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The big-hitting batsman said KKR could gain strategically by sending him up the order and forcing opposition captains to use their best bowlers earlier

Sreshth Shah in Kolkata19-Apr-20194:18

I wouldn’t mind batting at No. 4 – Russell

Andre Russell’s devastating form in IPL 2019 has raised the question of his batting position for Kolkata Knight Riders. While he has often demolished bowling attacks at the death, experts and laymen alike have asked whether his team would be better served if Russell walks in with more overs remaining. After Knight Riders slumped to a fourth consecutive defeat, Russell added fuel to the fire by suggesting that he should have batted higher up the order, instead of walking in with an asking rate of 16.53 after Royal Challenges Bangalore had piled up 213 for 4.”Look, we were chasing 214 runs and weren’t in the best state when I went out to bat,” Russell said after the match, which Knight Riders ended up losing by only ten runs. “When Nitish (Rana) asked what I thought, I said ‘I bat one way – and that’s positive.’ (But) to go out there and chasing 14-15 per over, it’s not the best way you want to start as a batsman. I’m used to these situations, but why I say it’s a sweet and sour feeling is because we need to learn from this, as a team. We need to learn that we can get 214. And to lose by 10 runs, well, we were just two hits away.”I believe that [I should bat higher up the order],” Russell said as he put a finger to his lips, as if to suggest it was something he wanted, but couldn’t speak about. “Honestly, you have to sometimes be flexible as a team. When you look at the make-up of our team, I don’t mind going to bat at No. 4.”Knight Riders’ first two wins of the season came from near-impossible situations, driven by Russell. They chased down more than 50 runs in less than three overs on both occasions, against Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kings XI Punjab, but Russell believed those weren’t ideal scenarios in the first place. He pointed out that him batting higher up would force opposition captains to use their best bowlers earlier in the game, thereby leaving their weaker bowlers for the difficult death overs.”When I’m at the crease, Virat Kohli will bowl the best bowlers to get me out, and those best bowlers will therefore have less overs remaining in the back end,” Russell said. “So even if I score 60 off 25 balls and give the team the early pump, then the type of bowlers like Dale Steyn will have only one over to bowl at the death, or they may bowl out. So I think me going to bat early would definitely be good for KKR, but with our make-up as a team… yeah, [stopping himself], that’s a good answer.”Russell also suggested that Knight Riders had suffered against Royal Challengers due to a lack of urgency in the middle overs, which contributed to the defeat. He walked in at No.6, with the team 79 for 4 and needed 135 to win off 49 balls. Russell ended up smashing 65 off 25, adding 118 runs in eight overs alongside Rana (85* off 46), but was eventually left with too much to do as Knight Riders ended on 203 for 5.”You know when you lose cricket games like these, it’s a sweet and sour feeling,” Russell said. “I just think that a four and six could’ve got us over the line. We lost the game in the middle overs. Even though we should’ve restricted RCB for less than 200, I think the ball was in our court and we tossed the ball to their side. That’s what happened tonight.”If we batted faster in the middle period, we would definitely get the runs with even balls to spare. Well batted to Nitish, but this is something [of concern].”Knight Riders sit at sixth on the points table, having lost five of their nine games. With three away games in their last five matches, including two against a Mumbai Indians side that they haven’t beaten in five years, the road to playoff qualification has become a tough one at the business end of the tournament.

This is the Sri Lanka cricketer’s second arrest in 18 months, after having been taken into custody following a car accident in Colombo in September 2016

Andrew Fidel Fernando10-Mar-2018Sri Lanka cricketer Ramith Rambukwella has been arrested on charges of assault and drunk driving on Friday night. It is alleged that the assault was made on two university students.The media wing of the Sri Lanka Police confirmed to ESPNcricinfo that the arrest had been made on Nawala Road in Colombo, and that Rambukwella will be produced in the Aluthkade Magistrate court on Saturday.This is Rambukwella’s second arrest in 18 months, after having been taken into custody following a car accident – also in Colombo – in September 2016. He had also previously been involved in a bizarre incident in July 2013, when on the way back from the Caribbean with the Sri Lanka A team, he caused mild panic on a flight by attempting to open the aircraft’s cabin door at 35,000 feet. Rambukwella has a history of disciplinary problems dating back to his time with the Sri Lanka Under-19 side.Sri Lanka Cricket officials had not been fully briefed on the circumstances of Rambukwella’s latest arrest, but at least one official said that if the charges against him were true, the board would hand out its own punishment.Rambukwella played two T20Is for Sri Lanka, the most recent of which was in July 2016. He is active in domestic cricket, having played for Tamil Union in the club-based T20 tournament over the past few weeks.

Peter Nevill left the field with an injury during a BBL match for the second time in as many weeks

ESPNcricinfo staff16-Jan-2017The Melbourne Renegades’ wicketkeeper Peter Nevill was taken to the hospital after a freak incident at the Adelaide Oval where he was struck in the face by Brad Hodge’s bat. Nevill walked off the field with a suspected broken jaw.The incident occured in the 18th over of the Adelaide Strikers’ chase when Hodge pulled the first delivery from Thisara Perera to the leg side, but his bat slipped out of his hand. Nevill, standing a few yards back, was watching the ball and didn’t see the bat coming his way until its handle hit his right cheek. He tumbled to the ground immediately and was surrounded by team-mates, the two batsmen and the umpires as the medical staff of the two teams scurried on to the field. Nevill stood up after some time to leave the field with a badly swollen face and was taken to a local hospital for X-rays. Captain Aaron Finch kept wicket for the remaining 17 balls.Incidentally, Nevill had left the field with an injury last week, too, during the Renegades’ match against the Sydney Sixers, when a skidding throw from a team-mate landed at the edge of the pitch and the ball hit him in the head. He was asked to leave the field by a doctor for a concussion test and Finch had kept wicket then too. Nevill was cleared to return an over later.

Graeme Smith has confirmed that his role with the South Africa squad is on an ad-hoc basis although added that he was pondering further involvement having been asked to help

Firdose Moonda02-Jan-2016Graeme Smith has confirmed that his role with the South Africa squad is on an ad-hoc basis although added that he was pondering further involvement having been asked to helpSmith spent New Year’s Day at South Africa’s net session ahead of the second Test against England where he worked with the batsmen and Hashim Amla, South Africa’s captain, said although he wasn’t aware of the details of the agreement, he understood Smith would be with them, “for the rest of the series.” But with commentary commitments to and host broadcaster , Smith clarified that there was no official agreements as yet.”There has been a request to join up with the guys and help a little bit. I am considering it, but I had made commitments before the start of this series that it’s important to stick to,” he said during commentary on the first morning. “Obviously my heart will always be with the Proteas and I want to see them as successful as possible, if I can add value. But it’s got to work itself out, it’s not a role that’s been committed to yet.”But Smith and Amla are on the same page about what’s ailing the South African line-up and they agree that it’s lack of confidence. Both the former captain and the current one have spoken about the need for an injection of self-belief to break the streak of seven Tests without a win.”Naturally they’re a bit uncertain I would guess,” Smith said. “The challenge when you’re short of runs and confidence is that you become a very internal person. You almost go into self-preservation mode, you can spend hours in your hotel room thinking about it.”Sometimes you can get out of it by helping your teammates and share the load. I had a few chats with the guys and you can feel there’s a real hunger to be successful.”Smith also spent time with Amla discussing the challenges of leading, both with the bat and on the field. “I had quite a nice chat with Hash about his gameplans with the captaincy, and how he is managing all the new information that’s coming into his head,” he said. “We spoke a lot in Durban of just managing that space, when you’re under pressure with things coming at you from all over the park. As a batter you have to clear your head out. He’s got to find his way, his routine to get that all out of his head so he can focus on scoring runs.”

Friday’s weather changed the shape of this match, denying Durham the opportunity to bat Middlesex out of sight and instead requiring Paul Collingwood to make the right decision on when to declare

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ScorecardJoe Denly steered Middlesex to safety•Getty Images

Friday’s awful weather changed the shape of this match, denying Durham the opportunity from a strong platform to bat Middlesex out of sight and instead requiring Paul Collingwood to make the right decision on when to declare, mindful of the last time he had needed to make a similar judgment, against Yorkshire in April, when it backfired.On that occasion, he gave Yorkshire 103 overs to chase 336 and suffered the embarrassment of watching them cross the line at a relative canter, winning by four wickets with 6.1 overs to spare, albeit after a brilliant innings of 182 by Joe Root.This time he was always likely to err on the side of caution. With Scott Borthwick batting well, scoring a half-century for the second time in the match, Collingwood was in a position to wait for his moment, but the offer to Middlesex of 304 from 51 overs would have needed another exceptional performance, from a bowler if not a batsman, to lead to anything but a draw.In the event, Durham’s bowlers gave themselves a sniff of a chance when Mark Wood and Graham Onions picked up two wickets each in a spell that reduced Middlesex from 96 for 1 to 129 for 5 but a solid, measured performance by Joe Denly, who will have to shoulder the responsibility of opening again when Chris Rogers joins up with Australia, steered his side to a draw that leaves them second in the table, a point behind new leaders Sussex. Durham climb above Yorkshire to go third.Collingwood afterwards said in one breath that he felt the decision was “spot on” but qualified the comment to the effect that “spot on” meant that such gains that the bowlers were able to make came with the security of knowing that defeat was out of the equation.”There was always a temptation to pull out a little bit sooner and give the bowlers a few more overs but we knocked off 180 in 20 overs ourselves only a few weeks ago and you don’t want to gift the opposition a win on a flat wicket,” Collingwood said.”Obviously after Yorkshire I’m going to be a little bit negative but I would be criticised for being too bold. I said after that game that I was still learning about how the wicket here behaves and it was pretty flat again.”If we had not lost so much time I’m pretty sure we would have won. But as it was we were going to have to take a huge risk to try to win the game and we did not feel it was worth the risk. Middlesex might be at the top end of the league at the end of the season and you don’t want to hand them that amount of points.”But we kept taking wickets. Graham Onions was terrific and Mark Wood bowled with a lot of aggression and skill. I was proud of the way we stuck at it.”After eight wins in 13 Championship matches since he replaced Phil Mustard as captain, Collingwood’s record generally is impressive and the effort Durham’s bowlers put in to try to force the issue reflected strong morale in the dressing room.It was a tall order for them to take 10 wickets, regardless of the task facing Middlesex. The aforementioned four wickets did, in the space of 11 overs, place uncertainty in Middlesex’s minds and encouraged Collingwood briefly at least to think a win might be possible.Wood, holding down a place at last, claimed the major breakthrough when he trapped Rogers leg before and then nipped one back to bowl Dawid Malan with a ball the batsman mistakenly felt he could leave. Onions, who has looked in good shape throughout, had Neil Dexter caught behind and John Simpson taken at second slip.At this point an hour remained, time enough for the idea of an early handshake to be dismissed and the moment for Denly to show the tenacity that has seemed to be lacking on occasions lately and see Middlesex to the close.Ultimately, Denly dug in for the best part of three hours for his unbeaten 73 and lost only one more ally when Gareth Berg was caught in a leg gully trap set by Wood.”We missed Tim Murtagh,” Rogers, the Middlesex captain, said. “We probably conceded defeat in the first session on the first day when we won the toss in conditions where it was doing a bit and we didn’t make the most of it. I think Tim would have been excellent in those conditions. as he has been all season.”Then we lost momentum in the evening session with the first two wickets going cheaply and we were up against it from that point. In the second innings it was all about getting out unscathed.”

The fast bowler Brendan Drew and the batsman Nick Kruger are among eight players who will be axed from Tasmania’s contract list for next summer

ESPNcricinfo staff02-Apr-2012The fast bowler Brendan Drew and the batsman Nick Kruger are among eight players who will be axed from Tasmania’s contract list for next summer. A fortnight ago, Drew and Kruger were playing in the Sheffield Shield final but neither man did enough to encourage the selectors to retain them on the contract list.The wicketkeeper Brady Jones, the opening batsman Jon Wells, the seamer Ben Laughlin, the batsman Ashton May, the allrounder Matthew Day and the rookie spinner Marc Simonds will also be delisted.”While we are hopeful that some of these players remain in Hobart to chase their dream of playing cricket at the highest level, Cricket Tasmania wishes those who do not all the best with their cricket futures,” Tasmania’s chairman of selectors, Michael Farrell, said.The axing of state players is expected to be significant across most states this year with Cricket Australia keen to reduce the number of players offered central deals. That will create a knock-on effect with many players who were on national contracts needing to be squeezed into state lists.While 32 players held CA contracts by the end of the summer, including seven who were upgraded due to playing enough matches for Australia, that number could be slashed to as few as 15 when the new list is revealed. Tasmania are expected to have to find room on their state list to accommodate Tim Paine and Jason Krejza, both of whom hold CA contracts that are unlikely to be renewed.

Kings XI Punjab have been issued a notice for having not yet paid the entertainment duty owed for the match they hosted at the PCA stadium on April 13

ESPNcricinfo staff20-Apr-2011Kings XI Punjab have been issued a notice for having not yet paid the entertainment duty owed for the match they hosted at the PCA stadium in Mohali on April 13. They were supposed to pay the amount within three days of the game but since they haven’t, the Excise and Taxation department issued a notice to the Punjab management on Tuesday asking them to submit the details of the tickets sold and revenue generated, and to pay the requisite entertainment duty at the rate of 25% of the total income.Assistant Excise and Taxation Commissioner Baldeep Kaur has directed the franchise to deposit the levy without any further delay, failing which action under the Land Revenue Act will be initiated against the organisers for recovery of entertainment duty arrears.In order to procure the rights to host matches for this season, Punjab had paid Rs 5.6mn in entertainment duty payable for two of the matches they hosted at the PCA Stadium during the third season of the IPL. They are scheduled to host three more games in Mohali this season.

Murali Kartik claimed his first wickets for Somerset as Yorkshire were bowled out for 405 on the second day of the County Championship Division One match at Taunton

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Steven Patterson removed Nick Compton, then added useful runs from the tail•Getty Images

Murali Kartik claimed his first wickets for Somerset as Yorkshire were bowled out for 405 on the second day of the County Championship Division One match at Taunton.The Indian left-arm spinner marked his debut as overseas signing by helping to wrap up the tail after the visitors resumed on 296 for 4. He finished with 3 for 106 from 35.5 overs, while Ben Phillips returned 4 for 76 from 36.Only David Wainwright, with 39, offered much resistance as Yorkshire failed to build substantially on their first-day efforts. It took a last-wicket stand of 46 between Wainwright and Oliver Hannon-Dalby to get them past 400.By the close Somerset had replied with 226 for 4, Arul Suppiah unbeaten on
78 and Zander de Bruyn contributing 47. Hannon-Dalby claimed the prize wicket of Marcus Trescothick, who eased his way to 39 off 43 balls before being plumb lbw playing across a slower delivery.Nick Compton had made only 5 when caught behind off an inside-edge to give
Steven Patterson a deserved wicket. But Suppiah and De Bruyn then added exactly 100 for the third wicket before De Bruyn played on to an Adil Rashid googly.James Hildreth breezed to 31 before a lofted drive to mid-off gave the
leg-spinner a second wicket, but Suppiah held firm, having reached a patient half-century off 134 balls, with seven fours.Earlier, Yorkshire lost Anthony McGrath without adding to his overnight score of 73. He was undone by some extra bounce from the tall Phillips and gave a catch to Peter Trego at gully.Patterson (25) saw Yorkshire to a third batting point, but Somerset had to
settle for a single bowling point as the scoreboard read 322 for 5 after 110 overs.The home side then made up for lost time by taking four wickets for just 20
runs as their opponents plunged from 339 for 5 to 359 for 9.Patterson was caught in the slips off Alfonso Thomas, who then knocked back
Rashid’s off stump. Kartik claimed his first wicket for his new club when
Jonathan Bairstow, on 17, drove a catch to Compton at short extra cover.Kartik then pinned Tino Best lbw for 15, but he was kept waiting until after lunch for his third wicket as Wainwright hit five fours in his 41-ball innings and last man Hannon-Dalby survived 39 deliveries to score 2.The innings finally ended in the afternoon session when Wainwright lifted
Kartik to mid-on where Phillips took a stunning catch left-handed at full
stretch above his head.

Under DeSilva holdings, the franchise will be known as Dambulla Sixers

Andrew Fidel Fernando05-Jun-2024The Lanka Premier League’s Dambulla franchise has new ownership – an engineering consulting firm called Sequoia Consultants based in Los Angeles.Sri Lanka Cricket announced this news about two weeks after the board was forced to terminate the previous ownership of the Dambulla franchise, because one of the co-owners – Tamim Rahman – was arrested by Sri Lanka police under the Prevention of Offences Related to Sports Act.SLC said this new franchise will be run by a local company named DeSilva Holdings, “which was specifically set up for this purpose”. The owner of DeSilva Holdings, Priyanga de Silva, is in turn a majority shareholder of Sequoia, and had played domestic cricket in Sri Lanka, according to the release.Related

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Under DeSilva holdings, the franchise will be known as Dambulla Sixers, having previously been Dambulla Viiking, Dambulla Giants, and Dambulla Aura – the ownership having changed repeatedly since the tournament’s first season in 2020.”My desire to get engaged in cricket, especially cricket in Sri Lanka, prompted me to purchase the Dambulla Sixers team,” said De Silva. “I have seen LPL grow as a league during the last four years, which is commendable for a small country like ours. I am excited to be a part of this growth and be able to contribute to the development of cricket in our country,” he added.The new ownership takes charge with a little over three weeks to go, before the tournament’s scheduled start, on July 1. Matches will be played in Pallekele, Dambulla, and Colombo.

Haseebullah, Powell and Kohler-Cadmore half-centuries instrumental to turnaround

ESPNcricinfo staff01-Mar-2023Peshawar Zalmi went from one extreme to the other, slumping to 2 for 3 in the first 2.2 overs and then smashing 195 for 2 in the remaining 17.4 to seal a comfortable victory over Karachi Kings in Rawalpindi.It all began what seems like a very long time ago with Mohammad Amir sprinkling some of his magic dust, removing Babar Azam and Mohammad Haris in the very first over.Nineteen-year old Haseebullah Khan, on PSL debut, walked into an innings crying out for help and proceeded to soothe it. A member of Pakistan’s most recent Under-19 World Cup squad, he announced himself with a 29-ball fifty, in which five of his first 11 scoring shots were boundaries. Some of this carnage could have been mitigated had Akif Javed been able to hold onto a simple catch in the sixth over when Haseebullah only had 12 to his name but c’est la vie.Karachi’s dream start turned into a full on nightmare when Rovman Powell joined in on the fun, scoring 64 off just 34 balls. He hit six fours and four sixes during his stay; basically, he was able to hit a boundary once every three or four balls. Sixty-five runs – 33% of the total – came off the last four overs bowled by Javed (14+21), Amir (12) and Aamer Yamin (18). Somewhere in the middle of all that, Tom Kohler-Cadmore helped himself to a half-century as well.Karachi did begin their chase well with Matthew Wade moving to 37 off 26 by the end of the Powerplay. He’d benefited from two lives even at that early stage of the innings –
once when he was on 1 (caught behind but not reviewed) and later when he was on 19 (dropped). Karachi would’ve hoped that those were signs of their luck changing but it was not to be. They went from 40 for 0 to 95 for 5 as Mujeeb-ur-Rahman and Azmatullah Omarzai seized control through the middle overs picking up a combined 5 for 56 from their full quota.Imad Wasim (57 not out off 30 balls) threatened something special but even after hitting five fours in an over his side went into the last one needing 37 runs and that typically isn’t possible in a cricket match.