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Hamish Rutherford’s century and Wayne Madsen’s unbeaten 79 denied Glamorgan a record-breaking fifth consecutive victory

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ScorecardWayne Madsen passed 6,000 Championship runs on the way to his 79*•Getty Images

Glamorgan’s bid to make history was ended by Hamish Rutherford’s first century for Derbyshire which guided his team to a draw in the LV= County Championship Division Two match at Chesterfield.The visitors were chasing a fifth consecutive championship victory for the first time but Rutherford batted for more than five hours to score 108 and captain Wayne Madsen was unbeaten on 79 when Derbyshire declared 123 runs ahead on 281 for 3 shortly before 5pm.Andrew Salter had struck twice with his off-spin before lunch to raise Glamorgan’s hopes but Rutherford and Madsen stayed together for more than 43 overs to add 132 and save the game.Derbyshire had trailed by 121 runs at the start of the day and still had a lot of batting to do when Salter removed Billy Godleman and Chesney Hughes in the space of six overs.The off-spinner had found some bounce bowling from the Lake End but Godleman was trapped playing half forward and a quicker ball accounted for Hughes with the home side still 74 runs short of making Glamorgan bat again.Another couple of wickets before lunch would really have opened the door for Glamorgan but instead it was slowly closed by the application of Rutherford and Madsen, who batted past tea to make the game safe.The lift that Salter had occasionally extracted in the morning was absent after lunch, possibly as the sun drew any remaining moisture from the pitch, and there were few alarms for either batsman as Derbyshire moved into credit.Madsen reached 6000 championship runs when he got to 32 and the 100 stand came from 187 balls before Glamorgan’s last chance of victory literally slipped through their hands.Rutherford was on 88 when he edged Colin Ingram to slip where Rudolph juggled but could not hold on and the opener celebrated his reprieve by lofting the next two balls over long on to reach three figures.At tea, Derbyshire were 58 in front and although Rutherford was lbw to David Lloyd second ball after the interval, Madsen and Wes Durston made sure there were no late alarms by adding 65 in 11 overs before the teams shook hands.Glamorgan head coach Toby Radford admitted: “There were clearly better batting conditions, the sun shone all day and the ball got a little bit soft and the wicket flatter so it was hard work but I was pleased with the way we bowled, I don’t think we could have done any more and sometimes you have to give credit to the opposition.”We wanted to try and do something that has never been done by Glamorgan before, four in a row has been done but not five so we were going to give it everything so it’s a little bit frustrating but I’m still delighted that it’s July 9th and we are unbeaten in the championship.”Derbyshire’s elite performance director Graeme Welch said: “We needed to bounce back after we let ourselves down in the previous game against Surrey and we showed great fight with the bat and played some good cricket. We let ourselves down a little bit with the ball so once we get the batting and bowling right together, I think we’ll be alright!”We just asked for some application and fight and desire and that’s exactly what the lads have shown so we’ve just got to kick on now.”

Brendon McCullum has hailed New Zealand’s turnaround after they beat South Africa off the last ball of the match in East London to square the series 1-1 and set up a finale for Boxing Day

ESPNcricinfo staff24-Dec-2012Brendon McCullum has hailed New Zealand’s turnaround after they beat South Africa off the last ball of the match in East London to square the series 1-1 and set up a finale for Boxing Day. New Zealand had been shot out for 86 in the opening game but bounced back, thanks to a century from Martin Guptill, who struck the last ball for four to reach a hundred and seal New Zealand’s victory in their chase.”It is great that the team turned around in 48 hours and a great knock by Martin after being sick a couple of days back,” McCullum said. Our bowlers did well to stop South Africa’s batting line up, but no one expected Martin to play that innings after being sick.”Guptill finished on 101 not out, off 69 balls, including nine fours and six sixes. He was part of two half-century stands, one with fellow opener Rob Nicol and then McCullum. “That’s the mindset I took in today, I just wanted to get in and have a feel for the wicket,” Guptill said. “With the batting we’ve got down the order, we had to build a platform early and with wickets in hand, we could attack from anywhere.”Left-arm spinner Aaron Phangiso, on T20 debut, was targeted by New Zealand’s batsmen; he conceded 42 in four overs. “It’s the first time I’ve actually swept the ball in international cricket, never really played spin that well,” Guptill said. “We wanted to put a bit of pressure on him, it’s his first game, and make him show his skills.””One guy played a sublime knock, the guys around him played some smart cricket as well. Nicol’s hand today was good,” McCullum said. “We want to play an aggressive brand of cricket, but the other day highlighted the areas we need to fine-tune a little bit.”Faf du Plessis, the South Africa captain, rued the catches that went down in New Zealand’s chase but was all praise for Guptill. “We scored enough with the bat. But it was an unbelievable hundred by Guptill. For me it is about learning, and today it was a steep learning curve. We didn’t play a bad game, we were just outplayed by a great innings.”

Seventeen wickets fell on the opening day at the Beausejour Stadium in St Lucia, with Bangladesh A emerging from the carnage with the upper hand over West Indies A

ESPNcricinfo staff13-Nov-2011
ScorecardSeventeen wickets fell on the opening day at the Beausejour Stadium in St Lucia, with Bangladesh A emerging from the carnage with the upper hand over West Indies A. The hosts chose to bowl first and despite two early wickets, Bangladesh A had progressed to 51 for 2 before trouble started. Andre Russell and Nelon Pascal ripped out the heart of the Bangladesh order, as the hosts lost 6 wickets for 28 runs. At 79 for 8, it looked like the visitors would not reach three figures, but Farhad Reza and Sohag Gazi staged a rearguard action, adding 61 for the ninth wicket, before Gazi fell to Sunil Narine for 30. Reza ended up unbeaten on 39, while Russell and Pascal took four wickets apiece.West Indies A struggled even more in their reply, with only opener Rajindra Chandrika reaching double figures, as seven other batsmen returned to the pavilion over the course of 35 overs. Farhad Reza and Suhrawadi Shuvo took three wickets each as the hosts were reduced to 60 for 7 before ending the day on 72 for 7. Chandrika was still there on 30, with Narine on 7 for company.

The BCCI’s deadline asking the franchise owners to register themselves as a company is only a week away but instead of sorting out the ownership wrangle, Kochi’s owners have entangled themselves in fresh problems

Nagraj Gollapudi15-Oct-2010Time is running out on Kochi, the most faction-ridden of all IPL franchises. The BCCI’s deadline asking the franchise owners to register themselves as a company is only a week away but instead of sorting out the ownership wrangle, Kochi’s owners have entangled themselves in fresh problems.Rendezvous Sports, led by Satyajitsinh Gaekwad, has made a fresh offer to buy the whole 25% of free equity, granted to them ‘for life’ when the franchise was set up earlier in the year. There has been no response to the offer in three weeks and an official involved in the discussions said, “Both factions have failed to resolve the dispute.”The biggest investors of the consortium, Mehul Shah of the Anchor group (26% ownership), had earlier offered Gaekwad and the other Rendezvous co-owners payment of 10% of the free equity in cash to exit the consortium.”They [Rendezvous] have made a fresh offer and are waiting for a response,” said one
of the Kochi officials involved in the emergency meetings.After an emergency IPL governing council meeting last Sunday, the BCCI served a show-cause notice to Kochi, giving the franchise 10 days to resolve the internal disputes which, Manohar said, had split the five-partner consortium into two groups. In the same meeting, the BCCI also terminated the contracts of Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab over their ownership patterns, thus indicating to Kochi that the consequences of inaction were severe.Rendezvous’ argument is that they took a risk in deciding to incur all the costs leading up to the bid until they won it, a proposal agreed to by the other investors in exchange of 25% of free equity. According to a Kochi insider, Rendezvous got the equity in consideration other than cash. “This was offered as per the unincorporated joint venture agreement made before the bid for Kochi,” he said, “with the responsibility to manage all the processes including outsourcing to win the bid.”It was Gaekwad who put up all of the Rs 4 crore (US$ 905,000) initial investment till the bid was won, the source said. “If they [Kochi] had lost the bid, the money would have been lost.” The terms of the sweat equity were offered in exchange of Gaekwad’s “intangible services” in the run-up to the bid along with the risk of losing Rs 4 crores.The other faction in the franchise, led by Anchor’s Shah, is against both the involvement of Rendezvous and the appointment of Gaekwad as CEO. The Kochi source revealed that the Shah group are offering Rendezvous 10% of the equity as an exit payment from the consortium. Rendezvous, however, had remained adamant: “Their latest offer is that they are willing to invest 100% of the free equity to save Kochi from falling apart.” This is an increase from Rendezvous’ initial offer of investing 15% of the equity to end the feud.The Kochi franchise has been controversial from its very inception in March. Rendezvous Sports World, a consortium of five companies, became the tenth IPL franchise after a successful bid of US$333.33m but almost immediately ran into trouble over the composition of its ownership, after the discovery of a few “secret partners” in the consortium. A new agreement was then signed by both the parties but fresh controversy broke when Lalit Modi, the then IPL chairman, made the ownership details public on his Twitter feed.Even then Modi had categorically questioned the 25% “free equity” granted to Rendezvous Sports. “25% of Kochi team is given free to Rendezvous sports for life. The same equity is non-dilutable in perpetuity. What does that mean?” Modi had asked. Kochi can either solve its problems within a week or face an even more troubled future.

Australia appealed but umpires signalled ball was dead after it briefly became lodged behind pad flap

Andrew Miller12-Jun-20251:26

Bedingham: ‘Way I picked up the ball came across dodgy’

South Africa’s David Bedingham admitted he had “panicked big time” during a handled-the-ball incident on the second afternoon of the World Test Championship final at Lord’s, one that briefly threatened to thrust Australia’s wicketkeeper Alex Carey into another spirit of cricket rumpus.Two years on from his contentious stumping of Jonny Bairstow during the second Ashes Test at Lord’s, Carey was once again at the centre of an unusual Australian appeal, as Bedingham – on 31 at the time, and in the final over before the lunch break – played off the back foot to Beau Webster, and inside-edged the ball into his pad-flap.Although the on-field umpires, Richard Illingworth and Chris Gaffaney, subsequently called the ball dead, Bedingham’s continued movements had briefly threatened to dislodge it from his pad-flap. With Carey swooping round from behind the stumps in a bid to gather it before it hit the turf, Bedingham responded by reaching down to his knee, and throwing the ball to the ground.Related

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“Yeah, I think I panicked big time,” Bedingham said at the close. “Because Carey was standing up, he was quite close. The umpires said, regardless, it was dead ball. But I think the way I picked up the ball and dropped it came across a bit dodgy.”Pat Cummins, Australia’s captain, played down the moment in his post-match press conference, but acknowledged that he would likely have withdrawn the appeal had the umpires not signalled dead ball. Notably, he chose not to do this two years ago against England, when Carey capitalised on Bairstow’s habit of walking out of his crease after each delivery to throw down his stumps with an opportunistic under-arm shy.”I’m just glad they withdrew the appeal, because there [would be] more controversy and that type of stuff,” Bedingham said. “I’m glad nothing happened out of it, really. The slip cordon just told me, ‘don’t panic, just leave it…’ but in the moment, I think I panicked big-time.”The Bairstow dismissal caused a huge row, with Australia’s fielders coming in for abuse from MCC members within the Long Room as they left the field at the end of the session, and England’s captain Ben Stokes subsequently stating that he wouldn’t want to win a game in such a manner after Australia sealed a 43-run win later that afternoon.David Bedingham drops the ball from his pad just as Alex Carey comes forward to catch it•Getty Images

However, that moment, as with this latest incident, clearly fell within the remit of the laws of the game.According to Fraser Stewart, MCC’s head of cricket and the former laws manager, the eventual decision was “right for the game”, even if a strict interpretation of the Law 20.1.1 – which pertains to dead balls – might argue that the ball hadn’t been completely stationary at the moment of Bedingham’s intervention.According to the relevant laws, a ball becomes dead when: In a 2001 Test in Ahmedabad, England’s Michael Vaughan was given out handling the ball after placing his hand on the ball after it had already hit the turf, seemingly to prevent it from rolling back onto his stumps.Vaughan is the last of seven batters to be given out handled the ball in a Test match, because since 2017, that mode of dismissal has been subsumed into obstructing the field. In 2023-24, Bangladesh’s Mushfiqur Rahim fell in that manner after handling the ball against New Zealand in Mirpur.

Wicketkeeper had been picked in ODI squad for series against England but selectors will not name a replacement

ESPNcricinfo staff30-Nov-2023West Indies wicketkeeper-batter Shane Dowrich has retired from international cricket with immediate effect. This means the 32-year-old, who was originally picked for West Indies’ upcoming home ODIs against England, has withdrawn from the squad. The CWI selection panel will not name a replacement for Dowrich for the three-match series, which begins on Sunday in Antigua.Dowrich, whose sole previous ODI cap came against Bangladesh in 2019, had earned a recall on a back of strong returns in the Super50 Cup: 234 runs in five innings at an average of 78 and strike rate of 91.76. In the absence of Dowrich, Shai Hope will have to juggle captaincy and keeping, with Nicholas Pooran currently unavailable for selection for ODIs.Related

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Dowrich was a more regular presence for West Indies in Test cricket, playing 35 matches from June 2015 to December 2020. He scored 1570 runs, including three centuries, and effected 90 dismissals. His career-best 125 not out fashioned a 226-run victory for West Indies against Sri Lanka in Port-of-Spain in June 2018. Then, in January 2019, Dowrich made an unbeaten 116 in an unbroken 295-run seventh-wicket stand with Jason Holder to help West Indies topple England in Bridgetown.Miles Bascombe, CWI’s Director of Cricket, paid tribute to Dowrich. “We want to thank Shane for contribution when he played for West Indies,” he said. “He is a disciplined, hard-working cricketer who always gave his utmost in front and behind the stumps. He had a memorable series in 2019 when he made an outstanding Test century on home soil in Barbados to help us beat England and win the Wisden Trophy. We respect his decision to retire and appreciate it is not an easy one to make. We wish him all the best as he steps away from the international stage.”West Indies ODI squad to face England: Shai Hope (capt, wk), Alzarri Joseph (vice-capt), Alick Athanaze, Yannic Cariah, Keacy Carty, Roston Chase, Matthew Forde, Shimron Hetmyer, Brandon King, Gudakesh Motie, Kjorn Ottley, Sherfane Rutherford, Romario Shepherd, Oshane Thomas

19-year-old has impressed in 50-over cricket after committing to the Royal London Cup

ECB Reporters Network29-Aug-2022Tom Prest put his personal development over the glitz and glamour of the Hundred and the decision has already paid dividends for him and Hampshire.Prest didn’t put his name in the hat for the Hundred draft earlier this year despite his stock being sky-high after an impressive breakthrough 2021 and his exploits captaining England to the Under-19 World Cup final during the winter.Rehan Ahmed and Jacob Bethell, two of his team-mates from that tournament, both picked up lucrative Hundred contracts, suggesting Prest would have stood a good chance of a deal.Related

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Instead of risking a month of carrying drinks and sitting on the periphery, the 19-year-old committed himself to Hampshire’s Royal London Cup campaign. It has seen him score 402 runs, including a blistering 181 against Kent, to lead Hampshire’s run-scoring on their march to the semi-finals.”I felt, being 19, that there is a lot of time,” said Prest when explaining his rationale for leaving himself out the Hundred and the potential for at least a £30,000 contract. “I didn’t want to get caught up in all that stuff coming out of the Under-19 World Cup. I just wanted to play for Hampshire as much as I could this year and gain the experience of playing.”There was no guarantee that I would have been picked up, but hypothetically, if I had, then I probably wouldn’t have started in the team. It would be a great experience playing in the Hundred or even being a part of the squad because you can pick so many great players’ and coaches’ brains.”But I just wanted to be playing at the moment and we have done very well as a side. Personally, it has also gone quite well.”It might have been naïve to have turned down a potential opportunity, but if my career goes the way that I want it to, then there should be more opportunities in the future for franchise cricket when I am more ready for them. Hopefully, I’ll also be a better player for it.”Hampshire are pushing hard for the domestic treble•Getty Images

Prest sprung to attention last year when he struck a triple century for the Second XI on the same day he sat his Geography A-Level exam. That summer saw him make his professional debuts in all three formats, but it was during this season’s Vitality Blast where he scored three fifties on course to a winner’s medal that has turned him into a crucial member of Hampshire’s squad.”Having the experience of last year of playing in the T20s and then the 50-over stuff was a great learning experience,” he said. “Coming back into the county season after my winter with England Under-19s has been good and I’ve been really pleased with how it has gone.”To do what I have done this year and get a few good scores has been very good for my confidence. It has been pleasing to give the club something back after putting confidence in me.”Prest has made himself an automatic pick in both white-ball formats but still harbours strong ambitions to be a part of Hampshire’s LV= Insurance County Championship side. The only problem is finding a position in a team which is currently second in Division One.Prest, who can open or bat in the middle order and adds some useful offspin, said: “We have been competing for the Championship this season and so it is obviously going to be one of the hardest teams to get into.”It is a good challenge to get into that team over the next few years. I would be really proud of that and something I am really looking forward to trying to do soon.”Hampshire – who only lost one group stage game – face Kent at the Ageas Bowl on Tuesday and Prest is hoping to pass on his big-game know-how to his less-experienced team-mates.Prest has been involved in two Vitality Blast Finals Days – one semi-final defeat, one victory – as well as being pivotal to getting Hampshire over the line in close games already during the Royal London Cup.Prest captained England at the Under-19 World Cup•ICC via Getty Images

“The two Finals Days I’ve been at couldn’t have gone any different,” said Prest. “Losing in the semi in 2021 and then to win the competition this year means I’ve seen both sides of it and that can only help.”One of the big things said before those Finals Days and the quarter-finals was not to try to do anything extraordinary, just do ordinary things very well. That resonated a lot with me. “We’ve had a lot of close games this summer and that is only going to hold us in good stead for the semi-final and hopefully the final.”It is a great feeling around the club at the moment. We won 13 games on the bounce before losing to Glamorgan but then bounced back to win the last two to top the group.”That kind of shows the good space we are in as a club and how confident everyone is. Everyone talks about how winning becomes a habit and for us that has gone through to three different formats.”

The city is the frontrunner to stage the Games in 11 years and could be confirmed by mid-2021

Reuters and ESPNcricinfo staff20-Apr-2021The Gabba is slated for an A$1 billion (USD777 million) rebuild before hosting the opening and closing ceremonies as part of Brisbane’s bid for the 2032 Olympics, officials said on Tuesday.Queensland state capital Brisbane was named preferred bidder for the 2032 Games in February and could be confirmed as host as early as July.Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the Gabba would likely have its capacity boosted from 42,000 to 50,000 as part of a renovation to cost “around the A$1 billion mark”.”Every games needs a home,” she said in a statement. “The Gabba has been home to our sport since 1895. “A home for the 2032 Olympic Games could be its crowning glory.”Located in Brisbane’s inner-city suburb of Woolloongabba, the refurbished stadium would be linked to a new railway station under construction via a pedestrian plaza.Australia’s defeat against India earlier this year was their first at the Gabba since 1988. The ground will likely host the first Test of the Ashes in December although the schedule is still to be confirmed.Nick Hockley, the interim CEO of Cricket Australia, said: “The Gabba is one of the most important, iconic and historic cricket grounds in Australia and we are delighted that the Queensland Government has agreed to a major redevelopment should Brisbane win the right to host the 2032 Olympic Games.”Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison endorsed Brisbane’s bid last month and told the International Olympic Committee all levels of government in the country were firmly behind it.Palaszczuk said on Monday the bid was still “contingent on guarantees” from the federal government.Though Brisbane is the frontrunner for 2032, South Korea’s Seoul said this month it had sent the IOC a proposal for co-hosting the 2032 Games with North Korea’s capital Pyongyang.The postponed Tokyo Olympics start on July 23. Paris will host the 2024 Games, with Los Angeles hosting the 2028 event.

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Mumbai will be without Ajinkya Rahane, Prithvi Shaw and Shardul Thakur for the quarter-finals because of the ongoing Test series

ESPNcricinfo staff09-Oct-2018Mumbai have received a shot in the arm ahead of the knockouts of the Vijay Hazare Trophy – India’s domestic one-day competition – after Rohit Sharma made himself available for his home side. Mumbai will play their quarter-final next week and Rohit will play for Mumbai until they are alive in the tournament or until he has to join the India ODI squad to face West Indies.Rohit was “very keen” to play for Mumbai last week itself against Maharashtra, chief selector Ajit Agarkar said, but they decided to play him in the quarter-finals as Mumbai had already qualified for the knockouts then. Rohit last played in the Vijay Hazare Trophy in the 2016-17 season, with scores of 16 against Andhra and 4 against Goa. Those were Mumbai’s last two league games that season and they won both but could not make it to the knockouts.This season, they stormed into the knockouts with an unbeaten run in Group A, registering six wins from as many completed matches. They were boosted with the presence of three internationals in their batting line-up – Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer and Prithvi Shaw – even before Rohit joined them. The three batsmen have been among the top four run-scorers for Mumbai, with Rahane scoring 230 runs from three innings, Iyer smashing two centuries in his tally of 311 runs from four innings and Shaw accumulating 287 runs in three innings. While Rahane averaged the highest among them, his strike rate (83.03) was much lower compared to Iyer’s 114.76 and Shaw’s 143.50.Rahane led the side initially, before Iyer took over when Rahane left for the West Indies Tests and Dhawal Kulkarni led them when Iyer played the two-day warm-up before the Test series. Iyer is going to lead them again in the knockouts, despite the presence of Rohit, who led India’s ODI side in the victorious Asia Cup campaign.The quarter-finals begin on October 14, making them clash with the second Test against West Indies, leaving Mumbai without Rahane, Shaw and Shardul Thakur again.