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A round-up of matches in the Vijay Hazare Trophy

ESPNcricinfo staff29-Feb-2012

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Bengal‘s bowlers compensated for a middle and lower-order collapse to secure a 69-run victory against Assam at Eden Gardens. Bengal were well placed at 152 for 2 after choosing to bat, but collapsed after that, losing eight wickets for 84 runs. Shreevats Goswami scored 69 and Wriddhiman Saha 72 off 60 balls but of the last seven batsmen, only Debabrata Das got into double figures. Deepak Gohain took 3 for 62 and Tarjinder Singh took 2 for 36 for Assam as Bengal were dismissed for 236 in 46.1 overs. Assam’s chase never took off as wickets fell at frequent intervals to curb their momentum. The top scorer was the opener Pallavkumar Das, who made 38, and only two other batsmen got past 20 as Assam were dismissed for 167 in 42.3 overs.Orissa’s batsmen chased a testing target with five wickets and 7.3 overs to spare against Jharkhand in Kolkata. Chasing 255, Orissa’s openers Paresh Patel and Tukuna Sahoo made a quick start, scoring 62 in eight overs. Patel anchored the innings with 79 and, when he fell in the 34th over, Orissa were on course. Victory was sealed by Sujit Lenka, who was 56 not out, and Bhibudutta Panda, who made 41 off 29 balls. Jharkhand used eight bowlers but only Yaju Krishanatry and Rahul Shukla took wickets. Jharkhand could have scored more than 254 for 6 but they stumbled from 75 for 0 to 117 for 4. Saurabh Tiwary steadied the innings with 57 and Kumar Deobrat scored 72. Biplab Samantray took 3 for 38 for Orissa.

Lalit Modi has filed an appeal in the Bombay High Court against the earlier order that permitted the BCCI’s disciplinary committee hearings to go ahead

ESPNcricinfo staff22-Mar-2011Lalit Modi, the former IPL chairman, has filed an appeal in the Bombay High Court against the earlier order given by the court that allowed the BCCI’s disciplinary committee to continue investigating charges against him. Modi had challenged the existence of the committee in an earlier petition, claiming it had been improperly constituted, but on March 4 Justice SJ Kathawala dismissed the application and criticised Modi for trying to delay the proceedings. The hearings were due to restart today.”We had sought for stay on the DC [disciplinary committee] enquiry pending disposal of the appeal,” Mehmood Abdi, Modi’s lawyer, told . “We would now request with BCCI to postpone the enquiry till the High Court decides on our appeal.”On Monday, a two-person division bench made up of Justices Ranjana Desai and RG Ketkar heard arguments from Modi’s counsel, Ram Jethmalani, and BCCI’s counsel, Rafiq Dada. A further round of hearings were scheduled for today.Modi has repeatedly challenged the composition of the committee, particularly objecting to the presence of current IPL chairman Chirayu Amin and BCCI vice-president Arun Jaitley on grounds of bias against him. His case was rejected by the Bombay High Court but the Supreme Court told the board and Modi in October to come to a compromise on the issue. However, the two sides failed to do so.

If Chennai win – and their superior net run-rate gives them an advantage over the other teams – they will get into the final four. Lose, and their campaign is over

The Preview by Jamie Alter17-Apr-2010

Match facts

Sunday, April 18
Start time 1600 (1030 GMT)Chennai need Matthew Hayden to fire•Indian Premier League

Big picture

This match, in scenic Himachal Pradesh, is of little consequence for Kings XI Punjab, but with four teams vying for three open semi-final spots, this is huge for Chennai Super Kings. If they win – and their superior net run-rate gives them an advantage over the other teams – they will get into the final four. Lose, and their campaign is over.For Punjab, this is their last chance for a “home” win. Dharamsala has turned host for the final two matches of Punjab’s campaign and while the crowd hasn’t entirely warmed up to the presence of Punjab’s squad, they have flocked to the stadium and filled it completely. Punjab will, however, remain at the bottom of the pile no matter what the result and that’s a bitter pill to swallow for their captain Kumar Sangakkara, who entered the tournament high on confidence and promised a turnaround in the team’s fortunes. For the second year running, the semi-final remains elusive for Punjab.

Form guide (most recent first)

Punjab LWWLW
ChennaiLWLWW

Team talk

Chennai dropped Muttiah Muralitharan from the last game and despite Michael Hussey’s poor start to the tournament, he may remain on the bench. R Ashwin has been outstanding and Shadab Jakati has been a tidy back-up, so all signs are that Murali won’t play.Punjab have nothing to lose, but signing off with a win is a priority. Local face Vikramjeet Malik was ordinary against Deccan Chargers, yet could keep his place. Shalabh Srivastava looks primed for the bench after another shoddy outing.

Previously…

Punjab 1 Chennai 5
Until the first meeting between these sides this year, it was all one-way traffic headed Chennai’s way. Even in that game, Chennai was on top for most part before an inexplicable brain-freeze in the end overs pushed the game into a Super Over, where Punjab prevailed.

In the spotlight

Matthew Hayden: He hasn’t even touched the form shown in the previous IPL, while his fellow opener M Vijay has scripted meaningful innings. Apart from one thumping knock, the Mongoose bat hasn’t aided Hayden as he would have expected. A big innings from the big man would go a long way in boosting Chennai.Yuvraj Singh: Against Deccan, Yuvraj played another odd innings. While at the other end Mahela Jayawardene creamed four boundaries, Yuvraj scratched around and ate up dot balls. Then when he hit the ball in the air during the final over of Punjab’s innings, he inexcusably failed to turn over the strike. There was a chance that the catch would be dropped, but more importantly he should have crossed to get a red-hot Jayawardene on strike for the final ball. After a horrible IPL, will Yuvraj finally fire a salvo at his detractors?

Prime numbers

• Mahela Jayawardene has leapt to fourth spot in the race for the orange cap, with 418 runs. Suresh Raina is three runs behind him at fifth.
• Kumar Sangakkara, who is the second Punjab batsmen in the list, is overall 13th.
• Murali Vijay, the second Chennai batsman in the list, has scored 330 runs in boundaries alone, which is six runs more than Sangakkara’s overall tally.
  

  Quotes

  “It has affected us as we have missed his explosive opening.”
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A fifth straight defeat for RR in the back-end of the league stage could leave them outside the top two

Vishal Dikshit18-May-20243:18

‘Royals have the firepower even if Hetmyer is unfit’

Match details

Rajasthan Royals (second) vs Kolkata Knight Riders (first)
Guwahati, 1930 IST (1400 GMT)

Big picture – A dress rehearsal of the IPL final?

A week or two ago that question would have held more credence because of how KKR and RR had made the top two spots their own, that too with RR holding the top spot for a while.And then came Sunrisers Hyderabad to cast the shadows of doubt over RR’s campaign. With a slender one-run final-ball win, SRH put the brakes on RR’s four-match winning streak and also sparked off their four-match losing streak which RR haven’t managed to halt yet. And now they run into table-toppers KKR, who have won four on the trot themselves barring the washout against Gujarat Titans, in search of the elusive win that will confirm their second spot no matter what happens between RCB vs CSK on Saturday and SRH vs PBKS in the afternoon game on Sunday.RR had the winning mantra firmly in their hands for the first eight games out of nine, a pattern not new for them anymore. Last year they won five of their first eight before losing four of their remaining six to lose out on a playoff spot, and the year before that they had won six of their first eight and lost half of their remaining six to lose the top spot.A win in their final league match against KKR will break that pattern, the losing streak and do wonders for their own confidence if they want to play the first qualifier instead of the eliminator.KKR are riding high after their string of wins; so high that winning the title from here shouldn’t surprise anyone, and that success may play a role in them potentially losing their mentor Gautam Gambhir to the Indian cricket team. It’s been a week since KKR sealed their ticket for the first qualifier, ample time to think about their replacement at the top for Phil Salt and come up with a plan for Sunil Narine’s off day, with bat or ball.

Form guide

Rajasthan Royals LLLLW (last five completed matches, most recent first)Kolkata Knight Riders WWWWL

Previous meeting

What will boost RR’s confidence is that they had snatched victory from KKR with a turnaround win in their previous fixture a month ago, which had stunned the Kolkata crowd. What will not boost RR’s confidence is that that victory was scripted single-handedly by Jos Buttler, who has left for the UK to prep for the T20 World Cup.

Team news and impact player strategy

Rajasthan Royals
Tom Kohler-Cadmore will take Buttler’s place at the top, like he did in their last game against Punjab Kings, in which they had subbed out Dhruv Jurel for Donovan Ferreira after they had slipped to 102 for 6. That may not be the case again on Sunday because Hetmyer had missed out that day but he is fit for Sunday and RR will be forced to change their combination. If it turns out to be a run-fest, RR may also want to think about bringing in a sixth bowling option against the power-packed KKR line-up.Probable XII: 1 Yashasvi Jaiswal, 2 Tom Kohler-Cadmore, 3 Sanju Samson (capt & wk), 4 Riyan Parag, 5 , 6 Shimron Hetmyer/Rovman Powell, 7 R Ashwin, 8 Trent Boult, 9 Avesh Khan, 10 Sandeep Sharma, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal, 12 3:16

‘Gambhir has made himself part of the KKR DNA’

Kolkata Knight Riders
Salt is likely to be replaced by Rahmanullah Gurbaz as the opener, as was being expected for the washout match against GT. Their impact bowler coming in for a batter like Venkatesh Iyer could be Vaibhav Arora or Suyash Sharma, depending on whether the pitch favours more pace or turn.Likely XII: 1 Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), 2 Sunil Narine, 3 Nitish Rana, 4 Shreyas Iyer (capt), 5 , 6 Andre Russell, 7 Rinku Singh, 8 Ramandeep Singh, 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Varun Chakravarthy, 11 Harshit Rana, 12

In the spotlight – Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Rahmanullah Gurbaz

All eyes will be on the two replacement openers.Tom Kohler-Cadmore already made his IPL debut against PBKS, albeit on a track he wouldn’t have wanted to stay far away from to end up with a 23-ball 18. He is a destructive hitter, particularly down the ground and RR won’t mind some of those, especially when the runs have dried up a little from Yashasvi Jaiswal. Kohler-Cadmore has made a name for himself in the Lanka Premier League, the PSL, the BBL, the Abu Dhabi T10, and the Hundred, obviously, and some fine contributions in crunch games for RR will add a lot more weight to that list.Rahmanullah Gurbaz, the hard-hitting Afghanistan opener will also likely get a game before the crucial playoffs. Just 22, he has the firepower KKR need at the top to complement Sunil Narine. His recent T20 form doesn’t inspire much confidence – 105 runs in his last six innings – and neither does his IPL record from last season – 227 runs from 11 innings while averaging 20.63 and striking at just 133.52. Gurbaz may have a sterner test waiting for him, compared to Kohler-Cadmore, with the challenge of excelling against Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, R Ashwin and others.

Stats that matter

• Samson has a contrasting record against the KKR spinners, with a more watchful approach against Narine. He has scored 66 runs off 82 balls with three wickets against Narine but smashed 39 off 23 without any dismissals against Varun Chakravarthy.
• Powell, similarly, has contrasting records against his compatriot Andre Russell and T&T spinner Narine. Powell has been dismissed six times by Narine for 51 runs off 73 balls, but attacked Russell for 23 off just 12 balls and no dismissals.
• Shimron Hetmyer has faced just seven balls from Chakravarthy in T20s and dismissed in two of those, while scoring six runs.
• Narine has a terrific record against the RR spinners: 94 off 39 against Ashwin and 49 off 20 while facing Chahal.
• Narine is just four sixes away from the total of 100 in the IPL. Samson needs three more sixes to reach 300 sixes in T20s.
• Nitish Rana boasts of a strong record against Ashwin: 108 off 58 balls with no dismissals yet.

Pitch and conditions

The Barsapara Stadium in Guwahati saw its first game of this IPL earlier this week when RR lost to PBKS after stumbling to 145 for 9. It had hosted three matches last IPL, and the average first-innings score since then is just 180. The temperature will range from 24 degrees to 31 degrees Celsius with lots of humidity and some rain and scattered thunderstorms expected in the evening.

Quotes

“We’ve batted first and won against two sides and chased and won as well. It’s just a case of doing your job well. It’s easy to say we should do this or that [after winning the toss].”

The visitors needed less than 13 overs to complete the chase after Thunder made just 111

Andrew McGlashan13-Jan-2023David Warner’s first appearance in the BBL for more than nine years fell flat for Sydney Thunder as tournament-leaders Perth Scorchers cruised to a nine-wicket victory in what is becoming another very impressive campaign.One of their two defeats this season came against Thunder – a surprising loss at home – but once a promising third-wicket stand between Warner and Ollie Davies had been broken that never looked like being repeated. Thunder, who were famously bowled out for 15 earlier in the season, lost 8 for 41 and couldn’t bat their 20 overs. Scorchers needed less than 13 in the chase.AJ Tye put some daylight between him and the chasing pack at the top of the wicket-taking tally in what is becoming a stellar season while Cameron Bancroft produced one of the highlights of a one-sided occasion with a spectacular boundary catch.

Davies shines again

It was a lone hand in Thunder’s innings. The ease with which Davies timed the ball was a stark contrast to all his team-mates, including Warner, alongside who he dominated a 67-run stand for the third wicket. “I’ll keep nudging them,” Warner said on the player mic. Davies took two straight sixes off Ashton Agar, but saved his best for a strike off Tye which went well back into the stands.A 30-ball half-century was his third fifty of the season but Agar then out-thought him as he fired one in more quickly to have him stumped as Thunder’s collapse set it.

Warner’s quiet return

December 2013 was the last time Warner played BBL. That day he opened with Usman Khawaja and the pair added an opening stand of 116 in 11 overs. By the time Warner faced his second ball today he had lost two team-mates. He managed to get one strong pull short away against Lance Morris and a few overs later threaded a drive down the ground against Tye as the stand with Davies started to build. However, trying to pick up towards Davies’ tempo, he top-edged an attempted scoop off Matt Kelly.

Payne’s promising start

David Payne, the Gloucestershire left-arm seamer who has played one ODI for England, is one of a host of replacement overseas players Scorchers have called on this season after all their initial signings ended up unavailable for a variety of reasons.It took Payne just two balls to strike in his first appearance, taking the left-arm pace role in place of the rested Jason Behrendorff, when a curving outswinger drew an edge from Matthew Gilkes. Later in the innings, with Thunder trying to engineer a platform for a late use of the power surge, a well-directed short ball brought a top edge from the dangerous Daniel Sams which was held at long leg.It was a team effort from the Scorchers attack with all five bowlers finding success and sending down 63 dot balls in 19 overs. Tye’s fine tournament continued with another three scalps as he became the first to reach the 20-wicket mark for the season.

Bancroft’s all-round night

Bancroft had a superb evening on the field and then calmly went about the simple chase. In a display where Scorchers barely put a foot wrong, Bancroft’s two catches were especially impressive. He went low to remove Ben Cutting at midwicket, the batter standing his ground before the third umpire confirmed the take was clean. But better was to come in the 19th over when he ran around from long-on and flew full-length at top speed to pluck out Nathan McAndrew’s well-struck pull while still being able to keep himself inside the rope.Barring anything silly the chase was never going to be in doubt and the game was over long before the opening stand of 77 between Bancroft and Stephen Eskinazi was broken. For Eskinazi, another overseas replacement, it was his first significant contribution in his third outing. Bancroft skipped to a 36-ball fifty when he sent consecutive deliveries from Usman Qadir for six and four.

“It is very windy there and we as cricketers need some time to adjust to the conditions”

PTI07-Jan-2022Veteran India quick bowler Jhulan Goswami reckons that the ODI series in New Zealand next month will help the team plug the gaps and get used to the windy conditions before the Women’s World Cup starts in that country from March 4.Goswami, 39, is the leading wicket-taker in ODIs, could be featuring in her last ICC tournament. The ODI series against New Zealand will begin from February 11.The 18-member India squad, including three reserve players, is expected to leave for New Zealand on January 24.Related

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“We are getting to play New Zealand before the World Cup which is great preparation. It will help us get used to the conditions and weather,” she told PTI after being named Legends League Cricket ambassador.”It is very windy there and we as cricketers need some time to adjust to the conditions. We, as bowlers, find it tough to bowl against the wind initially.”Those five games will allow us to get familiar with the pitches and the weather. All matches are going to be important. We have a squad of 18, if we want to rotate our players before the World Cup [that can be done in the ODI series].”We have not played a lot of international cricket, of late. So we will get time to fix our errors before the big tournament.”India’s last assignment was the Australia tour in September-October. Following that, eight India players competed in the Big Bash League while some of the others played in the domestic one-day tournament and the Challenger Trophy.The World Cup, which got pushed to 2022 from 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, is expected to be the farewell event for Goswami and ODI and Test captain Mithali Raj.However, Goswami remained tight-lipped about her future.”Well, at this moment the World Cup is priority,” she said. “We have to go and play good cricket. That is the most important thing. Last four years we have been preparing for this and unfortunately it was postponed. Now the focus is only on this. After World Cup we will see about anything else.”Now [Covid-19] cases are rising again worldwide. We are bit scared in travelling too. When we reach New Zealand, we can’t make any excuses. We will be judged only on our performance.”India will open their World Cup campaign against Pakistan on March 6. Goswami termed the match as important as the other matches they will play.”We are not thinking about any individual team since it is a World Cup. We have to do all well in matches and prepare for all teams.”

“After the T20 World Cup final at the MCG, you needed another event within a 12-month period to recapture all of those people who fell in love with the game”

Annesha Ghosh14-Aug-20202:19

Ian Bishop: Hope Administrators focus as much on the women’s game as the men’s

Beyond the Boundary, On the 2021 women’s 50-over World Cup being deferred by a year, and 2022 possibly seeing three major events – the T20 World Cup, the ODI World Cup and the Commonwealth Games
As for the postponement, I was a little bit surprised, probably like everyone else given the fact that it was in New Zealand. I can understand the lack of cricket that teams would have had, but they would have all been on the same boat. We probably got to cast our mind back that we needed three qualifying teams come into the World Cup. The qualifying tournament, I think, was more the headache because they haven’t been able to play any cricket in the build-up to the qualifying tournament.ALSO READ: What’s next for India women?I can see both sides to it: [it is] really disappointing it wasn’t there; you felt that after the T20 World Cup final at the MCG, you needed another event within a 12-month period to recapture all of those people who fell in love with the game. But if you look at teams like, say, Ireland, or Bangladesh, or the USA, who are in the qualifiers – how much cricket have they had [recently]? A lot of them are in lockdown, a lot of them haven’t yet been able to get to a training centre to roll their arm over; they are all doing fitness in their own houses. I guess we all got to be fair, but no one knows how long this is going to go on for, so at some point, you don’t want to lose all of the momentum. At some point, everyone’s got to bite the bullet and make do with whatever we can get in the situation we’re put in.As for the feasibility of the three major events, it’s going to be an interesting scheduling period – workload management for the players will be crucial. It’s a year you want to be a part of, don’t you? Two World Cups and a Commonwealth Games – that would never happen again in a cricket lifespan.On the clash in the scheduling of the Women’s T20 Challenge and the WBBL
You’ve got to look at this situation as quite unique and different. The IPL [along the sidelines of which the T20 Challenge traditionally runs] is not supposed to be held at this time, so it wouldn’t normally clash. Having been part of and covered the T20 Challenge, the first game was two years ago, and it was played at 2pm in the Mumbai heat. Nobody watched it, no one came, no one was thinking about it – it was a one-off game. They got things right last year when they held it during the finals (the playoffs of the IPL); viewers of the IPL [in India] get habituated turning the TV on at 7pm, so when there was a break [during the playoffs], they put the women’s games on. The viewership [was high] as was the crowd attendance because it wasn’t in the heat of the day, so we got around 15,000 people attending in Jaipur. You can feel that the powers that be may have found a formula that works predominantly more for Indian domestic cricket at that time because all eyes are looking at the IPL; it’s the biggest vehicle for visibility. So I can understand why they wanted to continue to hold it [the T20 Challenge] during that window.ALSO READ: Mithali Raj: Foreign players’ frustration justified, but BCCI has done all it canThe unfortunate part is there’s already a WBBL competition taking place. They could have done two things: they could have gone with what they’re doing or the second thing is they could have bit the bullet and tried to find six or eight teams and hold it in December after the WBBL, potentially flying over the internationals. The issue for me is it [the T20 Challenge] is not necessarily the best product because you’re going to miss out on Australian players and potentially some international players [from other countries], so the product won’t be as good as it could be. But selfishly, from an Indian domestic point of view, it’s giving those players a chance to play more cricket and potentially opening up a few more nodes for players on the fringe, who might get a chance. And that will, hopefully, allow the BCCI to see there is enough depth for the board to have a full-fledged women’s IPL-style competition next year and then everyone can join in at the proper time, in April-May.Mithali Raj, Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana pose before the 2019 edition of the Women’s T20 Challenge•PTI

On the BCCI calling off the Indian women’s tour of England
Logistically, given where the pandemic is in India and some players being situated in big hotspots, the operational side of things would have been a little bit difficult. That being said, sometimes any amount of money can overcome that.What I am pleased about is with the IPL being launched; for a period there was no talk about the women’s exhibition matches, which was really scary. Thankfully, there will be some matches, although the number of teams reduced from what was originally proposed. It’s important for the women’s game across the globe to domestically get their cricket up and running. It can’t just purely be about international players; if domestic competitions can plan a way to play some regular cricket, it means those [domestic-level] players are going to keep proving that the women’s game is still going in the right direction for the vast majority and not just the small minority.On striking a balance between giving more Indian women players exposure and globalising the T20 Challenge
In this pandemic, you’ve just got to find ways to try and get cricket on the park. You’ve got to give players the opportunity to play. For instance, the WBBL will go ahead – the format, how long it is, I am not 100% sure, but they’ll get an opportunity to play. Domestic competitions are really important for the growth of women’s cricket, not just international cricket. So the fact that you’ve got the opportunity for these women’s exhibition matches [T20 Challenge], they’ve got to play it, they need to play it.Given the amount of changes at the BCCI, with Saba Karim [general manager – cricket operations] no longer there, I am sure there was a feeling among the Indian players about who’s looking after us, what cricket is to come after the England tour, all of our staff at the BCCI is gone, and now what’s next? At least this gives them a chance to focus on what is I think an October camp, a series against Sri Lanka, the women’s T20 exhibition matches and then a series against the West Indies. At least there’s some cricket there for them to focus on and drive towards, which I think is very important right now.Once we are out of this pandemic, this is where the ICC and the Women’s Committee can come into it, the national boards should start to have separate windows for these domestic competitions. The great thing about women’s cricket is the calendar is not jam-packed; we have enough room to play international series and in other months domestic competitions to ensure that you get the best players there and the best product and keep growing the game. I genuinely believe we will get to that place whenever we get back to normality.It is just this year that it’s really unfortunate and I can see the two sides of the coin: the disappointment of the international players not being part of the T20 Challenge who may be in the WBBL and I can also see it for the young Indian domestic cricketer wanting to mix with the Indian women’s side and see how they go under lights, in front of the camera, and try to start their career at the highest level.On sustaining the women’s game in countries without a robust domestic structure
The ICC Women’s Championship gave structure to the other four teams that were playing one-day internationals. For instance, I never got to play against Sri Lanka or South Africa outside of the world Cup; that’s been one of the developments within the game because they’re now playing regular cricket. So the South African side is challenging the best teams in the world and even Sri Lanka, on their day, can beat a side they’re coming up against. There is a major concern about countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and even South Africa to a certain extent because their domestic structure and competitions aren’t very strong.Given we have had a fair bit of time during the pandemic and the lockdown, I hope people within the national boards are starting to find or think of ways to reinvent cricket. Remember, women’s cricket has always been a leader in that: we’ve always been willing to take on new rules, new conditions, to try and make sure the game keeps going in the right direction. So in the countries where there hasn’t been a proper domestic structure for the women’s game but a reasonably good structure for the men’s game, I’d like to think they have used these four months wisely for the women’s games. Do you do Super Fours or regionals or age-groups or mascots? This is where you need someone to be inventive and give them the license to do that. They need to do the work now otherwise all of this momentum would have been lost in this pandemic.