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Pakistan A 262 for 3 (Bazid 74, Misbah 65*) beat Kenya 260 for 8 (Tikolo 121, Modi 55) by 7 wickets with 7.2 overs to spare
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A 97-run third-wicket stand between Bazid Khan and Misbah-ul-Haq ensured that Pakistan A nailed down a competitive target and qualified for the finals – against India A – in the triangular one-day series in Nairobi. Kenya may have felt they had enough runs on the board after Steve Tikolo hit a magnificent 121 to guide them to 260, but Bazid (74) and Misbah (65 not out) led the run-chase as Pakistan A eventually won comfortably, by seven wickets with more than seven overs to spare.In a match which both teams needed to win to qualify for the finals, Kenya won the toss and, after a wobbly start, got back on track when Tikolo and Hitesh Modi added 130 for the fourth wicket. They came together after Kenya had slumped to 59 for 3, losing Kennedy Otieno, Ravindu Shah and Malhar Patel. Both were eventually run out, and Kenya lost their way somewhat thereafter.Pakistan’s top-order batsmen all got starts. Kamran Akmal (36) and Naved Ashraf (41) got the team off to a fluent start, and while both failed to convert their starts into something more substantial, they had at least ensured against early hiccups. Bazid and Misbah then built on that with a vital partnership in the middle overs, while Faisal Iqbal provided the finishing touches with an unbeaten 32, to ensure a fourth encounter against India A, against whom they have lost all three matches in this tournament.

The New Zealanders are back in the nets preparing for their firstmatch of the second round of the Coca Cola Cup against Sri Lanka atthe Premadasa Stadium which will be played on Wednesday.The Black Caps beat India convincingly in their first round match ofthe Coca Cola Cup while in the match against the host nation, theywent down after a gallant fight.After the matches in Dambulla were shifted to Colombo, the teammanagement decided for a two day outing in Kandy. "Well, the onlyreason to go out of Colombo was because we didn’t want to spend threeand half weeks in the same hotel in Colombo. That was to give the guysa different atmosphere. But I tell you we haven’t neglected anypractice opportunities" said Jeff Crowe, the manager of the NewZealand team."We fitted in the essentials of our programme during our stay inKandy. For example we did our gym sessions over there and the playersare looking forward."Reflecting on the two matches the Black Caps have played, the NewZealand manager said; "We would have liked to win both the gamesobviously. But we played better cricket in the second game. In thefirst game we were bit rusty, but I still feel we had chance to winthat game as well. But more importantly, we checked our mistakes onthe second game and we are improving" said Crowe who has been themanager of the side for close to two years."Even in the game against India, our batsmen struggled. But we’veaddressed that issue and we have to see that we won’t repeat themistakes in the matches ahead," said the former New Zealand captain.Talking about the second round matches of the tournament, Crowe said;"We are looking forward for both the games and want to do well tobook a place in the final," Crowe continued, "The prime importancewill be to beat Sri Lanka. We’ve lost the first match against them,then they defeated us at home few months back. If we can puteverything that we’ve been practicing, that’s it."In the one day game, the New Zealanders cornered the headlines whenthey won the ICC knockout tournament in Kenya last year, but all thegood work was spoilt after the side lost two successive series to SriLanka and South Africa soon after."I think we are capable of winning the Coca-Cola Cup. We have shownin the past that we’ve got the nucleus to win tournaments. We provedthat in the ICC knockout tournament" reflected Crowe. "But this isnot a knock-out tournament. Here you’ve got to be consistent and whenit comes to the final it’s the team that’s good on that day."However, a key player missing in the side is Chris Cairns who wasinstrumental in leading the side for victory during the ICC knockouttournament, "He’s a world class player. No doubt about it.Unfortunately he’s not here so you can’t worry about that."The Black Caps’ chances of going through to the final increased afterIndia fell to bottom of the points table with a poor run rate as well.No one can take them lightly and they are capable of doing what theyaccomplished in Kenya last year.

Jacob Martin gave a timely reminder to the selectors that his appetitefor runs remains undiminished as Baroda secured a 139 run firstinnings lead over Punjab on the third day of their Super League tie atMohali today. By stumps Punjab had wiped off 84 runs from the deficitin 33 overs.Martin and captain Tushar Arothe took their overnight stand for the4th wicket to 139 before Arothe was sent back for 61. Atul Bedade didnot last long and Martin himself followed soon after for 118 (262balls, 14 fours). AP Bhoite and M Mewada put on 60 but when Mewada wasseventh out at 380 the innings entered terminal decline. The last fourwickets were snapped up in the space of 15 balls for the addition ofonly four runs as Baroda folded up for 384. Punjab’s new ball bowlerGagandeep Singh returned figures of 4-65 and Harbhajan Singh claimed3-101.Although Ravneet Ricky (2) was leg before to Zakir Khan in the thirdover, Vikram Rathour (46) and Reetinder Sodhi (30) prevented anyfurther anxiety for Punjab with an unbroken stand of 72.

Loughborough University, who last week won the inaugural ECB Universities Championship under the guidance of Former England Test star Graham Dilley, tomorrow host the ‘village’ side Lashings for a one-day match.”Given the publicity Lashings has received recently, we are naturally pleased they accepted our challenge and are bringing a team to Loughborough tomorrow.” commented Guy Jackson, Director of Cricket at Loughborough which houses one of the six ECB Centres of Excellence.He added “University cricket is changing shape rapidly and Loughborough has emerged as one of the top sides. We know Lashings have played Oxford and other University sides but we beat Oxford on Monday by ten wickets in the semi-finals of the British Universities Championships.The Lashings side may not feature recent addition Shoaib Akhtar who is due to play his first match for Lashings on Friday, but West Indians Richie Richardson, Jimmy Adams, Stuart Williams, Junior Murray and Franklyn Rose are available to play.Coach Graham Dilley, himself a veteran of West Indian head to heads added “There is a powerful wind of change blowing through University cricket and I am delighted to be part of it. It’s great Loughborough’s results have been so good this year, including victories over Oxford, Cambridge and Durham, going some way to show that Oxbridge are no longer the dominant forces in University cricket.” he added.For further information or to attend the game, please contact Vision Sports PR on 020 8875 1001 / 07957 355 317The Cricket Centres of Excellence:ECB funded University Centres of Cricket Excellence (UCCE) plan to ensure that more aspiring county professionals have an opportunity to gain academic qualifications, and simultaneously to inject more competitiveness into University Cricket.The scheme boasts some of nation’s best coaches, including Graeme Fowler (Durham Univ) and Graham Dilley (Loughborough Univ), and some of finest young playing talents in the game.While Loughborough have taken the inaugural UCCE Championship, Loughborough and Durham will also contest a ‘final’ for the Championship’s two top sides at Lord’s on June 27th.

Galle continues to be a happy hunting ground for Pakistan’s seam bowlers.Twelve months after Wasim Akram, Abdul Razzaq and Waqar Younis bowled outSri Lanka to win a three-match Test series, Irfan Fazil, Pakistan A’sfastest bowler, overwhelmed Sri Lanka A’s batsmen on the first day of thefinal unofficial Test Match.Unfortunately for Sri Lanka, there can be no excuses. Unlike last year whenthe pitch was tailor made for Pakistan’s bowlers, today’s surface was devoid of live grass and pedestrian in pace. Sri Lanka A wasted the advantage of winning the toss and were bowled out for just 141 in 59.2 overs.Irfan Fazil grabbed six Sri Lankan wickets for just 38 runs to record hisbest ever first class bowling analysis. The 19-year-old bowled three spellsin all, but was most destructive in his final two-over burst after tea, in whichhe clean bowled three batsmen with fast reverse swinging yorkers, straightout of the Waqar Younis school of toe crushers.The 19-year-old has played one Test Match, against Sri Lanka last year inKarachi, but on the evidence of this tour he will be soon playing again forthe senior side. An enthusiastic cricketer, forever pestering the Press Boxfor bowling statistics, he generates his pace from a wonderfully rhythmicallong run-up and classically side ways on action. The result is a 90mph fastbowler that swings the new ball out and the new ball in.Sri Lanka at least fought back in the evening by taking three top-orderwickets. If Prasanna Jayawardene, widely considered the best wicket keeperin Sri Lanka, had grasped a difficult one-handed chance off Hasan Raza, theycould even ended have the day in the ascendancy. As it was Pakistan were wellplaced on 75 for three at the close of play.Earlier, Avishka Gunawardene had single handedly held Sri Lanka’s battingtogether for the second match in succession. Still sore this morning from amatch winning unbeaten 82 in the Mercantile Cricket Tournament yesterday, hepummeled a belligerent 53 from 66 balls. He would have scored more too had Raza not shrewdly plugged his chief scoring area, the deep point boundary, right from the start of his innings.Unfortunately for Sri Lanka he swung lazily through the line of DanishKaneria’s first ball of the match to be caught at cover on the stroke oflunch. Sri Lanka’s last eight wickets fell for 70 runs.Raza brought Imran Fazil back into the attack soon after the interval for afour-over burst, in which he claimed the wickets of Jeeantha Kulatunga andChamara Silva. Kulatunga skewed a catch to backward point as he tried to cuta wide delivery and Silva, who faced 75 balls for his nine runs, was cleanbowled as he shouldered arms to a straight fast delivery. Sri Lanka were 103for five.Malintha Warnapura, one of seven changes to the Sri Lankan side that playedin Colombo last week, then added 15 runs in 43 minutes for the sixth wicketwith Jayawardene, before being caught behind off Yasir Arafat. Irfan Fazilthen returned after tea to mop up the tail in style.

Essex County Cricket Club has revealed their new main Sponsor for 2002-2004.Panacea Services Limited are a Technological Solutions company based in London and their six-figure sponsorship of the County has been agreed after several weeks of negotiations.Commercial Manager Dave Comley said: "We are delighted to welcome Panacea Services Limited on board to Essex County Cricket Club. It has been a pleasure negotiating and working with them and particularly with one of the partners, Anthony Bright. His love of cricket in general and Essex in particular bodes well for a good working relationship on both sides. The deal is a beneficial one for Essex and will mean `Panacea’ branding displayed on the County Championship shirt and the County sweater for at least the next two years with an option for extension after that time. They will be known as the Official Main Sponsor of Essex County Cricket Club."Dave Comley also acknowledged the previous Main Sponsor, Tiptree: – "Tiptree were exemplary sponsors and sincere thanks must go to them for their support of Essex for the past two seasons. I hope that we will continue to see Tiptree here in 2002 and beyond."

There was plenty of joy for members of the Oil and Natural GasCommission XI in the second day of their match against All IndiaAssociated Banks XI in the Buchi Babu Invitation Tournament 2000.Driven forward by a classy knock of 157 from skipper Gautham Vadhera,ONGC notched up a mammoth 484/5 declared.Supporting his skipper well, Rizwan Shamshad slammed 114 in a strokefilled display of aggressive batsmanship. Shamshad was particularlysevere on the spinners. His knock however, was made more valuable byVadhera’s patient knock.Although the new ball was taken first thing in the morning, themediumpacers delivered just 4 overs before the ball was handed back tothe spinners.In what must be an unusual situation, All India Associated Banks XIemployed their third stumper of the match in the form of CP Sahu.Mithun Minhas gave Sahu the pleasure of being on the scoreboard as hewas stumped off Panchasara.Shortly before drinks, Vadhera decided that he had enough runs on theboard and called it quits at 484/5. Responding to this huge score, AllIndia Associated Banks were in trouble immediately. Delhi mediumpacerAmit Bhandari struck twin blows, removing the openers Sahu and DanielManohar with just 37 on the board. Devendra Bundela saved All IndiaAssociated Banks from further embarrassment as he shored up one end.Making 103 including 16 boundaries, pushed the score forward. PankajDharmani played a speedy knock, bringing up his half century with 10boundaries to his name. After slamming a majestic six over mid wicketoff spinner Rahul Sanghvi, he succumbed for 64.At the fall of Dharmani’s wicket, the scoring rate dropped once more.Shortly after making his hundred, Bundela fell, with the score on 214.Karnataka stumper Tilak Naidu (26) and KN Ramesh 4) saw All IndiaAssociated Banks safely through to stumps at 223/4.

A comprehensive bowling performance from Dolphins saw the side kick off their Momentum One Day Cup 2015-16 campaign with a bonus-point, 76-run win over Knights in Pietermaritzburg.Opting to bat, Dolphins lost Morne van Wyk in the third over but a brisk 71-run, second-wicket partnership between Cameron Delport and Vaughn van Jaarsveld lifted them to stability. After Delport fell, van Jaarsveld was involved in another fifty-plus stand, this time with Andile Phehlukwayo, giving the side a strong platform going into the final leg of the innings. Once van Jaarsveld fell, however, after top-scoring with 82 off 112 deliveries, Dolphins lost wickets in a heap and were eventually dismissed for 246 in the final over.The pace trio of Craig Alexander, Robbie Frylinck, Ryan McLaren and left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj ensured that the poor finish with the bat did not have too much bearing on the result. Frylinck struck off successive deliveries in his first over and by the 26th over of the innings, Knights had lost half their side, including opener Reeza Hendricks, who top-scored with 38. Malusi Siboto, at No.8, was the only other batsman to score more than 30 as Knights folded for 170 in the 47th over. Frylinck and Maharaj finished with three wickets each while Alexander and McLaren chipped in with two apiece.

ScorecardAnisa Mohammed took two wickets and then steered West Indies home with the bat•WICB Media/Ashley Allen

An unbroken eighth-wicket stand of 44 between Kyshona Knight and Anisa Mohammed helped West Indies level the series at 1-1 against Pakistan.Left-arm spinner Anam Amin’s four strikes had reduced the hosts to 106 for 7 in the 34th over. Captain Stafanie Taylor had contributed 49 before becoming Amin’s second victim.Player-of-the-Match Anisa, however, backed up her 2 for 24 with an unbeaten 19 off 42 balls, while Kyshona Knight made 28 off 65 as West Indies reached the target of 150 in 46.5 overs.Earlier, Mohammed and Hayley Matthews’ offspin had fetched two wickets apiece in a disciplined bowling effort after West Indies chose to field. Taylor chipped in with an economical 1 for 25 in ten overs as well. Nain Abidi made 48 and Bismah Maroof scored 28, but the innings failed to kick on after the latter retired hurt on 81 for 2 in the 24th over. Pakistan were eventually dismissed for 149 in 46.1 overs.

Rory Kleinveldt starred with bat and ball to lift Cape Cobras to a bonus-point 64-run win over Dolphins in Durban. After Cobras chose to bat, Kleinveldt chipped in with an unbeaten 36 off 23 balls at No. 9 to drag the side to 235 for 8. He then took two of the first five wickets in the chase, with his eight overs going for only 22 as Dolphins were dismissed for 171 in the 46th over.Andrew Puttick made 68 off 104 to revive Cobras from a disastrous start of 6 for 2. He had fifty-plus partnerships with Justin Ontong (45) and Lesiba Ngoepe (39) but Cobras slipped to 196 for 8 in the 45th over, Craig Alexander (3 for 41) and Robbie Frylinck (2 for 41) doing most of the damage. Kleinveldt then hit three sixes and a four to give Cobras a decent finish.Dolphins never got going and were reduced to 44 for 4 in the 21st over. Only four of their batsmen managed double-digit scores, Frylinck top-scoring with 72 off 80 at No. 6. Four Cobras bowlers took two wickets apiece.Rudi Second’s 83 laid the platform for Knights‘ successful chase of 243 against Titans in Kimberley. Second and Diego Rosier (35) put on 70 for the second wicket, while Patrick Botha (31) helped Second add 71 for the fourth. Botha and Second fell within four deliveries but Werner Coetsee swung his way to 34 off 23 to put Knights back on track. Malusi Siboto hit a six and a four to seal the win in 48 overs.Siboto had earlier taken 3 for 43 from nine overs as Titans were bowled out in the 49th over after being asked to bat. There were several starts but only Heino Kuhn (55 off 56) went on to get a half-century. Titans were placed strongly on 105 for 2 in the 24th over but slumped to 179 for 7 in the 41st. Albie Morkel (40 off 29) and Marchant de Lange (21 off 17) produced some late runs but their dismissals off successive balls in the 47th over ended Titans’ chances of pushing past 250. Shadley van Schalkwyk and Coetsee picked up two wickets each for Knights.Warriors and Lions split points after their game was rained out in East London with only 28.3 overs possible. The game was halted first with Warriors on 132 for 3 in the 28th over after choosing to bat. The interruption meant the match was reduced to 33 overs per side but only eight deliveries were sent down after resumption before a washout resulted. Colin Ingram stayed unbeaten on 55 off 52 with six fours and a six.