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Fifteen wickets tumbled on the second day at the MCG, to better the 13 on the first, and at the end of it all Tasmania were in a commanding position against Victoria

ESPNcricinfo staff23-Nov-2011
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Fifteen wickets tumbled on the second day at the MCG, to better the 13 on the first, and at the end of it all Tasmania were in a commanding position, leading Victoria by 337 runs with two second-innings wickets intact. Their advantage was built by a strong bowling performance led by Jackson Bird, who took 5 for 35, as Victoria were routed for 94 in their first innings, conceding a lead of 123.Victoria began the day on 3 for 18, with Bird having taken three wickets in four balls on the first evening. He went on to scalp two more – both David Hussey and Cameron White were caught behind – to reduce the hosts to 5 for 55. Xavier Doherty then dismissed Rob Quiney, whose 33 was Victoria’s only double-figure score until then, without another run being added to the total.Andrew McDonald contributed 26 but the tail didn’t fight, and Victoria were dismissed before lunch for their lowest Sheffield Shield total since the 91 against New South Wales in 2004-05.Tasmania’s attempt to build on their lead did not have a happy beginning, though, and they were 46 for 4 after Evan Gulbis was dismissed for his fourth consecutive duck. James Faulkner, however, resisted with a half-century and he put on 65 for the sixth wicket with Mark Cosgrove, who made 36 off 34 balls and helped wrest the momentum. Both of them were dismissed in quick time but wicketkeeper Tom Triffitt scored 46 off 40 balls to lead Tasmania to 8 for 214.Jayde Herrick took 4 for 68 for Victoria, boosting his season tally to 26 to overtake Ben Cutting (23) as the season’s top wicket-taker.

Northern Districts joined Auckland at the top of the points table after they comprehensively beat Canterbury by eight wickets at in Hamilton

ESPNcricinfo staff17-Dec-2010Northern Districts joined Auckland at the top of the points table after they comprehensively beat Canterbury by eight wickets at Seddon Park in Hamilton.Northern Districts won the toss and chose to field, after rain delayed the start of play and the match was reduced to 18 overs. It looked like James Marshall had made the correct decision when Robi Nicol, coming off a match-winning half-century against Otago, was dismissed by Graeme Aldrige in the second over. Canterbury were 37 for 3 at the end of six overs and looked in danger of collapsing cheaply. However, Ryan ten Doeschate combined with Shannan Stewart and Carl Anderson for handy partnerships of 44 and 38 to steady the innings. But once ten Doeschate was dismissed on 119, the Canterbury innings fell away and they could only reach 138 for 8.Opener Daniel Flynn blasted 45 off 19 balls to get Northern Districts’ chase off to a cracking start. Flynn and David Warner added 54 runs before Flynn was dismissed. South African import Herschelle Gibbs at No. 3, together with Warner, cemented Northern Districts’ win with a 79-run partnership. Warner was unbeaten on 52 as Northern Districts completed an easy victory in just under 14 overs.

Stuart Broad can now remember Durban for the good times. His fourth-afternoon spell put England on course for their crushing innings-and-98-run victory

Andrew McGlashan in Durban31-Dec-2009Stuart Broad can now remember Durban for the good times. His fourth-afternoon spell of three wickets in 15 balls helped put England on course for their crushing innings-and-98-run victory and it was far cry from his previous experience on his ground. During the 2007 World Twenty20 he was clobbered for six sixes in an over by Yuvraj Singh and has been reminded about it many times since.Now, though, after ripping out Jacques Kallis, AB de Villiers and JP Duminy in a dramatic post-tea session there is a different Kingsmead story to talk about. “I made sure I bowled at the other end,” he said with a laugh. “It’s a very different format of the game – and I can’t remember what happened yesterday, let alone years ago.”But I’ve learned a lot since back then and I’m feeling confident with where my game is at the moment. It was nice to get six wickets in the game at a ground I didn’t have too many fond memories of. To have won one of the best Test matches abroad that I’ve been involved in will certainly diminish the memories I had left of that poor day.He also believes that such experiences have helped him develop on the world stage, although that may have been quite hard to see while Yuvraj was launching him towards the ocean. “I’ve always been a big believer that you learn most from your mistakes,” he added. “It was a pretty brutal way to be introduced to international cricket. I’m pleased the way I’ve reacted to failures in the past, and it’s up to me to keep doing that.”For a bowler who was on the verge of being dropped four Tests ago, Broad has made significant strides to now be a key part of England’s four-man attack. He has ended 2009 as the third-highest wicket-taker for the year with 47 wickets at 28.36, six behind his destroyer-in-arms, Graeme Swann. Still, if it hadn’t been for Andrew Flintoff’s omission at Headingley due to injury Broad would have been left out after a poor start to the Ashes series.Instead he took 6 for 91 – a flattering analysis as Australia romped to victory, but still career-best – and then there was his day in the sun at The Oval. What people really wanted to know, though, was could he do it again?His most recent spell provided the answer. In 15 balls he extracted three high-class batsmen as Kallis, de Villiers and Duminy each departed to a variety of leaves. Kallis’ was the most dramatic as the off-stump went cart-wheeling then de Villiers padded up and Duminy dragged on.Stuart Broad can treasure the memory of Jacques Kallis’s flying off stump from Kinsgmead•Getty Images

“It was pleasing to get Kallis with one that nipped back when the seam was wobbling,” he said. “One thing that helped me before this series was to watch a bit of footage on Shaun Pollock because he’s the sort of bowler I want to be like.”He seemed to get the ball to talk when the seam wasn’t exactly perfectly bolt upright, when it was just wobbling slightly. It just nipped either way, on the South African wickets. It was a very happy moment when I saw Kallis raising his arms – because I knew it was not missing the off-stump; I just felt like it was tailing back.”Broad’s development as a Test cricketer mirrors, in many ways, that of the team from an inconsistent performer capable of occasional glimpses of something special to a consistent threat on the world stage. People still point to an average the wrong side of thirty, but it’s on the way down and as batsman’s averages have climbed over the last decade so have bowler’s. Broad has been the only ever-present in the England attack this year, which shows a wise investment from the management and they are now getting the rewards.”I’m fortunate at my age to have experienced quite a lot of different conditions round the world,” he said. “We’re learning as a bowling unit that pressure is getting us wickets. We’re not necessarily bowling huge, reverse-swinging yorkers. It’s the pressure we’re building from both ends.””We’re improving all the time. It’s crucial that we don’t get carried away, though. It was a great lesson in the Ashes series in the Test where we could have won the Ashes but were terrible at Headingley. It just shows we shouldn’t look too far ahead. We’re always a better team when we’re talking about winning the next hour or the next session.”The shorter targets are really helping us as a team, and that’s something we’ll take into Cape Town. We’ve got a great opportunity over here in South Africa – one of the hardest places to come and win Test cricket – and that first hour at Newlands will be crucial, whether with bat or ball, that we strike the first blow.”

South Africa’s batters were unable to convert starts which kept them to an under-par score at the Three Ws Oval

ESPNcricinfo staff22-Jun-2025Hayley Matthews’ unbeaten 63 and two wickets each from Afy Fletcher and Karishma Ramharack helped West Indies beat South Africa and level the series 1-1 ahead of the decider on Monday. Six of South Africa’s batters got to double figures but no one scored more than 21, which helped West Indies keep the score down to 113 before Matthews iced the chase at the Three Ws Oval in Barbados.Laura Wolvaardt and Tazmin Brits got South Africa off to a good start after being put into bat. Wolvaardt hit Jahzara Claxton and Shawnisha Hector for boundaries in a 30-run opening stand before being dismissed for 16. Matthews, who had opened the bowling, returned in the sixth over to knock over Marizanne Kapp for a duck.Fletcher, the pick of West Indies bowlers, bowled five dots in her first over and dismissed Brits for a 21-ball 14 in the seventh, as South Africa lost 3 for 10. She kept Nadine de Klerk quiet but the batter got the tempo up at the other end. De Klerk hit the only six in the innings off Aaliyah Alleyne and put on 29 off 26 balls for the fourth wicket with Karabo Meso, taking South Africa to 69 for 3 in the 13th over.Fletcher got de Klerk’s wicket in her final over, which caused another slump of 3 for 10 as Ramharack got wickets in successive overs. Annerie Dercksen joined Meso and they had an unbeaten 34-run stand which picked up pace gradually. Both boundaries in the stand came in the final two overs that went for 18, taking South Africa to 113 for 6.Qiana Joseph started the West Indies chase with two boundaries off Nonkululeko Mlaba. Matthews, with 9 off 17, was slow to start but saw off Kapp’s three-over opening spell. Ayabonga Khaka came on in the eighth to get Joseph for 17 and end the 41-run opening stand.Matthews was stable in the middle overs but her partners either got stuck or fell cheaply. Mlaba and Khaka contained Hector before she was dismissed by Masabata Klaas for 3 off 12 balls. Matthews hit three fours in the next six balls before Mlaba, the pick of South Africa’s bowlers, got Shemaine Campbelle (7) and Chinelle Henry (3) in successive overs to leave West Indies on 77 for 4, needing 37 off 35 balls.Jannillea Glasgow and Matthews kept West Indies ticking despite there being no boundary between overs 13 and 18. With 16 needed off 12, Matthews – fresh off a run-a-ball 50 – whacked Khaka for a six and a four. The 13-run over was the most expensive of the innings. Glasgow then hit the winning runs off de Klerk.

Bangladesh looked on course for a better day with the bat till the New Zealand spinners came into their own just before tea

Mohammad Isam28-Nov-2023Stumps Glenn Phillips was New Zealand’s surprise hero with the ball as they kept Bangladesh down to 310 for 9 on the first day of the Sylhet Test. Phillips, the middle-order batter and part-time offspinner, finished the day with 4 for 53, as New Zealand engineered a batting slide that started towards the end of the second session. It’s only Phillips’ second Test, and the first time he had been given a bowl.At that point, in the 53rd over, Bangladesh were 180 for 2 with Mahmudul Hasan Joy and Mominul Haque solid in the middle. As soon as Phillips removed Mominul and Ish Sodhi followed it up with Mahmudul’s wicket, Bangladesh’s initiative was gone. New Zealand captain Tim Southee, however, didn’t just put spin on from both ends and wait for things to happen. He rotated the three spinners – Ajaz Patel the third – but often kept one quick bowler on.Of the Bangladesh batters, Mahmudul was the top-scorer on the day, with 86 off 166 balls with 11 fours. Mahmudul’s cover drive – the batter leaning into the short stylishly – is his most attractive shot, and he struck seven of his boundaries in different angles between cover and extra cover.Ajaz gave New Zealand their first breakthrough of the day when he bowled left-hand opening batter Zakir Hasan with one that spun back from well outside off stump after a 39-run stand.Najmul Hossain Shanto, captain for the series, ramped up the scoring rate with three sixes and two fours in a 53-run stand for the second wicket with Mahmudul, but he then launched Phillips to the sky, only for Kane Williamson to take a tumbling catch at mid-on. Shanto’s 37 off 35 balls felt like a bit of a waste of a good start, particularly after the way he had dominated the New Zealand spinners, hitting well down the ground – two of his sixes went over long-on.Mahmudul Hasan Joy was Bangladesh’s best batter on the day•AFP/Getty Images

Mahmudul, who had held steady at the other end, now had Mominul Haque to see off the tricky 2.4 overs before lunch. Once that was done, they tried to put together a strong foundation. They batted steadily, adding 88 runs at just over three runs an over. They looked like they would go into the tea break, but Tom Blundell, who was troubled against the spinners on the low-bounce track, took a sharp catch when Mominul went back to cut Phillips and got an inside edge. He made 37 off 78 balls, with four boundaries.The very next over, Sodhi snared Mahmudul with a beautifully flighted delivery that the batter lunged at, and edged to Daryl Mitchell at slip. Bangladesh were suddenly 184 for 4.And shortly after tea, Mushfiqur Rahim stepped out and drove Ajaz flat and straight to Williamson at mid-off to fall for 12.There were pockets of resistance after that, but Mehidy Hasan Miraz got into a tangle – play or duck? – against Kyle Jamieson’s short ball to be caught at slip, and debutant Shahadat Hossain struck three fours in his 54-ball stay before chipping one to Henry Nicholls at midwicket to give Phillips his third wicket.Phillips’ fourth of the day was Nurul Hasan, caught down the leg side for 29, before Nayeem Hasan edged Jamieson’s wide delivery to second slip.There was no fifth wicket for Phillips on the day, as Taijul Islam and No. 11 Shoriful Islam batted out the 3.1 remaining overs.

Fast bowler is understood to have paid his own way to the UK for treatment on knee injury

Umar Farooq15-Sep-2022Shaheen Afridi’s recovery from a knee injury has made encouraging progress, with expectations that he will be fit enough to play for Pakistan at the T20 World Cup in Australia.Afridi is recovering from a ligament injury to his right knee sustained while fielding during the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle in July. On Thursday he was included in Pakistan’s squad for the global tournament, but not for the preceding T20I series against England or the tri-series in New Zealand.Afridi has been out of action since that injury as questions have been raised about how the board has handled his rehabilitation. He travelled with the team to the Netherlands for a three-match ODI series in August, in the hopes that that he would recover with on-tour rehab. That didn’t pan out as expected, as swelling on his knee started to get worse in the Netherlands and the PCB announced then that he would be out for 4-6 weeks.But he was kept with the squad as they travelled to the UAE for the Asia Cup as another attempt was made to get his rehab going. But medical scans and reports confirmed a posterior cruciate ligament injury and it was eventually decided that he would travel to the UK for further rehab and work with doctors on the PCB medical panel, Doctor Zafar Iqbal and Dr Imtiaz Ahmed.