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Western Province and Border moved closer to the top of their respective groups with wins against Eastern Province and Griqualand West in the second round of the Standard Bank Cup.In Cape Town Western Province’s Andrew Puttick batted through the innings in scoring his maiden limited overs century out of a total of 231for the loss of two wickets. Opening the innings the young 21-year-old left-hander ended undefeated on 113 off 132 balls including 12 fours and a big six off the bowling of Mornantau Hayward. Puttick was also involved in a 147 run partnership with captain HD Ackerman who contributed 74 off 93 balls.Eastern Province chasing 232 for their first win in the tournament, started off well with Carl Bradfield (22) and Michael Price (34) laying a foundation with a 50 run partnership before a middle order collapse left the visitors on 72 for five wickets.Two wickets apiece for Charl Willoughby and Renier Munnik broke the back of the Jumbos innings putting the remaining batsmen under tremendous pressure and a position that the Jumbos could not recover from. Munnik took a further wicket to end on 3/37.James Bryant tried hard but he fought a lone battle ending on 58*. Together with Garnet Kruger, scoring his highest limited overs score of 20*, they took Eastern Province to 213/8 and denied Western Province the bonus point.Border Bears and Griqualand West Diamonds, both with the chance of moving to the top of Pool A, met in East London where the visitors won the toss and elected to field first.After losing the early wicket of Burton de Wett for one, Border soon recovered with Mark Bruyns (55) holding up one end allowing pinch hitter Tyron Henderson to post a quick 26 off 20 balls including four boundaries.A 53 off 59 balls from Steven Pope and an undefeated 48 from Pieter Strydom, whose first boundary sailed over the ropes for the only six of the innings, maintained the Border run rate at five runs an over.Two run outs from Craig Sugden and Laden Gamiet caused some jitters in the dressing room before a run-a-ball 23 from Justin Kreusch saw Border reach 221 for seven wickets in the allotted 45 overs.Griqualand West started off well with Pieter Koortzen and Loots Bosman putting together a 49 run partnership for the first wicket before Bosman, playing an uncharacteristic subdued innings, was caught for 24 and Koortzen run out for 35.Wickets fell at regular intervals but Wendell Bossenger (33) and Adrian McLaren (32) gave the visitors a glimmer of hope with a 58 run partnership in 45 balls, this after Strydom has captured three cheap wickets.At the end Griqualand West were bowled out for 203 in 43.5 overs leaving Border with a 18 run win, but no bonus point.

Time lost throughout October, due to pay negotiations between New Zealand Cricket and the Players’ Association, may yet prove an Achilles’ heel for New Zealand and its World Cup aspirations in South Africa later in the summer.Valuable time for coaches and players to formulate match plans, and an overall strategy, has been lost in this period because of the lack of communication between coaches and players as a result of the players withdrawing their services.Based on past experience, especially in 1992 and 1999, but probably also on other occasions, time is now of the essence.With this in mind, CricInfo New Zealand approached Martin Crowe, the captain of the successful and innovative campaign in 1992 which so captured the mind of New Zealanders, to ask what he would do now to ensure New Zealand was at peak pitch to make a full-scale assault on cricket’s Holy Grail.Crowe, who is recovering from knee surgery resulting from the injury that forced him out of international cricket in 1995/96, welcomed the chance to take part in the exercise.”I’ve always believed a World Cup campaign has to come from a long way back and I haven’t felt anything similar has been happening this year. It may have, but I have not been aware of it.”I know that in 1999 they did do that with a War Room and an identification of what they needed to do.”Our record of winning only four of our last 21 games is of serious concern, and not acceptable from a team of the standard and capabilities of our side.”It may be because of this players’ strike, but despite that, this is World Cup year. It is what the whole season has been designed for with seven One-Day Internationals against India.”I still feel there is a lot of experimentation going on after the debacle in Sri Lanka, even in the win over Bangladesh,” he said.Crowe said that taking part in the project was a useful exercise and he admitted to getting itchy feet as a result of it.Crowe in the past has worked with New Zealand players both individually and with the team but said he had not been involved since the VB Series in Australia earlier this year.While he hadn’t included the thought in his plan for CricInfo, Crowe said he thought there should be some consideration given to taking a fielding coach into the side this year and it might be worth asking former coach Steve Rixon to find someone suitable for the side.

Cricket is a game of inches and it was by no more than an inch that Paul Nixon was run out in the last over when ten runs were needed by Kent Spitfires and Glamorgan Dragons became the 2002 Norwich Union League champions, winning by just 4 runs. It had been a match of see-saw emotions for the Welshmen, for it did not look as if they had scored enough when they batted, first Mark Ealham and then Nixon appeared to be taking the Spitfires home, news came that only rivals for the title Worcestershire Royals had won but, from the last ball, the Dragons took the match and the title.Winning the toss and batting first, the Dragons were pegged back early on by accuracy of the Spitfires’ attack, especially Martin Saggers who bowled an excellent stint of nine overs taking one for 27. That wicket was Ian Thomas who was well caught at mid-off by Steve Waugh making a lot of ground to his left and then diving to complete the catch.Ben Trott had earlier accounted for Robert Croft who played on, but Trott became too expensive as Matthew Maynard and Michael Powell began to warm to their task. Three fours by Maynard in one over, including two elegant straight drives, saw Trott withdrawn from the attack as Mark Ealham and Matthew Fleming tried to restore order.It was Ealham who bowled Maynard for 33, Fleming accounted for David Hemp when he had 37, but it was off-spinner James Tredwell who brought Powell’s innings to an end, but not before he had scored 74 from 83 balls with eight fours and a six. Tredwell also snapped up Mark Wallace with the help of a stumping from Nixon and the Dragons had plenty of work to do in the field.They started well enough with Matthew Fleming, making his farewell appearance on the ground, was out with the score just four. Robert Key was looking for the short boundary when he was out caught, and then the prize wicket – an absolute beauty from Andrew Davies to knock over Steve Waugh’s wicket.At 62 for three, the Spitfires were in a tailspin, but Matthew Walker and Ealham pulled them out of the dive. It took a clever piece of bowling from Croft, delivering the ball from some 23 yards, to deceive Walker after the pair had added 74 for the fourth wicket. Walker out stumped for 26, and it was a similar delivery that induced Ealham to chip a simple catch to Maynard at short mid-wicket to tilt the balance back towards the Dragons. Ealham had made 75 with five fours and three sixes and while he had been there, the Spitfires were favourites.Nixon took up the mantle with a succession of partners as wickets fell but the target came ever closer. Alex Loudon got a short ball from Davies that he must have believed was destined for his second six until Thomas intervened to take the catch. Saggers intended a six from the first ball he faced but it went straight up in the air.So to the last over. Mike Kasprowicz to bowl and Nixon on strike. First ball went to third man. They ran one. It was vital to keep Nixon on strike so he backed himself against Adrian Dale’s arm. The throw was not quite on the money, but Wallace collected well and lunged for the wicket, breaking it with Nixon’s dive leaving him that crucial inch short as the bails came off and, with only ten and jack to continue the fight, Welsh celebrations began a week before the end of the season.

The world’s newest international cricket venue, the 141st tostage one-day cricket, will be unveiled on Monday in a mostunlikely location, at Tangiers in French-speaking northernAfrica.South Africa will take on Pakistan in the first match of theMorocco Cup 2002, a triangular tournament also involving SriLanka that marks the latest chapter in the growth of a remarkablecricketing empire.Its all part of an ambitious Dubai-based construction tycoon’sdream – part commercial, part utilitarian – to globalise the gameof cricket, especially throughout the Arab world.Abdur Rahmann Bukhatir’s involvement with cricket started in the1970’s in the desert city of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, whenhe created the Cricketer’s Benefit Fund Series (CBFS), afundraising vehicle for retired, underpaid Asian cricketers ofyesteryear.But the CBFS mushroomed into far more than a cricketers’ pensionscheme. Sharjah held its first official One-Day International in1981 and by the 1990’s the CBFS tri-series had developed into aregular biannual event, feeding Asia’s apparently insatiableappetite for limited overs cricket.And as the value of television rights soared throughout the1990’s, Sharjah became a financial honeypot, offering Asiancricket boards a valuable revenue stream and the playersastronomical prize money.But the new millennium brought fresh challenges, as the CBFS wasfaced was confronted by a grave image crisis, as Sharjah becameembroiled in the match fixing scandal that rocked internationalcricket.For years the plethora of matches played at Sharjah (no othervenue has staged more ODIs) had attracted suspicions thatbookmakers had successfully fixed matches.Amidst allegations that the tournament was fixed in favour ofPakistan, the Indian government stopped their team from visitingSharjah for three years.With England and Australia also wary of playing there, the CBFS’sfuture appeared to be in jeopardy, as the value of its televisionrights plummeted.Ironically, the crisis only served to broaden Buhatir’s horizons,as the CBFS moved into television production, setting up TajTelevision and launching a dedicated sports channel called TENSports, a development that paved the way for the new”made-for-television” stadium in Tangiers.Morocco will now provide TEN Sports with the compelling cricketcontent that it needs to compete with the more established sportschannels such as Star Sports and ESPN that dominate the Asiantelevision market.And despite its francophone heritage, the location has twodistinct attractions: a perfect Mediterranean climate thatprovides for a long season during the southern hemisphere winterand a nearby Asian population in Europe that Bukhatir’s hopeswill embrace the venture.”Morocco is very close to Europe and it will be very easy forIndians and Pakistanis living in Spain and Portugal to come andwatch matches,” said Bukhatir.But although CBFS’s involvement is primarily a commercialventure, Bukhatir is a fanatical cricket fan, possessing agenuine philanthropists desire to develop the game, a fact borneout by the scope and scale of his financial investment.They have already pumped close to USD 15 million into Morocco,building two stadiums in Tangiers and Rabat, as well as employingthree full-time coaches, including former Indian all-rounderMohinder Amaranath, to work with local cricketers.The infrastructure and coaches will help the Federation RoyaleMarocaine de Cricket (FRMC) – which Bukhatir helped set-up andacquire Affiliate Status of the International Cricket Council -to foster the game.Currently there are just 280 regular cricketers and eight teamsin Morocco competing in a 30-over league, but Amaranath believesthat the FRMC can generate much greater interest in the game.”Cricket in Morocco is like a new language,” he said. “When westarted two years ago no-one knew about the game, but they nowbetter. The game will grow in the future as people become moreaware.”Perhaps the CBFS is unlikely to convert large numbers ofMorocco’s football loving, cafe lounging public to cricket, butthey are certainly trying to capture local interest in Tangiers,offering free entry into the stadium and the chance to winvaluable prizes to those who turn up to watch the games.And the spectators are not the only ones offered incentiveseither, as the CBFS has put up an astonishing USD 250,000 pot ofprize money for the teams, ensuring that the triangulartournament will be taken very seriously indeed.At the moment the 5000-seater Tangiers Cricket Stadium is in astate of frantic half-completion. With 24 hours to go till thecurtain rises bulldozers are still landscaping, walls are stillbeing painted and terracotta tiles are still being hammered ontothe roof.Situated adjacent to the verdant lawns of the Royal Golf Club,looking out on to the hills surrounding Tangiers that are dottedwith plush white villas, the venue will be spectacular whenfinished.The interior is closer to completion and very impressive, withexcellent state-of-the-art facilities for the players, officials,media and the entourage of VIPs who are being invited to theinaugural tournament.ICC match referee, Mike Procter, who inspected the venue’sfacilities, was fulsome in his support: “The stadium is ideal forinternational cricket and I have no hesitation in recommendingits approval.”Crucially, the cricket facilities are finished. There are sevenpractice nets all in working order, the outfield is striped inlush, green grass and the pitch boosts a gleaming white colour,similar in look to the high scoring surfaces common at Sharjah.The exact nature of the pitch though is a point of conjecture.The two club standard matches played on it in June suggested thatit would suit the spinners, but local observers have suggestedthat it has now hardened up, potentially offering the fastbowlers some pace and bounce.That will be welcomed by the likes of hard-hitting strokeplayerssuch as Sanath Jayasuriya, Lance Klusener and Shahid Afridi, whowill already be relishing the challenge of clearing therelatively short boundaries.Certainly the CBFS will be hoping that the new venue starts witha bang. An exciting, high scoring tournament will go a long wayto justifying the whole ambitious project.But perhaps the most crucial factor that will determine whetherthe CBFS’s risky decision to delve into television is successfulor not will be whether they can lure India over to play in thenear future.To that end the CBFS is desperate for Morocco’s reputation to besqueaky clean, welcoming the advice of the ICC’s Anti CorruptionUnit enthusiastically and taking the issue of security seriously.Some measures are mere window dressing, such as the signboardnailed to the main entrance that announces in bold red writingthat, “BETTING AND GAMBLING ON CRICKET IS ILLEGAL AND STRICTLYPROHIBITED.”But the widespread use of video surveillance outside the dressingrooms and in the team hotels, as well as the now standard mobilephone ban, will make it harder for determined bookmakers tocommunicate with corrupt players.And should the Tangiers Cricket Stadium be successful infostering a clean image, there is even the possibility ofbecoming a neutral Test venue, as security fears continue todisrupt cricket in Pakistan and Zimbabwe.However, talk of Test cricket here is premature, first the localshave to be persuaded to embrace the game, a task that starts inearnest this week.

To sit in the ‘Space Ship’ that is the press box at Lord’s, and watch Zaheer Khan lead the Indian bowling reminds you of just how much things are changing in the world of cricket. Gone are the days when most people thronged to the Marylebone Cricket Club in suits and ties, when the fax machines whirred noisily and refreshingly, when touring Indian sides were dependent purely on their spinners to do the job. Despite Javagal Srinath’s early retirement from Tests, the Indian pace attack finally looks as it should – as an attack, rather than a set of reluctant trundlers.Ajit Agarkar, Ashish Nehra and Zaheer Khan sat out the warm-up match against Hampshire just before the start of the Test series. Quite a few eyebrows were raised. How can the pacemen go straight into a Test series without serious match practice? Well, John Wright was categorical in saying that they needed rest, and that they were prepared well enough with practice sessions that simulated real match conditions. The NatWest series showed that this was not quite true.Beginning in conditions that aided movement in the air, both Nehra and Zaheer Khan sprayed the ball all over the place. A touch of nervousness? Striving too hard to make the best of conditions? Whatever the problem, it was left well behind as the Indians got down to the serious business of Test cricket at Lord’s.Zaheer Khan was always going to be the man to watch out for, with his strength and ability to get the ball to hold its line. Running in vigorously and building up to a crescendo as he takes a small leap before delivery stride and brings the left arm through with a quick action, Zaheer Khan certainly does not hold anything back. And it’s this more than anything else that brought him 15 wickets in the Tests in West Indies and 14 in the NatWest series.Unlike Zaheer Khan, Nehra is the sort of bowler to whom rhythm means everything. Not hitting the deck as hard as his counterpart, Nehra relies more on movement in the air. When she swings, and swings late, Nehra really becomes a handful. But as the best pacemen in the history of the game have said, the art of swing bowling is less understood than people would like. Countless columns have been written on the factors that make that five and a half ounces of leather swerve in the air as it careens down a 22-yard strip.The condition of the ball, the moisture in the air, the direction of the breeze, the bowler’s action, the wrist position at release, are just a few things that the experts will tell you about. But there are days, like today at Lord’s, when things just don’t go according to script for you. Nehra’s no-ball trouble and a lack of control gave the home side breathing space.Not so Zaheer Khan. Trapping Michael Vaughan in front of the stumps before England could get a run on the board, the lad bowled a spell of sustained hostility, recording figures of 6-4-5-1 in his first dig. Keeping the ball well up to the bat, Zaheer Khan kept the batsmen honest. Anil Kumble, doing a fine job coming in to the attack in the 19th over, had Butcher caught close to the bat. Then came Zaheer Khan’s next swoop. Playing inside the line of the ball, Graham Thorpe lost his off stump in the 30th over. At 78/3, England were in a position they would not have anticipated, having won the toss and elected to bat.But then, that’s the beauty of it. While there’s a script in the back of the mind, it’s seldom followed out in the middle. The cast in the drama this English summer has an unusual compostion. With the hype of ‘Bombay Dreams’ sweeping London, it’s ironic that the sobriquet coiners will not have the opportunity to wax eloquent about the magicians from the East, the tweakers, the Turbanator and what have you.Instead, it’s back to straight up and down, wicket to wicket medium pace that India will fire at England. Sure, this Lord’s wicket looks like it will take spin more than some others have in the past, and Harbhajan Singh might have been a shade more useful than the expensive Agarkar, but the writing is on the wall. Ganguly means business and he believes that his pacemen can do the job for him.With hindsight, he might wish that he had the services of Harbhajan. If proof of that was needed, it came when Virender Sehwag was brought on to bowl his offies, even as India’s third seamer bowled just 11 overs out of 90 for 49 runs. Agarkar has had a forgettable day, and he’d better pull up his socks for Ganguly to have the freedom to implement his pace plan effectively.

Since his comeback from the wilderness, Shoaib Akhtar has not just been a mega star – he’s been a match-winner too. Throughout the 2002-03 season time after time, he held a match by the scruff of its neck, and turned it around with a bunch of wickets. If his precision-guided thunderbolts were not shattering stumps, they were crushing toes.More recently, the pulverised Aussies have a new-found respect for Shoaib. Somewhat humbled, an unusual way to refer to the World Champions, we heard skipper Ricky Ponting talking of him in terms of a ‘serious threat’. Ponting said: ‘When you’re bowling 150 kilometres an hour and swinging the ball you’re always going to be hard to play. But we’ve got to find a way to combat that when the World Cup comes around’.Ponting has reason to be concerned. He too was scalped with a fast, inswinging delivery recorded at 151.1 kilometres, followed by Darren Lehmann at 150.3 and Michael Bevan at 152.3 in three back-to-back overs of sustained pace by Shoaib that left Australia tottering at 83 for six. The Aussies never recovered from Shoaib’s pounding. But will Ponting, with the help of coach John Buchanan, be able to find ways to tackle such scorching pace in the months leading up to the World Cup?It’s anyone’s guess, but the Aussie distaste for pace may now out in the open. Before Shoaib, Shane Bond and Makhaya Ntini had earlier this year exposed this particular chink in the armour; they were rewarded with the Aussie ouster in the tri-nation finals, which perhaps may have contributed to Steve Waugh’s sacking from captaincy of the one-day side. Yet between then and now, the Aussies could do precious little to counter Shoaib, or they would not have looked, and later sounded as concerned as they did after the Super Challenge series.The fact is that there never has been an answer to red-hot pace. That is why nobody, even that breed of batsmen deemed comfortable against fast bowling, truly likes super fast stuff.Anyway, for batsmen, there is further bad news from Pakistan. One has learnt on good authority, as good as the PCB Chairman, Lt Gen Tauqir Zia, that Pakistan is to soon to reintroduce another pace merchant, Mohammad Zahid. One hears that Zahid has not just fully recovered from his many injuries that forced him out of international cricket for the last half of a decade; he is now busy playing for a league in Ireland.Zahid’s pace and fitness, informs Dr Tauseef Razzaq, the head of the PCB appointed doctor’s panel which is the final authority for clearing the physical state of every player vying for a spot in the national squad – are now almost as good as at his best.And at his peak, Zahid was quite a demon. In the 1997 version of the World Series Cup Down Under, he was acknowledged as the fastest in the world. In one over to Brian Lara, Zahid didn’t just get the prized wicket off the last delivery, in the bargain he had Lara jumping and fending, beating him with pace and movement in the previous five balls!Having trained him back to full fitness, Dr Tauseef vouches about Zahid’s pace. “He is quite fast, and can bowl long spells at the same pace; he could bowl as fast as Shoaib”, says Dr Tauseef. One has to believe Dr Tauseef, for it was he who nursed back Shoaib from a spate of injuries, and having done that gave him a clean bill of health. Few believed in him then, but since Shoaib has silenced all doubters through an extended season, taking Dr Tauseef’s word seriously sounds like a good idea.So with Zahid back in contention, the Pakistani pace artillery looks awesome. In Shoaib, Zahid, Sami, Razzaq, Akram and Waqar (in order of pace), they now just don’t have a quartet, they’ve a sextuplet. This really is embarrassment of riches, if ever there was one. Despite Akram and Waqar being in advanced stages of their careers, this is a pretty potent pace attack – one which could rival the various foursomes that the Caribbeans unleashed on the world between the early ’80s and early ’90s.The PCB, more specifically its chairman, is now being acknowledged to have done a good turn to the Pakistan team and to Shoaib, by not leaving him in the lurch when he was in utter bad shape physically, wayward mentally and hounded by the ‘chucking allegations’. Though this scribe was one among those who criticised him for frittering away millions on the temperamental speedster’s recovery, one now has to concede that it was money well spent. Shoaib has not just tore into batting line-ups, he has silenced his own, and his benefactor’s critics.

A Gareth Roderick century left Worcestershire in a commanding position after day one of their Vitality County Championship with Kent at Canterbury.The visitors were 308 for 5 at stumps, with Roderick hitting 117 from 281 balls, after the former Kent 2nd XI player Kashif Ali had given them a platform with 72. Adam Hose was unbeaten on 50 at stumps, reaching his half-century with a single off Nathan Gilchrist in the final over of the day.Matt Parkinson took 2 for 79, but it was largely a torpid day in the field for Kent, who struggled to make anything happen on a benign pitch until Joey Evison claimed late two wickets to end the day with figures of 2 for 39.The day began in sombre fashion, with an emotive minute’s applause for Worcestershire’s Josh Baker, who died last week at the age of just 20. Both teams wore black armbands and the flags flew at half mast over the Frank Woolley Stand.A crowd of over 1000 made the most of the first genuinely warm day of the season at the Spitfire Ground and to no one’s surprise the visitors chose to bat after winning the toss.Players took part a minute’s applause in memory of Josh Baker•Getty Images

Kent’s new overseas signing Beyers Swanepoel generated some early swing, but the hosts’ only victim during the morning session was Jake Libby, who had looked lively on his way to 19 until he was lbw to a Wes Agar delivery so plumb he turned and walked off before the umpire even had time to raise his finger.It was 94 for 1 at lunch and although Kent weren’t bowling badly, Roderick and Kashif looked largely untroubled. They put on 136 for the second wicket, until the latter began to look jittery against Parkinson, eventually nicking him to keeper Harry Finch.Brett D’Oliveira got a start, but having almost nicked Parkinson to Daniel Bell-Drummond at the start of the 61st over he went a couple of deliveries later, snared by the Kent captain at first slip for 18.It was 210 for 3 at tea, but if the D’Oliveira wicket had briefly revived Kent’s hopes, they faded during the evening as Hose joined Roderick for a partnership of 102 that seriously dented home morale.Roderick drove Agar through cow corner to reach 100 but Evison belatedly gave a dwindling number of home supporters something to smile about when he sent his off stump cart-wheeling, before getting the night-watcher Joe Leach lbw for 1 at the end of the penultimate over.

Vice-captain Pat Cummins accepts there’s a chance he may not always find a place in Australia’s starting XI during the T20 World Cup with questions remaining over how they will balance their side ahead of their opening match against South Africa.When Australia went to No. 1 in the T20I rankings in 2020, their success had been based around an attack of five specialist bowlers – a structure head coach Justin Langer has been a supporter of since his days at Perth Scorchers – but they have switched between that and an extra allrounder during this year.Australia have not had their first-choice team together for their last four series, during which they have won just five and lost 13 matches.Cummins, who has taken 37 T20I wickets at 20.62 and an economy rate of 6.93, is one of four frontline quicks in the Australia squad alongside Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Kane Richardson. Hazlewood has pressed his claims in recent months with success in the West Indies and Bangladesh followed by an impressive IPL stint with Chennai Super Kings.Related

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Hazlewood did not play either of the warm-up matches but should have a strong case to start the tournament while Starc is a certain inclusion. If Australia continued with the two frontline spinners in Adam Zampa and Ashton Agar it will create a squeeze for pace-bowling positions.”We have six, seven, eight guys right at the top of their game in our squad from a bowling point of view, so I’m sure that will be worked out,” Cummins said. “The conversation around our T20 side in the last little bit has been around whether we play the five bowlers or we play four and rely on the allrounders. We’ll see how it plays, it might change from game to game.”There’s a possibility for anyone [to miss out], it’s a World Cup, [it’s] what is best for the team. I want to play so we’ll see what happens…someone is going to miss out.”We made it really clear it’s a squad mentality. I know in 2015 [the ODI World Cup] I felt I could still give a lot even when I wasn’t in the XI. We are trying to instill that in everyone. There might be four quicks trying to fit into two or three [spots] but it’s five [group] games so you still might get a chance.”