's varied spin attack, led by the left-armer Navin
Kavikara, performed a slow strangle act that would have made their senior
team proud as they set up a five-wicket win against Australia at the Penang
Sports Club. They dismissed Australia for 172 and Dilshan Munaweera
helped them gun down the target with more than 12 overs to spare. The victory put Sri Lanka on top of Group C and set up a quarter-final clash with New Zealand, while Australia will play Pakistan, the winners of Group A.
Sri Lanka used five spinners in all - Kavikara, Sachith Pathirana, Umesh
Karunarathne, Roshen Silva and Munaweera - and between them they
picked up seven wickets for 109 in 37.3 overs. The introduction
of the slow bowlers curbed the runs after the top-order batsmen accelerated to 79 for 2 after 13 overs.
When the offspinner Karunarathne came on in the 13th over, he bowled the Australian captain Michael Hill but his joy quickly turned to disappointment as the umpire signalled a no-ball. Hill, a left-hander, took on Karunarathne, pulling the free-hit to the wide long-on boundary and lofting the next ball for six over midwicket. There were a sizeable number of
Australian supporters and cries of "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, oi, oi, oi" rang around the ground.
Full postBangladesh fight back on bowlers' day
Bangladesh fought back after being dismissed for 192, reducing South Africa to 76 for 4 at the end of the first day in Mirpur
The Bulletin by Dileep Premachandran
22-Feb-2008
South Africa 76 for 4 (Shahadat 2-17, Rafique 2-17) trail Bangladesh 192 (Aftab 44, Morkel 5-50, Steyn 3-27) by 116 runs
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Mornè Morkel, with a five-for in his second Test, and Dale Steyn were the
destroyers as Bangladesh were knocked over for 192 soon after tea on the
opening day, but a stirring fightback inspired by Shahadat Hossain and
Mohammad Rafique left the match intriguing poised when play was called off
with eight overs still to be bowled. By then, South Africa had stumbled to
76 for 4, with Ashwell Prince and Johan Botha holding fort on a pitch that
was already showing signs of misbehaving.
The key wicket, as is so often the case when South Africa play, was that
of Jacques Kallis. Having repeatedly exposed his stumps to the probing left-arm
spin of Rafique, he had no answer when one turned and kept appallingly
low. At one stage, with Hashim Amla and Kallis adding 35, it looked as
though South Africa had overcome the early Shahadat-induced wobble, but
Rafique accounted for Amla as well, trapping him plumb in front with one
that came in with the arm.
Full postRain helps Australia to 24-run win
The slow MCG pitch was causing just as many problems for Sri Lanka as Australia and at the halfway mark of a small chase the visitors had staggered to 4 for 65
The Bulletin by Brydon Coverdale at the MCG
22-Feb-2008
Australia 7 for 184 (Hussey 64*, Clarke 50, Maharoof 2-20) beat Sri Lanka 4 for 77 by 24 runs on D/L method
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Australia and Sri Lanka were both dug into holes by their top orders at the MCG but while Michael Hussey and Michael Clarke clambered out, Sri Lanka were drowned in their pit by Melbourne's rain. Australia picked up a 24-run victory on the Duckworth/Lewis method, which means Sri Lanka must now win both their remaining CB Series games and rely on Australia beating India to have any chance of reaching the finals.
They had only themselves to blame, though, after dawdling in their chase of 185. Sri Lanka's innings was 29.3 overs old when the showers came but they had only reached 4 for 77 when they needed to have 101 on the board to make Duckworth/Lewis work in their favour. They were so far off the mark they even conceded the bonus point to Australia. The slow pitch did not help matters, and Sri Lanka's go-to man Kumar Sangakkara struggled to find a way to score.
Full postPakistan trample over Scotland
A round-up of the third day of matches at the ICC Women's World Cup Qualifiers in Stellenbosch
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21-Feb-2008
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In a performance that nearly rivalled Bermuda's 13 all out, Scotland folded for 26 in reply to Pakistan's 278 at the Van der Stel Club in Stellenbosch. Just like in Bermuda's appalling defeat to South Africa, here too extras boosted Scotland's total. Eleven were conceded in the 28.3 overs that Scotland batted. Charlotte Bascombe's six was the top score of the innings.
Urooj Mumtaz, looking to give her batsmen a chance to get some runs under their belt ahead of the semi-finals tomorrow, chose to bat first. Considering the quality of their opposition, opener Tasqeen Qadeer will curse herself was being dismissed cheaply when she was caught off Abbie Aitken for 14. Aitken, who took two wickets in her 10 overs, was the only Scotland bowler not to concede an extra, while the others combined to give away 42 runs as extras.
Sajjida Shah and Bismah Maroof added 76 together to take Pakistan past 100. Then Kari Anderson struck thrice in two overs to reduce Pakistan to 110 for 4. But Scotland couldn't take advantage of the breakthrough and Shah added 109 with Sana Mir to steer Pakistan towards a total which was far beyond Scotland's reach. Anderson was the pick of the bowlers, taking 5 for 61. But she bowled seven wides in her 10 overs. Shah followed her exploits with the bat, with three wickets for six runs with her offbreak bowling.
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