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Zimbabwe coach Andy Waller was cautiously optimistic about his team’s chances in the five-match ODI series against India starting on Wednesday, which also marks his first international assignment as head coach. Waller took over from Steve Mangongo, who had held the position in a caretaker’s role until the end of the home series against Bangladesh in May.”All along we’ve prepared and hoped we might surprise them in one of the games,” Waller said. “You’ve got to be realistic, but as long as we’re competitive and do the best we can.”Our guys are hugely excited about this. It’s a great experience for them, and we’ve been preparing knowing that the best side in the world are coming. I think the guys are up for it. Hopefully all the hard work we’ve put in in the last nine weeks is going to pay off.”Waller also confirmed that veteran left-arm spinner Ray Price is part of the Zimbabwe squad. “Price is in the squad, I don’t know why he wasn’t named in the original list,” said Waller after the team’s nets session on Monday.While Price has been included, it is highly likely that this series will be his last for Zimbabwe. The 37 year-old has played just one international this year, and with national contracts up for renewal soon, the departure of one of their most experienced players seems imminent.Price’s 140-game international career stretches all the way back to 1999. He appeared to have been lost to Zimbabwe when he took up a contract with Worcestershire following the clash between the board and players in 2004 but he decided to return to the fold in 2008 and since then has embodied the team’s tenacious spirit. He has helped to instil some backbone to the bowling group during some difficult years and Zimbabwe probably owe him the chance to say goodbye.A couple of India’s senior players are absent from this trip, foremost among them their captain MS Dhoni, but Waller stressed the visitors’ strength in depth and rejected any idea that Zimbabwe considered the squad a depleted one.”I think they’ve just got so many players,” he said. “With the new guys who’ve come in, I don’t think there’s a huge difference to be honest. We know that they’re all very good cricketers, so we don’t look at it like a weakened attack at all.”Waller has been working with a training squad for the last two months, having brought in Yorkshire fitness coach Tom Summers following the departure of long-time trainer Lorraine Chivandire. Waller has made fitness one of his top priorities and Zimbabwe’s intensive training session, which stretched over several hours, was at odds with India’s.The visitors will still have been slightly jet-lagged, having arrived on Sunday night, and were tasked with nothing more than some light fielding and a relaxed football match during their afternoon session.Apart from their training camp, Zimbabwe’s preparations included a three-day game against Australia A this weekend that the visitors won by 80 runs. Zimbabwe’s batsmen failed to complement the hard work of their bowlers, who had utilised the bowler-friendly Country Club pitch very well.Waller suggested that the batsmen would have an easier time at the Harare Sports Club, where the first three ODIs will be played before moving to Bulawayo.”We’re not shaken at all,” insisted Waller. “It was quite an interesting wicket [at Country Club], quite a difficult wicket. I think the guys are actually quite positive about it, because they were a damn good bowling side. And I think we know it’s a lot harder batting on the wicket there than it will be at Sports Club. “

ScorecardNeil McKenzie kept Hampshire alive•Getty Images

Marcus North took five wickets as Glamorgan gave themselves a chance of victoryagainst Hampshire at the end of the third day at Cardiff.After Gareth Rees completed his first Championship century for 26 months,Glamorgan declared their first innings on 300 for 6 – 41 behind Hampshire. But Hampshire subsided to 53 for 6 before Neil McKenzie scored a vital halfcentury in a 101 partnership for the seventh wicket with Sohail Tanvir.Hampshire’s troubles began when Stewart Walters hung on to a brilliantone-handed slip catch to dismiss Michael Carberry for a duck. And it got better for Glamorgan as North’s offspin accounted for two wicketsin an over. Wallace stumped Jimmy Adams before Liam Dawson was bowled.From 28 for 3, Hampshire found themselves 50 for 4 when James Vince wasrun out from a direct hit by Hogan. Sean Ervine and Adam Wheater went in the space of four balls as Hampshirelimped to tea at 75 for 6 – a lead of 116.Tanvir took the attack to Glamorgan as he hit consecutive sixes in successiveovers from Jim Allenby and Dean Cosker.Already missing seamer Will Owen through injury, the hosts suffered asecond setback when paceman Mike Reed pulled up while bowling. But McKenzie gave a sharp return catch to Allenby, who also caught Tanvir’s atslip off North. And in the last over David Balcombe was bowled by North.Rees’s century helped Glamorgan, who resumed their first innings on 196 for3, and it was quite a moment for the left hander who had not reached threefigures in a Championship since May 2011. He brought up his century from 238balls with 14 fours.In the end Rees was the first wicket of the day to fall ending a 271-ball and341-minute stay in the middle. He edged Balcombe to Dawson at second slip endinga fourth-wicket stand of 182 with Murray Goodwin.That left Glamorgan 266 for 4 and with no addition to the score Goodwin fell14 runs short of his third Glamorgan century hundred in the next over trappedlbw by Sohail Tanvir.Glamorgan’s blip continued as captain Mark Wallace was also out leg before toTanvir for a duck. It saw the Welsh county subside from 266 for 3 to 272 for6 in the space of 11 balls.Glamorgan declared their second innings on300 for six two overs after lunch in a bid to set up a game but they could never have hoped to slice through Hampshire’s top order.

ScorecardMichael Lumb’s hundred helped compensate for problems elsewhere•Getty Images

After Yorkshire’s victory over Middlesex and Durham’s defeat of Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire are in danger of losing contact with the leading group and this is not the moment they would want to start feeling pressure to keep up, not least with another crisis looming at the top of their batting order.Having beaten Derbyshire once already, this is a match they would have earmarked as a win, but with less than half the allotted overs possible in the first two days and a further two hours lost on the third, it is difficult to foresee anything but a draw as the outcome, unless the captains can reach an agreement to contrive a run chase.This is the last match in which Nottinghamshire have Ed Cowan at their disposal, while Alex Hales, who has opened with the Australian since the beginning of the season, is so out of form he has been sent off to the 2nd XI in a bid to rebuild his confidence. Dismissed for 0 and 8 in the fixture with Derbyshire 2nd XI, that exercise has not started well. Riki Wessels, promoted to open in Hales’ place, retired hurt after taking a blow on the right hand, although the diagnosis is bruising rather than a break.It is just as well, then, that Michael Lumb has hit a vein of good form that promises to continue, and which he has underpinned with his second century in as many matches after making 135 against Yorkshire at Scarborough. The 33-year-old left-hander, who still has ambitions to play Test cricket, resumes on 115, having hit 17 boundaries in an innings notable for his eye for an opportunity and the crisp timing of his execution. He had an escape early in the innings, when an edge off Mark Footitt went between second and third slips, but was otherwise, for the most part, in control.”He just carried on from where he left off at Scarborough,” the Nottinghamshire assistant coach, Wayne Noon, said. “When he came to us last season he had a point to prove to one or two people about what he could do in red-ball cricket and he was our leading run-scorer. He was short of 1,000 runs, but only because he had to go off and play Twenty20.”This season, after a bit of a dodgy start, getting a pair in the first game, he has worked hard and prepared well and is seeing the benefits.”He has a presence at the crease, hits the ball straight and clean and once he gets in he is a pleasure to watch. He was up against a couple of quick bowlers today in Footitt and Turner but he has matched them, hitting them in front of square and I hope it continues tomorrow.”His was an innings Nottinghamshire needed to keep in touch in this match, let alone in any broader context. Wessels had made only 9 when he decided, after treatment on the field, that he could not continue. Cowan again played himself in only to get out disappointingly early, this time taking three fours in a row off Tim Groenewald before edging the next ball to second slip.James Taylor reached 40, he and Lumb having added 121, when he misjudged a ball from Groenewald that bowled him off an inside edge; Samit Patel had not settled by time he went to help a ball from Footitt make its way to the long leg boundary only to lift it into the hands of Shivnarine Chanderpaul.Derbyshire had earlier added 85 to their overnight position before Nottinghamshire could claim the last four wickets, with every lower order batsman bar Groenewald chipping in with runs that gained a fourth batting point comfortably and almost a fifth. Nottinghamshire are 187 behind and with more rain likely it is difficult to envisage as positive result, although both sides will be willing to look for a way.

ScorecardTrent Copeland’s bowling form is creating an impression at Northants•Getty Images

Trent Copeland has only ever briefly attracted the interest of Australia’s selectors but he is making waves in the Championship. He continued his excellent form with the ball by taking seven wickets on the third day of Northamptonshire’s Division Two match with Leicestershire and has become a key figure in their promotion push.Copeland returned 7 for 63 as Leicestershire were bowled out for 234, achieved thanks to an unbeaten 64 from 96 balls from the teenager Shiv Thakor. It may not be long before the bigger counties come sniffing.Northants are by no means in an impregnable position with a day remaining. A late flurry of wickets – three in the last two overs – saw them close on 94 for 5, a lead of 215, with the impressive Ollie Freckingham taking 3 for 28 to add to his six first-innings dismissals.Leicestershire began the day on 89 for 1, 266 runs behind their opponents, with opener Greg Smith resuming on 36 and Ned Eckersley on 16.Smith went on to complete a fluent half-century off 77 balls but he departed weakly on 51, having batted so well previously, by smashing Copeland straight to Matthew Spriegel at point.After a couple of brief delays for bad light and rain, Copeland removed Eckersley for 25 when he trapped him lbw before Josh Cobb went for a second-ball duck when David Willey uprooted his off stump.Leicestershire suffered another blow with the final ball before lunch when they lost captain Ramnaresh Sarwan, lbw to Copeland, to leave them on 134 for 5. Copeland completed his third five-for in consecutive Championship innings and eighth overall in first-class cricket when Matthew Boyce chopped on to his stumps to perish on 23.He continued to tear through the Leicestershire batting order when he had Jigar Naik lbw and Willey then repeated the trick to Freckingham. Robbie Williams edged Andrew Hall to Northamptonshire wicketkeeper Ben Duckett for another second-ball nought, but Thakor stuck around to go past 50 off 85 deliveries.Inevitably, it was Copeland who finished off Leicestershire’s innings, when he trapped AlexWyatt lbw for a single. Looking to build on a first innings lead of 121, the hosts lost Spriegel for just one in just the third over – yet another lbw victim with Freckingham taking his wicket.After an hour-long delay for bad light, Northamptonshire were to lose David Sales for 31 when he was well taken by Leicestershire wicketkeeper Niall O’Brien off Wyatt.Two wickets fell in the penultimate over as James Middlebrook edged Freckingham to O’Brien on 43 before Rob Newton senselessly smashed the same man to Eckersley at mid-on.Northamptonshire’s sloppy end also saw their captain Alex Wakely dismissed when he edged Wyatt to Smith at second slip with the final ball of the day.

ScorecardRavi Bopara returned from England Lions duty to hit his first century of the season•Getty Images

Ravi Bopara struck his first century of the season to put Essex in a strongposition on the second day of their Championship Division Two clash with Glamorgan.Bopara, who returned to Essex colours after being on England Lions duty against New Zealand last week, was dismissed shortly before the close for 145 out of 343 for 9 – giving the visitors an overall lead of 112. He batted for over six hours and faced 264 balls, with 19 fours and a six, in what was his 23rd first-class century.The standout for Glamorgan was Australian paceman Michael Hogan who recorded figures of 5 for 65.Having had a difficult seven overs to survive on the first evening, Essex had resumed their first innings on day two 10 for 2 in reply to Glamorgan’s 231 all out. After a patient start, Essex lost Jaik Mickleburgh in the eighth over of the day, when Hogan carried on his good work from the previous evening removed the opener leg-before to take his figures to 3 for 3.Essex were in some trouble at 25 for 3, but Bopara and Mark Pettini dug in before lunch to complete a 50-run partnership in 19 overs and take their side to 85 for 3 at the break. After lunch the impressive Hogan picked up his fourth wicket, Pettini well caught one-handed by Stewart Walters at second slip with only one run added.But Bopara found more useful support from Ben Foakes putting on 83 for thefifth wicket. The England Under-19 batsman batted well for his 38 before edging slow left-armer Dean Cosker to slip where Jim Allenby took a good catch diving forward.Bopara survived a confident lbw appeal from Allenby on 74 but Glamorgan gotanother breakthrough in the penultimate over before tea having Greg Smithcaught behind. Bopara’s patient century came from 204 balls with 14 fours and coincided with Essex wiping out the first-innings deficit.Glamorgan finally broke the seventh-wicket stand, which was worth 91 in 30 overs, when Mike Reed had James Foster well caught by wicketkeeper Mark Wallace.Five overs before the close Bopara’s impressive innings came to an end when he was bowled attempting to pull Graham Wagg. And in the next over Tim Phillips was trapped leg-before by Allenby but Graham Napier had contributed an unbeaten 41 from 48 balls by the close to extend Essex’s lead.

Gurinder Sandhu’s rapid emergence as a pace bowler of substance has been underlined by his surprise plucking of the Steve Waugh Medal as the best New South Wales cricketer for 2012-13. Despite playing only two Sheffield Shield matches and four domestic limited-overs fixtures, 19-year-old Sandhu’s 146 votes allowed him to edge Brad Haddin (143) and Trent Copeland (133) in the awards presentation at Doltone House in Sydney.A fringe member of the squad at the start of the summer after playing for Australia at the 2012 Under-19 World Cup, Sandhu’s bouncing fast medium was first glimpsed when he played for the Sydney Thunder during the Big Bash League. He subsequently earned one-day and Shield call-ups in the latter part of the summer, and swiftly made a striking impact.In those two Shield games Sandhu collected 14 wickets, helping NSW to two outright wins that left them only narrowly short of qualifying for the competition final. In his limited-overs appearances he fared well too, also claiming 14 wickets to win the domestic one-day award. The Shield award was claimed by Copeland.Sandhu’s summer was also marked by representative duty for the Prime Minister’s XI and the Australia A side that faced the England Lions, affording him a glimpse of higher honours that are sure to follow in time if he can maintain the cracking pace he set this season.While Sandhu’s success was a welcome reminder of the strong pace bowling stock presently available in NSW and Australia, it also reflected a season in which the Blues were barely sustained by a series of cameo performances across their squad.Haddin enjoyed a fruitful season that culminated in his Test recall in India, making 468 runs at 52 with two centuries across seven matches in the Shield while claiming 19 catches and a trio of stumpings. Copeland also contributed consistently, nipping out 30 wickets at 26.86 and compiling his first Shield century against Tasmania.Victoria and South Australia have also named their players of the season in end-of-year ceremonies. Chris Rogers took home his second Bill Lawry Medal as the Bushrangers’ most accomplished cricketer in 2012-13, his 742 runs at 49.46 and three centuries vindicating the state’s decision to re-sign the 35-year-old in the winter.Chadd Sayers was named South Australia’s cricketer of the year, winning both the Neil Dansie Medal as most valuable player and the Lord Hampden Trophy as best first-class performer for his prolific bowling feats in the Shield. Sayers, 25, reaped 48 wickets in nine matches and played a large part in making the Redbacks competitive again after some dismal recent summers at first-class level.

North Zone

Punjab qualified for the knock-outs and maintained their unbeaten run in the tournament with a crushing 10-wicket win over Himachal Pradesh in Dharamsala. It was their fourth win in the tournament. The win was set up by 19-year-old seamer Sandeep Sharma, who picked up his first List A five-wicket haul. Himachal were 65 for 1 in the 11th over, but Sadeep triggered a batting collapse which saw the home side stumble to 83 for 8 in the 20th over. They soon folded for 129 in the 31st over.In response, Punjab openers comfortably overhauled the target in the 25th over. Chandan Madan remained unbeaten on 40, while Ravi Inder Singh, the more aggressive of the two, scored 76 with 10 fours and a six. Punjab took five points from the game and are placed at the top of the North Zone table.Delhi joined Punjab in the knock-outs after cruising to a 35-run win (by VJD method) against Services, who scored 205 for 7 in 38 overs (reduced due to fog) in Bilaspur.Delhi took advantage of the moist conditions and chose to field, reducing Services to 55 for 3 after Pradeep Sangwan struck first and Sumit Narwal picked the subsequent two wickets. Rajat Paliwal and Yashpal Singh took the score past 100 and Yashpal went on to score 52. A knock of 44 from Devender Lochab took Services to a respectable score. Delhi lost their opener Dhruv Shorey early, but Unmukt Chand (64) and Puneet Bisht (78) took the match away from Services with a 129-run partnership. Once Chand was dismissed in the 30th over, the match was stopped due to bad light, at which point Delhi had to be 138 to win and they were 172 for 3 already.Haryana got a consolatory victory in the tournament when they beat Jammu & Kashmir by 40 runs in Nadaun. The win was set up by two lower-order fifties from Rahul Dalal (56) and Harshal Patel (69) after the hosts were reduced to 102 for 7, because of three wickets from Parvez Rasool and two each from Zahoor Sofi and Manik Gupta. Dalal and Patel put on 109 for the eighth wicket and Haryana finished at 230 for 9 in 50 overs.After J&K were given a steady start by their openers, Amit Mishra struck twice within seven balls. Spinners Yuzvendra Chahal and Sonu Rathee took three wickets each after that and dismissed J&K for 190. Ahmed Bandy (53) and Rasool (47) did the bulk of the scoring at the top of the order but their efforts went in vain.

East Zone

Bengal’s place in the knock-outs is still uncertain after they lost to Tripura by two wickets in a low-scoring thriller in Kolkata. Put in to bat first, Bengal were dismissed for a meagre 121 in 33.3 overs, as Udit Patel finished with figures of 4 for 17 and Bunti Roy and Timir Chanda took two each.Shami Ahmed made sure Tripura’s chase was not a smooth ride with two wickets in his second over. Sanjib Sanyal also chipped in with two wickets, leaving Tripura at 62 for 5 after Gaurav Bhatia made 32. However, an unbeaten knock of 34 from Timir Chanda took Tripura home even though they were losing wickets at the other end.Assam stormed into the knock-outs when they won a low-scoring match against Jharkhand by six wickets. Jharkhand were put in to bat, but lost wickets regularly throughout their innings. Only Ishank Jaggi (27) and Sunny Gupta (26) provided some resistance as the rest of the batting wilted, being dismissed for 116. Offspinner Gokul Sharma finished with figures of 4 for 32.Assam’s reply was shaky at the start, when they were 44 for 3 after 9.3 overs. However, a 69-run stand for the fourth wicket between Gokul and Tarjinder Singh effectively quashed Jharkhand’s chances of staging an upset. Assam reached their target in the 26th over and won their third match in a row.

ScorecardBarisal Burners remained in the hunt for a final four finish after they secured an upset over Dhaka Gladiators. The seven-wicket win was only their fourth win in the competition, and it stopped the Gladiators’ three-match winning run.Alauddin Babu picked up three wickets in his first BPL match while Azhar Mahmood continued to be the team’s most consistent player with three more. It helped the Burners bowl the Gladiators out for just 114 runs in 19.2 overs.It was a poor start from the form team that made all the difference. Mohammad Ashraful, who scored a hundred on Monday, and Tillekaratne Dilshan added 49 for the first wicket but the two aggressive batsmen went against their natural instincts. Their partnership took nearly 10 overs and by the time Dilshan fell, the Gladiators were struggling. It got worse when Shakib Al Hasan fell quickly and two overs later Ashraful’s run-out was another crucial moment.Anamul Haque and Darren Stevens made double figures but the rest folded quickly as Alauddin and Mahmood took control.The Burners reply began at a good rate but they lost three quick wickets. Brad Hodge and Sabbir Rahman then took charge, Hodge in particular as he made an unbeaten 70 off 44 balls with eight fours and three sixes.Their unbroken fourth wicket partnership of 68 runs finished off the match with more than six overs to spare and gave the Burners a very realistic chance of qualification as they still have two matches in hand.

ScorecardRachel Candy destroyed Pakistan’s top order, and they couldn’t recover•ICC/Solaris Images

Rachel Candy’s maiden five-wicket haul in international cricket set up New Zealand’s seven-wicket victory against Pakistan in a Group B Women’s World Cup game at the Barabati Stadium on Sunday. The win ensured the White Ferns a place in Super Six.Candy was the star of the day, forcing a breakthrough in each of her three spells to dismiss Pakistan for a paltry 104. Having been dismissed for 84, chasing Australia’s total of 175, Pakistan adopted a cautious approach after choosing to bat first. The top order seemed to be concentrating more on occupying the crease rather than scoring runs.Accurate spells by Candy and Lea Tahuhu put pressure on the batsmen. The openers, Javeria Khan and Sidra Amin, hardly looked comfortable at the crease and Candy got her first wicket when Javeria’s attempted square cut lobbed to Bates at point.The early wicket put captain Sana Mir and Amin on the defensive and the duo scored only six runs in the next five overs. Amin was the first to be dismissed, caught by Amy Satterthwaite off Broadmore’s bowling. Her 35-ball vigil at the crease yielded only four runs. Mir followed in the next over, trapped leg before by Candy and Pakistan were 18 for 3 in 10 overs. Pakistan’s innings never recovered from that situation and the side was dismissed cheaply for the second time in three days.New Zealand lived up to the tag of being the favourites by coming up with a second formidable performance. Their bowlers struck at regular intervals and Pakistan would have struggled to reach the three-figure mark if the bowlers had not conceded 11 wides.New Zealand’s chase stuttered a little when Sana Mir picked up two wickets in two balls, leaving the batting side at 39 for 3. It was left to captain Suzie Bates to lead her side’s innings with an unbeaten knock of 65. With Sophie Devine, the star of the opening match missing, Katie Perkins stepped up and provided some much-needed support to Bates to ensure that New Zealand strode home with more than 20 overs to spare.

ScorecardFile photo: Cheteshwar Pujara batted with the confidence of an in-form Test batsman, but he was a bit too positive•Getty Images

Going by day one, the Rajkot pitch confounded both sides, who were expecting it to turn early, and turn big. In the end, the innate slow nature of the pitch didn’t allow that. The lack of watering and rolling of the pitch over the last two days, in the presence of a BCCI curator, somehow added variable, largely low, bounce to the mix. Slow and mostly low made batting difficult for Saurashtra, who conceded whatever advantage winning the toss had given them by losing nine wickets.Devendra Bundela, the MP captain, had walked back after the toss with a wry smile on, fearing the worst, especially given the presence of Cheteshwar Pujara in the Saurashtra line-up. At that time, MP would have grabbed an opposition scoreline of 212 for 9 with both hands. Ultimately, despite abandoning their favoured three-quicks policy for another specialist spinner – a debutant who was to be called twice for a suspect action – it was the crack fast-bowling pair of Ishwar Pandey and Anand Rajan who delivered the early blows for MP. Saurashtra never quite made up for that initial damage of 37 for 3, and despite fifties from Sheldon Jackson and Aarpit Vasavada, the day easily belonged to the visitors.Rajan struck as early as the last ball of his first over, the day’s second, when he had the veteran Shitanshu Kotak lbw on the forward defensive. Kotak had already been put down by the wicketkeeper Naman Ojha, diving in front of first slip, in Pandey’s opening over.Pujara batted with the supreme confidence an in-form Test batsman takes into first-class cricket, but he was a bit too positive, and in trying to on-drive Pandey, he gave a tame catch to midwicket when on 10. The ball had stopped on Pujara; the stroke was not on given the nature of the pitch. Pandey earned the next wicket through sheer pace, zipping a good length delivery through the captain Jaydev Shah’s defences. Both Pujara and Jaydev departed with quizzical glances at the pitch.Spin had already been introduced in the seventh over, and was to account for 65 of the day’s 90 overs. However, it was to play largely a holding role, though the spinners did take five wickets. The turn was slow, and even if batsmen were beaten in the flight, they could play off the back foot. Pitched-up deliveries were patted away from the crease. Bundela attacked throughout with two to three close-in fielders, but the one takeable chance that came their way was put down at short leg off Jackson, Jalaj Saxena the bowler to suffer.Jackson went for his shots, and rode his luck to make 53. Consecutive thick edges flew to gully off Ankit Sharma, but could not be held on. He steered Rajan dangerously through the slip cordon. But he probably also showed the way to score on this pitch, hitting several boundaries behind point. He chose to cut the part-time left-arm spinner Rameez Khan’s second delivery in the last over before lunch, and was bowled. Saurashtra ended the first session on 94 for 5, and from that position to go past 200 was in itself an achievement.Vasavada, and later Kamlesh Makvana, were responsible for that, with sensible, defensive knocks that were in stark contrast to the way Chirag Jani lost his head, charging out to Ankit, and getting stumped. Despite Saurashtra’s resistance, MP were never far away from striking, as seven partnerships worth between 22 and 38 showed. Vasavada eventually went on his 181st ball, bowled by an Ankit delivery that spun in sharply from outside off, one of the very few that did.The second new ball did nothing for MP, but before that Pandey displayed his versatility by trapping Vishal Joshi in front with a full delivery. Saurashtra ended a disappointing day on a disappointing note as No. 10 and debutant Dharmendra Jadeja stepped out and holed out to mid-off, the second time in the day Saurashra had given a wicket to the part-timer Rameez, off what turned out to be the last deliveries of the respective sessions.