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Zimbabwe v Australia - CricInfo Report
As expected on current form, Australia beat Zimbabwe in the first of three one-day internationals, by 83 runs
John Ward
21-Oct-1999
As expected on current form, Australia beat Zimbabwe in the first of three
one-day internationals, by 83 runs. A powerful batting performance by the
tourists was challenged only by Neil Johnson of Zimbabwe, who scored
another century to add to that in the World Cup final.
Zimbabwe went into this match with a seriously weakened bowling
line-up - to call it an 'attack' would perhaps be an exaggeration. Their
three pace bowlers, David Mutendera, Gary Brent and Andy Blignaut, went
into the match with 8 one-day international appearances between them and
only 3 wickets.
Heath Streak, for so long the backbone of the attack, was unfit with a
strained knee after his exertions in the Harare Test; John Rennie split the
webbing in his hand; Bryan Strang is considered too slow and predictable
for one-day matches, while Henry Olonga is considered too fast and
unpredictable. Had Olonga shown any sort of form in Harare, though, he
might have been included as the only bowler with the ability to cut through
the opposition.
On winning the toss Alistair Campbell decided to bat, probably
reluctant to put undue pressure on his batsmen by expecting them to build a
big total with few resources to defend it. A boundary came in each of the
first three overs, two to Mark Waugh and one to Adam Gilchrist. In the
fifth over the openers decided the time was ripe to get the ones and twos
ticking over, and the score began to mount steadily. Australia reached 39
in the seventh over when Mutendera took his first wicket in his third
one-day international, when Gilchrist slashed a short ball wide of Grant
Flower at backward point, only for the fielder to dive to his left and hold
a brilliant low catch.
Full postDressing room theft Overshadows Events on the Field
There was an overnight sensation at the WACA when it was revealed that during the night a thief had broken into the internal Victorian change rooms, making off with $10,000 worth of their gear
David Bebb
19-Oct-1999
There was an overnight sensation at the WACA when it was revealed that during the night a thief had broken into the internal Victorian change rooms, making off with $10,000 worth of their gear. Amongst the items were pads and bats and shirts and a good quanitiy of compact discs. Matthew Elliott was most distressed about the loss of his bat. I overheard him asking a WACA official to forward it on to the Adelaide Oval (where the Vics play next) if found.
When Mott and Hodge resumed yesterday morning the Vic's were 135 for the loss of two wickets but these two immediately set about getting a big total and making the Western Australian attack look very ordinary.
Hodge played the role of sheet anchor as Mott then Harvey and Harper played their shots and took the total to 303/4 when the Victorian captain Paul Reiffel declared 15 minutes after the lunch break. Mott played a hook, swinging at a high flying short Julian ball - one of few over the middle stump - that took an edge and was a safe catch for Ryan Campbell keeping wickets in the absense of Adam Gilchrist.
Harvey was very unlucky. Hodge pushed a delivery back to the bowler Williams who took the ball in his right hand and then flung it back handed style at the stumps. Umpire Randolph Woolridge did not need to go to the third umpire T. Prue for the decision that Harvey was out of his ground. Hodge (69) and Harper (7) were the not out batsmen at the declaration.
Full postSantosh & Fatima frustrate Andhra
With a dogged 91 run partnership for the 9th wicket with southpaw [Fatima Reddy] the Hyderabad skipper Santosh Yadav saved the match for Hyderabad, and denying hosts Andhra the most important first innings lead
Blessington Thomas
19-Oct-1999
With a dogged 91 run partnership for the 9th wicket with southpaw
[Fatima Reddy] the Hyderabad skipper Santosh Yadav saved the match for
Hyderabad, and denying hosts Andhra the most important first innings
lead. Hyderabad's top-order batsmen threw away their wickets with some
atroshes strokes when the team needed them to stay put at the placid
battin track at the ECIL gound.
Hyderabad resumed its innings from the overnight score of 66 for 1 in
43 overs. First to go this morning was Karthik Ramaswamy attempting a
needless run, Things looked settled when left-hander Anirudh Singh
and Aditya Agarwal were batting. A sudden rush of blood saw the
former holed outby Shahabuddin at square-leg when he tried to sweep
Balaji Krishna Singh until then he was batting beautifully and looked
like he would bat through the day. He was soon followed by Agarwal
when also tried to sweep Venugopala Rao to be gleefully caught by tall
Shahabuddin at square-leg, A terrible mis-understanding saw Arjun
Yadav being run out after Santosh Yadav called for a run and later
sending the batsman by the time Arjun could regain the crease the
damage was already done. Just about 10 minutes to lunch Hyderabad
lost yet another wicket this time it of Mohd. Faiz Ahmed clean bowled
by Venugopala Rao.
At Lunch Hyderabad were struggling to avoid the disgrace of Follow-On.
from a position of strength at 90/1 they lost 5 wickets for the
addision of 39 runs, to read lunch time score of 129 for 6 in 78
overs. Santosh on [ 5 ] and Amresh Kumar on [ 0 ].
After lunch both Santosh and Amresh tried to occupy the crease as long
as possible, but the visitors had other ideas of dislodging the pair
in quick time to make sure they get a first innings lead. However
Andhra met with the success of dislodging the wickets of Amresh Kumar
off the bowling of Sahahabuddin operating from the Pavilion end at 145
for 7 in the 89.1 st over.
Full postClobbered!
Sharjah - Things went from bad to worse for the forlorn West Indies here yesterday
19-Oct-1999
Sharjah - Things went from bad to worse for the forlorn West Indies
here yesterday.
Subjected to their heaviest run-margin defeat in One-Day
Internationals by Pakistan on Friday, they were just as
comprehensively beaten by Sri Lanka by wickets and overs in their
return match in the Coca-Cola Champions Trophy.
The fragility and self-doubt of their batsmen were again exposed by
Sri Lanka's varied and disciplined bowling, confined to 149 all out in
the last of their 50 overs.
Their own bowlers were then belted around under the lights by Sri
Lanka's left-hand captain Sanath Jayasuriya, who hammered three sixes
and eight fours in 88 off 80 balls to lead his team to an
embarrassingly one-sided victory for his solitary wicket with 22 overs
to spare.
Full postNoor Mohd. Completes Century
Andhra's innings closed 50 minutes after lunch on day-2 in the P Ramachandra Rao Memorial Trophy for the South Zone-22
Blessington Thomas
18-Oct-1999
Andhra's innings closed 50 minutes after lunch on day-2 in the P
Ramachandra Rao Memorial Trophy for the South Zone-22. Overnight
batsman Noor Mohd Khan [90] completed his century when he played Arjun
Yadav for a brace on the off-side, his knock contained 2 sixers and 12
fours. Andhra declared its innings closed at the fall of nineth
wicket at 408 after 135 overs, 50 minutes after lunch.
Hyderabad had 43 overs to negotiate and have wipped off 66 runs for
the loss of their wicket keeper J Raj Kishore Yadav for 1. Opener
Karthik Ramaswamy and Anirudh Singh batted through till close of play.
Full postSrinivas and Md. Khan recovered Andhra
Noor Md
Blessington Thomas
17-Oct-1999
Noor Md. Khan [90*] and Srinivas 83 put Andhra in a strong position in the
South Zone - 22 for the P Ramachandra Rao Memorial Trophy between hosts
Hyderabad and Andhra being played here at the ECIL ground on day-1 of the
three days match.
Andhra lost three wickets in quick time 20 minutes to lunch but the fourth
wicket partnership between stocky Noor Mohd. Khan and I Srinivas added a
solid 152 in 193 minutes off 43 overs, both batsmen rotating the strike
evenly. Srinivas was out 30 minutes from close of play when he failed to
keep his off-drive down the ground, he was consumed by Karthik at covers off
the bowling of off-spinner Arjun Yadav who was the most successful bowler of
the seven Hyderabad bowlers who tried their arm.
In the morning, in the 6th over, opener Ravi Kumar missed an intended pull
shot off Amresh Kumar and was missed to be hit in the abdomen was retired at
score reading at 12 after 6 overs.
Nagini Kumar was caught brilliantly at Extra-cover by Anirudh Singh off
Nagaraju, half-hour to lunch for a well struck 57. he was soon followed to
yet another brilliant catch this time by Nagaraju off the bowling off Arjun
Yadav at short mid-on. Andhra's third wicket fell in the last over to lunch
when Prasad Reddy was consumed by Amresh Kumar of Arjun Yadav at the Score
of 97 for 3 in 34.4 overs.
Full postNatal slip up after good start
A Loose Natal batting display saw the home side squander a great chance to put themselves in a match-winning position on the second day of their SuperSport Series cricket match against Boland at Kingsmead on Friday
Ken Borland
16-Oct-1999
A Loose Natal batting display saw the home side squander a great
chance to put themselves in a match-winning position on the second day
of their SuperSport Series cricket match against Boland at Kingsmead
on Friday.
After a brilliant opening stand of 88 between Mark Bruyns and Doug
Watson, Boland snapped up five wickets for 111 runs to leave Natal
still 107 runs short of their first innings score of 306 all out at
the close.
Boland resumed their first innings yesterday morning on 215 for five
and former Indian batsman Pravin Amre (71 not out) saw them to a total
that was no more than adequate on a pitch offering the bowlers little
assistance. His gritty innings lasted over three hours and he also
struck 11 sweet boundaries.
Ross Veenstra and Lance Klusener, who was not at his best with the
ball, shared four of the wickets to fall in the morning session, while
Shaun Pollock finally got reward for some fine bowling when he had
last man Charl Willoughby caught by Jonty Rhodes, the all-rounder's
figures of one for 54 off 35 overs showing the dominance he enjoyed
over the batsmen.
Full postStrydom century puts Border in strong position
Pieter Strydom's 125 followed by penetrative seam bowling put Border exactly where they wanted to be after two days of this match
Keith Lane
16-Oct-1999
Pieter Strydom's 125 followed by penetrative seam bowling put Border
exactly where they wanted to be after two days of this match.
Strydom's innings - which should have ended when he was dropped on 11
on Thursday - was the product of 306 minutes at the crease in which he
faced 244 and hit 16 fours and two sixes. His major partner was Laden
Gamiet, with whom the Border captain shared 126 runs for the sixth
wicket.
Strydom and Gamiet are both habitual risk takers, and both perished in
that fashion when they were caught at fine leg by Andre Nel. Strydom's
dismissal came via a brilliant diving catch as Nel sprinted in from
the boundary, while Gamiet merely shoved a catch down the fielder's
throat.
But with Strydom in command, Border were able to make the most of an
ordinary overnight score of 283-5. They kept the pressure on early in
Easterns' reply by reducing them to 85-5 before Pierre de Bruyn and
Anthony Pollock regained some of their side's lost ground with a
sixth-wicket stand of 57 which ended when Pollock was caught behind
off Tyron Henderson for 40.
Full postSantosh's Knock goes in vain
Hyderabad are to blame themselves for the over-cautiousness in batting
Blessington Thomas
16-Oct-1999
Hyderabad are to blame themselves for the over-cautiousness in
batting. chasing a modest 161 runs in 50 overs at an asking rate of
3.22 runs per over.
The first four wickets adding 68 runs in 34.1 [205 Balls] overs,
after a fairly good start of 53 in 134 balls between the openers
Radhakrishna [21] and B Avinash Pai [19]. G Sanjay Patel consumed
precious overs in scoring 3 runs off 32 balls. In all the 2nd, 3rd,
4th, 5th and 6th wicket pairs have done very little to force the pace
adding a Pathetic 29 runs in 17.5 overs between them.
Only skipper Santosh Yadav and Faiz Ahmed showed some semblence of
victory in the partnership of 69 runs for the 7th wicket in 72 balls
when the former was finally consumer at deep-mid wicket by Srinivas
Prasad of the bowling of Shahabuddin for a gallant [52], Santosh
Reached to 52 with a huge 6 over long off, pershing the next ball.
after Santosh's departure, Hyderabad needed 12 runs from 7 balls,
Venugopala Rao bowling the last over, with Hyderabad needing 11 from 6
balls, could not make it in the end as Venugopala Rao scalped last
three wickets in his last four balls, thus Hyderabad fell short by six
runs, while Andhra winning the encounter by 5 runs in the end.
Earlier Andhra put in to bat first scored 160 in 47.3 overs. At the
half-way mark they were 89 for 5 wickets. After an early loss of
Nagini Kumar at 3 in the second over, opener Srinivas and Prasad Reddy
[29] repaired the innings with a 38 run partnership for the second
wicket.
Full postNatal Fought Back in the final session
It was hardly the most inspirational of opening days at Kingsmead yesterday as Boland dawdled to 215 for five in easy batting conditions on day one of Natal's first home SuperSport Series match of the season
Ken Borland
15-Oct-1999
It was hardly the most inspirational of opening days at Kingsmead
yesterday as Boland dawdled to 215 for five in easy batting conditions
on day one of Natal's first home SuperSport Series match of the
season.
With a powerful pace attack (Pollock, Klusener, Baptiste and Veenstra)
and no regular spinner in the line-up, Natal captain Dale Benkenstein
opted to bowl first after winning the toss, hoping to take advantage
of early morning conditions at Kingsmead that normally assist the
seamers. But with clear skies overhead, whatever grass was on the
pitch quickly withered under the sun and it was the Boland batsmen who
held the upper hand for most of the day. But oh!, did they take their
time about it.
Their inexperienced openers, Craig Wilson educated at Maritzburg
College and James Henderson, did well to take Boland to within
half-an-hour of lunch with their stand of 54. Henderson, the more
fluent of the two on his way to 35, fell as soon as West Indian
quickie Eldine Baptiste came on to bowl, edging the perfect
away-swinger to a left-hander low to second slip.
But Boland were well-placed at lunch (68 for one), Wilson looking very
solid and reminding one of the recently-retired Kepler Wessels, while
Louis Koen was set. But instead of the expected golden period of
batting after that, with the Natal attack tamed by the conditions,
Boland never dominated the bowling. Wilson and Koen never attempted to
push the scoring rate along and, content to occupy the crease, they
added just 68 runs in the 31 overs between lunch and tea. The Natal
bowlers stuck to their task well but their enthusiasm was clearly
dampened by the surprising lack of assistance from the pitch.
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