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Derbyshire’s bowlers made sure there was not too heavy a price to pay for their post-tea collapse on day one by bowling Kent out for 159

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ScorecardMark Footitt led the Derbyshire attack once again•Getty Images

Derbyshire’s bowlers made sure there was not too heavy a price to pay for their post-tea collapse on day one by bowling Kent out for 159 on the second day of their Championship match in Derby. Four wickets for Mark Footitt, taking him to 60 for the season, and two each for Tony Palladino and Ben Cotton earned Derbyshire a first-innings lead of 94, which they had extended to 167 at the close.Unable to find the breakthrough in 11 overs the previous evening, Derbyshire were kept waiting five more in the morning before Rob Key was lbw to Footitt for 29 at 50 for 1 and the sides then settled in for a period of attrition which saw only 13 runs added in 12 overs.The arm-wrestle was won by the bowling side, with Daniel Bell-Drummond lbw to Cotton for 19 and Sam Northeast pushing at a Palladino ball to be caught behind for one in the next over.Footitt returned to the attack to have an instant impact, as his second ball was played on to the stumps by Joe Denly and the fifth flattened the off stump of Ben Harmison, who did not offer a shot. Calum Haggett edged Palladino and was caught at third slip by Godleman after the ball was pushed into the air by Chesney Hughes at second, then Sean Dickson was lbw to Cotton to make it 119 for 7.James Tredwell held out for 20 before Footitt bowled him and though Matt Hunn gave the Kent innings a late flurry for 23 not out the innings ended when Ivan Thomas was run out coming back for a third run only to be beaten by the throw by Scott Elstone at deep cover.With Sam Billings absent because of the dislocated finger he suffered keeping wicket on day one, that was it for Kent. Footitt finished with 4 for 61 and Cotton 2 for 45, with Palladino’s unerring 16 overs bringing him 2 for 21. Shiv Thakor played no part for Derbyshire after suffering concussion from a blow to the head while batting, which made their bowling performance even more impressive.Kent hopes that they could find similar success quickly faded as Derbyshire openers Billy Godleman and Ben Slater extended the lead before Slater chopped a Thomas ball on to his stumps to make it 43 for 1. But Godleman, scorer of a century in his last two Championship innings, was immovable and was 42 not out when bad light and rain brought an early end to the day.

The second day’s play of the four-day match between Bangladesh A and the West Indies’ Sagicor High Performance Centre has been suspended due to a daylong strike in Dhaka on Sunday

ESPNcricinfo staff22-Sep-2012The second day’s play of the four-day match between Bangladesh A and the West Indies’ Sagicor High Performance Centre has been suspended due to a daylong strike in Dhaka on Sunday. “We have made this decision [to postpone] after discussing with both teams. There is a political programme tomorrow [Sunday], so the local police will not be available for security cover,” BCB’s acting CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury said.The first day’s play ended with the West Indies side on 13 for no loss after they bundled out Bangladesh A for 199 runs in the first innings in Mirpur. Left-arm fast bowler Sheldon Cotterrell was the most successful bowler with four wickets while Mominul Haque was the top-scorer with 50 off 80 balls.

Suspended CSA chief executive Gerald Majola will know his fate by May 31. That is the timeframe the country’s sports minister, Fikile Mbalula, and CSA have agreed on for completion of Majola’s disciplinary hearing

Firdose Moonda26-Apr-2012Suspended CSA chief executive Gerald Majola will know his fate by May 31. That is the timeframe the country’s sports minister, Fikile Mbalula, and CSA have agreed on for completion of Majola’s disciplinary hearing.The hearing concerns R4.7 million ($671,428) paid in unauthorised bonuses to CSA staff after the hosting of the IPL and Champions Trophy in 2009. Senior council John Myburgh will chair the disciplinary committee and an independent prosecutor will be appointed from the Bar Council for the proceedings.Majola was suspended in March after an independent commission of inquiry, convened on the order of Mbalula and chaired by Judge Chris Nicholson, recommended that Majola undergo a formal disciplinary process. CSA had not previously taken any such action against their chief executive despite internal and external investigations, which found that bonuses were paid without due procedure being followed.Majola was cautioned against violating corporate governance by the internal investigation, chaired by former president AK Khan, and severely reprimanded after an audit by KPMG and subsequent legal advice found that he had breached the Companies Act. The bonuses, which were awarded to 40 CSA staff members, were paid in addition to a payment that had already been made for extra work done during both those events and were not declared to the board.Importantly, Mbalula said all money that was awarded improperly will have to be paid back. “If there is anyone that received bonuses outside the ambit of the law and that was not properly declared, those people will be attended to,” Mbalula said, adding that it would include those who have since resigned from CSA. “Civil processes will be lodged for those who are outside CSA,” he said. “At the end of the day, the bonuses will have to be recovered.”CSA survived the meeting with the minister with its board intact, despite speculation in the local media that Mbalula would ask them to resign en masse. Mbalula revealed that he did not make any such request because the ministry was impressed with the steps the board had taken since the Nicholson report was made public. They suspended Majola and appointed an acting CEO, Jacques Faul. They also had a change of guard in the presidency post as Khan resigned and Willie Basson was appointed acting president.”We didn’t ask the board to resign because we made our own examination of things,” Mbalula said. “They have got an acting CEO and acting chairperson. To ask for the entirety of the board to resign, certain things would not have been done in terms of the Nicholson recommendations. If the board feels they have been part of the mess, they can’t avoid the mess. They must be part of the broomstick that cleans the mess.”The other recommendations Mbalula referred to was the restructuring of CSA’s board, proposed by Nicholson, which called for a smaller board with more independent directors. An eight-person steering committee was appointed in March, consisting of four board members and four outsiders, all of whom have been involved in cricket in some capacity, to discuss the restructure. That committee will now be added to, as members of the ministry and the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee will also be party to their meetings.The steering committee will go on a roadshow of the 11 provincial associations with their proposal, before presenting it to the national indaba on governance restructuring ahead of September’s AGM. A new board will be elected in September and Mbalula said it will remain up to CSA whether any of the current board members can stand again.CSA will also launch a transformation fund in May, which will serve the aim of developing the game in previously disadvantaged areas and communities. Basson is passionate about ensuring cricket reaches the majority of the South African population from grassroots level and was previously the transformation chairperson. “CSA has committed itself to the philosophy that transformation has to be advanced on the basis of a natural evolutionary process that will enable us to grow as a sport over the next 20 years,” Mbalula said.

The ICC has joined forces with the cricket boards in England and Pakistan to dismiss out of hand Danish Kaneria’s claims that he has already been issued with clearance certificates

David Hopps20-Feb-2012The ICC has joined forces with the cricket boards in England and Pakistan to dismiss out of hand Danish Kaneria’s claims that he has already been issued with clearance certificates that should leave him free to continue his international career in the wake of the spot-fixing scandalMervyn Westfield, the former Essex seam bowler, was jailed for four months last week and Kaneria was named as an accomplice at the Old Bailey, but the following day, while captaining Sind Province in the Pentangular Cup final in Lahore he insisted: “The Essex police cleared me and I have clearance certificates from both the ECB and ICC, so I am not feeling any pressure. I am just enjoying my cricket.”Those claims, which were widely regarded as unsubstantiated at the time, have now been officially scotched in a joint statement by the ICC, PCB and ECB. “Following reports in the media in which Danish Kaneria claims to have been issued with a clearance certificate, the ICC, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) can categorically deny that such a clearance certificate was ever issued.”The PCB stated that, following the Mervyn Westfield judgement, Danish Kaneria will again be called to appear before the integrity committee to explain his position. The PCB also confirmed that the Kaneria clearance matter is pending before the integrity committee of the PCB where in the last meeting he was directed to provide copies of the tapes of his Essex police interview.”Kaneria was named in court as the alleged go-between between Westfield and bookmakers who paid the Essex bowler £6,000 to deliberately concede an agreed number of runs in an over in a Pro40 match against Durham in 2009.Kaneria was released on grounds of insufficient evidence in 2010, shortly before Westfield was charged. But the PCB rejected a document that he submitted last May in a failed attempt to clear suspicions of spot-fixing and enable him to play for his country. Neither the ECB nor Essex, as his employer at the time, has deemed it fit to provide a clearance certificate since then.A further appearance in front of the PCB’s integrity committee is now inevitable after new evidence was outlined in court by Westfield’s defence solicitor, Mark Milliken-Smith QC, concerning Kaneria’s fixation with supposedly jocular conversations with team-mates about the money that could be made from fixing.The PCB has also never accepted a document provided by Kaneria from Essex police that he claimed was evidence that he had been cleared of all charges. In May, the PCB asked Kaneria for transcripts of the police interview which his legal representatives said could not be made available.Essex, determinedly silent on the affair, have given no indication about what information they might have provided to the PCB. Neither has the county explained why it took six months to report Westfield’s fix after he first showed a team-mate a plastic bag full of £50 notes.

Another professional performance from Australia, this time led by Doug Bollinger with the ball and Ricky Ponting with the bat, set up a comfortable eight-wicket win in Hambantota

The Report by Brydon Coverdale14-Aug-2011
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsRicky Ponting made an unbeaten 90 in Australia’s chase•AFP

Perhaps Tillakaratne Dilshan should send Australia in next time. He needs to do something to shake his team out of its slumber after another professional performance from Australia, this time led by Doug Bollinger with the ball and Ricky Ponting with the bat, set up a comfortable eight-wicket win and a 2-0 lead in the five-match series.In Pallekele last Wednesday, Dilshan won the toss and chose to bat, and his men were bowled out for a sub-par total that the attack couldn’t defend. The venue has changed but the result was exactly the same this time around, as he again chose to bat and the Sri Lankan top order again failed to build a target that would worry Michael Clarke’s side. Australia were set 209 for victory, and they got there with 11.4 overs remaining.The scorecard will show that Ponting finished unbeaten on 90, and it’s true that it was a fine innings: he was calm, the bowlers’ variations rarely troubled him, and he waited for the bad balls to put away. But he was rarely pressured by a lacklustre Sri Lanka. The fluttering of their shirts in oppressively windy conditions was about as animated as Sri Lanka’s players got.Lasith Malinga added a little spark to the attack in his return from a back injury, and when he splayed the stumps of Shane Watson with an excellent inswinging yorker, there was briefly a buzz around the ground. But the 94-run stand that Watson and Ponting had compiled meant Sri Lanka needed to spark a collapse to have any hope, and that didn’t happen.Ponting and Michael Clarke (58 not out) handled Malinga and Ajantha Mendis well, and were not troubled by the rest of the bowlers. Just as they did on Wednesday, both men posted half-centuries without too much drama on a good batting surface.Apart from the early loss of the out-of-form Brad Haddin, who edged behind off Nuwan Kulasekara in the second over and was well taken by Kumar Sangakkara up to the stumps, Australia were in cruise control. Watson was uncharacteristically slow out of the blocks, but gradually found his touch, and a vicious pull for six off Rangana Herath was classic Watson.Ponting drove the seamers confidently and swivelled a rank long hop from Kulasekara for six, and Clarke even cleared the boundary a couple of times in a classy display. But just as it had been in the series opener, Australia’s win was set up by the bowlers, and by Clarke’s impressive and aggressive captaincy.Only Sangakkara’s 52 and a late flourish from Kulasekara gave Sri Lanka any hope, and they must address their batting problems before the third match. In the first game, too many men threw their wickets away, perhaps still in Twenty20 mode, but in Hambantota they over-corrected. The Sri Lankan batsmen tried to stand firm but in the process forgot about scoring runs.For much of the innings, the run-rate hovered below four, which can be sustained if wickets are in hand to launch a late attack. On the contrary, wickets were out of hand, as Bollinger and his colleagues maintained the pressure and kept making breakthroughs. The only half-century partnership was a 63-run stand between Sangakkara and Angelo Mathews, who did their best to rebuild after the side slipped to 77 for 4.But when Sangakkara tried to lift the tempo with a slog over midwicket off David Hussey’s offspin, all he could manage was a miscue that was caught on the long-on boundary. Earlier, Sangakkara had cleared the rope straight down the ground off Xavier Doherty, but it was Sri Lanka’s first boundary in 16 overs, and that told the story.After Sangakkara departed, Mathews tried to take charge but was caught at deep cover off Bollinger, who finished with 3 for 35 and showed impressive smarts as well as speed and bounce. He had already accounted for Dinesh Chandimal; a well-directed bouncer had Chandimal in all sorts of trouble as he tried to fend it down, and the next delivery was a good ball angled across the batsman, whose tentative prod resulted in an edge behind.As had been the case on Wednesday, it was left to Kulasekara to provide some late runs. Too much had been left to the tail following the early dismissals of the top-order men. Sri Lanka needed a total in the region of 250, but things started to go wrong when the 37-run opening stand between Dilshan and Upul Tharanga ended.The windy conditions meant it was important that Clarke chose the right ends for his bowlers, and the first breakthrough came when Brett Lee switched ends and bowled with the wind supporting his inswinger. In his first over of that spell, Lee got one to move in to Dilshan, who looked for an expansive drive but played the wrong line and was bowled for 24.Mitchell Johnson got rid of the other opener, Tharanga, who tried to sway out of the way of a bouncer after a subdued innings, but gloved behind when the ball didn’t rise quite as much as he expected. Mahela Jayawardene (17 off 30) was also in no hurry, before he fell to a top-edged sweep off Xavier Doherty. The slower bouncer accounted for Jeevan Mendis, who tried to hook and was caught off the bowling of Lee.All in all, it was a disappointing batting effort from Sri Lanka. To bat first in consecutive games and be dismissed both times is a sign not just of good bowling from Australia, but a poor Sri Lankan mindset. Dilshan needs to find some way to lift his team before Tuesday, or this series could be over before the teams even get to Colombo.