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It will be a battle to keep themselves in the hunt for the playoffs, since the side losing the game will find it hard to make the top four at the end of the league stage

The Preview by Amol Karhadkar04-May-2015

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Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Start time 2000 local (1430 GMT)

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It will be a battle between two inconsistent outfits. It will also be a battle to break away from the bottom of the pile. And most importantly, it will be a battle to keep themselves in the hunt for the playoffs, since the side losing the game will find it hard to make the top four at the end of the league stage.Ever since Delhi Daredevils broke their longest losing streak with back-to-back wins, they have maintained an alternate loss-win trend in the last five matches. Going by that trend, it is their turn to win on Tuesday. But for that to happen, they will need their middle order, especially Yuvraj Singh, to fire.Besides, they will need to step up in the field. Allrounder Angelo Mathews said that Daredevils’ poor effort against Rajasthan Royals on Sunday was the worst fielding performance in the tournament. If they cannot show stark improvement in their ground fielding, they will find it difficult to stay in contention.Mumbai Indians, on the other hand, have finally found things going their way after a four-match losing streak at the start. They have won their last three games and with Parthiv Patel getting a big one in Mohali on Sunday, Mumbai Indians have now had each of their top-six scoring at least one fifty this season. If they can continue in the same vein, Daredevils will have their work cut out.

Form guide

Mumbai Indians WWWLW (last five matches, most recent first)
Delhi Daredevils LWLWL

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Lasith Malinga may have been their highest wicket-taker, but Mitchell McClenaghan has been instrumental in starting the Mumbai Indians’ winning spree. The New Zealand left-arm fast bowler, who warmed the bench virtually for the entire World Cup campaign, had to wait for his chance in the IPL too. Ever since he came in for the injured Corey Anderson, McClenaghan has been a revelation and has given the much-needed impetus to the Mumbai Indians attack by picking wickets regularly.Imran Tahir was the joint-highest wicket-taker of the season when he was benched against Rajasthan Royals at the CCI on Sunday night, as the Daredevils management chose to boost its pace department on a green track. The legspinner would be keen to return and make a statement.

Stats and trivia

• Lendl Simmons’ average of 48.69 is the best for any batsman who has played at least 10 innings in the IPL. The Mumbai Indians opener has tallied 633 runs from 14 innings and is followed by Chris Gayle who has an average of 46.79
• Imran Tahir has the best strike-rate among bowlers who have bowled at least 250 deliveries. In 14 matches, Tahir has picked 22 wickets at 13.5 balls per scalp, with S Aravind (14) and Sandeep Sharma (15.4) close on his heels

Quotes

“We knew we just needed to get one win that would get the ball rolling.”
“We need to win and keep in contention. It’s still a wide open tournament.”

George Bailey believes Australia’s spin bowlers must find a way to be more effective on the subcontinent if the team is to have any chance of winning the next World Twenty20, to be held in Bangladesh in 2014

Brydon Coverdale08-Oct-2012George Bailey believes Australia’s spin bowlers must find a way to be more effective on the subcontinent if the team is to have any chance of winning the next World Twenty20, to be held in Bangladesh in 2014. After returning home Monday Bailey also defended the form of the middle-order batsmen, who besides his own 63 in the semi-final loss to West Indies had little impact in the tournament as the top three carried the bulk of the workload.Three days after Australia’s tournament ended their exit might not have looked so bad, coming as it did against the eventual champions. However, one notable feature of the final was that both sides had outstanding finger-spinners with a mystery element: Sri Lanka’s Ajantha Mendis was the tournament’s leading wicket taker with 15 at 9.80 and the West Indian Sunil Narine was equal fourth with nine victims, including five in the semi-final and the decider.Another bowler of similar ilk, Pakistan’s Saeed Ajmal, was also equal fourth on the wicket tally and all three were miserly as well. In contrast, Xavier Doherty leaked 8.63 runs an over – his 1 for 48 from three overs in the semi-final seriously dented Australia’s hopes – while Brad Hogg managed only two wickets in his six games and the allrounder Glenn Maxwell was equally ineffective. Bailey knows it will be almost impossible to win in Bangladesh in 2014 with a similar slow-bowling output.”One of the things we need to look at is the way we bowl our spin,” Bailey said. “I don’t know any other way to describe it than as a Western-type way of bowling, which tends to be to try and draw the batsman out of the crease, whereas all the teams who have had success at the World Cup, their spinners are bowling into the wicket, quite fast, hitting the stumps every ball, making it very hard.”We need to find a way to develop spinners like that, and the tough thing is maybe bowling like that doesn’t really suit conditions in Australia. But I think if you look at all the stats from the tournament that was probably one of the areas that if we’re serious about winning the tournament we’re going to have to find a way to improve come Bangladesh.”During the World Twenty20, Muttiah Muralitharan said he believed one of the reasons Australia would not produce such a spinner was that unorthodox bowlers would be encouraged at junior levels to change their style. Bailey said it was important that young spinners with potential were identified regardless of whether they fit the Australian idea of what makes a good slow bowler.”As a nation we still talk about whether guys have legitimate actions or not and at the end of the day that’s really not for us to be arguing about,” Bailey said. “If that’s the rules and that’s how bowlers are bowling now and having success in international cricket then we’ve got to start developing those players and developing them at 10-11 years of age and we start to have some bowlers who do bowl like Murali or Ajmal or Narine.”You’re hoping that a few of our spinners are watching the tournament [World T20] and seeing the type of spinners that are having success. I think the way our coaching system is set up it’s going to be tough for some spinners to get through because the way a lot of the spinners who have had success bowl in the subcontinent, you’re probably not going to be playing much cricket in Australia if you bowl like that. There’s a balancing act there.”A lack of impact from the spinners cost Australia but there were also concerns about the imbalance in the batting order, with most of the runs coming from the openers Shane Watson and David Warner, and the No.3 Michael Hussey. Although opportunities were limited because of the success of the top three, there were still times when Australia needed runs from the middle order, notably in the semi-final.Chasing 206, Australia were 29 for 3 and it was the perfect time for the rest of the batsmen to step up and back the work of Watson, Warner and Hussey from earlier in the tournament. Batting at No.5, Bailey blasted 63 from 29 balls but had no real support – Cameron White was caught down leg side for 5, David Hussey chipped a return catch for a duck and Matthew Wade top-edged a sweep.”It’s a tough one. If you’re talking about winning the tournament, I think if you’re winning a World Cup you’re not talking about how well your four, five and six batted,” Bailey said. “Your one, two and three need to get you the runs. Four, five and six come in and either get you to a reasonable total or save your bacon. But if you’re winning the games it’s your top three you need to rely on.”I think whenever we’re progressing through to the back end of one of these tournaments we’re not going to be seeing much of the middle order. The challenge of the format is when you do get a chance you’ve got to be prepared to step up and make it your day.”Australia’s exit before the final was a disappointing way for Bailey to end his first tournament in charge, but he said the memories wouldn’t be all bad.”To knock out South Africa and India as we did was really pleasing,” he said. “I thought we played some really good cricket there. It’s just a matter of when you do get to the knockout stages you’ve got to be able to play your best cricket.”

The second day of the County Championship match between leaders Durham and bottom club Hampshire at Chester-le-Street was washed out

11-Aug-2011
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The second day of the County Championship match between leaders Durham and bottom club Hampshire at Chester-le-Street was washed out.Only 30 overs were possible yesterday, with the visitors reaching 77 for 3, and with more rain forecast it spells frustration for both sides.Durham, currently seven points clear, have three matches left after this week and their three title rivals have games in hand. Second-placed Lancashire have to play struggling Worcestershire home and away. Hampshire are 50 points adrift of safety and four of their five remaining games are against the title challengers, including Warwickshire home and away.

The initial verdict from the two coaches, who set up the match to trial Cricket Australia’s new proposed format for the first-class limited-overs game, was a generation gap of sorts: it was more popular with the younger players

Sharda Ugra10-Aug-2010Australian cricket carried out its first experiment with the split-innings format – two innings of 20 overs each – in a practice game between South Australian Redbacks and Tasmanian Tigers at the Marrara Oval in Darwin on Tuesday. The initial verdict from the two coaches, who set up the match to trial Cricket Australia’s new proposed format for the first-class limited-overs game, was a generation gap of sorts: it was more popular with the younger players.The Tigers won by six wickets and 8.3 overs to spare with Tasmania coach Tim Coyle saying the trial had showed up the pluses and minuses of the new proposals. Player response to the new format had been diverse and Coyle told Cricinfo: “There was some skepticism from the guys who have been around for a long time while the young guys were quite excited by it.”Acting Tigers captain Xavier Doherty told : “There are probably a few blokes a bit shirty about having this split innings (format), but without trialing it no-one’s going to know what it’s going to throw up, so the only way to go is to try it and see what happens.”For the support staff, Coyle said the format had made teams think more about the tactics to be employed and the teams to be picked. What the team found challenging, Coyle said, was the “stop and start” for the batting line up but added “it is something good sides will find a way to get used to. Even though one game is not the ideal example, you can see that a team would need batting depth and bowling options.”The most obvious danger of the split-innings format, in terms of renewing public interest in limited overs, would arise from a big discrepancy in scores after the first round of twenty overs. If in reply to a first 20-over split of 2-130 the opposition were at 6-60, the spectators would be presented with a repetition of the tedious kind of middle overs of the 50-over game.Preparation for the split-over innings trial game, Coyle said, was in no way different to a normal 50-over game. After the match, though, key issues around the pattern of play came into focus. Overs no. 17-20 were seen as overs of containment to the bowling side as the batsmen tended to focus on going into their break losing fewer wickets.The Marrara Oval wicket today turned out to be on the slower side where run-making was not fluent, both teams were careful in their first 20 overs each.The Redbacks won the toss and scored 4-87, to which the Tigers responded with a 4-77 effort, which according to Coyle, was where they wanted to be. The Redbacks were bowled out for 145, the Tigers chasing down the target without losing a wicket and overs to spare. The match was played 12-a-side along with the split fielding restrictions: two outside the circle for the first five overs in both innings, four outside the circle from overs no. 6-20 and five out from overs no. 26 to 50.The most radical CA proposal to have a ‘super-striker’ who could bat twice was, however, not tried out, with Doherty telling AAP he thought it would “de-value the competition a little bit and make it a little bit too Mickey Mouse.” Both sides believed “it was worth having a go at the split innings,” said Coyle. “We might as well try this because when it gets into place in the future, we’ll be at a slight advantage.”The teams would be giving Cricket Australia an informal de-brief, in the run-up to the CA Playing Conditions Committee meeting later this week.The Tigers and the Redbacks were based in Darwin as part of pre-season training. They played matches against a visiting Maharastra Cricket Association squad and a round of T20s and 50-over games against each other before Tuesday’s trial game. The Redbacks will be competing in the Champions League Twenty20 2010.

The suspension was backdated to commence on April 11, which was the date of the provisional suspension order, so Bracewell is eligible to play now

ESPNcricinfo staff18-Nov-2024Doug Bracewell, the New Zealand seamer, has been suspended for one month by the country’s Sports Tribunal for “the presence and use” of cocaine and its metabolite benzoylecgonine.Bracewell “was provisionally suspended without opposition” on April 11 this year following an
“adverse analytical finding” from an in-competition test on January 13 at the Super Smash match between Wellington Firebirds and Central Stags in Wellington, the tribunal said in a statement.The statement added that Bracewell had “admitted using cocaine but maintained that his use occurred out-of-competition, being prior to midnight on the day before the match, and that it was unrelated to sport performance”. The Sport Integrity Commission did not accept that and “contended that the use must have occurred in-competition”.Following that, expert evidence on the matter was filed by both the Commission and Bracewell, and a hearing before the tribunal was scheduled for December 11 and 12. But last week, on November 11, “counsel filed a joint memorandum in which the Commission indicated that, having considered all the evidence filed in this proceeding, on balance, it accepted Mr Bracewell’s position”. As a result, it was “agreed that the appropriate sanction was a period of ineligibility of three months, which would be reduced to one month, as Mr Bracewell had satisfactorily completed a Substance of Abuse treatment programme approved by the Commission”.The tribunal subsequently imposed an “ineligibility period of one month”, which was backdated to commence on April 11, which was the date of the provisional suspension order.Bracewell, 34, has played 28 Tests (74 wickets), 21 ODIs (26 wickets) and 20 T20Is (20 wickets) after making his international debut in October 2011. He last played for New Zealand in a Test match against Sri Lanka in Wellington in March 2023.A Central Districts player right through his domestic career, Bracewell recently opted out of a contract with the club to become a freelancer. He is next expected to be in action at the Abu Dhabi T10 league, where he is a part of New York Strikers, and then at the SA20 early next year as part of Joburg Super Kings.

Madushanka has been ruled out of the Asia Cup and Kumara is likely to be unavailable for the tournament as well

Andrew Fidel Fernando28-Aug-2023Sri Lanka’s bowling stocks have been ravaged by injury, with Dilshan Madushanka now ruled out of the Asia Cup, and Lahiru Kumara also likely to be unavailable. This, after Dushmantha Chameera had earlier been ruled out of the tournament as well.Legspinner Wanindu Hasaranga is also recovering from a grade two strain in the thigh, and may not play a part in the Asia Cup, depending on the speed of his recovery as well as Sri Lanka’s longevity in the tournament. It appears unlikely that he will play a role in the group stage, in any case.Related

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Madushanka had torn an oblique muscle during a practice game on Friday, and may even be battling to regain fitness ahead of World Cup in October, Professor Arjuna de Silva, SLC’s chairman of the medical committee told ESPNcricinfo. Chameera, likewise, has a pectoral injury that puts him in some doubt for the start of the World Cup as well.Kumara, meanwhile, has suffered a side strain – a recurring injury. His recovery time is not expected to be as long as that of Chameera or Madushanka, but may put him out of the Asia Cup completely as well.Kumara, Chameera, and Madushanka are among Sri Lanka’s quickest bowlers, and their absence will create problems for Sri Lanka’s attack, which had carried them through the World Cup Qualifier in June and July. In the absence of these quicks, Sri Lanka will likely have to rely on the likes of Kasun Rajitha, Pramod Madushan, and Matheesha Pathirana, all of whom have at least some experience.Hasaranga, meanwhile, could be replaced by left-arm spinning allrounder Dunith Wellalage, although legspinning allrounder Dushan Hemantha may also be called up.Sri Lanka’s first match of the Asia Cup is against Bangladesh, on Thursday. They have to avoid finishing last in a group also featuring Afghanistan, to make it to the Super 4 stage.

Somerset bowled out for 69 in second innings as Barker stars with bat and ball

ECB Reporters Network21-May-2022Keith Barker played key roles with bat and ball as Hampshire completed a resounding ten-wicket LV= County Championship win over Somerset inside three days at Taunton.The 35-year-old left-arm seamer began by contributing a valuable 36 to help his side extend their first innings total from an overnight 144 for 5 to 280 all out, Aneurin Donald making 57 and James Fuller a rapid 38 to give Hampshire a lead of 69 on first innings.Barker then got to work with the ball, combining extravagant swing with nagging accuracy to claim 6 for 27 from an unbroken 13-over opening spell as Somerset crashed to 25 for 6 before being bowled out with the scores level.Opener Felix Organ hit the required single for victory off the fourth ball of Hampshire’s second innings and his team took 21 points to Somerset’s four to enhance an impressive start to the Championship campaign, keeping them on the tail of early leaders Surrey.The day began with the visitors trailing on first innings by 67. Ben Brown failed to add to his overnight score of 19 before being pinned lbw by Peter Siddle with the total on 152.At 154 for 6 in the 59th over, the ball had to be changed for the second time in the innings. By then Donald was showing a desire to get on the front foot, profiting from some sweetly timed drives as he and Barker ate into Somerset’s lead.A key moment came at 195 for 6 when Donald, on 29, was dropped by Craig Overton at gully off Josh Davey. It was an error the home side could ill afford and Barker had moved confidently to 26 when greeting the introduction of England spinner Jack Leach with a six and a four off his first two balls.The first of those shots put Hampshire in front. The next delivery saw Barker caught at midwicket, but Donald went to a 74-ball half-century before falling to the second new ball, bowled by Siddle.Kyle Abbott fell cheaply to Overton, but Fuller ensured Hampshire of a meaningful advantage, striking four fours and two sixes as Somerset bowled poorly during a last wicket stand of 24 with Mohammad Abbas.Overton and Siddle ended with four wickets each. But momentum was with Hampshire and a series of wretched shots contributed to Somerset’s nightmare second innings, their batting line-up lacking the technique to cope with the swinging ball.