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Club stalwart and establishment fixture had long and varied career in cricket

ESPNcricinfo staff30-Sep-2022Robin Marlar, the former Sussex captain, MCC president, and long-time cricket correspondent for the Sunday Times, has died at the age of 91.As an offspinner who claimed 970 wickets in an 18-season first-class career, Marlar came close to England selection on a number of occasions in the 1950s, but was kept out of the side by the great Jim Laker, not to mention Fred Titmus and David Allen, both of whom offered more with the bat than his average of 9.72.He did, however, play for the Rest of England against Surrey in the Champion County match in 1955, in which – as a nightwatchman – he achieved the rare distinction of being stumped second-ball for six, ostensibly as a protest after his captain Doug Insole asked him to change back out of his evening wear.”As I was saying,” he is said to have remarked to Insole on his return to the dressing room, “I am not a nightwatchman.”For Sussex, however, he was a stalwart, including a five-season stint as captain from 1955 to 1959, in which time Wisden declared his leadership “shrewd and skilful”. His finest hour with the ball came against Lancashire at Hove in 1955, when his match haul of 15 for 119 included 9 for 46 in the second innings, en route to a season’s best return of 139 wickets at 21.55.Educated at Harrow, Marlar was also a three-times Cambridge Blue from 1951 to 1953, and his establishment credentials were cemented when he served as MCC’s president in 2005-06, during which time he was instrumental in forging cricketing links with Afghanistan that would ultimately lead to the country attaining Test status.After retiring from cricket, his stint as Sunday Times correspondent spanned both Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket breakaway, and the emergence in the early 1990s of Shane Warne, of whom Marlar was the first to dub his dismissal of Mike Gatting at Old Trafford in 1993 “the ball of the century”.Marlar was born in Eastbourne in January 1931 and made his debut for Sussex in July 1951 against Kent at Hastings. Away from cricket, he established a successful headhunting business, headquartered in Sloane Square and with clients around the world.He was Sussex’s chairman in 1996 and 1997, a period which helped lay the groundwork for the outstanding side that won the club’s first County Championship in 2003, and two further titles in 2006 and 2007.In a statement, Sussex confirmed that Marlar had died at Epsom General Hospital on September 30, surrounded by his family, and recalled him as “one of the most important figures in the history of Sussex Cricket”. He had attended a memorial for his fellow club legend Ted Dexter in the Long Room at Lord’s earlier this month, in which the statement added, he had been “in magnificent form, upbraiding Sir Andrew Strauss about the High Performance Review and holding court in the style as only he could.”He took a passionate and lifelong interest in the county club of his birth and visited the ground in August this year for a memorable day, in the boardroom, with Mike Griffith and Johnny Barclay, all three MCC presidents and Sussex captains,” the statement added.”Robin Marlar was a great man of cricket and will be deeply missed by all at Sussex Cricket and especially by his friends at the Sussex Cricket Museum which he supported passionately. Our thoughts are with his daughters Sarah, AJ, Kate and Tammy and his sons Algy and James.”

Half-centuries from Paul Stirling and Andy Balbirnie ensured the visitors had little trouble in chasing down the paltry total

Himanshu Agrawal04-Jun-2021Four wickets each from Josh Little and Craig Young bundled out Netherlands for 157 before half-centuries by Paul Stirling and captain Andy Balbirnie helped Ireland level the series in the second ODI in Utrecht. Stirling and Balbirnie added 82 for the second wicket after Logan van Beek removed William Porterfield for a duck in the second over of the chase.While Balbirnie remained unbeaten on 63 from 127 deliveries, Stirling was the more attacking partner, with five of his six fours coming in the first ten overs of Ireland’s reply.Timm van der Gugten seemed to have slowed things down but Stirling found the fence off the first ball of left-arm spinner Pieter Seelaar’s third over, the 22nd of the innings. Seelaar though was to have the last laugh when he had Stirling caught at mid-on for 52 as the batter tried to hoick him across the line. But with only 67 runs left to get from more than 26 overs, Balbirnie and Harry Tector, who ended unbeaten on 30 from 59 balls, batted calmly and finished off the chase with seven overs to spare.Earlier, the Ireland bowlers, led by Little and Young, folded the hosts up for a paltry total despite Netherlands’ openers Stephan Myburgh and Max O’Dowd adding 44. Little first bowled Myburgh for 11 in the 14th over before dismissing Ben Cooper caught behind on the very next delivery. Though the hat-trick was averted, that set the tone for Little and Ireland to continue making inroads.O’Dowd too was bowled by Little for 36 soon after before Young joined the party with the wicket of Seelaar. The collapse saw Netherlands lose their last seven wickets for just 72 runs as Young continued to hurt them with repeated strikes. Briefly, Scott Edwards looked to take his side to a competitive total but was caught behind off Young for 23, who ended with figures of 4 for 18.And though there were fighting efforts from van Beek, Brandon Glover and Saqib Zulfiqar, who came out to bat after retiring hurt, they didn’t amount to much.Little was named the Player of the Match for his 4 for 39 as Ireland pocketed ten points to climb up to ninth in the ODI Super League table.

With Test squad not announced, it is unclear whether Gill is to replace Rohit in the XI or in the squad

Nagraj Gollapudi03-Feb-2020BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has said that Shubman Gill will be replacing Rohit Sharma for the Test leg of the New Zealand tour, which will commence with the first Test in Wellington from February 21. The second Test, scheduled in Christchurch, begins on February 29.In a brief, informal chat with the media on Monday evening, outside the BCCI’s headquarters in Mumbai, Ganguly confirmed Rohit’s injury, said he had approved the Test squad, and that Gill was going to be Rohit’s replacement. Till midnight on Monday, the BCCI had not announced the Test squad. It is understood that the board was still awaiting final approvals, which might mean from BCCI secretary Jay Shah, who usually signs off on the media releases. Shah, as per PTI, was en route to New Zealand on Monday.Also it could not be ascertained what exactly Ganguly meant when he said Gill was going to be Rohit’s replacement. Did he mean Gill was now going to be part of Indian Test XI considering the Punjab batsman was part the squad in the series against Bangladesh, the last Test outing for India?Gill does have the form to increase his chances of making his Test debut. Over the weekend, he cracked a double century for India A in the first unofficial Test against New Zealand A. He was picked by the selectors in the Test squad for the first time during the home series against South Africa after KL Rahul, had fallen out of favour due to his dip in form over the last two years.The BCCI has delayed announcing the Test squad despite the selectors having discussed it at the meeting on January 12. It is understood the selectors had more or less finalised the squad but wanted to wait on the form and fitness of some of the key players. One certainty on that day who became doubtful a few days later was fast bowler Ishant Sharma, who hurt his ankle in a Ranji Trophy match while playing a home match for Delhi.Although there were strong doubts about Ishant making the New Zealand trip with six weeks rest recommended, it is believed that the fast bowler was recuperating rapidly at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru. It is understood that Ishant, who is four matches short of reaching the 100-Test landmark, had started to bowl during training steadily.

The batsman is expecting slow scoring but the opportunity for runs to be made by batsmen diligent enough to play within their lanes

Daniel Brettig in Melbourne23-Dec-20182:33

What are Australia’s plans for Kohli at the MCG?

No-one has spent more time batting on the MCG’s hotly-debated pitches this season than Marcus Harris, and he has counselled his team-mates not to judge the surface by the expected preponderance of green grass geared towards ensuring a result after last year’s bore draw during the Ashes series.Harris got the fright of his life when he saw the pitch for the Sheffield Shield match, admitting now that he expected the game between Victoria and New South Wales to be over in “a day and a half”, before proceeding to sculpt a monumental 250 not out that played a major role in vaulting him into the Test team.As a result, Harris is expecting slow scoring but the opportunity for runs to be made by batsmen diligent enough to play within their lanes. “Pre-match when I saw the wicket I was really freaked out and I thought ‘this game’s going to be over in a day and a half and we’ve got blokes trying to vie for Test spots’, so I went into the game with no expectations on myself and the wicket actually played pretty well,” Harris told ESPNcricinfo. “It was relatively slow and stayed together.”I saw this morning the wicket will probably be more similar to the South Australia game, where it had a bit more green grass on it, nipped around a bit but it was one of those wickets where if you play well you can make runs but if you bowl well you can take wickets.”I think it’ll be the same old thing of patience, the MCG is never a really quick scoring ground anyway, so that’ll be the key, just realising things will take a while to evolve. Not sure the wicket will break up too much, but we’ll just have to wait and see. Fortunately we’ve probably got the best bowling attack in the world so that looks after itself a little bit, but I think as batters a patience game will be the key and run rates won’t be as quick as what you’d like, but that’s the way it will be.”Like Harris, the MCG curator Matt Page is a former West Australian transplanted to the other side of the continent, now charged with ensuring the storied stadium has pitches to match its overall reputation. “We want to provide an opportunity for everyone,” Page said. “Whether it’s the spinners, it’s the pace bowlers, or the batters. Providing them opportunities to be able to produce their world-class [skills] throughout a game, whether that’s quickies at the front, batters in the middle, spinners towards the end. It’s producing a pitch that everyone can show what they can do.”I think this one will be very similar to the South Australian game which we were probably happy with the most. We were unlucky not to get a result through rain, but there seemed to be a bit there for everyone; a bit there for the quicks, a couple of guys scored hundreds and the feedback we got from that game was really positive. I know we are still three days out but are looking at a wicket that will be similar to that.”Both the NSW and SA fixtures benefited from plenty of early life, meaning the game could evolve at the requisite pace needed to ensure a result after it dried. Another Shield match, when Victoria hosted Western Australia, was not as lively as attempts to prepare a drier, harder surface resulted in a similar result to the soporific strip on which the Ashes Test was drawn. “We went in to that game and we tried to get a little bit harder and a little bit drier and didn’t get the result we wanted,” Page said. “We learned from that and we’ll make sure it doesn’t happen again.”Mitchell Starc, for one, is hopeful of something a little more equitable this time around. With typical bluntness, he assessed last summer’s Test pitch (“shocking”) and the ICC’s average rating for the Perth Stadium flier (“harsh”) that featured some of the characteristics Page is hoping to engender at the MCG over time.”There hasn’t been any discussion in the team but there has been plenty of traction in the public from past players at their disappointment of that rating,” Starc said. “You had a fantastic Test match over five days, a fantastic battle between ball and bat which is what you want. I think that was a bit harsh, I’d say, and the fact it was such an exciting Test match that’s what you want to promote. You want to see wickets like that in the future.”Test cricket isn’t meant to be comfortable, I know it’s a batters’ game, but that’s what makes the game exciting. If you look at the match here last year where the wicket did nothing, it was a pretty boring Test match. If wickets are closer to what we saw in Perth it will create more exiting Test matches and you’ll get more people watching.”It sounds like it will be similar to one of the Shield games few weeks ago so the likelihood is it will do more than last year, which is great because last year was shocking – I didn’t play, fortunately – but the early signs are there could be a bit of grass on it.”

A new domestic format will see the first-class season conclude with a four-team Super Provincial Tournament, in which some of the best players in Sri Lanka will compete

Madushka Balasuriya25-Oct-2017Sri Lanka Cricket is placing a renewed focus on provincial cricket, as part of broader plans to revamp the country’s ailing domestic cricket structure. A new domestic format will see the first-class season conclude with a four-team Super Provincial Tournament, in which some of the best players in Sri Lanka will compete.District teams will also participate, though this is not expected to affect the Premier League inter-club season. While the domestic cricket calendar already has a four-team provincial limited-overs tournament, the expanded framework will see teams play a four-day, pink-ball competition – with at least one game under lights per team – a 50-over tournament, and finally a T20 tournament. Scheduled to start in the first week of December, each provincial tournament will also be preceded by an inter-club competition – three-day matches in place of four-day fixtures being the only change.The district teams, meanwhile, will compete in provincial tournaments to supplement the four Super Provincial squads, which will be based around Centres of Excellence in Colombo, Kandy, Galle, and Dambulla.SLC will also be subsiding its 24 first-class clubs up to Rs. 1 million (USD 6,500) each for friendly matches prior to the start of the Premier League Tournament, allowing more clubs to find promising talent.”Before premier tournaments, clubs would usually play friendly matches on their own at their own expense,” tournament committee chairman Bandula Dissanayaka said. “This year SLC has taken that into account and has given them the opportunity to play some friendly matches where SLC will be paying a substantial amount to the clubs in preparation for this tournament.”This is something new where clubs will have an opportunity to test out their young players, who have not played tournament cricket before. And if they’re suitable enough, maybe absorb them into the premier sides.”Sri Lanka Cricket has also tweaked the lower divisions, though not as radically. Division 2 and 3 fixtures will now be organised by provincial and district cricket associations respectively. Division 2 matches, meanwhile, will now be intra-provincial matches, where district clubs will compete to become provincial champions.Some of the tournament’s details however may be subject to change, with a cricket committee appointed by Sri Lanka’s Sports Ministry expected to offer their input in the lead-up. SLC said they were expecting to hear from the sports minister soon.One area they could possibly provide guidance with would be in deciding which provinces certain district clubs would fall under. At present, players are grouped into the four teams based on their place of birth, school attended and current place of work. In previous instances, this meant provincial teams struggled to field strong teams, leading to players from other provinces being brought in.Any changes though would have to be run by relevant stakeholders – in this case the clubs – prior to implementation.

Harbhajan Singh has made a call against using rank turners in the three-match Test series between India and New Zealand

ESPNcricinfo staff19-Sep-2016Harbhajan Singh has made a call against using rank turners in the three-match Test series between India and New Zealand. He said there may not be any long-term gains in winning matches in three days, with the batsmen being short-changed and the spinners unable to get a proper assessment of their skills.Speaking to in Delhi, where the New Zealanders played their only practice match ahead of the Kanpur Test, Harbhajan believed a surface offering excessive help to spinners could backfire on India.”I can tell you if we go for rank turners, it can boomerang on us like [in the] World T20 in Nagpur. Mitch Santner and Ish Sodhi could prove to be a handful,” he said. “But if we can produce sporting pitch where our batsmen can score 400 runs if batting first, New Zealand can’t beat us. Man to man, we are a better unit. Even if we prepare sporting tracks, we can win 3-0.”Teams coming to the subcontinent would expect to be put under pressure by the turning ball, but in the most recent series in India, South Africa found themselves playing on pitches that misbehaved even on the first day. Nagpur received an official warning from the ICC for the surface that was prepared for the third Test of that series. It ended in three days with 33 of the 40 wickets taken by spinners and no one making a fifty.”Are we gaining anything by winning inside two and half to three days?” Harbhajan asked. “Are we also being fair to our batsmen who struggled against South African spinners during last home series?”You can get wickets but there are times when the bowler doesn’t even know where the ball will land and which direction it goes. You don’t know which one would turn and which one would jump. That’s why I am stressing on good pitches where skill comes into play.”Harbhajan also sympathised with the Indian fast bowlers when conditions are such that “you need spin in the first hour”.”People criticise Ishant [Sharma] for having played nearly 70 Test matches [72] with barely 200-plus [209] wickets. But has anyone cared to find out how many overs Ishant had bowled in India? And how many overs with new ball and how many with old one which reverses?” Harbhajan said. “And why Ishant has not bowled much is because of having such wickets where you need spin in first hour. If he doesn’t get to bowl with the new ball when the seam is hard and new, then we are being unfair to Ishant, who is such a workhorse. If we can make a statement of intent in this series, it will only help us when we travel abroad next time.”I believe both Anil [Kumble, the India coach] and Virat [Kohli, the Test captain] are positive people, who would like play on good Test pitches, where the results are decided on fourth evening or by fifth day post lunch session.”

Alastair Cook has revealed that he had considered whether to give up the captaincy after the Ashes but said England’s victory at Trent Bridge, which saw them regain the urn, helped make up his mind to continue

ESPNcricinfo staff16-Aug-20151:07

‘Young players want to play under Cook’ – Collingwood

Alastair Cook has revealed that he had considered whether to give up the captaincy after the Ashes but said England’s victory at Trent Bridge, which saw them regain the urn, helped make up his mind to continue.Cook took charge of the Test side in 2012 and has had to weather regular criticism in the role. That intensified after England were whitewashed in Australia in 2013-14, a defeat that led to the break up of the side, and Cook came close to quitting last summer only for his wife, Alice, to persuade him not to.He was removed from the captaincy of the one-day team ahead of the World Cup but, amid several changes to the England management, Cook has emerged from a difficult period with his position as Test leader, in charge of a young side, strengthened.”I pretty much decided last Sunday,” Cook said in an interview with the . “I woke up and immediately started thinking about trying to win the Ashes 4-1 and then about what we will have to do to win against Pakistan. It came quickly to me to start planning ahead and that told me that I probably wanted to carry on a bit longer.”It absolutely has been on my mind. At the start of this summer I didn’t know what was going to happen and I wasn’t sure if I would continue beyond the Ashes. But while you’ve still got the opportunity to be England captain and you’ve still got more to give, which I now feel I have, then you need to carry on and give it your all.”After Ashes defeat in Australia and the sacking of Kevin Pietersen – an episode which Cook said had “dragged English cricket through some bad periods” – England were beaten at home by Sri Lanka but then came from behind to win the Test series with India 3-1. Although draws in the West Indies and at home to New Zealand followed, Cook has been able to savour victory over Australia, achieved with a Test to spare despite the tourists arriving as heavy favourites.His partnership with new head coach Trevor Bayliss has begun on a positive footing and Cook is unlikely to be short of support from Andrew Strauss, England’s director of cricket and his former opening partner. He is now looking ahead to challenges in the UAE against Pakistan and a tour of South Africa, currently ranked the No. 1 side in Tests.”It’s such an honour to lead England and the moment you know you haven’t got any more to give is the moment to stop doing it,” Cook said. “That usually comes at a tough time when you think, ‘I can’t force myself to go through this again’. I’d love to go out on a high but I kind of knew pretty quickly after the end of the game at Trent Bridge that I still have that drive to take this team forward.”I haven’t spoken to Andrew Strauss yet and I don’t want to look too far ahead, the one-day stuff has taught me that, but as long as they still want me, and as long as Trevor Bayliss doesn’t have other ideas, I’ll carry on.”

South Africa moved a step closer to a series whitewash with a six-wicket victory at Stellenbosch but their run chase was given a generous donation by the Duckworth-Lewis method.

ESPNcricinfo staff19-Feb-2013
ScorecardSouth Africa moved a step closer to a series whitewash with a six-wicket victory at Stellenbosch but their run chase was given a generous donation by the Duckworth-Lewis method.The game’s second interruption for rain came as South Africa required 84 to win in 90 balls with seven wickets remaining. They were on course for victory, if needing to raise their run-rate by a significant margin. But the revised target made the task very straightforward as they resumed with 33 to win from 30 balls – a target that proved no issue as they won with eight balls to spare.Victory may have come anyway as Clyde Fortuin was marshalling the innings well. He and Jason Smith added 56 as the chase made good progress. But had Fortuin been dismissed with plenty of work left to do – as would have been the case without rain – England could have got home.As it was their middle-order blow out cost them. Having elected to bat they would have wanted to set a more challenging score. Callum Jackson and Kishen Velani put together a stand of 133 but progress was slow and, as new batsman tried to accelerate in the last 10 overs, wickets tumbled six wickets fell in as many overs and only Gavin Griffiths at No. 10 made another double figure score.Nqazibini Sigwili’s left-arm seamers did the damage with 4 for 34 as South Africa went on to knock off the target, aided by the Duckworth-Lewis system.

Seeing the scorecard at tea on the second day, you’d be forgiven for thinking the surface at the Chinnaswamy Stadium had transformed overnight from the featherbed it was on the first

The Report by Siddarth Ravindran at the Chinnaswamy Stadium14-Dec-2011
Scorecard
Seeing the scorecard at tea on the second day, you’d be forgiven for thinking the surface at the Chinnaswamy Stadium had transformed overnight from the featherbed it was on the first. Punjab had sauntered to 278 for 4 on Tuesday, but ten wickets went down in the first two sessions today for 154. It took a free-swinging unbroken 83-run stand between Stuart Binny and CM Gautam in the evening to show that there were no gremlins in the track.The collapses in the first two sessions came about more due to poor strokes than the bowling, which was tight without being overly threatening. Despite folding well before lunch, Punjab ended the day ahead as Karnataka’s top order put in a feeble performance. One of Karnataka’s strengths this season has been that they haven’t been overly dependent on any single batsman – five of their players have already made 300 or more runs this Ranji season. From a seemingly hopeless 100 for 5 in reply to Punjab’s 357, Binny kickstarted a revival that at least gives them an outside chance of taking the first-innings lead.Both sides are fielding virtually second-string bowling line-ups – Punjab are missing the injured Harbhajan Singh, Manpreet Gony and Love Ablish while Karnataka are without Abhimanyu Mithun, Vinay Kumar and fast bowler SL Akshay. To add to that lengthy list, Karnataka’s spearhead S Aravind was also sidelined on the first afternoon with a knee injury.A day for piling on the runs, then? It seemed as much when Punjab began with a couple of boundaries in the first three overs, but when the new ball was taken, it asked more questions of the batsmen. Binny got it to swing around, while NC Aiyappa made Amitoze Singh nervously survive a bottom-edge towards slip, an lbw shout and a caught-behind appeal in the same over.It was the left-arm spinner KP Appanna who made the big breakthrough, removing Mayank Sidhana caught-behind down the leg side for 92. The batsman couldn’t believe the decision, and his disappointment was more than just at missing out on a century. Amitoze soon became the second run-out victim of the innings, and two balls later Bipul Sharma nicked to slip. Punjab’s lower order was rolled over quickly, and Karnataka were batting earlier than they would have expected.It didn’t begin well though as the biggest name in the line-up, Robin Uthappa, flicked the first delivery of the innings to give square leg a catch. Debutant fast bowler Baltej Singh bowled with pace and troubled the batsmen, getting the ball to jag past the outside edge on several occasions. KB Pawan and Ganesh Satish responded with an overly cautious approach, and though the bowling became less troublesome once the shine went off the ball, they plodded to 50 in 28 overs.Satish perished as he attempted to release the pressure with a lofted drive, only to chip it to point. Bharat Chipli also fell to a botched drive that ended as a caught & bowled. Pawan survived two dropped chances, on the second of which the bowler Rahul Sharma set off on an extravagant celebration before realising it had been put down at slip. Rahul did get a chance to reprise it later as he had Pawan top-edging to the keeper for a nearly three-hour 32.Binny came out biffing sixes, and seemingly wondering what the top order had been worried about. He muscled boundaries through cover and point, and a swipe over midwicket brought up his half-century in 49 deliveries. Gautam was no slouch either, though most of his runs came through fours behind the wickets, either controlled sweeps or glides to third man. They took Karnataka halfway to the Punjab total, but the visitors will still be the happier side halfway through the match.

The ICC has announced the final squads for the six-team ICC World Cricket League Division 3 tournament, which will be played from January 22 to 29 in Hong Kong

ESPNcricinfo staff30-Dec-2010The ICC has announced the final squads for the six-team ICC World Cricket League Division 3 tournament, which will be played from January 22 to 29, 2011 in Hong Kong.Teams from Denmark, Italy, USA, Oman and Papua New Guinea will join hosts Hong Kong for the tournament. The top two sides will win promotion to Division 2, which will be staged in the United Arab Emirates in April 2011.The matches will be hosted at three grounds in Hong Kong – Kowloon CC, Hong Kong CC and Mission Road.The teams will arrive in Hong Kong on January 20 and have one day to practice before the matches start.Denmark: Michael Pedersen (capt), Aftab Ahmed, Rizwan Mahmood, Raja Javed, Martin Pedersen, Jacob Larsen, Bashir Shah, Troels Thøgersen, Bobby Chawla, Yasir Iqbal, Frederik Klokker, Carsten Pedersen, David Borchersen, Naveed MugfalHong Kong: Najeeb Amar (capt), Nadeem Ahmed, Irfan Ahmed, Waqas Barkat, Tabarak Dar, Khalid Butt, Asif Khan, Courtney Kruger; Roy Lansam, Mark Chapman, Nizakat Mohammad, Moner Muhammad, Adil Mehmood, Mohammad Aizaz KhanItaly: Alessandro Bonora (capt), Roshendra Abewickrama, Din Alaud, Damian Crowley, Gayashan Munasinghe, Dilan Fernando, Thushara Kurukulasuriya, Damian Fernando, Andrew Northcote, Hayden Patrizi, Peter Petricola, Michael Raso, Hemantha Jayasena, Vincenzo PennazzaOman: Hemal Mehta (capt), Qais bin Khalid al Said, Sufyan Mehmood, Sultan Ahmed, Hemin Pratap Desai, Vaibhav Wategaonkar, Jatinder Singh, Deep Trivedi, Rajeshkumar Ranpura, Awal Khan, Syed Amir Ali, Adnan Ilyas, Zeeshan Siddiqui, Khalid RasheedPapua New Guinea: Rarua Dikana Boge (capt), Chris Amini, Assadollah Vala, Kila Pala, Loa Nou, Pipi Raho, Mahuru Dai, Raymond Haoda Jnr, Chris Kent, Jack Vare-Kevera, Tony Ura, Kapena Arua, Hitolo Areni, Jason KilaUSA: Steve Massiah (capt), Muhammed Ghous, Lennox Cush, Usman Shuja, Rashard Marshall, Sushil Nadkarni, Ritesh Kadu, Orlando Baker, Carl Wright, Aditya Thyagarajan, Kevin Darlington, Durale Forrest, Asif Mehmood Khan, Ryan Corns