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New Zealand were condemned to a 123-run defeat in the second ODI at Derby

Andrew Miller10-Jul-2018England 241 (Beaumont 67, Sciver 54) beat New Zealand 118 (George 3-36, Ecclestone 3-14) by 123 runs
ScorecardEngland’s women sealed their third limited-overs trophy in as many series this summer, as New Zealand were condemned to a 123-run defeat in the second ODI at Derby. A one-sided contest was sealed with 12 overs to spare, as Heather Knight’s team secured an unassailable 2-0 lead going into the final match of the rubber at Grace Road on Friday.Chasing a target of 242, New Zealand struggled initially against the pace of Katie George and Katherine Brunt, who combined for three wickets inside the first seven overs, before being swept aside by England’s redoubtable spin attack.For a time, while New Zealand were losing six wickets for 17 runs to slump to 92 for 9, it seemed the match might be done and dusted in time for the start of the World Cup semi-final between France and Belgium – no doubt a target for an England team who had been scrawling “Football’s Coming Home” and “Sir Gareth Southgate” on placards for the cameras earlier in the match. However, a last-wicket stand of 26 in 8.4 overs between Kate Ebrahim and Holly Huddleston forced them to wait for their gratification.There was no glossing over the final margin of England’s victory, however. Sophie Ecclestone, England’s player of the tournament in last week’s tri-series, was once again the pick of the attack with 3 for 14, as she proved too wily for a New Zealand team that is starting to look in need of a break after a lengthy tour that began with a record-laden stint in Ireland in June.Ecclestone claimed two wickets for seven runs in an initial six-over spell, and was ably backed up by Laura Marsh, who accounted for the key wicket of Suzie Bates for 24, and Knight, who had Leigh Kasperek caught behind for a first-ball duck. Then, after the tenth-wicket frustration, back came Ecclestone with the decisive lbw, as Huddleston was sent on her way for 12.England’s other stand-out bowler was George, who enhanced her reputation as the most exciting fast-bowling find in the country with figures of 3 for 36, the best of her fledgling career. Her opening wicket, Sophie Devine, may have been a rank bad ball, but her second was a collector’s item, as Amy Satterthwaite was bowled all ends up by one that straightened on off stump.After winning the toss and batting first, England were once again indebted to their batsman of the summer so far, Tammy Beaumont, who showcased a fluency that few of her team-mates could match in making 67 from 76 balls at the top of the order.On a two-paced pitch where no player could ever feel entirely in, Beaumont was the mainstay of the first half of England’s innings. She added 40 for the first wicket with Amy Jones, who once again gave her wicket away too cheaply as she slogged to point for a hard-earned 20, before both Sarah Taylor and Knight also fell to aggressive options – caught at mid-on and behind the stumps respectively.When Beaumont herself was trapped lbw by Jess Watkin, England were in slight danger of frittering away their platform at 149 for 4. Danni Wyatt, back in the side in place of Lauren Winfield, was unable to impose herself either as she cut Lea Tahuhu to point to depart for 8, but Nat Sciver was on hand to shore up the middle order.Sciver’s knock of 54 from 58 balls ended to the catch of the day from Bates at mid-off, who leapt backwards to intercept a lofted drive in her left hand. But with Brunt (25) and Georgie Elwiss (18) keeping the score ticking into the death overs, England were just about able to make light of the loss of their final two wickets in consecutive balls, as they were bowled out with two overs left unused.That shortcoming, however, was nothing compared to New Zealand’s later in the day. England’s World Cup winners are starting to develop an impressive rhythm as their season develops.

Ravindra Jadeja and R Ashwin took nine wickets between them as India bowled New Zealand out for 262 before building a commanding lead by stumps on day three

The Report by Karthik Krishnaswamy24-Sep-2016
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Agarkar: Ashwin showed he is a quick learner

A roughly even contest through its first six completed sessions, the Green Park Test swung emphatically India’s way after lunch on day three, as Ravindra Jadeja and R Ashwin ran through New Zealand to earn India a 56-run first-innings lead. By stumps, they had swelled this to 215 thanks to unbeaten half-centuries from M Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara, who put on their second century stand of the match.India, well ahead at tea, pulled away rapidly thereafter. With Ish Sodhi and Mark Craig serving up a feast of short balls, Vijay and Pujara hit seven fours in the first three overs of the final session. Then, after four relatively quiet overs, Vijay played two of the shots of the match, off Mitchell Santner, an inside-out drive to the left of extra-cover and a late cut with bat meeting ball inches in front of off stump.By the end of the day, India’s run-rate had slowed to normal Test-match proportions, but the economy rates of Craig (4.36) and Sodhi (4.14) told a story. On a pitch where Ashwin and Jadeja were causing all kinds of problems, India’s batsmen had shone an unforgiving light on the inadequacies of New Zealand’s spinners.New Zealand’s only wicket came in the last over before tea, when KL Rahul late-cut Sodhi straight into slip’s hands. As he had done in the first innings, Rahul had shown plenty of attacking enterprise – in this instance using sweeps, reverse-sweeps and lofted drives to move along at a 70-plus strike rate – before falling in the 30s.Wickets often fall in clusters in India. One brings many. There were two such clusters in New Zealand’s innings. First, they lost three wickets in 23 balls at the start of the morning session. After lunch, even more damagingly, they lost their last five in the space of 29 balls, for the addition of only seven runs. In the process, Jadeja picked up his fifth five-wicket haul in Tests, and Ashwin swelled his Test wicket count from 193 to 197.The two teams’ first innings almost mirrored each other. India had gone from 154 for 1 to 318 all out. New Zealand had lost their second wicket with their score 159. The magnitude of India’s lead was probably down to lower-order contributions: Jadeja had scored an unbeaten 42, and added 41 for the last wicket with Umesh Yadav. Not for the first time in home Tests on turning pitches, he had played a vital role with both ball and bat.New Zealand went to lunch 238 for 5, and had moved to 255 for 5 when Ashwin came back into the attack to bowl the seventh over of the session. From over the wicket, his first ball was a well-flighted offbreak that brought Mitchell Santner on to the front foot and turned just enough to take a thin edge through to Wriddhiman Saha.Santner, out for 32 off 107 balls, had defended resolutely till that point, and featured in partnerships of 49 with Luke Ronchi and 36 with BJ Watling.Three overs later, New Zealand felt the full force of Jadeja. He had Craig and Sodhi lbw off successive balls, both caught shuffling across the crease rather than going forward or back, though the ball that dismissed Sodhi may have been sliding down leg. Trent Boult survived two balls, and then, defending his third onto his boot, was caught brilliantly by Rohit Sharma diving forward from silly point.The innings ended in the very next over, Watling looking to drive a teasing Ashwin offbreak down the ground and ending up offering a return catch.The day began much like day two had prematurely ended, with Ashwin and Jadeja causing plenty of discomfort with their turn and bounce. They beat the outside edge four times in the first five overs before Ashwin struck the first blow. He got the ball to drift into the left-handed Tom Latham, causing him to play down the wrong line as he pressed forward to defend. By the time he realised this, it was too late, and ball straightened to hit front pad right in front.Four balls later, 159 for 2 became 160 for 3. Ross Taylor’s bat tends to come down from gully towards wide mid-on while he defends, and such a technique can leave a batsman vulnerable against a left-arm spinner as relentlessly stump-to-stump as Jadeja. The ball went with the arm, and Richard Kettleborough did not hesitate to uphold Jadeja’s lbw appeal. Replays suggested it was a tight call on whether the ball would have carried on to hit or miss leg stump.For most of day two, Kane Williamson had been able to trust the slowness of the Green Park pitch and play comfortably back to good-length balls. But in the half-hour or so before tea, the ball had begun spitting and hissing with greater frequency. On one occasion, an Ashwin offbreak hurried into him when he sat on the back foot and produced a loud lbw shout.In the ninth over of the morning, he went back again to Ashwin, possibly shaping to cut or punch through the off side, and this time the ball turned extravagantly, like one of Muttiah Muralitharan’s specials, zipping in to breach the gap between bat and body and clip the top of the stumps. It had perhaps needed a special delivery to get Williamson out in the form he was in, and Ashwin had produced just that.New Zealand were 170 for 4 at that point, 148 adrift and rocking unsteadily. They repelled India for the next 23.3 overs, with Luke Ronchi and Santner putting on 49 and bringing a measure of calm to proceedings before Jadeja struck again, six overs before lunch.Ronchi was the batsman dismissed, and India would have been relieved to see him walk back. Showing excellent footwork, particularly while going on the back foot, he had cut and driven Jadeja and Ashwin for four fours in the arc between point and extra-cover while moving to 38. Then, looking to sweep Jadeja, he misread the trajectory of a dipping delivery that hit him on the back leg. Rod Tucker gave him out, but replays suggested that the ball, bowled from left-arm over and spinning sharply, would probably have missed off stump.Tucker, though, did not see any replays; what he saw was a batsman sweeping from the stumps, a ball pitching fairly close to the batsman, and dust flying everywhere. At first glance, there was even the suggestion – dispelled by later viewings – that the ball may have hit Ronchi’s front pad. It was one of those errors that slow-motion replays tend to magnify. Likewise with the Taylor and Sodhi decisions. Unfortunately for New Zealand, all three went against them.

The USA Cricket Association’s status as a suspended Associate member is expected to be upheld but without going to the next step of expulsion at the upcoming ICC Annual Conference in Edinburgh

Peter Della Penna10-Jun-2016The USA Cricket Association’s status as a suspended Associate member is expected to be upheld but without going to the next step of expulsion at the upcoming ICC Annual Conference in Edinburgh. In an interview with ESPNcricinfo during his recent meetings held in the USA, the ICC head of global development Tim Anderson stated that USACA needs to be given a fair chance to meet reinstatement conditions that were laid out to them last year before a final determination is given.”USACA cannot be expelled at this year’s annual conference,” Anderson told ESPNcricinfo in Colorado Springs where the ICC are in the process of shifting their Americas office from Toronto. “I think that is an important point to make that a suspended member is still a member. There will be an update to our board at our annual conference meeting at the end of June. I know the community at large is very interested in this topic. USACA as our current member needs to be given sufficient opportunity to meet those reinstatement conditions.””Some of the conditions have changed over the last 12 months including the requirement to develop a new constitution for US cricket which is now sitting with the US cricket advisory committee to consider that. Things have changed over the course of time so we need to appreciate that because we’ve changed things, USACA needs to be given appropriate time to assess that.”According to the ICC’s Articles of Association, article 2.6 section B states that expulsion or cessation of membership following a period of suspension can only occur “upon the requisite resolution being passed at [Annual] Conference following a proposal notified in writing to the Chief Executive prior to 31st December in any year for consideration at Conference in the immediately following year, such proposal being made and seconded by Full Members.”No such resolution was put forward to the ICC board by the end of 2015. Anderson sent out an email to the US cricket community on Thursday informing them that USACA has until December 15 to meet reinstatement conditions, chief among them to ratify a new constitution. If USACA does not, it would leave 16 days for a board resolution to be proposed, setting up USACA for potentially being expelled from membership in June 2017.On the topic of the constitution, Anderson held a meeting with the 10-person Sustainable Foundation US advisory group last weekend in Colorado Springs in which members of the US Olympic Committee were also in attendance. Developing a constitution that fits in with USOC guidelines is something Anderson said is a priority for the Sustainable Foundation group going forward.”We’re all aware of the disjointed nature of the community at this point in time,” Anderson said. “Having a constitution that is able to secure the future of US cricket and bring all parties together is absolutely fundamental to the game’s successful future here. So as part of the reinstatement conditions as they currently stand, we’ve put together an advisory group representative of a broad spectrum of US cricket and other experts that over this weekend were considering what a unifying constitution might look like and what principles and fundamentals should be included to bring US cricket together.”One of the elements of that was whether cricket should be a member of the USOC. The USOC has a number of mandatory requirements for its members to have in their constitution. Rick Adams, one of the senior executives of the USOC, attended that meeting and gave some background on what the USOC is about, what benefits it can offer sports in America and how being part of the USOC has some obligations not just in terms of constitution but other things as well. The general view of the group is that it’s right for cricket to be a part of the USOC and therefore the mainstream American sports family.”Among the constitutional guidelines required to meet USOC statutes are athlete representation on the USACA board as well as independent directors. Those were included in a series of recommendations produced by TSE Consulting in a governance review in 2013, but were eventually rejected for inclusion in a proposed new constitution at that year’s USACA Annual General Meeting.As for a timeframe for when a new constitution might be presented to USACA for ratification or rejection, Anderson hopes that it can be accomplished within the next one to two months. Anderson said though that although ratifying a new constitution is the number one condition for reinstatement, it would not be the sole determining factor in USACA’s suspension potentially being lifted and that the other 38 terms and conditions must be met as well.”USACA will be requested to consider the adoption of a proposed constitution in order to meet that reinstatement condition,” Anderson said. “But at this point the [ICC] board’s position is that USACA needs to meet all the reinstatement conditions in order to be reinstated as an ICC member. It doesn’t meet all those reinstatement conditions right now. It continues to be suspended but it has more time to work on those things.”

Kent wrapped up their second win of the Championship Division Two campaign in emphatic style by dismissing Leicestershire for 113

25-May-2012
ScorecardKent wrapped up their second win of the Championship Division Two campaign in emphatic style by dismissing Leicestershire for 113 to complete an innings and 279-run victory with 17 overs and a day to spare.Having batted on until shortly after lunch in posting 533 all out, their second highest total of the summer, Kent set the visitors an unlikely target of 392 simply to make the hosts bat a second time. By tea the result was as good as decided as Leicestershire slumped to 65 for 7 inside 30 overs.Offspinner James Tredwell’s 11-ball purple patch of 3 for 7 saw debutant Preston Mommsen out to a bat-pad catch at short leg, Josh Cobb snaffled at slip and Claude Henderson bowled after the ball rolled back onto the stumps via the top of the pad and arm guard.Having toiled in the field for nearly 11 hours in the course of the second and third days, Leicestershire looked tired and disinterested second time around as they succumbed in 46 overs.The slide started when Will Jefferson padded up to a Charlie Shreck off-cutter to go leg before and make it seven for one. Then, 13 runs later, Jacques du Toit fended at a lifting leg-cutter from Mark Davies to edge the first of three catches to wicketkeeper Geraint Jones.Ramnaresh Sarwan drove airily at Matt Coles to drag the ball onto his stumps and trudge off for nine, then Greg Smith pushed down the wrong line to a Darren Stevens off-cutter to go lbw.Tredwell then enjoyed his three-wicket burst before Kent polished off the job through Stevens, who took the last three to finish with 4 for 24. Ned Eckersley pushed away from the body to edge behind, Wayne White followed suit to be caught at slip, then Nathan Buck, after posting a career-best 27, fended lamely to the wicketkeeper.The third day had started with Kent resuming on 404 for 6 in their first innings. Overnight century-maker Michael Powell departed for 134 having added only a single to end a seventh-wicket stand worth 104 with Tredwell.After posting a 122-ball 50, his first of the season, Tredwell moved to within 13 of his century when he played back against Henderson only to drag the ball on and make it 505 for 9. Coles added a belligerent 47 before snicking behind, then Davies was stumped to give Henderson figures of 5 for 116.Kent had plenty of energy remaining in the tank and polished off the win just after 5pm to bank 22 points, while Leicestershire travelled home with only one.

James Hopes and Ryan Harris led a strong bowling display from Queensland as they increased their chances of making the Sheffield Shield final on the first day against South Australia

ESPNcricinfo staff08-Mar-2012
ScorecardAlister McDermott was one of Queensland’s wicket takers•Getty Images

James Hopes and Ryan Harris led a strong bowling display from Queensland as they increased their chances of making the Sheffield Shield final on the first day against South Australia. The Bulls knocked over the Redbacks for 162 and at stumps they were 2 for 58, needing another 105 runs to take first-innings points, with Alex Kemp on 24 and Joe Burns on 23.Queensland began the last round of matches second on the Shield table but good performances from Tasmania and Victoria in their games mean it is unlikely the Bulls will reach the decider unless they take some points against South Australia. They gave themselves a good chance of doing that after Hopes sent the Redbacks in.South Australia have not won a match in this campaign and again they were disappointing, with Tom Cooper’s 21 the highest score among the specialist batsmen. Hopes collected 3 for 28 and Ryan Harris took 3 for 29, while Steve Magoffin and Alister McDermott each picked up two wickets.The Redbacks could have found themselves in even more trouble after they crashed to 9 for 107, but a tenth-wicket partnership between Gary Putland (31 not out) and Peter George (22) at least gave the bowlers a slim chance of defending their total. George and Putland picked up a wicket each before stumps but a big job lies ahead of them if they are to deny Queensland the lead.