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Cheltenham contest evenly poised
With Warwickshire 44 runs ahead of Gloucestershire with 9 wickets left their championship match on the second day of the Cheltenham Festival has been evenly contested
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21-Jul-2000
With Warwickshire 44 runs ahead of Gloucestershire with 9 wickets left their
championship match on the second day of the Cheltenham Festival has been
evenly contested. With their hosts bowled out for 254, Warwickshire started their second innings six runs ahead and had Mark Wagh lbw in the 12 overs of play that were left.
The visitors had started the day well with Trevor Penney holding a steepling catch to dismiss Dominic Hewson in the second over. Thereafter Gloucestershire were forced to struggle for runs. Vice-captain Tim Hancock, returning to the side after being away for a month with an injury to his hand, hit crisply for 46 and was then stumped from Ashley Giles' first ball.
Wicket-keeper Keith Piper made four dismissals of whom Ian Harvey was also stumped as he tried to attack spinner Neil Smith. Out-of-form captain Mark Alleyne had difficulty getting the ball through the field: he took twenty deliveries to score and after an hour reached only 16.
Full postSingapore defeats Saudi Arabia to gain a consolation victory
In the match played at AA Shah Stadium Karachi, Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to bat
Imtiaz Ahmed & Waqas Ahmed
21-Jul-2000
Saudi Arabia Vs Singapore
In the match played at AA Shah Stadium Karachi, Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to bat. Not being able to face the onslaught of Singapore's speedsters Zeeshan Raza Zaidi and Maxim Mok Kal Yuen, Saudia lost 5 wickets for only 23 runs. In 18 overs, they were 58 for 5 with Basit Butt (21) and Gebrael Rana (9) at the crease.
Basit Butt who played a valiant innings of 46 including 3 fours was the only batsman to thrash the Singapore bowlers. Except for Gabrael Rana (15) and Junaid Hasham (10) rest of the batsmen just surrendered.
Saudi Arabia was all out for 121 runs in 35.3 overs. Zeeshan Raza claimed 3 wickets for 30, while the remaining wickets were evenly shared.
Full postA prolific victory over Bahrain Under-17s Pakistan Under-17s cruises into semi final
The match played at Hyderabad, a commercial cum industrial centre of the province of Sindh was a one sided affair
Akhtar Amin Khan & Mohsin Ahmed
21-Jul-2000
The match played at Hyderabad, a commercial cum industrial centre of the province of Sindh was a one sided affair. Pakistan having won all its matches was rather too strong for Bahrain who had lost all with zero points on the table.
Having won the toss and electing to bat, Bahrain was all out for 87 in 34.3 overs. They lost the first wicket at 7 and then kept losing them at regular intervals. Opener Haroon Naseer (15) Roshan Cherian Alex (10) Anand Mahendra (11) and Asif Siddique 12 not out were the batsmen who reached double figure. Mr. EXTRAS (24) was the highest contributor of runs.
There were four ducks as against only 3 hits to the boundary. The batsmen were not able to face Munir Ansari who wrecked the team clinching 4 wickets for 9 runs. Altaf Hussain and Zaheer Maqsood claimed 2 wickets each.
Pakistan innings
Full postBangladesh Under-17s step into semi finals
The match commenced at the UBL Stadium Karachi with Bangladesh winning the toss and opting to field first
Abdul Shakeel & Farhan Ahmed
21-Jul-2000
Kuwait Vs Bangladesh
The match commenced at the UBL Stadium Karachi with Bangladesh winning the toss and opting to field first. With Kuwait taking a disastrous start losing 3 wickets for only 10 runs on the board Bangladesh's decision proved rewarding. Except for Dilesh Thurairatnam who was holding the crease with a confident 40, no other batsman could face the Bangladesh's bowling with courage. At 30 overs Kuwait was 67 for 4.
Unable to withstand Bangladesh's pressure Kuwait was all out for 89 in 42.4 overs. Dilesh Thurairatnam ended his defiant innings of 46 runs with the help of 6 boundaries in 115 balls. Had he been given proper stand by other batsmen, he could have helped the team to raise the score further. Ali Talib (12) was the only other batsman to reach double figures. With an excellent haul of 4 for 19 Talha Jubair was the most successful bowler.
Bangladesh made good work of Kuwait only in 19.4 overs, when its openers Mohammad Ashraful (35) and Nafees Iqbal (49) piled up 90 for no loss hoisting a 10 wickets victory for their team. Punishing the bowlers all around, both of them hit 4 boundaries each. With this remarkable victory, Bangladesh also step into the semi finals.
Full postMr. Extras saves UAE Under-17s - Match ends in an exciting tie
The match was played at Quetta, the capital of the province of Baluchistan
Tahir Suhaib
21-Jul-2000
The match was played at Quetta, the capital of the province of Baluchistan. It is a hill station surrounded by snow-clad mountains and chilly winds in winter and a pleasantly cool weather in summer.
Malaysia won the toss and elected to bat, losing wickets at regular intervals till they were 46 for 4, after which the innings appeared to have stabilized. In 29 overs they were 79 for 4 with S. Vickneswaran (23) and Eszafiq Abdul Azis (14) fighting out the medium pacer Mohammad Usman, who had dominated the game, claiming 3 of the 4 wickets.
Abdul Azis continued with his fighting innings till he was out for a defiant 46 scored in 65 balls with 5 hits to the boundary. K. Sathiaseelan was the other batsman to contribute a useful 18. As usual Mr. EXTRAS was again the second highest contributor with a valuable 39.
Malaysia was 9 for 166 in 45 overs. This was atleast one team, which consumed its full quota of overs. Mohammad Usman took 3 wickets for 18 while other bowlers evenly shared the rest.
Full postEssex rally to overcome Worcestershire
Essex beat Worcestershire by four wickets at Chelmsford thanks primarily to Stuart Law's third county championship of the season
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Stuart Law excellent century takes Essex to victory Photo © AllSport |
Essex beat Worcestershire by four wickets at Chelmsford thanks primarily to
Stuart Law's third county championship of the season. He scored 133 n.o. as
the home side attained 286 to achieve their third Division Two victory this
summer. Essex had come from behind magnificently after being 109 runs behind
on the first innings.
Earlier in the day off-spinner Peter Such took two wickets to finish with
5-39 from 22.3 overs as Worcestershire were dismissed for 176 in their
second innings. Glenn McGrath, the most successful bowler in the first
innings, was treated particularly harshly by the Essex batsmen. He yielded
34 in his first four overs - Paul Prichard hitting four quick boundaries.
Spinners put Lancashire in control
Lancashire's spin bowlers have given the county a good chance of victory against Durham at Manchester
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Lancashire's spin bowlers have given the county a good chance of victory
against Durham at Manchester. Gary Keedy and Gary Yates took three wickets
each to take Durham to 123-6 at the close (a narrow lead of just b48 with
only the lower-order to bat).
On a dry pitch the spinners generally sent down 160 overs, a factor which played to Lancashire's superiority in that department. Even so Durham's poor position resulted as much from their own batting vulnerability as from the turning ball.
Yorkshire dismiss Somerset cheaply and then bat well
Yorkshire enhanced their prospects of gaining on leaders Surrey by dismissing Somerset for 182 in their Division One championship match at Scarborough after they had lost the toss
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Darren Lehmann - platform to build on advantage Photo © Paul McGregor |
Yorkshire enhanced their prospects of gaining on leaders Surrey by
dismissing Somerset for 182 in their Division One championship match at
Scarborough after they had lost the toss. By the close they had reached
144-3 with Darren Lehmann (21 n.o.) and captain David Byas (10 n.o.) the
not-out batsmen.
Somerset's poor batting could not be blamed entirely on the well-grassed pitch. The demise started with skipper Jamie Cox caught at the wicket off Matthew Hoggard for 10. In the next over Mark Lathwell played on to Chris Silverwood and Somerset could not staunch the fall of wickets. Rob Turner (38 top score) looked secure for a while but was bowled behind his legs in sweeping at Lehmann's left-arm spin. Peter Trego was left on 27 n.o. after sharing a 44 runs ninth-wicket stand with Turner.
Glamorgan have edge on Northants
Darren Thomas gave Glamorgan the edge over Northamptonshire whom they dismissed for 229 just over half-an-hour after tea in their championship match at Cardiff
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but the visitors hit back before the close
Darren Thomas gave Glamorgan the edge over Northamptonshire whom they dismissed for 229 just over half-an-hour after tea in their championship match at Cardiff.
The fast bowler took 5-43 in 21 overs - his second five-return of the season - after Steve Watkin suffered a return of his groin strain and had to leave the field during the first over after lunch.
Full postSurrey came back strongly
Martin Bicknell broke through Leicestershire's batting by taking five wickets for Surrey in a spell which had the visitors in trouble at 33-6 by the close at Guildford: they were just 63 runs ahead
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Martin Bicknell - bowling blitz has Leics in trouble Photo © Paul McGregor |
Martin Bicknell broke through Leicestershire's batting by taking five wickets for Surrey in a spell which had the visitors in trouble at 33-6 by the close at Guildford: they were just 63 runs ahead. He followed his seven first-innings wickets by dismissing both openers, Darren Maddy and Iain Sutcliffe, and taking three more wickets in ten balls.
Earlier Leicestershire appeared to have gained a good grip on the game with James Ormond taking six wickets in Surrey's 288 runs total which owed almost
everything to Ian Ward (107). Nadeem Shahid (47) and Ward took Surrey from
93-1 with some positive stroke-play but the partnership was broken by
leg-spinner Anil Kumble in the last ober before lunch.
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