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Khurram Khan, the UAE captain, has said that poor catching and bowling were why his side lost to Netherlands despite posting what he felt was a reasonable total. UAE made 151 after choosing to bat and, although they were in a position at various stages to have made a few more runs, Khurram felt it was their defence of the target that left a lot to be desired.”I do not think it was big match nerves,” Khurram said. “Fielding was a real concern for the last few games. We dropped them in the last game as well. We are giving too many chances in the field, dropped too many and in the end we paid for that.”UAE put down at least four chances and also gave away runs through misfields. The Netherlands openers effectively ran away with the game when they added 69 inside seven overs but Khurram said UAE’s bowlers had also contributed to that by not sticking to disciplined lines and lengths.”There is no doubt about it. They batted really well. But that is what happens in the first six overs if you don’t bowl well, in the good areas. Obviously you are going to go for runs and then we kept giving them chances, we dropped so many catches.”Khurram admitted UAE should have managed a bigger total, given that they were 79 for 2 in the 11th over and 127 for 4 in the 16th. “I said 150 would have been a good target but you have to keep in mind that you have to bowl very well and take your catches. At one stage, we could have got 170-175. We were 25 runs short. That was the difference in the end.”It was Khurram who, along with Swapnil Patil, had rebuilt UAE’s innings from 12 for 2. However, both batsmen were dismissed in the space of four deliveries, bowled by Tom Cooper as they tried late-cutting despite not having much room. Khurram said that as set batsmen, they should have pushed on for longer.”It is the responsibility of the batsman who is there. I gave away my wicket in the same over Swapnil got out and then in the 15th-16th over we lost three wickets in the span of three-four runs. Both Rohan [Mustafa] and Shaiman [Anwar] were playing very well and Amjad Javed is a very good batsman for us. That cost us dearly.”

Dwayne Bravo, West Indies’ ODI captain, feels the team has been “lacking in unity” of late, and hence results have been poor

ESPNcricinfo staff26-Dec-2013West Indies’ ODI captain Dwayne Bravo feels the team has been “lacking in unity” and hence recent results have been poor. Following West Indies’ first success on the ongoing tour of New Zealand, in the first ODI in Auckland, Bravo said he had emphasised the importance of unity in the lead-up to the match.”Before we played the game, I really stressed on unity as the team was lacking in that lately and hence the reason why we have been playing so poorly. I made a concerted effort to bring everyone together and get everyone involved.”We sat down yesterday morning, Christmas morning, and watched the movie with Morgan Freeman acting as Nelson Mandela. That inspired us. It showed the importance of sport. We are fortunate to represent our nation. We are the few players to do that. It hurts our fans when we don’t win cricket games, and not only losing, but the way we lose at times.”I keep stressing [on unity], and if you have noticed [after] every wicket I get the team together and one player says something positive. It doesn’t come from me all the time. It can be a Darren Sammy or a Kieron Powell or a Lendl Simmons.”West Indies hardly competed in the Tests that preceded the ODIs, and the few times they held the advantage, they let it slip through poor cricket and eventually lost the series 0-2. Before arriving in New Zealand, they had struggled in the two-Test series in India, though they managed to win one of the three ODIs in a close, high-scoring game.In Auckland it was a close, low-scoring game. West Indies’ revamped bowling attack – Bravo, Ravi Rampaul and Jason Holder came into the ODI side – made life difficult for New Zealand on a pitch that offered the seamers help, and they scythed through the line-up to restrict them to 156. However, it was not easy going for the visiting batsmen either, and they were reduced to 96 for 6 before Darren Sammy slammed an unbeaten 43 off 27 balls to get them home with two wickets in hand.Bravo had been confident of the team pulling through even after the top-order collapse, though he admitted it was not the most convincing of wins. “Yes, we were 100 for 6, but we still had a very small ground. We had one of the cleanest hitters in world cricket at the crease. As long as Sammy is there, we still have a good chance. The way he went out, the intent he took out there, to put the pressure back on the New Zealand attack.”I think a win is very important at the moment. Confidence has been low as a team. It was good we got over the line. We scratched, but we got over the line.”New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum said even though his bowlers had West Indies in trouble, he didn’t think they were at their best. “I don’t think we bowled particularly well to be honest, I thought we could bowl better than that. But we kept picking up wickets and that’s a fighting characteristic. I thought [the pitch] was a little bit two-paced, and with the new ball swinging as well, it certainly favoured the new-ball bowlers.”[But] when you have got a low total to defend you need to be on song throughout. I thought Mitchell McClenaghan was outstanding for us today, and showed why he is such an attacking force. But we did give up too many extras, and I thought we bowled both sides of the wickets at times, and our lengths were not quite right either. Fighting performance, but not good enough…”The batsmen too, McCullum said, could have perhaps done better despite the difficult conditions. “Some of the batting, when you come up against a two-paced surface, it can take a little while to adjust, and if we are honest we probably didn’t give ourselves long enough to get in and create some partnerships. Not a great performance from us, but I guess if you play poorly and still manage to take them right to end that is still a good sign.”

There was a mixture of delight and relief for Chris Read after he played a key role in helping Nottinghamshire end a 24-year wait for one-day silverware with the YB40 title.His run-a-ball 53 helped them recover from a precarious 90 for 4 and also provided Read with a rare success with the bat in what was been a lean season for the Nottinghamshire captain. This was just his second half-century in all cricket for the summer; he has averaged 19 in the Championship and before Lord’s had 93 runs in nine innings during the YB40.However, his final effort was the best of Read with scampering running, deft placement and some thumping boundaries and he believes the make-or-break nature of the contest helped free his mind for the crucial innings.”I’ve been terrible,” he said. “In all honesty I’ve done nothing different, I’ve worked so, so hard hitting balls left, right and centre and it just hasn’t worked for me this season. I’ve been consistent for a lot of seasons now so it’s had me thinking this season about what exactly is going wrong.”At the end of the day sometimes it takes a big game like this to actually say that what it’s about is watching that ball and trying to do the best you can for your team. That’s what I set out to do from the start and did it pretty well.”Read has been part of two Championship triumphs with Nottinghamshire but he admitted there were times when he wondered if he would ever play a showpiece final at Lord’s.”This is something that is been nagging at me for a number of years – can we get to a Lord’s final, can we do it in my career? So to have got there, to have won and lifted the trophy is a fantastic feeling, it’s right up there.”Although the last trophy of the season has now been decided – to go alongside Northamptonshire’s FLt20 success, the Division One crown for Durham and Lancashire’s Division Two title – it is not quite the end of the domestic season. For Nottinghamshire there is much still riding on the final week of the Championship.They and Somerset, who play each other at Trent Bridge, are jostling near the relegation zone and even though there is 15-point cushion to Derbyshire it is too close to comfort for Read’s liking but he hopes the confidence from their Lord’s victory can give them one final push.”I hope the momentum and the joy we’ve experienced today will carry on through next week. We have played some good red-ball cricket, although for the most part it has been a mightily disappointing season. To go into the last game not knowing if you’ll be in Division One next year, for a side as big as we are and with a squad of such quality, is very disappointing. It’s a different form, one we’ve not been overly successful in in recent months but we’ve got to come out fighting on Tuesday. We are fighting for survival which is integral for the club.”And neither is Read’s future at Trent Bridge entirely signed and sealed. He has been offered a new contract, but with the club still battling Championship safety and having the YB40 to focus on further talks have been put on the backburner.”The situation we’ve been in, with our precarious position in the Championship and this final, we decided to park it until the end of the season and see where we are at,” Read said. “We’ll have a good sit down and work out where the club needs to go and where I need to go and how we can go about building Nottinghamshire for the future.”

Cricket Australia’s Youth Selection Panel named a 14-player squad for the Under-19 quadrangular series, which begins in India on September 23, making six changes to the squad that played in the U-19 tri-series in Darwin last month

ESPNcricinfo staff31-Jul-2013Cricket Australia’s Youth Selection Panel named a 14-player squad for the Under-19 quadrangular series, which begins in India on September 23, making six changes to the squad that played in the tri-series in Darwin last month.Right-hand batsman Jaron Morgan, left-hand batsman Kelvin Smith, legspinner Tom Andrews and pacer Ben Ashkenazi have been recalled to the side, while medium-pacer Guy Walker and fast bowler Billy Stanlake’s inclusion is subject to their fitness. Joel Logan, Josh Dunning and Jeremy Maher have been placed on standby for the series. Gabe Bell, Alex Gregory, Tom Leaver and Matthew Short, who played in the tri-series against India and New Zealand, have not been included in the squad.Pacer Cameron Valente, the leading wicket-taker at the 2013 U-19 National Championships, has been retained in the side along with Jake Doran and wicketkeeper Ben McDermott, the top run-getters for Australia in the tri-series.”This Quad Series in India is part of our preparation for next year’s ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup and to ensure that our emerging talent is exposed to international competition and conditions that challenge and build our players technically and mentally,” Greg Chappell, CA National Talent Manager, said. “A number of these players have already had a taste of international cricket against top-quality opposition. This year, our U-19s played New Zealand in New Zealand, as well as India in Darwin. Matthew Fotia also worked with Glenn McGrath at his MRF Pace Foundation academy in India.””We’ve selected a strong bowling contingent, with Cameron Valente’s clever medium pace variations and quality pace bowlers in Matthew Fotia, Ben Ashkenazi, Guy Walker and Billy Stanlake,” Chappell added. “India’s dry wickets will offer turn for our spinners Tom Andrews, and Riley Ayre, while top-order batsman Kelvin Smith can also provide support with his part-time offspin.”Australia are scheduled to tour Sri Lanka after the quadrangular seriesAustralia U-19 squad: Sean Willis, Jaron Morgan, Kelvin Smith, Damien Mortimer, Ben McDermott, Jake Doran, Matthew Kelly, Tom Andrews, Cameron Valente, Matthew Fotia, Ben Ashkenazi, Guy Walker, Billy Stanlake, Riley Ayre

حقق منتخب إنجلترا الفوز على خصمه مالطا، مساء اليوم الجمعة، في إطار التصفيات المؤهلة إلى يورو 2024.

وتلاقى المنتخبان في إطار منافسات الجولة الثالثة من التصفيات المؤهلة إلى كأس أمم أوروبا العام المقبل، حيث فازت إنجلترا بأربعة أهداف دون رد. أهداف مباراة إنجلترا ومالطا

كان هدف الأسود الثلاثة الأول قد جاء عن طريق النيران الصديقة، بعدما سجله فيرديناندو أباب في الدقيقة الثامنة بطريق الخطأ.

وجاء هدف منتخب إنجلترا الثاني عن طريق اللاعب ترينت ألكسندر أرنولد، حيث سدد كرة بطريقة رائعة من خارج منطقة الجزاء في الدقيقة 28.

وأحرز هاري كين ثالث أهداف الضيوف، من ركلة جزاء في الدقيقة 31.

وقد أنهى كالوم ويلسون رباعية كتيبة جاريث ساوثجيت بتسجيله هدفًا في الدقيقة 83، من ركلة جزاء كذلك.

بتلك النتيجة، ارتفع رصيد منتخب إنجلترا إلى 9 نقاط في صدارة المجموعة الثالثة، بينما ظل رصيد مالطا خاليًا من النقاط في المركز الخامس والأخير.

B Sai Sudharsan and Prasidh Krishna won the Orange and Purple Caps respectively at the end of IPL 2025

ESPNcricinfo staff04-Jun-20251:49

Moody: Sudharsan an all-format player for India for ten-plus years

Orange Cap table

Even though Gujarat Titans (GT) didn’t make the final, B Sai Sudharsan finished the tournament as its highest run-getter with 759 runs, 42 runs clear of second-placed Suryakumar Yadav of Mumbai Indians (MI). But the 43 runs Virat Kohli scored in Tuesday night’s final for RCB took him up to the third place on the table.It’s a cap he has won twice before, in IPL 2016 and IPL 2024. It wasn’t to be this time, but Kohli has been a model of consistency through the tournament, reflected in his 657 runs for the season.GT captain Shubman Gill (650 runs) and Mitchell Marsh of Lucknow Super Giants (627) rounded off the top five.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Purple Cap table

Sai Sudharsan’s team-mate Prasidh Krishna made it a GT double by winning the Purple Cap for his haul of 25 wickets, one more than Chennai Super Kings’ (CSK) Noor Ahmad, and, after the final, three more than RCB’s Josh Hazlewood.When it comes to Hazlewood, though, one wonders what might have been had he not picked up a shoulder niggle and missed a series of matches in the second half of the tournament. Where Prasidh bowled in 15 innings for his 25 wickets and Noor 14 for his 24, Hazlewood finished with 22 from just 12 bowling innings, capping off his season the wicket of Priyansh Arya, the first of the night, in the final. Like Kohli, Hazlewood’s consistency stood out all through the season.Arshdeep Singh, who picked up 3 for 40 in the final, ended in fifth place with 21 wickets, with MI’s Trent Boult above him with 22, behind Hazlewood on economy rate.Krunal Pandya, meanwhile, won the Player-of-the-Match award in the final, and that took him up to No. 2, behind Suryakumar, on ESPNcricinfo’s MVP table for IPL 2025.

• Most sixes
• Highest batting strike rates
• Best bowling economy rates
• Best bowling figures in a match

England Women are heavily reliant on their premier quick bowler Katherine Brunt and do not possess a strong bowling unit, says Mithali Raj, the India Women captain. The hosts will take on the defending champions in the biggest clash in Group A of the Women’s World Cup at Mumbai’s Brabourne Stadium, whose batting-friendly pitches have opened up the tournament, Raj believes.England were shocked by unfancied Sri Lanka a day ago at the same ground, going down by one wicket in a last-ball finish. Their batsmen recovered from a poor start to post 238, but their bowlers could not contain Sri Lanka, especially the rampaging Eshani Kaushalya, something that has encouraged Raj and India. “I think England have got a very good batting line-up but I don’t think they are very strong in their bowling attack other than Katherine Brunt,” Raj said. “They heavily depend on her for the breakthroughs.”We have played England last year as well and most of our batsmen are very comfortable playing their bowlers but then again, I would say tomorrow is a different day. We are expecting all kinds of situations and we are prepared for anything.” England have won seven and lost 17 ODIs to India in India.Raj praised the Brabourne groundsmen for preparing a flat, “concrete-like” wicket, saying it had narrowed the gap between a top side such as England and a weak side such as Sri Lanka, whose successful chase of 238 was the highest ever in the Women’s World Cup. “I did tell you the other day that the tournament was open because each and every team is scoring heavily, more than 200-plus, and they are able to chase, so definitely the tournament is open after yesterday’s upset,” Raj said.”I give a lot of credit to the groundsmen for preparing a very batting-friendly wicket. It really doesn’t give the bowlers much but the batters have a lot to score on and unless you make a mistake you can’t get out on such a track. It is hard and like a concrete wicket.”Now teams like Sri Lanka, Pakistan or South Africa seem a lot confident because they keep playing many games among themselves and when they come into the World Cup, getting a track like this gives them a lot of confidence.”While India’s opening win against West Indies came under lights, their match against England will be a day game, starting at 9 am local time. The early start would not make too much difference, Raj felt. “I don’t think there is a lot to get adjusted to because this part of the country is humid. It’s not real winter like what we get to see up north where there is the dew factor or the moisture is heavily in the air. But having said that, because the matches start at 9 am there will be a little bit of assistance for the bowlers which I saw in yesterday’s game. Other than that I think the wicket is behaving beautifully in both the innings.Raj said the morning start would not change the approach of the India batsmen given the nature of the pitch. “I would definitely tell my girls to be very positive and very confident. I think playing a day game will not affect us much because what we saw yesterday was that the ball was not doing much, [except] maybe the initial four-five overs, but other than that I think it was the same throughout the day.”There was a lot of support for the hosts against West Indies from the small, but noisy, crowd. Poonam Raut, the India opener who hails from Mumbai and made a half-century that day, was a favourite, with her family and friends cheering every run she scored. “You feel good when there is a match on your home ground,” Raut said. “There is a bit of pressure but it feels good that there are supporters for you. I am glad they came to see the match. And they had good wishes for me and had expectations which I fulfilled. I hope that I can play the tournament like that for them and the country.”

Munir Malik, the former Pakistan bowler, died in Karachi on November 30 after prolonged illness. He was 78

ESPNcricinfo staff01-Dec-2012Munir Malik, the former Pakistan bowler, died in Karachi on November 30 after prolonged illness. He was 78.Malik played his debut Test against Australia in 1959 in Karachi and picked up three wickets in the match. He played two more Tests during Pakistan’s 1962 tour of England and added six more wickets to his tally. His first-class career spanned 10 years from 1956 to 1966 during which he picked up 197 wickets from 49 matches.

When a second-session downpour ended play on the third day of the Test in Hyderabad, India had New Zealand following on in their second innings at 41 for 1

The Report by Sharda Ugra25-Aug-2012
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsIndia spun a web around New Zealand, again•Associated PressOnly the combination of torrential rain and New Zealand’s best batting form of recent months could possibly thwart India’s thunderous march in the first of ten home Tests this season. When a second-session downpour ended play on the third day of the Test in Hyderabad, India had New Zealand following on in their second innings at 41 for 1. New Zealand were all out for 159 in their first innings, losing their last five batsmen before lunch.Only 38 overs could be bowled today, enough for India to seize control of this game. Play began late on the third day, due to the heavy rains that had beaten down on Hyderbad in the hours preceding the scheduled start time. India, though, made the most of the overs available to them, especially when they had before them the lower order of a team that had come into this series without a warm-up game.When play was called off an hour after lunch, New Zealand had put in a seemingly more thought-out second-innings batting performance, losing just the one wicket in18 overs. This, after a morning on which their bottom half had fallen over in just 19 in their first innings.India’s spinners picked up nine first innings wickets between them in the first gig, Ashwin finishing with 6 for 31. Both Ashwin and Ojha used the the dipping length of the floated, spinning ball, slow turn off the track and the uneven bounce on one side of the pitch to keep up their interrogation of New Zealand’s fortitude in adverse circumstances.Following on, with Ojha opening the bowling, the New Zealand openers batted like the better of the India middle order had. With circumspection, patience and certainity. Brendon McCullum was batting on 16 off 59 balls at stumps, after unluckily losing his partner Martin Guptill, ajudged lbw off Ojha for 16.Guptill, New Zealand’s in-form batsman on their last tour of the West Indies, had batted for almost an hour with McCullum and hit Ojha for two consecutive boundaries with the spin. He tried to nudge a third past the slip cordon only to nick to Virat Kohli at second slip, but he couldn’t seize the chance. Two overs later, Guptil padded up to Ojha, fullstretch to a ball that may have hit him in line with off stump. Replays indicated it was spinning away from the stumps. This has been the only piece of misfortune in New Zealand’s batting so far in this Test match. The situation they find themselves in has otherwise been of their own making.Ashwin had begun the second innings on a hat-trick, introduced only in the 18th over, the last before the downpour. Off the three balls he got in, McCullum spanked one tossed-up, outside-off delivery for his first boundary in 58 balls. It was an unusual kind of McCullum innings, but his approach was not a bad way to attempt to erase the memory of what New Zealand had managed in the previous two sessions.When play began today Zaheer Khan and Umesh Yadav opened the bowling in what appeared to be a warming-up formality. Yadav took the only New Zealand wicket that didn’t fall to a spinner, Kruger van Wyk leg before in the second over of the day. Yadav made use of the inconsistent bounce at one end, getting van Wyk while he was trying to execute the pull. He was struck above the pad, given out as he crouched – the ball would have hit the stumps as vanWyk is not the tallest of men.Doug Bracewell survived competently for four overs against the two-man seam attack. The eighth ball that he faced against Pragyan Ojha though, he was in knots, caught between the intent to charge and the necessity to defend. He still scored two with a lofted drive over cover. He followed up by stepping out again, but his heave missed the line completely as the ball looped away. Dhoni’s stumping splayed the wickets.If Ojha got his wicket in quick time, Ashwin, brought on in the 16th over of the morning, needed only three overs to get rid of the three remaining batsmen. Patel reached out for a drive, only to offer a low return-catch to Ashwin’s left. A ball turning in front of his bat got Trent Boult inside edging to shot leg Gambhir. The No. 11 Chris Martin did defend, but only got the thin air in front of his bat as Ashwin’s off-break cannoned into the stumps.All that stands between India and New Zealand and their varied hopes in this Test match, now, is the weather.

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