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With the period of bidding for the items in this months unique Junior Sabres fund raising auction half way through the website has received several enquiries regarding the bids that have been made for some of the items.In response to these requests, and to perhaps even encourage some more bids and raise additional funds for the Junior Sabres the highest bid received so far for each of the items is listed below.Don’t miss out – send in your bids todayLot 1 – A pair of Marcus Trescothick’s Sunday League pads – £20Lot 2- Somerset C.C.C. team cricket bag, black with Somerset team logo – £25Lot 3- A pair of Robert Turner’s Sunday League wicket keeping pads – £15Lot 4 -A pair of Graham Rose’s Sunday League pads – large – £40Lot 5 – A pair of Steffan Jones’s training shoes – grey / yellow (Size 11) – £25Lot 6 – 2002 players woollen team jumper with current sponsors name. This is a brand new jumper still in its wrapper with all of the badges and logos and is large size. – £15Lot 7 – A pair of Pete Trego’s Sunday League pads – £10Lot 8 – The pair of pads, from which a pad was made to support Marcus Trescothick’s thumb injury during the vital Cheltenham & Gloucester Quarter Final at Taunton. – £15Lot 9 – MIke Burns Gunn and Moore bat that he used during the 2002 season and in the C and G Final at Lord’s. – £40Please remember all items are genuine and in years to come will become serious collectors items and every penny raised from the auction will go to the Junior Sabres:-To take part in the auction please E-mail your bid to [email protected] stating your name and address, the lot number and the amount that you wish to bid.Don’t miss out on an item that you will never have the chance to purchase again- send in your bids today.

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is known to come up with bizarre decisions and the latest example is the team selection for the third Test against Australia Saturday morning.All-rounder Shahid Afridi was flown in to replace the injured Abdul Razzaq. However the tour management surprised everyone by leaving out both the all-rounders and instead went into the match with four specialist bowlers, two of them still greenhorns and not regular members of the team.What was the logic behind dispatching Shahid for one Test when he was not to be considered is another decision by befuddled PCB officials.According to PCB officials, Shahid was not selected due to shoulder injury and lack of Test cricket. If this was the case then the flamboyant player should not have been flown to Sharjah in the first place.It seems obvious that Shahid was sent against the wishes of the tour selection committee which in fact trying its best to ruin his Test career.The same could also be said about poor Rana Naveed-ul-Hasan. He has been part of the original squad but so far has done nothing but carry drinks and do fielding stint as substitute which shows lack of imagination on part of PCB management.It was time for PCB to explain the cases of Shahid and Rana Naveed and whoever is responsible for this mess should be taken to task so that such blunders are not repeated in the future.Unfortunately nothing will happen, a legacy of our past, and such unfortunate and wasteful exercises will be swept under the carpet with the usual everything was satisfactory and the PCB was doing its best to win the 2003 World Cup.

For the second time running, Australia fashioned an emphatic 9-wicket victory with 30 overs to spare to leave Pakistan wondering how far they have to improve not just to win (that thought must have been farthest from their minds) but to make a fist of it.The only thing that went right for Waqar Younis, the much-beleaguered Pakistan skipper these days, in this dress rehearsal of the final on Saturday was the toss. When he elected to bat first this time round, he must have expected that his batsmen would redeem themselves after a most pathetic display the other day. They capitulated as badly, putting together just 117 before bowing out. What is worse, they seemed to have learnt nothing from their impulsive and indiscreet batting in the previous game against the Aussies.Pakistan was below strength, and their combinations and balance rather lopsided, and Australia were as clinically efficient as they normally are. But it really was Pakistan’s lack of application which made the Aussies look really formidable. That they were the best team in the world was never in dispute; that the second-best with pretensions of upstaging them would be exposed so thoroughly again was shocking.Adam Gilchrist (15, 14 balls, 3 fours) and Mathew Hayden (unbeaten 59, 49 balls, 9 fours) started off in a typical aggressive fashion. The intention obviously was to further rub in Pakistan’s inadequacy by finishing the match as quickly as possible. Having taken fours off three fours of Younis, Gilchrist failed to read a slower one and played him on. That was the only success to come Pakistan’s way. Ricky Ponting immediately pulled Younis to square-leg boundary and then Abdul Razzaq (pressed into service early as Shoaib Akhtar walked off the field with a pulled hip muscle in his second over) to the point fence for four and then a majestic six at mid-wicket.In glorious form, Hayden at the other end kept taking fours from Waqar, Razzaq and Azhar to march to the quickest 50 of the tournament, of just 41 deliveries while Ponting didn’t return after the lunch break, opting to rest himself after he found some discomfort in one leg. But there was nothing to worry. Damien Martyn made 20, with the help of 4 fours, the last of these off Azhar Mahmood in the covers sealing the win.Pakistan for its part had been bowled out of the game with the three frontline Aussie pacemen between them getting nine wickets. While Jason Gillespie and Glenn McGrath made early inroads, a four-wicket burst from Brett Lee, later adjudged Man of the Match, made even a semblance of a fightback impossible. Though Misbah-ul-Haq and Younis made a last ditch effort, which took the Pakistan total into three figures, but the resistance was eventually sniffed out, the innings folding for 117, in 32.3 overs.But more than the lethalness of the Aussie pace trio, it was the laden-footed, reckless Pakistani batting which brought doom on itself. With the two best partnerships of the innings coming from the eighth and ninth wicket, lack of responsibility and commitment of the upper order was so conspicuous.Imran Nazir (7, off 23 balls), inducted in place of Wasim Akram opting out with a niggling leg injury, was caught low in the covers by Martyn off Gillespie. Then McGrath dealt a double blow in the 11th over, and it started the procession. Driving him on the back foot away from his body, Shoaib Malik gave Ponting the first of three catches at second slip. In good form of late, Younis Khan tried to essay a forcing stroke too early, his cut ending in Gilchrist’s gloves. Three for 24 was soon four for 33 as Lee got Saeed Anwar (22, 39 balls, 3 fours) in his first over. Anwar had only just started finding the gaps and hit McGrath, Gillespie and Lee for three exquisite fours. Lee bounced back next ball with a rising delivery, inducing the top edge which Warne grabbed with joy.That was the start of a purple patch for Lee, as he got a wicket in each of his first three overs. Azhar Mahmood hit him for a four through mid-wicket, but over-confidence did him in as he drove one straight into Ponting’s hands. Razzaq came in at Azhar’s fall, but was clean bowled before scoring, playing an apalling shot off Warne. A squared-up Afridi too was dismissed, Ponting taking his third catch. At seven for 48 in the 18th over, Pakistan were down and out.Rashid Latif and Misbah tried to put a partnership together, with the latter clouting two sixes to Warne at long-on. Rashid swept well for a four off Warne and got another boundary by guiding Lee over the top of slips. But Lee prevailed as Rashid drove one uppishly and Martyn brought off another good catch in the covers.Misbah (39, off 49 balls, 4 fours, 2 sixes) continued to play well, adding 44 in 60 balls for the ninth wicket with Younis. This retrieved the situation somewhat, but it was never going to be enough. Misbah, having gloriously driven Lee and Gillespie for fours in the covers, perished while trying to guide the latter for four a second time through the slips. That gave Gilchrist the world record for most catches in ODIs, 195 to Ian Healy’s previous-best, 194. Younis (24 off 36 balls, 2 fours, 1 six) having clouted Warne for six over mid-wicket and driving and pulling Lee for fours at covers and mid-wicket was bowled by McGrath to bring the innings to a close.

In the latest round of Frizzell County Championship matches, Somerset hosted Warwickshire in the only Division One match of the day. The visitors, looking to climb into second place, are well set after the first day with Michael Burns (95) falling narrowly short of a century. Ian Blackwell was the star, clubbing his way to 110 off only 105 balls, including 16 fours and two sixes. Matthew Wood was trapped leg-before in the first over by New Zealander Shane Bond, but Somerset then played the bowlers with ease to end the day with 403 for nine. Graham Wagg claimed three for 62 for the Midlanders.Michael Di Venuto led by example to put Derbyshire in the driving seat against Division Two leaders Middlesex at Lord’s. Di Venuto scored an unbeaten 173 and was in outstanding form as he helped his side maintain their presence in the promotion run-in. His innings included 19 boundaries, but it was his running between the wickets that frustrated the fielding side. Australian pace bowler, Ashley Noffke, although expensive, claimed five wickets. The visitors finished on 375 for eight.Essex edged nearer to promotion after dismissing bottom-of-the-table Durham for just 259 at Colchester. Michael Gough scored a resilient 103 but couldn’t save the visitors from registering yet another low score. John Stephenson picked up two for 20 off 14 overs and Mark Ilott also claimed two as the hosts gained the upper hand. Essex lost three quick wickets in reply. Darren Robinson and Will Jefferson were both caught behind without a score to their name. Andy Flower soon followed when he edged Ian Hunter (two for 15) to Gough at slip. Essex, without six first-team regulars, have it all to do tomorrow after closing on 24 for three.At Trent Bridge, Gloucestershire found batting difficult as Nottinghamshire bowled with great conviction. Paul Franks (four for 33), and Stuart MacGill (three for 44) excelled as the visitors scored just 173 in their first innings. Ian Fisher made 57 with nine fours and one six, but the home side took full control early on. In reply the hosts were at one stage 76 for three, before the in-form Kevin Pietersen struck 12 fours in an unbeaten, 49-ball 60 before bad light stopped play with his side on 165-3, still eight runs behind.Carl Greenidge took five for 44 as Glamorgan slumped to 144 all out against second-from-bottom Northamptonshire at Northampton. Matthew Maynard was the only batsman to offer his side a lifeline, as he top scored with 43. In reply, the hosts took advantage of their opponents’ lacklustre performance. Richard White scored an eye-catching 80 (11 fours, two sixes) before he was bowled by Andrew Davies. At stumps Northants held a lead of 61 runs, on 205 for three.

Hampshire’s Academy side have taken a significant step towards achieving "gold" status in the ECB Southern Electric Premier League’s Division 1 next season.They ended Lymington’s six-match winning spurt by nicking a two-wicket win over the New Forest club on the Rose Bowl Nursery ground to enhance their position as Division 2 leaders.It was largely due to an undefeated 64 by Chris Benham, who complimented an earlier all-round bowling performance of some promise, that the Young Hawks achieved their goal.Three-wicket medium-pace duo James Manning and David Wheeler, both members of Hampshire’s Under-17 side, and leg spinner Ian Hilsum caught the eye as Lymington were restricted to 178-9 in 50 overs.But it was Benham, who has produced a series of sound batting performances after coming down from Loughborough UCCE, who lifted Hampshire from a worrying 56-4 and through a late order collapse to seal victory with seven balls of the match to spare.Over 200 regular first team Hampshire supporters, disenchanted with their side’s performance against Lancashire, at least had something to cheer as they lined the grassy Nursery ground banks to watch Tony Middleton’s youngsters in the field."The great thing about our bowling was the way the young guys, Manning and Wheeler performed."It was a good wicket which gripped a bit. If you hit the seam, it always had a chance of doing something," Middleton said.The Academy’s accurate bowling – which wasn’t worthy of the 20 wides conceded – certainly kept the normally free-flowing Lymington batsmen in their shells.By the 25-over halfway drinks point, Lymington had reached 89-3, with Aaron Heal (23) following Glyn Treagus and Danny Peacock back into the pavilion.Hilsum (2-31), whose direct-throw ran out Peacock, proved particularly difficult to get away after the new-ball pair had finished their initial stints.Having got Heal with his second delivery, the former Ventnor leggie tied down both Ben Craft (46) and Matt Molloy (28), who took Lymington on to 113 before the youngster was `yorked’ by the returning Wheeler, who finished with 3-24 off 11 overs.Once Craft hoisted a high return catch to Manning (3-41), Lymington’s innings lost any kind of thrust – the final ten overs yielding a mere 32 runs for the loss of four more wickets.When Iain Brunnschweiler (24) and Martin Bushell eased the Young Hawks to 42-0, it appeared Lymington’s 178-9 might be overhauled with some comfort.But Lymington came fighting back, with the Academy losing three wickets for just two runs at one point – two of them to balding seamer Trevor Phillips (2-26), who at one stage bowled 24 consecutive deliveries without conceding a run."We came back very well, showing a lot of character," praised captain Peacock, who provided Dave Coles with one of three victims by luring Bushell out of his crease.From 56-4 Benham, with a series of crisp cover and straight drives, and Wheeler reasserted Hampshire’s grip on proceedings with the 75-run partnership which was to decide the match.Wheeler, the hugely promising teenage New Milton all-rounder, twice flicked sixes off his legs over the fence and way on to the golf course fairway.It appeared as the duo might carry the Hawks home, but when the Australian Heal trapped Wheeler leg before, the county hopefuls wobbled alarmingly.Three wickets went down for 15 runs as the Academy slipped to 146-7.But Lymington were unable to shift Benham, whose growing maturity and support from Hilsum proved essential – and an eventual Hampshire match winner."The good thing is that we’ve been winning a few close games lately," said Middleton, after an anxious finale to the game."Chris batted really well, as he has done all season. I’m very pleased with him."The Young Hawks’ win sets up an intriguing tussle at second-placed Easton & Martyr Worthy next week.Easton effectively ended United Services title prospects with a thumping 118-run victory at Burnaby Road.

After the tightest finish imaginable to the Benson and Hedges Cup semi-final at Old Trafford, emotions were running high. In the Warwickshire camp, with the prospect of a Lord’s final on June 22nd against Essex, there was jubilation. The home dressing room was an altogether more sombre place.Warwickshire’s Neil Smith, who played a vital role with bat and ball, might be coming up to his 35th birthday, but he had all the enthusiasm of a teenager as he reflected on an epic contest, won when Neil Carter swept the last ball for four.”What a game, really exciting. It swung both ways throughout – but we just did it in the end," said Smith. “We got the early wickets, but then they got a stand together. Then it was the same story through our innings as well. They bowled well, and we kept losing wickets at the wrong time.”But we bat right down. Neil opened on Sunday, and there he is batting number 11 here. But he proved he was up to it. We knew if we could get it down to 30 or so to win with five or six overs left we would be pretty close. In the end we were right, and Neil finished it off for us.”On the other side, Lancashire’s cricket manager, Mike Watkinson, had to accept different emotions. “It was one of those days where you think you have a good fighting chance, but a wicket here or a partnership on the other side keeps making one team and then the other the favourite.”You can’t start saying we lost it off the last ball any more than we lost it off the first. There was no difference between the teams really. It was neck and neck all the way.”They need three runs to win off the last ball. There is a very fine line in this game between success and failure. If he had bottom-edged it on to his boot we would have been jumping up and down. But he gets it down to fine leg for four, and for us it is the opposite emotion.”Watkinson would have liked his team to have had the opportunity to show their worth at Lord’s. “It would have been nice to have gone one stage further – but it is not to be. You cannot knock the character and fighting spirit of this team, and today was no exception.”There are some extremely disappointed people in that dressing room, but they will come back and play some good cricket in the games ahead,” he added.

Rohit Sharma wants India’s white-ball middle order to prepare for the situations when the side has been reduced to “10 for 3″.In the last four years, India have lost in the final of the 2017 Champions Trophy, the semi-final of the 2019 ODI World Cup and crashed out in the group stage of the 2021 T20 World Cup. One common theme has been the team’s failure to recover from an early loss of wickets.During the New Zealand Test series that he skipped, Rohit was asked on YouTube show if he has been able to figure out what went wrong in those games.”To be honest, not really,” Rohit said. “I would say it was that initial phase of the game where we lost the game. So that’s something I’ll keep in mind and see that we prepare for the worst. We have to prepare when the team is 10 for 3. That’s how I want to move forward and get the message across to the boys that guys who are batting at No. 3, 4, 5, 6, there’s nowhere written that if you are 10 for 2 or 3 [in a T20I], you can’t get 180 or you can’t get 190, or maybe more.”I want the guys to prepare in that fashion. Let’s say we are playing the semi-final and we are 10 for 2 in the first two overs, what do we do? What is the plan? I want to put ourselves in that situation again and see if we can respond to that. We have got some games before the World Cup to try and test that out. Because if you look there is a similarity between all three games that we lost – two Pakistan games and one New Zealand game in three ICC tournaments.”I do understand that the quality of the bowling was exceptional at that point, but it has happened three times. I hope that it doesn’t happen for the fourth time. So hopefully we will prepare for that, keeping that situation in mind and move forward and see how we can plan – whether we can just counterattack straight from ball one, whoever batter goes in.Related

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“And then I don’t want people to think that, ‘Oh, they are 10 for 2, what shot is he playing?’ The commentators, the people of India or anywhere else, they need to understand that this is a plan of the team.”Rohit, who is now India’s captain in both ODIs and T20Is, is not new to captaincy. He is the most successful IPL captain with five titles and has led India previously in the absence of Virat Kohli.Talking about his leadership philosophy, he said: “A captain is there to ensure right players are playing, the right combination is playing and obviously a few tactical things that you need to look after.”A captain needs to stand at the forefront while performing and for everything else needs to stand at the back. The reason I say that is he can make a difference by standing at the back because then he can make sure he puts his hand around everyone, that’s what I meant when I said you have to be the least important member of the team.”Over the last many years, India’s white-ball batting has revolved largely around Rohit and Kohli. And Rohit had “no doubt” he would need Kohli the batter in the side.”A batter of his quality is always needed in the squad,” Rohit said. “To have an average of 50-plus in the T20 format, it’s crazy, it’s unreal. Obviously, with the experience he has, he has bailed India out so many times from difficult situations.”So that quality and his kind of batsmanship is obviously required, and he is still a leader of the team. All those things put together, you don’t want to miss out, you don’t want to ignore that kind of stuff. His presence in the squad is very, very important moving forward and it can only strengthen our team.”

The BCCI is set to appoint Australia’s Troy Cooley as fast-bowling coach, and former India batters Hrishikesh Kanitkar and Shiv Sunder Das, along with Sitanshu Kotak, as the batting coaches at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru.Former India and Mumbai legspinner Sairaj Bahutule will be the spin-bowling coach.Cooley is being roped in with an aim to create the country’s next generation of fast bowlers. A reputed fast-bowling coach, Cooley was with the England set-up during their historic 2005 Ashes campaign in which their fast bowlers, on home soil, became a nightmare for the Australian batters. The success of Andrew Flintoff, Matthew Hoggard, Simon Jones and Steve Harmison was in part attributed to Cooley. Cooley was then roped in by Cricket Australia the following year and he worked with the national team till the 2010-11 season after which he joined the board’s Centre of Excellence in Brisbane.”I would say one of the biggest success for both Sourav [Ganguly, the BCCI president] and Jay [Shah, the secretary] is to convince Troy Cooley to work with India’s next batch of pacers at the National Cricket Academy,” a senior BCCI official told PTI on the condition of anonymity. “We are hearing that BCCI is giving Cooley a three-year contract and he will closely co-ordinate with the NCA head of cricket, VVS Laxman.”BCCI set to introduce exclusive fast-bowlers’ contracts
The BCCI is planning on how to prepare the next crop of fast bowlers and one of the decisions set to be taken is an ‘Exclusive Young Pacers Contract’.It is understood that Ganguly, Shah, head coach Rahul Dravid and NCA’s new head VVS Laxman are trying to devise a contract that is exclusive and different from the central contract.It is learnt that Cooley and Laxman will hand-pick 10 young fast bowlers who are currently not in the national reckoning or do not have central contracts. These young pacers will be selected from the junior and first-class set-ups and handed ‘BCCI fast bowlers’ contract.’ They will be evaluated by Dravid and Laxman to see if they can be fast-tracked into the pathways team (India A) and then the senior side.Kanitkar, Das appointed batting coaches
Kanitkar and Das are back in the NCA fold in their familiar role as batting coaches, along with Kotak, who is set to travel to South Africa with the India A team.The three fielding coaches at the NCA will be Subhadeep Ghosh, T Dilip and Munish Bali. Dilip is currently working with the India senior team for the series against New Zealand while Ghosh will travel to South Africa with the A team. Bali is expected to work with the India men’s U-19 side.Both Ghosh and Das were part of India Women’s support staff for the multi-format tour of Australia in September-October.

The Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) has made it clear that any attempted move by the BCCI office bearers and state associations to bring former board president N Srinivasan back into the fold would need the approval of the Supreme Court.The office bearers want to nominate Srinivasan as the BCCI representative for the crucial ICC Board meetings later this month in Dubai. A final decision is likely to be taken at the board’s special general body meeting (SGM) on April 9 in Delhi.Although Srinivasan has not made his thoughts public, he met the three existing BCCI office bearers in Hyderabad on Wednesday. This was just before the three men – Amitabh Choudhary (acting secretary), Anirudh Chaudhry (treasurer) and CK Khanna (acting president) – were headed to meet the CoA, led by Vinod Rai and Vikram Limaye. It is understood that Rai, the CoA chairman, told the three office bearers that members attending the SGM or any ICC meeting would need to comply with the eligibility criteria approved by the Supreme Court.Srinivasan fails the eligibility test on three main fronts. He is past the age cap of 70 years. He has also completed nine years as an office bearer both at the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) and the BCCI, which disqualifies him automatically. Srinivasan is also yet to resign as the president of the TNCA, thereby flouting the court judgement of July 2016, which had approved the Lodha Committee’s recommendations.However, in their meetings with the CoA, the office bearers pointed out that there were no restrictions on the states or BCCI appointing a representative to attend the ICC meetings.The CoA, on Thursday, said it would seek the court’s approval, but asked the BCCI members to adhere to the court order. “Members may kindly note that the Committee of Administrators has decided to seek appropriate directions from the Hon’ble Supreme Court on matters relating to eligibility for participating in any Special General Meeting or Annual General Meeting of the BCCI (both with reference to Members and their nominees/representatives) as well as eligibility for being appointed to represent the BCCI at the ICC.”Members are requested to consider the above issues and ensure that attendance and decisions at any Special General Meeting or Annual General Meeting of the BCCI is in compliance with the orders passed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court as well as all applicable norms, rules and regulations.”There have been murmurs in the past few weeks of Srinivasan making a return at the ICC Board, which was considered improbable after he was forced to step down as BCCI president by the Supreme Court in 2015.In its meetings on April 26 and 27, the ICC Board is expected to deliberate, and probably vote, on the various resolutions concerning the governance structure and the revenue distribution model. Last month, the CoA sent an expansive e-mail to the ICC elaborating on its differences on the various resolutions.Nonetheless, the BCCI office bearers and most state associations have been sceptical of the CoA’s accommodating attitude towards the ICC Board. The CoA has stressed that the BCCI ought to engage and not confront the other member boards. However, the office bearers are adamant that the BCCI could not afford to loosen its grip and certainly not come down on its share derived from the ICC’s broadcasting rights.These office bearers and the other members of the BCCI have strongly objected to the reformist drive put in place by ICC chairman Shashank Manohar, who was the board president until last April. To take on Manohar, the office bearers felt a strong opposing voice was necessary.Incidentally, in an order issued in February, the court had approved three names – Limaye, Choudhary and Chaudhry – who could attend the ICC meetings that took place couple of months ago. Choudhry attended the ICC chief executives committee meeting while Limaye sat in the Financial & Commercial Affairs as well as the ICC Board.

David Warner, who is likely to be among the batsmen impacted if the MCC’s proposal to limit bat sizes is passed into law, has said playing with a slimmer piece of willow would not to make too much of a difference to his game.”We’re just going to have to adapt to the changes,” Warner said on Saturday. “And, you know what, the ball’s still going to go the same distance, the ball will still go to the fence, and we’re still going to get our ones and twos, and the odd nick might not carry this time.”Warner’s T20 bat reportedly measures 85mm at its thickest part. Under the proposed rule, bats will be limited to a thickness of 67mm at the spine and 40mm at the edge.Warner reckoned that these limits would force a number of batsmen to trim down their bats. He said he had been to his bat-maker to have his bats checked by a gauge, and that even the bats from the start of his career did not go through it. He still reckoned he would cope with a slimmer bat, referencing the double-sided model he had used a few years ago in domestic T20 cricket.”I was down there previously, about six months ago, and I had a look, and we put a whole various range of bats, from when I started and a few other guys started, and I’m not sure if they were the correct measurements , but they weren’t going through the measurement thing they were doing,” he said. “But at the end of the day they’ve got to govern that as well.”For us, we’ve just got to use whatever the bat-maker brings us, but remember, I used a double-sized bat which wasn’t even 30 mils or 40 mils. I used that quite well as well.”