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Carberry ton guides Lions to comfortable win
A patient century by Michael Carberry, backed by fifties by Ed Joyce and Michael Yardy guided England Lions to a comfortable five-wicket win against Central Zone on the final day in Vadodara
Cricinfo staff
06-Feb-2008
England Lions 155 (Rashid 40, Pankaj Singh 4-35) and 297 for 5 (Carberry 112, Yardy 57, Mathur 3-25) beat Central Zone 270 (Kaif 64, Richardson 4-50) and 180 (Kaif 42, Onions 3-40) by five wickets
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A patient century by Michael Carberry, backed by fifties by Ed Joyce and Michael Yardy, guided England Lions to a comfortable five-wicket win against Central Zone on the final day in Vadodara. The Lions carried on from their spirited reply the previous day and compensated for their disappointing first-innings display of 155, chasing down the target of 296 with ease.
The Lions didn't however get off to the best of starts, losing Yardy for 57 with no addition to their overnight score of 146. Joyce and Carberry then constructed the second-best partnership of the match - 98 - with Joyce scoring 54 off 100 balls. The pair kept Central Zone at bay for more than 30 overs before Sumit Mathur, the medium-pacer, picked up three quick wickets against the run of play. Joyce was the first to go, caught by Mahesh Rawat, followed by Carberry, trapped leg before. Carberry's 112 included 15 fours and a six.
James Foster, who failed to get off the mark, was Rawat's second victim, as the Lions lost three with the addition of five runs, with the score reading 249 for 5.
Full postEasy win places Barbados in quarters
Barbados will be concerned about their batting ahead of their next match against Grenada on February 15. Only two players reached double figures and Ryan Hinds top scored with an unbeaten 37 as Barbados got 103 in their 20 overs
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06-Feb-2008
Barbados 103 for 8 (Hinds 37*, Matthew 3-18) beat Dominica 77 (Springer 4-20, Benn 3-11) by 26 runs
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Barbados entered the quarter-finals of the Stanford 20/20 after they won a low-scoring match against Dominica with four overs to spare in Coolidge. Khalid Springer and Sulieman Benn shared seven wickets between them as Dominica were bowled out for 77.
But Barbados will be concerned about their batting ahead of their next match against Grenada on February 15. Only two players reached double figures and Ryan Hinds top scored with an unbeaten 37 as Barbados got 103 in their 20 overs. Dominica must have felt a quarter-final berth was very likely when they had Barbados at 13 for 3 in the fourth over. In the first ten overs, only one six and one four were hit, while four wickets fell for 34 runs.
Fortunately for them, the Dominica batting was weaker. After Hinds ran out Tyrone Toussaint for a duck in the ninth ball of the innings, Benn struck thrice in successive overs to reduce Dominica to 25 for 4. They never recovered from that, losing another five wickets for 25 runs - Springer picking up three of those. He handed Barbados a 26-run win when he cleaned up Raymond Casimir for 15.
Full postMatch evenly poised as South chase 273
A superb bowling performance helped South Zone crawl their way back into their match against East Zone in Mumbai
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05-Feb-2008
Day 3 South Zone 204 and 113 for 3 (Teja 54, Badrinath 42*) need another 160 runs to beat East Zone 313 and 163 (Halhadar 52*, Ashwin 3-33)
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A superb bowling performance helped South Zone crawl their way back into their match against East Zone in Mumbai. After an eventful third day, the game was evenly poised with South needing another 160 runs to win with seven wickets in hand.
East were in command when the day started, having secured a handy 114-run lead with all their wickets intact. However, they let their advantage slip with an inept batting performance. Only one of their top six batsmen got a start - Anustup Majumdar - as they crashed to 79 for 6.
Full postVaraiya spins Kenya into command
Hiren Varaiya's 5 for 50 swung the match in Kenya's favour after Thomas Odoyo's second first-class hundred had boosted Kenya's first innings up to 326
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05-Feb-2008
UAE 185 for 8 (Rashid 38, Amjad 37*, Varaiya 5-50) trail Kenya 326 (Odoyo 137 Alhashmi 3-47) by 141 runs
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Thomas Odoyo cracked his second first-class hundred to boost Kenya's first innings to 326 on the second day of their Intercontinental Cup clash against UAE in Sharjah. But it was the slow-left-arm spin of Hiren Varaiya which swung the match in Kenya's favour. He picked up 5 for 50 as UAE struggled to 185 for 8 at stumps.
Odoyo, resuming on 79, farmed the strike excellently, with the last four Kenya batsmen only cobbling together nine runs between them. Lameck Onyango lasted 36 balls for his 3 and Peter Ongondo hung around for 18 balls, which allowed Odoyo to free his arms and bring up his first hundred since his unbeaten 103 against Canada last October. He was last man out, bowled by Khurram Khan, for 136.
Full postCarberry and Yardy lead Lions' pursuit of 296
A spirited performance from England Lions' gave them the edge going into the final day
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05-Feb-2008
England Lions 155 and 146 for 1 (Carberry 71*, Yardy 57*) need another 150 runs to beat Central Zone 270 and 180 (Kaif 42, Onions 3-40)
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A spirited performance from England Lions' gave them the edge going into the final day of their match against Central Zone. Chasing a stiff 296 for victory, they reached a confident 146 for 1 by stumps in Vadodara.
Joe Denly was the only Lions' wicket to fall, trapped in front by left-arm spinner Praveen Gupta for 15. Michael Carberry and captain Michael Yardy then forged an unbroken 116-run stand for the second wicket to lead the Lions' pursuit. Needing to score the highest total of the match to win, Carberry and Yardy both played patient knocks to ensure there was no repeat of the second day's batting collapse. Carberry, who made 35 in the first innings, didn't throw away his start this time, finishing on an unbeaten 71, including 12 fours and a six. The experienced Yardy had reached 57 by stumps.
Central had started the day in control after gaining a 115-run first-innings lead but were kept down to a moderate 180 in their second. With a top-order collapse seeing them at a parlous 39 for 4, Mohammad Kaif, the captain, tried to salvage the situation, top scoring with 42. The tail also resisted with a 60-run partnership for the seventh wicket between Jalaj Saxena (27) and Sanjib Sanyal (37).
Full postMascarenhas sets up England victory
Dimitri Mascarenhas pummelled Jeetan Patel for four consecutive sixes in an over, to set England on their way to a comfortable 32-run victory in the first Twenty20 at Auckland
The Bulletin by Andrew Miller
05-Feb-2008
England 185 for 8 (Pietersen 43, Martin 2-34) beat New Zealand 152 (Oram 61, Sidebottom 3-16) by 32 runs
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New Zealand won the only previous Twenty20 encounter between these two sides, in the ICC tournament in Cape Town last September, but the boot today was very much on the other foot. Kevin Pietersen showed signs of his best form as he muscled his way to 43 from 23 balls, Paul Collingwood and Owais Shah played attractive cameos, and aside from Luke Wright, who was dismissed before he got going, each of England's top-order reached double figures at more than a run a ball.
England's dominance began from the moment the match got underway. England lost the toss and were inserted, but Phil Mustard started with real intent, slashing two fours in Kyle Mills' first over, closely followed by a violent six over midwicket off Chris Martin. Mustard fell in the same manner one over later, as Jesse Ryder took a comfortable catch in the deep to calm his nerves to calm his nerves on debut, but Pietersen clipped his first ball through square leg for four to maintain England's tempo.
Full postRain forces another Gabba washout
For the second match running, a faithful Brisbane crowd was denied a full day of cricket as further inclement weather washed out the second match of the CB Series, this time between India and Sri Lanka
The Bulletin by Jamie Alter
05-Feb-2008
50 overs India 267 for 4 (Gambhir 102*, Dhoni 88*) v Sri Lanka. No result due to rain
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For the second match running, a faithful Brisbane crowd was denied a full day of cricket as further inclement weather washed out the second match of the CB Series, this time between India and Sri Lanka. What they were treated to, in India's uninterrupted innings, was the prototype of the perfectly-paced ODI century from Gautam Gambhir in only the second battle between these two teams on Australian soil.
It was all happening during a compelling 50 overs of cricket, where Gambhir and Mahendra Singh Dhoni breathed life back into an innings that looked to have suffered a coronary attack by the halfway mark, putting on 184 for the fifth wicket to take India to a commanding 267 for 4. The average score at the Gabba in the last five ODIs has been 233 and India would have fancied their chances at recording a record 50th win over Sri Lanka, but the rain had other ideas.
Full postSpinners set up Bangladesh's series-levelling win
Bangladesh Under-19s spinners set up a comfortable, series-levelling four-wicket victory over West Indies U-19s in the fourth one-dayer in Fatullah
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04-Feb-2008
Bangladesh U-19s 155 for 6 (Nadimuddin 53*, Brooks 3-30) beat West Indies U-19s 154 (Powell 44, Shuvo 3-4, Nasir Hossain 3-30) by four wickets
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Bangladesh Under-19s spinners set up a comfortable, series-levelling four-wicket victory over West Indies U-19s in the third one-dayer in Fatullah.
After choosing to bat, West Indies were given a splendid start by their openers Kieran Powell and Adrian Barath as they raced to 82 in 11 overs. Powell was particularly aggressive, carting nine boundaries in his 40-ball 44 while Barath made a more subdued 26.
Left-arm spinner Suhrawadi Shuvo, who is also Bangladesh's captain, and offspinner Nasir Hossain then engineered a spectacular collapse. Shuvo was the first to get the wickets tumbling, prising out the openers off successive overs in his spell. Nasir then got into the act, removing wicketkeeper Kyle Corbin and West Indies were soon at 97 for 6, having lost five wickets for three runs. Shuvo finished with astonishing figures of 8-5-4-3 while Nasir had excellent returns of 3 for 30.
Full postOdoyo comes to Kenya's rescue
Thomas Odoyo hit an unbeaten 79 to help Kenya recover from 126 for 5 to close the first day of their Intercontinental Cup tie against UAE in Sharjah on 255 for 6
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04-Feb-2008
Kenya 255 for 6 (Odoyo 79*) v UAE
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Stev Tikolo, whose decision to stick Namibia in last week went badly awry, batted first on a good pitch but Kenya's top-order problems returned and both openers fell cheaply. Tikolo and the impressive Alex Obanda then put on an untroubled 76 for the second wicket before a middle-order collapse.
Tikolo was the first to go for a breezy 63 and he was soon followed by Tony Suji, whose failures are so regular that questions have to be asked of the selectors. Obanda departed for 39 in the next over and Kenya had lost three wickets for eight runs.
Full postSaha helps East gain big lead
A four-wicket haul by Tushar Saha, the left-arm spinner, helped East Zone bundle out South Zone for 204 on the second day at the Wankhede Stadium, in the process gaining a first-innings lead of 109
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04-Feb-2008
Day 2 East Zone 313 (Halhadar Das 93, Aiyappa 5-84) and 5 for 0 lead South Zone 204 (Vijay 46, Saha 4-47) by 114 runs
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A four-wicket haul by Tushar Saha, the left-arm spinner, helped East Zone bundle out South Zone for 204, in the process gaining a first-innings lead of 109 on the second day at the Wankhede Stadium.
East, resuming on their overnight score of 265, added 48 before the seamer NC Aiyappa wrapped up the innings with his third five-wicket haul in first-class cricket. Halhadar Das, who led East's revival on the first day, fell seven short of his ton, The last-wicket pair of Shib Shankar Paul and Ranadeb Bose took the score from 290 to 313 before Aiyappa accounted for Paul to finish with figures of 5 for 84.
South failed to get the partnerships going early on, the maximum being 59 for the fourth wicket between M Vijay and Arjun Yadav. Vijay, who hit eight fours in his 46, was Saha's first victim, caught by Debasis Mohanty. Yadav fell for 41 to the offspin of Palash Das and at that stage South were struggling at 151 for 5. The lower order failed to build on their starts as Saha pegged away at the wickets and wrapped up the innings for 204, finishing with 4 for 47 in just under 23 overs. East extended their lead to 114 after the openers played out one over before stumps.
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