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Vettori stars in ten-run win
A masterclass of left-arm bowling from Daniel Vettori allowed New Zealand to sponge the pressure of a ballistic start to the run chase by India and script a fine 10-run win at the Wanderers
The Bulletin by Sriram Veera
16-Sep-2007
New Zealand 190 (McCullum 45, Oram 35) beat India 180 for 9 (Gambhir 51, Sehwag 40, Vettori 4-20) by 10 runs
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A masterclass of left-arm bowling from Daniel Vettori allowed New Zealand to soak up the pressure of a flying start by India to the run chase and script a fine 10-run win at the Wanderers. When Vettori brought himself into the attack in the seventh over, India were 76 for the loss of just Virender Sehwag and the game was theirs for the taking. Vettori varied his flight and pace cleverly to choke the run-flow, increase the pressure and eventually lure the batsmen to their demise.
A breezy 45 from Brendon McCullum had earlier laid the foundation for New Zealand before Craig McMillan and Jacob Oram effected some violent late-order hitting to take the total to a healthy 190 but it almost proved inadequate against the rampaging Indian openers.
Full postMorkel brothers shine in comfortable win over Bangladesh
After withstanding a ferocious early onslaught from Bangladesh, South Africa eased to a comfortable seven-wicket victory in the final league match of the ICC World Twenty20
The Bulletin by Dileep Premachandran
15-Sep-2007
South Africa 146 for 3 (Smith 41, Albie Morkel 41) beat Bangladesh 144 (Aftab 36, Pollock 3-40) by seven wickets
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After withstanding a ferocious early onslaught from Bangladesh, South
Africa eased to a comfortable seven-wicket victory in the final league
match of the ICC World Twenty20. Needing just 145 for victory, Graeme
Smith and Albie Morkel made 41 apiece after JP Duminy had set the tone
with an aggressive 36. A huge six from Justin Kemp finished it with seven
balls to spare, but not before Bangladesh had given more glimpses of just
what a dangerous side they are in this format.
Smith and Duminy started fairly sedately, knowing that no great heroics
were needed to keep up with the asking rate. Smith charged Mashrafe
Mortaza and struck two splendid shots down the ground, while Duminy
concentrated on the gaps in the leg-side field. He played the pull with
immense power, while a paddle for four off Syed Rasel showed that he could
finesse the ball as well.
Full postSouth Africa A capitulate against Indian spinners
Weighed down by a mountain of runs, South Africa A crumbled against two spinners and a young pace bowler to give India A an innings victory at the Feroz Shah Kotla
The Bulletin by Jamie Alter in New Delhi
15-Sep-2007
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India A 588 for 4 (Chopra 239*, Badrinath 200*, Patel 110) beat South Africa A 145 (van Wyk 67) and 201 (Tsolekile 63*, Ojha 5-66) by an innings and 242 runs
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Weighed down by a mountain of runs, South Africa A crumbled against two spinners of different varieties and a lively young seamer to give India A an innings victory at the Feroz Shah Kotla. A rejuvenated Ishant Sharma got the breakthroughs early in the day but it was left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha, with eight wickets, and legspinner Amit Mishra who stifled the tourists and forced the win inside three days.
Sharma, who overstepped a fair deal on day two, was far better in his six-over spell this morning. Having sorted out his no-ball issues, Sharma struck a good line and got into fast-bowling rhythm. Crucially, he was able to extract reverse-swing from a fairly dormant surface. Morne van Wyk, whose 67 was the highest contribution by some distance, was suckered into a tame drive outside the off stump and was well caught at first slip. The ball flew high to Mohammad Kaif, who had little time to react but dived to his right and intercepted as it veered towards second slip.
Full postJayasuriya stars in Sri Lankan win
A Man-of-the-Match performance from Sanath Jayasuriya helped Sri Lanka chase down New Zealand's 164 for 7 with seven wickets to spare
Dileep Premachandran
15-Sep-2007
Sri Lanka 168 for 3 (Jayasuriya 61, Jayawardene 35 not out) beat New Zealand 164 for 7 (Taylor 62, Oram 33 not out) by seven wickets
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Their poor outing was encapsulated by Shane Bond, who was clattered for 45
from his four overs while also dropping Jayasuriya off successive balls,
the second a sitter at mid-on when he had made 40. Upul Tharanga
contributed a sparkling 37 as the match was effectively sealed within the
first seven overs of the Lankan innings.
Jayasuriya got off the mark with a streaky four down to third man off
Bond, but there was nothing fortuitous about strokes that raced to the
rope at backward point, square leg and long-off. Bond had a wretched
outing against Sri Lanka in the World Cup semi-final at Sabina Park and it
was reprised here with Tharanga carving him through cover and then
top-edging a six over fine leg.
Full postPakistan A facing defeat after huge deficit
Pakistan A were left reeling at 86 for 3 in their second innings at the end of the third day's play still needing another 372 to make Australia A bat again and avoid an innings defeat
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14-Sep-2007
Pakistan A 86 for 3 (Hameed 36*, Irshad 5*) and 199 trail Australia A 657 for 8 dec by 372 runs
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Pakistan A were left reeling at 86 for 3 in their second innings at the end of the third day's play still needing another 372 to make Australia A bat again and avoid an innings defeat. Yasir Hameed (36*) and Mohammad Irshad (5*), the nightwatchman, were the two unbeaten batsmen as they face an uphill task of batting out the entire day tomorrow and hold on for a draw.
Australia, earlier, declared after scoring a mammoth 657 for the loss of eight wickets courtesy of a 162-run partnership between David Hussey and James Hopes, the two overnight batsmen. Resuming on 143 and 34 respectively, both carried on the attack against the tiring Pakistan bowling line-up that even included Hasan Raza.
Full postIndia edge past in bowl-out
More than 21 years after Javed Miandad's last-ball heroics in Sharjah, India and Pakistan played out a thrilling tie at the ICC World Twenty20. India, however, prevailed in the bowl-out
The Bulletin by Dileep Premachandran
14-Sep-2007
India 141 for 9 (Uthappa 50, Asif 4-18) beat Pakistan 141 for 7 (Misbah 53, Pathan 2-20) in a bowl-out after match tied
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More than 21 years after Javed Miandad's last-ball heroics in Sharjah, India and Pakistan played out a thrilling tie at the ICC World Twenty20, with Misbah-ul-Haq run out off the last ball of the match. But the tournament rules didn't allow for the spoils to be shared, and it was India that prevailed in the bowl-out. Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh and Robin Uthappa were Dirty Harry-accurate, while Yasir Arafat, Umar Gul and Shahid Afridi all missed by a fair distance as a sell-out crowd celebrated an enthralling finale.
The 33-year-old Misbah, who made a magnificent 53 from just 35 balls, had been an unlikely hero for Pakistan after Shahid Afridi's dismissal, with 39 needed from 15 balls, had left them in a seemingly hopeless situation. He needed just one run from the last two balls of the innings, but
Sreesanth came round the wicket to deliver a dot ball and then a short one that Misbah could only parry to silly mid-off. He had no chance of completing the single.
Full postDalrymple keeps promotion hopes flickering
Middlesex beat Leicestershire by 38 runs at Southgate, keeping their chances of pipping Nottinghamshire to the second Championship Division Two promotion place just about alive
Cricinfo staff
14-Sep-2007
Middlesex 176 and 381 beat Leicestershire 190 and 279 (Allenby 46, Nixon 37) by 38 runs
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Middlesex beat Leicestershire by 38 runs at Southgate, keeping their chances of pipping Nottinghamshire to the second Championship Division Two promotion place just about alive.
They will need to take maximum points from their remaining game next week, while Nottinghamshire will need only one point from their match at champions Somerset.
Leicestershire resumed on 178 for 6, needing 140 runs with four wickets remaining, and Claude Henderson and David Masters added 62 for the seventh wicket to further boost their chances.
Full postChopra and Badrinath double-tons put India on top
Double centuries from Aakash Chopra and Subramaniam Badrinath carried India A to a mammoth 588 for 4 before the hosts took two wickets to leave South Africa A on 93 for 2 at the Feroz Shah Kotla
The Bulletin by Jamie Alter in New Delhi
14-Sep-2007
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South Africa A 93 for 2 (van Wyk 53*, Dippenaar 3*) trail India A 588 for 4 dec (Chopra 239*, Badrinath 200*) by 495 runs
Double centuries from Aakash Chopra and Subramaniam Badrinath carried India A to a mammoth 588 for 4 before the hosts took two wickets to leave South Africa A on 93 for 2 at the Feroz Shah Kotla. The 410-run association between Chopra and Badrinath was the second-highest fifth-wicket stand in first-class cricket, second to the unbeaten 464 put on by the Waugh brothers for New South Wales against Western Australia at Perth in 1990-91. Behind by 495 runs, South Africa need Morne van Wyk to carry on the positives shown in his unbeaten 53.
India consolidated their platform with a dominant first session. Both batsmen were watchful in the first hour's play. Chopra hit one sweet drive through the covers but otherwise was resolute and played his shots only against the spinners. He accumulated his way past 150, surviving a run-out scare. After he miscued a pull just short of mid-on early, he preferred to play the pace bowlers off the back foot. Badrinath, enjoying a fine run of form, built on his overnight 77 patiently before he picked up four boundaries in two overs, lacing one backward of point and hitting Werner Coetsee for three with good use of the feet. Just short of an hour into the day he stole a single to the offside to bring up his 12th first-class hundred.
Full postAustralia rout feeble England
Australia's bowlers bounced back from their humiliation against Zimbabwe on Wednesday night, restricting England to an uncomfortable total of 135
The Bulletin by Andrew Miller
14-Sep-2007
Australia 136 for 2 (Hayden 67*) beat England 135 (Flintoff 31, Bracken 3-16) by eight wickets
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The cause of England's downfall was a muddled performance from their batsman, who seemed more distracted by Australia's pre-match predicament than the Aussies themselves. Though Kevin Pietersen had talked in gleeful terms of "humiliating" their oldest rivals and sending them home early, none of his team-mates were able to back up the big words with deeds. Pietersen bristled during a 20-ball cameo but yorked himself when well set on 21, Collingwood clobbered 18 quick runs then missed a low full-toss, and by the time the last five wickets had tumbled for eight runs, Andrew Flintoff's 31 from 19 balls was as good as England could offer.
After the Zimbabwe match, Ricky Ponting had called on his players to respect the game a little more, and this time Australia were a committed unit from the very first ball. Brett Lee, whose thunderbolts had been misdirected during Wednesday's defeat, conceded just nine runs in his first two overs to push England's openers onto the defensive, and he was superbly backed up by his fellow seamers - Nathan Bracken, Stuart Clark and Mitchell Johnson - who took eight wickets between them and in doing so conceded no more than six runs an over.
Full postSri Lanka overwhelm Kenya
It was minnow bashing at its best as Sri Lanka, led by Sanath Jayasuriya, pulverized Kenya, beating them by 172 runs at the Wanderers
The Bulletin by Kanishkaa Balachandran
14-Sep-2007
Sri Lanka 260 for 6 (Jayasuriya 88, Jayawardene 65, Mubarak 46* Kamande 3-48) beat Kenya 88 for 9 (Obuya 32) by 172 runs
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It was minnow bashing at its best as Sri Lanka, led by Sanath Jayasuriya, pulverized Kenya, beating them by 172 runs at the Wanderers. Jayasuriya's whirlwind 88 and Jehan Mubarak's late fireworks lifted Sri Lanka to a record team score of 260 for 6, a target way out of reach for the opposition as Kenya managed just 88.
Records tumbled as the victory margin of 172 set the record for the biggest ever in Twenty20 internationals. Mubarak and Mahela Jayawardene - who made 65 - came within striking distance of recording the fastest fifties and the score of 260 foretold the result of the match even before the Kenya openers took guard.
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