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“If he’s actually able to travel and be around the team, then I want him sitting beside me in the dugout every day of the week”

ESPNcricinfo staff20-Jan-2023Rishabh Pant may be ruled out from playing in the upcoming IPL 2023, but Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting thinks the team’s official captain still has a role to play. Ponting wants Pant to be around the team during the season, if he has recovered well enough.”I want him sitting beside me in the dugout every day of the week,” Ponting told the ICC review. “If he’s actually not physically fit enough to play, we’d still love to have him around.”He’s the sort of cultural leader around the group, being the captain, and that attitude and infectious smile and laugh he has is what we all love so much about him.Related

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“I’ll certainly be making sure, come the middle of March when we get together in Delhi and start our camps and stuff, if he’s able to be there, then I want him around the whole time.”Pant suffered injuries in a car crash on December 30 and is expected to be out of action for most of 2023. He tore three key ligaments in his knee, two of which were reconstructed on January 7, while surgery on the third is expected in February.Ponting also said that Capitals were searching for a wicketkeeper-batter to replace Pant, but stressed on how difficult that search could be.

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At the December auction for IPL 2023, Capitals bought five players but no wicketkeeper. The only other full-time wicketkeeping option in their side is England’s Phil Salt, who is currently donning the gloves for Pretoria Capitals in SA20 in South Africa. Among Indians, Sarfaraz Khan has been a part-time wicketkeeper for Mumbai in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament.”You can’t replace those guys, simple as that,” Ponting said. “They don’t grow on trees, players like that. We’ve got to look at – and we already are – a replacement to come into the squad.”With the Pant-Ponting combination at the helm, Capitals finished fifth in IPL 2022 and lost in the second Qualifier in 2021. In 2020 they registered their best finish by being runners-up when Shreyas Iyer was captain. The 2023 edition is expected to start in March end – after the inaugural edition of the women’s IPL – and will run through the months of April and May.

Reinvented as an opener, Russell dominates 159-run stand with Tom Kohler-Cadmore

Aadam Patel04-Dec-2021Once he gets going, there is quite simply no stopping him. Dynamic, powerful and with the ability to hit sixes at will; a revolutionary, a game-changer. Andre Russell has helped to redefine the scope of short-format batting in and of itself, with his ability to fuse his natural strength with the sheer level of skill that he has developed over time.With an astonishing 90 not out off 32 deliveries, ‘Dre Russ’ saved his very best till last to secure a first-ever Abu Dhabi T10 title for the Deccan Gladiators in devastating style, as they thrashed the Delhi Bulls in the tournament’s final.Alongside Tom Kohler-Cadmore, who smashed 59 not out off 28 himself, the pair put up 159 without loss in their ten overs, with an exhibition-like batting display. There could have been no better moment to score the highest total of the T10 season, as they battered the ball all around the Zayed Cricket Ground.Related

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For the second successive day and the fourth time in the tournament, the Bulls fell short against a Gladiators outfit, led expertly by Wahab Riaz. Dwayne Bravo’s side’s wait for a first T10 title continues after another final defeat, to add to their loss in February.For much of his career, Russell has played the finisher role better than anyone else. It took the Gladiators until the last game of the league phase of the Abu Dhabi T10 to recognise that the nature of the 10-over format meant that leaving Russell in the middle order risked wasting their single most valuable resource.For nine of the ten games, Russell came in to bat at No. 3 or below. Yes, the Gladiators were winning, but their prized asset and his qualities were yet to be truly exploited. After 43 not out in the first game, scores of 0, 9*, 4, 3, 3*, 4*, 22 and 4 indicated of a man that wasn’t really getting the chance to get going and do what he had done in franchise leagues all around the world.On Wednesday against the Bangla Tigers, knowing that qualification into the play-offs was secured, they sent him in to open alongside Kohler-Cadmore. Together, the pair put on 128 but it was Kohler-Cadmore who took centre stage with 96. Russell played an uncharacteristic back-up role with 26 not out but Wahab hailed his attacking intent.”It was about giving much more time and opportunity to someone like Andre [Russell],” he explained. “He’s shown across the world that he’s not just a batter who bats the last three or four overs. He may not have got many runs but his intent was there and at the end of the day, he puts pressure on the bowler because he is Andre Russell.”Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Andre Russell were in fine form•Abu Dhabi T10

That fact alone was the difference on Saturday night in Abu Dhabi, as Russell epitomised exactly why he is revered across the cricketing world and exactly why the Kolkata Knight Riders chose to retain him ahead of the IPL auction.On Friday night against the Bulls, with a place in the final on the line, Russell blitzed 39 off 14, before dismissing both Eoin Morgan and Dwayne Bravo to seal their place in the final. On Saturday, he went one better with a ruthless clinic of hitting, smashing nine fours and seven sixes.There was no hint of mercy, not least for his fellow West Indians. Each of Bravo, Ravi Rampaul, Dominic Drakes and Romario Shepherd were sent all over the park; Drakes went into the final as the joint highest wicket-taker, but went wicketless and was ultimately dispatched for 33 off his two overs.Instead, Wanindu Hasaranga took home the prize for most wickets, after picking up the prized scalps of Morgan and a well-set Chandrapaul Hemraj. That was after Odean Smith had made early inroads, getting rid of the in-form Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Sherfane Rutherford in his first over.Smith is a 25-year-old who possesses Russell-like traits with his ruthless six-hitting ability, his knack of striking with the ball and not least, his Jamaican heritage. Tymal Mills was brought on by Wahab to perform the last rites and with the dismissal of Drakes and Bravo, he finished with figures of two wickets for just four runs in his two overs.It was fitting that the man of the night, would have the final say. With a searing yorker off the last-ball of the Bulls chase, Russell cleaned up the stumps of Shepherd to start the party for the Gladiators. He roared with delight and his first embrace was a jubilant one with his captain Wahab, before he was lofted up joyously by his fellow teammates. “In a relaxed environment, you get to be you and express yourself,” Russell said. Express himself, he did.Michael Atherton once wrote that “if you were constructing a perfect prototype of a Twenty20 cricketer in a laboratory, Andre Russell, the Jamaican allrounder, would serve as an ideal template. He is physically imposing, a brutal hitter of the ball, a bowler of waspish pace and a brilliant all-round fielder”. His finishing act to conclude Season 5 of the Abu Dhabi T10 certified his standing in the game as one of the all-time greats.

“Saliva was their preferred mechanism of shining the ball,” Arthur said after the first day of Sri Lanka’s post-lockdown nets sessions

Andrew Fidel Fernando03-Jun-2020The feedback from Sri Lanka’s bowlers on the first day of post-lockdown nets sessions, is that sweat is not quite as effective for ball management as saliva.This is what the bowlers reported to coach Mickey Arthur, who is part of the ICC cricket committee that made recommendations last week to use only sweat while the Covid-19 pandemic ran its course. The recommendations were aimed to minimise infection.Six members of the 13-man squad that began the 12-day “residential training camp”, are fast bowlers.”It was interesting chatting to the bowlers, who said sweat made the ball a little bit heavier than saliva did,” Arthur told ESPNcricinfo. “Saliva was their preferred mechanism of shining the ball. But it is what it is now, you’ve just got to get on with it.”Because I’m on the [ICC] cricket committee, I do know the debates and the chats that went around the recommendation to avoid using saliva on the ball – though you can use sweat on the ball because it’s been proven that sweat is not a real threat. The consensus in that committee meeting was: ‘Oh, well, if you can put sweat on, then it’s ok. It’s almost the same.'”Although there is a broad consensus that for the time being the use of saliva on the ball should be avoided, there have been calls from leading voices in the game to allow the use of an artificial substance in place of saliva, in order to ensure that fast bowlers’ threat does not diminish substantially past the first few overs of the innings. Jasprit Bumrah, for example, said that if saliva is banned there should be “some alternative for the bowlers to maintain the ball”.The ICC cricket committee resisted calls to greenlight outside substances, however, not least because the committee had strengthened punishments for ball tampering, in the wake of 2018’s tampering sagas – particularly Australia’s use of sandpaper in Cape Town.”I will take this feedback back to the cricket committee, but I also know what the whole debate was around that issue,” Arthur said. “At the meeting last year, we actually recommended harsher penatlies for mints or any illegal substance on the ball, and it’s amazing that a year later we are discussing whether they can use artificial substances. It was almost a contradiction.”The theme of the meeting when that discussion came up was around the fact that even if it made it a batters’ game for a bit, we just had to get cricket on. The focus was getting cricket on without making it too complex. If we allowed them to put an artificial substance on, for example, and Covid goes away in 18 months’ time or whenever, do we say: ‘you can’t use an artificial substance on the ball’ again? We would have just confused everything. There are other ways of evening up the contest for the bowlers as well – by leaving extra grass on the pitch etc.”AFP

In addition to avoiding saliva on the ball, Sri Lanka’s training squad is also adjusting to a highly unusual training and living environment, in order to prevent infection. The 13 players and four support staff are essentially in their own bubble, going from hotel to ground and vice versa, in central Colombo. No one is allowed to leave either venue for personal reasons.”Every morning we’re having temperatures taken every time you leave the room,” Arthur said. “We’re wearing masks all the time. It’s almost total isolation, because in the hotel we’ve got our own eating area, the gym is cleared during our gym sessions and they clear the pool for our recovery sessions. There’s no interaction with anyone else apart from the little bubble that we’re in. We were washing hands regularly as well. It is so different, but everybody’s sort of embraced it, as we have to. Dr Daminda Attanayake – our health advisor – she’s been absolutely outstanding.”The training session on Tuesday had been interrupted when captain Dimuth Karunaratne suffered a heatstroke, requiring medical attention. He is expected to be back training on Wednesday, however, according to Arthur.”They are doing a few more precautionary tests on Dimuth, but soon as those are done he’ll be up and ready to go. He’s a determined bloke.”

A mammoth opening stand of 254 laid the foundation for New Zealand to build hefty lead with the promise of more to come with Kane Williamson unbeaten

Mohammad Isam in Hamilton01-Mar-2019Jeet Raval and Tom Latham put down the strongest foundation possible, on which Kane Williamson built steadily with help from Henry Nicholls as New Zealand dominated the second day in Hamilton. Three of their four wickets came from Bangladesh’s part-timers as none of their specialist bowlers put together a spell to talk about.Raval, who made his maiden Test hundred and Latham, who made his fourth 150-plus score, put together 254 for the opening stand. Then Williamson, unbeaten on 93 at the close, added 100 for the fourth wicket with Nicholls, who chipped in with a half-century filled with pretty shots. The stand put together by Raval and Latham was the third highest in New Zealand’s Test history.

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They began the second morning just as they had ended the first day, with total dominance. Raval pushed the scoring rate with regular boundaries in the first hour, before moving into the nineties with a superbly timed boundary off Khaled Ahmed. The century was reached soon afterwards from 163 balls with a pull off Ebadot Hossain. He also reached 1000 Test runs off the same ball.Within the first seven overs of the post-lunch session Latham, who had been dropped second ball yesterday evening, also reached his hundred off 170 balls, albeit a little fortunately with a top edged pull off Abu Jayed. Until that point, Latham had scored half his boundaries in the straight arc, between mid-on and mid-off, and the other half through point and square-leg.Raval also kept up the pressure from his end, hitting Mehidy Hasan Miraz and Ebadot for boundaries, the second a delightful dab between wide slip and gully. But he fell to Mahmudullah in the 70th over, skying a catch to Khaled at midwicket, to give the visitors at least something to smile. Raval had struck 19 fours and a six in his knock that spanned just over five hours.The wicket hardly affected Latham who continued to cut, pull and loft spin and pace with ease, as he entered an impressive New Zealand club of batsmen to have crossed 150 for four or more times. Soon after the tea break, however, Mohammad Mithun grabbed an excellent chance at a wide slip when Latham tried to slash Soumya Sarkar to third man, bringing an end an innings that spanned 248 balls in just over six hours at the creaseSoumya shared the second new ball in an interesting move and it paid off when he had Ross Taylor lbw for 4 with a delivery that moved into his front pad as Taylor tried playing around it.But the New Zealand batting line-up is full of steady hands, Williamson and Nicholls took over the innings building duty, initially with a little more caution but the pace never slowed that much. Nicholls found boundaries within a short time, including a late cut, straight drive, cover drive and a pick-up through midwicket that really stood out.During all this time, Williamson accumulated another Test fifty without much fuss. There were the driven boundaries through mid-off as well as well-timed square cuts, but his approach was more of a background guy. He was missed on 81 when he edged Mehidy fine of Soumya at slip, a tough chance but the fielder appeared a little slow to react.At the end of a day of toil, Mehidy claimed his first wicket with delivery that held its line and bowled Nicholls who didn’t offer a shot. It brought a smile to some of the Bangladesh faces, although it was one tough outing and they found themselves well behind New Zealand.

Jesse Ryder’s unbeaten 31 followed half-centuries from Will Young and Ross Taylor to help defeat Otago with less than six overs to spare in pursuit of 332

ESPNcricinfo staff18-Nov-2017A riveting final session in Dunedin witnessed Jesse Ryder and Ajaz Patel steer Central Districts to a two-wicket victory over Otago, with less than six overs to spare, in their pursuit of 332. Piloting the chase were captain Will Young (83) and Ross Taylor (90) who stitched a 166-run third-wicket stand, after the openers fell inside the first ten overs.Young’s dismissal, however, led to Central Districts losing three wickets for 16 runs around the tea break, with another 124 required to win. They headed into the last session with Taylor and Ryder at the crease but Jacob Duffy removed Taylor and Tom Bruce within the space of three balls in the second over after the break. However, Ryder’s unbeaten 54-ball 31 anchored a 74-run sixth-wicket partnership with wicketkeeper Dane Cleaver – who struck a brisk 45-ball 56 – and a 34-run stand for the eighth wicket with Navin Patel (26) even in the face of a sixth first-class five-for from 23-year-old Duffy. Central Districts were 40 away from the target when the seventh wicket fell and Duffy gave them another scare with Navin’s dismissal before Ajaz, the No. 10 batsman, pulled Michael Rae for a four to secure the third victory for his side.Having reduced Otago to 161 for 5 overnight, Ajaz and Adam Milne – who bagged a five-for each – took out the remainder of batsmen for only 16 runs inside 4.1 overs of the first session of day four. No Otago batsman managed to reach 40 as they were bundled out for 177.Central Districts’ triumph corresponded to Otago’s third loss in four games, despite having amassed 513 in the first innings, steered by Hamish Rutherford’s 142 and Derek de Boorder’s 140. Duffy’s three-for negated four first-innings half-centuries from the Central Districts line-up – including those from Ryder and Tom Bruce – and handed Otago a lead of 154 but proved insufficient to avert a narrow loss.

Vernon Philander has said he and Kagiso Rabada “owe it to” the injured Dale Steyn to take extra responsibility in his absence and win the Perth Test for South Africa

Firdose Moonda in Perth04-Nov-2016Vernon Philander’s parting words to his new-ball partner Dale Steyn were a promise: that Philander would do everything in his power to try and finish the job Steyn started and return home with a series win. Steyn will play no further part in the Tests after fracturing his right shoulder and Philander has taken it on himself to lead the pack.”Losing big players leaves a big gap but there’s always an opportunity for someone else to step up,” Philander said. “In this game KG [Kagiso Rabada] and myself will have to step up. That serves as motivation for us to step up and deliver. Dale’s done it for a long time and we owe it to him.”So far, Philander has followed through. He took four for 56 in an exceptional second-day spell in which he found subtle seam movement and admitted he knew it would be up to him to ensure Australia did not get too far away. “Dale’s been the leader of this attack for a very long time and it’s sad to see him go down like that. We had a job to do and that was to get the Aussies out as cheaply as possible, and it was a job well done by the rest of the bowlers,” Philander said. “It’s a responsibility that will be well taken by the rest of the team and the squad. We want to win this game for Dale as well.”Steyn made one mark on the match though – and it may yet to prove to be the most important – when he had David Warner caught at slip on 97 and sparked the Australian collapse. Although Warner may be secretly pleased he does not have to see Steyn for the rest of the series, he will miss the contest. “I am disappointed for Dale. After all the amp and the talk before the series, I know how pumped he would have been to play a big role. It is disappointing for him,” Warner said. “I hope he can get back on the park and play the competitive cricket that we’ve seen him play.”Warner remains wary of a South African attack that has already shown it can bowl Australia out sans Steyn and despite depleted resources. He mentioned less than 300 as a target the Australians think might give them a chance but cautioned against getting too excited by South Africa being a man down.”We have to respect each individual. There are two very good fast bowlers there and we’ve seen the wickets they can take,” Warner said. “We can’t look too far ahead. In this match, we still have to bowl well and then bat again but we know know that if we get through that first period with the new ball, they will have to revert to spin.”

The BCCI Special General Meeting, during which the board will elect a new president, has been scheduled for October 4 in Mumbai

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Ugra: A half ‘yes’ from Manohar

The BCCI Special General Meeting, during which the board will elect a new president, has been scheduled for October 4 in Mumbai. Nominations for post of president, left vacant by the death of Jagmohan Dalmiya on September 20, have to be filed on October 3.Shashank Manohar has emerged the frontrunner for the position after receiving the support of Bharatiya Janata Party, the political outfit that runs the federal government in India and wields significant influence in BCCI matters. There are also indications from the board that Manohar is likely to be elected unanimously.According to a PTI report, BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur said on the sidelines of the South Africans’ tour game in Delhi: “Shashank Manohar is our consensus candidate.” Thakur did not specify who the group he was referring to was, though. He also said, “N Srinivasan can come and vote at the SGM.”Over the last week, there has been relentless speculation over the candidature with Sharad Pawar’s name doing the rounds at one point, after he was formally backed by N Srinivasan. The proposed alliance, however, fizzled out after some of Pawar’s allies in the West Zone remained opposed to any kind of arrangement with Srinivasan.The East Zone units, which were earlier keen on having their own candidate replace Dalmiya, have subsequently softened their stand.

Western Australia completed a stirring comeback victory over Tasmania on the final morning of the Sheffield Shield match at the WACA ground

ESPNcricinfo staff24-Feb-2013
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Western Australia completed a stirring comeback victory over Tasmania on the final morning of the Sheffield Shield match at the WACA ground.The Warriors needed only a further six runs to win and they were polished off by the No. 10 Burt Cockley, playing his first Shield match for his adopted state after moving from New South Wales.Ashton Agar was at the other end, his unbeaten 71 pivotal to WA’s win after being bowled out for a mere 97 in the first innings.WA’s win keeps the within sight of the Shield leaders with two rounds remaining, but the Tigers’ bid to make a third consecutive final is now faltering.

Alastair Cook has warned his England colleagues that they face a
thorough examination of their character if they are to avoid the
humiliation of a 3-0 series whitewash against Pakistan

George Dobell in Dubai04-Feb-2012Alastair Cook has warned his England colleagues that they face a
thorough examination of their character if they are to avoid the
humiliation of a 3-0 series whitewash against Pakistan.The teams will resume on day three of the third Test with Pakistan
having already built a lead of 180 with eight second-innings wickets
in hand. Younis Khan (115 not out) and Azhar Ali (75 not out) have so
far added 194 runs for Pakistan’s third wicket and, in a low-scoring
series in which England’s batsmen have posted a total over 200 just
once, the tourists will have to produce a much-improved performance to
avoid another defeat. Pakistan have already earned an unassailable 2-0
lead in the series.Cook, perhaps worn down by experience, did not sound full of
confidence about the struggle to come, but insisted that England’s
pride and professionalism would ensure they fought hard to deny
Pakistan victory and retain England’s position as the top-ranked Test
side. If England lose this series 3-0 and South Africa subsequently
beat New Zealand by the same margin, then South Africa will leapfrog
England for the No. 1 position.”We all know we’re a very long way behind in this game,” Cook said.
“But if we sit here and say ‘well, we’ve lost this
game already’ then we might as well give Pakistan victory right now.
If we’re thinking that in our dressing-room, we might as well just not
bother turning up.”It will take some serious guts to drag ourselves out of this. But
there are some bloody good players in that dressing-room, and I hope
we can stand up. Anything is possible, but it’s going to take a lot of
mental toughness to deliver it.”Cook accepted that England’s batsmen had endured a grim tour to date –
none of the side are averaging as much as 30, while the middle order
of Ian Bell, Eoin Morgan and Kevin Pietersen are all averaging under
11 – but admitted that their repeated failures were starting to
frustrate the entire squad.Younis Khan expects a better response from England on an improved track for batting•Getty Images

“We have had our struggles on this tour and it is going to take some
serious character from the top six to turn it around. I
know we’ve got the players in there. But there’s only so many times
you can keep saying that – we’re going to have to get out there and do
it.”It has been very frustrating, and we haven’t played to the standards
we know we can. But we never once thought, just because of what
happened over the last two years, we’d turn up and wipe the floor with
everyone.”Twenty-two wickets fell in the first four sessions of the match but, since
then, Younis and Azhar have batted for 72 overs without giving a
chance. While Cook accepted that the Pakistan batsmen had played very
well, he also felt that the pitch had eased.”The pitch characteristics have changed. There were less
wicket-taking balls around than there were yesterday. It was quite
easy to see that.”But they didn’t give us a chance in those last two sessions, and
played very well. When they came in, they were still 20 runs behind us
– and we had a really good opportunity to take a couple more wickets.
If we had got them 50 for 4, we would have been right in the game.
But now they have given us a real mountain to climb. We tried a lot of
things. But Younis took the attack to us. He was never reckless, but
he never let the bowlers settle into any type of rhythm.”Younis agreed that conditions had eased for batsmen, but also said
that his anger at his first-innings dismissal had inspired him in the
second innings. He also said he expected a tough fight from England
over the closing sessions of the series.”The pitch is much better for batting,” he said. “The first day was
difficult with the ball seaming around. It seems like a totally
different pitch now.”I was very angry about how I got myself out in the first innings.
Seriously angry. So I decided to play more positively and I had a very
good partner, who has a fantastic technique and plays according to the
situation.”England tried their best, but we have the edge on them. England
have fantastic players and they are No. 1 in the world, so it
won’t be easy for us. There could be a fightback, but they will need
some luck.”

Haroon Lorgat, the ICC chief executive, has said that he is confident about having a corruption-free World Cup

ESPNcricinfo staff08-Feb-2011Haroon Lorgat, the ICC chief executive, has said that he is confident about having a corruption-free World Cup, especially after the anti-corruption tribunal’s verdict that banned three Pakistan players on charges of spot-fixing.”I am confident for two reasons,” Lorgat told the . “The main one is that the vast majority of players are honest players. They do play the game in the spirit that it should be played. They are not seeking to make gains out of untoward means.”Secondly, we are alive to what could come to the fore in terms of corruption. We have measures in place, and people forget we had been tracking this long before the had broken the story.Lorgat said the ICC was having discussions at appropriate levels about whether gambling could be legalised on the sub-continent, where cricket has long been under the spectre of illegal bookies and betting. “I agree with the notion that if it is regulated, it is a lot better than if it is not regulated. We have made inquiries, and these are the things we are working towards.”Since the spot-fixing scandal broke last year, Lorgat said that the ICC had increased its anti-corruption staff, and were now “more vigilant around leads we pick up.”Lorgat has said that the punishments handed out were severe enough, and felt that it would
deter players in future. “I think it would take someone very brave not to take heed of what has happened.”In legal terms, you have to be proportionate when you mete out punishment. We must distinguish between match-fixing and spot-fixing. This is a very experienced group of judges. They have enormous experience and expertise, and they are independent. They have applied their minds and decided on what is a proportionate sanction.”