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Coastal “B” and Inland “B” teams to play at Pietermaritzburg, Collegians Club, 12 to 14 October (3-day) and 15 October (1-day) starting at 09:30.

COASTAL “B” TEAMS(3-day Team) (1-day Team)1. Mark Sanders 1. Mark Sanders2. Rivash Gobind 2. Rivash Gobind3. Derrin Bassage (WKR) 3. Derrin Bassage (WKR)4. Hashim Amla (Capt) 4. Hashim Amla (Capt)5. Warren Hauptfleisch 5. Kyle Bender6. Victor Xulu 6. Victor Xulu7. Ross Veenstra 7. Desigan Reddy8. Desigan Reddy 8. Ross Veenstra9. Rob McQueen 9. Keith Ingram10. Keith Ingram 10. Logan Pillay11. Logan Pillay 11. Lucky Dladla12. Lucky Dladla (12th Man) 12. Yadeen Singh (12th Man)Coach: Yashin EbrahimManager: PHil RussellINLAND “B” TEAM1. James Buller2. Mehmood Badat (WKR)3. Murray Hampson (Capt)4. Tahir Essack5. Philip Landman6. John Anderson7. Lenny Adendorff8. Devlin Samanathan9. Sachin Durasamy10. Murray-Cole-Edwards11. Mondli Ndlovu12. Sifiso ZuluCoach: Bruce Roberts

ScorecardChris Read saw Notts home at Aigburth [file picture]•Getty Images

Nottinghamshire continued their march towards the Royal London Cup quarter-finals by beating Lancashire by four wickets in a tense clash at Liverpool, their fourth win from five Group B matches.The Outlaws restricted the Lightning to a below par 216 for 8 having invited them to bat on a testing but far from impossible batting surface.Karl Brown top-scored for the hosts with 77 off 114 balls, but Samit Patel’s 3 for 31 from five overs of left-arm spin was central to a late innings stumble.Seamer Gavin Griffiths and off-spinner Arron Lilley then shared five wickets as Notts slipped to 146 for 6 in the 35th over of their chase, including James Taylor for 56 off 77 – his third successive fifty.But their heroes were seventh-wicket pair Chris Read and Brett Hutton, who hit 47 not out and 33 not out respectively and shared 71 in 12 overs to seal the two points.Earlier, Lancashire lost five for 42 to slip from 162 for 3 in the 42nd over, with Jake Ball also taking 2 for 24 from eight.The Lightning were on course for 240 or 250 with Brown and captain Steven Croft in partnership for the fourth wicket. They shared 66 in 15 overs before departing in successive Patel overs.Patel only came into the attack to bowl the 38th over and had Brown stumped in the 42nd and Croft caught at deep square-leg in the 44th. He later had James Faulkner caught behind off a top-edge.Aside from giving Brown two lives on five and 39, Notts’ catching was impressive.Notts lost openers Riki Wessels and Alex Hales (32), as well as Brendan Taylor, inside eleven overs of their chase to 21-year-old Griffiths, leaving the score at 53 for 3.Wessels was caught at deep backward square-leg in the seventh over, Griffiths’ first, before Hales was brilliantly caught and bowled one-handed and Taylor caught at mid-off in the space of three balls in the eleventh.James Taylor and Patel (29) shared 51 inside 12 overs to steady the ship before the latter found deep mid-wicket off Stephen Parry’s left-arm spin in the 23rd over.The target became double figures in the 28th with Taylor closing in on his half-century.When Lilley had Steven Mullaney caught at leg slip in the 31st and Taylor stumped in the 35th, Notts were six down and still 71 short of their target.Read and Hutton, however, calmly saw their side home with a little over three overs to spare.Lancashire have now lost three of their first five matches in this competition and realistically need to win their last three to have any hopes of progressing through to the last eight.

Kanbis took another step towards retaining their NPCA crown for the fourth year in succession with a six-wicket win over Parkland Rhinos. Second-placed Stray Lions slipped up with a three-wicket loss at home to Aga Khan. Kanbis now top the table with 167 points while Stray Lions are 15 points adrift.The match between Swamibapa and Sir Ali Muslim Club did not take place as Swamibapa boycotted the match as part of their ongoing dispute with the NPCA.Ruaraka A lead the first division on 192 points for 12 matches with Kanbis B second on 153 points with a game in hand. Swamibapa B are third on 145 from 11 with Kongonis fourth on 144 from 12.The second division is headed by Telca with 188 points from 12 games, with Nairobi Nookers second on 161 and Nairobi Institute third on 155.Nairobi Jaffery have already secured the third-division title with wins in all ten matches. They are on 186 points with Simba Union B and Ruaraka B tied in second back on 125 points.NPCA Super Division

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Nick Jewell and Brad Hodge made the most of their time at the crease as Victoria and Tasmania played out a predictable draw at the MCG. The Tigers reached 518, passing Victoria’s 429 in the morning session, and then it was glorified batting practice for the Bushrangers as the captains ignored the chance to manufacture a result on the sunniest day of a rain-affected game.After bowling well for no return on Thursday, Shane Warne gave Victoria the sniff of a first-innings lead by snaring Brett Geeves caught and bowled for 18. When Brendan Drew played down the wrong line and was bowled by Gerard Denton for 3, Tasmania were 8 for 427 and still needed three runs to pass Victoria.Daniel Marsh made sure the Tigers took the two points, then he and Adam Griffith (47) frustrated the Bushrangers, adding 86 for the tenth wicket. Victoria were willing to let Marsh take singles – they had eight fieldsmen on the boundary – and attack Griffith and finally Warne had the No. 11 caught at mid-on, leaving Marsh stranded on 95.With no pressure to push for a result, Jewell took the opportunity to post his second first-class century, making 100 not out, while Hodge followed on from his first-innings 153 with an unbeaten 66. Ricky Ponting tested some bodyline-style tactics, encouraging his fast men to bowl short deliveries from around the wicket with two legslips in place, but no catch was forthcoming. Late in the day the match degenerated as the fast bowler Geeves tried his offspin.Jewell was pleased with his century, especially considering the legside attack Ponting had used. “It’s pretty hard to score if you don’t really play the hook shot,” Jewell said. “It’s not one of my preferred shots. I prefer to just ride them around the corner or get underneath them.” He said the Bushrangers were surprised by the way the match petered out. “We were actually expecting them to declare behind and for us to set them a chase,” Jewell said.By taking first-innings points Tasmania put themselves two points clear of New South Wales on the Pura Cup table, although the Blues have played one fewer game.

Stuart MacGill is tired of hearing that his style does not complement Shane Warne’s. At the SCG the pair operates as well as clock hands and MacGill has pleaded for a chance to continue a successful partnership that has appeared in only ten Tests.”Somebody needs to look at the numbers and realise this is not the first time Shane and I have worked well together and that after a certain number of wickets we have made a strong case to be a regular feature,” he said. “It’s disappointing that other bowlers can bowl in partnership and Shane and I can’t.”The combination bowled Australia to victory with 13 wickets against Pakistan in January and today seven wickets were harvested, MacGill capturing 4 for 39 and Warne 3 for 23 as they sparked a stunning collapse. In an era of abundance for Australian legspinners, the two first-rate performers have been used together sparingly, but the case for retention is growing, especially as the team is experimenting with back-up bowling options.In Tests where both bowlers have played MacGill has 48 wickets at 23.57 and Warne has 41 at 30.15. MacGill said he still wished he was given a chance during the winter in England. “Shane took 40 wickets on the Ashes tour and as far as an advertisement for a second spinner that’s as good as you are going to get,” he said. “It’s a question that will remain unanswered. I may not have fired a shot over there but we’ll never know.”While Warne and MacGill blew the World XI over, Glenn McGrath made the early indents with a testing pre-lunch spell of 2 for 11 from seven overs that pushed him passed Courtney Walsh’s fast-bowling world record of 519 wickets. McGrath said overtaking the mark was a “big honour” and he was already looking for the next milestone.”Courtney was a cricketer that I looked up to and admired, a freak of a player who competed for 21 years straight, hardly taking a break,” he said. “I can’t see myself catching the next two [Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan] but without doubt my next goal is to reach 600 Test wickets.”

Warwickshire have been crowned as the 2004 County Champions, after Sussex – the previous title-holders and the only team that could have caught them – slumped to defeat in a topsy-turvy encounter against Middlesex.Victory was the last thing on Middlesex’s minds, after they had been bundled out for 135 in their first innings, but although Sussex helped themselves to a useful 142-run lead, they were powerless second-time around, and themselves slipped to 141 all out, after losing two wickets for no runs in the first over.Mushtaq Ahmed, the man whose 100-wicket haul sealed the Championship last year, did his utmost to salvage the situation. He smacked 49 not out from No. 9, and followed up with three wickets, but Middlesex powered to victory, thanks to a century from their former captain, Owais Shah, and 50 not out from Paul Weekes.It was an important win for Middlesex, who have eased their relegation fears, while plunging Sussex right back into the mire. They now face a crucial battle against Gloucestershire, while Worcestershire – who currently occupy the third relegation spot – take on Lancashire, who are seemingly doomed.Elsewhere, Northamptonshire moved ever closer to the drop, as their dismal season continued with a 194-run defeat against Kent at Canterbury. Needing an improbable 582 for victory, they put up a fight through the efforts of Jeff Cook (114) and David Sales, who made 92 as the tail folded around him. Kent’s star bowler was their Under-19 international, Simon Cusden, who took four wickets.In the second division, Somerset completed a convincing rout of Nottinghamshire, who were off the boil for a change, having already secured their return to the top flight. It was left to a man who might have been featuring in the Champions Trophy, Ian Blackwell, to apply the coup de grace, picking up 7 for 90.

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Middlesex 135 and 285 for 5 (Shah 108, Weekes 50*) beat Sussex 277 and 141 by five wickets
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Kent 414 for 8 dec and 318 for 5 dec (Smith 156) beat Northamptonshire 151 and 387 (Cook 114, Sales 92) by 194 runs at Canterbury
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Day 1 report: Key century leads Kent run-feast – The Times

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Somerset 654 for 8 dec (Cox 250, Wood 113, Hildreth 108) and 1 for 0 beat Nottinghamshire 337 and 317 (Bicknell 142, Blackwell 7-90) by 10 wickets at Trent Bridge
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Day 1 report: Ealham keeps Notts on course – The Times

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The post-match pitch invasion at Old Trafford at the end of the first NatWest Challenge game is likely to prompt the England & Wales Cricket Board to call on the government to pass special legislation to combat the problem.Several hundred spectators ran onto the ground at the end of the game waving flags and banners, with the stewards left as helpless bystanders.”We’ll be looking at the legal situation with the Home Office in the very near future,” confirmed David Clark, the Corporate Communications and Events Manager at the England and Wales Cricket Board. “Two years ago they told us to use the legislation which covered aggravated trespass, which they believed would do the job, but there is clearly confusion with every Police Authority we work with. There’s also confusion among the Crown Prosecution Service as to whether that legislation is appropriate. It’s clear from the experience we’ve had so far that it’s not appropriate.”The government has so far refused to introduce legislation designed to prevent invasions of this kind, leaving ground authorities and the police only able to invoke minor sanctions against offenders.Clark was, however, keen to stress that the invasion at the end of the game should not hide the progress that has been made with crowd control. “We’ve not had any problems for two years, we’ve successfully changed the culture and people have stayed in their seats and stayed off the outfield.” But he added: “This was a real test for cricket to see how far it had come in two years and it’s a huge disappointment that we haven’t been successful here in enabling the game to finish in an orderly way with the players and match officials leaving the field in a safe and secure manner.”Jim Cumbes, Lancashire’s chief executive, was disappointed at the scenes, especially as he had arranged extra security aimed at preventing any invasion. “If they have a will to get on, you just can’t stop them,” he admitted. “It was high spirits, but you always get concerned that there’s someone among them who acts with malice. We would have had to have had literally hundreds of stewards or the police to keep them off.”

Not even a sparkling 92 off 103 balls from Nicky Peng could stopGlamorgan stealing Durham’s place at the top of the Norwich Union League Division two at a sun-drenched Sophia Gardens.Set 251 to win Durham were going well while Peng, 19 next month, was in the middle.And even when Peng went eight short of a century skipper Jon Lewis andJames Daley still gave Durham half a chance of victory despite some accurate spin bowling from Robert Croft and Dean Cosker.But at 206 in the 40th over needing a further 45 for victory the Durham innings started to subside as they lost their last six wickets for just 20 to give Glamorgan their ninth victory of the summer.Glamorgan, who eventually won by 24 runs, were indebted to their former captain Matthew Maynard who produced a 60-ball half-century on the way to setting Durham a testing total.After winning the toss Glamorgan made a lightning start through KeithNewell and Ian Thomas, who helped their side to 73-0 after just nine overs.But Glamorgan found themselves reduced to 82-3 by the 13th over, with the loss of Newell, Thomas and Robert Croft, before Maynard and JimmyMaher batted sensibly putting on 71 in 13 overs, as some inconsistentDurham bowling failed to contain the second-placed side.Maher played on to Graeme Bridge and then Mike Powell holed out to long off but not before he had dispatched a free hit from a no ball by Paul Collingwood to the back of the stand at the River Taff end.Maynard’s innings ended when he was well caught by Andy Pratt standing up to Collingwood.But a 45-run partnership between skipper Adrian Dale and Darren Thomas ensured Durham would have to display their qualities as leaders to knock off the runs at 5.58 an over.

Jhulan Goswami has become the fourth woman to reach 100 wickets in one-dayers after she took 2 for 25 against Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup. She is only the second Indian woman, after Neetu David, also playing the Asia Cup, to reach the landmark.No. 100 came when she had Deepika Rasangika caught off the penultimate ball of innings.Last year she won the ICC Women’s Player of the Year, beating stiff competition offered by Australia’s Lisa Stahlekar and England’s Claire Taylor.In her first three years, from 2002, Goswami took only 38 wickets. Between 2005 and 2008, she picked up 62 wickets at a phenomenal average of 19. While it took her 82 matches to reach the landmark, Cathryn Fitzpatrick and David, got to theirs in under 65 games.Before the start of the Asia Cup, Goswami said there were a lot of expectations from her to reach 100 wickets in Sri Lanka. “Back home people are watching me quite carefully because every match they expect five wickets which is not easy, she said. “I want to enjoy my game and play my best cricket. “It is great times for women’s cricket. So many things are happening at the moment and things are changing day by day which is good.”Her captain Mithali Raj was happy to have two bowlers with 100 wickets each in her side. “Now we want our other bowlers to get to this landmark as well – Amita Sharma and Rumeli Dhar,” she told Cricinfo.India and Sri Lanka have qualified for the final of the Asia Cup, scheduled for Saturday in Kurunegala.

It was a sense of deja vu as Devon Conway and Tom Latham seemingly batted West Indies out of the match for the second time in four days’ space. But the visiting openers Brandon King and John Campbell once again put on a defiant stand, taking them to stumps without any damage done and 419 runs away from their target.Conway and Latham, who added 323 runs for the first wicket in the first innings, racked up centuries again as they put on a 192-run opening stand in New Zealand’s second dig, helping them set West Indies 462 on a testing pitch with uneven bounce.Conway and Latham scored their second centuries of the match, becoming the first pair of openers to score twin tons in the same game in all first-class cricket. Their efforts, along with a 72-run partnership off just 37 balls between Kane Williamson and Rachin Ravindra helped New Zealand extend their dominance, after taking a 155-run first-inning lead earlier in the day by bowling out West Indies for 420.Kavem Hodge, who finished unbeaten on his career-best 123, provided the only two breakthroughs in New Zealand’s second innings, removing the prolific openers thanks to some terrific catching by Jayden Seales in the deep.Tom Latham scored twin centuries in the Test•MB Media/Getty Images

The pitch had deceptive bounce. Where a shooter from Hodge kept so low to Latham that it nearly bounced twice before reaching him, a length ball from Jacob Duffy also reared up on Anderson Phillip to take the shoulder of his blade for the first wicket of the day. The very next ball, a bouncer stayed much lower to crash into Shai Hope’s abdomen – not making matters any better for him after he missed the last two days’ play with food poisoning.The day started off with Duffy removing Phillip and Hope in his first two overs. While Phillip was done in by extra bounce, Hope tried to pull away a proper short ball and top edged it to long leg. But like Phillip, Seales put in a solid rearguard effort to extend West Indies’ resistance.However, Hodge chose to let the tailenders face a large chunk of the bowling. Of the 69 balls Hodge and Seales faced for their 29-run partnership, Seales faced 53. When Ajaz Patel had Seales bowled with a slider, Hodge took a single off the first ball of the next over and Michael Rae had Kemar Roach nicking off next ball to end West Indies’ innings.Roach had walked off injured on the first day and didn’t bowl on the second day. He didn’t bowl during New Zealand’s second innings either.With the awkward bounce even more pronounced when the ball was hard and new, Conway and Latham had to start off watchfully, with Seales looking especially menacing. Conway picked up the first boundary with a glorious cover drive, and soon he started driving through the off side more regularly.The first NZ batter to score a double ton and a century in the same Test, Devon Conway•AFP/Getty Images

While Latham was happy to hang around, Conway took charge of the scoring. If Conway scored through off against the quicks, he used his feet against Roston Chase’s offspin launch him over the leg side. It took him just 63 deliveries to bring up his half-century.Latham soon shifted gears after ambling to 18 off 52 deliveries. His only boundary until then came off an under-edge that went through Tevin Imlach’s legs, but he hit Chase for back-to-back boundaries to start the 21st over. Latham used the sweep to good effect, but also made good use of his feet.When Seales returned to the attack, Latham drove him through the covers first ball before a pick-up pull over fine leg for a six. He then pulled a Glenn Phillips long hop to the long-leg boundary to bring up his half-century off 77 balls.There was a 49-ball period without a boundary after that, during which Conway became the first New Zealand batter to follow up a double-century with a century in the same Test. In the final over before tea, Latham went 6, 4, 4 against Phillips, which included a no-ball, in an 18-run over.The first over after tea brought West Indies some respite as Conway didn’t get enough distance when he tried to launch Hodge over midwicket. Seales ran to his left, grabbing the ball above his head before tossing it in the air and catching it again after crossing the boundary rope and jumping back in.Latham then found the boundary a couple more times en route to a 16th Test century before miscuing a hoick off Hodge that Seales had to dive to catch at deep midwicket.It was an odd day for Williamson. Usually elegant and composed, he kept getting himself into a tangle, especially as he tried to play the reverse-sweep with great abandon. He was getting in position for that shot so early, that on multiple occasions he ended up playing vertical drives down the ground as a left-hander when the bowlers saw him shape up for the reverse and pitched the ball full.Kane Williamson played an innings full of reverse sweeps•Getty Images

Even when he was trying to slog it away or skip down the ground, he was struggling to get any rhythm, but managed to keep the scoreboard ticking. He managed one six and two fours, his only boundaries in a quick knock of 40 off 37 balls.Rachin, meanwhile, found it easier to take on Chase and Hodge, consistently lofting them in the region between midwicket and long-off.King and Campbell had put on 111 in the first innings, and the duo once again gave West Indies team a platform to build on. Even though there is a long time to go in the game, that West Indies will begin the fifth day with all 10 wickets in hand will give them a big boost.Campbell started out watchfully, while King was more enterprising against the new ball. By the time Campbell got off the mark off the 21st ball he faced, King had raced to 35 off 27 with a handful of drives on the off side.However, as the ball got softer and New Zealand switched to spin, even King reined in his instincts and along with Campbell, played the session out, setting up a fifth day where the game could go any way.