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Rain plays spoilsport at Buffalo Park
Consistently heavy rain forced the cancellation of the second one-day international between South Africa and Zimbabwe at East London
The Bulletin by Jamie Alter
17-Sep-2006
Consistently heavy rain forced the cancellation of the second one-day international between South Africa and Zimbabwe at East London. After meetings between both boards, the teams and SuperSport, the host broadcaster, it was decided that the game would be replayed as a day/night match tomorrow.
The covers had been in place for most of the morning and the forecast of further showers under gloomy and windy conditions was spot on.
Heavy rain during the week had left the outfield quite waterlogged. With the super-sopper not working at its best, the groundstaff found it difficult to make the field safe enough for the players.
Both South Africa and Zimbabwe fielded unchanged sides from the series opener at Bloemfontein. There, Boeta Dippenaar's unbeaten 85 helped South Africa home by five wickets with 43 balls to spare, but had been looking for a more polished effort with bat and ball in this match. Though they restricted Zimbabwe to 201, South Africa managed just three wickets inside 33 overs and the killer instinct that Jacques Kallis had spoken about prior to the series was missing.
Full postRain saves India's blushes
Australia were denied a certain victory in the third match of the DLF Cup, as the wet weather played havoc for the second match in a row at the Kinrara Oval
The Bulletin by S Rajesh
16-Sep-2006
Match abandoned India 35 for 5 (Johnson 4-11) v Australia 244 for 9 (Watson 79, Clarke 64)
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Australia were denied a certain victory in the third match of the DLF Cup, as the wet weather played havoc for the second match in a row at the Kinrara Oval. After Australia mustered 244, India, set a revised target of 170 in 29 overs, were decimated by an outstanding spell of fast bowling by Mitchell Johnson, who ripped out the heart of the Indian batting in two hostile overs. He returned magnificent figures of 4 for 11 to have the Indians reeling at 35 for 5 in eight overs, before the rains returned to save India the blushes.
Already having lost a rain-affected match to West Indies on Thursday, India were lagging in third place on the points table, but their bowlers put in a fine show after Australia won the toss, recovering from an early battering to restrict them to 244. Shane Watson, promoted to open the innings for the first time in his ODI career, rode his luck early on and bludgeoned some fine blows en route to a career-best 79 while Michael Clarke made a controlled 64. But the Indian attack, led by the irrepressible Harbhajan Singh (2 for 24) hit back in fine style, ensuring that India needed an asking rate of less than five an over to get their first points of the tournament.
Full postInnings victory gives India the series
India Under-19s beat the Pakistan U-19 by an innings and 240 runs at the Arbab Niaz stadium in Peshawar to win the series 2-0
Cricinfo staff
16-Sep-2006
India Under-19 611 for 9 dec beat Pakistan Under-19 154 and 217 (Riaz Kalil 83, Chawla 3-72, Nadeem 3-53) by an innings and 240 runs
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India Under-19s beat the Pakistan Under-19s by an innings and 240 runs at the Arbab Niaz stadium in Peshawar to win the series 2-0. Their convincing victory included a double-century by Tanmay Srivastava and a century by Piyush Chawla who also managed to get five wickets in the match.
Pakistan began the third day by losing three wickets for 20 runs and only through the attempts of the last-wicket pair did their first-innings score move above 150. Forced to follow-on, trailing by 457 runs, Pakistan could make nothing good of a terribly bad situation for the Indian bowlers dominated from the start. This time the first two wickets fell for 20 and by the time the fifty-run mark was reached another wicket had fallen.
If the top order was having a miserable time, the middle order wasn't doing much better, collapsing spectacularly for nine runs - Chawla and Shahbaz Nadeem, with legbreak and left-arm orthodox respectively, responsible for five of the top eight wickets to fall for 84 runs. But some late resistance came from of Riaz Kalil and Raza Rehman who added 127 for the ninth wicket. Kalil was the only Pakistan batsman to score a half-century in the second innings with 83 off 112 balls which included 14 fours and a six. Rehman missed out on his fifty when the last batsman, Junaid Khan, was bowled for five by Sumit Sharma, leaving him stranded at 48.
Full postDippenaar spares South Africa the blushes
After an early wobble Boeta Dippenaar and Jean-Paul Duminy set South Africa on course for a win in the first one-day international at Bloemfontein
The Bulletin by Sriram Veera
15-Sep-2006
South Africa 202 for 5 (Dippenaar 85*, Duminy 60) beat Zimbabwe 201 for 7 (Sibanda 51) by five wickets
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As expected, South Africa won the opening ODI at Bloemfontein comfortably enough, by five wickets with nearly six overs to spare. However, their performance was far from convincing and they had to overcome a wobble early on in their innings. In the field they started off well but the intensity levels seemed to lessen as the innings progressed, and when they batted, too many of their top order opted for flamboyance when a more circumspect approach was called for. It was left to Boeta Dippenaar, who put on 121 for the fourth wicket with Jean-Paul Duminy, to spare them the blushes.
Zimbabwe will be relieved that they did not embarrass themselves with either bat or ball. Vusi Sibanda produced a gritty half century at the top of the order while Hamilton Mazakadza and Chamu Chibhabha chipped in with useful contributions. Their opening bowlers - Ed Rainsford and Tawanda Mupariwa - prised out three top-order wickets to worry South Africa before they recovered and took the game away from them.
Full postSrivastava's double puts India Under-19 in control
Tanmay Srivastava unbeaten double-century put India Under-19 in a strong position on the opening day of the second four-day match against Pakistan Under-19
Cricinfo staff
14-Sep-2006
India Under-19 393 for 4 (Srivastava 213*, Kohli 83, Sharma 81) v Pakistan Under-19
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Tanmay Srivastava's unbeaten double-century put India Under-19 in a strong position on the opening day of the second four-day match against Pakistan Under-19 at the Arbab Niaz Stadium. Srivastava added 180 runs for the third wicket with Virat Kohli and took India to 393 for 4 after a shaky start.
After winning the toss, India made a disastrous start as Mohammad Naved snared both openers with only 17 on the board - Cheteshwar Pujara was bowled while Uday Kaul was caught behind, as Naved struck in successive overs.
Thereafter Srivastava and Kohli counterattacked and staged a sound recovery. The News reported that Srivastava scored 100 off only 139 balls and Kohli hit 14 fours in his 83. Sumit Sharma, who did not play the first game, picked up where Kohli left off and smashed 50 off only 74 balls with two sixes and six fours.
Full postWindies and rain win the day
West Indies scored their first win in the DLF Cup with a little help from Messrs Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis.
The Bulletin by Anand Vasu
14-Sep-2006
West Indies 141 for 2 (Sarwan 37*, Lara 27*) beat India 309 for 5 (Tendulkar 141*, Pathan 64) by 29 runs (D/L method)
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West Indies scored their first win in the DLF Cup with a little help from Messrs Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis. They beat India by 29 runs, who will consider themselves unlucky to have lost after a magnificent unbeaten 141 from Sachin Tendulkar helped them post 309. West Indies had reached 141 from 20 overs when rain came down, and steadily pitter-pattered down till play had to be called off.
That the rain came down when it did was disappointing, as the game was perfectly set up. Chris Gayle and Ramnaresh Sarwan had given West Indies a good start and, with Brian Lara just getting warmed up, a good chase of a testing total was in the offing.
Full postZimbabwe tour begins with heavy defeat
The Eagles crushed Zimbabwe by nine wickets at Kimberley in the opening match, a Twenty20, of their South African tour.
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13-Sep-2006
Eagles 104 for 1 (Jacobs 53*, Rudolph 22*) beat Zimbabweans 103 (Duffin 40, Tshabalala 3-15) by nine wickets
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The Eagles crushed the Zimbabweans by nine wickets at Kimberley in the opening match, a Twenty20, of their South African tour. Though the margin of victory was vast, the South Africa coach, Mickey Arthur, pointed out today's match was Zimbabwe's first Twenty20 encounter.
Despite Arthur's eagerness not to highlight the weakness of the tourists, the reality was that it took the home side only 11.4 overs to knock off the required 104 runs, losing just the one wicket - Loots Bosman for 23 - on the way.
Davey Jacobs, the 23-year-old right-hander, took the attack to Zimbabwe, crashing three fours and three towering sixes in his unbeaten 53. His 55-run partnership with Jacques Rudolph, who guided 22 from 18 balls, came from just 37 balls as Zimbabwe were beaten with 50 balls remaining.
Full postWarwickshire end Notts' title hopes
A round-up from the latest Pro40 matches
Cricinfo staff
12-Sep-2006
Warwickshire ended Nottinghamshire's hopes of winning the Pro40 title with a five-wicket win in a rain-affected match at Trent Bridge. After Nottinghamshire had set the visitors a competitive 192 - with David Hussey smacking 73 - Warwickshire's run-chase was cut short after 9.1 overs due to an electrical storm which meant the floodlights had to be lowered for safety reasons. After a brief but heavy rain interruption, this left Warwickshire a revised total of 122 from 21 overs and Tim Ambrose (29 from 25) and Heath Streak (17 from 10) ensured they reached it with seven balls to spare.
Full postAustralia pull it off after early scare
A sensational opening partnership was followed by an even more sensational collapse as West Indies replayed one of the familiar tunes that has plagued them in recent times and surrendered the opening game of the DLF Cup
The Bulletin by Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
12-Sep-2006
Australia 279 for 9 (Clarke 81, Ponting 56) beat West Indies 201 (Chanderpaul 93, Gayle 58, Watson 4-42) by 78 runs
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A sensational opening partnership was followed by an even more sensational collapse as West Indies replayed one of the familiar tunes that has plagued them in recent times to surrender the opening game of the DLF Cup. A largely inexperienced Australia fought back remarkably, but this match was not about one team winning it. It was about another giving it away after having the opponents bedraggled.
There are a few things a team can do when they need 108 runs in 26.4 overs with nine wickets in hand, when the opposition bowlers have been demoralised, and when the opening batsmen have rattled along at seven-and-a-half an over. But West Indies didn't choose the conventional route. Once their openers went, the rest chose to self-destruct.
Nine wickets fell for the addition of just 29. A little over ten years back - in the high-tension World Cup semi-final in Mohali, West Indies had folded in similar fashion and have made it a habit in recent times. Brian Lara went, in what has become a fairly common mode of dismissal for him, shuffling across the stump to be pinned lbw and what Dwayne Bravo and Ramnaresh Sarwan were doing - trying to improvise when the asking-rate wasn't even five - is anybody's guess. It was one royal mess.
Full postEssex stay on promotion track
Essex wrapped up an impressive victory over Derbyshire to keep them in the hunt for promotion
Cricinfo staff
11-Sep-2006
Essex completed their demolition job over Derbyshire midway through the third day by an innings and 178 runs at Chelmsford to return to second in the table.
Already three down overnight, Derbyshire lost Hassan Adnan early, a regulation catch in the slips by Ravi Bopara, off Andre Adams. Jake Needham, the nightwatchman, battled hard but Alex Tudor took three quick wickets before the lower order offered some late resistance.
The innings was eventually wrapped up by James Middlebrook and Tim Phillips 25 minutes after lunch. Tudor ended the match with an excellent low diving catch moving in from long-on off Phillips to remove Steffan Jones.
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