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Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsAl-Amin Hossain took 3 for 30 in four overs to rout Rangpur Riders•Raton Gomes/BCB

Al-Amin Hossain and Mohammad Sami took five wickets between them to set a course for Barisal Bulls’ six-wicket victory in a rain-affected game in Chittagong. Their opponents Rangpur Riders could not handle the early exchanges and once they fell to 64 for 6, the contest was extinguished. Some unexpected showers caused a lengthy delay and reduced the target to 75 in 13 overs, which was easily hunted down by Barisal’s batsmen with three balls to spare.However, all the highlights from the match will concentrate on the skill of Barisal’s fast bowlers. Al-Amin tempted Soumya Sarkar with his first ball of the match, and Rayad Emrit duly held catch at cover. Sweeter still was how the over ended – Shakib Al Hasan played an ugly hoick to be caught at mid-on and Rangpur were 10 for 2 in two overs.Mohammad Mithun tried to loft left-arm spinner Taijul Islam but was caught by Emrit again at long-off. Opener Jahurul took 32 balls to make his 24, but he had been adventurous at times. One such occasion led him to offer a catch to cover. For once Emrit was the bowler, and not the catcher. Then one Sri Lanka allrounder got rid of the other – Seekugge Prasanna had Thisara Perera caught at long-on to leave Ranpur at 54 for 5 in the 13th over.Misbah, who began with a reverse sweep for four, was dismissed by a Mohammad Sami bouncer that kissed the glove through to wicketkeeper Rony Talukdar, for 22. The tail couldn’t muster much after that despite playing out the 20 overs. Rangpur finished on 104 for 9.Barisal were 19 for 1 in the third over when the game was halted for the weather. When play resumed, they needed 56 runs in 57 balls. The change in conditions was enough for Rangpur to prise out three more wickets but Rony Talukdar and Mahmudullah chipped in with 23 each, the latter remaining unbeaten, to secure victory. That means Barisal are in pole position with 10 points, although Comilla Victorians have a chance to join them in the next few hours.

Australia have backed their World Cup-winning squad to repeat the job at the Twenty20 World Championship, with Brett Lee the only addition to the outfit that was successful in the Caribbean. Lee missed the World Cup with a serious ankle injury but has been named in Australia’s 15-man group that will compete in South Africa in September.The same players make up Australia’s 14-man squad to tour India straight after the World Championship, although Brad Haddin was not included for that trip. Australia’s seven-match ODI series with India begins at Bangalore on September 29, five days after the Twenty20 final.Lee replaces Glenn McGrath, who retired after the trip to the West Indies, while Shaun Tait has also been chosen as he recovers from elbow surgery. Australia opted not to pluck any Twenty20 specialists from state cricket or test any untried talent in South Africa.”We looked at the performances of some of the top domestic Twenty20 players, but ultimately we felt that the World Cup-winning side would adapt well and deserved the opportunity to prove that they can perform to the highest standards in both shorter forms of the game,” Andrew Hilditch, the chairman of selectors, said. “It’s fantastic to have Brett Lee back, fully fit and resuming his spot in the Australian side. He’s back to training and raring to go.”Several players who must have come close to breaking into the Twenty20 side, including Cameron White, Luke Ronchi and Adam Voges, will have their own taste of overseas action in September on Australia A’s tour of Pakistan. Voges will captain the group of 14, with White as his deputy.Phil Jaques and Chris Rogers will make the trip, which might serve as an audition for Australia’s vacant Test opener position. As expected, the outstanding performers from Australia’s domestic season in 2006-07 were rewarded, including three players in their 30s. Two of those older members, David Hussey and Ashley Noffke, are yet to make their debuts for Australia.Stuart MacGill’s presence confirms that at 36 he is still prominent in the selectors’ plans, although his fellow spinners Dan Cullen and Cullen Bailey were chosen as well. There was also a focus on allrounders, with James Hopes and Andrew McDonald recognised for their dominance at state level.Twenty20 World Championship squad Matthew Hayden, Adam Gilchrist (wk), Ricky Ponting (capt), Michael Clarke, Brad Hodge, Andrew Symonds, Michael Hussey, Shane Watson, Brad Haddin (wk), Brad Hogg, Brett Lee, Mitchell Johnson, Nathan Bracken, Stuart Clark, Shaun Tait.Squad to tour India Matthew Hayden, Adam Gilchrist (wk), Ricky Ponting (capt), Michael Clarke, Brad Hodge, Andrew Symonds, Michael Hussey, Shane Watson, Brad Hogg, Brett Lee, Mitchell Johnson, Nathan Bracken, Stuart Clark, Shaun Tait.Australia A squad Phil Jaques, Chris Rogers, David Hussey, Adam Voges (capt), Cameron White, Luke Ronchi (wk), James Hopes, Andrew McDonald, Ashley Noffke, Cullen Bailey, Dan Cullen, Ben Hilfenhaus, Doug Bollinger, Stuart MacGill.

Division One

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Hampshire are strongly placed heading into the final day at Edgbaston, after Shane Warne set up his side with 5 for 52 to dismiss Warwickshire for 217 in their first innings. Warne then set Warwickshire a mountainous 407 after Hampshire raced to 218 for 6 declared with James Adams leading from the front – he made 85 in just 105 balls, including five fours and three sixes. By the close, Warwickshire had managed to crawl to 69 for 2, still 338 runs adrift. In their first innings Warwickshire’s lower order subsided under the force of Warne’s assault, losing Dougie Brown early and then the last four wickets fell for 13 runs.2nd day
Darren Lehmann, who hit 25 fours, fell seven runs short of a double century as Yorkshire and Kent piled on the runs at Headingley. Yorkshire made 382 before Kent’s Robert Key and David Fulton put on 153 in a commanding opening stand. They each made fifties, but Yorkshire took three quick wickets to leave Kent on 196 for 3 by the close.Graham Onions took 4 for 82 as Middlesex‘s batsmen failed to cut the mustard against Durham. Owais Shah top scored with 68 but threw his wicket away as Middlesex were bowled out for 242, handing Durham a first-innings advantage of 106. By the end of the day Durham had stretched their lead to 186 runs and, with eight wickets left, they will be confident of boosting that to well over 400.3rd day
Not a great day for Chris Read nor for his county, Nottinghamshire, who slipped to a 41-run defeat against Sussex. After battling their way back into the game, Sussex went on to record a cracking win set up by Rana Naved-ul-Hasan (4 for 29) and Jason Lewry (3 for 23). Mushtaq Ahmed also contributed 3 for 58 to bowl out Notts for 120 and consign the champions to what had seemed to be an unlikely defeat. Resuming on 111 for 3 this morning, Sussex made it to 247 thanks to a vital 42 from Matt Prior, leaving Nottinghamshire to chase 161. But their innings was in immediate disarray when Jason Gallian had to retire hurt on 10. As wickets tumbled he made a return to the crease, only to fall for 15 (148 for 7). A ninth-wicket stand of 68 between Ryan Sidebottom and Mark Ealham, who made 52, briefly gave Notts promise, but was not enough.

Division Two

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Leicestershire continued to pile on the pain for Glamorgan, forcing them to follow on after bowling them out for 297 in reply to 525. By the close Glamorgan had made 37 for 1 and still required a further 191 runs to take them to parity. Today it was Claude Henderson who did the damage, with 4 for 77. Daniel Cherry and Michael Powell made half-centuries for Glamorgan, but their team will need more strong batting performances tomorrow to save the game.2nd day
Four players recorded centuries on day two as Somerset and Essex piled on the runs in their match at Taunton. Keith Parsons (153) and Peter Trego (102) took their seventh-wicket stand to 202 before a late flurry of wickets as Somerset made 471. Andrew Caddick then placed Essex in danger of following-on by reducing the visitors to 80 for 3 in reply. But the experienced campaigners Andy Flower (104 not out) and Ronnie Irani (108 not out) steadied the ship in an unbroken fourth-wicket stand of 202 as Essex closed on 282 for 3.Northamptonshire must have wished that Jon Lewis had been called into the Test side as he wrecked their top order at Bristol with a thrilling 4 for 35 from 16 overs. Northamptonshire now have a lead of 100 runs but just one wicket in hand, and Gloucestershire will back themselves to register their second win of the season tomorrow.Derbyshire continued to go from strength to strength in their match against Worcestershire. They lost Steve Stubbings before the close but are still strongly placed, at 54 for 1, a lead of 114 runs. Vikram Solanki struck a century and Steven Davies made 49 to take Worcestershire to 278, a first-innings deficit of 60. Ian Hunter led the rallying call with 4 for 92, while Steffan Jones added 3 for 58 to hand Derbyshire the advantage.

Shane Warne has decided to stop using his mobile phone and asked his family and friends to communicate with him via e-mail instead. Warne left a message on his existing phone saying that he has decided to stop using the device, one that had embroiled him in a series of sex-texting controversies over the years.Warne’s decision came a day after his wife Simone and three children joined him in England from Australia. In the voice message that he left on his phone, according to , Warne said, “I am not sure if it’s going to work or not. So I won’t be getting any more messages on this number via voice or text, but you can contact me via e-mail.”Warne’s current action comes ten weeks after his latest scandal while on tour in New Zealand. Warne was also targeted in 2003, the year when he was banned for using a banned substance, by Helen Cohen Alon, a South African mother who said she was harrassed by text messages. In 2000 Warne said he and Donna Wright, an English nurse, had conducted “dirty” phone calls but there were no harrassing notes.

Ehsan Mani has criticised the Zimbabwe rebel players for adopting what he calls a “high-risk” approach. He said that the dissident players were making it more difficult to find a permanent solution to the crisis that has rocked Zimbabwean cricket.However, Wisden Cricinfo understands that the players are angry and disappointed that the ICC has made no attempt to speak to them and hear their side of the story, and appears to have relied entirely on what they have been told by the ZCU. There is a strong feeling among the rebel players that the ICC statement was heavily biased in favour of the board.In a statement in London on Wednesday, Mani spoke about how this approach could end of the players’ careers and affect any team that Zimbabwe put together in the future.”I am not going to pass comment on the rights or wrongs of what has happened in this case, but what is clear is that by walking out on their teammates on the eve of a Test match, the rebels have placed Tatenda Taibu and his team in an invidious position. I am concerned that even if an agreement is now reached between the ZCU and the rebel players, this tactic of walking out on their teammates could irreparably split the dressing room, making a lasting solution even more difficult to find.”Mani added that disputes between players and administrators in any country should be sorted out at the local level. “If the rebels believe that walking out will result in other countries interfering in Zimbabwean cricket, I think that they have been very badly advised. Many of our members have faced similar issues and are very strongly of the view that the only way to find a solution is at the local level.”

New Zealand can set themselves for phase two of their World Cup bid having nothing to fear.While their entry into the Super Six was a last-minute affair, there seems to be a general consensus that their effort in beating South Africa and the West Indies was sufficient for them to warrant their place.They now face Zimbabwe this Saturday, Australia on Tuesday and India on Friday.New Zealand might have a poor overall success rate in One-Day Internationals of only 42.75%, but there seems to be something in the air in World Cup play where its winning percentage lifts to 56.25%.And its winning percentage at neutral venues is even slightly better at 56.66%.More particularly, in World Cup matches, New Zealand has a 3-0 win line over Zimbabwe, with one no result.Against Australia, in the five games they have contested at World Cup level, the scoreline favours Australia 3-2.India and New Zealand have met six times in World Cups with New Zealand holding the win advantage 4-2.One feature of captain Stephen Fleming’s New Zealand team has been its ability to knock over the record books.Reputations don’t necessarily matter to this side.They were the team who won New Zealand’s first international tournament, the ICC KnockOut in Kenya in 2000. They recorded New Zealand’s first victory at Lord’s and The Oval, in 1999. They were the first team in the world to win successive Tests in Zimbabwe. They achieved the highest fourth innings total to lose a match (outside of timeless Tests) with 451 against England at Jade Stadium last year. They became the first New Zealand team to win a Test series in the West Indies. They were the first New Zealand team to complete a 5-0 one-day series sweep, against the West Indies in 1999/00. They were the first New Zealand team to shut Australia out of their annual tri-series.They like re-writing history.Some of these features might seem insignificant when lined up against the deeds of other international sides, but the point remains, they have been firsts for New Zealand and are symptomatic of a growing confidence of this side.Individually, there are also some significant milestones to be played for in the remaining games of World Cup 2003.Fleming sits on 598 World Cup runs. Only Martin Crowe 880 and Glenn Turner 612 have scored more.Chris Cairns is sitting on 475 runs.Cairns and Chris Harris have now played 25 World Cup matches, the most by New Zealanders.Harris has taken most wickets, 31, by a New Zealand bowler. Behind him are Richard Hadlee 22, Geoff Allott 20, Willie Watson 19, Gavin Larsen 18 and Cairns 16.Of the players in South Africa, Jacob Oram and Nathan Astle taken 11 wickets, Shane Bond nine and Andre Adams eight.Chances are that if New Zealand can maintain their reasonable success rate at the World Cup, some of the individual records will be extended with obvious benefits for the overall team performance.

Hundreds from Chris Taylor and Jeremy Snape, plus a half-century from Kim Barnett, powered Gloucestershire to 415-5 on the opening day of the CricInfo Championship second division match with leaders Sussex at Cheltenham.Sussex captain Chris Adams chose to field first, but saw his decisionbackfire as his team put down four catches and struggled to stem the flow ofquick runs on a fast-scoring ground.To add to their woe, wicket-keeper Matt Prior departed midway through thesecond session with a injured thumb on his left hand, which had beensustained in the third over as he made a legside stop from a James Kirtleydelivery.Adams took over behind the stumps and held the catch that ended Barnett’s accomplished innings of 79, which contained 14 fours and came from 135 balls.Dominic Hewson and Matt Windows fell for ten and 22, to Kirtley and Adamsrespectively, and Mark Alleyne soon followed Barnett back to the pavilionwhen he was caught by Bas Zuiderant at slip off Mark Robinson for one.That left Gloucestershire on 193-4, but thereafter there was no stoppingTaylor and Snape as they peppered the short, square-side boundaries in afifth-wicket partnership of 204.Taylor brought up his second hundred of the season ­and the third of his career with a cut four to backward point off Kirtley.He was finally undone shortly before the close when he drove a low returncatch to spinner Mark Davis, having struck 25 fours and one six in his 226-ball innings of 140.Snape, who has prospered since being moved up to six in the order over thepast couple of months, brought up his century with a single to long leg inthe penultimate over of the day, bowled by Umer Rashid.He finished on 100 not out, with 11 fours and two sixes so far in his 155-ball innings.

Champions Gloucestershire suffered a 27-run defeat to Northamptonshire on the Duckworth-Lewis system in their final National League match of the season.Gloucestershire captain Mark Alleyne was presented with the trophy by sponsors Norwich Union after the finish of a low-scoring encounter.It was the county’s third one-day trophy of a record-breaking season and, despite the defeat, it did little to dampen the champagne celebrations at the end.A 3,500 crowd helped create a buoyant atmosphere during the game and they must have thought a Gloucestershire victory was on the cards when the visitors, who had elected to bat, slumped to 32-5 in the 14th over.Ian Harvey uprooted Jeff Cook’s off stump with the first ball of the innings and the Australian all-rounder went on to record a career-best one-day return of 5-19.He finished the campaign with 34 National League wickets, which was four more than the county record he set last season.It needed some disciplined batting from Tony Penberthy (30), David Ripley (17) and Kevin Innes (32) to take Northants into three figures.Even so, a score of 129 in a match reduced to 43 overs per side by a shower looked inadequate.Gloucestershire were asked to score 129 rather than 130 to win under the Duckworth-Lewis rules, and set off briskly in pursuit of the runs.The fifty came up in ten overs and a quick finish looked likely as Harvey blazed the ball to all areas.He had smashed 43 from only 27 deliveries when he was bowled by Penberthy, a wicket which changed the game dramatically.The runs dried up and Penberthy also accounted for Matt Windows, Alleyne, Chris Taylor and Martyn Ball in a spell of 5-29.It was his best figures in a limited overs match, surpassing the 5-36 he took against Gloucestershire in a Sunday League match at Northampton seven years ago.He was well supported by off-spinner Jason Brown, who claimed a return catch to remove James Averis in nine overs which only cost 12 runs.Jack Russell stood defiant for Gloucestershire with an unbeaten 17, but the end came when Innes had Mike Smith caught at slip by Northants skipper Matthew Hayden.It was appropriate that Hayden should hold the final catch of Northants’s season, for the Australian won’t be back with them next year because he is expected to be part of his country’s Ashes squad.Harvey should be back with Gloucestershire, however. He will probably be part of Australia’s squad for the triangular one-day series, but that won’t preclude Gloucestershire from re-signing him. They have already offered him a new two-year deal.

Ireland have announced that RSA, formerly known as Royal & SunAlliance Insurance, will be their new sponsor for the 2008 season.Currently the deal is only for the one season, but discussions will be held to extend the agreement for a longer term. The sponsorship covers the men’s and women’s senior squads, as well as the men’s A team and Under-19 side.Cricket Ireland have been searching for a new sponsor since Bank of Ireland ended a long-term association last year. Warren Deutrom, the chief executive, said: “We are delighted to be partnering with such a globally recognised blue-chip brand as RSA. Our current arrangement is just for the year, although we are hopeful of extending our relationship further into the future.””Together with our new name, our new governance structure and recent agreements with the England and Wales Cricket Board and our kit supplier Kukri, this new partnership with RSA will assist Cricket Ireland to put the pieces in place to provide support to all areas of the game on our shores, from the grassroots to the international arena.”Ireland begin their season on Sunday with a Friends Provident Trophy match against Ireland against Nottinghamshire in Dublin.

Bishan Singh Bedi, a former Indian captain, has delivered a scathing salvo against another, Sunil Gavaskar, in the wake of recent happenings in Indian cricket.Bedi termed Gavaskar a “destructive” influence and felt he “always liked power without accountability”. These comments come in the wake of Gavaskar criticising Dav Whatmore in one of his columns, despite being part of the committee that was to decide the next coach.”Cricket circles had immense and blind respect for him [as a cricketer] and he successfully used this to ensure that board officials remained in awe of him,” Bedi told , a weekly Indian magazine. “He wants the glamour, the position and if there are any financial gains so much the better … but he does not want any accountability. He’s always liked power without accountability.”Bedi was critical of Gavaskar’s role at the National Cricket Academy, where he was the director from 2001 to 2006. “I had a lot of time for his batting but never as a thought leader,” said Bedi. “You tell me what his contribution has been. He is destructive, there is nothing positive. I remember the time I was called by the then NCA director Brijesh Patel, along with Erapalli Prasanna and VV Kumar, to train spinners there. We did not hear at all from NCA chairman Gavaskar before, during or after the camp. I also recall his presiding over a captains and coaches meeting where he gave me the impression that he was not even listening.”I can’t forget the time he once told a team meeting ‘The day I stop thinking of money, I will stagnate’.”Gavaskar has been embroiled in a few controversies in the last few years, one of them involving writing about how John Wright, India’s former coach, was abused by the players only after Wright’s term ended. More recently he suggested John Emburey as a candidate for the job of Indian coach despite the fact that his coaching credentials were less than impressive.