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Yorkshire slump to 101 for 5 in second innings to open door for Division One rivals

ECB Reporters Network14-Jun-2022Yorkshire 428 and 101 for 5 (Duke 17*, Barker 3-22) leadHampshire 225 for 4 (Dawson 61*, Gubbins 58, Brown 52*) by 119 runs Keith Barker gave Hampshire hope of beating Yorkshire at home in the LV= Insurance County Championship for the first time since 2008 with a wicked evening spell of fast bowling.Lancashire-born Barker picked up three for 22 – with Kyle Abbott and Brad Wheal also picking up a wicket a piece – to ignite a match seemingly heading for a draw. Yorkshire slumped to 101 for five, a lead of 119 at the close.Earlier, Hampshire’s last four wickets put on 142 runs, which included a useful 38 from Barker, to frustrate the visitors before they were bowled out for 410. That meant Yorkshire took a slender 18-run first-innings lead, with the teams who started the round in second and third in Division One both picking up six bonus points each.In a juxtaposition of county team-mate Jonny Bairstow’s heroics in the Test match, things appeared to be meandering as Adam Lyth and first-innings centurion George Hill scored 36 in 18 overs. But wickets began to tumble, and trouble followed.Barker picked up Hill pushing to James Vince at a wide first slip and Lyth nicking a classic delivery on a fourth stump line behind. The left-armer then bowled Harry Brook, via a deflection, for 10. It was the first time Brook had been dismissed for a score lower than 41 this season.Will Fraine continued the collapse when Abbott found a patch of exaggerated bounce just back of a length to clip the shoulder of the bat through to keeper Brown.Wheal joined in the carnage when Matthew Waite clipped uppishly to James Fuller at square leg to leave Yorkshire 81 for five before a short rearguard before stumps.At the start of the day, Yorkshire needed to pick up the final six wickets before Hampshire passed the follow-on target, giving hope of repeating 2019’s innings victory here. A new ball 11 overs into the day gave hope of that possibility.Ben Brown and Liam Dawson, who both recorded half-centuries the previous evening, had their 118-run stand ended before the new ball appeared. Dawson was caught at first slip when attempting to drive spinner Dom Bess.Yorkshire’s fielding let them down at various points during the Hampshire first innings. Nick Gubbins had survived a drop and Brown a missed stumping on day two, and that trend continued into day three.Harry Duke fumbled another stumping chance when Brown was on 53 before failing to break the stumps when Brown looked short of his ground. Aneurin Donald was also given two lives by Dominic Drakes and Lyth, which Yorkshire would later rue as they fell a wicket short of a seventh bonus point.Brown departed seven overs into the second new ball when he pushed to first slip. Donald and Barker put on 57 before both fell within three overs; the former lbw to Matthew Revis and the latter bowled while missing a reverse sweep.Fuller and Abbott put on the afterburners to race past 350, the South African flicking the most nonchalant of sixes over mid-wicket before his partner thrice stuck Bess over the ropes. Their 50 partnership came up in just 45 deliveries and eventually reached 74.Jordan Thompson picked up the final two wickets in consecutive overs – Fuller and Abbott both holing out to the short legside boundary – to end up with four for 68.

Shakib Al Hasan has said leading Bangladesh’s Test team should be easier now than it was in his first stint, given how settled the current group of players is

Mohammad Isam11-Dec-2017Shakib Al Hasan has said leading Bangladesh’s Test team should be easier now than it was in his first stint, given how settled the current group of players is. The BCB reappointed Shakib on Sunday to replace Mushfiqur Rahim following a difficult tour of South Africa.When Shakib was captain in all formats from 2009 to 2011, Bangladesh won 23 out of 60 international matches, but only won one Test, against a second-string West Indies side in 2009. Shakib was the second-highest run-scorer and highest wicket-taker during that phase of his captaincy. This time around, Shakib feels there are more performers in the team.”The job will be easier this time, definitely,” Shakib said. “Most of our cricketers are performing almost every time. The captain doesn’t have to do much when they are doing well. I hope everyone does well together, which will only do good to the team’s cause.”Notwithstanding the criticism he faced as captain, Mushfiqur is Bangladesh’s most successful Test captain with seven wins, and led them to notable victories over England, Sri Lanka and Australia. Shakib said he was looking forward to taking a developing team to the next level, and hoped to improve Bangladesh’s dismal record away from home.”It is a new responsibility,” Shakib said. “We have been doing well in Tests in the last few years, winning against England, Sri Lanka and Australia. I will try to improve upon this. It is hard to say how different this stint is going to be, but it will be important to get accustomed to the situation.”I think we feel slightly more comfortable playing at home and since we don’t have much success outside, maybe it becomes harder. But this is also an opportunity to do well. If we can start this, why not? Someone has to do it. Although it is not going to be easy. But a lot of things are possible with the way our team has shaped up.”Shakib said he would bank on the senior players, particularly the new vice-captain Mahmudullah whom he said has grown as a captain on his own stead.”We have a number of team leaders, who take a collective decision,” Shakib said. “It doesn’t matter who the captain is, when we go out in the middle. We help each other out.”[Mahmudullah] Riyad has been captaining quite well in the last few years in the BPL. He always had that leadership skill. I think it will be easier for me.”

A fire in a kitchen at Edgbaston briefly disrupted preparations for the first one-day international between England and New Zealand

ESPNcricinfo staff08-Jun-2015A fire in a kitchen at Edgbaston briefly disrupted preparations for the first one-day international between England and New Zealand.Fire crews and three ambulances attended the venue, which was evacuated shortly before midday, with people treated for smoke inhalation. One member of staff was sent home as a precaution while others were checked by paramedics and cleared of any problems having briefly breathed in smoke while trying to tackle the fire.The fire, understood to be caused when baking peppers, happened in the Warwickshire Suite on the third floor of the new pavilion. Smoke drifted into the dressing rooms – the England team was evacuated on to the pitch and New Zealand were delayed in their attempts to start training – and the pre-match press conferences were relocated.Warwickshire tweeted: “West Midlands Fire Service have dealt with a small kitchen fire on-site. No impact on tomorrow’s game + thanks to everyone for your patience.”

Sussex have confirmed that their CB40 match against Kent in 2011 was investigated by the ICC’s ACSU after players reported they were approached to fix the match

Andrew McGlashan17-Nov-2012Sussex have confirmed that their CB40 match against Kent at Hove in 2011 was investigated by the ICC’s Anti Corruption and Security Unit after players reported they were approached to fix the match.Sussex issued a statement on Friday evening following claims in a newly published book by betting journalist Ed Hawkins, , that the contest was fixed. The subsequent investigation did not produce any evidence that the result was manipulated.”The club can confirm approaches were made to players regarding this game,” said the statement. “Working with the PCA, the club investigated and reported the issue at the time, passing all the information promptly to the ECB after the match.”In conjunction with the ICC, a full investigation was undertaken with nothing untoward coming to light, and the club’s prompt action receiving praise. There have been no further reports to the club concerning any Sussex matches. As a club, we are committed to ensuring that the game’s integrity is not breached at any time and will continue to take a full and leading role in the ECB’s endeavours to protect the game.”The incident will reignite concerns about the security of county matches that are broadcast on the subcontinent, opening them up to the vast illegal betting market.Earlier this year Mervyn Westfield, the former Essex seamer, was jailed for four months for his part in spot-fixing during a CB40 match against Durham in 2009 where he agreed to concede a set number of runs in an over in return for £6,000. Danish Kaneria, the Pakistan legspinner, was banned for life for his part in the scam and his appeal against the sanctions is due to be heard in December.

Marchant de Lange has been withdrawn from the Titans squad that will play in the Champions League T20, and could be in doubt for the tour of Australia as he recovers from a lower-back stress fracture

Firdose Moonda25-Sep-2012South African quick Marchant de Lange has been withdrawn from the Titans squad that will play in the Champions League T20, and could be in doubt for the tour of Australia later in the year as he recovers from a lower-back stress fracture. De Lange sustained the injury in June and is expected to be match fit only by November.He is currently in the final stages of a rehabilitation process with Titans physiotherapist Ian Repton and has started some gym work. De Lange will also undergo an examination of his bowing action to see if anything can be tweaked to prevent similar problems in future. National bowling coach Allan Donald, high performance manager Vincent Barnes, Titans coach Matthew Maynard and Repton are all on the case and working with de Lange to ensure he makes a successful return to international cricket.”Where we are at the moment is that we have been sent some information from Allan and we are waiting on more footage before we will know if anything needs to be changed with Marchant’s action,” Barnes told ESPNCricinfo. “It’s a slow process but we want to make sure he is properly ready.”De Lange hurt his lower back during the unofficial T20 tri-series between South Africa, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh in June but was included in the touring squad for the England Test series the following month. He travelled with the squad but didn’t recover sufficiently and was sent home during the second tour match in Canterbury. Albie Morkel replaced de Lange, who was initially thought to need eight weeks to recover from spasms.The time frame and seriousness of the injury grew once de Lange was assessed by Repton. “We did another scan when he came home and we found that he had a stress fracture of the lower back so we had to start a new process,” Reptons said. “He has been through the whole program but we only expect him to be ready to play by the time the domestic one-day competition starts.”South Africa’s one-day cup starts on November 2 and the Titans play in the first-match, against the Lions. The national team’s three-Test tour of Australia coincides with that tournament. The squad is expected to be announced next week and will leave for a training camp on October 25 with the first Test starting in Brisbane on November 9. De Lange will likely miss out on the trip, especially as he would not have played any first-class cricket in months.De Lange was said to be extremely disappointed when he was ruled out of the England tour and Barnes acknowledged that he may have similar “frustration” ahead of the Australia tour, more so because he has fond memories of playing against them. De Lange caught the eye of the national selectors when he took five wickets against the touring Australians in a warm-up match in October last year.That performance saw him included in the South African squad to play against Sri Lanka later in the summer and made his debut in the Boxing Day Test in Durban. His 7 for 81 in the first innings made him the most successful debutant of 2011. In March, he was included in the T20 and Test squads to tour New Zealand. His last over heroics with the ball in the third T20 in Auckland earned him an IPL contract with the Kolkata Knight Riders, where he played three matches.Although de Lange has played what Repton called “a lot of cricket,” in the last two years, all parties agree that he was not the cause of his stress fracture. “I wouldn’t say he was overbowled or it was caused by his workload,” Repton said. “It could be a combination of other factors, perhaps his action and he has also just turned 21, so he was probably finishing his natural development. We will make sure it’s not an issue going forward.”Barnes said de Lange has been “well managed,” at national and franchise level and will continue to be monitored. Like Australian speedster Pat Cummins, who also came to the fore in last year’s Australia-South Africa series, de Lange will have ample resources spent on him to ensure a stress fracture does not deprive the national side of his obvious talent.

James Taylor’s century and Ben Stokes’s fifty set up a series-clinching 135-run victory for England Lions over Sri Lanka A at Northampton

ESPNcricinfo staff16-Aug-2011
ScorecardJames Taylor’s century and Ben Stokes’s fifty set up a series-clinching 135-run victory for England Lions over Sri Lanka A at Northampton.It was Taylor’s second hundred in three games and helped the Lions bounce back emphatically from their 10-wicket drubbing the game before. Taylor and Stokes helped the Lions recover from 38 for 3 to post 282 before the bowlers finished the job in style, skittling Sri Lanka A for 147 with over 20 overs to spare.It was a captain’s innings in the old sense from Taylor, anchoring the recovery at one end while Stokes was more positive from the other. Tharanga Lakshitha had done the early damage taking each of the first three wickets before the fightback started.The pair added 98 with Stokes reaching his fifty first – from 45 balls – hitting seven fours and three sixes in his 65-ball 73. He fell just past the half-way stage to legspinner Seekkuge Prasanna. Though he had time to score plenty more his contribution would not have gone unnoticed by the England selectors who will be considering their squad for the upcoming India series.Taylor was more restrained, taking 91 balls to make his half-century but steadily increased his pace as the innings wore on. At one stage – when the Lions slipped to 178 for 6 – it looked as though he may run out of partners but James Harris offered him sound support with 29. It took Taylor just 37 deliveries to go from fifty to his century and by the time he was last man out in the final over, he had struck eight fours and a six in his 111.283 looked a challenging target and it proved much too difficult for the visitors. The promising four-pronged seam attack, which included Ireland’s Boyd Rankin for the first time, shared seven wickets, while Lancashire left-arm spinner Simon Kerrigan took the other three. The chase was as good as done by the third over when Sri Lanka A were reduced to 7 for 3.Captain Dimuth Karunaratne resisted grimly for 30 from 43 balls in a stand with Sachithra Chaturanga, who made 35. Aside from them, though, wickets kept tumbling. It needed a 38-run ninth-wicket stand to push Sri Lanka A towards 150 but Kerrigan and Woakes finished off the match to give the Lions the series.

Vincent Barnes has turned down an offer to coach Bangladesh but has been asked to reconsider his decision by the Bangladesh Cricket Board

ESPNcricinfo staff06-Jun-2011Vincent Barnes has turned down an offer to coach Bangladesh but has been asked to reconsider his decision by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). Barnes’ contract as South Africa’s assistant coach will be terminated at the end of June and he is not part of the revamped national set-up under newly-appointed coach Gary Kirsten.”I did turn it [Bangladesh job] down, but I have been asked to reconsider,” Barnes told ESPNcricinfo.At a press conference in Johannesburg, Cricket South Africa named Russell Domingo, who coached the Warriors, as assistant to Kirsten, and Allan Donald as the bowling coach. Barnes was offered a role at the High Performance Centre in Pretoria. Gerald Majola, the CSA chief executive, said they were waiting for a response from Barnes.If Barnes does not reverse his Bangladesh decision, it will be a setback for the BCB, who had said they were close to signing him to fill the vacancy created by Jamie Siddons’ departure after a disappointing World Cup campaign. Stuart Law, the interim coach of Sri Lanka, was also in the running but there were reports of his chances failing due to a disagreement over conditions with the BCB.

Kyle Mills was bizarrely banned from bowling for half an hour in Friday’s rained-out game after breaching a little-known rule which states that a warm-up delivery can’t bounce on the pitches in the middle

Siddarth Ravindran in Dambulla20-Aug-2010Kyle Mills was bizarrely banned from bowling for half an hour in Friday’s rained-out game after breaching a little-known rule which states that a warm-up delivery can’t bounce on the pitches in the middle. Mills, the New Zealand vice-captain, was given the ball for a new spell in the 39th over but the umpires stopped him from bowling after he was deemed to have broken Law 17.1 by pitching a practice delivery on the popping crease. The over was then bowled by Jacob Oram.At the post-match press conference, Ross Taylor seemed amused by the incident. “He bowled a warm-up ball with BJ Watling coming on (to catch it). I saw it landed on the popping crease,” Taylor said. “Mills’ knowledge of the rule – 17.1 was it? He wasn’t aware of the rule.”Though he laughed off the Mills half-hour bowling ban after the match, Taylor said it could have proved costly for New Zealand. “I must say we were lucky,” he said. “Kyle being our best bowler and he could have only been able to bowl seven overs. In hindsight, it’s funny but then it wasn’t funny. But Kyle won’t do that again.”This isn’t the first time New Zealand have been at the receiving end of such a ban. “We had a similar situation in a warm-up game last year when Chris Martin did a similar thing. I am not sure where the rules say 30 minutes but I think he was off for an hour.”The incident comes four days after the Suraj Randiv no-ball controversy, which also involved a rule several players – including Virender Sehwag, Kumar Sangakkara and Taylor – said they were unaware of.

Life for Kevin Pietersen is pretty good at the moment. He couldn’t
stop smiling as he sat with the World Twenty20 trophy, the
Man-of-the-Tournament award, his form back to somewhere near its best
and a small baby to return home to

Andrew McGlashan in Barbados16-May-2010Life for Kevin Pietersen is pretty good at the moment. He couldn’t stop smiling as he sat with the World Twenty20 trophy, the Player-of-the-Series award, his form back to somewhere near its best and a small baby to return home to.He had unfinished business against Australia after being forced to hobble out of the Ashes with his Achilles injury. His 47 in the final won’t quite make up for it – that will have to wait until the Ashes in November – but it could well be another highly significant mark in his career.”Incredible really,” was how he summed the past week of his life. “It will only sink in in a few weeks’ time or when I see my little boy to see and hold, everything will probably sink in. Right now in the dressing room we will celebrate as a team but things only seem to sink in a few days later or a week later. Hopefully the ash cloud will stay away and we can get back to our families on Tuesday because its one thing celebrating with the lads but you also want your families around you to celebrate such a successful time.”Even before being forced onto the operating table for surgery he has since revealed nearly ended his career, he wasn’t the same man who burst onto the international stage six years as he struggled to accept the way his brief captaincy stint was ended. His batting at least is back to somewhere near a peak and now that he is content off the field, too, it is time for him to reach the levels he has always had the ability to attain.But it has been a long, hard slog to get back to this point. Longer and harder than many people realise. Pietersen will always be a misunderstood cricketer for a variety of reasons, but no one works harder at their game. It tore him apart to not be able to contribute consistently towards the team cause.The turnaround began in Bangladesh, where he worked on his weakness against left-arm spin, spending hours in the nets with Andy Flower and he also did some serious soul-searching in Dhaka and Chittagong. By the end of that tour he was batting more freely again, but the big stage is where Pietersen belongs and his success here – 248 runs at 62 – caps off the rehabilitation.”It’s humbling, for sure,” he said. “You’ve got to savour things like this. If it wasn’t for the help of all the dressing room in Bangladesh and the coaching staff and management, I probably wouldn’t have been here – batting the way I did.”The nights and the dinners I had with Colly, reassuring me of how to play when you lose sight of how you should be playing coming back from the injury I had, really helped. It’s difficult to believe. But player-of-the-series is just something given to one person.”The team is the most important. One bloke gets a lovely trophy, but if was not for the team I wouldn’t be sitting here. The team have been absolutely incredible, in the journey – and so has the help I’ve had from ‘the weed’ [Collingwood] on my right and from Andy Flower and all the boys.”A firing, happy Pietersen makes England a much more dangerous side but while he has the statistics and trophy to prove how well he played he preferred to let others make the final judgment.”I just worked really hard as I can because I was really disappointed in my winter and in the last 12 months,” he said. “It is difficult for me to say how well I’m batting, I feel good and to contribute to this, there’s no greater feeling. To do what we have done here in the past two weeks – priceless.”Michael Clarke, who was helpless to stop the 111-run stand between Pietersen and Craig Kieswetter which assured England’s victory, was gracious enough to say that the sport is better for an in-form Pietersen.”He’s a matchwinner,” he said. “He’s one of those guys who can take the game away from you on his own. The performances in this tournament have been excellent and it’s great for the game that he’s back in form. He’s in a good place off the field as well and is obviously a very happy man at the moment.”

The allrounder was struck on the arm by a delivery from Hardik Pandya

ESPNcricinfo staff27-May-20231:29

Moody: Massive step for Green in his IPL career

Australia appear to have avoided a significant injury concern after Cameron Green was able to resume his innings in the IPL Qualifier against Gujarat Titans having been forced to retire hurt from a blow on the arm.Green left the field in the second over of Mumbai Indians’ chase when he was struck just below his left elbow by Hardik Pandya from a delivery clocked at 146kph.He was initially treated in the middle by the physio before retiring hurt but was not absent for long when he returned in the seventh over with his forearm taped up.Related

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He did not appear impeded at the crease as he collected two sixes in a brisk 30 before falling to Josh Little in the 12th over at a vital moment in the chase.Despite another superb display from Suryakumar Yadav, Mumbai eventually fell well short in their steep chase to bring an end to their IPL which means Green will be able to head to the UK to link with the Test squad who left Australia on Friday.Cameron Green copped a blow to his left forearm off a short delivery from Hardik Pandya•BCCI

The balance that Green brings to the Test side is vital for Australia and his absence was clearly felt in the final Test of last season against South Africa and the first two matches in India when he was recovering from a broken finger.He will only have a short period of time to adjust his game from T20 mode, but coach Andrew McDonald said through the early stages of his career Green had shown how quickly he could learn and adapt.”The challenge for Cam now is as he starts to become a three-format player is how he focuses [on] that, shifts between formats, and he’s going to have another challenge in front of him going deep into the IPL finals to get ready for the World Test Championship match,” McDonald told SEN Radio. “So that will be a challenge for him, but he’s a fast learner and every hurdle he’s got over so far.”Australia will name their 15-player squad for the World Test Championship final against India on Sunday with the biggest question mark hanging over Josh Hazlewood. Mitchell Marsh also returned early from the IPL having suffered a minor adductor injury.