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Matt Walker has withdrawn from England’s tri-series against Australia and New Zealand due to his commitments with Kent

George Dobell19-Aug-2017Matt Walker has withdrawn from England’s tri-series against Australia and New Zealand due to his commitments with Kent.While Walker, the Kent head coach, had previously indicated to the England team management that he was keen to take the opportunity to join the coaching unit during the T20 tournament, he contacted head coach, Trevor Bayliss, on Friday night to inform him of his unavailability. Kent are intending to spend February playing cricket overseas as part of their pre-season plans.”I have been asked. But I’m unable to do it because of my commitments with Kent. It coincides with hopefully going abroad,” Walker told Kent Online. “You can’t have your head coach not being around for the whole of that pre-season trip. It makes no sense to me, so yes, great to be asked, really honoured and hopefully another opportunity will arise in the future.”It’s very flattering absolutely. I’m chuffed to bits. It’s a shame I can’t do it, I would’ve loved to have been involved with England over that period but my priority is with Kent.”The original plan was for Walker to replace England’s assistant coach, Paul Farbrace, for the tri-series section of the tour allowing Farbrace a month off during a hectic winter. It is understood England will continue to search for a suitable stand-in.

There may be more impressive individual performances and more action-packed days in the next two or three months but, in the context of this Pakistan tour, this was an almost perfect start.

George Dobell at Taunton03-Jul-2016
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‘Good to start the tour on a high’ – Younis

There may be more impressive individual performances and more action-packed days in the next two or three months but, in the context of this Pakistan tour, this was an almost perfect start.On a benign pitch, in front of a good natured crowd, Pakistan were able to ease their way into a tour that promises some tough moments on and perhaps off the pitch, with a low-key day – a wonderfully low key day from a Pakistan perspective – of gentle cricket.It wasn’t like this the last time they were here. The last time Pakistan were in Taunton, in September 2010, they were besieged. It was only days after the story had broken and, as helicopters hovered over their hotel and journalists waited in the car-park, the atmosphere inside the squad was anything but low key and gentle.The Pakistan camp remain nervous, probably unnecessarily so, about the reception that awaits them on this tour. So to have started this trip with three weeks training out of the spotlight and then enjoy a relatively uneventful day during which nearly all of their top six enjoyed a decent amount of time in the middle represented an ideal start.Not for the first time, Pakistan were grateful to the composure and class of Younis Khan. The 38-year-old, who missed the 2010 tour having fallen out of favour with the team management, finished the day unbeaten on 99 having added 179 for the fifth-wicket with Asad Shafiq.It was not a flawless innings. Younis was reprieved on 20 (a tough chance wide to Marcus Trescothick’s right at second slip) and again on 75 (when Alex Barrow was unable to cling on to an even tougher chance offered via the inside edge). But, in between times, he began to settle into the pace of pitch and the movement in the air and unveiled many of those familiar strokes – the devastating sweep, the flamboyant cut and the pleasing drives off front and back foot – that have already brought him more than 9,000 Test runs and 31 centuries.”It’s not easy for any team when they come to England,” Younis said afterwards. “But we have come to the country very early and we are very well prepared. I think this may be the first time that Pakistan have batted well at the start of a tour. We nearly all had 50 or 60 balls in the middle.”It would be fantastic for me if my performances helped the team do well. It would make me the happy man of the earth.”Shafiq was no less impressive. Joining Younis with the side on 132 for 4 and in just a little trouble, he survived an early run out chance but then was admirably compact and watchful in steering his side into a safer waters. While he may reflect he squandered an excellent opportunity to register a century – he sliced a somewhat wild drive off a wide one that turned a little – he will have taken confidence from this start.The one man to miss out was the captain. Misbah-up-Haq felt for his second ball, a delivery some way outside off stump, without any foot movement and edged to slip.Tougher challenges remain, of course. The days when county teams looked upon these matches as an opportunity to make a name for themselves are largely gone, especially for bowlers. So here Somerset, resting the Overton brothers and Lewis Gregory, fielded an attack that included three men with one Championship cap for the club between them including a first-class debut for 18-year-old off-spinner, Dominic Bess, who moved from Sidmouth to Exeter a couple of years ago to ensure him of more opportunity at club level.They bowled tidily enough. Paul van Meekeren, a Dutch international who has been playing club cricket for Benwell Hill near Newcastle, has just signed until the end of the season and did himself no harm with a whole-hearted effort. After Mohammad Hafeez missed a straight one, van Meekeren produced a beauty that draw a stroke from Azhar Ali but left him to take the edge.Tim Groenewald also finished with two wickets. Two balls before Misbah’s departure he had seen Shan Masood fall across a straight one as he tried to whip the ball through the leg side.But Josh Davey, the Scotland international, was less fortunate. After dropping a relatively simple caught and bowled chance offered by Masood on 17, he was also the unlucky bowler on both occasions that Younis was reprieved. On another day, he might also have won a leg before shout against Hafeez before the batsman had scored.Masood, especially efficient off his legs, and Hafeez, who pulled successive sixes when the medium-paced Davey dropped short, may both feel they missed out on the chance to cash-in against this inexperienced attack. But, in terms of gaining time at the crease ahead of the serious business part of this tour, this was a pleasing start for Pakistan.

Durham’s inexpensively assembled side defended 155 rather comfortably in the end, as Lancashire lost five wickets for four runs in eight balls

Paul Edwards at Old Trafford22-May-2015
ScorecardMark Stoneman top-scored for Durham with 55 (file photo)•Getty Images

The mellifluous tones of The Cure’s Robert Smith boomed out from the loudspeakers but Lancashire fans clearly don’t regard Friday in May as sufficient reason to fall completely in love with short-form cricket. A grey evening matching the gloom of the Crawley band’s early albums probably explained the modest attendance of just under 4000 at Old Trafford.Then again, maybe those who stayed away knew a thing or two. For instead of watching Lancashire chase down 155 in a fashion they have come to know rather well, the home supporters watched Durham’s inexpensively assembled side defend that score and do so rather comfortably in the end as Steven Croft’s men lost five wickets for four runs in eight balls.That collapse left the last pair of George Edwards and Stephen Parry collecting singles of little consequence in the final over as Durham’s players completed their second successive victory in this year’s NatWest T20 Blast and their first in eight games against Lancashire.The defeat may seem harsh on Ashwell Prince, who anticipated his 38th birthday next week by making a career-best 78 off 51 balls before he was run out by wicketkeeper Phil Mustard when his side needed 24 runs off ten balls. Prince, though, was never really given the support he needed from his colleagues. Alviro Petersen was the next highest scorer with 20 and Alex Davies was the only other batsman to reach double figures. Whereas Durham had been 91 for 2 at the midpoint of their innings, Lancashire had managed just 62 for 3 at the same stage and they then needed 34 off the last three overs.There were no stars in Durham’s attack but there were a lot of hard workers at the coalface of this game and the visitors deserved their win. The best bowler was probably legspinner Scott Borthwick, who conceded only 21 runs from four mid-innings overs delivered at a time when Lancashire were looking to put the hammer down. Yet Usman Arshad and John Hastings collected a couple of wickets apiece and there were three run-outs as Mark Stoneman’s men maintained their mental discipline and gave away nothing at all.

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This was a match of two collapses, Lancashire’s, 4 for 5 (1.2 overs) significantly worse than Durham’s, 50 for 8 (8.1 overs) and it was for that reason that they emerged defeated and will look back and at a missed opportunity chasing a manageable target. Four run-outs, including three in 16 balls, in a chase is simply unforgivable.

Curiously, though, even as they reflect on their victory in the cool of Saturday morning Durham may still regard their innings as something of a missed opportunity. With skipper Stoneman and Paul Collingwood both batting well and without hazard the visitors had galloped to 105 for 2 in the 12th over but then lost their last eight wickets for 50 runs in just 8.1 overs. It was nothing like the collapse Lancashire achieved but it seemed significant at the timeThat gradual decline from outright prosperity may have been particularly irritating for Stoneman, whose 57 was both a career-best short-form score and only his second half-century in T20 cricket. Certainly his 38-ball innings, which included three relatively orthodox boundaries off an Edwards over, seemed to have laid foundations for a total of about 180.At the other end, Calum MacLeod employed cricket’s favoured T20 demolition firm, Scoop, Ramp and Clobber, to damage Tom Bailey’s figures, and when MacLeod had lost his middle stump trying to repeat the scoop off Jordan Clark, Collingwood maintained the innings’ momentum by hitting 30 off 19 balls.As so often in T20, though, spin changed the game. Offspinner Arron Lilley removed Collingwoood in his second over when a reverse sweep only dollied the ball to Davies behind the stumps and Lilley then dismissed Stoneman in his next when the wicketkeeper completed a stumping at something like the third attempt. Davies later stumped Borthwick but also missed at least a couple of other chances on an evening when his various accomplishments were trumpeted to all and sundry by a band of raucous supporters.None of the missed opportunities in the second half of Durham’s innings were costly. Only Gordon Muchall reached double figures and both Edwards and Bailey picked up a couple of wickets. Bailey, indeed, bowled Hastings, much as he had accounted for opener Mustard, with an outrageous slower ball which the batsman totally misjudged. The 24-year-old thus matched the chutzpah exhibited in an earlier era by Franklyn Stephenson and Chris Cairns.That, though, rather encapsulated the nature of the contest. One remembered the individual excellence of Bailey, Prince and Lilley but it was Durham’s band of hard-working cricketers who took the two points. “Let’s Dance” the crowd were exhorted endlessly but neither they nor Croft’s players ever showed their best moves. “Hi-ho” blared those loudspeakers at a volume to disturb the dead but it was Durham’s eleven players who went off to work.

Nathan Lyon enjoyed bowling on the Gabba pitch against New Zealand last year and he should again find some turn and bounce, according to the curator Kevin Mitchell Jr

Brydon Coverdale in Brisbane07-Nov-2012Nathan Lyon enjoyed bowling on the Gabba pitch against New Zealand last year and he should again find some turn and bounce, according to the curator Kevin Mitchell Jr. Australia have not yet decided on the make-up of their attack for the first Test against South Africa, which begins in Brisbane on Friday, but over the past few days all the murmurs from the camp have been that a four-man pace attack is unlikely.The stereotype of the Gabba being a green-top has not held true in Test cricket for many years, although there is always some assistance for the fast men on the first morning. Mitchell said there was unlikely to be as much seam movement as there was for last year’s Test – the preparation 12 months ago was interrupted by too much rain – and there would be plenty of runs available for the batsmen.”It’ll probably be similar to last year’s wicket, maybe not as much sideways movement,” Mitchell said. “We had a little bit of interrupted weather last year leading-up [to the match]. We’re hoping it’s going to be fast, good bounce and carry, and then wears on as the game goes on.”There’s always going to be that nip around for the first couple of hours and then it tends to flatten out and the moisture goes out of it. Then it’s a pretty good batting wicket, but a new-ball deck. Given a nice day you’d tend to want to have a bat [first]. But sometimes we get humid weather in Brisbane and as you know the ball swings around a bit.”The strong pace attacks of both teams will enjoy some pace and bounce but as the match goes on, Lyon and his South Africa counterpart, Imran Tahir, will be expected to play more of a role. Shane Warne always said the Gabba was one of his favourite venues at which to bowl – he took more wickets there than at any other venue – and Mitchell expects there will again be something for the spinners.”If the weather dries it out there certainly will be,” he said. “We’ll probably get a bit of deterioration with some cracking and then the footmarks will dust up for the spinners.”That is good news for Lyon, who took seven wickets against New Zealand last year in what was not only his first Gabba Test, but also the first time he had so much as visited the ground. Since then, he has been back for one Sheffield Shield match and he is looking forward to the chance of sending down some more overs over the next week.”It was great to bowl out here,” Lyon said. “I really enjoyed it. Hopefully I get my chance on Friday morning and we’ll see where we get to. I love it because you get great bounce and if it’s a bit tacky early in the game, it spins a bit. Then later on it spins even more. I’m just really looking forward to the opportunity of getting out there on Friday.”On Wednesday, Lyon was bowling in the nets under the watchful eye of John Davison, the spin mentor at the Centre of Excellence, and one of a select group of coaches to whom Lyon now turns. A left-field addition to that group is Steve Rixon, officially Australia’s fielding coach, who has also been assigned a role with Lyon to allow the bowling coach Ali de Winter to focus on the fast men.”Stumper [Rixon] is just going to be around at training as someone I can talk to, more so that Ali de Winter can just concentrate on his quicks and they can work together,” Lyon said. “I’m pretty excited, Stumper has kept to some great spinners in his career and has worked with some. I’m really excited and it’s going to be a great thing.”

The resumption of international cricket in Pakistan could be the by-product of a deal between the PCB and its Bangladesh counterpart over choosing the next ICC vice-president

Umar Farooq and Mohammad Isam23-Nov-2011The resumption of international cricket in Pakistan, which stopped after the attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore in March 2009, could be the by-product of a deal between the PCB and its Bangladesh counterpart over choosing the next ICC vice-president. The nomination rests with the two countries and Pakistan are reportedly ready to concede its right for an expected tour by Bangladesh in 2012.The deal, however, is being explained in official circles as the conclusion of a gentleman’s agreement that resulted in Pakistan’s Ehsan Mani becoming the ICC president in 2003.The ICC executive board, at its meeting in October, had asked the PCB and BCB to nominate a candidate for the vice-presidency for the 2012-14 term, in keeping with the rotational system. The nomination has to be firmed up by December 31, the ICC will discuss it in January and the appointment will be effective in June. The two board chiefs, Zaka Ashraf of the PCB and the BCB’s Mustafa Kamal, have already held one – reportedly inconclusive – meeting in Dubai. They are due to meet again in Dhaka on the sidelines of Pakistan’s tour in December.For Pakistan, the benefits are clear: they are keen for international cricket to return to the country and Ashraf, barely a month into his job, has set that as his primary target – even at the cost of what will lead to the top job in international cricket. To that end, he has repaired relations with Bangladesh to an extent, from the frosty ties under his predecessor Ijaz Butt. The ties were strained after cancelled junior cricket tours to Pakistan and by Bangladesh not supporting Pakistan over the staging of matches during the 2011 World Cup.On the face of it the deal is a formality. When, in 2003, the two boards agreed on Mani’s candidature for the president’s post, it was on the understanding that the next cycle would go Bangladesh’s way. Even the mooted tour is not expected to be a problem; Bangladesh don’t have any problems with travel to Pakistan – the national football team went there earlier this year for a World Cup qualifier – and the series is part of the ICC future tours programme, scheduled for April 2012.Pakistan, however, has reportedly sought written assurance from Bangladesh that it will not backtrack from the understanding.The bigger issue, however, seems to be a lack of clarity in Bangladesh. The BCB hasn’t discussed it, nor has Kamal spoken to his directors about his meeting with Ashraf. BCB officials say they are wary of commenting since the decision will be taken at the highest political levels. Nor is there any unanimity on candidates for ICC vice-president, with several hats in the ring.Kamal leads the way and seems to have his sights firmly on the job. A political appointment, like all his predecessors, he’s also a Minister of Parliament (MP) and reasonably in favour with the top bosses of the ruling Awami League. Kamal’s closest contender seems to be Saber Hossain Chowdhury, the former BCB president. Chowdhury, also an MP, has immense credibility as a cricket administrator – he ushered Bangladesh into Test cricket after overseeing their ICC Trophy win and securing their ODI status, and also brought in Gordon Greenidge as coach. However, his political clout has waned in recent times; he was once a close aide of the Prime Minister’s but has been kept away from a ministerial role.Also doing the rounds are the names of two Pakistanis – Mani, and former captain Majid Khan. Mani told ESPNcricinfo he had been contacted by officials from Bangladesh but it is believed the PCB has made no serious attempt to make contact with either; despite their strong CVs they remain long shots.”I have no interest in seeking the post for a second time,” Mani told ESPNcricinfo. “There are other very good people in Bangladesh and Pakistan and I am sure that if the right person is selected he would be a credit to both the countries.”The important thing is that the two boards should ensure that their nominee has the right qualification and standing in the game and will act in the best interests of the game.”

A round-up of Sunday’s matches in the WICB one-day tournament

ESPNcricinfo staff18-Oct-2010Barbados marched into the semi-finals of the WICB Cup with a 151-run hammering of Guyana at Sabina Park. Tino Best scythed through the top order to help dismiss Guyana for 100, after half-centuries from Jonathan Carter and Dale Richards had helped Barbados to 251.Fast bowler Best struck four times in his first three overs, which included the big wicket of Ramnaresh Sarwan, to reduce Guyana to 6 for 4. The left-arm spin duo of Ryan Hinds and Sulieman Benn then picked up five wickets between them and Guyana’s misery was complete. Best returned to take one more, finishing with career-best figures of 5 for 24, his maiden List A five-wicket haul.Legspinner Devendra Bishoo went one better than Best in taking 6 for 36 – his maiden List A five-wicket haul as well – in Barbados’ innings, but lacked support from the other bowlers. Though he triggered a late collapse, from 221 for 3 to 251 all out, aggressive knocks from Carter and Richards had already ensured that Barbados had enough runs.Rain scuppered what was building up to an interesting contest at Kensington Park in Kingston, where Sagicor High Performance Centre (HPC) had lost two early wickets in their chase of Leeward Islands‘ 168, in a match that was halted briefly because the pitch was deemed dangerous.The bowlers justified HPC’s decision to bowl first when they came back strongly to take eight wickets for 64 runs, as Leeward collapsed from a strong 104 for 2. Nkruma Bonner led the way, taking 3 for 21 with his legspin.Leeward’s opening bowlers, Lionel Baker and Gavin Tonge, replied in kind by reducing HPC to 21 for 2 in the eighth over, but rain intervened at that point and the match had to be called off.The umpires had earlier deemed the pitch as dangerous and halted the match after the first six overs. Play resumed after the surface had been rolled again. Leeward captain Wilden Cornwall said that the pitch did not look right in the morning, and even the outfield was not fit for play. “This tournament is our highest tournament for the West Indies, it is the next level to West Indies cricket, why are we treating cricket like this in the Caribbean,” Cornwall told . “It is poor, really poor and I am very much upset.”

Team management hopes SL opener is fit to play the second game starting on February 6

Andrew Fidel Fernando27-Jan-2025Pathum Nissanka is almost certainly out of the first Test against Australia, as he continues to recover from the groin strain he sustained during the third T20I against New Zealand, earlier this month.Nissanka is undergoing rehabilitation for the injury in Colombo, and in fact has not joined the rest of the squad in Galle, team manager Mahinda Halangoda told ESPNcricinfo. Sri Lanka’s team management is hoping Nissanka can be available for the second Test starting on February 6.The remaining 17 players in the Test squad should be available, however, Halangoda said. Captain Dhananjaya de Silva had been recovering from a side strain, and Kamindu Mendis had also suffered a split webbing – both injuries picked up during domestic games over the past two weeks. But both players have traveled with the team to Galle.Related

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Nissanka’s absence means Sri Lanka will have to find a second opener to partner Dimuth Karunaratne. They have two options in the squad: Oshada Fernando has opened the batting in 19 Test innings, and is the likeliest to come into the XI. There is also the uncapped Lahiru Udara, who is a specialist opener at the domestic level. Wicketkeeper-batter Sadeera Samarawickrama is another option.The first of two Tests begins on January 29, in Galle.

The Sri Lankan allrounder made short work of the chase on a cool, blustery day

Tristan Lavalette26-Oct-2023Chamari Athapaththu smashed a blistering half-century after she produced a disciplined performance with the ball as Sydney Thunder comprehensively beat Melbourne Renegades at a gloomy Cricket Central ground.Having taken 1 for 20 off four overs to help restrict Renegades, Athapaththu tore into the bowling in her 54-ball whirlwind of 80 as Thunder reached the target in the 18th over.Athapaththu traded mostly in boundaries and none was more impressive than when she whacked offspinner Ella Hayward for a massive straight six to reach her half-century in style.She holed out in the 14th over, but Thunder continued on their merry way to start the season with consecutive wins coming off last season’s wooden spoon.Renegades had few answers with the ball as they suffered a letdown following their thrashing of defending champions Adelaide Strikers.With rain having fallen throughout the day in Sydney, there were fears of a washout but the match started on schedule and Thunder elected to bowl in bleak and blustery conditions.It wasn’t easy for the batters with seamer Marizanne Kapp in her season debut proving difficult to attack with the ball coming off the wicket slowly.Opener Hayley Matthews, who has yet to get going with the bat this tournament, backed her aggressive approach against Kapp but it was fraught with danger in the tricky conditions.She got away with a skier that landed safety in the third over before a few balls later slogging Kapp straight to cover.Debutant quick Ebony Hoskin had a dream start after coming on in the seventh over when she had Josie Dooley caught behind with a brilliant delivery that swung late to hit the edge.With Kapp providing her words of wisdom, the 20-year-old Hoskin showed no signs of nerves and showcased her renowned energy in an impressive debut.Hoskin bowled just one more over in the innings as Thunder relied on Athapaththu’s accurate offspin to tie Renegades down.Renegades couldn’t get going in the first half of their innings with Tammy Beaumont brilliantly run out by a direct throw from Phoebe Litchfield at cover.They looked to Harmanpreet Kaur and Courtney Webb after their match-winning near century stand against Strikers.Harmanpreet’s fluent touch continued as she made a mockery of the conditions with two boundaries off her first three balls before Athapaththu had her caught behind after she played loosely outside off stump.But Webb found much-needed support from Georgia Wareham in a 78-run partnership and they capitalised on increasingly ragged Thunder bowling and fielding.Wareham superbly attacked on the leg side during the power surge and smashed three consecutive boundaries off seamer Hannah Darlington in the 15th over.Wareham needed a boundary off the final delivery of the innings to reach a deserved half-century, but could only score a single.Any confidence Renegades had of mustering a strong defence of the total was quickly eroded by a rampaging Athapaththu as Thunder cruised to victory amid the drizzle.

Three-judge bench led by Chief Justice of India to consider reviewing 2018 judgement on board’s constitution

Nagraj Gollapudi20-Jul-2022The Supreme Court is likely to hear on Thursday the BCCI’s plea requesting for several amendments to its constitution, which could roll back some of the most significant reforms that were recommended by RM Lodha Committee and approved by the court in 2018.The case will be heard by a three-judge bench led by the Chief Justice of India NV Ramana.Thursday’s hearing will be the first time in more than two years that the Supreme Court will take up the BCCI’s petition, which was originally filed in December 2019. The board then filed a fresh application in April 2020, and last week it requested the court to hear the case urgently.Among the key reforms that the BCCI has asked the court to review are the mandatory cooling-off period for its office-bearers, modifying the disqualification criteria for holding office, giving unprecedented powers to the board secretary, and preventing the court from having a say if the BCCI wants to alter its constitution in the future. (Read more on the BCCI’s proposed amendments.)Related

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At present, the cooling-off period means that an office bearer who has held any post for two consecutive terms (six years) either at a state association or in the BCCI, or a combination of both, shall not be eligible to contest any further election without completing a cooling-off period of three years. During the cooling-off period, the person cannot serve in any capacity at both the BCCI or state level.In its 2018 judgement passing the new BCCI constitution, the Supreme Court had relaxed a couple of the original recommendations including the one concerning the cooling-off period. As per the Lodha Committee recommendation an office bearer – at BCCI or state association – would need to take a three-year break after serving one term of three years. However, the court changed that and allowed an office bearer to serve two consecutive terms (six years) separately at the state association or the board, or a combination of both, while retaining the maximum tenure of nine years.In October 2019, a new BCCI administration was elected with Sourav Ganguly as president, Jay Shah as secretary, Arun Dhumal as treasurer, and Jayesh George as joint secretary. Within two months of taking charge, the Ganguly administration moved the court contesting the cooling-off period: it wanted the cooling-off period to come into effect after the office bearer had been in a post for six consecutive years at one place – either a state association or the BCCI but not a combination of both.At present, all five BCCI office-bearers including vice-president Rajiv Shukla have finished six consecutive years in some office, having earlier served at their respective state associations before becoming BCCI office bearers.Ganguly was meant to start his cooling-off period after July 2020, having started as secretary at the Cricket Association of Bengal in 2014, following which he became the association’s president in 2015, and was re-elected in September 2019 before moving to the BCCI.As for Shah, he was elected joint secretary of the Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA) in 2014. The internal records of the GCA suggest Shah’s tenure started on September 8, 2013.In Shukla’s case, he is ineligible to continue as a BCCI office-bearer on the basis of him being a Member of Parliament – as per the board’s constitution a politician cannot serve as an office bearer.The challenge for the current Supreme Court bench, which also includes Justice Krishna Murari and Justice Hima Kohli, is to decide whether to change – and on what grounds – the 2018 judgement, which was passed by Justice Dr DY Chandrachud, one of the most senior judges in the court who was part of this case since 2016.While adding leniency to the COA’s original cooling-off recommendation, Justice Chandrachud had said that “allowing an individual to act as an office bearer for six years in continuation is a sufficiently long period for experience and knowledge gained to be deployed in the interest of the game without at the same time resulting in a monopoly of power.”The cooling-off period, Justice Chandrachud said, was necessary because it would be act as a “safe guard” against “vested personal interests”, as well ensure against the “concentration of power in a few hands” while encouraging more administrators to gain experience.”Cooling off must be accepted as a means to prevent a few individuals from regarding the administration of cricket as a personal turf. The game will be better off without cricketing oligopolies,” Justice Chandrachud had written in his judgement.And that is the basis of a counter filed against the BCCI petition this week by Subramaniam Swamy, a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party that leads the Indian government. According to Bar and Bench, an Indian legal website, Swamy said the BCCI request was aimed at “negating and destroying” the cooling-off period, “resulting in a monopoly of power in the hand of few individuals,” and “destroying the quintessence” of the 2018 Supreme Court judgement.”

Matt Renshaw and Jimmy Peirson added a century stand as Queensland closed in on a lead

ESPNcricinfo staff08-Mar-2021Bryce Street gave another example of his ability to bat long periods of time with a career-best 117, his third first-class century, as the match against Western Australia at the Gabba continued to be a forgettable experience for bowlers.Street’s hundred was followed by half-centuries for Matt Renshaw and Jimmy Peirson as Queensland closed in on Western Australia’s total with the match seemingly destined for a stalemate.Marnus Labuschagne had started the day in sight of a century but fell eight runs short when he got an inside edge into pad which looped to square leg.Usman Khawaja had got himself set when he tickled a catch down the leg side and Street’s 335-ball stay was ended by a spectacular catch at long leg by Liam Guthrie to haul in a top-edged hook.Renshaw and Peirson then added 103 for the fifth wicket as Queensland, who are top of the table, opted against declaring behind to try and open up the match.Jake Carder, playing his first Shield match of the season, claimed the last wicket of the day when Peirson was sharply caught at slip.