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Robinson takes seven wickets for the match, Overton six after Lions batsmen set course with strong first innings

ESPNcricinfo staff25-Feb-2020Ollie Robinson and Craig Overton bowled England Lions to their maiden victory over Australia A, a nine-wicket win in their four-day match at the MCG.Early rain threatened to derail the Lions’ march to victory, with the hosts trailing England’s first-innings total by 72 overnight with five wickets in hand. Kurtis Patterson and Jack Wildermuth resumed, moving their partnership to 67 before Wildermuth fell to Overton for 37.Patterson batted through with the tail, adding 44 more to the total to ensure the Lions needed to bat again and finishing unbeaten on 94 when the final wicket fell – that of Mitchell Swepson for three – with the Lions needing 20 runs to win.Robinson and Overton finished with four wickets apiece for the innings, giving Robinson seven for the match and Overton six.The English side’s chase wasn’t straightforward. They lost first-innings centurion Dom Sibley to Jackson Bird in the third over for three, but Zak Crawley and Keaton Jennings sealed victory five overs later.Lions Head Coach Richard Dawson was impressed by his side’s competitiveness throughout every session. “Once we got ahead of the game and posted that first-innings total, we held the ascendancy,” Dawson said. “We kept it really basic, breaking things down to keep it simple and the effort within the squad was high class.”The fast bowlers were made to work really hard, having asked the Aussies to follow on, but they’ve put in the work on their fitness to be able to achieve that.”It is the first time an England Lions or England ‘A’ team has beaten Australia A either home or away, with four losses, two draws and an abandonment in the seven previous encounters between the two sides.The Lions will look to finish their tour of Australia unbeaten, with their final four-day match against a New South Wales XI starting on March 2. With Sibley, Crawley, Jennings and Dom Bess departing to join the England team for a two-Test tour of Sri Lanka, the match in Wollongong will give several players in the squad the chance to gain match experience.

The Zimbabwe allrounder says he and the team are still in anguish over the three-run loss against UAE at home that ended their World Cup dreams

Liam Brickhill07-Oct-2018Zimbabwe have lost eight ODIs and four T20Is on the trot since their World Cup dreams ended in anguish with a three-run defeat to UAE at home in March. After their latest defeat – the ODI series loss against South Africa – allrounder Sean Williams admitted that both he and the team are still haunted by their rain-affected failure in the World Cup Qualifiers.”It is very difficult,” Williams said. “That game against UAE still haunts all of us, the guys who played in that game.” Williams, along with Brendan Taylor, Craig Ervine, Graeme Cremer and Sikandar Raza, fell out with the board in the aftermath of that tournament, missing the disastrous 0-5 defeat to Pakistan in July.With fences since mended, three of the missing players have now returned and Zimbabwe have had a few chances to bury the ghosts of that game in their latest series. But, just as they did in that game, they have continued to let strong positions slip.”It doesn’t feel good to lose a match, or lose a series,” Williams said. “Losing the series hurts more than losing this match, but losing this match today takes a lot of pride away from us, and I feel there was a lot of pride to play for in this match [even] after losing the series. After giving ourselves good chances to win the previous two games, we let that slip. Today, on a better wicket to bat on, the top six didn’t take advantage. A lot to learn. A tough series for us, and a hurtful one.”After scores of 4 and 9 in the first two ODIs against South Africa, Williams was finally back in the runs as he struck 10 fours to top score with 69 in the third match. “[This innings] was extremely important for me,” he said. “The last time I scored runs was against UAE, it was an 80. I failed to get to a 100 and I failed to cross the line for the team. It hurt, it really did hurt me. Batting on these next two wickets [in the first two South Africa ODIs] was extremely difficult, but I knew I was one knock away from finding my form again.”Williams added 73 for the fourth wicket with Brendan Taylor, who also showed glimpses of his best before was dismissed. “The over before he got out, we had actually just spoken and said ‘right, we’re one step closer to a target’. And it wasn’t three balls later that happened. Cricket’s a funny game. We had big plans, the two of us. We always seem to bat well together, when we give ourselves a chance.”With the series now switching to the T20 format, Williams and Taylor will continue to play a vital role in the middle order. The first T20I will be played in East London on Tuesday night, and Williams reckons Zimbabwe have nothing left to lose.”We’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain,” he said. “As far as I see it, [in the T20s] like a boxer, if you get hit first, you’re going to lose the game. It’s going to be up to us to land the first punch in the T20s and give it everything.”

Paraag Marathe is the highest-profile appointee, having been with the NFL’s San Francisco franchise since 2001

Peter Della Penna01-Sep-2018San Francisco 49ers executive vice president of football operations Paraag Marathe, one of the highest-ranked Indian American officials in the big four American pro-sports leagues, has been named as one of the inaugural three independent directors to round out the ten-person board of directors for USA Cricket. Marathe was added to the board along with Catherine Carlson of the NBA’s Orlando Magic and Rohan Sajdeh, a senior partner and managing director of Boston Consulting Group (BCG).Marathe is the highest-profile appointee on the inaugural USA Cricket board, having been with the NFL’s San Francisco franchise since 2001. He also serves on the board of directors for Leeds United, currently in the English football championship. He is a graduate of the University of California-Berkeley and obtained an MBA from Stanford University.”I am looking forward to this unique and exciting challenge,” Marathe said in a USA Cricket press release. “I believe the United States has the potential to be a major player in international cricket and we can inspire this country to fall in love with this great game. This is an incredibly talented and passionate board of directors and I am looking forward to working with them so that this major international sport can achieve its potential here in the United States.”Carlson, an Australian native, is a senior vice president of corporate partnerships with the NBA’s Magic, where she has worked since 2009. Prior to her role with the Magic, Carlson worked from 1998 through 2009 at the Disney Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando.Carlson’s initial brush with the US cricket came in her time with Disney when she was involved in a proposal, called Project USA, between the ICC and the USA Cricket Association. The plan called for a cricket stadium to be built at the Wide World of Sports Complex where neutral site matches would be staged with the anticipated revenue funnelled to cricket developments in America. The proposal collapsed in 2005 amid administrative turmoil with USACA not long before the first of three suspensions leading to their eventual expulsion in 2017.Sajdeh, an Australian of Indian origin, played first-class cricket for Cambridge University in the UK before moving on to Northwestern University in Chicago where he completed his MBA at the Kellogg School of Management. He is familiar to ICC administrators, having been involved in the design of the ICC Test Championship model in his work with BCG. Like Sajdeh, fellow USA Cricket board member Usman Shuja is a graduate of Northwestern’s KSOM MBA program and was a former colleague of Sajdeh at BCG.The three independent directors were confirmed following a process that included 61 applicants who were reviewed by the USA Cricket’s nominating and governance committee. The four-person committee, which included the ICC chief executive David Richardson, narrowed down the field to six finalists who were interviewed in mid-August before the three independent directors were chosen.”USA Cricket now has a governance structure and a high calibre board that we believe positions the organisation well to achieve its enormous potential,” Richardson said. “A successful US cricket administration is great for world cricket and we are delighted with the quality of board candidates who have been selected from an incredibly impressive field and we think the global game will benefit from their expertise.”The three independent directors join the seven constituent directors who were elected in early August. The full ten-person board will have their inaugural meeting later in September where the chairman of the board will be chosen from one of the three independent directors. Once the role is finalised, USA Cricket will put forward their formal application to be recognised as the ICC’s member governing body in the USA to fill the void left by the expelled USACA.

Haseeb Hameed responded to a century from Australia Under-19’s Caleb Jewell with an unbeaten half-century of his own to guide England to a comfortable draw in the Youth Test at Chester-le-Street

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ScorecardMatthew Parkinson finished with nine wickets in the match•Getty Images

Haseeb Hameed, the Lancashire batsman, responded to a century from Australia Under-19’s Caleb Jewell with an unbeaten half-century of his own to guide England to a comfortable draw in the Youth Test at Chester-le-Street.The two teams shook hands mid-way through the evening session after Jewell’s innings had left the hosts needing 308 in 47 overs, a prospect that was never seriously considered.Max Holden fell early to David Grant for 2 but thereafter England were not seriously troubled, with Tom Alsop following his first-innings 66 with 39 from 49 balls in a second-wicket stand of 63.Hameed, who struck 11 fours in his 92-run innings, enjoyed productive stands with Dan Lawrence and Callum Taylor, both of whom avoided pairs to make 27 and 34 not out respectively.Earlier, Australia built steadily on their overnight 91 for 3, adding a further 161 runs in 47.1 overs with Jewell resuming on 38 not out. He added 132 for the fourth wicket with his captain, Jake Doran, who made 76, with Matthew Parkinson and Ben Green sharing three wickets each. Parkinson, the legspinner, finished an impressive match with overall figures of 9 for 222.The five-match one-day series gets underway at Gosforth on Tuesday.

MS Dhoni, Virender Sehwag’s captain in 35 of his 99 Tests, has hailed Sehwag’s positive outlook as his biggest asset

Sidharth Monga22-Nov-2012MS Dhoni, who has captained Virender Sehwag in 35 of his 99 Tests, hailed Sehwag’s positive outlook as his biggest asset. A day before Sehwag plays his 100th Test (including one for the ICC World XI), against England at the Wankhede Stadium, Dhoni said it was not easy to do justice to his team-mate’s impact by sitting and talking.”When it comes to Viru, you need a bit more time to understand him,” Dhoni said. “It is not easy to sit here and say a few lines on how effective he is. All those who have shared the dressing room with him realise that his mindset is very different. He is very positive and bats with instinct. It doesn’t matter if the wicket is turning or seaming. He only looks to score runs.”His mindset is so different that it doesn’t really matter whether he is in form or not. He just keeps thinking positive. He has been working a lot on his batting, but his approach remains the same. It is the mindset that really helps you get back into the game.”Dhoni also spoke about the huge move Sehwag made from middle order to the top of the order when there were few vacancies in the middle. “If you see, the crucial decision of his career was when he decided that he will open the innings,” Dhoni said. “It was a big challenge for him and he accepted it. He has the best statistics.”He is someone who is very different for everyone else. He has got a very important role from the start because he’s someone who can play his shots from the very first delivery. He looks to put pressure on the bowler. It certainly becomes a bit difficult for the bowler to get back into the game. Of course, not to forget the experience he has got in all the formats. And, also the fact that he can get a few wickets as well. We haven’t been using him much, though.”

Chris Gayle and WICB chief Ernest Hilaire have met in an attempt to resolve issues that are keeping the opener out of international cricket

ESPNcricinfo staff25-Aug-2011Chris Gayle, the West Indies batsman, and WICB chief Ernest Hilaire have held a one-on-one meeting in an attempt to resolve issues that are keeping the opener out of international cricket. Though there was no major breakthrough in the hour-long discussion at the WICB head office in Antigua on Tuesday, it was still a step forward from the acrimonious meeting in June that worsened relations between the two sides.Hilaire, the board CEO, was cautious when asked about how the meeting went. “We took a decision yesterday not to discuss the matter that is currently in front of us while it is still unresolved,” Hilaire told . “What I can tell you is that we had a frank and excellent discussion.”Relations between Gayle and the board reached breaking point after he gave an interview in April to a radio station during which he was scathing about both the board and coach Ottis Gibson.The Gayle-WICB standoff was sparked off when Gibson criticised senior batsmen following the team’s quarter-final exit at the World Cup. Gayle was subsequently ignored for the home series against Pakistan, after which he travelled to India to participate in the IPL – where he was the player of the tournament – while the WICB were under the impression he was undergoing rehabilitation.The heated meeting in June with West Indies Players’ Association representatives present didn’t resolve the problem, and Gayle released an emotional public statement in July explaining his stance. The CARICOM heads of government have also given a commitment to mediate in the dispute.

If Pakistan are a confidence team, their Twenty20 efforts over the past two days augur well for next week’s first Test. A day after Pakistan ended their 12-match losing stretch against Australia across all formats, Mohammad Aamer helped them begin their o

The Bulletin by Brydon Coverdale at Edgbaston06-Jul-2010
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsKamran Akmal gave Pakistan a good start, and they kicked on from there•PA Photos

If Pakistan are a confidence team, their Twenty20 efforts over the past two days augur well for next week’s first Test. A day after they ended their 12-match losing stretch against Australia across all formats, Mohammad Aamer helped them begin their own winning streak with an 11-run victory that brought 2-0 series triumph. Tests are a very different story, but their Twenty20 form has given the group a spark.There was a distinct sense of déjà vu after Monday’s game; again there was a big crowd of Pakistan fans, again Pakistan scored around the 160 mark and again Australia’s batsmen were tied down and couldn’t lift their tempo for a successful chase. The last pair was left needing 19 from the final over and despite a six from Dirk Nannes, they came up short.Aamer made important late runs and then removed Australia’s openers, but Pakistan had useful contributions from all their key men. Shahid Afridi made a quick 18 and grabbed two wickets, Kamran Akmal, Salman Butt and Umar Akmal all chipped in at the top of the order, and Shoaib Akhtar and Saeed Ajmal were hard to get away.The Rawalpindi Express was out of steam on Monday but had gained momentum 24 hours later. Akhtar has been driving around Birmingham in a red Ferrari over the past few days and perhaps the speedy number inspired him, for he was comfortably the quickest bowler in the match and hovered around 95mph.A couple of sizzling bouncers whizzed past the faces of Australian batsmen but the only man to fall to Akhtar was Tim Paine, who skewed an ugly swipe to mid-off. Akhtar had begun by conceding a pair of fours in his opening over as Michael Clarke showed the sort of Twenty20 form he has not displayed in recent times.Australia had rested Shane Watson, so Clarke took it upon himself to open the innings, finding the gaps and clearing the infield several times with well-judged chips and drives. Clarke had motored to 30 from 17 deliveries when he played on to Aamer, and the bowler was so pumped at his success that in his follow through he leapt in celebration and crashed into the departing Clarke.Aamer immediately apologised and the men exchanged a friendly pat on the arm, but Clarke was frustrated with himself for failing to push on. It was Aamer’s second wicket – he had already trapped David Warner lbw for 1 – and he went on to finish with 3 for 27. James Hopes (30) and David Hussey (33) worked the ball around through the middle overs but boundaries were few and far between, and too much work was left too late.Australia had set themselves a task by allowing Pakistan to reach almost the same score as won them the game on Monday. A late 20 not out from Aamer was especially valuable and included a pair of sixes off the debutant spinner Steve O’Keefe and David Hussey. The spinners bowled well, and O’Keefe finished with 3 for 29, which was an impressive return for a man who hadn’t played a Twenty20 for his state for nearly 18 months.Afridi and Umar Akmal provided a key partnership for Pakistan; their 30-run stand included one monstrous six from Afridi, who slapped Shaun Tait straight back over the bowler’s head. The ball cleared the construction area, put a cameraman at risk, and exited the stadium to the roars of the Pakistan fans.Nannes (3 for 30) collected them both in consecutive balls in the 17th over, Umar (25) caught and bowled when his top edge flew so high that almost any member of the infield could have run in and claimed it, and Afridi caught behind for 18. Already, Butt and Kamran Akmal had given them a strong start with a 61-run combination.The left-arm spinner O’Keefe struck in his first over when Butt top-edged a sweep and was caught at short fine leg for 31. Kamran followed soon afterwards for 33 when he skied a pull off Mitchell Johnson and was caught by Clarke running back at midwicket. O’Keefe had helped give Australia a way into the middle order, but they couldn’t make it count.If Pakistan were surprised by the selection of O’Keefe, they must have been even more taken aback at Clarke’s choice of opening bowler. David Hussey sent down the first over – the first time Australia had opened with a spinner in a Twenty20 international – and it was a success, a wicket-maiden that included Shahzaib Hasan lbw trying to slog-sweep.The day began in triumph for Australia; it ended in jubilation for Pakistan. It has also set the scene for a fascinating Test series.