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Fast bowler appreciates captain’s commitment to cricket, and confirms his availability for Netherlands fixture

Mohammad Isam27-Oct-20231:33

Taskin: We should appreciate Shakib for working on his game in Dhaka

Shakib Al Hasan’s mid-event Dhaka trip has polarised opinions but the captain’s extra training has won hearts in the Bangladesh team. Taskin Ahmed said that they valued Shakib’s effort to use his day off to travel back to Dhaka for batting drills.Shakib went to Dhaka on October 25, the day after Bangladesh’s World Cup match against South Africa in Mumbai. He went straight to the Shere Bangla National Stadium where he trained under his childhood mentor Nazmul Abedeen. He worked on some of his shots although it was more about the comfort of batting with Abedeen, someone Shakib has known since his teens. He returned to Kolkata on October 26, reportedly on the advice of the team management after it became big news.”He informed the team management that he needs to work on his batting,” Taskin said. “It was a rest day, plus Dhaka is close to Kolkata. He didn’t go to Dhaka for any other purpose. It was cricket-related. He went after the coach and management told him its fine. He didn’t break any rules. He took permission. He batted for four hours on the first day. He practiced on the second day before returning to Kolkata. As players and teammates, we appreciate that he batted on a rest day. His batting is so important to the team, that he too is desperate about improving it.”Taskin said that the team gathered in the team hotel for a dinner on Thursday evening, spending a good time with Shakib, who returned shortly before. “We all went to dinner after he returned yesterday. We had a good time,” he said.Shakib has skipped back to Dhaka from Kolkata on another occasion but that was during the 2019 IPL when Sunrisers Hyderabad weren’t picking him regularly. He had gone to work with his other mentor Mohammad Salahuddin.Related

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Taskin said that the team doctors cleared him to play against the Netherlands on Saturday. He missed two games due to a shoulder niggle, which he said he has been carrying for more than two years. “I had this shoulder injury for the first time in South Africa two years ago. I have a tear in my tendon for a long time. I am playing by managing it. Even in the Asia Cup and World Cup I am playing with it and suddenly it became swollen.”Doctor and physio did the MRI and it was found out so I took rest for couple of days and now I am feeling better. I am personally in a good shape and after playing can I understand where I stand,” he said.Taskin said that the pitches in the World Cup has not really offered much to the fast bowlers so many of the them has had to adjust to the conditions, at times by dropping their pace. “So far, I have not seen much for the bowlers in this World Cup. All the grounds are batting friendly but also, there are some challenge and it’s not all about speed.”Express fast bowlers are also struggling, leaking runs. So in this kind of conditions, it’s not all about speed. You need some variation skills and a game awareness. It’s not all about speed. You need a lot of skills to do well in this kind of surfaces,” he said.

Tahir, Shamsi to play for Guyana Amazon Warriors; Kuggeleijn returns to St Lucia Kings

ESPNcricinfo staff06-Jul-2022Barbados Royals have signed up South African heavyweights Quinton de Kock and David Miller for the upcoming season of the CPL.It will be de Kock’s maiden appearance at the CPL, while for Miller, Royals will be his third franchise in the competition after stints with Jamaica Tallawahs and St Lucia Kings [earlier St Lucia Zouks]. Royals also have in their line-up Mujeeb Ur Rahman, the Afghanistan spinner who has previously played with Jamaica Tallawahs, as well as Pakistani batter Azam Khan and South African allrounder Corbin Bosch. They still have five more spots to fill at the players’ draft tomorrow.Tallawahs, meanwhile, have roped in Mohammad Amir for the upcoming season. The Pakistan fast bowler had turned out for Royals last year, when he claimed 11 wickets at an average of 13.54. Sandeep Lamichhane, Imad Wasim, Chris Green and Migael Pretorius are the other four overseas signings by Tallawahs. All four players have represented the franchise in earlier editions.Guyana Amazon Warriors have added a rich South African flavour to their set-up. They have signed up Imran Tahir, the leading bowler for the franchise with 60 wickets from 43 outings for a fifth successive season. Additionally, they have also included wristspinner Tabraiz Shamsi, batter Colin Ingram and wicketkeeper Heinrich Klaasen for the upcoming season alongside Paul Stirling, the Ireland opener.Related

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• Daren Sammy appointed head coach of St Lucia Kings

St Lucia Kings have brought on board New Zealand’s Scott Kuggeleijn after releasing him last year. Kings are now left with just one more overseas spot left to fill, with last year’s captain Faf du Plessis, Tim David and David Wiese in their ranks as well.Kuggeleijn, who played for Kings in 2020, was the leading wicket-taker that season. He was, however, released by the franchise last season along with the Afghanistan pair of Mohammad Nabi and Najibullah Zadran.Kings’ other big acquisition is Johnson Charles, who had represented Barbados Royals in 2021, scoring 216 runs in ten games at a strike rate of 122. Charles came on board as a pre-draft signing.Among players from the islands, Roston Chase, Kesrick Williams, Alzarri Joseph, Mark Deyal and Jeavor Royal have been retained by the franchise. Kings have seven spots left to fill now, including the one for an overseas player, and those are expected to be announced soon.The notable omissions from last year’s squad are Rahkeem Cornwall, who was recently dropped from the list of CWI’s centrally contracted players, Wahab Riaz, Andre Fletcher – who has been signed by St Kitts & Nevis Patriots – and Keemo Paul, who has returned to Guyana Amazon Warriors.Kings finished runners-up, losing to Patriots in the final, last season. That made it back-to-back final appearances for them – they had lost to Trinbago Knight Riders in 2020 – after failing to make the title round in the first seven editions of the tournament.

Khan took a four-for while Hasan Joy and Towhid Hridoy scored 80 and 88 respectively

ESPNcricinfo staff12-Mar-2021Bangladesh Emerging Team took an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match one-day series against Ireland A with an eight-wicket win in the fourth game at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka. Pace bowler Sumon Khan took four wickets to help bowl out Ireland A for 182 inside 47 overs, which the hosts chased down with 51 balls remaining.Khan rocked the visitors when he had opener Jeremy Lawlor and captain Harry Tector caught behind off consecutive balls in the 11th over. Curtis Campher was out next, in Khan’s next over, as Ireland slipped to 54 for 4.Khan, who was adjudged Player of the Match, took his fourth in the 47th over when he bowled Peter Chase to wrap up the Ireland A innings. His new-ball partner Mukidul Islam, left-arm spinner Rakibul Hasan and Saif Hassan took two wickets each.Mark Adair top-scored for Ireland A with 40 while Ruhan Pretorius, who made 90 in the second one-dayer, scored 35 at No. 8.Chase bowled Tanzid Hasan and had Yasir Ali caught behind in the fourth over of the chase as the home team slumped to 10 for 2. But that was all the inroads the Ireland A attack could make as Mahmudul Hasan Joy and Towhid Hridoy took Bangladesh Emerging Team home, with an unbroken 176-run third-wicket stand. Joy struck 80 off 135 balls with eight fours while Hridoy hammered nine fours in his 97-ball 88.The fifth and final match of the one-day series will be held in Dhaka on March 14 before the two-match T20 leg.

Three-wicket star Mitchell Santner praises hosts’ all-round improvement

ESPNcricinfo staff03-Nov-2019New Zealand plan to carry the momentum of a 21-run victory over England into their third T20I after a tough run for the host nation’s sporting teams.Questions about the All Blacks’ semi-final defeat to England in Japan last weekend come heavily laden with apology in recognition of the fact that New Zealanders live and breathe rugby like nothing else. But Mitchell Santner, the star of Sunday’s triumph in Wellington, offered a reminder that his country’s World Cup defeat was still smarting as he reflected on the Black Cap’s first win over England in any format since their innings victory in the rain-affected day-night Test in Auckland in March 2018.”Before or after the World Cup final?” Santner laughed when asked what kind of relationship New Zealand had with the England side. “Nah, pretty good. They’re nice guys off the field, and on, I guess. It’s obviously a younger team they’ve got there for the T20s but also a dangerous team so we’ve got to not take that for granted but they’ve got some superstars in their team as well so it was nice to get the win today.””They’ve had the rub of the green on us a little bit lately but I think after the last performance, we were a little bit off, it was nice to get that win today. As a unit we just wanted to be a little bit better in all three aspects and I think today we were so I guess that’s the pleasing thing. You can take that momentum into the next game as well.”Also read: Santner leads NZ bowlers to defend 176Santner’s 3 for 25 was pivotal in an improved all-round New Zealand performance compared to their seven-wicket loss in the first match of the series and included the wicket of Chris Jordan, whose 36 off 19 balls formed a rearguard that gave England some hope of overhauling the target of 177.The old adage “catches win matches” was rightfully applied as England put down four crucial chances while their opponents held theirs.”Our fielding was pretty key, some good catches there, and as a bowler if the fielding group is up it’s a good feeling,” Santner said. “We did pretty well to get to 170 on a pretty good surface and bowled pretty well to defend it.”With the five-match series level at 1-1, Santner said New Zealand would look to replicate their Wellington performance when the sides meet again in Nelson on Tuesday.”We adjusted pretty well coming from Hagley where it’s a big ground all-round to here,” he said. “We’ve got to adapt again. It’s a slightly different ground that can be short depending on where the wicket is but it’s more a ground like Hagley where boundaries are pretty even all the way round and the pitch in the past has been a little bit slow so we’ve probably got to adjust again.”But I think that’s a credit to what happened today, we adapted pretty quickly to the surface and the dimensions. The team that can adapt the fastest usually comes out on top.”England captain Eoin Morgan said the visitors must learn form their errors ahead of the next match.”We didn’t bat or field anywhere near what we did the other day,” Morgan told Sky Sports. “On this ground in particular, you probably take a little more risk than usual because of the dimensions, but I thought New Zealand bowled well and made us hit to the longer side.”We need to continue a positive, aggressive mindset. It’s important to make mistakes – the most important part is to learn from them. If young lads can continue to do that early in their international career, they’ll do well.”

The England pace bowler claimed Somerset’s second hat-trick of the match as they completed a hefty innings victory to secure second place

ECB Reporters Network26-Sep-2018
ScorecardCraig Overton picked up a hat-trick as Somerset rounded off an impressive season with an innings victory over Nottinghamshire in their final Specsavers County Championship match at the season.Overton’s feat came just a day after his county team-mate and captain Tom Abell had picked up a hat-trick in Nottinghamshire’s first innings.The home side had begun the third day at Trent Bridge on 115 for 3 but within 10 minutes had been reduced to 119 for 6, thanks to Overton’s three-in-three burst.Notts rallied but were unable to survive the opening session, being bowled out before lunch for 184, leaving the west country side to celebrate victory by an innings and 146 runs.Left-hander Ben Slater, who had passed 1000 first class runs for the season during the earlier part of his innings, nicked the ninth ball of the day to Marcus Trescothick at second slip for 49.The next two deliveries were identical to each other, as right-handers Samit Patel and Riki Wessels both edged into the waiting hands of Trescothick – who became the first outfielder since GJ Thompson of Northants in 1914 to take three consecutive catches.For Craig Overton it was a second first class hat-trick, after his exploits for MCC against champion county Middlesex in Abu Dhabi last year.”Obviously it was my first over and I sent down a couple of looseners, then it came out alright and I got going with the first one,” he said. “The one to the left-hander [Slater] swung a bit and nipped away. Then it was the right-handers [Patel and Wessels]. I always enjoy bowling to right-handers if it’s swinging. The one to Riki bounced a little bit and caught the top of the bat on it’s way to Tres. Then I was away on a long run to celebrate.”Notts, who knew they were already safe from the drop into Division Two, showed some fight as Ben Duckett and Tom Moores resisted for almost an hour before Duckett was given out lbw to Lewis Gregory, who then had Luke Wood caught behind for 4.Josh Davey, who took 3 for 20, completed the formalities. He had Moores caught behind for a dogged 17 and then pinned Matt Carter lbw for 22, which included a huge pulled six off Craig Overton.Somerset’s victory also confirmed their status as Division One runners-up, and they will be playing Notts again next year, who narrowly survive over Lancashire, having picked up one more victory than the Red Rose.”We didn’t play well enough and there will be frustrated members out there. We’re frustrated about it because we have had a tough six weeks to finish the season,” Peter Moores, the Notts head coach, said. “Our goal was to stay in Division One and we’ve done that. I look back over the whole 18 months and we’ve won two trophies, got promotion and had a couple of cup quarter-finals, we’ve had highs and we’ve had tough days and today was a tough day.”We’ve had a small staff and picked up injuries and come up short this week but all credit to Somerset and the way they played.”

Michael Lumb, the Nottinghamshire and England batsman, has been forced to retire with immediate effect because of an ankle injury.

ESPNcricinfo staff19-Jul-2017
Michael Lumb, the Nottinghamshire and England batsman, has been forced to retire with immediate effect because of an ankle injury.Lumb, who made a century on his ODI debut, against West Indies in Antigua in 2014, is one of only 11 England players to have won a global ICC trophy, following his vital role in the World T20 campaign in the Caribbean in 2010.Lumb’s opening partnership with Craig Kieswetter, who was also forced to retire early due to injury in 2014, provided the foundation of a triumphant campaign for Paul Collingwood’s squad, who beat Australia by seven wickets in the final in Barbados.Born in South Africa, Lumb began his career at Yorkshire, the county club of his father, Richard, and moved to Hampshire before relocating to Trent Bridge in 2012, where he helped Nottinghamshire to victory in the Yorkshire Bank 40 and Royal London One-Day Cup trophies in 2013 and 2017 respectively.Until his record was surpassed by his fellow opener, Alex Hales, in this year’s final at Lord’s, Lumb held the Nottinghamshire record score in List A cricket, 184 against Northamptonshire at Trent Bridge in 2016. His prowess as a hard-hitting opening batsman also earned him stints in the IPL with Rajasthan Royals and Deccan Chargers, and Australia’s Big Bash League with Sydney Sixers.”I have had the best time at Trent Bridge, in my view the most productive years of my career, and Nottinghamshire is the club I have most enjoyed playing for,” he said.”I’m extremely disappointed I’ve had to retire from cricket, particularly in the middle of the season, but I have to respect medical opinion.”I would like to thank all my team-mates, the coaching staff and everyone else at the club for making my stay at Nottinghamshire such a memorable one. Those sentiments also go to everybody at both Yorkshire and Hampshire, who have made my career so enjoyable.”Last, but by no means least, I couldn’t have achieved what I have without the total support of my wife Lizzie and all the rest of my family.”Nottinghamshire’s director of cricket, Mick Newell, said: “It’s very sad news for Michael. He’s a hugely talented batsman that has entertained cricket followers all over the world. He’s a great role model to others and a superb professional.””Michael is an immensely popular senior player in the dressing room and highly respected for what he has achieved during his career. We wish him every success and thank him for all he has contributed to the club.”In first-class cricket, Lumb amassed more than 11,000 runs in 210 matches, with his career-best 221 not out coming for Nottinghamshire against Derbyshire at Trent Bridge in 2013.Lumb’s domestic one-day career included more than 11,500 runs, including in excess of 6,500 in List A games and almost 5,000 in T20.His retirement is Nottinghamshire’s second significant injury setback in the space of a week, following the blow to the head that Luke Fletcher sustained while bowling in the T20 Blast at Edgbaston, which has resulted in him sitting out the rest of the season.

Joe Denly made his first century of the season but four wickets after tea left the opening day between Northamptonshire and Kent quite even

ECB Reporters Network15-May-2016
ScorecardMonty Panesar celebrates his first Northamptonshire wicket since 2009•Getty Images

Joe Denly made his first century of the season but four wickets after tea left the opening day between Northamptonshire and Kent quite even, with the visitors closing 300 for 7 after winning the toss. There were also two wickets for Monty Panesar – his first for Northamptonshire since 2009 – on his return to the county where he started his career.Denly’s only previous innings of note was a half-century against Glamorgan but here he looked assured, drove the ball smartly, and went through to three figures in 207 balls with 12 fours.He might have departed for 26 had Panesar, on his comeback, claimed a sharp caught-and-bowled chance; one of three missed chances for the hosts in the morning session. But Denly took advantage and, having resumed 92 after tea, drove Panesar for four in the second over after the break and was soon celebrating a third Championship century back in Kent colours, having rejoined at the start of last season.Panesar’s return was for the most part less noteworthy, wheeling away for 31 overs on a docile wicket, but he did claim a second caught-and-bowled opportunity, this time offered from Sam Northeast on 49, that he took low down by his left boot, before having Calum Haggett caught behind four overs from the close. It was a fair return, seven years on from his last appearance for Northants.”I’ve really enjoyed my first day back,” Panesar said. “It was nice to get a good workload in. I was nervy first thing but I got some rhythm going. The first chance came at me harder than expected but the second chance was one of my best catches.”Northeast’s wicket was the first of several tame dismissals that saw Kent fail to take full advantage of their strong position. At 202 for 2 they were in control of the day but after Northeast departed, no other partnership breached 30.Sean Dickson tried to lift Rob Keogh – also making his first appearance of the season – down the ground, only for Alex Wakely to leap to his right from mid-off and claim a stunning one-handed catch. The celebration was surely learned from Shahid Afridi in his time at Wantage Road last season.Darren Stevens fell in the first over of the second new ball, clipping Rory Kleinveldt straight to square leg. Adam Rouse fell in similar fashion looking to hit Kleinveldt through the leg side, only to get a looping leading edge to cover giving Wakely a much easier catch.Northants should have been in a much better position earlier in the day, having broken Kent’s opening stand in the fifth over, Wakely helping to run out Tom Latham.Panesar’s miss of Denly was the second of the three early chances to go down. Richard Levi twice spilled Daniel Bell-Drummond in the slips, first on 9 and then on 26. But Bell-Drummond couldn’t take full advantage as Northants finally did hold a catch after lunch with Kleinveldt taking Bell-Drummond for 47 at first slip. By then he had helped Denly put on 85 for the second wicket as Kent made a solid start.

Salman Butt, the suspended former Pakistan captain, has been called by the ICC Anti-Corruption and Security Unit to Dubai on April 28

Umar Farooq21-Apr-2015Salman Butt, the suspended former Pakistan captain, has been called by the ICC Anti-Corruption and Security Unit to Dubai on April 28. This comes after the PCB applied for his reintegration into cricket.”I am not aware about the purpose of the meeting,” Butt told ESPNcricinfo. “But I am sure it is related to my request to the PCB about my reintegration into cricket. I am happy that I am being heard and I am ready for the ICC meeting as well.”Butt was originally handed a 10-year ban from any involvement in cricketing activities for spot-fixing during the Lord’s Test in August 2010, with five years suspended on the condition that he would commit no further breach of the anti-corruption code and participate in a PCB-controlled anti-corruption education programme.But the ICC recently approved a revised anti-corruption code that allows banned players to make a return to domestic cricket before the end of their penalty if they meet certain criteria.Butt had told the PCB of his willingness to comply and requested the chairman Shahriyar Khan’s support. In June 2013, he had confessed and apologised for his actions and offered his full cooperation to the mandatory educational rehabilitation program.In a letter to the PCB, a copy of which has been seen by ESPNcricinfo, Butt said “I accept that I am guilty of breaching the ICC anti-corruption code in the manner found by the anti-corruption tribunal in its judgment dated 5 February 2011.”I unreservedly and unconditionally apologise and express deep regret and remorse for those grave breaches and recognise the harm they have done to the cricket and to the image of the Pakistan Cricket Board and Pakistan as nation. As the captain, I accept that I had a greater responsibility than any other player in the team.”I urge all persons playing or planning to play cricket to resist temptations of any kind which may be offered them to fix matches or to spot-fix or otherwise to participate in activates which damage the sports of cricket and beware of the adverse impact that such activities necessarily have on the sport. I urge all person who know of any corruption to reject the approach and report the matter to the appropriate cricketing authorities.”Butt, along with Mohammad Asif, had also been found guilty at Southwark Crown Court in November 2011, on charges of conspiracy to cheat and conspiracy to accept corrupt payments over deliberate no-balls bowled during the Lord’s Test between Pakistan and England in August 2010. Mohammad Amir had pleaded guilty prior to the trial.Butt has served four and half years of his ban, and also served seven months of a 30-month prison sentence in UK. In 2013, he had appealed before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland, to reduce his ban but it was rejected.

The ECB have lost a second major sponsor in three months after Brit Insurance decided not to renew its deal as the England team sponsor.

ESPNcricinfo staff22-Oct-2012The ECB have lost a second major sponsor in three months after Brit Insurance decided not to renew its deal as the England team sponsor. In August, Friends Life, sponsors of domestic cricket for six years, also decided against continuing their backing of the t20 competition.Brit Insurance will bring to an end their nine-year association with cricket after “fundamental, structural and strategic change in its business interests.” Earlier this year, the company axed its marketing and communications team and their new direction steers them away from the four-year deal with the ECB which began in 2009 and saw them succeed Vodafone. Brit had previously been the principal sponsor of Surrey, with The Oval rebranded under their name from 2004 to 2010.Brit’s sponsorship of England, reportedly worth up to £18 million, has coincided with one of the most successful periods in the team’s history. The men’s team won the 2010 World T20, regained the Ashes in Australia with a first away series win for 24 years in 2011 and reached No. 1 in the world Test rankings in the same year. The women’s team retained their status as the No. 1 ODI side and reached the final of the 2012 Women’s World T20.”We are very proud to have partnered with the ECB and supported them in what has been a fantastic period in English cricket,” Mark Cloutier, the Brit Group CEO, said. “But as Brit’s business has re-shaped and developed into something very different to the business it was a few years ago, it’s right that we step back and allow another sponsor to come forward and build on this brilliant partnership opportunity.”Brit’s deal extends until April 2014, to include the next Ashes series in Australia but the ECB are looking to agree a new deal for a minimum of three years and have an arrangement that could see a new sponsor take over before Brit’s contract expires.”The ECB thanks Brit for what has been an important and successful partnership for both parties,” the ECB commercial director, John Perera said. “Brit has benefited from significant exposure as both the men’s and women’s teams have achieved extraordinary levels of success since the partnership began. Our search for a new sponsor will begin immediately and we anticipate significant interest from potential partners who wish to be associated with the England cricket teams.”Perera will ensure a new sponsor is apposite for English cricket, “The brand has to have stature commensurate with the England team,” he told “Some of the football deals wouldn’t be appropriate.”Brands that sit comfortably alongside English cricket include investment bank Investec, who added to their sponsorship of the Derby, Tottenham Hotspur and England Women’s hockey with a 10-year deal for the title rights to Test matches, worth a reported £50 million, signed in November 2011 and earlier that year, Buxton Water renewed their sponsorship until the end of 2013.

It took until the third-last day of the series, but Sri Lanka finally delivered all the way through their batting order as Angelo Mathews, Tillakaratne Dilshan and Mahela Jayawardene made half-centuries to grind Australia down at the SSC

The Report by Brydon Coverdale18-Sep-2011
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsTillakaratne Dilshan made 83•AFP

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