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Yorkshire Phoenix now hover perilously around the relegation zone of the First Division Norwich Union League following a seven-wicket loss to The Surrey Lions under the Duckworth/Lewis method.The Lions produced some entertaining batting in this day-nighter at the AMP Oval after rain during the interval reduced the allocation of overs by 11. After losing the first wicket on 13, with Ian Ward edging behind for six in the sixth over, Mark Butcher and man-the-match Gareth Batty embarked on a free-hitting stand which saw them bring up the hundred partnership from 102 balls.During the course of it, Batty reached his first half-century for Surrey, taking just 38 balls in doing so and striking nine boundaries. In his adventurous stroke playing innings he was dropped on 60 a few yards inside the mid-wicket boundary, off Darren Lehmann and five runs later he was dropped again, at long on, off Richard Dawson with the total on 124 for one.Butcher meanwhile reached his 50 off 77 balls and promptly departed to the next ball, which he tried to work to leg and gave a return catch to Dawson. It had been precisely the quick-scoring stand that Surrey needed, the 121 was compiled at the rate of a-run-a-ball taking the total to 134 for two.Ally Brown did not last long, his 19 coming in as many minutes before being bowled by Darren Gough as he stepped outside his off stump in attempting to loft his shot over square leg.That was the last Surrey wicket to fall, on 167. Batty remained unbeaten with 83 from only 78 balls as he took his side to a total of 188 for three. Forty of his runs had come from boundaries.Earlier, having decided to make first use of a pitch on which there is usually an abundance of runs, the Yorkshire Phoenix innings progressed in fits and starts. They reached 40 after just nine overs and then lost three wickets in a space of 33 runs.Ed Giddins had both opening batsmen caught behind and then Ben Hollioake bowled Anthony McGrath for 15.A 48-run stand between Lehmann and David Byas seemed to steady the innings when off-spinner Saqlain Mushtaq struck twice. He trapped Byas lbw for 22 and then took a return catch from top-scorer Lehmann with 47.Yorkshire lost two wickets on 160. Following Lehmann’s departure, Gary Fellows was run out for 23 from a direct hit at the bowler’s end by Ben Hollioake.Saqlain completed his nine overs taking three for 44 with the wicket of Dawson before a quick-fire eighth wicket stand of 38 from only 23 balls between Richard Blakey, 28, and Gough, 16, saw the Northerners to 214.They took 18 off the penultimate over which included a straight six, the only one of the innings, hit high into the third tier of the pavilion by Gough. It brought up the two hundred of the innings.

Gary Kirsten, the former South Africa and India coach, will work with the England Lions squad this winter in a consultancy role.Kirsten will join the Lions ahead of a 50-over series against Pakistan A in January, part a coaching group that also includes Worcestershire’s director of cricket Steve Rhodes, who will join the Lions as assistant coach, and Daniel Vettori, the former New Zealand spinner, who will be present at the first phase of the winter when he takes part in a specialist batting and spin training camp in Dubai later this month.Once described by MS Dhoni, India’s captain, as “the best thing that ever happened to Indian cricket,” Kirsten did not renew his contract after India won the 2011 World Cup, stating that he needed to commit more time to his family.A few months later, he accepted the role of South Africa coach and took them to No. 1 in the Test rankings before again stepping down for family reasons. Last year after the sacking of Peter Moores, he distanced himself as a candidate for the England role that eventually went to Trevor Bayliss.Andy Flower, the ECB’s technical director, said: “One of the primary objectives of the England Performance Programme and the England Lions touring schedule is to provide the players with experiences and opportunities that go above what they would get in domestic cricket. Being able to call on the likes of Gary Kirsten and Daniel Vettori, to support the delivery of the programme and work with the players, represents a big part of this objective.”Gary Kirsten will join England Lions this winter•Associated Press

The EPP winter training schedule began this week with the full squad assembling at the national performance centre in Loughborough for a four-day camp before they split into two groups for the batting and spin camp in Dubai and a fast bowling camp in South Africa.The two groups then come together in Dubai later in the month, before the England Lions face Pakistan A in a five-match T20 series in the UAE in December. Another Lions squad, which has still to be named, will then face Pakistan A in a five-match one-day series in January 2016.Batting and spin camp (Dubai, Nov 11 – Dec 1): Zafar Ansari (Surrey, depending on fitness), Danny Briggs (Sussex), Joe Clarke (Worcestershire), Liam Dawson (Hampshire), Daniel Bell-Drummond (Kent), Ben Foakes (Surrey), Dawid Malan (Middx), Stephen Parry (Lancs), Tom Westley (Essex), Ross Whiteley (Worcs), James Vince (Hampshire).Fast bowlers camp (Potchefstroom Nov 11-23; Dubai Nov 24 – Dec 1): Jake Ball (Notts), Tom Curran (Surrey), Mark Footitt (Surrey), Craig Miles (Gloucs), Tymal Mills (Sussex), Craig Overton (Somerset), Jamie Overton (Somerset).

Canterbury’s Shell Trophy fixture with Central Districts moved gloomilytowards a conclusion at Village Green today.Play was delayed until 4.45pm by heavy overnight rain. The groundsmen had towork hard to get the pitch ready when the rain stopped at 2.00pm.Any hopes of a brighter Cantabrian dawn were dashed by suicidal batting asthe home team’s spirits fell as quickly as the afternoon clouds had risen.They eventually closed on 63/3.Martyn Sigley had previously breezily smashed Chris Martin all round theground to add 29 of the 30 CD runs scored in just 20 minutes after theresumption.Carl Anderson and Stephen Cunis removed the tailenders, but Canterbury werefaced with scoring 246 to make the Stags bat again.Harley James and Jarrod Englefield both went in dull fashion. James droveairily at Gareth West and was caught by Mark Douglas at slip for two.Englefield completed a miserable match by getting run out after being sentback by Robbie Frew.Garry MacDonald, Canterbury’s coach, had a darker and darker demeanour ashis side failed to weather the CD storm. If it wasn’t for three missedchances in the slips before the score had reached 30, Cantabrian tearsmight have flooded the carefully mopped ground.Golden-arm Oram then struck a lightning bolt through Canterbury’s thunderstorm. Stead flashed a cut, and Oram had struck, with Mathew Sinclair takingthe catch at gully.Little rays of sunshine from Michael Papps, fresh from three ducks in a row,batted Canterbury through to the close with Frew. The Darfield-borndraughtsman was also missed when he gloved a hook off Oram. A big lbw shoutfrom the same bowler was a close shave too for Frew, who ended 23 not out.As the light failed Canterbury paddled away across the damp outfield toclose at a dismal 63/3.MacDonald spoke exclusively to CricInfo today at a rainy Village Green inChristchurch, citing staleness as his reason to move on. “I’ve had fouryears now and it’s probably time to do something else. I think it’s good forthe players, after the amount of time I’ve been with them, to have someoneelse. It freshens them and I got to make sure I don’t get stale myself.”Canterbury have won just one competitive game in 10 during 2000/01. Theylie bottom of both the Shell Trophy and Shell Cup.The failure of Canterbury’s young players to “kick on” has been as much as adisappointment as Canterbury’s Black Caps refusal to play domestic cricket.This was highlighted by Mathew Sinclair and Jacob Oram’s appearances forCentral Districts, while Nathan Astle and Craig McMillan pronouncedthemselves unavailable for the ongoing bottom of the table Trophy clash.Canterbury’s second-string top order collapsed to eight for five in thislatest Trophy game, with MacDonald, a former Canterbury player, commenting”we keep losing clumps of wickets. We’ve been losing four at a time, instrong positions as well, which has been putting us on the back foot.””We’ve been off the pace in both competitions. In the Cup our bowling hasbeen very inconsistent. Our batting has been, well, usually we’ve got enoughruns for a Canterbury team to defend. Our fielding and catching has beenaverage. That’s got to go up and the bowling’s got to be tighter.”The positives this season have been few. Promising performances against theZimbabwe tourists now mean little, with the lack of success in domesticcricket the benchmark MacDonald is judged on.Canterbury won the Shell Cup twice in three seasons under MacDonald, buthave finished bottom in the Shell Trophy in each of the last two years,having won it in 1997/98.While MacDonald is hoping to do some specialist spin bowling coaching- “I’ma bit young to retire yet”- there is no word on a successor, whose big hopemust be to have a full complement of internationals at his disposal.Michael Sharpe, successful coach of Canterbury second XI, is a possibilityas a replacement, having served the same apprenticeship as MacDonald and hispredecessor, Dennis Aberhart.Ben Harris, Canterbury selector and brother of Chris, from the localcandidates, has had his name mentioned in connection with the soon to bevacant post too.The seconds won the National Provincial competition under Canterbury Countrymainstay and Canterbury selector, Sharpe. The Rangiora-born formerprovincial seamer was a member of the successful Canterbury team of thenineties. Whether he would take the role, with so much knowledge of itschallenges as well as its high points remains to be seen.

Pakistan’s national selection committee have named 28 players for the two-day high-performance camp to be held in Karachi from January 12. The camp consists of players who have impressed during the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy this season and will allow selectors to gauge the level of backup they have ahead of a heavy season.The players chosen include Sohail Khan, the right-arm fast-medium bowler, who, while grabbing 65 wickets in his debut season, broke Fazal Mahmood’s record of the best bowling figures in a Pakistani first-class match with figures of 16 for 189 against Water and Power Development Authority. Wahab Riaz, Rauf Akbar and Junaid Zia, the other top wicket-takers of the season have also been invited to the camp.The camp also features the 17-year-old Umar Akmal, the younger brother of Pakistan wicketkeeper Kamran. He has amassed 849 runs in eight matches in his debut season, including scores of 248 and an unbeaten 186. Khurram Manzoor, the only player to cross 1000-run mark this season, Naumanullah and Shoaib Khan, the other notable scorers of the season, will also get a chance to impress the selectors.The two-day camp precedes two tour matches against the visiting Zimbabwe side before the five-match ODI series.Camp attendees
Nasir Jamshed, Khurram Manzoor, Afaq Raheem, Shoaib Khan, Usman Tariq, Umar Akmal, Asad Shafiq, Shahdab Kabir, Naumanullah, Asif Zakir, Kamran Hussain, Yasir Shah, Rizwan Ahmed, Salman Ahmed, Zulfiqar Jan, Sohail Khan, Wahab Riaz, Juniad Zia, Rauf Akbar, Azharullah, Samiullah Niazi, Fahad Masood, Tanvir Ahmed, Azaz Cheema, Mohammad Aslam, Imad Wasim, Ahmed Shahzad, Umar Amin

Shane Watson is confident he’ll be fit for the World Cup as he tries to put the disappointment of missing the Ashes series behind him. He’d been penciled in to take the No. 6 role before breaking down ahead of the first Test at Brisbane and when he re-injured himself in a domestic one-day match he was ruled out of the series.His place initially went to Michael Clarke and when Damien Martyn retired following the Adelaide Test Andrew Symonds was drafted in, cracking his maiden Test century at the MCG. However, Watson now wants to move on and focus on the challenges ahead.”It’s a massive opportunity missed,” he told the . “Roy’s [Symonds] performances have definitely taken the opportunity away from me, but there is a changing of the guard and hopefully I will get my chance at Test level.”If there is an opportunity I will be raring to go. The main thing is I still believe in myself. I feel a lot more comfortable in international cricket, but when you get injured you leave the door open for other people.”Watson is aiming to return to action later in January and be available for the latter part of the Commonwealth Bank Series. Australia then have a three-match Chappell-Hadlee series in New Zealand before the World Cup.”That is my goal now, to make sure I’m right to be picked for the World Cup,” Watson said. “This has been the most frustrating injury of my career. It should have been only three or four weeks but it’s dragged on and on.”

ScorecardA masterful innings from Phil Jaques provided the platform for New South Wales’ comprehensive victory against South Australia at the Adelaide Oval.Batting first, the Blues’ run-rate was kept in check for much of their innings, thanks to tight bowling from the Redbacks. Jason Gillespie and Paul Rofe were controlled and limited the run-scoring opportunities under overcast skies until Mark Cleary’s introduction brought more adventurous strokeplay.Corey Richards paid the price for a second, overly ambitious attempt at driving Cleary but Jaques found good support in Dominic Thornely (76). The pair put on an unbroken stand of 171 for the fifth wicket, including 114 in the last ten overs. Jaques crashed 11 fours and four sixes in his unbeaten 158 – his second knock exceeding 150 in the competition this season – as New South Wales reached a competitive 4 for 282 from their 50 overs.South Australia were rocked by the early dismissal of Shane Deitz in the first over of their reply, followed by Graham Manou in the third, both falling to Stuart Clark. Stumbling at 4 for 52, Darren Lehmann (43) joined Mark Cosgrove (76) to put on 108 for the fifth wicket, but they represented the Redbacks’ final chance of reaching the Blues’ total. Wickets continued to tumble, with Michael Clarke (3-27) snaffling three cheap ones to take the Blues home by 73 runs.

Glamorgan officials have acted quickly to try and play down suggestions that Simon Jones is on the move following recent comments hinting that he is considering his options.”We spoke to Simon on Friday and we’ll have a big chat with him when he comes back in January,” Mike Fatkin, the county’s chief executive, told the Western Mail. “Any issues he has he can air them then.”On Wednesday, Jones told reporters that there was “a little bit of doubt in my mind” over his plans. He continued: “I cannot be approached by another county because I am not out of contract, but there are options open. I am not saying I am going and I am not saying I am staying. I am just thinking about it and trying to do what is best for me.”Fatkin said that he was “sympathetic about his [Jones’s] position” but added that “he could have worded things a bit differently than he did.”Jones’s main gripe appeared to be that he was not a part of Glamorgan’s one-day side, with just 10 appearances in six seasons. “He obviously wants to play more one-day cricket,” admitted Fatkin, “but there has to be a balance struck between his personal ambitions and the success of the Glamorgan side in one-day cricket. You have to remember that we won the national league without him.”We have to understand Simon’s career development path,” Fatkin told the Western Mail, “but we want him to remain here. He’s Welsh and I’m sure deep down he would prefer to be with us. We would like to sign him for another two years.”

Pakistan will be represented at next week’s women’s tournament in the Netherlands, despite the fact that the Pakistan Cricket Board’s team will not be taking part.One of the messiest situations in world cricket, albeit domestic, has not been resolved despite the best intentions of Pakistan’s judiciary, and cricket administrators on both sides of a bitter row that has broken out in Pakistan over who has the right to run the women’s game in that country. A team chosen by the PCB was refused entry into the Netherlands competition, and would not have been able to compete anyway because it was refused visas to the Netherlands.This was because the International Women’s Cricket Council continues to recognise the Pakistan Women’s Cricket Control Association as the body most representative of women’s cricket in that country and had sent the invitation to compete to them.IWCC president Christine Brierley, who will see her Council vote next week on whether they should be integrated into the International Cricket Council, said the PWCCA team was expected to participate as they, like the other competing countries, had paid their entry fee.”I have received no legal advice at this point of time that says that the legal action brought by the PWCCA against the PCB has been resolved,” Brierley said. “I also have received no official government statement that advises the IWCC that the PWCCA is no longer the recognised body to represent the interests of Pakistan women’s cricket. This is an essential requirement of IWCC membership.”Curiously, the PCB perceived an enquiry from Brierley to them regarding the outcome of legal consultation between the parties in the dispute as a signal that some sort of impasse had been overcome.But Brierley said that both the parties in Pakistan had been told that a report on the dispute was to be discussed at the IWCC’s next meeting on July 24.”We cannot cease or change membership of the IWCC unless it complies with the IWCC rules and the PWCCA membership is assessed according to the criteria of membership. Both the PCB and the PWCCA have a copy of the criteria of membership. It does not assist world cricket and the IWCC to be continually involved in what is essentially a domestic matter for Pakistan cricket,” she said.The Pakistan Cricket Board’s reaction to their side’s exclusion from the tournament has been to demand that the PWCCA side not be allowed to use the word Pakistan to describe themselves at the tournament.Trouble between the two parties has been ongoing since last year when the Pakistan High Court ruled that the PCB was the body best suited to run women’s cricket and asked that the two bodies get together to sort the matter out. However, when the PCB started arranging trial matches an approach to the Court by the PWCCA achieved agreement that the PCB had acted outside of its mandate.The situation flared again recently when the PCB claimed that a resolution had been achieved. However, the PWCCA claimed the PCB was guilty of contempt of court.One of the organisers of the PWCCA, Shaiza Khan, took the PCB to task for what she claimed were “totally wrong and absolutely baseless” comments. She accused the PCB of “intransigence” over its treatment of court orders and said it appeared “to be demonstrating a sense of utter irresponsibility.”A restraining order had been placed on the PCB by the High Court ofMr Sana Ateeq Khan. When the PCB appeared to break that order by claiming differences had been resolved the PWCCA then asked for a contempt of court to be considered.

In his latest exclusive diary entry for CricInfo, Alec Stewart confirms his availability for the rest of the present series, and adds his voice to calls for Australia to take the original Ashes urn home.Any series that I take part in, or game that I play in – whether it’s for England, Surrey or whoever, I want to win, and look forward to winning. It’s the sixth time I’ve played in an Ashes series, and the sixth time I haven’t won the Ashes. Two things have really disappointed me this time. Firstly, we haven’t been able to pick our strongest side; that’s not an excuse, it’s a fact. More disappointingly, we haven’t played to the level that I know we’re capable of reaching, which brought us success in the five series leading up to the Ashes.As to the Trent Bridge game itself, the talk in the papers was about bad decisions, but they happen. Throughout the game’s history, umpires’ decisions, shots played by batsmen, balls delivered by bowlers, haven’t always been right.Once we lost Michael Atherton on Friday it was extraordinary how quickly the wickets went down. We’d had a good partnership going and then lost four wickets, which put a massive dent in our chances of posting a winning total of 250-plus. They had a bit of a scare at 80 for 3 with Steve Waugh getting injured, but Mark Waugh and Damien Martyn dashed our hopes of victory with a positive display of batting.As always when we lose the Ashes, which is currently every other year, the media and others look to re-build English cricket. “Everything’s wrong with it, no one can play, get rid of all this lot and start again.” If you sit down and look at what’s happened, and how we move forward, my name will crop up as the oldest cricketer in the England side. But I think it was Linford Christie who said that age is just a number – you should always be picking players on ability. At the same time, you should be looking to improve the side and have an eye on the future. I’m still very much available to play in the next two Test matches. I’ve had a chat with David Graveney this morning about that, and will be meeting him again soon to talk about the future. Thoughts of retirement are not in my mind at present.In the short term, it would be nice if the selectors were able to pick from the strongest available squad for Headingley. That’s obviously subject to Hussain, Thorpe, Vaughan and Hoggard all being available. We can then see how we compete against them. I don’t want people saying the series is dead. Both Australian and England players are on record as saying that any Test match they play is just as important, whether the series is dead or alive. As to the wider picture, we should bring in players here and there, but not go for a wholesale upheaval. We’ve all talked about the huge gulf between county and Test cricket. The jump from county cricket to a Test match against Australia is the biggest, so for any new player it’s going to be hard. We need to keep looking for the players with the potential to make the step up.Personally I believe that Australia should now take the original Ashes urn back home. They deserve it, and the Australian public should have the chance to see exactly what their team’s been winning, possibly on display in the ACB offices.

Md Sobuj’s three-for crushed Nepal’s middle order, before an unbeaten 70 from Bangladesh opener Zawad Abrar sealed their seven-wicket thumping, with 151 balls to spare. It took Bangladesh to the top of Group B with a healthy net run rate of 1.56.After being put into bat, Nepal got off to a good start, thanks to a 40-run opening stand between Sahil Patel and Niraj Kumar Yadav. Opening bowler Saad Islam made the initial breakthrough, getting Patel for 18. Sobuj then took over with with three wickets in quick succession.First to fall was Niraj – caught behind – while Nischal Kshetri was bowled for a golden duck. Cibrin Shrestha was out caught and bowled as Nepal slipped from 60 for 2 to 61 for 5.Aashish Luhar’s handy 23 and Abhisekh Tiwari’s 30 carried Nepal forward, but a second flurry of wickets ensured the rebuilding effort did not last for long. After a 38-run seventh wicket stand between Tiwari and Luhar, Azizul Hakim and Shahriar Ahmed made short work of the tail – Nepal went from 119 for 6 to 130 all out.The only downside for Bangladesh was the 17 wides they conceded, which formed an extras tally of 23.Abrar was the rock of the chase with his 68-ball 70*, including seven fours and three sixes. The only moments of concern in the innings came in the fourth over, when opener Rifat Beg was bowled for 5, followed by captain Azizul Hakim being run out the very next ball for 1.Abrar and Kalam Siddiki added 92 for 115 balls for the third wicket. By the time Siddiki fell, Bangladesh were ten runs away from victory. Rizan Hossan finished the game with a six.