May 3, 2017 issue |
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Cricket |
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ICC Champions Trophy 2017 - Teams, Schedule and Squads |
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India won the last edition of the Champions Trophy in 2013, beating England in the final at Edgbaston | |
Group A: Australia (1), New Zealand (4), England (6), Bangladesh (7) Group B: India (2), South Africa (3), Sri Lanka (5), Pakistan (8) (seedings in brackets) June 1 England v Bangladesh, The Oval (10:30 BST) 2 Australia v New Zealand, Edgbaston (10:30 BST) 3 Sri Lanka v South Africa, The Oval (10:30 BST) 4 India v Pakistan, Edgbaston (10:30 BST) 5 Australia v Bangladesh, The Oval (d/n) (13:30 BST) 6 England v New Zealand, Cardiff (10:30 BST) 7 Pakistan v South Africa, Edgbaston (d/n) (13:30 BST) 8 India v Sri Lanka, The Oval (10:30 BST) 9 New Zealand v Bangladesh, Cardiff (10:30 BST) 10 England v Australia, Edgbaston (10:30 BST) 11 India v South Africa, The Oval (10:30 BST) 12 Sri Lanka v Pakistan, Cardiff (10:30 BST) 14 First semi-final (A1 v B2), Cardiff (10:30 BST) 15 Second semi-final (A2 v B1), Edgbaston (10:30 BST) 18 Final, The Oval (10:30 BST; reserve day on 19 June) Fixtures and start times are subject to change. AUSTRALIA Pat Cummins, Aaron Finch, John Hastings, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Moises Henriques, Chris Lynn, Glenn Maxwell, James Pattinson, Steve Smith (capt), Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Wade (wk), David Warner, Adam Zampa. BANGLADESH Imrul Kayes, Mahmudullah, Mashrafe Mortaza (capt), Mehidi Hasan, Mosaddek Hossain, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Mustafizur Rahman, Rubel Hossain, Sabbir Rahman, Shafiul Islam, Shakib Al Hasan, Somya Sarkar, Sunzamul Islam, Tamim Iqbal, Taskin Ahmed. ENGLAND Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Jake Ball, Sam Billings (wk), Jos Buttler (wk), Alex Hales, Eoin Morgan (capt), Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, David Willey, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood. INDIA To be announced NEW ZEALAND Corey Anderson, Trent Boult, Neil Broom, Colin de Grandhomme, Martin Guptill, Tom Latham (wk), Mitchell McClenaghan, Adam Milne, Jimmy Neesham, Jeetan Patel, Luke Ronchi (wk), Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor, Kane Williamson (capt). PAKISTAN Ahmed Shehzad, Azhar Ali, Babar Azam, Fahim Ashraf, Fakhar Zaman, Hasan Ali, Imad Wasim, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Hafeez, Sarfraz Ahmed (capt & wk), Shadab Khan, Shoaib Malik, Umar Akmal, Wahab Riaz. SRI LANKA Dinesh Chandimal (wk), Niroshan Dickwella (wk), Asela Gunaratne, Chamara Kapugedera, Nuwan Kulasekera, Suranga Lakmal, Lasith Malinga, Angelo Mathews (capt), Kusal Mendis (wk), Kusal Perera (wk), Thisara Perera, Nuwan Pradeep, Seekkuge Prasanna, Lakshan Sandakan, Upul Tharanga. SOUTH AFRICA Hashim Amla, Farhaan Behardien, Quinton de Kock (wk), AB de Villiers (capt & wk), Faf du Plessis, JP Duminy, Keshav Maharaj, David Miller, Morne Morkel, Chris Morris, Wayne Parnell, Andile Phehlukwayo, Dwaine Pretorius, Kagiso Rabada, Imran Tahir. |
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Indian Premier League – Results (updated from April 19) and Fixtures | |
Teams Abbreviations: SH – Sunrisers Hyderabad; KKR – Kolkatta Knoght Riders RCB – Royal Challengers Bangalore; GL – Gujarat Lions RPS – Rising Pune Supergiant; MI – Mumbai Indians KXI P – Kings XI Punjab; DD – Delhi Daredevils |
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Wed Apr 19 (14:30 GMT), 21st match, SH v DD, Hyderabad SH won by 15 runs Thu Apr 20 (14:30 GMT), 22nd match, KXIP v MI, Indore MI won by 8 wickets (with 27 balls remaining) Fri Apr 21 (14:30 GMT), 23rd match, KKR v GL, Kolkata GL won by 4 wickets (with 10 balls remaining) Sat Apr 22 (10:30 GMT), 24th match, RPG v SH, Pune RPS won by 6 wickets (with 0 balls remaining) Sat Apr 22 (14:30 GMT), 25th match, MI v DD, Mumbai MI won by 14 runs Sun Apr 23 (10:30 GMT), 26th match, GL v KXIP, Rajkot KXIP won by 26 runs Sun Apr 23 (14:30 GMT), 27th match, KKR v RCB, Kolkata KKR won by 82 runs Mon Apr 24 (14:30 GMT), 28th match, MI v RPS, Mumbai RPS won by 3 runs Tue Apr 25 (14:30 GMT), 29th match, RCB v SH, Bangalore Match abandoned without a ball bowled Wed Apr 26 (14:30 GMT), 30th match, RPS v KKR, Pune KKR won by 7 wickets (with 11 balls remaining) Thu Apr 27 (14:30 GMT), 31st match, RCB v GL, Bangalore GL won by 7 wickets (with 37 balls remaining) Fri Apr 28 (10:30 GMT), 32nd match, KKR v DD, Kolkata KKR won by 7 wickets (with 22 balls remaining) Fri Apr 28 (14:30 GMT), 33rd match, KXIP v SH, Chandigarh SH won by 26 runs Sat Apr 29 (10:30 GMT), 34th match, RPS v RCB, Pune RPS won by 61 runs Sat Apr 29 (14:30 GMT), 35th match, GL v MI, Rajkot Match tied (MI won the one-over eliminator) Sun Apr 30 (10:30 GMT), 36th match, KXIP v DD, Chandigarh KXIP won by 10 wickets (with 73 balls remaining) Sun Apr 30 (14:30 GMT), 37th match, SH v KKR, Hyderabad SH won by 48 runs Mon May 1 (10:30 GMT), 38th match, MI v RCB, Mumbai MI won by 5 wickets (with 1 ball remaining) Mon May 1 (14:30 GMT), 39th match, RPS v GL, Pune RPS won by 5 wickets (with 1 ball remaining) Tue May 2 (14:30 GMT), 40th match, DD v SH, Delhi DD won by 6 wickets (with 5 balls remaining) Wed May 3 (14:30 GMT), 41st match, KKR v RPS, Kolkata Thu May 4 (14:30 GMT), 42nd match, DD v GL, Delhi Fri May 5 (14:30 GMT), 43rd match, RCB v KXIP, Bangalore Sat May 6 (10:30 GMT), 44th match, SH v RPS, Hyderabad Sat May 6 (14:30 GMT), 45th match, DD v MI, Delhi Sun May 7 (10:30 GMT), 46th match, RCB v KKR, Bangalore Sun May 7 (14:30 GMT), 47th match, KXIP v GL, Chandigarh Mon May 8 (14:30 GMT), 48th match, SH v MI, Hyderabad Tue May 9 (14:30 GMT), 49th match, KXIP v KKR, Chandigarh Wed May 10 (14:30 GMT), 50th match, GL v DD, Kanpur Thu May 11 (14:30 GMT), 51st match, MI v KXIP, Mumbai Fri May 12 (14:30 GMT), 52nd match, DD v RPS, Delhi Sat May 13 (10:30 GMT), 53rd match, GL v SH, Kanpur Sat May 13 (14:30 GMT), 54th match, KKR v MI, Kolkata Sun May 14 (10:30 GMT), 55th match, RPS v KXIP, Pune Sun May 14 (14:30 GMT), 56th match, DD v RCB, Delhi Tue May 16 (14:30 GMT), Qualifier 1- TBC v TBC, Venue TBC Wed May 17 (14:30 GMT), Eliminator - TBC v TBC, Venue TBC Fri May 19 (14:30 GMT), Qualifier 2 - TBC v TBC, Venue TBC Sun May 21 (14:30 GMT), Final, TBC v TBC, Hyderabad |
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Points Table as at May 2 | |
Younis becomes first Pakistani to score 10,000 Test runs | |
Younis Khan celebrates after reaching his 10,000th run in Test matches on day 3 of the first Test match between West Indies and Pakistan at Sabina Park on April 23. | |
Seldom have we waited for a sporting milestone with such eagerness, and anxiety, as we did for master batsman Younis Khan to complete 10,000 runs in Test cricket at the start of his farewell journey. The Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica, finally saw the stalwart become just the 13th man in the history of Test cricket, and the first Pakistani, to reach the five figure mark on Sunday, the third day of the first Test against the West Indies. The 39-year-old right hander from Mardan began his 116th Test with 9,977 runs from 207 innings and went to the elusive landmark — only the fifth batsman from Asia to do so — after tea. At the break he was one tantalising run short of the distinction. The great man didn’t have to wait long as he needed only two balls into the final session to get to the five figures, sweeping off-spinner Roston Chase for a boundary. He raised his bat to the Pakistan dressing-room to acknowledge the applause of his teammates. India’s Sachin Tendulkar leads the list of most run-getters in Test cricket with 15,921 in 200 matches. Other members of this exalted club are Ricky Ponting of Australia (13,378 runs in 168 Tests), South Africa’s Jacques Kallis (13,289 in 166), Rahul Dravid of India (13,288 in 164), Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara (12,400 in 134), West Indies’ duo of Brian Lara (11,953 in 131), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (11,867 in 164), Mahela Jayawardene of Sri Lanka (11,814 in 149), Australia’s Allan Border (11,174 in 156), Alastair Cook of England (11,057 in 140), Australia’s Steve Waugh (10,927 in 168) and India’s Sunil Gavaskar (10,122 in 125 matches) — the first player in Test history to cross the 10,000-run mark in 1987. It was only a question of when, and not if, Younis Khan would get there once he had surpassed compatriot Javed Miandad’s longstanding Pakistan landmark of 8,832 runs; He had gone past Miandad — who played 189 innings during a 124-Test career from 1976-77 till 1993-94 — in eight fewer innings and 22 fewer matches. When Miandad broke the then standing Pakistan record of 5,058 runs, held by the incomparable Zaheer Abbas, by scoring a double century against Sri Lanka at Faisalabad in 1985, none would have envisaged that it would be the ever-smiling Younis being the custodian of being the country’s leading Test run-maker. Younis shared many fruitful partnerships with Inzamam-ul-Haq and Mohammad Yousuf and together the trio formed the mainstay of the Pakistan batting in the new millennium. Both Inzamam and Yousuf were the two men thought capable of eclipsing Miandad’s tally, but it was eventually Younis who ultimately put all of them behind on day three of this rain-hit first Test against the West Indies. |
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Batting meltdown leaves Windies with heavy loss |
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Misbah-ul-Haq won the game with back-to-back sixes, West Indies v Pakistan, 1st Test, Jamaica, 5th day. | |
Timid West Indies failed to survive the anticipated final day onslaught from Pakistan and slumped to a seven-wicket defeat in the opening Test at Sabina Park on April 25. Resuming their second innings on 93 for four, the hosts’ suspect batting once again stayed true to form, collapsing for 152 all out, 37 minutes before the scheduled lunch interval. Leg-spinner Yasir Shah added two wickets to his overnight tally to finish with six for 63 while debutant seamer Mohammad Abbas ended with two for 35. Roston Chase, batting at number seven, was left stranded on 16 as his teammates failed to show the required judgement on a decent track that offered precious few devils. Set 32 for victory, Pakistan were untidy and made heavy weather of the target before finally crossing the line 20 minutes after lunch, when captain Misbah-ul-Haq launched ineffective leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo for consecutive sixes. Both openers perished in the six overs possible before the break, with Ahmed Shezad nicking fast bowler Shannon Gabriel to wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich in the third over for six and Azhar Ali playing on to pacer Alzarri Joseph in the following over for one. On 13 for two at lunch, the visitors lost veteran right-hander Younis Khan in the fifth over following the resumption when he missed a full length delivery from Bishoo and was plumb lbw for six, with the score on 24. By then, however, Misbah had had enough of his batsmen’s dithering. He smashed the second ball he faced from Bishoo back overhead for six and then cleared the ropes at mid-wicket off the very next delivery, to ensure victory. For Pakistan, the success ended a run of six straight defeats while the result left WI with their 11th loss in their last 15 outings. Entering the final day still 28 runs behind and facing the daunting prospect of surviving against the guile of Yasir, the Caribbean side required nothing short of a miracle but no such interventions materialized. Debutant left-hander Vishal Singh and nightwatchman Devendra Bishoo, both yet to score at the start, saw West Indies through the first seven overs of the day and extended their stand to 21 before the first breakthrough came. Vishal had just punched the previous delivery from left-arm seamer Mohammad Amir to the cover point boundary when he shouldered arms to the next ball and saw his stumps shattered. Bishoo (18), meanwhile, played and missed several times before losing his discipline, slashing at one from Abbas and edging to Younis at second slip. And two balls later with no addition to the score, Dowrich missed one that came back from Abbas and was lbw, leaving West Indies tottering on 129 for seven – only eight runs ahead. Captain Jason Holder played positively on arrival, stroking three fours in 14 as he temporarily raised hopes of a revival in a 22-run stand with Chase. But he perished to a loose stroke, wafting at a wide one from seamer Wahab Riaz and edging a catch behind. Yasir fittingly performed the final rites, trapping Alzarri Joseph lbw for one off the first ball of the next over to pick up his ninth five-wicket haul in Tests, before having last man Gabriel caught at mid-off, skying an attempted big hit. The second Test started in Barbados on Sunday. Scores at close yesterday (Day 3) were: West Indies 312 & 40/1; Pakistan 393. WI trail by 41 runs with 9 wickets on hand. First Test Summary Scores: WEST INDIES 286 (Roston Chase 63, Jason Holder 57, Shane Dowrich 56, Kieran Powell 33, Devendra Bishoo 28; Mohammed Amir 6-44, Yasir Shah 2-91) and 152 (Kieran Powell 49, Shimron Hetmyer 20; Yasir Shah 6-63, Mohammad Abbas 2-35). PAKISTAN 407 (Misbah-ul-Haq 99 not out, Babar Azam 72, Younis Khan 58, Sarfraz Ahmed 54, Ahmed Shezad 31; Alzarri Joseph 3-71, Shannon Gabriel 3-92) and 36 for three. |
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Sri Lanka hire Donald for Champions Trophy |
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Allan Donald | |
Sri Lanka have hired former South Africa paceman Allan Donald as a bowling consultant to help with their preparations for June’s Champions Trophy, the cricket board announced on Sunday. Donald was expected to take charge as the assistant coach at English county side Kent who have agreed to release him for a two-month stint with SLC’s pace coaching unit, Sri Lanka Cricket said. The 50-year-old Bloemfontein-born Donald picked up 272 One-day international wickets during his 12-year career with the ODI side. His previous coaching assignments include a consultant role with England in 2007 before assisting Gary Kirsten as a bowling coach of the Proteas. In 2008, Donald with former England spinner Ashley Giles led Warwickshire to second division County Championship title. Donald will join Sri Lanka’s residential camp at the Pallekele International Stadium from May 9 to 16. “Donald will join the team in their residential training in Pallekele where they will be undergoing a high-intensity training and conditioning programme,” a Sri Lanka Cricket media release said. The team will face Scotland in two ODIs before playing further practice matches against Australia and New Zealand. They are placed in Group B and will play South Africa in their opening game at the Oval on June 3. The South African, who is due to take up a coaching assignment with English county Kent next year, is due in Colombo on Monday. Kent said Donald would join them in 2018 because of delays in obtaining a work permit. Last week Sri Lanka named a 15-member squad led by Angelo Mathews for the Champions Trophy. Sri Lanka Cricket said it hoped Donald would also train Sri Lankan pace bowling coaches Chaminda Vaas, Champaka Ramanayake, Ravindra Pushpakumara and Nuwan Zoysa. |
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Pakistan call off tour of Bangladesh | |
PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan | |
Pakistan Cricket Board has called off their scheduled cricket tour of Bangladesh this year, Shaharyar Khan has said. Bangladesh last toured Pakistan in 2007-08. Pakistan has since travelled to Bangladesh in 2011 and 2015 and were scheduled to play two tests, three ODIs and a Twenty20 International in July and August in the South Asian country. Khan said Bangladesh had failed to reciprocate Pakistan's visits with the Bangladesh Cricket Board turning down an invitation to play two T20 internationals in Pakistan. "We had spoken about the possibility of hosting them (Bangladesh in Pakistan) this year," the PCB chairman said. He added: "Pakistan have now toured Bangladesh twice without them reciprocating, and we feel we cannot tour Bangladesh for the third straight time. Therefore, we have decided to postpone the tour, and will explore another window in the next year or so." At least 10 gunmen fired on a bus carrying Sri Lanka's cricket team in 2009 with rifles, grenades and rockets, wounding six players and a British coach, and killing eight locals. Those in the bus who were injured included: Thilan Samaraweera, Tharanga Paranavitana, Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara, Ajantha Mendis, Suranga Lakmal, Chaminda Vaas, Assistant coach Paul Farbrace. Since then, Pakistan has been forced to play most of its 'home' games in the United Arab Emirates. |
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