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Last season Wellington recorded their lowest score of 78 against Northern Districts at WestpacTrust Park, Hamilton. They are not yet sure of passing that dubious landmark in this year’s corresponding fixture, having finished day two at 76/8, 151 short of ND’s first-innings 227.It is a match full of notable statistical achievements, the most striking of which is that ND’s Michael Parlane scored 146, while the second-highest individual total has been 22. That was by Wellington pace bowler Andrew Penn, who registered career-best bowling figures of seven for 71.The pitch has been the main talking point. It began the day retaining the bright green colour of yesterday, turning a more conventional brown as the day went on. It remained challenging for the batsmen of both teams – Parlane gloriously excepted – all day, but how many demons does it really contain?Few were apparent in the hour or so after play began two hours late following heavy overnight rain. The only wicket to fall in that time was that of Hamish Marshall, run out for eight when James Franklin deflected a ball onto the stumps at the bowler’s end.Things changed as soon as Penn joined the attack after the drinks break. He struck twice in two overs. First, Grant Bradburn (15) was caught at third slip by Grant Donaldson a ball after edging just wide of the same, diving, fielder.Robbie Hart was Penn’s second victim, lbw for a duck. It should have been three wickets in two overs, but David Sales dropped Joseph Yovich at second slip before the left-hander had scored.Yovich was out off the last ball before lunch, edging a lifter from Penn into the gloves of wicket-keeper Glynn Howell for eight.When Simon Doull – as intent on aggression in the four-day version of the game as in the one-day – holed out to his second ball for a duck, ND were 167/8.Parlane had reached his hundred before the interval. It was his seventh first-class century, made on his first appearance of the season. He faced 200 balls and hit 15 fours. He displayed the familiar Parlane power and timing, but added exemplary shot selection.He added six more fours and a six, straight back against the sightscreen off Brooke Walker, while putting on 60 for the ninth wicket with Bruce Martin.They were helped by the absence of Penn from the attack for most of their partnership. It was a different game when he and Franklin were resting.Penn’s returned to wrap up the ND innings, having Parlane and Graeme Aldridge caught behind off successive deliveries.The Wellington reply fell into disarray almost as soon as it had begun. At tea they were 14 for two, having lost skipper Matthew Bell lbw to Yovich for five and Selwyn Blackmore caught by Martin at short leg of Aldridge for the first of four Wellington ducks.After the interval there was a procession of batsmen as the visitors subsided to 29/6.Richard Jones went to a fine diving catch by James Marshall at third slip off Yovich. Jones had scored 17 of the 21 that Wellington had on the board when he was out.Sales was caught at second slip by Scott Styris off Yovich. The ball was a beauty that straightened and squared Sales up.Matthew Walker was bowled first ball. He pushed tentatively down the wrong line.Franklin survived the hat-trick ball, only for Aldridge to surprise Donaldson with another lifter on off stump. It flew off the top edge to be well taken by Matthew Hart in the gully.Penn, who might have hoped to have had his feet up for the rest of the day, restored a fig leaf of modesty to the Wellington performance with 22 in a partnership of 40 for the seventh wicket.Significantly, the partnership prospered when the strike bowlers were rested. Eleven of the 15 wickets to fall today went to Penn or Yovich, two bowlers of good pace who were capable of making the ball lift off just short of a good length. Aldridge, who maintained a brisk pace and nagging line and length, claimed two.But Walker, Mark Gillespie, Doull and Styris have bowled 46 overs between them in the match for one wicket, that off a leg-side delivery from Doull that Penn chased and glanced to the wicket-keeper.So it is quality fast bowling making use of bounce and pace more than lateral movement, that is responsible for the sorry time experienced by the batsmen of both teams, not a poor quality pitch. If there were more surfaces like this in New Zealand, batsmen would be better equipped to deal with the challenges that they present.Yovich finished the day by dismissing Franklin, caught by Bradburn at first slip for a dogged 16. He may have been overtaken by Daryl Tuffey, and now Ian Butler, in the fast-bowling pecking order, but Yovich is capable of sustained spells of intelligent and genuinely quick bowling, as he demonstrated again today. He has five for 31.Wellington resume tomorrow needing two to avoid the follow-on with two wickets remaining. ND should win the game from here, whether or not those two runs are scored.

Mumbai defeated arch-rivals Baroda by seven wickets in an Under-14 WestZone league tie at the Cricket Club of India in Mumbai on Monday. Chasing178 for victory on the final day, the hosts were buoyed by an unbeatencentury from opener Sagar Pawar, en route to collecting eight points forthe outright win.Baroda won the toss and choosing to bat, were skittled out for 142 on theopening day with Mumbai new ball bowler Pratik Kar, who ripped out the toporder, finishing with 4/29. In reply, Mumbai limped to 131/6 on the firstevening but managed to eke out a lead of 42 before they folded up. KamranShaikh senior did most of the damage, collecting a haul of 6/34. Mumbai’swicketkeeper cum opening bat, Pawar top scored with a breezy 40 off 42 balls.The visitors marched to 199/6 at the end of the day with R Rana (59) and PShah (69) doing the bulk of the scoring. On the third morning however, theylost their last four wickets for the addition of just 20 runs. Mumbai’sShoaib Shaikh and Dinar Gaonkar took four wickets apiece. The home team’sbatsmen made light of the target, which they knocked off in just 41 overs.Pawar’s 121 (131 balls, 18 fours) and his 111-run second wicket stand withGaurang Shah (35) were the key elements of the runchase.

Farhad Moshiri is onto the sixth permanent manager in six years with Frank Lampard at Everton after sacking Rafa Benitez back in January, and depending on how the season ends for the club, the search for seventh could commence this summer.

What’s the word?

Speaking to Football FanCast, transfer insider Dean Jones, has revealed that there will be a “big decision” made at Goodison Park over the next few months on Lampard’s future.

“It’s a big decision for them to make, and they’re not going to rush into anything right now,” he began.

“But with the way things are going, you wonder how this is going to pan out.”

Supporters will be livid

Everton fans have been on a rollercoaster ride ever since Moshiri took over the club in 2016, with huge investments on transfer signings and a constant cycle of managers being brought in and spat out over and over again, so supporters will be livid that this constant unsettle at the club could potentially continue into next season.

Of course being relegated from the Premier League for the first time ever would be every Evertonian’s worst nightmare, but it is clear the supporters are not happy with the owners management of the club following a number of protests this season against the powers at Goodison, and sacking Lampard at the end of the campaign could cause further disaster for the club.

The 43-year-old manager was appointed on Deadline Day, so hasn’t been given the opportunity to build the squad with a transfer window, inheriting a team in absolute disarray from his Spanish predecessor, lacking confidence, form and quality, with a number of injuries hindering the team. Thus, it would surely not be a fair assessment to judge Lampard on the outcome of Everton’s season considering the hand he has been dealt.

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The Toffees are three points clear of the relegation zone after winning their game in hand that they had over their relegation rivals in the bottom three and are currently 17th in the Premier League table, but there is still work to do to secure safety for the club, if Lampard can keep the side up after such a tumultuous season, it would be an achievement.

In other news: Fresh injury news emerges from Finch Farm, Lampard will be delighted

	Marcus Trescothick intends to continue playing for Somerset © Getty Images

1993
Makes his first-class debut for Somerset aged 17.1994
Cracks his first fifty (81) against Hampshire and follows that up with his maiden first-class hundred against Surrey (121).1996, 1997
Denis Compton Award for “most promising young player”.1998
Duncan Fletcher, the Glamorgan coach and soon-to-be England’s,watches Trescothick smack 167 on a slippery Taunton pitch. The next highest score in the match was 50.July 8, 2000
Makes his ODI debut against Zimbabwe, stroking 79 in a losing cause.August 3, 2000
His Test debut against West Indies at Old Trafford. Like a duck to water, he scores 66 and an unbeaten 38.February 24, 2001
Hits his maiden Test hundred against Sri Lanka in Galle, a fine innings of immense concentration in sapping heat, though England still lost.June 12, 2001
Launches 137 from just 142 balls against Pakistan in the NatWest Series, again in vain.May 2002
Hits 161 in the second Test against Sri Lanka at Edgbaston. England win by an innings and 111 runs.June 20, 2003
Gained revenge against Pakistan, battering 86 from 55 to lead England to a win.2005
Spearheaded a no-holds-barred approach against Australia with 431 runs and a top score of 90, as he – and England – finally reclaim the Ashes.Later that year Trescothick scores 193 in a lost cause against Pakistan in Multan.February 2006
The beginning of the end. Word is out that Trescothick will fly home before England’s Test series against India for ‘personal’ reasons.April 2006
Makes himself available to play for Somerset throughout the first weeks of the season, as he seeks to put his winter problems behind him and regain his England place ahead of the first Test against Sri Lanka in May. Marches into form with a breathtaking assault on Kent.May 2006
Signals his return to international cricket with a robust first-day century against Sri Lanka at Lord’s, his 14th in all.September 2006
England’s Champions Trophy preparations, already weakened by injuries, receive another blow with news that Trescothick will miss the tournament after receiving specialist medical advice.November 2006
A troubled Trescothick flies home from Australia with a reoccurrence of his “stress-related illness” and plays no part in the Ashes.March 2007
Already ruled out of the World Cup in the World Cup in the Caribbean, Trescothick undergoes a double hernia operation to be fit for the start of the domestic season with Somerset.July 2007
Despite an encouraging county season he declares himself unavailable for September’s ICC World Twenty20 in South Africa as well as England’s winter tours of Sri Lanka and New Zealand.September 2007
Speaks out for the first time about the depressive illness which blighs his career and threatens to curtail it prematurely.March 2008
Announces his retirement from international cricket.

Dean Jones: “We’re not trying to be a competitor to the BCCI” © Getty Images

Dean Jones, the Indian Cricket League’s operations manager, said the organisers of the new Twenty20 competition had drawn up a “hit list” of current and former players they hoped to sign up. Jones would not rule out trying to attract stars like Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath, but said: “We haven’t got as much money as some people think”.He said the tournament would be another option for international players who could not get an English county contract. “It will fill a bit of a void for some of the international players around the world,” Jones told .”There are always concerns about Australians playing county cricket because they play so much, but there will be openings for them to play in our matches. A) they can earn some extra money and, b) it won’t be as taxing on their bodies. There are a few lining up.”The ICL, which was set up by Zee Sports, is set to hold its first matches in early November. Jones said the group was not out to compete with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). “We won’t be playing matches at the same time they will be,” Jones said. “We’ll carefully schedule our matches and the times we are playing.”We’re not trying to be a competitor to the BCCI – far from it. If India saw a couple of young lads playing really well in our tournament and they needed them for an Indian A tour or even the India team, we’d welcome the BCCI with open arms and say ‘you can have him’. That’s what it’s all about.”

Western Australia are keen to rope in Josh Mangan, a legspinner from Victoria, as a replacement for Beau Casson, the left-arm wristspinner who has signed up with New South Wales for the next season.Mangan, 20, has already played for the Australian under-19 side and is rated highly, but Victoria’s legspin department is already overcrowded with Shane Warne and Cameron White, the captain, playing for the state. Wayne Clark, the Western Australian coach, reckoned that a possible lack of opportunities with Victoria might help Mangan make up his mind to switch to Perth.”He has been in the system in Victoria, but with White and Warne back and forth playing it’s been difficult for him to play at the next level,” Clark was quoted as saying by The Age, an Australian daily. “Maybe a couple of years here might help him out.”The discussions have been positive so far,” said Clark. “It’s worked for a number of young players around Australia at different times where guys have seen an opportunity and grabbed it. That’s really up to Josh from now on.” Western Australia have already protested against Casson’s move and have appealed to a grievance tribunal, who will hear the case on May 29.Meanwhile, Victoria failed to get Chris Rogers, the Western Australian opener, to shift to Melbourne for the next season. Ken Jacobs, Cricket Victoria’s chief executive, admitted that they had approached Rogers unsuccessfully. “It just eventuated that Victoria wasn’t on his radar.”

Close West Indies 157 (Chanderpaul 54, Zaheer 4-41, Kumble 4-51) and 91 for 1 trail India 457 by 209 runs
ScorecardEven by modern West Indian standards, this was a depressing day. On a batting surface which required commitment, they showed none and conceded a 300-run lead. At the end of the third day the question was not so much whether they could save the match as whether they could avoid an innings defeat, and humiliation.Zaheer Khan was the champion of the day. He came out after lunch full of hustling intent and took three wickets in four overs on a pitch that was only meant to assist spin. He could not be defeated by the heat and was full of subtle changes in length and pace.Nor were these tail-end wickets. They were Carl Hooper, hooking to fine leg (103 for 5), Ryan Hinds, lbw to one that swerved in late (119 for 6), and Ridley Jacobs, spooning a slower one to cover (123 for 7).Anil Kumble was the next-best bowler. He stuck rigidly to his line and had the occasional one leap or slide. It was his dismissal of Ramnaresh Sarwan, lbw playing back to a topspinner in the morning, that opened the gates for India (43 for 3).Shivnarine Chanderpaul remained the sole obstruction. India had found it virtually impossible to dismiss Chanderpaul on their tour of the Caribbean earlier in the year, and today proved to be a similar story. Typically, infuriatingly, he nudged and poked around and never lost his head – or his wicket till the very end, when he popped a return catch to Kumble on 54 (157 all out).The West Indian response when asked to follow on was rousing. Wavell Hinds gave no impression of a man who had pottered about twitchily for a 29-ball 1 in the first innings. A boundary per over appeared to be the norm – till three came in Javagal Srinath’s second over, the fourth of the innings. When Sanjay Bangar was brought on to replace Srinath, Hinds took three more ferocious leg-side fours of him.But when Harbhajan Singh snuck one behind Hinds’ legs to bowl him for 40, off just 34 deliveries (60 for 1), Sourav Ganguly chose to slow things down. Bangar bowled bouncers from both over and round the wicket till umpire David Shepherd stepped into have a long word with him.The spinners kept it torniquet-tight from the other end amid increasing evidence of turn and uneven bounce. Sarwan and Chris Gayle saw it out, but it should be only a matter of time tomorrow.

Canterbury 254 beat Northern Districts 181 by 73 runs
ScorecardCanterbury took advantage of a washout in Wellington, to move four points clear at the top of the State Shield table. After Chris Harris had won the toss for Canterbury, Michael Papps and Peter Fulton continued their remarkable run of form with a brace of 72s. They added 119 for the second wicket, but the rest of the batsmen were unable to match their standards, and Canterbury were all out in the last over for 254.Papps is now the most prolific run-scorer this season with 366 to date, while Fulton has scored 265. They took a particular liking to Ian Butler, who was walloped for 69 in 10 overs, but Graeme Aldridge took 4 for 33 and Joseph Yovich 3 for 52, to battle back in contention.But Northern Districts’ season of woe continued when they slumped to 97 for 7, and it was only a last-wicket stand of 62 between Aldridge and Butler that enabled to save face. It beat their previous tenth-wicket record of 43, between Roydon Hayes and Richard de Groen against Canterbury in 1995-96.Butler hit out superbly to score 40 not out off 34 balls. However, Canterbury continue to rumble through the competition, thanks in particular to their restrictive bowling. Harris showed the way with 3 for 18 from his 10 overs while Warren Wisneski opened up with 1 for 14 off six.Central Districts 239 for 3 beat Otago 238 by seven wickets
ScorecardRoss Taylor scored a superb maiden one-day century, as Central Districts helped themselves to a seven-wicket win over Otago at Carisbrook. Central Districts won the toss and put Otago in, but waited for more than an hour for their first breakthrough, when Craig Cumming fell for 28. Mohammad Wasim scored 66 off 86 balls, but he lacked support from the middle order.Only Gareth Hopkins and Jeff Wilson hung around, as they added 62 for the fifth wicket. Hopkins made 35 off 41 balls and Wilson 66 off 59, as he showed no ill-effects of his hand injury. Otago finished on 238 for 8, and each of the six CD bowlers used took a wicket. But Otago were at least 30 runs short of par after losing their way in the latter part of the innings.Craig Spearman and Jamie How helped CD to a comfortable 90 for 2, before Taylor took over in outstanding fashion. He has been in ominous form all season, and finally came good as anticipated. He added 118 with Mathew Sinclair (32), before Jarrod Englefield joined him to polish off the victory. Taylor finished unbeaten on 132 from 136 balls, including five sixes and nine fours, and has now made 304 runs already this summer.Wellington v Auckland – match abandoned

ScorecardThe Wellington-Auckland game at the Basin Reserve was abandoned well before the scheduled start at 12 noon. The teams took two points each, but Wellington slipped back in the table.Points table Canterbury 18, Wellington 14, Central Districts 14, Auckland 13, Otago 12, Northern Districts 4.

Australia is set to shelve its controversial player rotation policy and field its strongest possible side for Thursday’s tri-series cricket match against New Zealand in Sydney.But the Aussies will be without vice-captain Adam Gilchrist, who pulled out of the team tonight for personal reasons.Gilchrist will be replaced by West Australian wicketkeeper Ryan Campbell.All eyes will be on the XI named to play the Kiwis after chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns today indicated rotation of the 14-squad members was likely to be set aside as the world champions attempt to get its spluttering tri-series campaign back on track.Opening losses to New Zealand and South Africa at the MCG have left little other option – it’s the first time Australia has lost its first two games since the series began in 1979-80.Hohns said he would speak to skipper Steve Waugh and coach John Buchanan about team selection and player rotation tomorrow.”We’ve got to try to put a winning team on the park,” Hohns said.”I’ll be speaking to the captain and coach once I arrive in Sydney.”It’s fair to say we’ll be certainly trying to put on the park the best side we can.”Hohns defended the rotation policy, designed to keep all squad members match-fit and in form, and said it was likely to be retained in the longer term with nextyear’s World Cup in mind.He reminded doubters of its success last season when Australia went through the home tri-series undefeated against the West Indies and Zimbabwe.”It’s something we did last year, so it’s not new,” Hohns said.”Last year it was very successful in the one-day games and we had our most successful series ever.”It’s early days in this tournament, but obviously as soon as there’s a couple of losses, people start asking questions.”There were four team changes – two forced by the suspension of Glenn McGrath and injury to fellow paceman Brad Williams – for the second clash which SouthAfrica won yesterday, leaving the world champions languishing in last place in the series.McGrath backed the rotation policy today even though the lack of Ian Harvey’s tight bowling at the death appeared to leave the attack somewhat thin in his ownabsence yesterday.”You look at the squad we’ve got. I think it doesn’t matter which 11 we put on the field,” McGrath said.”I think it’s equally as strong so it’s good to give everyone a go and get them playing at full match fitness and ready for the next game.”McGrath said there were positive signs in yesterday’s loss after a disappointing first match against New Zealand.”We haven’t really sort of clicked, batting or bowling, but there’s good signs there, we’re improving every game,” he said.”It’s a bit like the (1999) World Cup. We started off very slowly but we got better every game, so if we continue to do that then we will be pretty happy.”Another big plus for Australia was the form of speedster Jason Gillespie who made a strong case for his retention with 2-28 off his 10 overs on return from injury last night.Australia’s usually reliable and high-scoring batting spluttered in both tri-series to date, mustering modest totals after failing to kick on in the closing stages.”The batsmen haven’t given our bowlers a great deal to bowl at, so we’ve got to bat better and then I think it will turn around,” opener Matthew Hayden said.

Promising leg-spinner Danish Kaneria bowled himselfnearer to a Test cap with a career-best haul of seven for 39 asGujranwala were bundled out for just 92 against Karachi Whites on thesecond day of the four-day Quaid-i-Azam Trophy National Grade-ICricket Championship clash at the KCCA Stadium here on Sunday.It was an unexpected turnaround for Karachi Whites who had made asmall total of 169 on Saturday. But by close of play, the home sidehad put themselves in an impregnable position by extending theirsubstantial first innings lead of 77 to 216.They were 139 for three in their second knock with Hasan Raza (37) andskipper Asif Mujtaba (19) at the crease in an unfinished partnershipof 49 runs.Opener Khalid Latif, who turned 15 on Saturday, made a compact 40 off101 balls in 135 minutes with five fours while Zeeshan Pervezcontributed a stylish 35 off 72 balls in 76 minutes with threeboundaries.Gujranwala’s hopes of restricting Karachi Whites to a reasonable scorein the second innings were severely jolted by an injury to young leftarm spinner Abdul Rehman, who needed three stitches to his bowlinghand after taking a nasty blow in a failed attempt to hold a hotreturn chance offered by Khalid Latif.But the day belonged to Danish Prabha Shankar Kaneria, the 19-year-oldcousin of former Test wicket-keeper Anil Dalpat. Already touted as asecret weapon by the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board for theforthcoming Test series against England, Kaneria enhanced his growingreputation by eclipsing his previous best innings analysis of sevenfor 101 – achieved for Pakistan Reserves against KRL at the KRLStadium in Rawalpindi last season.At the start of the day, everything pointed in Gujranwala’s favourwhen they resumed at 29 for two. But exactly 100 minutes later, theremaining eight wickets crashed for an addition of 53 runs in 27.3overs, including the last seven for 37 runs in 18.2 overs.Bowling in tandem with young off-spinner Tahir Khan, Kaneria capturedsix for 31 in 57 deliveries, bamboozling the hapless batsmen with hismixture of leg-breaks, googlies, top-spinners and flippers.None of the batsmen was able to master Kaneria’s wily bowling on apitch that is giving spinners marginal assistance.Atiq-ur-Rehman top-scored for the visitors with 42 off 119 balls untilhe failed to read a flipper and was comprehensively bowled. His 112-minute stay included four boundaries.Former Test star Zahid Fazal struck Tahir for a six. But havingreached 17, he was caught behind by Atiq-uz-Zaman, who excelled withfour catches.Tahir proved an ideal foil to Kaneria with figures of two for 34 in 17overs.