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A Jeetan Patel century has kept Warwickshire in a contest at Headingley that Yorkshire need to win to calm their own fears of a drop into Division Two

David Hopps at Headingley19-Sep-20171:38

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Yorkshire 62 for 1 (Lyth 35*) trail Warwickshire 219 (Patel 100, Fisher 5-54) by 157 runs A freewheeling hundred by Jeetan Patel, which might have been designed to banish the frustrations of a relegation season in a single innings, has kept Warwickshire in a contest at Headingley that Yorkshire need to win to calm their own fears of a drop into Division Two.The decrepit old Rugby Stand might be about to be pulled down, but Yorkshire have no wish to go down with it. A hole at one end of the ground is one thing, a hole in the heart of every Yorkshire cricket supporter quite another. In fifth place at the start of this round, one point above Somerset and Middlesex, they wish to put an awkward transitional season to bed without further alarms.Patel ensured a few restless nights yet. Simplicity is the essence of his batting and the fact that Warwickshire’s relegation is assured uncluttered his mind even further. He clattered anything wide to the cover boundary with aplomb, turning 49 for 6 into 219 – unexpected riches. Patel and Ian Bell got a century and half-century apiece and the other nine batsmen managed 54 between them.Patel only has three first-class centuries and two have come against Yorkshire. He did not outstay his welcome once it was achieved, falling lbw to Matt Fisher’s next delivery as he tried to hit through the leg side. Fisher finished with 5 for 54 in his first Championship appearance of the season. From a single bowling analysis much good can come.”Get through the season” has been the gist of Yorkshire’s message to Fisher. If it had to be the 2nd XI then so be it. There is no point being the most highly-regarded young quick in the country if your hamstring is not up to the job. Three times it let him down last year, once while batting. He skippered England Under-19s in India, but regarded his own body suspiciously.For an enthusiast like Fisher, identified as a talent at an early age and eager to make his mark, to be regarded as a long-term project and asked to bowl within himself while his body strengthened, cannot have been easy. He looked a little down on pace, perhaps as a consequence, but the wickets came. He was on a few long lists for the 2019 World Cup and, if that is no longer the case, this was the first sign of better things ahead.Jeetan Patel batting for Warwickshire•Getty Images

Liam Banks, an England U19 on Championship debut, was Fisher’s first victim, edging a ball of challenging line which bounced and left him just enough. But Bell was his most prized wicket, a relief for Yorkshire after a stand of 96 for the seventh wicket.Bell, showing occasional silkiness while Warwickshire collapsed around him, reached 50 by edging Fisher wide of gully, but he fell in Fisher’s next over as he took the last four wickets at a time when Patel was causing growing disquiet. Chris Wright followed in Fisher’s next over, another lbw victim.Yorkshire conceded 142 between lunch and tea and it was a surprise that it only brought one plaintiff cry of “C’mon Yorkshire”. In the Rugby Stand, where the sun never intrudes, the diehards looked on with a critical air, as diehards have often done, offering corrugated opinions under the corrugated roof for the past 90 years.The morning had belonged to Yorkshire, prospering after Jonathan Trott took the chance to bowl first – unusual for a 10.30am start in September, especially when the home side needed a positive result. Yorkshire fielded five pace bowlers, as if uncertain which ones would rouse themselves to the task. Jack Brooks led the way with the first two wickets, Trott falling to an excellent diving catch by Adam Lyth at second slip, Ben Coad following up.Collectors of cricketing oddities would be disappointed that the chance of Ryan Sidebottom bowling to Ryan Sidebottom went begging because Yorkshire’s Ryan Sidebottom, whose name really should have been copyrighted years ago, had a hamstring strain. More pertinently, it has denied him a Headingley farewell and with the final Championship match of the season due at Chelmsford next week, it might deny him any sort of farewell at all.But he can be hurrahed here at any rate, 762 first-class wickets to his name, a model professional entering retirement at 39. A bowler who upped sticks and spent the middle period of his career at Nottinghamshire but who, even when he did, remained the very essence of a Yorkshire cricketer. It might have all ended with him looking exasperated and cursing a flat one at The Oval as Surrey made 592, resenting every run as always. Perhaps it was a suitable way to go.

BCB president Nazmul Hassan has said that the board has finalised a bowling coach for the Bangladesh team

Mohammad Isam03-Aug-2016BCB president Nazmul Hassan has said that the board has finalised a bowling coach for the Bangladesh team. The name of the individual cannot be revealed yet due to an obligation but Hassan said that he would arrive in the country at the end of August.

On England’s security inspection tour: “We sent the ECB a security proposal. We are guessing that they will visit Bangladesh when they go to India for the security inspection trip, possibly between August 15 to 20.”
On Dhaka Premier League payment delay: “It is very unfortunate that the players had to meet the CEO even after we set the clubs the deadline. The board will pay even if the club doesn’t. It shouldn’t have been delayed. The board will deal with the legal procedure with the clubs later. Players shouldn’t suffer. It was our mistake; we must pay them immediately.”

The board had been looking for a new bowling coach since Heath Streak quit in May. Aaqib Javed had turned down the offer in June, and since then, the BCB had put up a shortlist of candidates.”The good news is that our search is over,” Hassan said. “We know who we will take [as bowling coach]. But, unfortunately, because of some obligations, we cannot announce his name. We are hoping he will come to Dhaka any time in the last week of this month. But since he is working somewhere, we shouldn’t be making any announcements. Once his contract is over, we will announce it together.”Meanwhile, Hassan informed that former India left-arm spinner Venkatapathy Raju will arrive in Dhaka later this month as a spin consultant for the High Performance programme. He also said that Javed, who is currently in Dhaka for a seven-day stint as the HP’s pace consultant, has been asked to take a look at the progress of the bowling actions of Taskin Ahmed and Arafat Sunny, who were suspended by the ICC for illegal bowling actions in March.

Darren Stevens smashed 90 and took four wickets at Kent inflicted Surrey’s third consecutive T20 defeat at home

Tim Wigmore at Kia Oval19-Jun-2015
ScorecardDarren Stevens made his highest T20 score and then took four wickets (file photo)•Getty Images

Only five Englishmen – Owais Shah, Luke Wright, Michael Lumb, Ravi Bopara and Phil Mustard – have scored more runs in T20 cricket than Darren Stevens. All played for England in the format, so Stevens can feel a little aggrieved at never having received an opportunity.Into his 40th year, that chance will never come. And the start of 2015 has not been kind. So bleak has Stevens’ form been that, immediately after Kent lost to Derbyshire in the County Championship, he was whisked away to find form for the 2nd XI.The evidence of his 172nd T20 game rather suggests that it worked, as Stevens looted 56 runs from his last 16 balls. The 18th over of the innings, from James Burke, yielded 27 runs. Stevens heaved two sixes over midwicket, but it was the brutality of his straight hitting that lingered: one four almost took out the umpire with its ferocity.

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Kent are the only county in the country with no overseas signings while Surrey, earlier in the season, drafted in Wahab Riaz for two matches in 18 hours and have also called upon the services of Kumar Sangakkara, Kevin Pietersen, Moises Henriques and Azhar Mahmood so far. Of course, Surrey have been ravaged by injuries of late and their squad for this match was arguably one of the weakest they have ever fielded but, whatever your allegiance, it is nice to see that homegrown teams, built from the bottom-up such as Kent, can still beat the powerhouses in this money-centric age.

Invigorating with the bat, Stevens is a rather undemonstrative bowler, operating wicket-to-wicket at a pace no greater than Kent fans driving to the Kia Oval on the M25. But he clean bowled Aneesh Kapil in the first over of the innings and then returned to end a stand of 59 between Gary Wilson and Zafar Ansari with which Surrey briefly threatened to get close.The ball after Ansari harrumphed Stevens over long-on for six, he fell attempting a repeat. As his bat thudded into the ground in frustration, it was clear Surrey were heading inexorably towards a third consecutive T20 defeat at home.Stevens ended up with 4 for 39 to go with his career best 90 – quite an evening’s work. “It could have been a hundred and a five-for, but I’m not going to complain,” he said. His belligerence had lifted Kent to within nine of the 240 Surrey conceded against Glamorgan at the Kia Oval in their first T20 of the season. The sight of 18-year-old Ryan Davies thumping his first ball over long-on for six in his first innings in professional T20 cricket rather summed the bedlam up.Surrey’s attack was made to look like the patched-up operation it was. The extent of Surrey’s absentee list – even discounting Kevin Pietersen, seven first choice T20 players were out – had led Graham Ford to admit they were underdogs. In his first T20 match for four years Tim Linley, fresh from taking a Championship five-for on loan at Sussex, snared three wickets in the final over of Kent’s innings, though by then it felt rather late. Sam Curran, the young brother of Tom who only turned 17 a fortnight ago, learned of the perils of bowling too short.While it felt a little churlish to criticise in the circumstances, it was curious that Ansari, who bowled Joe Denly when bowling the opening over of the innings, was left with an over unused despite taking 2 for 22. Perhaps more curious still, skipper Gareth Batty restricted himself to a solitary over.The absence of Jason Roy, Steven Davies, Moises Henriques and Kumar Sangakkara led to an elevation to opener for Tom Curran, Surrey’s regular No. 9 in the Championship. Not that he gave any indication of being perturbed, striking two enormous straight sixes until he was needlessly run out. Gary Wilson fused orthodoxy and cute innovation shuffling across his stumps, to record his sixth T20 half-century, but Surrey retained the feel of a side a couple of batsmen light.As Mitchell Claydon removed Matt Dunn with the game’s last delivery, so ended an emphatic Kent victory on a sun-kissed evening. Having seen over 400 runs, few of a crowd of 21,717 seemed particularly perturbed by Surrey’s loss. Their next home game, against Middlesex in a fortnight, is almost a sell-out already. Surrey now have four defeats to go with their solitary T20 win, and only a stirring turnaround can spare them from being knocked out in the group stages. How much such failure would matter is a moot point.

Mohammad Hafeez’s economical and incisive spell bowled Lahore Lions to a comprehensive victory against Faisalabad Wolves in the final of the Faysal Bank T-20

ESPNcricinfo staff09-Dec-2012
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsMohammad Hafeez’s economical and incisive spell bowled Lahore Lions to a comprehensive victory against Faisalabad Wolves in the final of the Faysal Bank T-20, and potentially secured them a place in the Champions League T20 next year.Chasing a target of 155, Faisalabad had reached 30 for 1 in the fourth over when the slide began. Asif Ali was first run out, and then Hafeez nipped out three wickets in successive overs to reduce Faisalabad to 56 for 5. The collpase did not cease and Hafeez returned to dismiss Imran Khalid to pick up his fourth wicket. He finished with 4 for 11, and Abdul Razzaq claimed 2 for 19, as Faisalabad were restricted to 121 for 8 in 20 overs.Lahore’s innings had been set up by a fiery start from their openers after they chose to bat. Ahmed Shehzad scored 29 off 18 balls and was first out with the score on 44 in 4.2 overs. Nasir Jamshed carried on, making 42 off 28 balls to lay the platform for a formidable score. The middle-order batsmen, however, could not sustain the momentum and Nos. 3 to 5 got starts but scored at only a run a ball. Lahore had to settle for 154 for 7, but it proved to be 33 too many for Faisalabad.The final was watched by a crowd of 20,000 at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, with several thousands outside the venue without tickets.

New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has appointed David White, a former Test cricketer and administrator with extensive experience in the rugby industry, as its new chief executive

ESPNcricinfo staff06-Dec-2011New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has appointed David White, a former Test cricketer and administrator with extensive experience in the rugby industry, as its new chief executive. White, who will begin office on February 1, replaced Justin Vaughan, who had served as chief executive since 2007.White is a former chief executive of Auckland Rugby and before that chief executive of Wellington Rugby. He recently returned to New Zealand after three years in England, as chief of Bristol Rugby, to head the official travel and hospitality programme for Rugby World Cup 2011.White played two Tests and three ODIs for New Zealand as an opening batsman on their tour to Pakistan in 1990. He had a 15-year career at Northern Districts, for whom he played 106 first-class matches and 44 List A games.”The board of NZC is delighted to have secured the services of such an experienced sports administrator as David,” NZC chairman Chris Moller said. “In addition it is a bonus that David has represented New Zealand in cricket and played for Northern District’s for 15 years, including being captain for two seasons.”White is a physical education teacher and also completed an accountancy degree at Massey University in 1990. He is a current board member of the New Zealand Cricket Players Association, a role that he will resign from before taking up his appointment with NZC.

Western Australia debutant Tom Beaton launched his career with an impressive 71 to help his side secure a five-wicket victory

ESPNcricinfo staff03-Dec-2010
ScorecardTom Beaton showed his potential on his first-team debut•Getty Images

Western Australia debutant Tom Beaton launched his career with an impressive 71 to help the side secure a five-wicket victory against Queensland at the WACA. Beaton added 141 for the fifth wicket with Adam Voges who played a captain’s hand to finish unbeaten on 85 when victory came with five balls to spare.The home side were behind the game at the 20-over split having fallen to 3 for 9 following incisive new-ball bursts from Nathan Rimmington and Chris Swan. However, when the innings resumed with a target of 212, Beaton and Voges made strong progress. Twenty-year-old Beaton hit three sixes in a 73-ball stay before he was run out by James Hopes, but by then the result was almost assured.Voges provided an experienced figure to the chase and paced his innings perfectly while Beaton scored at close to a run-a-ball in the highest score by a Western Australia debutant. Luke Ronchi gave the match a swift conclusion with a quick-fire 23 to guard against any last-minute nerves for Western Australia who remain firmly in contention for a place in the final.Queensland, who are stuck to the bottom of the table, suffered a major batting collapse as they wasted an ideal platform of 1 for 146 after 31 overs. Chris Hartley (58) and Chris Lynn (47) both departed to Brett Dorey in the 32nd over and the innings never regained any momentum. Dorey claimed two more to finish with 4 for 53 in 11 overs although Michael Neser (30 not out) edged the total over 200.

Charlie Taylor, who played both cricket and hockey for Barbados in a sporting career that lasted more than 30 years, died in Oakville, Canada

05-Jan-2010Charlie Taylor, who played both cricket and hockey for Barbados
in a sporting career that lasted more than 30 years, died on
Tuesday in Oakville, Canada. He was 82. Christened Alfred
McDonald and son of a well-known Bridgetown entrepreneur, A.E.
Taylor, Charlie first made his mark in both sports at Pickwick
Club.He was a quick-scoring batsman, wicket-keeper and fleet-footed
fielder and the most solid defender in Barbados hockey at the
time, representing the island in the Caribbean championships in
Trinidad in 1960 as a still fit and fast 42-year-old.Taylor made his cricket debut just short of his 20th birthday
against Trinidad at the Queen’s Park Oval in 1942. He batted down
the order, was out cheaply and wasn’t chosen again until five
years later.In his second match on return, against British Guiana at Bourda,
he scored the first of his four hundreds, 101 not out in a total
of 601 for 9 declared, going in at No. 9 and adding 125 with
E.A.V. ‘Foffie’ Williams for the ninth wicket.It gained him a promotion as an opener for the rest of his
career, sharing partnerships with Teddy Hoad jnr., George Carew,
Roy Marshall and Conrad Hunte until he bowed out against Jamaica
at Kensington, aged 33.His two major innings were both at Kensington 168 against
Trinidad and Tobago in 1949, when he and Marshall put on 278 for
the first wicket in an eventual total of 698, and 161 against the
touring M.C.C. (England) team in 1948 that was followed by Clyde
Walcott’s 120 and Everton Weekes’ unbeaten 118 in a total of 514
for 4 declared.In 16 first-class matches for Barbados Taylor scored 860 runs at
an average of 34.4, took nine catches and made three stumpings.His son, Alfred, also played four matches for Barbados as a
batsman/wicket-keeper in the 1960s.Charlie was one of the pioneers in the Barbados hotel industry as
proprietor of the Royal Hotel in Hastings, Christ Church, now the
Regency Cove. He leaves to mourn his wife, Sylvia, sons Alfred,
Tony and Allan (the calypsonian, the Mighty Whitey) and daughter
Patricia. Another son, Christopher, predeceased him

Jasprit Bumrah struck with the last ball of the day after India were bowled out for 185

Deivarayan Muthu03-Jan-2025Australia 9 for 1 (Bumrah 1-7) trail India185 (Pant 40, Boland 4-31, Starc 3-49, Cummins 2-37) by 176 runs
Off-field chaos swirled around India in the lead-up to the Sydney Test. Their on-field batting performance on the opening day in Sydney was just as chaotic after Rohit Sharma dropped himself in a nearly unprecedented move in Indian cricket and Jasprit Bumrah took over as captain. After Bumrah chose to bat, India struggled in the face of relentless bowling from Australia and were eventually dismissed for 185, just before close of play.Bumrah produced the final twist when he got rid of Usman Khawaja off the last ball of the day, and Australia went to stumps on 9 for 1.Related