North Zone and Central Zone will meet in the final of the Bangaldesh Cricket League after they ended at the top of the table at the end of the third round

ESPNcricinfo staff11-Jan-2013
ScorecardNorth Zone players celebrate their victory over South Zone•Bangladesh Cricket Board

North Zone qualified for the Bangladesh Cricket League final after a 170-run win over South Zone in Mirpur. The game would have shaped into a thrilling finish but it tapered into a one-sided contest after the South Zone batsmen capitulated on the final morning.In fact, the game had been in North’s control after they had bowled out South for 205 runs in the first innings, taking a lead of 86 runs. Saqlain Sajib took 6 for 74, and the impressive left-arm spinner added four more in the second innings as South were skittled out for 278 runs.North had a better second innings than the first, with Mushfiqur Rahim and Nasir Hossain contributing with eighties while Farhad Reza blasted an unbeaten 75. In the first innings, it was Sajidul Islam
and Sanjamul Islam’s 127-run ninth wicket stand that gave North a total to bowl at after they had slipped to 125 for 8 on the first day.
ScorecardMarshall Ayub made the second highest score in Bangladesh first-class history when he made 289 in Central Zone’s drawn game against East Zone in Bogra, which also helped his team to the final of the competition against North Zone. But strikingly, Ayub is now part of the highest-ever partnership in the country by adding 494 runs for the fifth wicket with Mehrab Hossain jnr, the second highest of all-time fifth-wicket stands.Left-handed Mehrab also scored a double-hundred on the featherbed at the Shaheed Chandu Stadium but the pair joined at the crease after Central slipped to 56 for 4 in the 22nd over of their first innings. They slowly batted out the first day, and then the second before falling in the first session of the third day. Mehrab made 218 with 27 fours and two sixes while the right-handed Ayub struck 30 boundaries and four sixes in his 289.Ayub was also part of the 420-run partnership that this pair broke, and has also crossed the 1,000-run mark in first-class cricket this season. Mehrab too has been among the runs, making 500-plus in the National Cricket League and is now second behind Ayub in the scorers’ list in this tournament.Apart from individual records, Central got what they needed from this game – enough points – to make it to the final. East Zone’s first innings did not end as they made 396 for 8 on the final day with Faisal Hossain top-scoring with 92.The final of the tournament will be held after the Bangladesh Premier League concludes on February 19.

An interactive list of IPL players, what they sold for, and who bought them

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Can’t keep track of which player has gone to which team, or for how much? Our interactive auction list makes it easy for you. Sort this list by clicking on column headers.

Unsold

Aaron Finch – base price $200,000
Upul Tharanga – base price $100,000
Martin Guptill – base price $100,000
Darren Bravo – base price $100,000
Herschelle Gibbs – base price $200,000
Adam Voges – base price $100,000
Matthew Wade – base price $200,000
Tim Paine – base price $100,000
Matt Prior – base price $200,000
Kaushal Silva – base price $20,000
Prasanna Jayawardene – base price $50,000
Dane Vilas – base price $20,000
Denesh Ramdin – base price $50,000
Dinesh Chandimal – base price $100,000
Ravi Bopara – base price $100,000
James Hopes – base price $100,000
Vernon Philander – base price $100,000

Doug Bollinger – base price $200,000
Cameron Boyce – base price $20,000
Veerasammy Permaul – base price $20,000
Suraj Randiv – base price $50,000
Devendra Bishoo – base price $50,000
Steve O’Keefe – base price $100,000
Paul Harris – base price $20,000
Rangana Herath – base price $100,000
Sulieman Benn – base price $20,000
Aaron Phangiso – base price $20,000
Farveez Maharoof – base price $50,000
Scott Styris – base price $100,000
Ben Cutting – base price $100,000
Josh Hazlewood – base price $100,000
Travis Birt – base price $100,000
Henry Davids – base price $20,000
Ben Rohrer – base price $50,000
Rilee Rossouw – base price $20,000
Kevin O’Brien – base price $50,000
Rory Kleinveldt – base price $50,000

Sri Lanka Cricket’s elections may be postponed by as many as 17 days, the sports ministry said, after an inquiry to assess whether Thilanga Sumathipala can lawfully contest the election

ESPNcricinfo staff16-Mar-2013Sri Lanka Cricket’s elections may be postponed by as many as 17 days, the sports ministry said, after a complication with one of the nominees’ applications resulted in a government inquiry to assess whether he can lawfully contest the election.Member of Parliament Thilanga Sumathipala’s possible links to the betting industry and a newspaper business are being investigated, after complaints that his nomination contravened Sri Lanka’s sports law. The law states that sports administrators contesting an election cannot be involved in either betting, media, or sports goods industries.Sumathipala has denied that his application is unlawful, while speaking to the local press and on TV channels. He was the joint managing director of a business conglomerate named the Sumathi Group, which owns local newspapers and has links to a betting business named Sporting Star. He has said, however, that the specific businesses, which could be potentially problematic to his application, are among several that are managed entirely by other family members, without his involvement.”As we don’t yet have the results of the inquiry on Mr. Sumathipala, the sports minister has decided to extend the deadline for the election until April 16,” the sports ministry’s media secretary said. “If the report comes through from the attorney general this week, as we expect, the elections may be held sooner than that, but the April 16 is the final date on which they might happen.”The SLC annual general meeting, at which the winners of the election will be announced, was originally scheduled to take place on March 30. However, SLC members must have at least two weeks in which to select a nominee and would thus need to wait and find out if Sumathipala is a legitimate candidate, before the voting process begins. The parliament inquiry forwarded its findings to the attorney general on Thursday and the attorney general’s report will determine Sumathipala’s legitimacy as a candidate.Last year’s SLC elections were the first board elections after seven years, before which a series of interim committees administered cricket in the country.

Warwickshire, the defending champions, relied upon a “mad 20 minutes” to subdue newly-promoted Derbyshire on the opening day of the season

Jon Culley at Edgbaston10-Apr-2013
ScorecardChris Wright removed both Derbyshire openers•PA Photos

It says something about the spring in Derbyshire’s step as they begin life as a Division One county that 226 all out after being put in by the County Champions left them feeling less that they had fared respectably well than that they might have done a little better.Having battled through a tough morning, one notable for Chris Wright, Warwickshire’s leading wicket-taker last summer, enhancing the good impression he made in the curtain-raiser against the MCC in Abu-Dhabi, Derbyshire were looking well set for a solid afternoon after Dan Redfern’s aggressive hitting had begun to unsettle the home side’s plans.Redfern knocked the county debutant, Oliver Hannon-Dalby, out of the attack and even ruffled Wright for an over or two but then came what Karl Krikken, Derbyshire’s head coach, described as “a mad 20 minutes” in which four wickets fell for 12 runs in the face of Jeetan Patel’s off-spin, two of which he was particularly unimpressed with as Redfern took a swing and missed a straight ball and Ross Whitely ended up on the seat of his pants, run out when Chesney Hughes changed his mind about a single to backward point.”We played really well at the start to get through three down for a hundred but unfortunately from there we had a mad 20 minutes where we lost four wickets and from there we were always fighting,” their coach, Karl Krikken said. “The guys down the order pulled out the stops to get us to 226 but we would have liked 50 more. It is a learning curve but whether you are playing against First Division or Second Division opponents that passage of play where we lost the wickets was poor.”Nonetheless, Derbyshire were aware that life among the elite would be a challenge with little room for error and this was a tough introduction, even against a Warwickshire side lacking Boyd Rankin and Keith Barker through injury and with Chris Woakes rested. Then again, Krikken agreed that there was no harm in knowing the scale of the challenge right from the off.He follows the lead of Chris Grant, the millionaire former stockbroker under whose guidance as chairman the Peakites have risen above their downtrodden recent past, and whose presence at Edgbaston was a challenge in itself, two days after undergoing surgery for a broken toe suffered in a collision with a door on the last day of Derbyshire’s pre-season trip to Barbados. Heavily dosed with painkillers, Grant might not viewed the world quite so sharply as usual but he will have been no less delighted for that when the ninth-wicket pairing of Tony Palladino and Mark Turner secured Derbyshire’s first bonus point of their new status.Their partnership, the highest of the innings after Palladino had profitably attacked the second new ball, gave Derbyshire’s total a healthy respectability on a pitch that was a little too slow for fluent strokeplay and just zippy enough when the ball was new to give the bowlers something to work with. Palladino, whose highlights included a four and a six off consecutive balls against Hannon-Dalby, walked off with 68, his highest Championship score.It tempered Warwickshire’s earlier bullishness. Wright, their leading wicket-taker of last season, had been handed his county cap (as well as a new four-year contract) and had responded to the arrival of England head coach Andy Flower and national selector Geoff Miller by removing both Derbyshire openers in an 11-over spell that cost only 15 runs.Hannon-Dalby, the former Yorkshire seamer, claimed his first Warwickshire wicket early in the afternoon, yet Derbyshire, despite the slump that so dismayed Krikken, kept fighting back.Shivnarine Chanderpaul, on his Derbyshire debut, did not achieve much beyond hanging around for 34 overs but first Wes Durston, then Redfern and Hughes, seized the initiative before Palladino cut loose. Warwickshire’s response will determine to what extent 226 is below par, if at all.

Sri Lanka Under-19s stormed back into contention in the five-match series by beating Bangladesh Under-19s by six wickets

ESPNcricinfo staff27-Apr-2013
ScorecardSri Lanka Under-19s stormed back into contention in the five-match series by beating Bangladesh Under-19s by six wickets in the rain-affected fourth game in Mirpur. After rain interrupted play towards the end of the Bangladesh innings, the visitors were set a target of 197 runs from 29 overs.They reached the target in the 23rd over, thanks to Chamika Karunaratne’s unbeaten 49 off 47 balls, which had five fours and a six. His job was made slightly easier by Sandun Weerakkody, who blasted 42 off 16 balls with six fours and two sixes. Sadeera Samarawickrama also gave the visitors a fast start with his 20-ball 33.After winning the toss, Bangladesh had made 244 for 8 in the 48th over before rain stopped play. Joyraz Sheik scored 58 while the offspinner Ramesh Mendis took 5 for 43.The final match will be held on April 29, the series is level at 2-2.

Preview of the match between Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad in Mumbai

The Preview by Nikita Bastian12-May-2013

Match facts

May 13, 2013
Start time 2000 (1430 GMT)Can Sunrisers Hyderabad’s batting stand up to Mumbai Indians’ bowling?•BCCI

Big Picture

We have arrived at that stage of the tournament where the scramble to make the playoffs is in full swing. While the numerical possibilities say otherwise, Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals are in all likelihood through while the bottom four are out. That leaves a middle cluster of three teams vying for the remaining two playoff spots. Both Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad are in this cluster, meaning their encounter on Monday at the Wankhede will be vital.After 13 games each, Mumbai Indians have 18 points and Sunrisers have 16. Sunrisers face the tougher of the tasks on hand, and not just because they have fewer points; Mumbai have won six out of six games at the Wankhede so far this season. While Sunrisers too have a very good home record – they’ve scored points in five of six at Uppal – they have won only three away matches, all against teams below them on the points table.They can draw some confidence, though, from their showing on Saturday in Mohali against Kings XI. There they first recovered from 52 for 5 to 150 with smart batting, before their bowlers once again did the job. Also, as has been their style at Uppal, they had restricted Mumbai Indians to 129 earlier in the tournament, and then chased down the target with ease, courtesy Shikhar Dhawan. They’ll need all the confidence they can get when facing Mumbai at home.

Form guide

Mumbai Indians: WWWLW (most recent first)
Sunrisers Hyderabad: WLWWL

In the spotlight

The Mumbai Indians bowling v the Sunrisers Hyderabad batting. The Mumbai attack has lorded over the opposition batsmen in their previous two games, first against the might of the Chennai Super Kings and then against Kolkata Knight Riders. Mitchell Johnson has been particularly lethal with his swing at high pace, and will provide the stiffest of challengers on a relatively quick track for the unfancied Sunrisers line-up, which is most at home on the slow surfaces at Uppal. The numbers show why this line-up is not thought a lot of: they’ve played 13 matches, but only one batsman aggregates 200 runs so far. Apart from Dhawan, who missed the first seven matches due to injury, none of the specialist batsmen average even 27. Dhawan is just 30-odd short of topping Sunrisers’ run chart, despite playing only half their games. He will be central to their fortunes at the Wankhede.

Stats and trivia

• Parthiv Patel became the first Sunrisers Hyderabad batsman to touch the 200-run mark in the tournament, taking his aggregate to 218 at 24.22 with his 61 in the previous game
• Sachin Tendulkar is closing in on 300 IPL fours. He needs eight more to get there, and will be the first player in the league to do so

Quotes

“You get a leg up over everyone else by spending time here. [It’s] going to help me a lot in the future.There are a lot of tournaments in India throughout the year, so you have got to adapt to playing here. It is a massive advantage to get used to the conditions over here.”
“Yes, she is. Probably I should make another one to get even luckier.”

Darren Stevens led Kent’s second innings as they secured an honourable draw with Hampshire.

08-Jun-2013
ScorecardDarren Stevens’ innings was an essential rearguard action•Getty Images

Darren Stevens led Kent’s second innings as they secured an honourable draw with Hampshire. Eighth wicket pair Calum Haggett and Adam Riley held out for 22 overs
as Kent, set 342 to break a six-match winless sequence, fell 46 short at 296 for 8.Hampshire seemed to be on their way to only their second win of the season when
Kent were reduced to 41 for 4 before lunch but a stirring innings of 96 from
Darren Stevens removed the initiative from the home side which they never regained.The scene was set for an intriguing last day when Hampshire were fed 108 in 9.4
overs by Sam Northeast, who had never previously taken a wicket, and Robert Key
who had managed only three. Liam Dawson and James Vince gorged themselves on a
rich diet of full tosses and half-volleys before Hampshire declared at 207 for 3.Kent made a dreadful start in their search for a first victory, losing Key for
1 and Northeast for 13, both to David Balcombe, along with Brendan Nash
and Ben Harmison all in the first 13 overs. But on a blameless wicket, Stevens and Daniel Bell-Drummond launched a powerful
counterattack with a dynamic stand of 144 in 34 overs for the fifth wicket.The aggressive Stevens struck two sixes and 15 fours from 105 balls and
appeared certain to reach three figures before he misjudged a short delivery
from Sean Ervine and wicketkeeper Adam Wheater held the catch.At tea Kent were still not out of the reckoning at 194 for 5 and Hampshire
had a whole session to get the five wickets they needed.Bell-Drummond’s useful contribution of 66 ended with the score on 219 when he turned spinner
Danny Briggs to Vince at short leg and Geraint Jones fell to the same
combination three runs later. Kent were 222 for 7 with 32 overs remaining but they were in no mood to gift Hampshire some extra points.Haggett and Matt Coles began the resistance with a stand of 28 in 10 overs
before a mix-up over a run saw Coles beaten by a direct throw from Jimmy Adams.But that was the closest Hampshire got to a badly-needed win, Haggett and Riley
digging in with an unbroken stand of 46, surviving numerous appeals and bowling
changes to deny their desperate opponents.Young spinner Riley, who took seven wickets in Hampshire’s first innings, had
the unusual experience of recording best bowling and best batting performances
in the same match.

Russell Domingo is likely to begin his tenure as South Africa’s head coach without Dale Steyn, who needs about three more weeks of rehabilitation

Firdose Moonda03-Jul-2013Russell Domingo is likely to begin his tenure as South Africa’s head coach without Dale Steyn. The fast bowler still needs “about three weeks of rehabilitation” according to team manager Mohammed Moosajee, which could rule him out of the limited-overs series in Sri Lanka that begins on July 20.Domingo will announce his first squad, who will play five ODIs and three T20s against Sri Lanka, on Thursday. He will also unveil a new support staff, which could include his predecessor Gary Kirsten. ESPNcricinfo understands Kirsten may be retained in a consultancy capacity and will work a set number of days with the national team.On his appointment, Domingo indicated he would keep the same support staff Kirsten put in place which means Allan Donald will likely stay on as bowling coach. The only additions will be a new assistant coach – Lions’ Geoffrey Toyana and Cobras’ Paul Adams are considered frontrunners – and a new fitness trainer after Rob Walter was put in-charge of the Titans.Kirsten’s philosophy will continue to run through South African cricket but Domingo will be able to demonstrate the direction he wants to take the squad in through his selection. He takes over the limited-overs units which are struggling for identity after Kirsten’s Test-centric focus left them in an experimental phase. The manner in which they bowed out of the Champions Trophy – a semi-final loss to England, caused by an all-too-familiar batting collapse – underlined that status. The absence of senior players hurt South Africa as well and it will be up to Domingo to rebuild.He will probably have to start without Steyn, whose recovery will only be complete after the series gets under way. Even if he is taken on the tour, his workload will be closely monitored. Steyn sustained a side strain in the lead up to the Champions Trophy which ruled him out of South Africa’s first two matches and then had a groin problem, which kept him out of the semi-final.Better news for Domingo is that Morne Morkel should be available. Morkel left the Champions Trophy after South Africa’s first match with a quad strain but Moosajee confirmed he has returned to full fitness.Marchant de Lange, who regularly breaks the 150kph mark, is expected to be recalled after he made a complete recovery from stress fractures and a successful comeback to the domestic scene late last summer. That will leave Domingo to choose two from a pool comprising Chris Morris, who replaced Morkel admirably, Lonwabo Tsotsobe and Rory Kleinveldt, which could see Kleinveldt left behind, although he may make a return in the twenty-over format.Public opinion will still call for Vernon Philander, who took 4 for 8 in his Friends Life t20 debut, but it will be a surprise if he is brought in. With a List A average of 35.74 and a body the administrators want to preserve for Test cricket, Philander is best employed elsewhere.Given the venue of the series, Domingo will be tempted to take extras in the spin department which includes Robin Peterson, Aaron Phangiso and JP Duminy. Imran Tahir may be in line after ending last season strongly for the Lions while Roelof van der Merwe has also been suggested. Van der Merwe, like Peterson and Phangiso, is a left-arm spinner, so Tahir may be preferred for variation.South Africa’s bowling was barely allowed to come to the fore in the Champions Trophy because their batting let them down and it will be that area Domingo has to pay careful attention to. The problems start at the top where one opening berth has yet to be filled. Hashim Amla needs a partner and since Graeme Smith’s recovery from ankle surgery is still months away Domingo could either continue with Colin Ingram or look elsewhere.Ingram had one significant score in the Champions Trophy, 73 against West Indies, but looked unsure in the role the rest of the time. Titans batsmen Henry Davids, who is in the national Twenty20 squad, would appear the frontrunner for the job. Wicketkeeper batsmen Quinton de Kock could also be in the reckoning.The result could be no room for Farhaan Behardien, who was benched during the Champions Trophy and has been surpassed by David Miller. With Faf du Plessis and Duminy making up the middle order, Domingo should be confident he has enough firepower on hand.Ryan McLaren, following a superb Champions Trophy, will be the first-choice allrounder again which should clarify the future of Jacques Kallis as a Test-only player. Names like Albie Morkel and Johan Botha will come up, but the former lost his national contract two months ago as South Africa look elsewhere for two-in-one players and the latter’s relocation to South Australia continues to make him unavailable for the national team.Domingo has a stern task ahead. Although keeping South Africa on top of the Test rankings is still considered the top priority, remoulding the limited-overs sides, especially the ODI one, into the consistent, winning teams they once were is a far trickier assignment. Considering that South Africa have only won one out of 11 ODIs against Sri Lanka at home and have bad memories of their World Twenty20 there last year, it’s also a tricky place for the Domingo days to dawn.

Joe Burns, the Australian batsman who has been representing Leicestershire as an overseas player, is to return home early due to injury

George Dobell29-Jul-2013Joe Burns, the Australian batsman who has been representing Leicestershire as an overseas player, is to return home early due to injury.Burns, who has previously suffered a shin problem, will return to Australia to have treatment on a minor hip injury in the hope that he is fully fit to represent Brisbane Heat in the Champions League from mid-September.”Joe has a hip injury which has gradually got worse,” Leicestershire’s head coach Phil Whitticase told the . “He said he was up for selection for our last two T20 games, but he needs to get back to Queensland for their physio to look at the injury.”They have the Champions League coming up and Joe wants to be part of that. So we are happy to send him back – had the roles been reversed, then we would want our player back.”Burns, 23, has enjoyed only modest success. In five Championship matches, he reached 50 only once, failed to register a century and averaged 30.57. He averaged 28.15 in the FLt20 (at a strike rate of 129.60) and just 16.40 in five Yorkshire Bank 40 games.Leicestershire are not expected to replace Burns. They plan to have the West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan back from international duty for the final few weeks of the season and will use Burns’ absence to take a look at a few younger players.Jigar Naik, the offspinner, has also been ruled out for the rest of the season after dislocating his shoulder. Naik had an operation on the shoulder after sustaining the injury in the T20 victory over Nottinghamshire and his rehabilitation is expected to take four months.Leicestershire are currently bottom of the Division Two Championship table, having failed to win any of their first 10 games, and failed to qualify for the quarter-finals of the FLt20.

Mohammad Azharuddin, the former India captain, has been offered the post of Jammu & Kashmir coach

Amol Karhadkar16-Aug-2013Mohammad Azharuddin, the former India captain whose life ban for indulging in match-fixing was overturned last year by the Andhra Pradesh High Court, has been offered the post of Jammu & Kashmir coach.Farooq Abdullah, president of the Jammu & Kashmir Cricket Association, confirmed to ESPNcricinfo that Azharuddin, now a Member of Parliament from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh, was offered the position that has been vacant since Bishan Singh Bedi’s exit after the end of last season. “We still haven’t reached the final decision,” Abdullah said.Mujeeb Khan, Azharuddin’s secretary, said the former batsman hadn’t made up his mind. “He has been offered the post of coach by JKCA but he hasn¹t decided whether to take it or not,” Mujeeb said. “They want to avail of whatever services he could render. He is seriously considering it since he is desperate to give back to the game that has been so close to his heart.”Even if Azharuddin accepts the offer, his return to the cricket field, albeit as a coach, won’t be easy. When the BCCI banned Azharuddin for life in 2000, he was barred from participating in any cricketing activity. Though the ban was deemed illegal by the Andhra Pradesh High Court in November 2012, a BCCI official said Azharuddin cannot return to cricket in any role without the board’s permission since the ruling has been challenged.”The High Court verdict was based on a technicality. Nowhere did the court say he is not guilty of indulging in fixing,” the board official said. “Since the proceedings to challenge the verdict have been initiated, as far as the BCCI is concerned, any association that wants to appoint him in any capacity cannot do so without the board’s consent.”Since being banned, Azharuddin, 50, has had no involvement in cricket-related matters. Besides Azharuddin, Ajay Sharma was also banned for life and hasn’t been active in cricket. Ajay Jadeja, whose five-year ban was overturned by the BCCI, returned to domestic cricket for a couple of seasons before becoming a cricket expert on television. Manoj Prabhakar, who was also banned for five years, turned a coach after serving his ban and was the bowling coach of Delhi.