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Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsShakib Al Hasan derailed Dhaka’s chase with four wickets•BCB

Rangpur Riders picked up their second win of the tournament after trouncing Dhaka Dynamites by 69 runs. Lendl Simmons started well with the bat but it was the bowling of Shakib Al Hasan, Thisara Perera and Arafat Sunny that didn’t let Dhaka stay in the contest for too long.Dhaka were chasing what has been a par target for the first game of the day, but they fell to pieces quickly. Shakib ran past Shamsur Rahman’s defensive prod with an arm ball in the third over before Nasir Jamshed slog-swept into Soumya Sarkar’s lap two balls later.Mosaddek Hossain and Kumar Sangakkara tried to resurrect the chase but the former fell to a rank leg-stump half-volley from Sunny, who also accounted for Sangakkara’s wicket in the 11th over, after he had made 29 off 28 balls. Sunny finished his four overs early, taking 2 for 15.

Al-Amin, Shahid fined

Al-Amin Hossain and Mohammad Shahid have been fined Tk 40,000 (US$517) and Tk 30,000 (US$388) respectively for their altercation during Tuesday night’s BPL match between Barisal Bulls and Sylhet Superstars.
They were charged under 2.2.7 of the code of conduct, which relates to, “inappropriate and deliberate physical contact with a player… in the course of play during a match”.
The two got into an altercation after Shahid had clean bowled Al-Amin to end the Barisal innings and had to be separated by the umpires and Sylhet captain Mushfiqur Rahim. Both players admitted the offence.

Thisara removed Ryan ten Doeschate and Abul Hasan in consecutive overs, caught at cover and deep midwicket respectively. Shakib’s third wicket was Farhad Reza in his third over and he got Nasir Hossain in his last to end with four wickets for just 16 runs. Thisara took three wickets, to go with a fast 27 in Rangpur’s innings.Rangpur should have been closer to the 200 mark but fell short due to a late collapse. They were 122 for 2 in the 14th over when Mohammad Mithun was given out leg-before to Abul for 34 off 22 balls, with three fours and two sixes. They then slipped to 150 for 6 in the 18th over, losing Darren Sammy, Thisara and Al-Amin during this time.Shakib struck three boundaries in the last two overs to take their score to something respectable. When Thisara was hammering his two fours and as many sixes, Rangpur looked to be going towards a bigger score, but he fell to Mustafizur Rahman in the 17th over, having previously been dropped at mid-off by Shamsur.Simmons and Mithun made the early running with a 56-run second-wicket stand. Simmons made his maiden BPL fifty, hitting five fours and three sixes, twice over long-on and once over square leg, before giving a tame a catch to cover off Mosharraf Hossain.

The recently elected Sri Lanka Cricket board has suspended work on indoor nets at the Khettarama, Pallekele and Dambulla stadiums, citing the previous board’s failure to obtain government approval for the projects.That claim has since been strongly disputed, however, by former SLC head Sidath Wettimuny, under whose leadership construction had begun.The new board, headed by Thilanga Sumathipala, said in a release that it had decided to “re-assess the projects based on the high cost in construction (Rs.248 million or approx. USD $1.72 million) and the space allocation at the respective venues”. It also said SLC would get “the proper approvals from the relevant authorities” and would request a new proposal from the Central Engineering Consultancy Bureau, before deciding on a course of action “which should not be too much of a strain for the finances of SLC”.The suspension drew the ire of Wettimuny, whose interim committee had made the indoor nets a priority of their nine-month tenure. He said space had been made in the board budget for the construction of the nets, and that permission had been sought – and in most cases – received.”I am totally disappointed that such a project has been stopped,” he told . “These are projects which the cricket committee came up with, because we felt it was vital for the overall plan in developing our cricket, and to bring in the youth to train and develop in these areas. It is a huge blow for cricket.”Wettimuny conceded SLC had not received Colombo Municipal Council permission for the Khettarama nets, despite having applied for it. But neither was SLC’s application rejected – the Council, he said, simply did not respond. Applications to previous renovations to the stadium had similarly been ignored by the council, but those projects had gone ahead anyway, in 2010 and 2006, he said.According to Wettimuny, work at Pallekele and Dambulla had received full approval, however. “Pallekele belongs to the Board of Investment (BOI) and we have got BOI approval. It was on a BOI project that the stadium was built – even the BOI board guys came to the foundation ceremony.”Dambulla we had to get permission from the chief monk who owns the land. We obtained permission from him and he was even invited for the opening ceremony. He gave a speech saying that after so many years some good has been done for this area where thousands of children will benefit because they don’t have any place to go and hire and practice.”The sports minister himself came for both opening ceremonies at Pallekele and Dambulla and said virtually the same thing.”Several cricketers have advocated for the development of indoor facilities at the Khettarama ground in particular. Sri Lanka’s major cricket academies are run at that venue, but teams – including touring international sides – must travel to indoor nets at Nondescripts Cricket Club, when the weather is bad.

South Africa 176 for 4 (Duminy 79*) beat West Indies 175 (Sammy 51, Morton 41) by six wickets
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How they were out

A bustling unbeaten 79 from JP Duminy helped South Africa to a six-wicket win in the opening game of this five-ODI series at Centurion. They strolled home with two overs in the bank but that hides the fact that they had more than a few uneasy moments during their chase.The match, reduced to 36 overs a side after heavy overnight rain, followed a similar pattern to Friday’s Twenty20. South Africa’s bowlers took an early stranglehold, West Indies battled back, South Africa’s batsmen wobbled before their strength in depth enabled them to secure victory. Two days ago Shaun Pollock was the hero; today it was JP Duminy.Chasing a modest 176, South Africa got off to a shocking start, losing both openers inside four overs. Jacques Kallis and Duminy were building a good recovery when light rain started to fall. All eyes turned to the Duckworth-Lewis calculations, something that still tends to cause nightmares in these parts, and the possibility of an artificial finish appeared to rattle the batsmen. Kallis fell to add to dressing-room jitters, but as the weather eased Duminy and Justin Ontong regained their composure and took charge. West Indies, hampered by a wet outfield and a soggy ball, were not helped by the conditions, although their cause was further hindered by some dreadful fielding as the match slipped from their grasp.That it was Duminy, one of their new boys, that anchored the chase was the icing on the cake for South Africa. Too often it has been left to the old guard to dig them out of trouble, but his innings was measured, his shot selection sound, and more importantly he did not panic even when the rain was falling.West Indies again looked at least one bowler light and Bravo, who had said before the start he could not bowl, felt the need to bring himself on. It almost worked as he removed Ontong with a brilliant diving caught-and-bowled in his first over, but thereafter he looked like a man uneasy with his body. That he felt that he had no option but to haul himself into the attack underlined the lack of faith in some of the other options.In fairness to West Indies, it was to their credit that they made a match of it at all after they were stuck in in seamer-friendly conditions and then slid to 81 for 6. The rain juiced up the pitch and South Africa’s impressive all-seam attack did the rest. It took a solid seventh-wicket stand of 69 between Darren Sammy and Runako Morton and then some old-fashioned hitting late on to boost them to 175.The seamers bowled a nagging length which prevented the batsmen from getting onto the front foot, and the middle order came and went in a flurry of shots born out of frustration.What will concern South Africa is the way that once again they failed to finish the job after doing all the hard work. There was some excellent fielding, none better than Pollock’s pinpoint return to the keeper from long-on to run out Morton, but there was too much sloppy stuff in among it.Had the match gone to the wire then South Africa would also have had some justification to gripe about the umpires who twice in as many overs declined to refer run-out appeals when replays showed the batsmen to be short of their ground. It was either incompetence or a show of solidarity with Steve Bucknor, but there would have been far more of a stink had West Indies won by the odd run or two.The two sides now head to Cape Town for the second match on Friday. West Indies have lost four on the trot and despite twice hauling themselves back into games after poor starts, they have nothing to show for all their efforts. They need to get a win or their morale could start to drain away rapidly.

The fast bowler Brett Geeves has been named Tasmania’s Player of the Year while Shaun Marsh picked up the equivalent prize at Western Australia’s awards on Friday night. Geeves, who was presented with the Ricky Ponting Medal in Hobart, was the Man of the Match in the side’s FR Cup final victory and also captured the state’s Twenty20 gong.He led the attack throughout the campaign with 37 first-class wickets, 15 in the one-day tournament and eight in Twenty20. Michael Di Venuto, who signed off on his Australian domestic career with a return on 947 Pura Cup runs, collected the tournament prize while Xavier Doherty and Michael Dighton shared the recognition in the FR Cup. Doherty also left with the Scott Mason Memorial Captain’s Award and Dighton was given the TCA Chairman’s Award.Marsh, the son of the former Australia batsman Geoff, polled 33 votes in Perth, seven more than Steve Magoffin and Justin Langer, to win the Laurie Sawle Medal. Marsh, who batted mostly at No. 3, scored 663 runs at 60.27 in the Pura Cup and topped the state’s run lists in the FR Cup and Twenty20.For the third year in a row Michael Hussey gained the Gold Cup for being Western Australia’s most outstanding representative across all levels of the game. He picked up 41 votes to beat Adam Gilchrist (39) and Brad Hogg (26). The retirees Hogg and Gilchrist were recognised along with Langer, Mathew Inness and Darren Wates for their contributions to the team.Magoffin was handed the Players’ Choice award for his 35 Pura Cup wickets and 14 FR Cup victims while Inness was recognised as the player who upheld the “spirit of the Warriors”. Lauren Ebsary was the women’s winner after her 236 runs and eight wickets in the Women’s National Cricket League.

Vidarbha’s Dhruv Shorey has equalled N Jagadeesan’s record for most consecutive centuries (five) in List A cricket by smashing an unbeaten 109 off 77 balls against Hyderabad in Rajkot in the Vijay Hazare Trophy.Coming in at No. 3, Shorey built on a 148-run opening partnership between Aman Mokhade and Yash Rathod. Shorey struck nine fours and six sixes in his innings as Vidarbha posted 365 for 5 after being put in to bat. This was Shorey’s eighth List A century.Shorey’s run of five centuries stretches back to the knockouts of the 2024-25 Vijay Hazare Trophy, where he made centuries in the quarter-final, semi-final and final. A key member of Vidarbha’s run to the final along with Karun Nair, Shorey was the second-highest run-getter for his team, and fifth overall. He aggregated 494 runs in eight innings at an average of 70.47 and a strike rate of 92.68.Related

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Shorey began the current season with a 125-ball 136, but it wasn’t enough to secure victory as Bengal powered home by three wickets, chasing down 383.Jagadeesan’s five hundreds had come during the 2022-23 Vijay Hazare Trophy. It included a record-breaking 277 against Arunachal Pradesh – the highest individual score in List A cricket.The next on the list are Nair, Devdutt Padikkal, Kumar Sangakkara and Alviro Petersen, with four consecutive hundreds each. Sangakkara is the only one to score all four in international cricket.

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India Under-19s’ victory against their counterparts from Papua New Guinea may not have been as emphatic as the other three matches on the opening day of the World Cup but their performance was efficient, steady, if notspectacular, and thoroughly satisfactory.Their batsmen paced the innings sensibly after being put in. The openers- Shreevats Goswami and Taruwar Kohli, laid a strong foundation with apartnership of 100, the middle-order maintained a steady run-rate, keepingrisks to a minimum in order to preserve wickets for the final overs andTanmay Srivatsava provided the acceleration towards the end to spur Indiatoward 280 for 5. They did not decimate the bowling like Michael Hill didagainst Namibia but all of the top-order batsmen spent considerable timein the middle.The bowlers, too, did not scythe through Papua New Guinea like Adil Raza’sred-hot attack against Malaysia but they were disciplined and rarelystrayed off line. The Papua New Guinea batsmen like to hit across the lineand the rarity of such shots was an indication of the lengths bowled bythe Indians. All the bowlers had a work out and apart from Ravindra Jadejaand Taruwar, who went for 11 off two overs of medium-pace, everyone pickedup wickets. Pradeep Sangwan was the pick of the lot, striking twice earlyin his first spell while Abdulla scalped 3 for 2 off three overs towardsthe end as Papua New Guinea folded for 85.”We wanted to play as well as we can early in the game, withoutunderestimating the opposition,” Dav Whatmore, India’s coach, said. “We felt that if we didthat well, the margin would be big at the end of the game.”The margin of victory was huge – 195 runs – and it was built onperformances by players who made people take notice during the 2007-08Ranji Trophy and on the U-19 circuit. Srivatsava scored his maidenfirst-class hundred in the Ranji final against Delhi and made 466 runs inthe season, Virat Kohli scored 373 at an average of 53 while Sangwan took33 wickets at 19.42 apiece. Goswami, hasn’t played first-class cricket yetbut he’s been among the runs on the U-19 tour to South Africa.Goswami played his drives fluently, getting to the pitch of fulldeliveries and placing them through the covers with more timing than power. Hegot to his half-century, his second in Malaysia after scoring 91 in thewarm-up against New Zealand, with a cover-drive against ColinAmini’s offspin. However, he suffered a bout of cramps soon after – thehot and humid weather in Kuala Lumpur is energy sapping – and was dismissedfor 58.India had lost both their openers in the space of five overs and Virat andSrivatsava continued to build the momentum steadily rather than playingattacking shots. Whatmore said that Srivatsava’s role at No 3 was vital.”He just reassures everyone and adds calmness because we’ve got somereally good strikers like Virat. Tanmay is able to bat long and involvehimself in partnerships.”Srivatsava displayed patience as he started slowly, scoring 21 off hisfirst 40 deliveries. However, as India entered the 40th over he began tostep on it. The Kinrara Oval is a large ground but he muscled three largesixes over the leg side – one each over square leg, midwicket and long-on- to finish with 83 off 76 deliveries.Sangwan’s radar went missing for his first ball, which went forfive wides, but he made up by pitching his fourth ball bang on target andtrapping Heini Saika plumb in front. He made the ball move away from theright-handers and brought the odd one back in to trap the batsman – it washow he got his second wicket as well.A 195-run victory indicates a massive thrashing but Papua New Guinea didcreditably in the field. Their ground fielding was sharp, their catchingsafe – apart from one drop in the 49th over – and their bowling, leavingaside the tendency to bowl wides, was satisfactory. Jason Kila was thepick of them, taking 1 for 37 off ten overs of restrictive left-arm spin,while Joel Tom bowled a tight line and length at medium-pace and concededonly 16 off six overs. Whatmore said that he had been impressed by their”defensive game” on the field.It was Papua New Guinea’s batting that disappointed but the collapsewasn’t entirely unexpected. Today’s game was the first time that most ofthem were playing on turf and their inexperienced showed. Several batsmenplayed down the wrong line, John Reva edged one that bounced sharply onhim from Siddarth Kaul, and most of the lower-middle order lost theirstumps as they tried hit across the line.Papua New Guinea have two more tough gamesagainst West Indies and South Africa. For them, the tournament is allabout learning and an improved performance in the last two group matcheswill be a tremendous source of encouragement.

The BCB has taken over the reins at new Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) team Chattogram Royals after the franchise owner decided to withdraw, a day away from the start of the 12th edition of the tournament.Triangle Services Limited bought the franchise from the BCB and even took part in the auction last month. However, they wrote to the BCB on Wednesday to convey the decision, which, it appears, is because of lack of sponsor interest in the team.”They have given the BCB a letter three hours ago so we have officially taken over the team,” BPL chairman Iftekhar Rahman told ESPNcricinfo. “It is an unexpected situation. The franchise wrote in the letter that due to media reports, they couldn’t find sponsors for the team. We have been strict about integrity and player payment this season. We don’t want a situation like the Rajshahi franchise last year.”The initial editions after the tournament started in 2012 had a number of payment issues, before a period from 2016 to 2019 when things were better. The issue reared its ugly head again last season. The worst of this was when the Durbar Rajshahi players boycotted a training session and a match protesting delays in various categories of payments, including daily allowances and hotel bills. It needed government intervention for the owners to pay up.Rahman said that the BCB had appointed Habibul Bashar as team director. Mizanur Rahman Babul has reportedly taken over the head coach’s role, while Nafees Iqbal is the new manager of the team.The development is another major blow to the T20 league that has garnered a poor reputation over the years. There were calls for a complete revamp of the BPL brand, but the BCB pressed on despite having a hard time finding new franchises for the next five-year cycle, and has stuck with the original schedule in December-January.Royals were one of the four new franchises in the BPL, which now has six teams as opposed to the seven till last year, but the team has been making the wrong kind of headlines in the last few weeks. Team owner Kayum Rashed confirmed in a recent interview to the that two individuals, who were reportedly red-flagged in the corruption report submitted by the BCB’s independent inquiry committee, were involved with the franchise.ESPNcricinfo understands that the BCB was concerned by this, even as it said in a statement on December 9 that the franchise had settled the necessary fees and bank guarantees.The BCB has confirmed that Royals’ opening-day match against Noakhali Express, another of the new teams, will go ahead as scheduled.

The outcry over the stringent and unprecedented conditions set by the Indian Premier League (IPL) in its guidelines for covering the inaugural tournament may prompt a climbdown on certain issues, including perhaps reworking the contentious clauses governing media coverage. Top officials of the Indian Premier League, who are due to meet on Sunday, appear keen to avoid a media boycott – which is a possibility – and are likely to frame a suitable formal response to the criticism.On Friday, Lalit Modi, the IPL commissioner, called up Alok Gupta, president of the influential Editors’ Guild of India – which earlier in the day had condemned the restrictions – and indicated he didn’t want a media boycott. It is also believed that Modi indicated the IPL was working on amendments to the terms and conditions.The IPL had indicated a possible softening of stand on Thursday when IS Bindra, a member of the governing council, told Cricinfo the league was ready to discuss the issue with all parties involved to reach an amicable solution.One of the factors behind the IPL’s stringent terms is a feeling of discontent in the BCCI – which controls the IPL – over not having the rights to, or control over, photographs taken by the news agencies at earlier matches played in India. That, it is believed, prompted the inclusion of the clause giving the IPL rights to all photographs taken at all matches.As reported earlier, the contentious clause deals with IPL’s right to use all pictures taken at its grounds for free and without restrictions; the commitment by news organisations to upload on the IPL site, within 24 hours, all images taken at the ground; and the restriction of web portals’ access to images without prior permission from the IPL.Bindra explained that the restrictions on web portals’ access to images was a fallout of the IPL having sold web portal rights for the event to a company based in North America for US$50 million.Along with the Editors’ Guild of India, the Sports Journalists’ Federation of India had also issued a statement expressing “alarm and concern” over the IPL’s conditions and asked that the “unfair and unethical restrictions being placed on the media be withdrawn unconditionally”.The reactions from Indian associations came a day after Agence France-Presse (AFP), a respected international news agency, indicated it would not cover the IPL given the conditions laid down at present. “The terms and conditions are too strict and raise questions about press freedom,” Barry Parker, AFP’s South Asia bureau chief, told Cricinfo. “The present terms and conditions don’t allow us to cover the event.”

Omar Khan, West Indies’ new team manager, has said the most important challenge for the home side ahead of the first Test against Sri Lanka in Guyana is their mental approach to the game. “I have no doubt of the quality and potential of these players and now it’s about instilling that competitive edge, that fighting spirit that is so essential for success,” Khan told the .Khan replaced Clive Lloyd as the team manager and said a new era had emerged with the arrival of the new management. John Dyson replaced Bennett King as the coach after the World Cup and later David Williams, the Trinidad & Tobago coach, was appointed the assistant coach. “This is a new era in West Indies cricket with a new management team and players must see it as a stepping stone to getting their game right and taking West Indies cricket forward.”We head into Guyana on Tuesday and from Wednesday through to Friday, we will be hosting a number of team building sessions with the hope that it can bring the players closer together and improve team unity.” Khan said though there was little time to work with the players on the mental aspect of their game he was certain, being professionals, they would respond well.Khan also said Pedro Collins’ withdrawal from the Test squad to play for Surrey was an unfortunate event. “Myself and the coach looked at Collins during the Barbados-Jamaica game and he took nine wickets. He was bowling very well and it is a pity that he won’t be with us. However, having said that, we have a number of good bowlers in our ranks and we will be well served in that department.”

A gallant unbeaten 91 by Ahmed Quadri helped Hyderabad to salvage threepoints from their South Zone Cooch Behar Trophy match against TamilNadu at the Gymkhana ground in Hyderabad on Monday.In arrears by 168 runs on the first innings, Hyderabad were in dangerof losing when they were five down for 77, despite a second wicketpartnership of 69 runs between Shashang Nag (37) and Abhinav Kumar(28). It was at this critical juncture that Qadri entered. First withAT Rayudu (13) he added 39 runs for the sixth wicket. This wasfollowed by a seventh wicket stand of 41 runs with Varun (11). Finallyafter eight wickets had gone for 167 runs, Qadri and Nadeemuddin (9)shared an unbroken ninth wicket association of 43 runs off just 6.2overs to steer Hyderabad to safety. P Satish, who had caused themiddle order collapse, was the most successful bowler with four for73. Qadri faced 114 balls and hit 14 fours in his match saving knockas Hyderabad ended at 210 for eight.Earlier, Tamil Nadu resuming at 313 for six, declared at 384 foreight. Vidyuth Sivaramakrishnan (36) and G Vignesh (59) added 88 runsfor the seventh wicket off 24.4 overs. Vignesh faced 84 balls and hitten fours and a six. Tamil Nadu got five points from the match. TamilNadu finished their engagements with 18 points and Hyderabad with 25points.