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Thirteen wickets fall before tea at Eastbourne
Thirteen wickets fell in the first two sessions at Eastbourne as second division leaders Northamptonshire were bowled out for 110, their lowest score of the season, on the first day against Sussex
Bruce Talbot
16-Aug-2000
Thirteen wickets fell in the first two sessions at Eastbourne as second division leaders Northamptonshire were bowled out for 110, their lowest score of the season, on the first day against Sussex.
James Kirtley, on his home ground at the Saffrons, took a season's best 6-41, passing 50 wickets for the season in the process.
Both Kirtley and Jason Lewry took two early wickets each as the visitors were reduced to 28-4 and although Russell Warren (29) and Graeme Swann (20) provided some resistance in the middle over, Kirtley had four more victims after
lunch as Northants' last five fell for 48 in 12.2 overs.
Full postDurham gain first day honours at Taunton
Nick Speak produced a captain's innings of concentration and careful shot selection to give Durham the first day honours at Taunton
Richard Latham
16-Aug-2000
Nick Speak produced a captain's innings of concentration and careful shot selection to give Durham the first day honours at Taunton.
Having won the toss and chosen to take first use of a typically batsman-friendly pitch at the County Ground, Speak found himself walking out at
88-3, with Somerset threatening to get on top.
By the time he was out in the final session the scoreboard read a healthy 287-6 and an unbroken stand between Andy Pratt and John Wood took it to 324-6 by the close.
Full postSilverwood makes inroads into Leicestershire batting
Resuming the innings on 93-2 after the luncheon interval, Darren Maddy and Aftab Habib looked comfortably set to build on their 65 run partnership made in the morning session
Steve Wright
16-Aug-2000
Resuming the innings on 93-2 after the luncheon interval, Darren Maddy and
Aftab Habib looked comfortably set to build on their 65 run partnership made
in the morning session.
Yorkshire, persisted with the attack of the slow left arm spin of Ian Fisher
along with the medium pace of Gavin Hamilton.
Darren Maddy coming into this game with a first class average of 21.00
needed a good score and shortly after reaching a determined 66 was caught
behind the wicket by Simon Guy off the bowling of Chris Silverwood.
Full postLeicestershire restrict Yorkshire despite limited bowling resources
With Leicestershire ending the day on 286 for 8, both sides can be fairly happy with their days work
Steve Wright
16-Aug-2000
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Anil Kumble is stumped by Simon Guy Photo © AllSport |
With Leicestershire ending the day on 286 for 8, both sides can be fairly happy
with their days work. Darren Lehmann, the acting Yorkshire Captain, used his limited bowling resources well, inhibiting Leicestershire progressing at a quicker rate.
The slow pitch conditions proved difficult to score on but through patience
and determination there were some notable performances by the Leicestershire
batsmen. Darren Maddy showing that he maybe coming into some kind of form
and Aftab Habib continuing such form that brought him into the England
Selectors thoughts only last year.
Full postNCA bowlers keep Air India on a tight leash
Air India crawled to 186/6 from 97 overs against National Cricket Academy on the first day of their MRF-Buchi Babu pre-quarterfinal at the Guru Nanak College Ground in Chennai today
Sankhya Krishnan
16-Aug-2000
Air India crawled to 186/6 from 97 overs against National Cricket
Academy on the first day of their MRF-Buchi Babu pre-quarterfinal at
the Guru Nanak College Ground in Chennai today. Far from flying high,
Air India were kept on a tight leash after captain Praveen Amre beat
his NCA rival Reetinder Sodhi for the toss and chose to take first
strike.
After 21-year-old Baroda seamer Rakesh Patel removed opener Sandeh
Kawle for one in the seventh over of the innings, Dheeraj Jadhav and
Niraj Patel added a battling 68 for Air India of which the latter, an
NCA product who could just as well have turned out for his opponents,
made 47. With the last ball of his first and only over, Mohd. Kaif's
off breaks dislodged Patel, caught by Rohit Jhalani behind the
wickets.
Jhalani was again called into action, stumping skipper Amre for 22 off
the bowling of Saurashtra left arm spinner Rakesh Dhurv. Two balls
later, Altaf Merchant had his stumps disarranged by Patel for a duck
to leave Air India at 115/4. Satish Samand did not last long but his
successor Harvinder Singh Sodhi ensconced himself firmly at the
crease, striking five boundaries in the course of an unbeaten 26.
In the 90th over, opener Jadhav's lengthy and painstaking 283-minute
vigil, realising 63 runs (six 4's), came to an end when off spinner
Ramesh Powar won a leg before decision and at stumps wicketkeeper NG
Gavas was keeping Sodhi company. For NCA, Patel with 2/35 from 19
overs produced the best figures among the eight bowlers used.
Full postLanger and Hutton keep Middlesex promotion hopes alive
Justin Langer and Ben Hutton put Middlesex back in the running for a National League Second Division promotion place with competition-best perfomances at Edgbaston
Mike Beddow
16-Aug-2000
Justin Langer and Ben Hutton put Middlesex back in the running for a National League Second Division promotion place with competition-best perfomances at Edgbaston.
Skipper Langer's patient 93 laid the foundations for a commanding 201 for nine and Hutton's four for 32 undermined Warwickshire as they floundered under the Edgbaston floodlights.
Hutton needed to take the wickets to get back in favour with Langer after he was involved in the run out that cost his captain a certain century.
Full postIndia Pistons take firm grip in final
In taking a first innings lead of 73 runs, India Pistons took a firm hold on the Coromandel Cement Trophy at stumps on the second day of their KSCA all India invitation cricket tournament final against Chemplast at the M Chinnaswamy stadium on
Partab Ramchand
16-Aug-2000
In taking a first innings lead of 73 runs, India Pistons took a firm
hold on the Coromandel Cement Trophy at stumps on the second day of
their KSCA all India invitation cricket tournament final against
Chemplast at the M Chinnaswamy stadium on Wednesday. With the second
innings restricted to 40 overs a side, Chemplast face an uphill task
in their bid to come back into the game on the final day on Thursday.
Replying to Chemplast's first innings total of 267, compiled on the
opening day on Tuesday, India Pistons were given a sound start with
openers Anand George and Vikram Rathour putting on 91 runs off 23.4
overs. George was then stumped by TR Arasu off Ramkumar for 33,
inclusive of four hits to the ropes.
Rathour and Satyajit Medappa (11) consolidated by adding 40 runs for
the second wicket off 13.5 overs before the latter was caught by Arasu
off Ganesh Kumar. Rathour, who had dominated the scoring so far, was
third out at 162 in the 47th over, edging Ramkumar to Ganesh Kumar at
first slip. During his 193-minute stay at the crease, the former India
opening batsman hit eight fours and two sixes and faced 143 balls in
compiling 93.
With Rathour's dismissal, Chemplast seemed to have recovered some
ground. But Hemanth Kumar and Pankaj Dharmani put India Pistons in the
driver's seat with a fourth wicket partnership of 77 runs off 19
overs. By the time Hemanth Kumar was out for 59, caught at mid off by
Subash Raj off Ramkumar, India Pistons were only 28 runs short of the
Chemplast total. Hemanth Kumar faced 121 balls and hit three of them
to the fence.
Full postWaugh, Bevan shut out Proteas on day for the history books
Cricket's excursion indoors in Melbourne today may have afforded the sport one of its more novel developments of recent years but there was no escaping at least one familiar refrain
John Polack
16-Aug-2000
Cricket's excursion indoors in Melbourne today may have afforded the sport one of its more novel developments of recent years but there was no escaping at least one familiar refrain. In the midst of a match riven with a heavily futuristic touch at the state-of-the-art Colonial Stadium, seasoned campaigner Australia encountered very little resistance on its way to a triumph over South Africa by a margin of ninety-four runs.
To say that there was something surreal in a general sense about today's proceedings would be more than just a slight understatement. 'Outdoor' cricket was not only being played indoors (the first time ever for a one-day international) but being staged in Australia in August and commencing before almost as many empty bays of seating as spectators themselves. That all came after the twenty-two players were introduced to the audience as part of a fifteen-minute light show. It was all very unusual to say the least.
For all of the oddities before an audience which eventually swelled in number to 25785, though, there was as much to admire in Australia's game - and, in particular, the contribution of two of its star players, Michael Bevan and Steve Waugh - as is frequently the case these days. A diet of unremarkable South African medium pace bowling, and the pair's insatiable appetite for one-day international runs, lifted the Australians to a commanding total of 5/295 after they had been inserted. Their opponents never really came close to the point of finding an answer.
It was a position of strength that had seemed unlikely when the Australians tumbled toward the precarious mark of 3/37 in the tenth over of the day. By that stage, the combination of some fine new ball bowling from Shaun Pollock (1/46) and Roger Telemachus (2/54), the manifestation of early life in the drop-in pitch, and some over-extravagant strokeplay from Mark Waugh (17) and Ricky Ponting (16), had consigned the locals to a plight from which recovery did not look easy. The early departure of new vice-captain Adam Gilchrist (1) to another familiar sight - Jonty Rhodes causing a run out with a direct hit from point - also shaped as a major blow.
Full postNew Zealand Academy take command
New Zealand Academy had the better of the exchanges on the opening day of their Buchi Babu pre-quarterfinal against Tamil Nadu Districts at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai today
Sankhya Krishnan
16-Aug-2000
New Zealand Academy had the better of the exchanges on the opening day
of their Buchi Babu pre-quarterfinal against Tamil Nadu Districts at
the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai today. After inserting the
Districts side and rolling them over for 159 inside 78 overs, the NZA
side had progressed to 34/1 at stumps.
Left arm spinner Bruce Martin and leg spinner Aaron Redmond did most
of the damage with three wickets apiece. For Districts the first
wicket association of 40 between KN Riaz (24) and V Gautham (28)
remained the most productive and after NZA captain, Jacob Oram
dismissed the former in the 17th over of the innings, the last nine
wickets tumbled for 119. P Muthupandian was the top scorer with 30 (66
balls, 1 four).
For the visitors, their only international bowler Andrew Penn, was
also the only one of six bowlers used who went wicketless. Seamer
Devendra Kumar despatched opener JAH Marshall for seven in the seventh
over of NZA's reply but Michael Papps (13) and Jarrod Englefield (12)
ferried the visitors safely through to stumps.
Full postCaptain's innings from Langer for Middlesex at Edgbaston.
Justin Langer produced a captain's innings to hold Middlesex together in their National League Second Division promotion tussle at Edgbaston
Mike Beddow
16-Aug-2000
Justin Langer produced a captain's innings to hold Middlesex together in their National League Second Division promotion tussle at Edgbaston. The Australian left-hander struck a patient competition-best 93 which frustrated a nagging Warwickshire attack on a flat pitch.
Langer was at the crease after just one ball of the innings after Andrew Strauss went LBW to Graeme Welch and he batted until the 44th over before he was run out by a direct hit from midwicket when he was sent back by Ben Hutton.
He struck seven fours and faced 122 balls and shared two stands of substance with Mark Ramprakash and Irishman Ed Joyce.
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