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Baroda batsmen dominate on day one against Orissa
Baroda had things their own way on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy semifinal against Orissa at the Gujarat State Fertilizer Corporation Ground in Baroda on Thursday
Staff Reporter
05-Apr-2001
Baroda had things their own way on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy semifinal against Orissa at the Gujarat State Fertilizer Corporation Ground in Baroda on Thursday. Winning a good toss, the hosts piled on the runs and ended the day with an imposing score of 319 for two off 90 overs.
Baroda's consistent opening pair Connor Williams and Satyajit Parab gave their side a good start by putting on 54 runs off 10 overs before the former was caught by wicketkeeper Gopal off Mohanty for 35. The 27-year-old left hander, who dominated the partnership, faced just 32 balls and hit five fours in his brief but bright innings.
Nayan Mongia joined Parab and the two motored along steadily. The two added 111 runs for the second wicket off 33.1 overs before Parab was stumped by Gopal off Satpathy for 60. The 25-year-old Parab, one of the consistent run getters this season maintained his form facing 127 balls and hitting seven fours.
With skipper Jacob Martin joining Mongia, there was no respite for the Orissa team. The two experienced campaigners picked off the runs with consummate ease. Orissa captain Shiv Sundar Das tried eight bowlers in all but there was little they could do and Mongia and Martin came through unbeaten at stumps. The 31-year-old Indian wicketkeeper, who can boast of a highest score of 152 in Test cricket, was batting on 137 at stumps. He has so far faced 244 balls and hit 19 fours and a six. Martin, who completes 29 next month, was on 70 at close of play. He has so far faced 142 balls and hit ten fours. With two established players at the crease and with plenty of batting to come, Baroda are poised for a really imposing total.
Full postSharif and Bashar ensure good start for Bangladesh
Bangladesh made a good and enthusiastic start to their Zimbabwean tour with a decisive seven-wicket victory over the CFX Academy team
John Ward
04-Apr-2001
Bangladesh made a good and enthusiastic start to their Zimbabwean tour with a decisive seven-wicket victory over the CFX Academy team.
Mohammad Sharif and Habibul Bashar were their star performers of a day when they were more than equal to the best the opposition could produce.
They dismissed the Academy for 183 on a good batting pitch, with pace bowler Sharif turning in an impressive performance to take five wickets and also effect a run out, and then turned in a good, aggressive batting display to win with more than a third of the overs unbowled.
The match began in cloudy but dry weather at Alexandra Sports Club in
Harare. The Academy won the toss and decided to bat on a good batting pitch.
Full postWarriors triumph in high-scoring battle
On a pitch tailor-made for high scoring, home team Western Australia proved more in tune with conditions than South African rival, KwaZulu-Natal, to win the Champions Cup Final by a margin of six wickets at the WACA ground in Perth tonight
CricInfo
04-Apr-2001
On a pitch tailor-made for high scoring, home team Western Australia proved more in tune with conditions than South African rival, KwaZulu-Natal, to win the Champions Cup Final by a margin of six wickets at the WACA ground in Perth tonight. The Warriors, who remained undefeated throughout this four-team tournament, overhauled the Dolphins' score of 8/243 with five deliveries to spare.
Despite the brilliant late rally engineered by all-rounder John Kent (81*) and wicketkeeper-batsman Errol Stewart (46), KwaZulu-Natal's total always looked a shade modest.
This was particularly true once Western Australian openers Marcus North (55) and Ryan Campbell (29) had added a stand of sixty in better than even time at the start of the evening session. Star batsmen Simon Katich (67*) and Justin Langer (34) also weighed in, ensuring that the side which gained entry to this tournament by virtue of winning the 1999-2000 Mercantile Mutual Cup always retained a decisive edge.
Kent and Stewart threatened to spoil the locals' party when they joined to add an enterprising ninety-five runs for the seventh KwaZulu-Natal wicket earlier in the day. Kent's strokeplay and placement was inspired; Stewart's did not lose much by comparison; and the pair scampered cleverly between the wickets. But a succession of dismissals through the early stages of the visitors' innings ensured that they were never able to fully capitalise upon their victory at the toss. Speedsters Matthew Nicholson (2/50) and Jo Angel (2/39) wreaked havoc initially, reducing their opponents to scorelines of 3/41 and 6/133 at different times.
Full postWarriors warm up for final with tidy dress rehearsal
Western Warriors warmed up for the final of the Champions Cup tomorrow with an easy 108-run win over Central Districts in Perth today
Lynn McConnell
03-Apr-2001
Western Warriors warmed up for the final of the Champions Cup tomorrow with an easy 108-run win over Central Districts in Perth today.
Going into the game CD had the chance of playing in the final themselves if they could beat their Australian hosts, but a disappointing batting effort, where the top order again failed the side, meant CD were never competitive.
In the field, CD did a superb job in holding the Western Warriors to a total of 257/8, when it seemed that a score in excess of 280 was on the cards.
But in the end it didn't matter as CD couldn't capitalise with the bat.
Full postUpbeat Australia defeat India by 93 runs, level series
Australia annihilated the Indian bowlers in the first session to make 338/4 in 50 overs and then demolished the top order of the Indian batting line up, to bowl them out for 245 in 45 overs
Santhosh S
03-Apr-2001
Australia annihilated the Indian bowlers in the first session to make
338/4 in 50 overs and then demolished the top order of the Indian batting
line up, to bowl them out for 245 in 45 overs. Australia thus levelled the
series 2-2 after the fourth ODI played at Indira Priyadarshini Municipal
Corporation Stadium, Vishakapatnam on Tuesday.
In tough times, the Aussies really back their ability. Steve Waugh is a
very good example of the great Australian spirit. He has backed Ricky Ponting
and Shane Warne in spite of their continued failure. Today, Ponting (101) and
Warne (3/38) came good when it really mattered. The captain himself played a
whirlwind 35 off 24 balls and then came back to bowl an inspired spell to pick
up 3/29.
In contrast, Sourav Ganguly is a lost man with the bat. He has tried all the
tricks in his bag to get out of this wretched run of poor form. Ganguly has been switching batting positions and today he opened the innings with Sachin Tendulkar. The Aussies are not the kind who give a free meal to a struggling opponent. They are a bunch of tough professionals and today they had Ganguly tied up in a knot for 36 balls while he made nine runs. He then pushed an easy catch to Warne at short cover off Bracken.
Sachin Tendulkar had the crowd on their feet cheering and dancing to the 11 sweetly timed fours he hit. He played a quick-fire 62 off just 38 balls before slicing a catch to Waugh off the bowling of Bracken. There was a thunderous roar in the stadium when Tendulkar smashed McGrath for three consecutive boundaries in the 11th over.
Full postBarbados Test still very much on
This third Test match is still very tight indeed
Colin Croft
02-Apr-2001
This third Test match is still very tight indeed. On the last day two of South Africa's most experienced batsmen, Daryll Cullinan and Jacques Kallis will try to consolidate their overall lead of 119 with seven second innings wickets in hand. If anyone could do it, then these two could. Both have already made tremendous contributions to this series and this is only Test No. 3.
The West Indies, with a great tradition of not losing much at home having only lost one series in
the Caribbean since 1993, are fighting to bring themselves back into the
game and the series, striking late on the penultimate day.
They managed to snare Gary Kirsten, for his second duck of the game, Herschelle Gibbs for 19 and
Neil McKenzie for 12, leaving South Africa 52-3 in their second innings. That took some doing, since
all three of these batsmen have done some harm to the West Indies bowlers in this series.
Yet Carl Hooper made some very quick decisions with his bowling changes,
using himself with his off-breaks as the first change and leg-spinner Dinanath Ramnarine immediately
afterwards. The moves proved successful and South Africa could have been in a worse
position had Marlon Samuels taken a sharp chance, at backward short-leg, offered by Kallis from
Hooper's bowling.
Full postWest Indies scramble to a draw in Third Test
An extraordinary day which saw both sides threaten to win the third Test but ultimately ended with a draw as the Kensington Oval again threw up a real nail-biter
MWP
02-Apr-2001
An extraordinary day which saw both sides threaten to win the third Test but
ultimately ended with a draw as the Kensington Oval again threw up a real
nail-biter. By stumps it was the South Africans applying almost unbearable
pressure with Mervyn Dillon and Dinanath Ramnarine defending tigerishly, and
play-acting even more determinedly.
By a farcical close, South Africa were just three wickets short of
pulling off the most unlikely of victories, but Dillon's bat in particular
has been a defensive barn door already in this series and as the South
Africans encircled him with fielders, he blocked everything which came his
way.
Ramnarine, meanwhile,did his best to frustrate the South Africans with a
classic display of time-wasting, taking studious care to tap down
non-existent bumps in the pitch and then calling the physio out with some
strapping for a hamstring injury which had suddenly appeared from nowhere.
Umpire Steve Bucknor eventually had enough of his antics and issued him with
an official warning.
In one of those wonderful cricketing ironies, the substantial crowd ended
the day cheering every ball the tail-enders survived as loud as any boundary
from Brian Lara or Carl Hooper on Saturday.
Full postPakistan Domestic: Blazing 124 by Saeed for KRL
Saeed bin Nasir slammed a blazing 124 but KRL couldn't capitalize on the middle-order batsman's century when they were bowled out for 295 by PIA on the second day of the four-day Patron's Trophy match at their ground on Sunday
Sports Reporter
02-Apr-2001
Saeed bin Nasir slammed a blazing 124 but KRL couldn't capitalize on the middle-order batsman's century when they were bowled out for 295 by PIA on the second day of the four-day Patron's Trophy match at their ground on Sunday.
Resuming his innings at the overnight score of 34, Saeed went on to score an excellent 124 which was laced with 17 fours. His eighth-wicket stand with Naeem Akhtar, who contributed 21, yielded a valuable 57 runs.
Saeed, a right-hand batsman, faced 269 balls and was finally dismissed by Shoaib Malik, who finished the day with 4-40 with his off-break bowling.
When the stumps were drawn for the day, PIA, helped by an exquisite 57 by Yasir Hameed and 44 by Ghulam Ali had reached 161 for four.
Full postAnother boost for young CD side, a win in Perth
Central Districts kept their hopes alive in the Champions Cup tournament by beating Indian side Mumbai by 106 runs in Perth last night
Lynn McConnell
02-Apr-2001
Central Districts kept their hopes alive in the Champions Cup tournament by beating Indian side Mumbai by 106 runs in Perth last night.
CD will now meet the Australian entrant, the Western Warriors, tonight in Perth (NZ time) and will need to win if it is to be a chance of playing in the final on Wednesday.
Mumbai ended the tournament winless, and it was well beaten last night.
Mumbai asked CD to bat first, and must have been delighted when having the New Zealand Shell Cup champions 88/5, but a superb 108-run partnership between captain Jacob Oram and Glen Sulzberger got CD out of a hole and set up the winning margin.
Full postLancashire suffer their second defeat in as many days
Lancashire suffered their second defeat in as many days at Newlands as they fell 66 runs short at the hands of a strong Western Province side
David Dawson
02-Apr-2001
Lancashire suffered their second defeat in as many days at Newlands as they fell 66 runs short at the hands of a strong Western Province side.
Western Province batting first notched 230 for 8 in their 45 overs thanks mainly to opening batter Neil Johnson who scored 107. The WP side were looking set for an even bigger total but the vital run out of Johnson and tight bowling from Gary Yates, Chris Schofield and Peter Martin put Lancashire well in the game at the interterrible start losing Driver, Roberts, Fairbrother and Lloyd in the first six overs to leave them at 11 for 4.
A revival was then sparked by Mark Chilton and Joe Scuderi but this partnership was ended when Mark Chilton was harshly given out LBW for 20. If ever a captains innings was needed it was now, Warren Hegg once again deputising for the injured John Crawley decided the best form of defence was attack and along with Joe Scuderi set about restoring some pride to the teams total.
Warren Hegg was finally out for a gutsey 61 and Scuderi followed for 27, along with a brave knock at the end from Chris Schofield who injured his back when bowling, the lower order fought well before being all out for 164.
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