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Auckland beat Canterbury by five wickets in their Round 3 State Shield match at Eden Park, in Auckland, after they chased down 235 with a little more than ten overs to spare. Paul Hitchcock and Richard Jones added 157 for the second wicket before Jones fell for 81 with only 33 more runs required.Canterbury, batting first, had a good start with openers Iain Robertson and Michael Papps making 57 before Robertson was bowled by Mayu Pasupati, a right-arm fast-medium bowler, who got 3 for 46 in his nine overs. Canterbury then lost three more wickets for another 50-odd runs before Chris Harris and Luke Vivian steadied the innings with 81 for the fifth wicket.After Jones departed, Auckland looked a little shaky losing three wickets in the space of 20 runs before Scott Styris and Pasupati scored off the remaining runs.
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Central Districts hammered home a nine-wicket victory against Northern Districts when they chased Northern’s 213 inside 40 overs at Pukekura Park in New Plymouth. Peter McGlashan, the Northern wicketkeeper and No 3 batsman, made an unbeaten 86 and was the only batsman to score above 30 for his side.Central bowlers Ewen Thompson, Gregory Hugglun and Campbell Furlong got two wickets each and did not allow the Northern batsmen to score freely, especially Furlong who conceded only 19 from his ten overs. The only note-worthy partnership was between McGlashan and Daryl Tuffey with 65 for the eighth wicket. Central openers Jamie How and Geoff Barnett ran up the first-wicket partnership to 153. After Barnett fell for 91, How was joined by Peter Ingram to finish off the game.
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In a rain-shortened match against Otago, Wellington knocked off the 90 runs in less than half of the 28 overs they were given to chase the revised Duckworth and Lewis target after bowling out Otago for 128 in 34 overs at Basin Reserve in Wellington.Scott Rasmussen, a Wellington right-arm medium-fast bowler, began proceedings by taking the wickets of Shaun Haig and Aaron Redmond – both dismissed for ducks – with the score at 11. Craig Cumming, the opener, then partnered Neil Broom to add 56 runs before Cumming was dismissed by Michael Burns for 39 – the highest Otago score on the day.

A youthful West Indies side has been given the unenviable task of matching Australia in the three-Test series that starts at the Gabba on November 3. Bennett King, the former Queensland coach who now guides the visitors, will return to his old home ground hoping to threaten the team mentored by John Buchanan, his predecessor at the Bulls.”I think it’s more experience we’re probably lacking,” King told AAP. “Eleven of the players are 25 and under. There’s only two that are over 30 and they’re our most experienced players.”King, who believed Australia’s win over the World XI proved they had rebounded from the Ashes loss, said he was pleased with his side’s progress since taking over the role late in 2004. “The players to a man, they’re really dedicated and they work hard,” he said.Brian Lara is due to arrive in Brisbane on Friday and King was not worried about his lack of runs during the Super Series. “Hopefully he’s saving them all up for us against Australia,” he told AFP. “I think he’s copped some pretty harsh criticism in the press and people forget what he’s done – he’s one innings away from being the class player again that we all know that he is.” The tour begins with a four-day match against Queensland starting on October 27.

Hitesh Modi, Kenya’s captain, had a big reason for missing the battering that his team went through in the hands of Scotland at the InternationalCricket Council Intercontinental Trophy in the United Arab Emirates.Hitesh, son of Subhash Modi, one of the leading umpires in Kenya married Sharmillee Saujani at the Kadwa Patidar Hall in Harrow, north London in atraditional Hindu ceremony that was attended by dozens of people from the two sides of the relationship.Modi stepped into the shoes of Steve Tikolo immediately after the team returned home from the ICC Champions Trophy in England. Hitesh’s father, a former chairman of the Kenya Cricket Umpires and Scorers Association (KCUSA), read tributes of his son from the cricketing community the world over, including personal messages from India captain Sourav Ganguly and his Pakistan counterpart.Hitesh and his newly wedded wife flew to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius for their honeymoon.

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Shropshire 288-7 (SJ Adshead 103) v Suffolk 215Shropshire won by 73 runs.Welwyn Garden City:
Cambridgeshire 308-8 (S Kellett 117, RJ Rollins 62) v Hertfordshire 249 (DM Ward 53, SG Cordingley 51)Cambridgeshire won by 59 runs.

*Sangram Singh piles on the runsTeetering at 25/2 overnight, Himachal Pradesh found batting form,primarily in the guise of Sangram Singh, who hit a mammoth 190 againstDelhi in their Ranji Trophy league match at Bilaspur on Day Three.Singh and skipper Varinder Sharma, realising the predicament thattheir side was in, decided that attack was the best form of defence.Both, accordingly, went for their shots. After a 111-run partnership,the captain departed, having made 58.Sangram Singh, however, found another able supporter in Rajiv Nayyar,who made a tenacious unbeaten 50, giving the in-form batsman as muchof the strike as possible. The duo put on 200 runs before Sangram wasout for 190 made off 297 balls.At stumps, Himachal Pradesh were 327/4, with Nayyar and Shakti Singh(7*) at the crease.*Services face tough fourth innings taskAlthough they conceded a first-innings lead of 91 runs, Servicessurged back into the game in their second bowling effort, havingHaryana at 180/7 by the close of play on Day Three in their RanjiTrophy league match at Faridabad.The last four wickets in the Services’ innings fell for the additionof only 37 runs. S Vidyut and Amit Mishra ended the innings with fourwickets each, being the main destroyers of the opposition battingline-up.Haryana’s batting did not fare much better. Wickets tumbled at the topof the order, with Arun Sharma and Sudhakar Ghag taking two and threerespectively. Ishan Ganda was the sole substantial contributor to theinnings, making 65 before falling with the score on 160.At stumps, Haryana were 180/7, with Vidyut and Sumit Narwal unbeatenon 16 and 0 respectively. Services, however, are already behind by 271runs, and it will take a superlative batting effort in their secondinnings to win this match.*Jammu face steep victory targetQuickfire knocks from Manish Sharma and Yuvraj Singh enabled Punjab todeclare towards the end of Day Three of their Ranji Trophy leaguematch against Jammu and Kashmir at Jammu.The home side, resuming on 216/7, proceeded to add 67 runs for theloss of the last three wickets. The runs, for an astonishingly largepart, were contributed by overnight unbeaten batsman Ashwani Gupta.Gupta added 55 runs to his overnight score of 45 to remain unbeaten onexactly 100 when the innings finally folded.Punjab brushed off the early loss of Ravneet Ricky to put up a 141-runsecond-wicket partnership. Manish Sharma (90 off 113 balls) and Yuvraj(87 off 72 balls), however, fell in rapid succession. Only an unbeaten26 from Gagandeep Singh lower down the order enabled them to declareat a score of 299/9.Jammu and Kashmir, having just begun their innings, played only twoballs before play was called off for the day.

ScorecardDinesh Karthik made his 24th first-class century•PTI

In an endeavour to improve his technique and earn an India call back, Dinesh Karthik spent weeks in Mumbai last year, working at the MCA’s Bandra-Kurla Complex facility with personal coach Praveen Amre. At the same ground, Karthik turned out to be the difference between Mumbai and Tamil Nadu in a Ranji Trophy league game.When Karthik is on song, the best of bowling attacks can appear hapless. It was the turn of Mumbai to bear the brunt as his 167 meant Tamil Nadu recovered from 201 for 6 to pile up 434 in their first innings and give the visitors a good chance of snatching the lead. Tamil Nadu’a pacers then built on the good work, seeing off two Mumbai batsmen, including the prized wicket of Shreyas Iyer, to further the cause.His unbeaten 76 on the opening day was about controlled aggression; a necessary tactic considering Tamil Nadu had been in danger of collapsing. The 91 runs he added today were split into two halves – being patient and then cutting loose.

We feel couple of wickets went against us – Mumbai coach Pandit

Acknowledging Dinesh Karthik’s effort and the resilience of the Tamil Nadu lower middle order, Mumbai coach Chandrakant Pandit has said it was unfortunate that his team found themselves on the wrong side of umpiring decisions. On the second day, three decision, including two in the morning session, went against Mumbai.
“Anybody who would have seen the first half on both the days must have seen the ball was doing a lot. Credit to their batsmen [for] the way they handled the first session,” Pandit said.
“Even this morning, the ball was moving but unfortunately a couple of wickets went against us. Yes, we feel that. I will go with the boys. But I don’t blame anyone for any of that. It is just part and parcel of the game and we have to accept it. I am not blaming the decisions for a total in excess of 400 being scored.”
Dhawal Kulkarni’s appeal for a caught behind against Malolan Rangarajan was turned down early on the second day. It was followed by an lbw shout against Dinesh Karthik that got the shake of the head. Late in the day, Mumbai opener Akhil Herwadkar was adjudged caught behind when the batsman felt he had not edged the ball.

Mumbai had a very hard day. The BKC track not offering much assistance and the soaring heat did no favous either. They didn’t have much going by way of luck either. Karthik, having seen off the first hour of the morning session, survived a close leg-before shout off Shardul Thakur in the nineties. Earlier in the day, a huge appeal for caught behind off Dhawal Kulkarni against Malolan Rangarajan had been turned down as well. The two batsmen put on 182 runs for the seventh wicket.Karthik got his 11th four, which also brought up his 24th first-class ton, there were no more half-chances. By then, the fast bowlers had begun losing their zip and when spin was called in, Karthik simply swept them aside. Literally. Whenever left-arm spinner Vishal Dabholkar or legspinner Abhishek Raut or part-timer Siddhesh Lad pitched it slightly fuller, Karthik bent down in no time and the connection was sweet. When the pace duo of Thakur and Kulkarni pitched it short, the pull shot yielded optimum results.The mammoth stand came to an end soon after lunch when Aditya Tare took a sharp, one-handed catch behind the wicket off Thakur to end Rangarajan’s vigil for 61 off 150 balls. Three overs later, Karthik was undone by a sweep to give Dabholkar a deserving five-for. Aswin Crist and M Mohammed frustrated Mumbai bowlers for an hour, but Kulkarni took two in two in the 145th over to wrap up the innings. And from then on and until the end of the day’s play, bowlers dictated the proceedings.Tamil Nadu’s pacers bowled a nagging line. Even though Crist started off by bowling two full-tosses in the opening over, the second of which was creamed for a four by Shrideep Mangela, Mohammed bowled five maidens on the trot from the other end. Reward for that discipline came in Mohammed’s second spell when he had Akhil Herwadkar caught behind, although replays were inconclusive. There didn’t appear to be any sound of bat hitting ball as it passed.Iyer counterattacked with a sparkling cover drive, a trademark flick through midwicket and an aerial flick that sailed over long leg but with just over ten minutes remaining for the scheduled close, his uppish drive was brilliantly caught by medium-pacer J Kousik to make it a perfect day for Tamil Nadu.

ScorecardPart-time left-arm medium-pacer Brendan Nash starred with a four-wicket burst to lead Jamaica to a comfortable seven-wicket victory over Guyana in the first semi-final of the KFC Cup in Bridgetown. This was the first competitive day-night match at the Three Ws Oval, and was reduced to 43 overs a side because of a wet outfield.In front of a crowd of around 2000, Guyana chose to bat and were looking good at 67 for 1 before Nash, turning in his second consecutive Man-of-the-Match performance, dismissed three batsmen at the same team score: first, he bowled wicketkeeper Darwin Christian, then trapped Narsingh Deonarine in front and got Assad Fudadin to nick one to Carlton Baugh.With wickets falling around him, Sewnarine Chattergoon held firm with a fighting 66 off 99 balls, but didn’t find enough support: the second-highest scorer was Neil McGarrell with 17. After Guyana slumped again, from 122 from 5 to 134 for 9, a 25-run last-wicket stand took them to 159, still way off a competitive total.The early loss of his captain Chris Gayle in the Jamaican chase didn’t deter Brenton Parchment who scored a brisk 35 before being dismissed lbw by McGarrell. Nash fell soon after, but Shawn Findlay and Danza Hyatt stitched together an 88-run partnership to complete the one-sided win.After the match, Nash played down his performance and praised his team-mates’ bowling. “The scoreboard will show that I had the best figures, but I got a lot of assistance from the guys at the other end,” he said. “We played brilliantly as a team.”Jamaica will face the winner of Friday’s clash between Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados, in Sunday’s final.

Duncan Fletcher has allayed fears about the fitness of England’s captain, Andrew Flintoff, who bowled just four overs on the fourth morning at Adelaide before playing no further role in England’s attack. Flintoff was off the field when Australia were finally bowled out for 513 shortly after tea, but Fletcher insisted the break from action was purely precautionary.”He felt a slight discomfort and he just wanted to make sure everything was alright,” Fletcher told reporters afterwards. “He came off and we just felt more comfortable with the other bowlers bowling. Basically he’s making steady progress. He’s played back-to-back Tests and he’s done quite a bit of bowling in that time, but we’ve got no worries at the moment.”Flintoff’s fitness is absolutely pivotal to England’s Ashes chances, but Fletcher insisted that the problem was simply a side-effect of his long injury lay-off. He underwent further surgery on his troublesome left ankle in June, and returned to action in India in September for the ICC Champions Trophy. Unless a surprise is in store tomorrow, he will not have to bowl again competitively until the third Test starts at Perth on Thursday week.”It’s a light discomfort, but the medical staff are confident at the moment and say it’s just from having been off and coming back from injury. We are just going to have to wait and see what he’s like after couple of days, but we’re not even going to send him for a scan at this stage. He just feels he’s been overbowled in back-to-back Tests.”An injury to Flintoff would be considerably more damaging to England than any concerns that Glenn McGrath’s ankle has been causing to Australia, but Fletcher insisted that Flintoff would have been fit to bowl had he been required today. “We discussed it and he could have taken the new ball. In fact, it would have been him and Steve Harmison.”

An invention, of potentially outstanding use to the cricket world from club through to international levels, needs funding for a revamp of its electronic circuitry.Dr Brian Wilkins, known to many cricketers as the author of two books on bowling, and articles in The Cricketer International, has also been involved in the development of a machine which measures the properties of cricket pitches.The prototype (Mark 1) has been tested on New Zealand pitches and, although it is cumbersome, and somewhat inaccurate on bounce, it has yielded useful new information.From this developed a Mark 2 machine, made and funded by Victoria University of Wellington (VUW). The new machine is mechanically superior as well as incorporating a new concept arising out of research carried out by Dr Colin Cook of VUW.This concept both increases the accuracy of the bounce and pace measurements but also allows, for the first time, the measurement of the friction (or grip) of a pitch. The output is programmed to download onto a laptop computer for processing into any desired form.Although the new machine and the new concepts incorporated in it have been validated, it needs a new set of electronic circuitry. The present circuitry constructed by a technician at VUW is prone to breakdown and needs to be completely rebuilt along with an improved mounting of the laser sources.Following the reorganisation of the physical sciences department at VUW no more funding was available for the project. The ownership of the machine, and of the intellectual property associated with it, has now passed to the individuals involved with the invention.They would like to hear from anyone interested in helping to bringing this machine to its full capability. They have been advised that $NZ50,000 is needed for the work. The ultimate marketability of the machine is as yet undetermined and will remain so until this prototype Mk 2 shows its full capabilities in the field, however, there has been intense interest in it from a number of quarters.Dr Wilkins is happy to provide more information to anyone who may be interested in helping to complete this project and receive a share of possible future profits. He can be contacted at 92 Kelburn Parade, Wellington, or by email [email protected], or phone (04) 977 3975.

Ah, the first one-day international of the Australian summer! Time to dust off the hole-in-the-ozone-layer-deflecting hats. Time to test the endurance of the plus-30-factor sunscreen. Time to iron the singlet tops, shorts, and/or amusing costumes, and enter the stadium arguing about possible match-affecting weather patterns, while casting a glance at the unpredictable early-December skies. Yes, the first pyjama party of the long, hot season took place tonight in Melbourne.It was the inaugural game of the newly-instigated Chappell-Hadlee Trophy between Australia and New Zealand. Players were donning red ribbons to raise awareness for HIV/AIDS. And boy, was the match hyped: Michael Clarke even strode to the crease wearing the No. 23 shirt handed to him earlier in the week by Shane Warne. The game itself was slapdash and wham-bam and took place at Melbourne’s Telstra Dome. Under a closed roof.That’s right. There was little need for the hats and sun-screen, and even less requirement for climatic investigations or text-messaging the weather bureau. The much-touted state-of-the-art roof, capable of retracing in 20 minutes, was shut tighter than a politician’s wallet, and anyone expecting a typical summer’s evening of cricket had obviously boarded the wrong tram. The Telstra Dome’s overseers were calling it the advent of a new sporting era. Some fans, however, were calling it anything but cricket.”The weather and this game are supposed to go hand in hand,” claimed Daniel from the neighbouring suburb of North Melbourne. “In here it’s more like a mad scientist’s laboratory.” He slumped down in his seat, ignoring the personalised pop-up screen capable of displaying statistics, bowling changes and field placements on demand. “All this high-tech stuff doesn’t mean much to me. It’s a simple game. Why complicate it?” he moaned. “The wind should dictate the bowling. The light should influence the batsman. In here we don’t know if it’s day or night, hot or cold. I’m part of some controlled experiment.”

In the upper section, a group of New Zealand supporters agreed. “I can’t believe I’ll go home tonight without a T-shirt tan,” laughed Rebecca from Auckland, as she displayed her black shirt with the silver fern proudly emblazoned on the back.”Where’s the smell of sunscreen? Where’s the breeze? Where’s the atmosphere?” asked her husband Morris. He’d opted for the beige polyester figure-hugging World Series Cricket-inspired T-shirt, set off by the Dennis Lillee-inspired terry-towelling headband. “Somehow it doesn’t seem like the kind of stadium you could grow to love.”Fair point. The Telstra Dome in Melbourne’s Docklands isn’t exactly what you’d call lovable. The grey, metallic architecture is far from pretty. Four years old and having already undergone three name changes, it’s eons away from being historical, and with a capacity of a tad over 53,000, it’s not really a behemoth to pack ’em in the aisles, so doesn’t hold a candle to the MCG or Eden Gardens. What it lacks in form, however, it makes up for in content. This shiny, easily accessible venue hosts a plethora of top-notch sporting events, including Australian Rules footy, soccer, rugby league, rugby union – and the odd bit of international cricket. As the 30,000-strong crowd applauded, Mexican waved, and brandished a sea of blow-up plastic fingers in the air, even detractors had to admit that the Telstra Dome is a very efficient host.And for those who still needed convincing, there were the sporting optimists, ready to embrace the venue and all its facets. “I first saw cricket here in the winter of 2000 when the South Africans played, and I came again for the Pakistan game in 2002,” said Martin from the nearby city of Geelong. “It’s fascinating to watch the game with the roof closed,” he continued. “You don’t get distracted by anything, and can concentrate on what’s going on in the middle. The outside world doesn’t exist, and sometimes that’s a good thing.”His friend Nigel was keen to interrupt: “It’s more egalitarian than other cricket venues,” he nodded, while enjoying his own pop-up screen. “No-one is in the sun all day. No-one has to complain about the seating. Everyone can get to the bar. The toilets are clean. It’s a spectator’s dream come true.”Fair point too. The Telstra Dome is perfectly functional. By the end of the night, as the Kiwis snatched victory, and the fans went into applauding, Mexican-waving and finger-brandishing overdrive, it seemed the perfect, slapdash, wham-bam start to the limited-overs circus. And everyone had forgotten that the roof was closed.Christine Davey is a freelance writer based in Melbourne.