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Jesse Marsch’s Leeds United head into tonight’s Premier League meeting with Chelsea knowing that, should they wish to give themselves the best possible chance of avoiding the drop this season, they simply must pick up some kind of result at Elland Road against Thomas Tuchel’s third-placed Blues.

However, with right-back Luke Ayling being shown a straight red card in the 2-1 defeat at Arsenal last time out, in addition to the form of several of the Whites’ regular first-teamers having fallen off a cliff in recent weeks, the 48-year-old manager has a number of big calls to make concerning his starting XI.

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One such call will undoubtedly be in central midfield, a position in which, following Adam Forshaw’s season-ending injury, the American manager has struggled to find a suitable counterpart to the unflappable England international, Kalvin Phillips.

At The Emirates, Marsch started Mateusz Klich alongside the 26-year-old, however, with the 31-year-old turning in yet another abject display against the Gunners, it would appear an extremely wise move for the 48-year-old to drop the Poland international for what could well be a season-defining fixture this evening.

Indeed, over his 45 minutes on the pitch last time out, the £3.6m-rated midfielder was something of a passenger in the middle of the park, enjoying just 33 touches of the ball, completing 79% of his passes, ceding possession for his side on eight separate occasions, being beaten by an opponent twice and losing five of his six duels – a failure rate of 83%.

These returns saw the £34k-per-week player who The Short Fuse dubbed “embarrassing” and one prominent Leeds supporter dubbed “awful” average an extremely disappointing SofaScore match rating of just 6.0 – the joint third-worst score of any player to feature in the match – with Marsch hooking the 38-time capped international at the break.

As such, with Lewis Bate having highly impressed upon replacing Klich last time out, and while it is true that the likes of Raphinha and Jack Harrison also failed to make any sort of mark against Arsenal, it is the Pole who Marsch simply must axe from his starting XI against Chelsea, as the midfielder could cost the Whites big-time against the Blues.

AND in other news: Marsch must finally unleash “standout” 19 y/o Leeds talent v Chelsea, he “isn’t afraid”

Rahul Dravid has been included in the MCC side to play County Champions Nottinghamshire in Abu Dhabi

ESPNcricinfo staff22-Mar-2011The former England seamer Simon Jones has been forced to withdraw from the MCC squad to face the champion county, Nottinghamshire, in the English-season curtain-raiser in Abu Dhabi next week. He has experienced some discomfort in his knee and has been withdrawn as a precautionary measure, to be replaced by the MCC Young Cricketer, Paul Muchall.Muchall is a batting all-rounder who had an excellent season for the YCs in 2010, scoring over 550 runs in the Second XI Championship, and also played well for Kent in the CB40 tournament towards the end of the summer. He is currently captaining the YCs side in a pre-season training tour in Abu Dhabi, and will provide cover for the MCC Champion County squad.”It is a shame that Simon has had to pull out of the match, but I am very pleased to welcome Paul Muchall into the squad,” said John Stephenson, MCC’s Head of Cricket. “One of MCC’s key objectives is to provide a pathway into the professional game for talented young cricketers, and this represents another avenue for Paul to develop his game, and share a dressing room with some very experienced players. I am sure that Paul will be raring to get stuck in and make the most of the opportunity.”One of the men he will be able to learn from is the former India captain Rahul Dravid, who is a prominent member of the MCC World Cricket Committee. Dravid will be joined by England wicketkeeper Steven Davies and the side will be led by former Australia opener Chris Rogers who has joined Middlesex.Other notable inclusions for the four-day game at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium which, as in 2010, will be played under floodlights using a pink ball, are the Afghanistan pair of Hamid Hassan and Mohammad Nabi, who are former MCC Young Cricketers. Sourav Ganguly will replace Dravid for a Twenty20 event which follows the four-day match and also features Nottinghamshire, Durham and a Fly Emirates XI.MCC squad Chris Rogers (capt), Stephen Moore, Rahul Dravid (four-day only), Stephen Peters, Dawid Malan, Mohammad Nabi, Steven Davies, Hamid Hassan, Gary Keedy, Paul Muchall, Steve Kirby, Toby Roland-Jones, Sourav Ganguly (T20 only), Omar Ali (12th man)Nottinghamshire squad Ali Brown, Jake Ball, Neil Edwards, Scott Elstone, Luke Fletcher, Paul Franks, Alex Hales, Steven Mullaney, Akhil Patel, Samit Patel, Ben Phillips, Chris Read (capt & wk), Charlie Shreck, Mark Wagh, Graeme White

West Indies batsman Lendl Simmons, who was recalled to the West Indies squad for the upcoming one-off Twenty20 and the squad for the first two ODIs of the five-match series against Pakistan, has said that he has become a “mentally stronger” cricketer from

ESPNcricinfo staff17-Apr-2011West Indies batsman Lendl Simmons, who was recalled to the national squad for the upcoming one-off Twenty20 and first two ODIs of the five-match series against Pakistan, has said that he has become a “mentally stronger” cricketer from the one who last played for West Indies in 2010.”I see myself as a more mature player,” Simmons said, “and I’m putting a lot more thought into my preparation for games and when I go onto the field of play as well.”It feels really great to be back in the West Indies team set-up and among the players again as we look forward to facing Pakistan. I was away for a year and in that period I had a lot of time to reflect and analyse my game. I am happy to be back and I believe I am mentally stronger.”Simmons, who made his ODI debut for West Indies in 2006, was one of the star performers for his country in the World Twenty20 in England in 2009, making 150 runs at 30.00 and taking six wickets. However, this was followed by a poor run of form in the ODI series in Australia in February 2010 where he managed just 50 runs in five one-dayers with a high score of 29. He was dropped from the West Indies squad for the World Twenty20 in the Caribbean in 2010 and wasn’t picked in any format after the Australia tour.Simmons pressed his case for a recall with strong performances in the domestic circuit. He was the highest run-scorer for T&T with 249 runs in their victorious Caribbean T20 campaign and was their second-highest run-scorer in the Regional 4-day competition with 513 runs that included an unbeaten double-century.”I believe I can make a major contribution to the team in the upcoming T20 as well as in the ODI series and I will be looking to move on from there. I am in good form as we get ready to go over to St Lucia and I want to take that form into the series. I am batting with a lot more maturity and I am looking forward to making everyone proud,” he said.”I am totally focussed on what I have to do and I am looking to stay in control of the things I have control over. No matter what I’m asked to do I am willing to do it for the team and look to make a contribution to the team’s success.”

Trinidad and Tobago wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin is hopeful that his strong showing on the domestic circuit will earn him a recall to the national side

ESPNcricinfo staff18-May-2011Trinidad and Tobago wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin is hopeful that his strong showing on the domestic circuit will earn him a recall to the national side.”I have been working hard over the last couple of months,” Ramdin told the . “The selectors said that I haven’t been getting runs but so far I scored runs in the middle and I am just waiting for a call.”Ramdin was the third-highest run scorer for T&T in the Regional four-day competition, making 460 runs, at an average of 41.81 with one century from eight games. He was also the leading wicketkeeper in the competition with 27 dismissals.”Any player [who gets dropped] will want to go out there and look to prove himself. I went out there and did it with the gloves. I tried to score 500-600 runs; I fell short by a bit. I think the break was good for me. I came back home and I did a lot of fitness work.”Ramdin, who has played 42 Tests, 81 ODIs and 22 Twenty20 games for West Indies, last featured for them during the home series against South Africa in May-June 2010. He had a disappointing run in that series making 34 runs from five ODIs and 63 runs in three Tests. Ramdin lost his place to Carlton Baugh for West Indies’ tour of Sri Lanka later that year and was also cut from the West Indies’ central contract list. This prompted the T&T board to arrange for Ramdin to work with former West Indies batsman Gordon Greenidge.Ramdin said he had viewed his batting footage from when he was in form and was working on a few things that had helped him. “I am missing it a bit [playing for the West Indies], but I am just waiting and using my time wisely and when I get the opportunity, hopefully, I can play for the next seven or eight years straight.”Ramdin received support from T&T Cricket Board president Azim Bassarath who questioned the wicketkeeper’s exclusion from the national squad despite his strong showing on the domestic circuit. “What more must Denesh Ramdin do to attract the attention of the regional selectors? What more must a cricketer do to show he is able, fit, ready and in form?” Bassarath said during the press launch of the TTCB Premiership Twenty20 Cricket Festival at the National Cricket Centre in Balmain.

Cape Town will host two Test matches in the South African summer, CSA announced on Friday

Firdose Moonda06-May-2011Cape Town will host two Test matches in the South African summer, CSA announced on Friday. The 2011-12 season sees South Africa play host to Australia and Sri Lanka. Australia will play only two Tests, one in Cape Town and one in Johannesburg, instead of the usual three, two Twenty20 internationals and three ODIs in a shortened tour in October and November.Sri Lanka, who have not visited South Africa since 2002, will play three Tests and five ODIs over December and January with the Christmas and New Year’s Tests remaining at their traditional homes of Durban and Cape Town.”Unfortunately time constraints prevent us from playing more than two Tests against Australia this time around,” CSA chief executive Gerald Majola said. “The aim is to play a four-match Test series when Australia next tour in February and March of 2014. This will make up for the extra Test not being played on this year’s tour.”Despite the culling of a Test from the series, Majola said that “Test cricket remains in our view the ultimate pinnacle of the game.” South Africa were thought to have reduced the number of Tests because of their domestic teams’ participation in the Champions League T20, but on Wednesday, Tony Irish, chief executive of the South African Cricketers’ Association confirmed to ESPNcricinfo that the CLT20 was “not a point of discussion” when the fixtures were confirmed.The ODIs against Sri Lanka will be spread over the country’s smaller venues with Paarl, East London, Bloemfontein and Kimberley all hosting a match. The series will culminate in Johannesburg on January 22, before South Africa head to New Zealand.South Africa were toying with the idea of hosting West Indies for an ODI series in late January but the fixtures were not compulsory according to the current Future Tours Programme that runs to completion in April 2012. That series looks unlikely given the schedule.

If his two-year stint as Sri Lanka’s captain was anything like as stressful as it appears from the outside to have been, Kumar Sangakkara is currently 33 going on 40

Andrew Miller at the Rose Bowl15-Jun-2011If his two-year stint as Sri Lanka’s captain was anything like as stressful as it appears from the outside to have been, Kumar Sangakkara is currently 33 going on 40. “Captaining Sri Lanka is a job that ages you very quickly,” he admitted at the Rose Bowl on the eve of the third Test against England, as he prepared to step back into a role he relinquished, with evident relief, at the end of the World Cup final in Mumbai two months ago.Following on from the loss of their captain, Tillakaratne Dilshan, to a broken right thumb, it always seemed likely that Sangakkara would return to lead his country for the 15th and final time in his 97-Test career. However, his reluctance was clear from the moment he handed the reins to Thilan Samaraweera for last week’s three-day warm-up against Essex, and as he admitted to the media ahead of practice at a soggy Rose Bowl, he needed time to weigh up his options as the poisoned chalice was passed once again in his direction.”When I was first approached to captain the side I wasn’t ready to take it on, because the fact was I had given it up, with a view of having finished my role as captain after two successful years,” said Sangakkara. “Unfortunately there was no vice-captain appointed for this Test series, so the side was left in a bit of a problem with no-one to step in to captain.”So with a lot of deep thought and considering the needs of the side and the country, I decided to say yes to captaining Sri Lanka again for a final time in this Test.”The situation was reminiscent of Michael Atherton’s reluctant resumption of his captaincy duties at Lord’s in 2001, when Nasser Hussain’s broken finger had required a change of leadership after a solitary Test of that summer’s Ashes. The difference, of course, was that the break between stints could be measured in years rather than months in Atherton’s case. Sangakkara has barely had time to adjust to life back in the ranks, and now he is back in charge once again.”I actually made my decision to resign a month or two before the World Cup,” he said. “Looking from the outside in, it’s sometimes difficult to fathom why a decision like that could be made, but once you’re in the team, and in that environment, you realise that captaining Sri Lanka is a job that ages you very quickly. But that’s a challenge of the job as well. You say yes to the job knowing full well the challenges you will face.”It’s rarely a job you will last long in,” he added. “Mahela Jayawardene was a fantastic captain for us for two years, and he also resigned. I also had a two-year stint, and I enjoyed it at times, certainly on the field where our results showed we were one of the top two sides in the world for one-and-a-half years, especially in the shorter form of the game. We reached three World Cup finals in a four-year period, two in 50-overs, one in the Twenty20 format, and we beat Australia in Australia after 26 years.”The achievements are huge. On the field, Sri Lankan cricket has been one of the most positive advertisements of our country for a very long time. We have produced world-class players, world-class teams, and World Cup-winning teams. I think the health of Sri Lanka cricket is very good and cricket itself is very strong. But when I stepped down from the captaincy, I thought I was done with it, but I was clearly wrong! I’m back for one last time.”Regardless of the team’s recent success, it is a particularly tricky time for Sangakkara to resume his role. The political interference in selection has reached spectacular levels in recent months, starting with four eyebrow-raising changes to a settled and confident team ahead of the World Cup final against India, and culminating in the recall of Sanath Jayasuriya for the forthcoming one-day series, after more than a year on the sidelines.”That’s a question for the selectors,” was Sangakkara’s diplomatic response to the Jayasuriya issue, as he spelt out the convoluted hierarchy in Sri Lankan cricket, which extends from the sports ministry, down through the cricket board, and ultimately out to the players. “Sanath is a legend of the game,” he added. “One of few batsmen in Sri Lanka who has managed to win games consistently on his own for the country.”However, in the event that Dilshan’s thumb injury keeps him on the sidelines for longer than expected, Sangakkara was adamant that he will not be persuaded to extend his captaincy stint beyond this one-off game. “Realistically the selectors have stated they are looking at different options to lead the side, and to groom another captain under Dilshan,” he said. “They will appoint a vice-captain very soon, so that a situation like this does not arise again.”For now, however, all the doubts and off-field stresses need to be put to one side, as Sangakkara seeks to extend his team’s proud recent record against England. A victory at the Rose Bowl would square the series and leave England without a Test series win over Sri Lanka since 2002, and that prospect is set to guide their strategy in the coming days.”The real opportunity is to tie the Test series, so the way we play has to reflect that,” he said. “Whether you lose 1-0 or 2-0 you’ve still lost a series, but if we scrap and perform the way we can, we have the opportunity to tie the series. We need to show no fear and be as positive as we can, but at the same time execute all we’ve spoken about properly on the field, to try and help us win a Test match.”But the major obstacle to that objective, as Sangakkara conceded, is the loss of Sri Lanka’s leading batsman in the series to date. Dilshan’s absence as captain has thrown up a whole host of issues within the squad, but as a batsman who scored 193 at Lord’s in spite of a broken thumb, he will be badly missed.”It is a significant loss in both capacities,” said Sangakkara. “He’s been the one batsman who’s stood out among us, even in the tour games, and it would have been great for him to be available to captain the third Test and finish the series on a high. Unfortunately he’s not available, and we have to fill the void.”

Eric Simons, the India bowling coach, is pleased with the resurgence in Ishant Sharma’s bowling in the ongoing West Indies tour, leading up to his maiden ten-wicket match haul in the Barbados Test

ESPNcricinfo staff05-Jul-2011Eric Simons, the India bowling coach, is pleased with the resurgence in Ishant Sharma’s bowling in the ongoing West Indies tour, leading up to his maiden ten-wicket match haul in the Barbados Test. Ishant’s revival – after a poor tour of South Africa – began in the IPL and has continued in the Caribbean, a transformation Simons attributed to vital technical changes in the bowler’s action, including his body and wrist position.”Ishant had already started taking big strides in South Africa,” Simons told the . “From a technical perspective, what I saw of him in the IPL gave me a lot of confidence.”Sometimes pressure forces players to try and change too many things technically. And in trying to do that, he lost some of his shape as a bowler. To identify what is wrong is only 10% of the problem; fixing it takes time. That is why the improvement through South Africa, and in the IPL and even more so here.”His body position forced his grip to change. Now he’s more upright, and his wrist is in a better position. Only when you are confident about the technique and start bowling at the pace you are capable of, you can be at your best.”In the absence of Zaheer Khan and Sreesanth, India came into the series with a depleted seam attack and Munaf Patel’s injury following the ODIs made matters worse. Simons said Munaf – whose suspect fitness levels have restricted him to the shorter versions in recent times – has a lot to offer at the Test level.”I am disappointed about Munaf’s injury here,” Simons said. “We have been working hard on increasing his pace. His accuracy, particularly in Tests, would have been an advantage.”We have seen how integral Munaf has become to our one-day attack. He’s going to do the same in Test cricket. Barbados would have been an ideal wicket for him, and England will be the same. We are happy to add one or two dimensions to his style. He has to bowl more and more in Test cricket, and that will happen from the training we have been doing.”The absence of first-choice seamers gave Praveen Kumar a chance to break into the Test side, and he impressed with his ability to move the red ball for long periods of time. With Zaheer and Sreesanth returning for the England tour, Simons was confident that India would have the depth to trouble the in-form home side in seaming conditions.”If I were in the England side, I would certainly be respectful of the Indian attack,” Simons said.”I’d imagine they would respect our seam attack as much as they respected our spin attacks in the past.”Simons defended spin spearhead Harbhajan Singh, who has had an ordinary series so far, picking up only five wickets in four innings. “You have to look at the role a spinner has to play sometimes in a four-man attack,” Simons said. “It’s not just about taking wickets. Harbhajan is so crucial to us. People see him as an attacking force and tend to play him defensively as well.”

Norton Fredrick, the former Sri Lankan first-class cricketer, died on Wednesday at the age of 73 following a terminal illness at his home in Wattala

Sa'adi Thawfeeq10-Aug-2011Norton Fredrick, the former Sri Lankan first-class cricketer, died on Wednesday at the age of 73, following a terminal illness, at his home in Wattala, ten kilometres from Colombo. Fredrick played for the All Ceylon team before Sri Lanka had Test status, and also for Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club in Sri Lanka. Although stocky for a fast bowler, he had all the ingredients that make a good quick – a short temper and speed.Fredrick’s four-year career with Ceylon was short but he made a big impact, and earned the nickname Fiery Fred, which he shared with Fred Trueman. Although not an orthodox quick, he generated a great deal of pace; his most potent delivery was the inswinger bowled with a high-arm action with which he beat batsmen regularly and bowled them through the gate, often hitting the bails.His most memorable match was an unofficial Test for All Ceylon against India, played in Ahmedabad in 1965, in which he ripped through the Indian top order in both innings to set up a historic four-wicket win for his country. It was the first time All Ceylon had won in India and Sri Lanka have never won a Test in India since becoming a Test-playing nation.Fredrick took seven wickets in the match in Ahmedabad – 4 for 85 in the first innings and 3 for 24 in the second – and his victims were Dilip Sardesai (twice), India captain the Nawab of Pataudi (twice), Farokh Engineer, Abbas Ali Baig and Hanumant Singh, who according to Frederick was the best batsman in India at the time. India were bowled out for totals of 189 and 66.For a fast bowler, Fredrick suffered remarkably few injuries through his career. “I never suffered from cramps until I got one holding on to a return catch given by Indian batsman Chandu Borde. Only then did I know what a cramp was,” Fredrick once said. He maintained his physique by doing wind sprints after practice for about an hour and parallel bar exercises.Strangely enough Fredrick never played cricket for his school St Joseph’s College, Colombo in the ten years he was a student there because he bowled with a round-arm action. “I bowled so fast that I used to injure children at Under-13 and Under-14 level with a tennis ball. But when I went for first XI practices the coach said that I had a square-arm action and dropped me from the team,” he once recalled.It was when Fredrick joined the Prisons Department as a welfare officer that his cricket career really started to take shape. He joined Bloomfield in 1959, took five wickets in his first match for them and never looked back. He played eight years of Sara Trophy Division One cricket for Bloomfield, helping them win the title in 1963-64 by taking 57 wickets. In his entire career for Bloomfield he captured 183 wickets, at an average of 16.58.In the four years he represented Ceylon (1964-1968) Fredrick played against Australia, the MCC, India and Pakistan, opening the bowling with Darrell Lieversz and with Ian Pieris; he played under the leadership of CI Gunasekera and Michael Tissera. Due to family commitments he was forced to end his career in 1968. He was a Sri Lanka Cricket-appointed match referee in later years and had a road named after him called Norton Place in his neighbourhood in recognition of the social service he and his wife did for the community. He had two sons, one of whom was an army officer who died during the civil war in Sri Lanka.

USA’s Under-15 squad claimed first place on Saturday at the 2011 ICC Americas U-15 Northern Division Tournament held in Winnipeg, Canada

ESPNcricinfo staff28-Aug-2011USA’s Under-15 squad claimed first place on Saturday at the 2011 ICC Americas U-15 Northern Division Tournament held at Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg, Canada. USA started off the tournament with back-to-back wins against Bermuda and Canada and eventually won the tournament on a net run-rate tiebreaker after all three teams finished 2-2 in the double round-robin format event.”It feels great. It’s amazing,” USA U-15 captain Dave Parikh said. “This is just the second time I’ve been captain of a team and we came through. We were the underdogs in this tournament and coming up through the top is great.”Parikh was named Tournament MVP after leading his side with seven wickets while giving away a tournament low 2.63 runs per over. He was the team second-highest scorer with 108 runs, including 67 not out in a victory over Canada, one of four half-centuries scored by USA. He was one of six players on the team who also represented the North West U-15 squad at the 2011 USACA U-15 National Tournament, where the North West took their fourth straight U-15 national championship after a dramatic five-run win against New York in the final, something that Parikh feels helped prepare players for success in Winnipeg.”The most important thing I learned from that match was to have faith in your players and to never give up,” Parikh said. “I honestly thought that match was finished, that New York would have won the match, but we came through.”Vibhav Altekar, who scored a double-hundred for North West in the national tournament last month, led USA with 140 runs from four innings with one half-century to finish second overall behind Canada’s Abrash Khan. Neil Tagare, another player selected from the North West region, turned in the highest individual score for any player at the event with 79 against Bermuda. Another noteworthy performer for USA was Michigan’s Gordon Makin, who made a superb 65 in a loss to Bermuda.Khan and Gayan Ferdinands stood out as ones to watch in the future for Canada with Ferdinands taking a tournament-high 12 wickets. Bermuda’s Delray Rawlins also showed excellent all-rounds skills at the top of the batting order along with his left-arm orthodox spin.At the same U-15 tournament in 2009, Steven Taylor and Nitish Kumar captained the USA and Canada squads respectively. Both players have gone on to excel at the U-19 level and have also played for their country’s senior teams. Parikh says he’s gained confidence from being part of a winning squad for USA and hopes he might be able to progress in the same way.”After coming off as the underdogs and winning this, I feel like I have a strong future in cricket,” Parikh said. “I think that I should really put some effort in for the Under-19s, try out, play my hardest and really see what I can do for that team.”

Scott Borthwick’s maiden five-wicket haul revived Durham ‘s County Championship title challenge at Hove and deepened Sussex ‘s relegation fears

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Scott Borthwick’s maiden five-wicket haul revived Durham ‘s County Championship title challenge at Hove and deepened Sussex ‘s relegation fears.A week after his England one-day debut in Ireland, leg-spinner Borthwick tookfive for 80 in 19 overs as Sussex were dismissed for 218 on a good pitch undercloudless skies. They trailed by 154 but Durham declined to enforce the follow-on and reached 93 without loss after Michael Di Venuto retired hurt on two following a blow on theelbow from a ball by Wayne Parnell.Will Smith, dropped by Luke Wells at backward point off Amjad Khan on 42, wason 54 at the close with Mark Stoneman on 30 following his first-day century. Stoneman also held a brilliant catch to get rid of Matt Prior, who made 22 off 14 balls. He had already taken six runs off a Borthwick over when he drove the youngster over extra cover and Stoneman dived to hold the catch just inside the short boundary on the pavilion side.Borthwick initially came on for the final over before lunch and was rewardedwith a third-ball wicket as a googly had left-hander Luke Wells lbw for 27. It was the fourth time that a wicket had fallen in the first over of a spell and, after snaring Prior in the second over after the break, Borthwick stayed on for the rest of the innings.He took five successive wickets while Graham Onions topped and tailed theinnings to finish with 4 for 67. When Onions was recalled with eight wickets down home skipper Michael Yardy, continuing his fine form, twice cut the paceman for four and also drove him tothe cover boundary in the same over to complete his half-century.After protecting Amjad Khan from the strike, Yardy was on 61 when he took asingle off Onions two balls before tea. Khan tried to pull the next ball and gloved a catch to Phil Mustard to delay the interval with last man Monty Panesar coming in. Yardy took five runs off thenext over, but in making room to hit Onions to the short off-side boundary hewas bowled for 66.Onions’ earlier victims were Chris Nash, who checked his intended pull andoffered a return catch off the sixth ball of the innings, and Murray Goodwin,who fell to the first ball of the paceman’s second spell. Coming down the hill this time, Onions found some extra bounce and Goodwin fended to gully.