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Subashis Roy grabbed a four-wicket haul to power Bangladesh Under-19s to a series-clinching win against West Indies Under-19s.West Indies were in pursuit of 233 but Roy never allowed their chase to get underway. Roy struck in his first over, removing Kieran Powell before knocking out the other opener Horace Miller and Adrian Barath in quick succession to leave West Indies struggling at 34 for 3.Suhrawadi Shuvo, the left-arm spinner, gave able support to Roy and ended up with a three-wicket haul. Sharmarh Brooks and Darren Bravo revived the innings with an 83-run partnership for the fourth wicket but Shuvo trapped Bravo to terminate it. And when Brooks fell soon after, with West Indies at 140 for 6, the chase was all but over.Earlier, an 87-run partnership between Nadimuddin (49) and Saikat Ali (49) helped Bangladesh recover from 25 for 3 before Rony Talukder (59) propelled them to finish at a healthy 232.

New York and South East were declared co-winners of the USACA T20 National Championship after the final was stopped due to rain after six overs with South East 34 for 3. After waiting more than three hours due to heavy showers, play was finally called off with both teams sharing the tournament title.Adil Bhatti of the Atlantic Region was named best batsman of the tournament while Camilus Alexander of the South East Region was named the tournament’s best bowler. Nisarg Patel of South West was named the tournament’s most valuable player.The Championship was scheduled to have 19 games over three days. However only three full games could be played. Six more matches were rescheduled as 10-over games and were completed on Saturday morning. Four others, including the final, ended up with no result. Four matches could not be held due to rain while the tournament runner-up matches never got underway after a player walkout which took place after the semi-finals were scrapped to accommodate an earlier start to the final.

Jonty Rhodes, the former South Africa player, will be the top draw in a unique Israel team – including a collection of Jewish cricketers from South Africa, Australia, Ireland and India – that will take on an India A squad to mark the 60th anniversary of Israel’s founding.Rhodes, 38, who retired from the game five years ago, has confirmed his participation for the three one-dayers to be held in Tel Aviv and the port city of Ashdod from July 13-16, Stanley Perlman, the chairman of the Israel Cricket Association, told Cricinfo.Perlman said he was particularly happy at being able to give an international look to the Israel 60th Anniversary XI, which also has an Indian Jew – Bensiyon Songavkar, who has represented Saurashtra in the Ranji Trophy. The squad has seven overseas players whose Israeli contingent includes a left-arm spinner from the Army and a wicketkeeper still in school.”It was very difficult to find enough first-class cricketers from around the world who are Jewish,” Perlman, who is also an ICC board member, said. “But as you can see, we finally managed to get a cricketer even from India.”Except for Rhodes and Netherlands’ Roland Lefebvre, who are “supporters of cricket in Israel”, the Israel team will comprise entirely of Jewish cricketers including Adam Bacher (South Africa), Steven Herzberg (Australia), Jason and Greg Molins (Ireland) and Songavkar. The two Israeli players who are sure to make the XI are Shai Chayun, the wicketkeeper, and Solomon Varsulkar, from the country’s armed forces.”I just hope Solomon gets leave and Shai’s exams don’t clash with this event,” Perlman said. “Israel celebrated its 60th birthday recently and it is a very special occasion for us. Believe it or not, no other sport here has organised any such celebration and I am so happy cricket is the game that has gone ahead. It is also a great opportunity to bring in a group of good cricketers and show Israel what the game is all about.”My first thought was who would I want to celebrate this with? The answer was clear: my friends from India, who share very rich historical ties with us.”The BCCI had accepted an invitation earlier this year from Perlman to send a team for the event, and Niranjan Shah, the board secretary, told Cricinfo that the squad would consist of a “collection of fringe India players and some under-19 cricketers”.Shah, who is based in Rajkot and is also the secretary of the local Saurashtra Cricket Association, said he had suggested Songavkar’s name for the event after receiving a request from Perlman to identify Jewish cricketers from India to be part of the Israel XI.”I will be playing against an Indian team in Israel for an Israeli team and that will be a bit strange. But I am looking forward to the trip,” Songavkar, 22, a left-handed batsman and right-arm off-spinner who works for the Indian Railways, told Cricinfo.

Despite captain Sanath Jayasuriya’s comments to the contrary, Sri Lanka remain firm favourites to win the final of the Morocco Cup 2002 on Wednesday.Jayasuriya appeared uncomfortable with the favourites’ label after his side’s comfortable six-wicket defeat of South Africa on Monday, their third consecutive win."No, you can’t say that we are favourites, South Africa can always come back," said Jayasuriya, wary of Sri Lanka having lost their last two Sharjah finals after dominating the group stages.However, coach Dav Whatmore admitted that South Africa were now underdogs.”Played four, won three – I suppose you could say that, but we’ve played them a lot in the past and we know what they are capable of. The conditions might be different but that’s no reason to think it’s your God-given right to win the final,” Whatmore said.The fact is that as this tournament has progressed, the conditions haveincreasingly favoured Sri Lanka’s spin-based attack, which has been able toextract significant turn from the pitch.Sri Lanka bowled 30 overs of spin in their last game, despite the absence oftheir star off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, and will consider playing justtwo fast bowlers in the final.That would allow them to bolster their middle order, which has so far not been tested because of the form of Aravinda de Silva, who has won two Man-of-the-Match awards, and Jayasuriya, the tournaments highest run-scorer with 228 runs at 57.By sharing ten overs between Jayasuriya, De Silva and Russel Arnold, Sri Lanka would be able to play Tillakaratne Dilshan at number seven.But it’s a difficult decision to make, with pace bowler Pulasthi Gunaratne, the one who would stand down, having taken four wickets in his last game.South Africa captain Shaun Pollock is certainly keen to take early wickets,believing the key to winning will be to put pressure on the Sri Lankan middle order."At the moment the lower order has not really been tested, we have to make inroads upfront," said Pollock.They will be targeting de Silva, who has nudged and nurdled his way to two match-winning unbeaten half-centuries against the Proteas."De Silva is the key, he is their rock that they are batting around at themoment," Pollock said.And despite two comprehensive defeats, he remained upbeat about his side’s chances."We know what we have to do – where we have gone wrong and improve," he said. "If we put that right I can’t see why we can’t win."South Africa have been boosted by the news that Jacques Kallis will play a full part in the final, despite sustaining a knee injury during his 84 yesterday. Jonty Rhodes, suffering from a bruised finger, has also been given the all clear.South Africa, though, are also faced with selection problems, particularly theidentity of Pollock’s new-ball partner.Both Roger Telemachus and Mahkaya Ntini have proved expensive and appearunlikely to play, meaning Kallis takes the new ball and left-arm spinner Nicky Boje bowls his full quota of overs.With only five specialist bowlers, Justin Ontong, who has thus far failed with the bat, may play ahead of left-handed batsmen Graeme Smith because of the back-up provided by his part-time spin.Sri Lanka: Sanath Jayasuriya (Capt), Marvan Atapattu, Kumar Sangakkara, MahelaJaywardene, Russel Arnold, Aravinda de Silva, Tillakaratne Dilshan, UpulChandana, Hasantha Fernando, Chaminda Vaas, Chamila Lakshitha Gamage, Dilhara Fernando, Muttiah Muralitharan, Pulasthi Gunaratne, Charitha Buddika Fernando.South Africa: Shaun Pollock (Capt), Mark Boucher, Paul Adams, Nicky Boje, Boeta Dippenaar, Allan Donald, Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis, Gary Kirsten, Lance Klusner, Makhaya Ntini, Justin Ontong, Jonty Rhodes, Graeme Smith, Roger Telemachus.

Usman Afzaal was one of a number of players on the fringe of the England Test side who impressed when play eventually got under way at Chesterfield on what was scheduled to be the second day of the match between MCC and the Sri Lankans.The Nottinghamshire batsman had been forced by heavy rain to sit in the pavilion throughout the first day as rain washed out valuable preparation for the tourists prior to the third Test at Old Trafford. However, he took the opportunity to remind the selectors of his potential when he got to the middle today, ending the day on 80 not out in a total of 260 for six in the 71 overs of play that were possible.MCC captain David Fulton won the toss and decided to bat. His openers put on 95 before Andy Strauss fell to a catch by Upul Chandana off the bowling of Dilhara Fernando, returning to action after a stress fracture of his lower back. Fulton then joined his Kent colleague Robert Key, adding a further 53 runs for the second wicket before the captain was caught off the bowling of Ruchira Perera, making a reappearance after being reported during the Lord’s Test for having a suspect bowling action.Key was third out to Chandana for an impressive 77, while Owais Shah soon followed for nought. With Darren Stevens falling cheaply to Perera shortly afterwards, it was left to wicket-keeper Chris Read to accompany Afzaal in a sixth wicket stand worth 68 before Read became Perera’s third victim. Richard Dawson stayed with Afzaal until stumps.

Entertainment won’t be lacking at the Basin Reserve in Wellington over the next five days – that’s the view of New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming as he takes on India in the first of two National Bank Series Tests.Fleming said the pitch for the match is one of the hardest he has seen at the ground.”There is great grass cover.”I was fortunate enough to play on it a week ago and it had good bounce and I think that it will be great. It will provide some entertainment,” he said.Whether New Zealand’s batsmen would be key contributors to the entertainment factor was not quite so certain.Fleming said it was a fine line between being entertaining and taking undue risks.”If we get the opportunity we’d like to because scoring is one way of putting pressure back on the bowlers.”It does really depend on what you’re delivered. On these types of wickets, if it does nip around too much, one may have your name on it,” he said.It also came down to the individual approach of players.”We’ve got different styles of players all the way through our innings. Some are instinctively attacking, others are more circumspect.”All I’m saying to our guys is look what’s best for you in the current situation, then just trust it,” he said.While a lot had quite rightly been made of the wicket, it all still came down to basic technique.”We haven’t got a secret technique of playing a green seaming wicket that is going to help us. Nothing can really help you if it nips around quite a bit.”I guess it just comes down to your basic technique and in their [India’s] batting order there are some of the finest techniques in the game so they should be able to adjust and they should be able to adapt,” he said.If there was an advantage to the home side it was in their knowledge of the conditions.Fleming said he was happy with his attack because the bowlers concerned were thinking players who had been thinking for quite a while about the task in front of them in this series.It was tough on bowlers when a green wicket was laid on, because everyone’s expectations were that they should be able to move the ball around.It was like the pressure that goes on a batsman to score heavily when he is confronted with a flat pitch.”There’s a certain amount of nervousness about having to perform, and needing to perform. Sometimes that can lead to over-effort and a bad bowling performance. We’ve talked about that and looked at that already,” he said.”We just need to go about our business and even forget about the fact that it might be a big green seamer. We just have to be workmanlike.”Indian coach John Wright had given New Zealand’s solitary spinner Daniel Vettori something to work on when claiming there was only one world-class spinner in the match, Harbhajan Singh because Vettori’s average was a little high to suggest he was in world-class.”So he’s got a point to prove here,” Fleming said.Wright was a significant advantage for India going into the game, as Fleming acknowledged.”Not only has he been successful with them, but he has very good knowledge of how New Zealand wickets traditionally play.”Finally, there is the underlying knowledge that after the recent upheavals in cricket in New Zealand, when first-class players resorted to strike action during contract negotiations, the players will be under even closer scrutiny from the local public.”It’s an important time for a number of reasons for us.”We’re building up a pretty good record at home, like the 1980s, and we want to respond well,” he said.There is every chance circumstances will give New Zealand every opportunity to put their case over the next five days.Given their lack of cricket, New Zealand face the tougher test, but India have not won a match in New Zealand since 1975/76, they have their own demons to face.

The South Australian Cricket Association (SACA) has named the finaltwelve-man squad for the first ING Cup match to be held this Saturday,October 19 at Adelaide Oval.The squad sees Graham Manou take up wicket-keeping duties, with NathanAdcock also coming into the side.Completing the squad are Greg Blewett (c), Chris Davies, John Davison, DavidFitzgerald, Ryan Harris, Mark Harrity, Mark Higgs, Ben Johnson, MichaelMiller and Paul Rofe.The ING Cup match is a day game, with play starting at 9.30am and gatesopening at 8.30am. Tickets are $8 for adults and $2 for children. Ticketscan be purchased at the gates.

Superior bowling and solid batting by the Victorian Spirit overcame the Western Fury with victory by 8 wickets at Abbett Park in Perth today.The Fury were bowled out for a score of 126 in the forty-third over of their innings. In reply the Spirit lost two wickets on their way to victory in the thirtieth over.The main difference between the teams today was in their bowling. The Spirit had the pace and penetration to regularly take the Fury wickets whilst their opponent relied on spin and medium pace.In contrast to yesterdays match – the Fury players were running well between the wickets. There was virtually no hesitation throughout their innings. The fielding of the Spirit side was marginally better than yesterday, it was the bowlers however who won the day for their team.Conditions were perfect – clear skies and a mere zephyr of wind at the start of play. Zoe Goss won the toss for the Fury and elected to bat first.Openers Elwyn Campbell and Angelle Gray had put 15 runs on the board when Gray was trapped in front – leg before wicket to Clea Smith after scoring 3 runs from 10 balls.Campbell and Fury captain Zoe Goss saw off the Victorian pace bowler Cathryn Fitzpatrick adding 36 to the score when Goss 11 (from 23 balls) was bowled around her legs by Jodi Dean in the fifteenth over of the innings with the Fury score two wickets for 51.Campbell and Sarah Collyer added 21 more to the score when Campbell 34 (84)played inside the line of a delivery from Jane Franklin and had the off stump removed and was out bowled when the Fury score was 72 for the third wicket.The fourth wicket partnership of English pair Collyer and Dawn Holden cameundone when the score was 87. They were together only eight minutes addingfifteen from seventeen balls when Holden 5 (11) guided a Sarah Young delivery into the safe hands of Louise Broadfoot at second slip.Collyer and Avril Fahey added twelve runs for the fifth wicket, bringing the Fury score to 99 when Collyer 24 (44) bottom edged a ball from Franklin into the gloves of Spirit wicket keeper Amelie Hunter who was standing up at the stumps.Avril Fahey 3 (17) was trapped in front by Young out leg before wicket, before her sixth wicket partner Lauren Stammers could open her account and thus the sixth wicket went with 102 runs on the scoreboard in the thirty-third over.Breaking the seventh wicket partnership worth fourteen runs, Shannon Young had Lauren Stammers 10 (16) caught by Melanie Jones. The Fury fighting hard to stave off the attack with 116 runs.Kelly Tyrrell 2 (5) lofted into the outfield off an outside edge and was caught out there by Kelly Applebee off the bowling of Louise Broadfoot.The ninth wicket to fall was that of Renee Chappell 3 (16) who lofted a drive off Young and was at mid off caught by Belinda Clark. The Western Fury were had scored 121 in the thirty-ninth over.Zoe Kissane 4 (13) failed to dig out a full ball from the pace bowler Fitzpatrick, second ball of her new spell, bowled out and the last batsman out, leaving Connie Wong 2 (15) undefeated for the second time in two games. So the Western Fury were all out for 126 two balls into the forty-third over.At at asking rate of just 2.54 per over the Victorian Spirit were set for aquick victory. They were propelled to that position by their bowling. Each of the six bowlers used was rewarded with at least one scalp. The best figures were of Shannon Young who took four wickets conceding 23 runs from eight overs. Jane Franklin chipped in with two wickets for 14 from five overs and Louise Broadfoot one wicket for 9 from five overs was the most economical. The other bowlers used were Cathryn Fitzpatrick, Clea Smith and Jodi Dean with a wicket each.The first wicket partnership of Louise Broadfoot and Belinda Clark erased 78 runs from the target before their union in the middle was broken. Clark chased at a ball outside off from Kelly Tyrrell and gave a catch off the driven edge to Angelle Gray at a wide second slip position.An hour into the Victorian reply, a stiff westerly breeze arrived. This greatly assisted the slower bowlers from the Fury, adding drift to the spin they were exerting off the pitch. The bowling in general lacked the penetration of the Victorian Spirit.The wicket of Louise Broadfoot fell when she was caught at first slip by Zoe Goss off the bowling of Dawn Holden for 23 (61). Twelve runs was the value of the second wicket partnership with Kelly Applebee. Their partnership was broken with the score of 90 in the twenty-first over.Kelly Applebee 29 (42) and Melanie Jones 10 (25) brought the Spirit ship home in the thirtieth over.The Fury used six bowlers in the defense of their total. Only Kelly Tyrrell (1-8) and Dawn Holden (1-17) were successful. The other bowlers used were Zoe Goss, Sarah Collyer, Patrice Berthold and Avril Fahey.Shannon Young was awarded the man of the match award for her four wicket haul in the Fury innings.The next matches for Victoria Spirit is away to the New South Wales Institute of Sport in Sydney, 7 and 8 December 2002. At the same time the Western Fury will be playing their next matches away to the Southern Scorpions at Adelaide.

Somerset Under 11’s travelled to West Buckland School last weekend, to play against their Devon counterparts.Somerset won the toss and batting first amassed 199 for 7 before declaring. Will Robinson dominated the innings with a fine 85, and there were also useful contributions from Jamie Howson (15) Dan Tomkins (14) Chris Dent and Ross Jenkins who both made 12.In reply the hosts were dismissed for 142 to give Somerset victory by 57 runs.For Somerset Jack Leach enjoyed figures of 10 overs, 2 maidens, 3 wickets for 18 runs.

The fifth match between Australia ‘A’ and South Africa ‘A’ in EastLondon, South Africa, has been abandoned without a ball being bowled.The decision was made after heavy rain left the field waterlogged.The next match is in Bloemfontein on Sunday. Australia ‘A’ hold anunbeatable 4-0 lead in the series.