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Guyana 249 and 274 for 4 (Ramdass 144*, Deonarine 52) beat Barbados 224 and 294 for 8 dec (Campbell 70, Browne 61) by 6 wickets
ScorecardA magnificent unbeaten 144 by Ryan Ramdass propelled Guyana to a memorable victory against Guyana in a Carib Beer match at Bridgetown. Set a fourth-innings target of 270 in 81 overs, Guyana stormed to victory with six wickets and 15.4 overs to spare. The highlight of the run-chase was Ramdass’s 131-run second wicket partnership with Narsingh Deonarine, who scored 52. The 21-year-old Ramdass struck 17 fours and a six in his innings, which came off 194 balls. The win took Guyana’s points tally to 22, while Barbados slumped to the bottom of the table with only four points. In fact, this was their fourth consecutive defeat in the Carib Beer tournament, all of them on home turf, making it the first time in their entire first-class history that they had ever suffered this ignominy.Windward Islands 417 for 9 dec and 121 for 4 (Smith 67) beat Leeward Islands 262 and 274 (Williams 115, Banks 58, Lewis 6-86) by 6 wickets
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Leeward Islands fought bravely on the final day, but couldn’t prevent Windward from easing to a six wicket victory at Charlotte Amalie in St Thomas. Resuming their second innings at 87 for 5, Leewards lifted their total to 274, thanks to a superb 115 from Stuart Williams. Williams received fine support from Omari Banks, who made 58, and Ridley Jacobs (36). Rawl Lewis, the Windward captain, did the star turn with the ball, taking 6 for 86. Requiring 120 to win, Windward lost a couple of early wickets, but Devon Smith, who had smashed 142 in the first innings, scored a fine 67 to ensure that the run-chase went off smoothly. The win pushed Windward Islands to second place with 34 points, while Leewards slipped to joint fourth place with 22.

CCA Pub Charity Club Cricket Points 2003/04(As at Wednesday 22 October 2003)Pub Charity 1st Grade Men2-day Trophy Competition:East Shirley 21.04,St.Albans 18.54,Marist 5.83,Old Collegians 5.49,BWU 5.06,LPW 3.69,Sydenham 2.93,HSOB 2.83,Riccarton 0.Pub Charity 2nd Grade Men2-day Trophy Competition:Old Collegians 21.92,East Shirley A 6.97,BWU 6.18,HSOB 6.08,Sydenham 6.02,East Shirley Budgies 5.29,Marist 5.26,LPW 5.13,Riccarton 4.03,St.Albans 3.45.3rd Grade Red Men:2-day Trophy CompetitionCBHS 21.4,Christ College 18.4,STAC 6.5,SBHS 5.0,St Bedes 4.5,St Thom* 2.7,Burnside HS* 0.0,TBHS 0.0.3rd Grade Gold Men:BWU Maroon 10.48,HSOB Cavaliers 9.91,Sydenham 4.3,Old Collegians 3.5,LPW 3,East Shirley Gold 3,BWU Gold 3,St.Albans 3,Riccarton 3,East Shirley Blue 3.3rd Grade Black Men:CC 7.05,SBHS 6.48,CBHS Black 5.66,STAC 5.19,Ricc HS 4.36,St Bedes 4.11,Burn HS* 0,CBHS Red 0,CBHS Blue* 0.4th Grade Men:St Albans B 10,LPW Yabbage 7,OC Cavs 5,Marist 5,ES Hooters 5,BWU 5,St Albans A 2,Syd Muppets 0.5th Grade Men:Ricc Hogs 10,St Albans 7,LPW Yaks 7,Ricc Gold* 5,BWU Gold 5,BWU SNCC 2,BWU Blue 0,BWU Maroon 0,OC Gold* 0,Marist Green 0.6th Grade Men:OC Tan 10,Mar Gold 10,St Albans 7,Syd Blue 5,Syd Red 5,Parklands 5,Marist Fozzie B’s 2,LPW 2,BWU 2,OC SGC 0.President’s:BWU 10,Sumner Misfits 7,Riccarton+ 7,ES Gold 7,HSOB 5,Sydenham 5,LPW Red 5,St Albans Gold 5,OC 5,LPW Gladiators 5,St Albans Blue 2,ES Blue 2,Hospital 2,Marist 0.(+ Indicates G Frampton Challenge Cup holder)Pub Charity 1st Grade Women (2-Day):St.A 4,LPW 2,ES 2,OC-Country 1.Pub Charity 1st Grade Women (1-Day):LPW 5,OC-Country 5,St.A 0,ES 0.1st Reserve Women:St.Albans TBA,Sydenham TBA,Ricc 12,OC-Country 2,BWU 2,ES 0.2nd Grade Women:LPW 10,St Albans 7,Syd 2,OC-Country 0,Hare 0.3rd Grade Women:Ricc 7,St Albans 7,Sydenham 7,BWU 5,LPW 2,Horn 0.4th Grade Primary GirlsSenior Trad:St Albans Gold 10,St Albans Grammar 5,OC-Country 5,LPW 5,Horn 5,ES 0.

Nashua WP selectors have named a fifteen man squad to play the Titans and Boland in Standard Bank matches this week.

MEDIA RELEASE:NASHUA Western Province Squad Vs Northern TitansNewlands 26th December 2001ANDNASHUA Western Province Squad Vs BolandB.O.E. Park 28th December 2001STANDARD BANK CUP:NASHUA Western Province Squad:1) Graeme Smith2) Neil Johnson3) Andrew Puttick4) Hylton Ackerman ( C )5) Ashwell Prince6) Jonathan Trott7) Lloyd Ferreira8) Alan Dawson9) Thami Tsolekile10) Renier Munnik11) Roger Telemachus12) Charl  Willoughby13) Paul Adams14) Quentin Friend15) Paul HarrisCricket Manager:  Vincent Barnes: Eric SimonsARTHUR TURNERCEO – WPCA

Tamil Nadu were holding the upper hand in a keenly fought KSCAUnder-25 Trophy battle against Kerala at Bangalore’s MaharajaJayachamarajendra Wodayar Sports Complex today. Despite a braveunbeaten century by opener C Sanju, Kerala at 169/3 were still 277runs behind Tamil Nadu’s first innings score of 446.Resuming at 297/4, TN lost overnight centurion Lokesh who added justfour more runs before falling for 124 (177 balls, 15 fours). It wasthe start of a streak of four consecutive wickets to opening bowlerPrasanth Chandran. The other overnight batsman Surendra Doss belted alusty 88 off 86 balls inclusive of 13 fours and a six before beingseventh out at 366.Padmaraju and Veeranan propped up the innings with a last wicket standof 58 before the latter was caught and bowled by leg spinner CM Shyamfor a breezy 25 off 27 balls. Padmaraju remained undefeated on 42 (52balls, 7 fours) as TN closed at 446 in the 117th over. Chandran tookthe bowling honours with figures of 5/118.Kerala got off to a bright start as Sanju and N Bijumon added 55 forthe first wicket before off spinner C Dhandapani saw the back of thelatter for 18 with a return catch. Dhandapani, who took all threewickets to fall for 46 runs, continued to torment the batsmen,removing CM Deepak and skipper KPK Nambiar cheaply as Kerala stutteredto 73/3. But Sanju and S Ramakrishnan (25) steadied the ship with anunbroken 96-run stand for the fourth wicket.

Rangers sporting director Ross Wilson worked hard to improve Gio van Bronckhorst’s Ibrox squad in the January transfer window.

He brought in James Sands, Mateusz Zukowski, Aaron Ramsey and Amad Diallo, but they are all yet to establish themselves as regulars in the first team.

There is still plenty of time for them to prove that they were good signings by the Gers chief, but sometimes transfer windows can be remembered for the players who got away.

This may well be the case for one particular deal during the late Walter Smith’s reign in Glasgow. The club had a major howler over their failure to sign Luka Modric, now of Real Madrid, for £3.5m towards the start of his career during Smith’s tenure in charge.

Ally McCoist has revealed that Smith refused to act on his suggestion to sign the Croatian legend whilst he was still playing in his home country, before the midfielder went on to join Tottenham and then Real Madrid.

The legendary striker explained: “Walter sent me over to Dinamo Zagreb to look at the right back who went to Spurs as well, Vedran Corluka.

“He phoned me after the game and said ‘what do you think?’ and I said ‘I’ll tell you gaffer, they’ve got a wee boy in the middle of the park, he’s absolutely outrageous, see how much money we’ve got’.”I think we could have got him for £3.5million but we didn’t have the money. Aw wow. We didn’t have the money. He asked ‘how much?’ and I said three and a half million and he said we can’t afford it.”

£3.5m for a future Ballon d’Or winner does not seem like a bad deal in hindsight but the Gers were unwilling to push the boat out to bring him in, and they may now look back on that moment and wonder what could have been. To be fair, Smith was just doing what he thought was in the best interests of the club, but it is interesting to think what Modric would have been like at Rangers.

Brazilian icon Kaka previously said that the 36-year-old plays football “like a dance”, and his incredible trophy haul suggests that he has had plenty of experience dancing in celebration throughout his career. He has won 23 trophies at club level – including the Champions League four times – and won the Ballon d’Or, UEFA Best Player in Europe and The Best FIFA Men’s Player in 2018.

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This means that Rangers missed out on signing someone who would go on to be the best player in the world for a fee of £3.5m, which is why they may look back on this now as a huge howler by the club – albeit with a lot of hindsight involved.

File this under “one that got away”…

AND in other news, Forget Tavernier: Rangers machine with 83% duels won was Van Bronckhorst’s unsung hero on Thursday night…

Andrew Caddick: still drawing a crowd © Getty Images

Andrew Caddick’s last Test appearance came at Sydney back in January 2003, but even at the age of 38, he still feels that he would be worthy of a place in the England squad to tour Sri Lanka, which is set to be announced at The Oval on Friday morning.Caddick took 234 wickets in 62 Tests, having made his debut against Australia during the 1993 Ashes. But his form in county cricket for Somerset has remained remarkably consistent, and this year he was shortlisted for the PCA Player of the Year along with three fellow veterans – Mark Ramprakash, Mushtaq Ahmed and the eventual winner Ottis Gibson – after picking up 75 first-class wickets at 23.10.Caddick is not a realistic prospect for an England recall but his former 1990s team-mate Ramprakash is very much in the frame after passing 2000 runs in consecutive seasons for Surrey – rightly so, in Caddick’s opinion. “I don’t care what age you are,” he said. “If you’re getting thousands of runs and taking hundreds of wickets, you should be knocking on the door of these youngsters.””There have to be rewards for players who play to the best of their ability on the county circuit,” he said. “If you’ve got players who are bowling well, batting well, they should be pushing on the door of those who are playing international cricket and not doing well.”Although England’s former coach, Duncan Fletcher, was never a fan of county cricket, his successor Peter Moores has been keen to build bridges between the domestic and international circuits, with the likes of Ryan Sidebottom and Graeme Swann earning their rewards for consistency.Caddick himself was briefly in line for an astonishing comeback in August, when he was put on standby for the decisive third Test against India at The Oval, after Chris Tremlett reported an injury in training. “I spoke with Geoff Miller [England selector] up at Derby and told him what I could bring to the fold,” said Caddick. “It’s still up to the selectors to decide whether Andy Caddick should still be involved in English cricket.”

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Ian Bell struck an important 71 to hand England a solid base © Getty Images

The first of five days of Australian celebrations were interrupted by asolid England batting performance as they tried to upstage the hosts. Thetourists’ main plan at the SCG is to avoid becoming only the second team tofall to a 5-0 Ashes defeat and they made a strong opening attempt. A fourthhalf-century of the series to Ian Bell and useful contributions from therest of the top order drove England to a healthy 4 for 234 at stumps.However, anything England do in the game will be overshadowed by the exitsof Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Justin Langer. If they feel unloved by thetime the match is over something will have gone seriously wrong.The teams walked out this morning to see the three players’ namesspray-painted on the ground in a mixture so thick the rain that delayed thestart for 70 minutes could not wash it away. Each time McGrath or Warnetouched the ball or walked to grab their caps they were cheered likereturning heroes and at tea the trio stood at the balcony of the dressingroom listening to Time to Say Goodbye. Only the title words are sungin English and the players were unable to mouth the lyrics of the Italianoperatic rendition like they did for the national anthem in the morning.On the field McGrath had the most impact with two important wickets thatupset England’s move from trouble to safety. In Stuart Clark’s second overafter lunch he removed Alastair Cook to an inside edge, leaving England at 2for 58, and Bell and Kevin Pietersen did a sensible job in directing themfrom danger with a 108-run partnership.However, just as Bell seemed set to break his century drought in the seriesand Pietersen was ready to muscle his way out of Australia’s restrictivefields, McGrath stepped in to dismiss both of them in two overs. The hometeam’s bowlers delivered tight, testing lines and the ball moved off theseam throughout the day, making Pietersen step down the wicket regularly inan attempt to push them off their lines.The tactic didn’t work very often and when he was starved of the strikeafter tea he made a terminal error by walking at McGrath and miscuing a pullto Michael Hussey, who took a back-tracking catch at midwicket. Until thatover Pietersen had stayed largely in control with his hot-stepping, but hedeparted with 41 and Bell followed quickly.Bell, who has played with purpose throughout the summer, was again lookingcomfortable and countered much of the movement before being undone by aMcGrath delivery that angled in and caught the edge on the way to thestumps. Had it missed the bat it would have cleared the wickets, but Bell’stentative push away from his body created a crucial deflection.

Glenn McGrath led the day for the retirees with two wickets © Getty Images

It was an unnecessary end to another brave innings from a batsman who is oneinnings of unbroken concentration away from his first Test century againstAustralia. He worked the ball strongly through midwicket and was happy toplay and miss – many of the balls were so good he had no choice – in a153-ball stay, which included eight fours. His loss for 71 left England at 4for 167 and more irritation was averted by Flintoff and Paul Collingwood.Knowing his name would forever be linked with a 5-0 defeat, Flintoff, whowon the toss, produced his smoothest batting of the series with 42 not outas England finished in a mood that was much brighter than the gloomy lightthat ended play seven overs early. Flintoff lifted Clark for a hefty sixover mid-on to signal he would not be tamed and was also comfortable leavingthe ball in a way he had not discovered over the first four Tests. WithCollingwood he combined in an important stand of 67 that England must buildon in the morning if they are to threaten Australia’s dominance.The hosts will not be too bothered by their opponents’ efforts and willconsider themselves unlucky not to have found more nicks. In the secondsession Clark, McGrath and Brett Lee were superb but were unable to makeregular breakthroughs. McGrath finished with 2 for 57 while Clark and Lee,who collected Andrew Strauss’ edge, each picked up a wicket.Warne delivered 19 overs without success and Langer spilled an early chanceoff Strauss at third slip as the retirees were led by McGrath. The other twohave four more opportunities to shine before they sign off.

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Steve Waugh went out to working-class choruses of John Williamson’s in 2004, but the farewells of Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Justin Langer took a step up in class with an operatic rendition of at tea.Dead ball of the day
In his final Test McGrath found a way to do something new. Kevin Pietersen was walking down the pitch at him and the unfamiliar tactic caused McGrath to misfire when the ball stuck in his hand at delivery, ending up near the non-striker. It didn’t happen again.Shock of the day
Alastair Cook barely had to time to acclimatise to the fresh sunshine that had replaced the morning rain when Brett Lee’s first delivery of the day struck him a nasty knock in the groin. Lee’s response appeared to be something like “Happy New Year”.Crowd contest
Australia’s Fantatics are in a bay under the scoreboard and they started to flex their vocal muscles with a 4-0 chant after lunch, but their shouts quickly became whispers as the Barmy Army roared into action.

Virender Sehwag’s absence poses the dilemma of who will open with Gautam Gambhir © Getty Images

Virender Sehwag, the Indian vice-captain, is extremely unlikely to play the second Test against Sri Lanka beginning in Delhi on Saturday. He is suffering from a throat infection and fever and was admitted to a local hospital on Thursday. Rahul Dravid is expected to play, though he missed a net session because of fever.Though Sehwag’s health has improved, the doctors have advised him against any physical stress over the next few days. “He [Sehwag] has not been able to swallow food or water and was therefore put on intravenous medication,” SP Byotra, a senior doctor of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, told PTI. “His body temperature was also near normal. But if you ask me whether he should be playing tomorrow, my advice will be that he should avoid the game and take rest for at least five to six days.”Baladitya, the team’s media manager, said that there was no issue over Mohammad Kaif leaving the practice session midway. “Kaif went through all the drills. He is perfectly fine. He took the permission of the coach before leaving.”Greg Chappell, the India coach, refused to speculate on who would be captain in case both Dravid and Sehwag did not play. “I don’t want to answer that. It is a hypothetical question. If and when that happens, we will deal with that.”

Hitesh Modi: ‘We were even training more than ever before but we were not registering good results’© Getty Images

Kenya have named a 31-man squad for their ICC Intercontinental Cup match against Namibia at the end of February, and it includes most of the players who went on strike last October.The suspension of the KCA executive speeded up talks aimed at resolving the issue, and the departure of coach Andy Moles, who is thought to have clashed with some senior players, cleared the way for their reinstatement.The manner in which Moles quit has not gone down well. He still had some of his two-year contract remaining, and less than a fortnight ago he returned to Nairobi from his Christmas break and categorically denied that he was considering leaving.Hitesh Modi, Kenya’s captain, told reporters that Moles’ strict approach to the game may have had a bad effect on the team’s performance. “He insisted on the players adapting to his own style and wanted to have his own way,” Modi explained. “In fact we were even training more than ever before but we were not registering good results.”Kenya squad Hitesh Modi (capt), Ravindu Shah, Steve Tikolo Kennedy Obuya, Thomas Odoyo, Alfred Luseno, Peter Ongondo, Maurice Ouma, Collins Obuya, Lameck Onyango, Jadhavji Bhimji, Rashmi Gami, Brijal Patel, Martin Suji, Amit Bhudia, Ashish Karia, Ragheb Aga, Abeed Janmohamed, Kalpesh Patel, Malhar Patel, Nehemiah Odhiambo, Hafeez Manji, Alpesh Bhudia, Ashok Hiren, Tanmay Mishra, Timothy Muange, Shiraz Ali, Mukhit Musani, Rajesh Bhudia, Alex Obanda.

The League urgently needs help to ensure that it continues to run effectively.Firstly, we are looking for a League Secretary. Colin Savage fills this post as part of his role as Hampshire Cricket Board Administrator. However, increasing demands on the HCB post, which is intended to be part-time, mean that this arrangement is not working and cannot continue beyond the League AGM.As no volunteer has come forward since we highlighted this problem in the 2001 Annual Report, the League is therefore seeking a Secretary with an Honorarium of £1,000 per year, plus reimbursement of expenses.This is also the last year of Alan Bundy’s three-year tenure as Chairman,the League has not had a Vice Chairman for four years, and the Treasurer, Brian Funnell, made it clear at the 2002 AGM that he will also be standing down at the end of this year.This means that the following posts will need to be filled at the 2003 AGM to ensure the continued administration of the League:Chairman
Vice Chairman
League Secretary
Treasurer
The posts of Chairman, Vice Chairman, and Treasurer are voluntary but travelling and other legitimate expenses can be claimed.Applications for the post of Secretary should be sent to Alan Bundy by 130 September, and nominations for Chairman, Vice Chairman and Treasurer to the League Secretary by 15th September 2003.