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Easy win for St. Lucia
A round-up of the second day's action from the Stanford 20/20 tournament
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13-Jul-2006
St Lucia 106 for 3 (Mathurin 28*) beat British Virgin Islands 105 for 9 (Pipe 39, Prospere 2-13) by 7 wickets
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St. Lucia had an easy outing against British Virgin Islands, winning by seven wickets in the Stanford 20/20 tournament. St. Lucia put in a tight performance in the field, effecting three run-outs and restricting the opposition to a disappointing 105 for 9 in the allotted 20 overs. Darren Sammy, Garey Mathurin and Alleyne Prospere bowled economically and shared five wickets between them as the batsmen struggled to force the pace. Maxford Pipe was the only batsman who looked comfortable in the middle, top-scoring with 39 but lacked support from the other end. Mathurin played his part with the bat, scoring an unbeaten 28 to guide St. Lucia to the target with over five overs to spare.
Full postKasteni guides Zimbabwe home
Zimbabwe A finally registered a victory in their one-day series against Bangladesh A, at Kwekwe, through the impressive efforts of their bowlers and a composed 73 by Friday Kasteni
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12-Jul-2006
Zimbabwe A 182 for 4 (Kasteni 73) beat Bangladesh A 179 (Sharif 52*, Rinke 3-15, Strydom 3-23) by six wickets
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Zimbabwe A finally registered a victory in their one-day series against Bangladesh A, at Kwekwe, through the impressive efforts of their bowlers and a composed 73 by Friday Kasteni. Three wickets apiece for Pete Rinke and Greg Strydom restricted the Bangladesh batting and Zimbabwe had few problems knocking off the runs despite their early troubles in the series.
Bangladesh were on the backfoot from the start as Nafees Iqbal fell first ball and although the top order played with their customary freedom, wickets also went at regular intervals. They were seven down by the start of the 22nd over - with Rinke taking three in an impressive eight-over spell - and the remaining batsmen were left to rescue what they could.
Tushar Imran, the captain, played a solid hand but it was Mohammad Sharif, the No.9, who really pushed the total upwards towards respectability. The pair added 61 for the eighth wicket and when Imran went Sharif, who has eight ODI caps, reached his first half-century at any one-day level.
Full postIndia stumble after Chawla's five-wicket haul
India A stuttered in their first innings after Piyush Chawla's five-wicket haul helped restrict New Zealand A to 332 on the second day of their Top End Series encounter in Darwin
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12-Jul-2006
India A 6 for 209 (Badrinath 55) trail New Zealand A (McMillan 108, Chawla 5-86) by 123 runs
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India A stuttered in their first innings after Piyush Chawla's five-wicket haul helped restrict New Zealand A to 332 on the second day of their Top End Series encounter in Darwin. Craig McMillan played the lone hand for his side, scoring 108, while Chawla plugged away, as India took the last five wickets for only 20 runs.
Resuming from their overnight score of 4 for 257, the New Zealanders lost an early wicket when the accurate Rudra Pratap Singh got Mark Orchard to edge to Parthiv Patel. Having lost a wicket without adding to their overnight score, McMillan and Gareth Hopkins fought back with 55 for the sixth wicket before Chawla started the collapse. He bowled Hopkins for 17, and accounted for Jeetan Patel and Hamish Bennett to bag his fifth five-wicket haul in first-class cricket.
India suffered early setbacks as seamers Chris Martin and Orchard accounted for both openers. Parthiv showed some resistance with 35, before New Zealand struck with two wickets in quick succession to set India back further at 4 for 47. S Badrinath was the top scorer with 55, adding 53 for the fifth wicket with Reetinder Sodhi. India were in further trouble at 6 for 142, but Rohit Sharma and Tejinder Pal Singh combined to add an unbeaten 67, with both scoring 41 each.
Full postHafeez leads the charge after Australia A's run-fest
Batsmen from both sides made merry on the second day of the Top End series encounter between Australia A and Pakistan A at Darwin
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12-Jul-2006
Pakistan A 1 for 165 (Hafeez 86*) trail Australia A 6 for 510 dec (Watson 161*, Haddin 129, Johnson 51*) by 345 runs
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Batsmen from both sides made merry on the second day of the Top End series encounter between Australia A and Pakistan A at Darwin. Australia's overnight batsmen Shane Watson and Brad Haddin went on to score centuries to take the score over 500, and after the declaration Pakistan began confidently, led by former international Mohammad Hafeez, who scored a fluent unbeaten 86.
Watson and Haddin went from strength to strength, as Pakistan struggled to control the flow of runs. Both brought up their centuries during the first session, with Watson playing the more attacking role, hammering 16 boundaries to reach his century off 170 balls. Haddin reached the three-figure mark soon after, interestingly at a strike rate almost identical to Watson's, but with a lesser percentage of boundaries. Abdur Rehman got the first breakthrough for Pakistan, dismissing Haddin just before lunch for 129. Mitchell Johnson joined Watson and the pair added an unbeaten 76 for the seventh wicket at a fast clip, with the declaration in mind. Johnson batted with a sense of urgency, his 51 coming off only 58 balls which included three sixes. Watson remained unbeaten on 161 as Haddin declared the innings at 6 for 510.
Full postUS Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands post wins
A round-up of the first day's action from the Stanford 20/20 tournament
Keith Lane and Cricinfo Staff
12-Jul-2006
United States Virgin Islands 145 for 7 (Huggins 51) beat St. Maarten 98 (Huggins 2-17, Florent 2-18) by 48 runs
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St Maarten's participation in the Stanford 20/20 tournament in Antigua was
short-lived as they were comprehensively beaten by 47 runs by the United
States Virgin Islands in the first match of the tournament.
Set to make 147 for victory, the St Maarten innings never gained the
momentum that they needed, with wicketkeeper-batsman Steven Evans the
only one to score at more than a run-a-ball. His 39 from 32 was never
going to be enough to fight the lone battle. Sherville Huggins, John Florent
and Dane Weston each took two wickets to bowl St Maarten out in 18 overs.
Earlier, the Virgin Islands had scored 145 for 7 in their 20 overs thanks to
Huggins, who scored the first half-century of the tournament. He was well
assisted by Clifford Walvin and together, the two put on 47 in the middle
overs.
Full postSinclair, Papps and McMillan enjoy good outing
Half-centuries by Michael Papps, Mathew Sinclair and Craig McMillan took New Zealand A to a reasonable position at the end of the first day against India A
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11-Jul-2006
New Zealand A 4 for 257 (Sinclair 76, Papps 69, McMillan 62*) v India A
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Half-centuries by Michael Papps, Mathew Sinclair and Craig McMillan took New Zealand A to a reasonable position at the end of the first day of their four-day match against India A at the Gardens Oval in Darwin. The bowlers managed to keep the runs in check, restricting the scoring rate to less than three an over as New Zealand ended at 4 for 257.
After winning the toss, the New Zealanders suffered an early setback as Matthew Bell was dismissed by Siddharth Trivedi for 1. Sinclair joined Papps and the two added 148 for the second wicket. Piyush Chawla, the legspinner, then dismissed both batsmen in quick succession, leaving New Zealand at 3 for 157. Craig McMillan, the captain, and Rob Nicol settled down to add 83 for the fourth wicket, till Nicol was run out for 36. McMillan remained undefeated on 62 at the close of play. For India, Chawla was the most effective bowler, taking 2 for 56 off 28 overs. Rudra Pratap Singh, the left-arm seamer, bowled economically, giving away only 41 runs off his 19 overs with nine maidens.
Full postWatson and Haddin put Australia back on track
Australia A began well, slipped up for a brief period, and came back strongly to take the first day's honours against Pakistan A at Darwin
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11-Jul-2006
Australia A 5 for 307 (Watson 72*, Haddin 68*, Cosgrove 61, Jaques 60) v Pakistan A
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Australia A began well, slipped up for a brief period, and came back strongly to take the first day's honours against Pakistan A at Darwin. Thanks to fifties from Phil Jaques, Mark Cosgrove, Brad Haddin and Shane Watson, the hosts finished the day on 5 for 307.
Despite the loss of Chris Rogers for 9, Jaques and Cosgrove put on a fine 117-run stand on a seaming pitch. Though the ball moved around, Jaques and Cosgrove were in fine form and their association promised much more before Cosgrove held out to Mohammad Khalil in the deep off Mohammad Hafeez for 61 shortly after lunch. Jaques departed soon after, bowled by Hafeez's part-time offspin for 60. The slide ensued, with Pakistan hitting back with the wickets of Brad Hodge, the Test discard, and Travis Birt, caught at bat-pad for 0 off Adbur Rehman, the slow left-arm spinner.
Full postPakistan win despite Tendulkar fifty
Inzamam-ul-Haq and Shahid Afridi both struck powerful cameos as Pakistan beat an International XI side in a charity match at The Oval, despite 50 from Sachin Tendulkar
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10-Jul-2006
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Inzamam-ul-Haq and Shahid Afridi both struck powerful cameos as Pakistan beat an International XI side in a charity match at The Oval, despite 50 from Sachin Tendulkar. Rain and gloom reduced the Twenty20 clash to a ten-over-a-side encounter but a 20,000-plus crowd were entertained by the glittering array of stars on show and raised £250,000 for survivors of last October's earthquake in Pakistan.
On a wet and gloomy evening in south London, chasing 124, Afridi did what he does best and clobbered the bowling around the park. In the space of just 12 balls, he smashed 41 runs - 22 of which came from his first four balls. The unlucky victim was Zaheer Khan who, bowling in near darkness, was hit for three sixes and a four in typically violent manner.
Inzamam then finished off Afridi's work with a pugnacious 36 as Pakistan, needing 18 off the last over, sneaked home off the penultimate ball.
Full postSadat steers Bangladesh to series
Opener Nazmus Sadat was the hero again after his half-century inspired Bangladesh to a six wicket victory in the third one-day match against Zimbabwe played at Queens Sports Cub. The result means that Bangladesh have secured the five-match series 3-0
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09-Jul-2006
Bangladesh A 214 for 4(Nazmus Sadat 90, Mehrab Hossain*) beat Zimbabwe A 211(Masakadza 45, Farhad Reza 3-29) by six wickets
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Opener Nazmus Sadat was the hero again after his half-century inspired Bangladesh to a six wicket victory in the third one-day match against Zimbabwe played at Queens Sports Cub. The result means that Bangladesh have secured the five-match series 3-0.
Sadat followed his hundred in the opening match with 90 today, sharing in a third-wicket stand of 106 with Mehrab Hossain, who scored an unbeaten 65, as the visitors reached their target for the loss of just four wickets in 46.3 overs after restricting Zimbabwe to 210 in 50 overs.
Zimbabwe A made one change, bringing in pace bowler Trevor Garwe for fellow seamer Admire Manyumwa, while Bangladesh named an unchanged XI.
Full postTushar sees Bangladesh home
Tushar Imran scored a defiant 96 not out to guide Bangladesh to a four-wicket win in the second one-day match played at Queens Sports Club to take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series
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09-Jul-2006
Bangladesh A 208 for 6 (Tushar Imran 96*) beat Zimbabwe A 204 (Mawoyo 61, Masakadza 60, Saqibul Hasan 4-30) by four wickets runs
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Tushar Imran scored a defiant 96 not out to guide Bangladesh to a four-wicket win in the second one-day match played at Queens Sports Club to take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series.
Imran batted for 211 minutes, faced 125 balls and stroked nine fours as the visitors scored
208 to win the match with four overs to spare. This was after Zimbabwe A had posted 204 in 41.1 overs having won the toss and elected to bat with half centuries from opener
Tinotenda Mawoyo and Hamilton Masakadza.
Zimbabwe A made two changes to the side that lost the first match at the same venue by 26 runs on Thursday, taking out their two opening bowlers Christopher Mpofu and Trevor Garwe, bringing in offspinner turned pace bowler Bradley Staddon and legspinner Ryan Higgins. For the visitors, seamer Hasibul Hossain made way for left-arm spinner Enamul Haque(jnr)
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