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He remains suspended from bowling in top-flight cricket with Bangladesh’s selection for the Champions Trophy imminent

Mohammad Isam12-Jan-2025Shakib Al Hasan has failed a test of his bowling action for the second time after being suspended from bowling in top-flight domestic and international cricket. This latest independent re-assessment of his action took place at the Sri Ramachandra Centre for Sports Science in Chennai last month.Shakib’s suspension will remain in place, as a result. “Consequently, the player’s existing suspension from bowling in international cricket following the initial independent assessment at the testing centre of Loughborough University in the UK, also remains in place,” the BCB said in a statement on Saturday. “A successful reassessment is required for the bowling suspension to be lifted.Related

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“While Shakib is currently unable to bowl, he is eligible to continue playing as a batsman in all forms of domestic and international cricket.”Shakib had failed his first test at the UK’s Loughborough University late last year, after he was reported for a suspect action during an English county match in September. This prompted the ECB’s action to suspend him, and, in accordance with clause 11.3 of the ICC’s regulations for illegal bowling actions, his suspension was automatically recognised and enforced by the ICC in international cricket and by all national cricket federations in their respective domestic competitions.The continued suspension is likely to have an impact on Bangladesh’s squad for the Champions Trophy in February-March, although BCB president Faruque Ahmed said on January 3 that he desired Shakib back in the team. It was also reported recently that Bangladesh captain Najmul Hossain Shanto gave his nod to the BCB regarding Shakib’s ODI return. The BCB has announced it will announce the Bangladesh squad on Sunday noon.Shakib has been out of international cricket since the two-match Test tour of India in September-October 2024. Following that tour, he could not travel back to Bangladesh in the face of student protests. Shakib had been a member of parliament in the Awami League government, which fell from power on August 5, in the face of a student-led revolution in Bangladesh.Shakib last played for Bangladesh in the two Tests against India, and his last ODI came during the 2023 World Cup.

He has already played two overseas T20 tournaments, as allowed by the PCB, for the July 2023 to July 2024 period

Mohammad Isam21-Jan-2024Pakistan batter Mohammad Haris has returned home after the PCB denied him a No-Objection Certificate (NOC) to play in the Bangladesh Premier League.Haris was part of Chattogram Challengers’ squad but had already played in two overseas T20 tournaments for the July 2023 to July 2024 period, as allowed by the PCB. He featured in the Lanka Premier League and the Global T20 Canada in July-August last year. He played for B-Love Kandy and Surrey Jaguars, respectively, in these tournaments.Haris said that he had arrived in the country early to prepare for the tournament but later found out that the NOC would not be issued.”Thank you, Chattogram team management and the BCB for taking care of me and giving me this opportunity,” he said. “I also flew in on time to prepare myself to give some great games to my fans in Bangladesh. Unfortunately, my NOC was not issued. Hence, I will not play any games. I knew my team needed me. Hopefully, I will join them next year. I will definitely miss playing the BPL.”Chattogram Challengers beat Sylhet Strikers in their first match of the season, before losing to Khulna Tigers in the second game. The Chattogram franchise is yet to announce a replacement for Haris.

Chief selector Wahab Riaz also said Naseem Shah has recovered from his injury but still needs rehab and is expecting to play the PSL

ESPNcricinfo staff19-Dec-2023Mohammad Haris has been left out of Pakistan’s 17-man squad for the five-match T20I series in New Zealand starting January 12. Haris, who has been out of the Pakistan set-up since the Asia Cup in September, is one of two notable absentees in the squad, along with Shadab Khan, who had to miss out due to an ankle injury.However, Wahab Riaz, Pakistan’s chief selector, confirmed that both players are still a part of the team’s long-term plans: “Shadab is a very important member of Pakistan T20 cricket and he’s a white-ball specialist. Unfortunately he got injured during the season; he twisted his ankle which will take another two weeks for rehab. He will be available to bowl after that. Haris is rested because there were some first-class performers and we saw Harris’ capability and since he’s part of our plans going forward, we want to use our pool of players.”Related

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Pakistan have been dealing with international cricket without first-choice fast bowler Naseem Shah who has been injured since September, and while they won’t have him for this tour either, there was good news.”Ihsanullah, Shadab, Mohammad Hasnain, and Naseem Shah were unfit,” Wahab said. “The good news is Hasnain and Naseem have recovered and Naseem is undergoing rehab at the cricket academy and we don’t want to overload him so he will be available for the PSL next year. Same for Hasnain – he is returning and we’ve called him at the academy so we can assess him. Ihsanullah will unfortunately take more time and I’m not sure right now if he’ll play in the PSL or not. Shadab will also come to the academy after his ankle injury and he’ll undergo rehab.”This series will be Shaheen Shah Afridi’s first series as Pakistan’s full-time T20I captain. Notably, Pakistan have picked three wicketkeepers in their squad – Azam Khan, Mohammad Rizwan and the uncapped Haseebullah Khan – in an attempt to find “back-ups” ahead of the 2024 T20 World Cup in USA and the Caribbean.”All three wicketkeepers-batters are proven performers in domestic and international cricket,” Wahab said. “In the last few years, we weren’t able to create back-ups. Going forward into the World Cup, we want to create those back-ups and try some of the boys. Haseebullah played in the middle order for Peshawar Zalmi and played some impactful innings. Overall he has been performing very well for the last few years in white-ball cricket.”Haseeb also opens in domestic but we have to develop our Nos. 4 to 7 which has troubled us in the past. Now we are in a building phase so we know before the World Cup who our Nos. 4 to 7 are, who will grab the opportunities. Keeping that in mind, we picked Haseebullah because he is a proven performer and he has that ability where his strike-rate (120.65) is very high. We want to develop such players so they don’t have a problem in the West Indies.”Pakistan will also be without Shan Masood, who Wahab said was among the probables, but ultimately not considered; They, instead, have decided to “invest” in “impact player” Azam.”We’ve watched Azam very closely and at times it happens that you’ve to prefer skills over fitness. A player winning you a match is much more important than anything else,” Wahab said. “We’ve spoken to Azam about fitness levels and we’ve sent him a very clear message that we want to invest in you but you have to respond as well. Obviously you can’t expect someone to lose 10-15kgs in 10 days so Azam will travel with the team. He’s an impact player so we want to give him a chance and keep an eye on his fitness levels.”Haris Rauf, whom Wahab claimed had backed out of playing the ongoing Test series against Australia, will return in Pakistan colours in New Zealand.

Pakistan squad:

Shaheen Shah Afridi (capt), Aamer Jamal, Abbas Afridi, Abrar Ahmed, Azam Khan, Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Rauf, Haseebullah Khan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Mohammad Wasim, Sahibzada Farhan, Saim Ayub, Usama Mir, Zaman Khan

Pacer picks four wickets on debut while the opener scored his maiden ODI ton

Himanshu Agrawal29-Mar-2022New Zealand hadn’t played an ODI for over a year, had as many as 12 first-choice players plying their trade in the IPL, and were playing Netherlands in the format after 26 years. Still, debutant quick Blair Tickner, and top-order batters Will Young – who got to his maiden ODI century with an unbeaten 103 – and Henry Nicholls combined to ensure the hosts comfortably took a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.After Tickner became the fourth New Zealand bowler to take four wickets on ODI debut to restrict the visitors to 202, Nicholls and Young kept New Zealand motoring along in a second-wicket stand of 162 before Nicholls fell for 57, as they completed the chase with more than 11 overs to spare.Young got to his hundred after dancing down the pitch to loft over mid-off in what turned out to be the winning runs for his side. He had reached fifty off 54 balls in the 19th over, by which time he had slammed five fours and two sixes. Three of those fours came off successive deliveries in the eighth over off Logan van Beek: first a pull behind square, then a perfectly-timed push between cover and mid-off, and finally another pull but this time in front of square.Related

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But the shot of the day came in the 18th over when Young skipped down the track to left-arm wristspinner Michael Rippon, and effortlessly lofted the ball for a big six over long-off. However, that remained the only boundary hit from the 11th to the 24th over, as Rippon and captain Pieter Seelaar kept things quiet.While Rippon sent back Nicholls to break the massive stand, he also got Ross Taylor with a beauty: he tossed the ball up from around the wicket, inviting Taylor to drive, but the ball landed right in between his bat and pad, and spun back in to hit the stumps.Earlier, it was the pair of Rippon and Seelaar that had rescued Netherlands with the bat after they were reduced to 45 for 5 by the New Zealand pacers at the end of the 13th over. Tickner had got two of those wickets, with one each having gone to Kyle Jamieson, Matt Henry and Colin de Grandhomme.Jamieson was the first to strike when he had Max O’Dowd gloving down the leg side to wicketkeeper Tom Latham in the third over of the innings, while three overs later, Henry had Stephan Myburgh edging to Martin Guptill at gully, where the latter took a good low catch.
And while New Zealand’s debutant shone with the ball, Netherlands’ own debut batter Vikramjit Singh impressed with the bat, albeit only for a short while. Before becoming Tickner’s maiden ODI wicket, left-hand batter Vikramjit had shown signs of a young Darren Bravo with his compact technique, hitting four pleasing boundaries on his way to 19.He used soft hands to collect the first of those, before gently driving Henry down the ground and punching him with a short-arm jab through the covers for four. But from 41 for 2, Netherlands slipped further to lose another three wickets for as many runs as Tickner had Vikramjit caught at third man while Scott Edwards gifted a return catch to de Grandhomme, and Bas de Leede, whose father Tim was part of the only previous ODI meeting between the sides in 1996, also found third man off Tickner.That is when the union between captain Seelaar and Rippon began. Happy to nudge and tuck the ball to keep the scoreboard ticking, they slowly but steadily took their side towards hundred, as legspinner Ish Sodhi and debutant allrounder Michael Bracewell kept things tight. Seelaar swept them once each for four, but when on 43, ended up tickling down leg off Tickner to end the 80-run partnership.Rippon, who been pretty quiet until then, soon found the boundary and reached his half-century in the 45th over before being the last man out for 67. He kept dragging Netherlands by regularly running singles, and was involved in crucial partnerships with the tailenders to push his team to a respectable total. A cameo from van Beek and contributions from Philippe Boissevain took them past 200, but that would prove easily gettable for New Zealand in the end.

The captain’s 28-ball 49 helped the side to a formidable total before the spinner picked up three wickets to restrict Ireland

The Report by Hemant Brar08-Mar-2020Asghar Afghan scored a 28-ball 49 to lift Afghanistan to 184 for 4 before Mujeeb Ur Rahman’s three-wicket haul restricted Ireland to 163 for 6 in the second T20I in Greater Noida. The 21-run victory meant Afghanistan now have an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.Afghanistan had a slow start after opting to bat as their openers Hazratullah Zazai and Rahmanullah Gurbaz struggled for the timing on a sluggish pitch. The Ireland seamers also didn’t allow any room to Zazai who eventually fell to legspinner Gareth Delany for a 33-ball 28.Gurbaz used his feet against Delany to hit a couple of sixes but despite that Afghanistan were 85 for 2 after 13 overs. Asghar, who too was struggling to find the middle of the bat till then, suddenly starting connecting his hits. He struck six, four and four off successive Boyd Rankin deliveries to take the side past 100 in the 14th over.Craig Young was the next to suffer. Asghar smashed him for two fours and two sixes as the 16th over of the innings produced 25 runs. Going for another big hit, Asghar holed out to long-on and fell one short of his fifty. Najibullah Zadran and Gulbadin Naib hit two sixes each in the final over as take Afghanistan to a formidable total.After giving away 99 runs in the last seven overs, Ireland started their chase positively before Mujeeb dismissed Kevin O’Brien and Paul Stirling to reduce them to 37 for 2. Andy Balbirnie and Harry Tector kept finding the boundaries though and took Ireland to 90 for 3 after ten overs.Then, Rashid Khan was introduced to the attack. After conceding five in his first over, he dismissed Balbirnie in the next for a 35-ball 46. From the other end, Nabi too didn’t allow any easy runs. As a result, Ireland were left needing 51 from the last four overs.Tector took 12 off the first three balls of the 17th over, bowled by Mujeeb, but the bowler came back strongly. He not only bowled the next three balls dots but also got rid of Tector.Ireland needed 26 from the final over – Afghanistan too had got 26 from their 20th – but Shapoor Zadran conceded only four to seal the match and the series.

Jason Roy also absent for birth of child, meaning recalls for Sam Billings and Dawid Malan

George Dobell21-Feb-2019Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes have been rested from England’s T20 squad for the three-match series against West Indies.Buttler and Stokes, key members of the side in all three formats, will be allowed to return home immediately after the fifth ODI of the current series against the same opposition. Both men face a hectic 2019 schedules which include the World Cup, the Ashes and spells at the IPL, which starts on March 23.But Ed Smith, the national selector, insisted there was no way the decision to rest them from the T20 series should be interpreted as a case of prioritising franchise cricket over England duty.”I have not favoured franchise cricket over international cricket,” Smith said. “The contracts that Jos and Ben had with their franchises pre-date my involvement. There were a set of obligations in place and, with a busy year coming up, I’ve accepted the strong recommendations of the head coach to rest these guys now.”Jason Roy will also miss the West Indies T20s to ensure he is on hand for the birth of his first child. As a result, Sam Billings and Dawid Malan have been recalled to the squad for the first time since last year’s tour of Australia and New Zealand.”Sam is a very talented cricketer who hits the ball as hard as anyone,” Smith said. “But he’s been in a position where he’s been picked up by franchises but then not always been playing. And he’s been in England squads but not always been playing.”So last summer we took a view that we didn’t want him to be in a squad and not playing. So we left him out so he could play for Kent and he captained them to a Lord’s final and promotion. He then played both legs of full Lions tours before and after Christmas and I think that will have been a good thing for him. He has considerable ability.”Dawid would love an England career across all three formats. It’s just a question of where the opportunities come and, when he has played T20, he has grabbed his chances.”There were also discussions over whether to rest Joe Root. Ultimately, however, Root, who has not always commanded a place in England’s T20 team, was keen to play.”Joe is an absolutely critical asset for English cricket in the very big 2019 summer,” Smith said. “His form and preparation is essential for England, so we did discuss resting him. But he is very keen to play in these games. He feels playing in the white-ball sides offers a different experience to captaining the Test side and he likes that blend.”While Smith is usually reluctant to talk about players outside the squad, he did confirm that James Vince’s good form in various franchise tournaments “had been noted” and said he remained in discussions.He also had praise for Harry Gurney, who ended up with a winner’s medal from a successful period in the BBL. “Harry has terrific skills,” Smith said. “And we’re very aware of what he’s doing. But he misses out in this instance.”England T20 squad: Eoin Morgan (capt), Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow, Sam Billings, Tom Curran, Joe Denly, Alex Hales, Chris Jordan, Dawid Malan, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, David Willey, Mark Wood

Middlesex fought hard on the fourth day, with contributions from Stevie Eskinazi, Hilton Cartwright and James Harris, to resurrect their promotion hopes

David Hopps at Grace Road23-Jun-20182:01

Kent squash Warwickshire’s hopes of record chase

ScorecardMiddlesex’s season has changed abruptly in the space of 48 hours. Home truths were told at Grace Road on Thursday night after they conceded a 194-run lead on first innings to Leicestershire. “Not good enough,” said their coach Richard Scott. Words like “resolve” figured prominently. The badge, and the need for pride in it, probably got a mention. It normally does at a time of crisis.The result was immediate; the three seaxes duly sharpened. Perhaps when Dawid Malan, an England batsman of steely repute, looks you in the eye it is best to listen. Middlesex conquered a target of 381 by one wicket with 6.3 overs remaining. This was gut-wrenching stuff and a tie would have been a suitable conclusion. As it is, Middlesex’s promotion hopes are not quite spent and Leicestershire missed the chance to win three in a row for the first time since 1998.The last time Middlesex were in Division Two, Angus Fraser, the former England stalwart, was appointed as director of cricket and began by suggesting that a side given to losing in two-and-a-half days might care to look at itself and lose in three-and-a-half instead. The eventual result was promotion and a Championship win in 2016. Relegated to everyone’s surprise last September, there is no wish to return to the bad habits of old.James Harris, dropped twice as the requirement fell below 50, clipped the winning boundary forcefully off Mohammad Abbas. It was an emphatic end to an intense day’s cricket, during which Hilton Cartwright hit 80 after being “bowled” by Gavin Griffiths before he had scored – the ball clipped off-stump hard, but the bail obstinately stayed put – and Stevie Eskinazi made 97 and was then run out in a mix-up in which time seemed to expand.Middlesex were obdurate from the outset. They started the day on 82 for 3, with 299 still needed, and the nightwatchman Ravi Patel resisted diligently for the first hour until Abbas tempted him into an off-side wipe. By then, expectations of uneven bounce prevalent earlier in the match had lessened. But all day they met anything on the stumps with utmost seriousness.Paul Stirling soon fell, pushing at a wide ball from Gavin Griffiths, but when Cartwright, fresh to the crease, had his off stump clipped on nought, only to survive, there was an inkling that this might just be Middlesex’s day. By tea, Cartwright, an Australian allrounder, had his first half-century since signing for Middlesex, and Grace Road, the quietest crowd in the country, briefly resounded to cries of “Keep your heads up, lads.” They did, but it’s always a bad sign.Eskinazi was responsibility personified until, on 97, he observed Cartwright drive the left-arm spinner Callum Parkinson to Ben Raine at short extra cover. Raine could not retrieve a low chance and, as the ball bounced away, confusion took hold.There is an App to help people with indecision apparently and there was time to download it as both batsmen embarked upon a single that neither really fancied. “No. Never on a misfield.” “Still, it’s quite a misfield. Maybe we could… in theory.” “You seem to want this more than I do? Can we reach out to each other? Is it too late to reconsider?” “Hmm, seems like we’re going. Is this wise?” “We’ve really messed up, haven’t we. I don’t believe it.” As indicated, Raine recovered to throw down the stumps before Eskinazi could get home.John Simpson went soon after tea, leg before to late inswing from Griffiths, but another substantial partnership was lodged. Harris’ two escapes against Raine, an allrounder with a heart of oak, were costly, firstly on 21 when the keeper Lewis Hill couldn’t gather a low catch, again on 23 when the ball escaped Ateeq Javid at second slip, low, wide, tough but takeable.Raine’s persistence was admirable. His unflagging effort was finally rewarded with treacherous bounce that had Cartwright lbw for 80 with 38 still needed. Middlesex were still seven short when Steve Finn was strangled down the leg-side – although to be fair it was a deliberate set-up, with leg slip and long leg on patrol. Last man Tim Murtagh joined Harris to steer the visitors over the line.Finally, consider Leicestershire, their hopes of their first three-in-a-row since their Championship-winning season of 1998 lost. Ask many an opposition batsman and the soundtrack of that Championship-winning season was Paul Nixon yapping away behind the stumps.Now Nixon has reappeared as coach, the wins are coming again and the desire to learn was summed up by one young professional stopping Malan for a technical chat as he headed to his car. Meanwhile, Division One counties are swarming around Nixon’s most high-profile players. The least he deserves if he has to rebuild again is that English cricket recognises – without riders, and beginning with the top, and Andrew Strauss – his county’s contribution to English cricket.

North Island breezed to victory in the Island of Origin T20, bowling out South Island for 126 and then chasing the target down with six wickets and seven overs to spare

ESPNcricinfo staff28-Feb-2016
ScorecardMitchell McClenaghan returned after undergoing surgery for the facial fracture he suffered above his left eye•Getty Images

North Island breezed to victory in the Island of Origin T20, bowling out South Island for 126 and then chasing the target down with six wickets and seven overs to spare. While the North took away bragging rights without a doubt, most New Zealand cricket fans would be equally relieved to have Ross Taylor and Mitchell McClenaghan back in action with the World T20 around the corner. Both Taylor and McClenaghan had not played top-flight cricket due to injury since the limited-overs games against Pakistan over a month ago – Taylor had suffered a muscle tear in his left side, while McClenaghan was recovering after being struck on the face by a ball that burst through his helmet.South Island chose to bat in the one-off T20, and were given a sprightly start by Tom Latham and Dean Brownlie, getting to 35 in three and a half overs. That’s when the pair was separated, and from thereon, the South could not string together anything resembling a steady partnership. Fast man Adam Milne and seam-bowling allrounder Jimmy Neesham combined with the legspin of Ish Sodhi to knock over regular wickets as no partnership thereafter crossed 16. Even McClenaghan chipped in with a late wicket as the South were bowled out for 126 with four balls to spare.Tearaway Matt Henry, the most effective of the South’s bowlers, did strike an early blow – he had Anton Devcich caught for 6 – but a 63-run stand followed between George Worker (53) and Colin Munro to give the chase a solid base. The foundations of that base were severely rocked when Henry returned to have Munro and Grant Elliott (out for a duck) both caught behind in the ninth over, reducing the North to 87 for 4, but Taylor was at hand to steer them home. He struck 26 off 16 with three fours as the North romped home in 13 overs.