Matches (27)

Women's World Cup (2)

AFG vs BAN (1)

IND v WI (1)

PAK vs SA (1)

Sheffield Shield (3)

Ranji Trophy (19)

SL-W

(50 ov) 258/6

NZ-W

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AFG

293/9

BAN

(27.1/50 ov, T:294) 93

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Nevin's thumb overshadows even day at Hamilton

Wellington and Northern Districts ended the first day of the Shell Trophy match evenly poised today - which would not have pleased Wellington, who took the opportunity to bowl on a lively green-tinged pitch only to see Northern survive early trials

Chris Rosie

01-Feb-2001

If that was not bad enough for the championship leaders, they lost their star wicket-keeper in the third over after lunch. Chris Nevin left the field with a damaged thumb after a spectacular if unsuccessful dive for a catch down the leg side from Hamish Marshall.

Wellington coach Vaughn Johnson advised that x-rays had established the thumb was not broken but a further assessment of the injury would not be available until tomorrow.

On the field it was a case of runs coming in spurts. After the Wellington pace men Mark Gillespie and Iain O'Brien had enjoyed the conditions - and James Marshall hadn't - Michael Parlane (60) and Mark Bailey (47) began to find the pace of the pitch to their liking, rattling on 109 together before they were out in quick succession before lunch, which Northern reached at 122 for three.

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Young guns fire after late starter has day in the sun

A tight all-round performance from an inexperienced Canterbury team against Otago today showed the missing stars the competitiveness which they seem to lack currently

Matthew Appleby

01-Feb-2001

A tight all-round performance from an inexperienced Canterbury team against Otago today showed the missing stars the competitiveness which they seem to lack currently.

But it was Andrew Hore who was the outstanding player of the day, hitting a second career hundred. He brought up his century in 141 balls, with 14 fours and two sixes, to make it consecutive tons at Christchurch's Village Green.

He fell seven balls later, without addition, to a spectacular overhead snatch on the third man boundary by Aaron Redmond, which gave Wade Cornelius his maiden Trophy wicket. The personable fast bowler later spoke modestly about the milestone, remarking, "good catch, wasn't it?"

Eager fielding and accurate bowling from the five bowlers used, who are all 23 or under, kept a strong Otago eleven subdued for large parts of a bright and sunny day at the QEII ground.

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Small step, but big leap for Nash and Auckland

If Dion Nash did nothing more on the first day of the Shell Trophy match between Auckland and Central Districts at Fitzherbert Park than bowl four relatively undistinguished overs for 14 runs, he could have counted the day a personal triumph

Steve McMorran

01-Feb-2001

That he scored an unbeaten 55 to place Auckland within four runs of a first innings lead after they had been 21/3 in reply to Central's 132 was an outstanding achievement but subsidiary in many senses to his bowling performance.

Batting with a mixture of tenacity, aggression and defiance has become Nash's forte and he has always been sufficiently blessed with those qualities, with good technique and determination, to command a place in the Auckland side as a batsman alone.

But he made his name as a bowler and he still wants to be one - would be one were it not for a back injury which has kept him from the crease through this long season.

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Tendulkar, Kambli lead West Zone run spree

Staff Reporter

01-Feb-2001

Sachin Tendulkar hammered 199 and added 225 runs for the third wicket with Vinod Kambli (105 not out) as West Zone went on a run spree on the opening day of their Duleep Trophy match against East Zone at the Nehru stadium in Pune on Thursday. Riding on the form shown by the gifted duo, West Zone rattled up 384 for four wickets off 90 overs at close of play.

It was a good toss that Tendulkar won but Wasim Jaffer was perhaps a trifle unfortunate to be out to the first ball of the match, edging Debasish Mohanty to Deep Dasgupta. The home team suffered another early blow when the other opening bowler J Zaman had Nayan Mongia caught by Sukhbinder Singh for seven runs.

Tendulkar joined Hrishikesh Kanitkar at this stage and at once there was a change in the tempo of the match. The hunter suddenly became the hunted. Even as Kanitkar held on firmly, Tendulkar blazed away with thrilling strokes. The third wicket partnership added 127 runs off 25.2 overs before Kanitkar was leg before to Sukhbinder Singh. For his 42, the former Indian player batted almost three hours, content to play second fiddle to Tendulkar. He faced 121 balls and hit eight fours.

Kambli replaced Kanitkar at the crease and thanks to some splendid batting by him and Tendulkar, West Zone quickly went into a position of ascendency. Tendulkar and Kambli did pretty much what they liked with the bowling. East Zone captain Shiv Sundar Das tried seven bowlers in all but the runs kept coming at a fast clip. Tendulkar took only 39 balls to reach his first 50, in which there were eleven fours. His second fifty came off 73 balls with nine hits to the boundary. In the third 50, which came off 52 balls, there were five fours and two sixes. Just when a double century beckoned, Tendulkar was caught by substitute M Gupta off Sanjay Raul. Tendulkar batted five fours, faced 214 balls and hit 20 fours and four sixes. He had come in during the 12th over and was out to the last ball of the 79th over.

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Donald and Venter have Easterns on the back foot

Free State probably shaded the first day of their Supersport Series Super Eight encounter against Easterns at Willowmoore Park, although the home side had made some inroads into their batting order by the close

01-Feb-2001

Visiting captain Gerard Brophy, who had made the decision to put Easterns in after winning the toss, certainly had cause to feel that his choice had been vindicated after the home side were knocked over for 224, with speedster Allan Donald and off spinner Kosie Venter each grabbing three wickets.

However, the hosts did hit back with two wickets in the 17 overs that remained, with Gerhardus Liebenberg unbeaten on 22 and Wiaan Smit on 17 as Easterns reached 64 for two by the close.

Early swing assisted the Free State bowlers as the pace trio of Donald, Victor Mpitsang and Dewald Pretorius each grabbed a wicket as Easterns were reduced to 37 for three. However, that brought Mike Rindel to the wicket and the veteran left-hander took the game to the visitors with a swashbuckling 69 off just 84 balls, including eight fours and a six.

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Tahir Abbas' century helps Central Zone take lead

Staff Reporter

01-Feb-2001

An unbeaten 110 run fifth wicket stand involving centurion Tahir Abbas (119) and Rahat Ali (67) aided Central Zone to take the first innings lead over South Zone in their quarter final encounter of the Vijay Hazare Trophy (Under-16) tournament at the Maharaja Jayachamaraja Wodayar Sports Centre in Bangalore on Thursday. South Zone, resuming at 255 for seven, were all out for 279. In reply, Central at stumps were 284 for four wickets.

Central openers Arvind Maan (6) and Shivakanth Shukla (20) failed to give a solid start. I Varun bowled Maan in the fourth over of the innings with the score on 18. Ali Akbar (46) and Shukla carried the score to 54 before Shukla was run out in the 10th over. Then Tahir Abbas forged a 66-run third wicket stand with Ali Akbar off 18.2 overs. After a 108-minute stay at the crease, Ali Akbar was sent back to the pavilion, caught by Srinivasa Rao off S Yadav in the 28th over.

Then A Alam (16) batted sedately for 84 minutes, helping Tahir Abbas to add 54 runs for the fourth wicket off 21.4 overs. Central were still lagging behind by 105 runs when Rahat Ilahi walked in to join Tahir Abbas. In what could be deemed as the decisive partnership of the innings, Rahat and Tahir preferred not to play the waiting game. Rahat in particular was severe on the Central attack, plundering as many as 15 boundaries so far.

Tahir brought up his century shortly before close. He needed 150 balls to get to the mark, while Rahat needed just 44 balls for his half century. Both Rahat and Tahir saw through the day for Central while taking them past South Zone.

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New Zealand Under-19s romp to innings win in three days

New Zealand made an emphatic start to the Youth Test series with South Africa today when wrapping up the First Test by an innings and 67 runs in Alexandra

Warwick Larkins

31-Jan-2001

New Zealand made an emphatic start to the Youth Test series with South Africa today when wrapping up the First Test by an innings and 67 runs in Alexandra.

South Africa was all out for 183 after Wellington left-arm spinner Luke Woodcock took 3/29 from his 25 overs while medium-pacer Andrew Ellis bowled 11 overs into the wind to take 2/6 as the South African resistance was broken.

When play started 45 minutes late at Alexandra there seemed a good chance that this contest would go into the fourth and final day.

But although there were at least two light showers, the weather didn't halt New Zealand's progress.

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Anoop Pai, Srinivas Rao prop up South Zone

A fourth wicket stand of 130 runs between I Srinivas Rao (89) and skipper Anoop Pai (80) helped South Zone end the first day at 255 for seven in the Vijay Hazare Trophy (under-16) quarterfinal match against Central Zone at the Maharaja Jayachamaraja

Staff Reporter

31-Jan-2001

South Zone started off on the wrong foot after they opted to bat. Opener Dinesh Kartik (7) was caught behind by Ali Akbar off Devendra Singh off the first ball of the fifth over. His partner Prasanth Peter (7) hung around till the 12th over when he was bowled by Vivek Yadav. This brought Srinivas Rao and Anoop Pai together. They took their time to settle down and then set about rebuilding the innings. Before long both notched up half centuries, with Srinivas getting to the mark first.

The partnership was broken when Srinivas was dismissed caught by Tahir Abbas off Shivakanth Shukla in the 54th over. During a 203-minute stay in the middle, Srinivas faced 147 balls and hit 15 boundaries. Then with the score on 195, new batsman Srivasudeva Das also departed caught by Shukla off Rahat Ali. Anoop was finally out in the 78th over of the day when he was caught by Tahir off Praveen Gupta. Anoop had batted a shade over four hours, during which he faced 209 balls and found the boundary ropes eleven times.

Central Zone claimed the new ball after 83 overs and in the last stages of the day's play Abhinav was trapped leg before by Devendra Singh. Two overs before the scheduled close of play, new batsman Manjunath also departed in a similar manner, the bowler this time being Vivek Yadav. I Varun (17) and S Yadav (9) were at the crease at stumps. The wickets were shared all around with new ball bowlers Devendra Singh (2 for 55) and Vivek Yadav (2 for 30) being the pick.

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Pakistan Probables snub Khyber Lions as pacers impress

Pace men Mohammad Sami and Fazl-e-Akbar exploited the conditions at Peshawar's Shahi Bagh Stadium to their maximum advantage as they shared seven wickets between them restricting Khyber Lions to 146 in 37 overs, after Pakistan Probables, playing

Mahmood Ahmad

31-Jan-2001

Fazl-e-Akbar, the right-handed medium pacer, took three wickets in his opening spell to leave the home side reeling at 21 for 4 by the eighth over, until a valiant effort led by Hasan Raza and Younis Khan in the middle of the innings took them past 100-run mark by the 25th over.

After finding their side deep in trouble at 21/4, these two shared a partnership of 95 runs for the fifth wicket and brought their side within sight of victory. Had these two carried on for some more time, the result of the match might have been altogether different.

However, after the fall of Younis Khan's wicket at 116 and Hasan Raza's at 129, the writing looked very much on the wall for the home side. The inevitable was delayed only due to some grit shown by Atiq-uz-Zaman and the skipper Arshad. They had taken the score past 145, when Sami came with his little gem of an over.

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Final `Test' drawn, Indian lads clinch series

The England Under-19 team saved the final `Test' match against India Under-19 from the jaws of defeat

Santhosh S

30-Jan-2001

The England Under-19 team saved the final `Test' match against India Under-19 from the jaws of defeat. A brilliant unbeaten 53-run partnership for the ninth wicket off 17 overs between Robert Ferley and Justin Bishop helped the England colts frustrate the Indians at the Lal Bahadur stadium in Hyderabad on Tuesday. England were 279/8 at final draw of stumps, with Ferley and Bishop unbeaten on 37 and 21 respectively. The Indian lads thus clinched the series by virtue of their victory in the first `Test' at Mumbai. The second `Test' at Chennai was also drawn.

Resuming their second innings at 58/0, after being 176 runs in arrears on the first, England colts were, for most part of the day, looking at defeat. The pitch remained true even on the fourth day, offering little assistance to the bowlers. It was a hot day and the English boys put up a poor show for the best part of the day.