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Declaration drama fails to alter final outcome
No-one could have imagined the drama and controversy that lay ahead when play started on the fourth and final day of the Otago versus Northern Districts Shell Trophy match at Carisbrook, Dunedin
Warwick Larkins
11-Jan-2001
No-one could have imagined the drama and controversy that lay ahead when play started on the fourth and final day of the Otago versus Northern Districts Shell Trophy match at Carisbrook, Dunedin.
On day three Otago had achieved a first innings lead and the resulting two points. Cumming had finished the day on 89 not out and it was assumed that he may be allowed to bat for a short time in an attempt to secure his third first-class hundred.
But it was not to be, as Matthew Horne the Otago captain declared overnight and Northern Districts came out to bat for their second innings.
The Otago attack of Matthew Horne, Andrew Hore and Mark Richardson served up in the main a collection of dollies and lob bowling which the Northern Districts batsmen eagerly smashed to the boundary. There were several instances of the Otago field letting the ball trickle between their legs and go into the boundary.
Full postRain kills off hope of positive result in tough duel
Wellington coach Vaughn Johnson couldn't hide his preoccupation with today's bizarre events at Carisbrook as his team's Shell Trophy match with Auckland, which flared into vibrant life yesterday, faded to end in a drawn
Steve McMorran
11-Jan-2001
Wellington coach Vaughn Johnson couldn't hide his preoccupation with today's bizarre events at Carisbrook as his team's Shell Trophy match with Auckland, which flared into vibrant life yesterday, faded to end in a drawn.
Johnson had a sense of the delicacy of Wellington's lead in the Trophy competition - four points before this round began - as Otago and Northern Districts resorted to extreme methods to resuscitate their game when its vital signs were no longer measurable.
He had also developed a notion of the rich injustice of cricket when it seemed one of the two conspirators at Carisbrook would take outright points from their muddied match to narrow or erase Wellington's lead, while this game, which had been so full of spirited endeavour, would end without the result it deserved.
Wellington and Auckland had produced three days of absorbing, positive and closely competitive cricket to leave the match brilliantly poised at the start of this final day. When Auckland declared this morning at 347/9, leaving Wellington 302 runs to win from 93 overs, the match seemed even more acutely primed to deliver a compelling finish. Consider, Wellington had scored 301 from 88.4 overs in their first innings, so Auckland's declaration was unusually generous.
Full postEngland Under-19 need 348 to win first 'Test'
India Under-19 were dismissed shortly before stumps on the third day for 378 off 83.2 overs in the first 'Test' at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai
Waleed Hussain in Mumbai
11-Jan-2001
India Under-19 were dismissed shortly before stumps on the third day for
378 off 83.2 overs in the first 'Test' at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai.
The tourists were three for no loss in the second innings, needing a
further 348 runs for victory.
England Under-19 had been dismissed for 285 in 109.3 overs in the
morning session. The visitors added only four more runs before they were bowled
out, taking a slender 28-run lead into the second innnings. Vidyuth
Sivaramakrishnan took the wicket, that of Monty Panesar. Justin Bishop remained unbeaten.
Indian openers Gautam Gambhir and Vinayak Mane came good in the second
innings. Both hammered the medium pacers, piling on 58 runs in 13 overs.
Gambhir displayed his explosive strokes in a brief stint at the
crease. He could not carry on to convert it into a big knock when he was
dismissed off the last ball of the 13th over. Kyle Hogg trapped him leg
before for 29.
Mane was lucky as he was dropped three times. Monty Panesar failed to latch on to a mistimed pull shot at mid-on, with Mane on 24, and in the 29th over, Bell dropped Mane in the slips off Pattison. He was finally dismissed for 93 when Hogg held on to a catch off Pattison. He had hit 13 fours and a six in his 99-ball innings.
Full postDuleep Trophy: Fog play spoilsport at Mohali
Mohali woke up on Thursday to find itself covered with fog and the Duleep Trophy match between North Zone and the West got off to a delayed start at 2:55 pm at the Punjab Cricket Associatioon stadium
Staff Reporter
11-Jan-2001
Mohali woke up on Thursday to find itself covered with fog and the Duleep
Trophy match between North Zone and the West got off to a delayed start at
2:55 pm at the Punjab Cricket Associatioon stadium.
Winning the toss, North decided to have a bowl first. Surendra Singh, the
hero of the earlier match, struck first blood for North as he trapped
Connor Williams leg before for 21 at 40 in the 13th over. Play had to be
called of early as bad light prevented any possibility of further cricket.
At stumps, West had moved on to 67/1 in 30 overs. India International
discards Wasim Jaffer and Hrishikesh Kanitkar were unbeaten on 24 and 17
respectively
Full postHot work but England A on top
An exhaustingly muggy day in the field at Queens Park Oval in Port of Spain was sufficient reminder to England A that success in the Busta Cup will require hard graft and stamina
Kate Laven
11-Jan-2001
An exhaustingly muggy day in the field at Queens Park Oval in Port of Spain was sufficient reminder to England A that success in the Busta Cup will require hard graft and stamina.
Thanks to their hard-working seamers, England A finished in a good position after a tough first day's play against Trinidad and Tobago, with six wickets in the bag and the tail-end still to contend with.
They had to work hard for their wickets under a boiling sun but with the sweat dripping off them they stuck to their task and for much of the day restricted Trinidad to just two an over. But the final session, using both the old then the new ball, saw the run rate increase with Lincoln Roberts opening his shoulders for a superbly entertaining 62.
His picked off the runs effortlessly and when he was finally out, taken unawares by the first delivery in a new spell from Paul Franks, his tempo was maintained by Keno Mason, a nimble-footed wicketkeeper who used his judgement well in seeking out the scoring balls.
Full postDuleep Trophy: Khurasiya, Yadav storm East citadel
Central Zone's Amay Khurasiya and Jai Prakash Yadav put a feeble East Zone attack to the sword on the first day of their Duleep Trophy encounter at the Green Park at Kanpur on Thursday
Staff Reporter
11-Jan-2001
Central Zone's Amay Khurasiya and Jai Prakash Yadav put a feeble East Zone
attack to the sword on the first day of their Duleep Trophy encounter at
the Green Park at Kanpur on Thursday. At stumps on the first day, Central
had progressed swiftly to 231/3 off just 53 overs after the start had been
delayed to 13.20 hours due to heavy fog.
After Central were put in to bat, they lost opener Amit Pagnis in the
eighth over of the day to eighteen year old Bihar speedster Mihir Diwakar.
Khurasiya and Yadav then proceeded to wade into an attack, depleted by the
absence of Debashis Mohanty, with gusto in a second wicket stand of 182 off
just 37.4 overs.
Hell broke loose with the introduction of former Indian left arm spinner
Utpal Chatterjee in the 18th over of the innings which Khurasiya massacred
for 18 runs (4 . . 4 4 6). The hapless Chatterjee's second over was even
more expensive, going for 19 (6 1 6 6 . .), including one six by Khurasiya
and two by Yadav. The last of those sixes also brought up Yadav's fifty
(off 76 balls) and simultaneously the century of the innings.
Chatterjee was immediately withdrawn from the firing line and replaced by
his fellow left arm spinner Sukhbinder Singh. At the other end, seamer
Javed Zaman went off after a fairly longish spell of 11 overs for 37 and
off spinner Sanjay Raul made an appearance. Neither Sukhbinder nor Raul
were able to make any impression on the marauding duo and Khurasiya brought
up his individual fifty (off 46 balls) with a six in Sukhbinder's second
over.
Full postHeat remains on icy cold West Indians
It was the first match of the 2000-01 Carlton Series of one-day internationals
John Polack
11-Jan-2001
It was the first match of the 2000-01 Carlton Series of one-day internationals. But it was barely distinguishable from the Test series which went before it. Amid sweltering heat, Australia crushed West Indies by seventy-four runs to claim victory in the opening 'contest' of this triangular tournament here at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
On a day during which the temperature ascended to forty degrees on the Celsius scale, the Australians' play had the same glow of discipline and efficiency about it that it has carried for so much of this summer. But, for as hot as it was, so their opponents' form was icy cold. Glacial even.
Theoretically, there was much to which to look forward during the course of this match. A shift away from a largely lopsided and predictable Test series to the potentially more exciting one-day international arena should have brought with it new possibilities and new challenges for each of these two teams. Alas, it merely allowed the Australians to saunter to victory again.
As the pipe-opener to something more enthralling, it was a damp squib. Once the Australians had overcome the inconvenience of losing Adam Gilchrist (7) to an impetuous stroke in the match's third over, the West Indians barely seemed to make an effort to thwart them. Instead, their bowling, fielding and their batting became part of an exercise in damage limitation.
Full postFaisal hits superb double century
Faisal Iqbal stroked a superb double century to guide Karachi Blues into an impregnable position in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy National Grade-I Cricket Championship match against Sargodha at the UBL Sports Complex here on Wednesday
11-Jan-2001
Faisal Iqbal stroked a superb double century to guide Karachi Blues into an impregnable position in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy National Grade-I Cricket Championship match against Sargodha at the UBL Sports Complex here on Wednesday.
By stumps on the penultimate day of the match, Sargodha, who reached 54 for two in the second innings, were battling to save the match after conceding a lead of 265 on the first innings.
Sargodha's plight could have been more precarious had Suleman Huda not floored a sitter at mid-on off Salman Fazal's second delivery that allowed Naved Latif, then 20, to finish the day on 25. Misbah-ul-Haq survived 44 balls for a solitary single.
Karachi Blues owed their huge total of 445 in 143.1 overs to Faisal Iqbal, who accumulated exactly 200 in a meticulous knock which lasted eight minutes short of nine hours - 532 minutes to be precised.
Full postUttar Pradesh make final on 206-run first innings lead
Uttar Pradesh will meet Delhi in the Vijay Merchant Trophy (under 16) Tournament final
Staff Reporter
11-Jan-2001
Uttar Pradesh will meet Delhi in the Vijay Merchant Trophy (under 16)
Tournament final. The three day match commences in Calcutta on January
13. Uttar Pradesh confirmed their place in the title clash thanks to the
206-run first innings lead over Punjab in the semifinal match at the Eden
Gardens on Thursday.
Resuming at 248/4, UP lost three quick wickets in the morning to find
themselves at 267/3. Alok Singh made 20 as Mohd Amir and Vishal Francis
failed to open their account. Praveen Gupta made 12 and was caught and
bowled by Vipul Sharma at 288. UP lost their overnight batsman Aris Alam,
who was shaping well with 78, when he was stumped by Bupinder Singh off
Ankur Jand at 300. Alam struck nine boundaries off 238 balls in his five
and a half hour stay at the crease. Devendra Singh and last man Avinash
Yadav put on 66 runs for the tenth wicket. Yadav was the last man to be
dismissed after making a patient 43 off 131 balls which included six fours.
The UP innings lasted 144.4 overs to be bowled out for 366. Vipul Sharma
was the best of the bowlers with figures of 47-15-81-3
In their second innings which would have made no difference to the result
of the match, Punjab were 69/4 in the 29th over when play was called off at
the fall of the fourth wicket. Viswas Bhalla was unbeaten on 29. Devendra
Singh picked up 2/28 in nine overs.
Full postRuthless South Africans clinch one-day series
Shaun Pollock had some sympathy (but not all that much, mind) for Sanath Jayasuriya after South Africa had wrapped up the Standard Bank one-day international series against Sri Lanka with a crushing 99-run victory in the fourth match at Newlands on
Peter Robinson
11-Jan-2001
Shaun Pollock had some sympathy (but not all that much, mind) for Sanath Jayasuriya after South Africa had wrapped up the Standard Bank one-day international series against Sri Lanka with a crushing 99-run victory in the fourth match at Newlands on Thursday.
The win was South Africa's ninth on the trot and the fourth over Sri Lanka in this series. Indeed, the only home ODI not won by South Africa this summer was the washout in Potchefstroom way back at the start of New Zealand's tour.
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Sri Lanka, as Jayasuriya conceded, were out-batted and out-bowled by South Africa on the day. The tourists now have only the third and final Test match from which to salvage some pride, but before then they have to play out the final rites of the one-day series in Bloemfontein on Sunday and in Johannesburg next Wednesday.
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