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Claire Taylor’s brisk 21 helped get England off to a good start © Getty Images

Sarah Taylor’s unbeaten 52 provided the platform for England’s five-wicket win over New Zealand in the second women’s Twenty20 international at Bath Cricket Club, giving them a 2-0 lead in the three-match series.Taylor’s 50-ball innings was perfectly paced and included a superb six over long-on, and with Claire Taylor giving an early boost with a 13-ball 21, England were always ahead of the asking rate and they eased home with 14 balls to spare.New Zealand, who paid for not using their full allocation over overs, were restricted by tight bowling and impressive fielding which produced three run-outs, including two at the top of the order, to reduce them to 18 for 3. They also struggled with a much slower and lower pitch than had been the case yesterday.The losing captain Haidee Tiffen said: “We just wish it was a better result for us. England had a really really tough winter so to come back is a credit.” Charlotte Edwards, England’s captain, was delighted to take the Twenty20 series but expects a hard time in the one-dayers. “It will be a tightly fought series – the sides are really well matched.”The compact ground was packed, a reward for the decision to play the two matches at a more intimate venue. They enjoyed seeing England seal the series, bouncing right back from their winter of discontent – and their new coach Mark Dobson has now made it two wins in two.The sides meet again in the final Twenty20 international at Taunton on Thursday.

Inzamam’s disciplinary hearing is scheduled for the end of September and Michael Holding feels that stating cricket laws as absolute is pointless. Every law has room for flexibility © AFP

Michael Holding, the former West Indies fast bowler, lent his support to Inzamam-ul-Haq, saying that Darrell Hair was “insensitive” to have penalised Pakistan for ball-tampering.”I have absolute and all sympathy with [Pakistan captain] Inzamam-ul Haq. If you label someone a cheat, please arrive with the evidence,” Holding wrote in , a leading weekly news magazine. Holding felt that most umpires would have said something to the fielding captain and given the offending team a warning of some kind. “Then if the tampering continued, they would have been totally justified in taking action.”There is a double standard at work in cricket and this episode has only highlighted it. When England used reverse-swing to beat the Australians in the 2005 Ashes, everyone said it was great skill. When Pakistan does it, the opposite happens, no one thinks it is great skill. Everyone associates it with skullduggery.”When bombs go off in Karachi and Colombo everyone wants to go home. When bombs go off in London, no one says anything. That is first-world hypocrisy and we have to live with it.”Holding said that seeing the cricketing law as the absolute and final truth was pointless. Every law, he wrote, has room for flexibility. “I read a prime example recently in the British press. It said that by law, you can be fined for parking within the yellow lines in England. If you do that to run into a chemist to buy emergency medicines, a sensible policeman would more than likely tell you about the law but it’s unlikely a ticket would be forthcoming.”The executive board of the ICC is scheduled to meet on September 2 in Dubai to discuss the ball-tampering issue further. Inzamam’s disciplinary hearing for Pakistan’s actions of ball-tampering and bringing the game into disrepute in the fourth Test against England at The Oval will take place around the end of September.

England 162 for 2 (Bakewell 50, Watmough 50*) beat Australia 161 (Tredrea 54) by eight wickets
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Rachael Heyhoe-Flint leads England onto the field© Cricinfo

The women did one-day cricket proud at Lord’s yesterday when England gained revenge for Sunday’s defeat by beating Australia by eight wickets – Australia making 161 in 59.4 overs and England 162 for 2 in 56.2 overs.A crowd bigger than for many a mid-week county match applauded enthusiastically, especially towards the end, with England chasing runs against the fast bowling of Sharon Tredrea and the left-arm medium of Anne Gordon.Enid Bakewell and Lynne Thomas had given England a fine start by scoring 85 before a mix-up resulted in Mrs Bakewell being run out. Having bowled her left-arm spinners accurately for two wickets, she made a splendid 50.She was succeeded by Chris Watmough, a left-hander who gave a splendid exhibition of batting, hitting eight fours, including the winning hit. She had the experienced support of her captain, Rachael Flint, in a final partnership of 69.England made an encouraging start when June Stephenson had the formidable Lorraine Hill, century-maker in Sunday’s match, caught at the wicket on the leg side off the second ball. Fifteen runs later, Glynis Hullah, bowled Janette Tredrea, Jan Lumsden was run out through a smart return by Janet Allen and Mrs Gordon was caught at the wicket off the slow left-arm bowling of Mrs Bakewell.So Australia, probably nervous in the Lord’s atmosphere, had a disastrous first hour, but they were rescued by the strong arm of Sharon Tredrea, supported by Wendy Hills. Fortunately for Australia, Miss Tredrea was missed at the wicket when two. Otherwise, the match would have been over much earlier. These two girls changed the shape of the game, Miss Tredrea hitting as powerfully as a man, driving and making one superb square cut.The last Australian pair, Marie Lutschini and Wendy Blunsden, by admirable strokes and good running, added 32 for the last wicket.Both sides fielded and threw athletically and the only difference from a men’s match was the absence of genuine pace bowling and an inability to pierce a close-set field.

Brian Lara – self-centred or what?© Getty Images

A week on from Brian Lara’s epic quadruple-century against England in Antigua, and the backlash has begun Down Under. None other than Australia’s captain, Ricky Ponting, is leading a chorus of players and commentators who believe that Lara’s innings was self-centred, and has done the game more harm than good.”It’s hard to imagine an Australian player doing it,” Ponting told AAP, notwithstanding the fact that Matthew Hayden came within 20 runs of doing exactly that against Zimbabwe last October. "It’s generally not the way we play our cricket. Their whole first innings might have been geared around one individual performance and they could have let a Test match slip because of it. They ran out of time in the game – that’s not the way the Australian team plays.”Nevertheless, Ponting conceded that Hayden’s 380 at Perth did involve an exception to the team rule, as he was allowed to carry on batting with the record in sight. "It was a very rare thing, for Matty to be able to bat for as long as he did and go on and make that big score,” said Ponting. “He was given the opportunity to go on and break Brian’s record and he did that. He was going to be given another half an hour, or 20 minutes, to try to get to 400 but unfortunately he got out.”Ponting is one of a clutch of batsmen with the ability to overhaul Lara’s new record, although he was adamant that the team always comes first where Australian cricket is concerned. “Everyone will be chasing it, and it would be nice to be the world-record holder,” he admitted, "but as we’ve seen, it doesn’t necessarily win you a Test match, which is what we’re all about.” Mind you, if Australia’s Test series goes ahead against the weakened Zimbabweans next month, victory will be a foregone conclusion even before any thoughts turn to the record-books.Ponting’s sentiments have struck a chord with the former England captain and leading commentator, Tony Greig. “I’m certainly not raving about the innings,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald. “I have to praise it for the sheer fact that he stayed in for so long but it wasn’t an innings that you could be in awe of. It was clear he had the record in mind and was just going to keep on grinding it out until he got there. As far as I’m concerned that is not a good way to play the game, especially when you’re the captain. It shows that Brian Lara is not a very good captain.””It gives cricket fans there the chance to be euphoric for a while," added the ABC commentator, Jim Maxwell, "but there are big problems in cricket over there. There’s a lack of discipline, a lack of talent and the wrong people are in charge. Lara has been an inconsistent performer as leader. He’s 34 and this innings will give him more time, that’s all. It’s a shame because there are a lot of people over there who love cricket. But it’s fallen apart.”But Derrick Nicholas, the chief operations manager of the West Indies Cricket Board, had quite the opposite view. “It’s quite extraordinary,” he said. “I was in Antigua when he broke the record. The tributes were coming in from all the [Caribbean] heads of government; the feeling around the whole Caribbean has been fantastic. We believe Brian’s innings will renew interest from children in cricket.”

Complete to 31 March 2002

Abbreviations:A = Australia NZ = New ZealandB = Bangladesh P = PakistanE = England SA = South AfricaI = India SL = Sri LankaK = Kenya WI = West Indiese.g., 1/0 = 1 ct, 0 st while keeping wicket. A single dash (-) orfigure indicates that he did not keep wicket in that match.(Venue) result No. How out Runs (Balls) Ct/St Bowling1991/92, WORLD CUP IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND1 SL (New Plymouth)L(1) not out 115* (152) 1/02 P (Hobart) L (2) c Inzamam-ul-Haq b Wasim Akram 6 (21) 1/03 WI (Brisbane) L (2) b B P Patterson 6 (20) 0/04 NZ (Napier) L (1) b G R Larsen 30 (27) 0/05 I (Hamilton) L (2) not out 43* (56) 1/06 SA (Canberra) L (2) c +D J Richardson b W J Cronje 19 (44) -7 A (Hobart) L (2) c A R Border b S R Waugh 20 (49) 0/18 E (Albury) W (2) b P A J DeFreitas 7 (16) 3/01992/93, INDIA (home)9 I (Harare SC) L (1) run out (N Kapil Dev) 62 (104) 1/01992/93, NEW ZEALAND (home)10 NZ (BAC) L (1) b D N Patel 10 (19) 1/111 NZ (Harare SC) L (1) c +A C Parore b D N Patel 56 (70) 2/01992/93, at SHARJAH12 P (Sharjah) L (1) run out (?) 49 (71) 3/013 SL (Sharjah) L (1) b A P Gurusinha 26 (36) 0/01992/93, PAKISTAN (home)14 P (Harare SC) L (1) c and b Mushtaq Ahmed 10 (23) -1992/93, INDIA (away)15 I (Faridabad) L (1) b M Prabhakar 9 (21) -16 I (Guwahati) L (1) c A Kumble b S A Ankola 26 (43) 0/017 I (Patna) L (1) run out (M A Azharuddin) 32 (36) 0/01993/94, in INDIA (Hero Cup)18 SA (Bangalore) D did not bat – 0/019 SL (Patna) L (1) run out (S T Jayasuriya) 11 (31) 0/020 I (Indore) T (1) st V Yadav b R K Chauhan 56 (82) 0/121 WI (Hyderabad) L (1) c D L Haynes b K C G Benjamin 22 (47) 1/01993/94, PAKISTAN (away)22 P (Karachi) L (1) c +Rashid Latif b Wasim Akram 0 (1) 0/023 P (Rawalpindi) L (1) lbw b Wasim Akram 14 (22) – 1-0-9-024 P (Lahore) L (1) c Aaqib Javed b Irfan Bhatti 15 (11) -1994/95, SRI LANKA (home)25 SL (Harare SC) L (5) b W P U J C Vaas 61 (81) 0/026 SL (Harare SC) W (1) b W P U J C Vaas 76 (98) 0/027 SL (Harare SC) L (1) c M Muralitharan b K R Pushpakumara 8 (9) 2/01994/95, in AUSTRALIA (World Series)28 A (Perth) L (1) c S K Warne b D W Fleming 29 (32) 1/029 A (Hobart) L (1) c +I A Healy b T B A May 39 (56) 0/030 E (Sydney) W (1) c +A J Stewart b A R C Fraser 12 (15) 1/031 E (Brisbane) L (4) c +S J Rhodes b D Gough 52 (60) 1/11994/95, PAKISTAN (home)32 P (Harare SC) T (1) b Aamer Nazir 25 (38) 1 4-0-14-033 P (Harare SC) L (1) c +Moin Khan b Wasim Akram 9 (23) 2/034 P (Harare SC) W (1) c +Moin Khan b Manzoor Elahi 73 (104) 2/11995/96, SOUTH AFRICA (home)35 SA (Harare SC) L (1) c +D J Richardson b C R Matthews 2 (14) 3/036 SA (Harare SC) L (1) c +D J Richardson b C R Matthews 2 (5) 5/01995/96, NEW ZEALAND (away)37 NZ (Auckland) L (4) c G R Larsen b S A Thomson 21 (17) 0/038 NZ (Wellington) L (4) lbw b D J Nash 10 (24) 0/039 NZ (Napier) W (4) lbw b D N Patel 57 (67) 2/01995/96, WORLD CUP IN INDIA, PAKISTAN AND SRI LANKA40 WI (Hyderabad) L (1) c +C D Browne b C E L Ambrose 3 (4) 0/041 SL (Colombo SSC)L (1) run out (W P U J C Vaas) 8 (17) 0/042 K (Patna) D (5) not out 0* (0) 0/043 K (Patna) W (5) lbw b R Ali 5 (8) 0/144 A (Nagpur) L (5) st I A Healy b S K Warne 7 (15) 0/045 I (Kanpur) L (5) b S L V Raju 28 (40) 0/01996/97, TRIANGULAR TOURNAMENT IN SRI LANKA46 A (Colombo Pre) L (3) lbw b D W Fleming 0 (2) 0/047 I (Colombo SSC) L (3) c B K V Prasad b A Kumble 78 (115) 1/048 SL (Colombo SSC)L (3) c+RS Kaluwitharana b GP Wickremasinghe 11 (22) -1996/97, PAKISTAN (away)49 P (Quetta) L (5) c Shahid Nazir b Saqlain Mushtaq 82 (119) 0/150 P (Lahore) L (5) c Ijaz Ahmed b Abdur Razzaq 51 (65) 0/051 P (Peshawar) L (5) c Wasim Akram b Saleem Malik 1 (2) 1/01996/97, ENGLAND (home)52 E (Queens SC) W (3) c N V Knight b C E W Silverwood 10 (25) 1/053 E (Harare SC) W (5) c +A J Stewart b A D Mullally 63 (114) 1/254 E (Harare SC) W (4) c +A J Stewart b R C Irani 35 (30) 5/01996/97, in SOUTH AFRICA (Standard Bank Series)55 SA (Centurion) L (4) c +D J Richardson b W J Cronje 16 (13) 1/056 I (Paarl) T (3) run out (?) 7 (16) 0/057 SA (Cape Town) L (3) run out (D J Cullinan) 13 (50) 0/058 SA (Johannesburg)L(3) c +D J Richardson b A A Donald 0 (2) 0/059 I (Centurion) W (3) c +S S Karim b R R Singh 9 (20) 2/160 I (Benoni) L (5) b S R Joshi 35 (34) 0/01996/97, INDIA (home)61 I (Queens SC) W did not bat – 3/01996/97, at SHARJAH62 SL (Sharjah) L (5) b M Muralitharan 38 (61) 0/063 P (Sharjah) L (6) not out 21* (62) 1/064 SL (Sharjah) W (3) c U D U Chandana b R S Kalpage 42 (64) 1/065 P (Sharjah) L (3) b Mushtaq Ahmed 28 (54) 1/01997/98, NEW ZEALAND (home)66 NZ (Queens SC) T (4) b G R Larsen 35 (53) 2/067 NZ (Harare SC) W (3) c C D McMillan b S B O’Connor 5 (18) 1/168 NZ (Harare SC) L (2) run out (C Z Harris) 44 (45) 0/01997/98, in KENYA69 B (Nairobi Gym) W (2) c Akram Khan b Aminul Islam 81 (90) 0/070 K (Nairobi Gym) W (2) c +K O Otieno b M O Odumbe 72 (83) 0/071 B (Nairobi AK) W (2) c Shahriar Hossain b Sheikh Salahuddin 70 (72) 2/072 K (Nairobi AK) W (2) c sub (J O Angara) b S O Tikolo 66 (86) 2/173 K (Nairobi Gym) W (2) st K O Otieno b M Sheikh 79 (90) 1/174 K (Nairobi Gym) W (2) c +K O Otieno b A O Suji 7 (9) 0/01997/98, SRI LANKA (away)75 SL (Colombo SSC)L (2) c R S Mahanama b K R Pushpakumara 1 (6) 0/176 SL (Colombo Pre)L (2) b K R Pushpakumara 2 (5) 0/177 SL (Colombo SSC)L (4) c +RS Kaluwitharana b HDPK Dharmasena 68 (70) 0/11997/98, NEW ZEALAND (away)78 NZ (Hamilton) L (4) st A C Parore b D L Vettori 60 (66) 0/079 NZ (Wellington) L (4) c C D McMillan b C L Cairns 0 (7) 0/080 NZ (Christchurch)W(5) run out (N J Astle) 28 (41) 1/081 NZ (Napier) L (5) c +A C Parore b D J Nash 30 (46) 0/082 NZ (Auckland) L (4) b D L Vettori 27 (49) 2/01997/98, PAKISTAN (home)83 P (Harare SC) L (4) c +Rashid Latif b Shoaib Akhtar 5 (15) 0/084 P (Harare SC) L (4) b Waqar Younis 21 (18) 1/01997/98, in INDIA (triangular tournament)85 A (Ahmedabad) L (4) lbw b D W Fleming 1 (3) 0/086 I (Baroda) L (5) c M A Azharuddin b A Kumble 25 (34) 0/087 I (Cuttack) L (4) b A B Agarkar 3 (11) 2/088 A (Delhi) L (4) run out (M E Waugh) 73 (67) 1/01998/99, INDIA (home)89 I (Queens SC) L (4) c R R Singh b Harbhajan Singh 30 (33) 1/090 I (Queens SC) L (4) c J Srinath b A Kumble 25 (28) 0/091 I (Harare SC) W (4) c A D Jadeja b D S Mohanty 55 (74) 1/01998/99, in BANGLADESH (ICC Knockout)92 NZ (Dhaka) L (5) c C Z Harris b N J Astle 77 (80) 1/01998/99, at SHARJAH93 SL (Sharjah) W (5) not out 26* (57) 0/194 I (Sharjah) L (5) c A Kumble b S B Joshi 10 (35) 0/095 SL (Sharjah) W (5) st R S Kaluwitharana b S T Jayasuriya 95 (109) 0/096 I (Sharjah) W (5) c N Chopra b S B Joshi 11 (17) 1/197 I (Sharjah) L (5) b A Kumble 19 (26) 0/01998/99, PAKISTAN (away)98 P (Gujranwala) L (5) lbw b Saqlain Mushtaq 4 (6) 0/099 P (Sheikhapura) W (5) not out 15* (28) 2/1100 P (Rawalpindi) L (4) b Aamer Sohail 61 (94) 0/01998/99, in BANGLADESH (triangular tournament)101 K (Dhaka) W (4) b T M Odoyo 83 (99) 1/0102 B (Dhaka) W (4) run out (?) 79 (99) 0/0103 K (Dhaka) W (4) lbw b T M Odoyo 73 (86) 0/2104 B (Dhaka) W (4) c and b Neeyamur Rashid 17 (41) 0/1105 K (Dhaka) W (4) c +K O Otieno b M A Suji 5 (10) 1/01999, in ENGLAND (World Cup)106 K (Taunton) W (5) c S O Tikolo b M O Odumbe 34 (46) 1/0107 I (Leicester) W (5) not out 68* (85) 0/0108 SL (Worcester) L (5) c +R S Kaluwitharana b S T Jayasuriya 41 (60) 0/0109 E (Nottingham) L (5) run out (N Hussain) 10 (24) 1/0110 SA (Chelmsford) W (4) run out (S M Pollock) 29 (35) 1/0111 NZ (Leeds) D (4) c C D McMillan b G I Allott 0 (2) 0/0112 A (Lord’s) L (4) c +A C Gilchrist b P R Reiffel 0 (1) 0/0113 P (The Oval) L (4) b Abdur Razzaq 4 (12) 2/11999/2000, at SINGAPORE (triangular tournament)114 WI (Singapore) L (5) b M Dillon 89 (99) 0/0115 I (Singapore) L (6) not out 63* (69) 1/01999/2000, in KENYA (quadrangular tournament)116 K (Nairobi Gym) W (5) c J Ababu b S O Tikolo 55 (76) 0/0117 SA (Nairobi Gym)L (5) b A C Dawson 6 (6) 0/0118 I (Nairobi Gym) L (6) lbw b N Chopra 0 (1) 0/01999/2000, AUSTRALIA (home)119 A (Queens SC) L (5) st A C Gilchrist b S K Warne 11 (25) 0/2120 A (Harare SC) L (4) b A C Dale 0 (4) 0/0121 A (Harare SC) L (4) not out 99* (111) 1/01999/2000, SRI LANKA (home)122 SL (Queens SC) D did not bat – 1/1123 SL (Queens SC) L (3) c U P U Chandana b S T Jayasuriya 24 (27) 2/0124 SL (Harare SC) L (4) c GP Wickremasinghe b DPMD Jayawardene 0 (2) 2/0125 SL (Harare SC) L (5) c M Muralitharan b G D Wickremasinghe 53 (30) 2/0126 SL (Harare SC) W (5) run out (T M Dilshan) 9 (12) 3/01999/2000, in SOUTH AFRICA (Standard Bank Series)127 SA (Johannesburg)L(5) c +M V Boucher b J H Kallis 2 (6) 0/0128 E (Cape Town) W (5) c V S Solanki b A R Caddick 20 (27) 2/0129 E (Kimberley) L (5) lbw b M A Ealham 8 (14) 0/0130 SA (Durban) W (6) c J N Rhodes b H S Williams 59 (91) 2/0131 SA (Pt Elizabeth)L(6) run out (H H Gibbs) 37 (55) 0/01999/2000, ENGLAND (home)132 E (Queens SC) L (5) c N V Knight b A D Mullally 19 (49) 0/0133 E (Queens SC) L (5) c +C M W Read b C White 3 (10) 2/0134 E (Harare SC) L (5) st C M W Read b G A Hick 21 (38) 0/01999/2000, in WEST INDIES (Triangular tournament)135 WI (Kingston) L (5) c R L Powell b M Dillon 7 (14) 1/0136 WI (Kingston) L (5) c C E L Ambrose b J C Adams 52 (54) 0/0137 P (St John’s) L (5) c Imran Nazir b Shahid Afridi 18 (36) 0/0138 P (St George’s) L (5) c and b Arshad Khan 31 (45) 1/02000, in ENGLAND (NatWest Series)139 WI (Bristol) W (5) c C H Gayle b R D King 42 (59) 0/0140 E (The Oval) W (5) b A D Mullally 61 (88) 0/0141 WI (Canterbury) W (6) not out 7* (8) 0/0142 E (Manchester) L (5) c +A J Stewart b C White 28 (57) 0/0143 WI (Chester-le-S)W(5) run out (C H Gayle) 11 (17) 0/0144 E (Birmingham) L (7) c +A J Stewart b C White 4 (9) 1/0145 E (Lord’s) L (5) c +A J Stewart b C White 48 (81) 1/02000/01, NEW ZEALAND (home)146 NZ (Harare SC) L (4) st C J Nevin b G P Sulzberger 34 (62) 0/0147 NZ (Queens SC) W (4) c C M Spearman b D R Tuffey 19 (32) 1/1148 NZ (Queens SC) W (4) b S B O’Connor 46 (42) 1/02000/01, in KENYA (ICC Knockout)149 NZ (Nairobi Gym)L (4) c and b P J Wiseman 1 (4) 0/02000/01, at SHARJAH150 SL (Sharjah) L (4) not out 120* (141) 0/0151 I (Sharjah) L (4) c S B Joshi b S R Tendulkar 63 (68) 2/0152 SL (Sharjah) L (4) c +R S Kaluwitharana b D N T Zoysa 0 (3) 0/0153 I (Sharjah) L (5) c V G Kambli b Z Khan 7 (8) 1/02000/01, INDIA (away)154 I (Cuttack) L (4) st V Dahiya b S R Tendulkar 11 (20) 0/0155 I (Ahmedabad) L (4) c and b S Sriram 51 (57) 1/0156 I (Jodhpur) W (4) c V +Dahiya b S R Tendulkar 77 (106) 0/1157 I (Kanpur) L (3) c A B Agarkar b S C Ganguly 19 (25) 0/0158 I (Rajkot) L (4) c R S Sodhi b A B Agarkar 19 (25) 2/02000/01, NEW ZEALAND (away)159 NZ (Taupo) W (4) run out (C S Martin) 80 (88) 0/0160 NZ (Wellington) L (4) c and b N J Astle 15 (10) 0/0161 NZ (Auckland) W (4) c J E C Franklin b N J Astle 81 (86) 1/02000/01, in AUSTRALIA (Triangular Tournament)162 WI (Brisbane) L (4) c +R D Jacobs b M N Samuels 33 (42) 4/0163 A (Melbourne) L (4) c D S Lehmann b A Symonds 23 (33) 0/0164 WI (Sydney) W (4) c +R D Jacobs b C E Cuffy 3 (11) 0/0165 WI (Adelaide) L (4) c and b M V Nagamootoo 50 (73) 1/0166 A (Sydney) L (4) c A Symonds b M G Bevan 39 (55) 1/0167 A (Hobart) L (4) c D R Martyn b S K Warne 51 (44) 0/0168 WI (Perth) L (4) c +R D Jacobs b N A M McLean 4 (8) 1/0169 A (Perth) L (4) c +AC Gilchrist b N W Bracken 24 (30) 1/02000/01, v BANGLADESH IN ZIMBABWE170 B (Harare SC) W (4) not out 40* (63) 1/0171 B (Harare SC) W (6) c Javed Omer b Mohammad Sharif 6 (2) 3/0172 B (Queens SC) W (4) c Mohammad Sharif b Mohammad Ashraful 81 (91) 1/02001/02, v SOUTH AFRICA IN ZIMBABWE; 23, 29, 30 Sept173 SA (Queens SC) L (4) run out (J N Rhodes) 34 (32) 1/0174 SA (Harare SC) L (4) b M Ntini 2 (3) 0/0175 SA (Harare SC) L (4) c H H Gibbs b C W Henderson 4 (7) 0/02001/02, v ENGLAND IN ZIMBABWE; 3, 6, 7, 10, 13 Oct176 E (Harare SC) L (3) st J S Foster b J N Snape 59 (78) 0/0177 E (Harare SC) L (3) b M J Hoggard 6 (17) 0/0178 E (Harare SC) L (4) not out 142* (128) 2/0179 E (Queens SC) L (4) c +J S Foster b B C Hollioake 6 (7) 2/0180 E (Queens SC) L (4) c N V Knight b B C Hollioake 33 (45) 0/02001/02, TRIANGULAR TOURNAMENT IN SHARJAH; 26, 28, 30, 31 Oct181 SL (Sharjah) L (4) c +R S Kaluwitharana b C R D Fernando 22 (24) 0/0182 P (Sharjah) L (4) b Shoaib Malik 51 (59) 0/1183 SL (Sharjah) L (4) c M Muralitharan b H D P K Dharmasena 13 (23) 1/1184 P (Sharjah) L (4) c and b Wasim Akram 48 (60) 0/02001/02, v BANGLADESH IN BANGLADESH; 23, 25, 26 Nov185 B (Chittagong) L (4) c Fahim Muntasir b Mashrafe Mortaza 6 (10) 1/0186 B (Dhaka) L (4) c Al-Sahariar Rokon b Khaled Mahmud 10 (9) 1/0187 B (Dhaka) L (4) run out (Mashrafe Mortaza) 15 (29) 1/02001/02, TRIANGULAR TOURNAMENT IN SRI LANKA; 8, 9, 12 ,16 Dec188 SL (Colombo SSC)L (4) c +K Sangakkara b W P U J C Vaas 0 (2) 0/0189 WI (Colombo SSC)W (4) not out 47* (77) 0/0190 SL (Colombo Pre)L (4) lbw b S T Jayasuriya 11 (8) 1/0191 WI (Kandy) L (4) lbw b D Brown 21 (47) 1/02001/02, v INDIA IN INDIA; 7, 10, 13, 16, 19 March192 I (Faridabad) W (4) b A R Kumble 71 (72) -193 I (Chandigarh) L (4) b D B Mongia 29 (35) -194 I (Hyderabad) L (4) c +A S Ratra b Z Khan 89 (107) -195 I (Guwahati) L (4) c Z Khan b Harbhajan Singh 1 (2) 12002/03, ICC CHAMPIONS TROPHY IN SRI LANKA; 14, 18 Sept 2002196 I (Colombo Pre) L (3) c S C Ganguly b S R Tendulkar 145 (164) 1/0197 E (Colombo Pre) L (4) c J N Snape b R C Irani 44 (190) 1/02002/03, v PAKISTAN IN ZIMBABWE; 23, 24, 27, 30 Nov, 1 Dec198 P (Queens SC) L (3) c Taufeeq Umar b Wasim Akram 77 (98) -199 P (Queens SC) L (3) b Wasim Akram 0 (3) 1200 P (Harare SC) L (4) c Inzamam-ul-Haq b Saqlain Mushtaq 63 (81) -201 P (Harare SC) L (4) c Inzamam-ul-Haq b Mohammad Sami 0 (1) -202 P (Harare SC) L (3) c Wasim Akram b Saqlain Mushtaq 72 (68) 12002/03, v KENYA IN ZIMBABWE; 8, 11, 15 Dec203 K (Harare SC) D (3) not out 8* (9) -204 K (Kwekwe SC) W (4) not out 58* (43) -205 K (Queens SC) W did not bat – -2002/03, WORLD CUP IN ZIMBABWE AND SOUTH AFRICA; 10, 19, 24, 28 Feb; 4, 8, 12, 15 March 2003206 N (Harare SC) W (3) c +M Karg b A J Burger 39 (29) 1207 I (Harare SC) L (3) b Harbhajan Singh 22 (54) -208 A (Queens SC) L (3) b G B Hogg 62 (91) -209 H (Queens SC) W (3) c J J Esmeijer b E Schiferli 71 (72) -210 P (Queens SC) D did not bat – -211 NZ (Bloemfontn) L (3) run out (N J Astle) 37 (61) -212 K (Bloemfontn) L (3) b T M Odoyo 63 (101) -213 SL (East London)L (4) lbw b P A de Silva 38 (51) -RESULTS OF ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS PLAYED INPlayed 213 Won 59 Lost 144 Tied 4 Drawn 6(218 possible since debut)MOST CONSECUTIVE ODIs PLAYED172, from 1991/92 to 2000/01MOST CONSECUTIVE ODIs MISSED4, in 2000/01 (injury)ONE-DAY INTERNATIONAL CAREER RECORDNote: for statistical purposes, the English seasons of 1999 and 2000 are included here under1998/99 and 1999/2000.RECORD FOR EACH SEASONM I NO Runs HS Av. Balls R/Ov 100 50 Ct/St O R W Av. Best R/Ov1991/92 8 8 2 246 115* 41.00 385 3.83 1 – 6/11992/93 9 9 0 280 62 31.11 423 3.97 – 2 7/11993/94 7 6 0 118 56 19.66 194 3.64 – 1 1/1 1 9 0 — — 9.001994/95 10 10 0 384 76 38.40 516 4.46 – 4 10/2 4 14 0 — — 3.501995/96 11 11 1 143 57 14.30 211 4.06 – 1 10/11996/97 20 19 1 540 82 30.00 870 3.72 – 4 18/41997/98 23 23 0 803 81 34.91 985 4.89 – 8 15/71998/99 25 25 3 871 95 39.59 1187 4.40 – 8 13/81999/00 32 31 3 885 99* 31.60 1220 4.35 – 8 22/32000/01 27 27 2 997 120* 39.88 1229 4.86 1 8 22/22001/02 23 23 2 720 142* 34.28 891 4.84 1 4 12/22002/03 18 16 2 799 145 57.07 985 4.86 1 7 5/0213 208 16 6786 145 35.34 9086 4.48 4 55 141/32 5 23 0 — — 4.60WORLD CUP RECORDM I NO Runs HS Av. Balls R/Ov 100 50 Ct/St O R W Av. Best R/Ov1991/92 8 8 2 246 115* 41.00 385 3.83 1 – 6/11995/96 6 6 1 51 28 10.20 84 3.64 – – 0/11999 8 8 1 186 68* 26.57 265 4.21 – 1 5/12002/03 8 7 0 332 71 47.42 459 4.33 – 3 130 29 4 815 115* 32.60 1193 4.09 1 4 12/3RECORD AGAINST EACH COUNTRYM I NO Runs HS Av. Balls R/Ov 100 50 Ct/St O R W Av. Best R/OvEng 22 22 1 691 142* 32.90 991 4.18 1 4 24/3Aust 16 16 1 478 99* 31.86 618 4.64 – 4 5/3SA 15 14 0 225 59 16.07 363 3.71 – 1 13/0WI 15 15 2 397 89 30.53 580 4.10 – 3 9/0NZ 24 24 0 803 81 33.45 1017 4.73 – 6 15/4Ind 36 35 3 1298 145 40.56 1723 4.52 1 11 22/5Pak 30 29 2 852 82 31.55 1240 4.12 – 8 20/5 5 23 0 — — 4.60SL 28 27 3 919 120* 38.29 1201 4.59 2 5 16/6Bang 10 10 1 405 81 45.00 506 4.80 – 4 10/1Ken 15 14 3 608 83 55.27 746 4.89 – 8 6/5Holl 1 1 0 71 71 71.00 72 5.91 – 1 -Nam 1 1 0 39 39 39.00 29 8.06 – – 1213 208 16 6786 145 35.34 9086 4.48 4 55 141/32 5 23 0 — — 4.60RECORD IN EACH COUNTRYM I NO Runs HS Av. Balls R/Ov 100 50 Ct/St O R W Av. Best R/OvZim 62 58 5 1945 142* 36.69 2507 4.65 1 17 63/9 4 14 0 — — 3.50Eng 15 15 2 387 68* 29.76 584 3.97 – 2 7/1Aust 17 17 0 417 52 24.52 609 4.10 – 3 15/2SA 14 14 0 344 63 24.57 541 3.81 – 2 7/1WI 4 4 0 106 52 26.50 149 4.26 – 1 2/0NZ 14 14 2 597 115* 49.75 737 4.86 1 4 8/1Ind 25 24 1 668 89 29.04 891 4.49 – 6 8/3Pak 9 9 1 243 82 30.37 348 4.18 – 3 3/2 1 9 0 — — 9.00SL 13 13 1 436 145 36.33 594 4.40 1 2 5/3Bang 9 9 0 365 83 40.55 463 4.73 – 4 6/3Kenya 10 10 0 437 81 43.70 517 5.07 – 6 5/2Sharjah 19 19 3 689 120* 43.06 978 4.22 1 3 11/5Sing 2 2 1 152 89 152.00 168 5.42 – 2 1/0213 208 16 6786 145 35.34 9086 4.48 4 55 141/32 5 23 0 — — 4.60RECORD AS CAPTAIN/NON-CAPTAINM I NO Runs HS Av. Balls R/Ov 100 50 Ct/St O R W Av. Best R/OvCaptain 52 50 2 1207 76 25.14 1750 4.13 – 9 41/5 5 23 0 — — 4.60Non-capt 161 158 14 5579 145 38.74 7336 4.56 4 46 100/27213 208 16 6786 145 35.34 9086 4.48 4 55 141/32 5 23 0 — — 4.60RECORD AS WICKET-KEEPER/NON-KEEPERM I NO Runs HS Av. Balls R/Ov 100 50 Ct/St O R W Av. Best R/OvWK 189 186 14 5889 145 34.23 7987 4.42 4 46 136/32Non-WK 24 22 2 897 87 44.85 1099 4.89 – 9 5 5 23 0 — — 4.60213 208 16 6786 145 35.34 9086 4.48 4 55 141/32 5 23 0 — — 4.60(Note: in three matches he was selected to kept wicket but was prevented from doing so by aninjury sustained while batting first. These have been included as wicket-keeper.)RECORD PER RESULTM I NO Runs HS Av. Balls R/Ov 100 50 Ct/St O R W Av. Best R/OvWon 59 57 7 2401 95 48.02 3076 4.68 – 25 55/17Lost 144 144 7 4254 142* 31.05 5810 4.39 4 29 82/13 1 9 0 — — 9.00Tied 4 4 0 123 56 30.75 189 3.90 – 1 3/1 4 14 0 — — 3.50Drawn 6 3 2 8 8* 8.00 11 4.36 – – 1/1213 208 16 6786 145 35.34 9086 4.48 4 55 141/32 5 23 0 — — 4.60RECORD IN EACH POSITION IN THE BATTING ORDERI NO Runs HS Av. Balls R/Ov 100 50No 1 29 1 829 115* 29.60 1211 4.10 1 5No 2 15 1 523 81 37.35 692 4.45 – 5No 3 26 1 907 145 36.28 1285 4.23 1 7No 4 82 6 2867 142* 37.72 3516 4.89 2 24No 5 48 4 1463 95 33.25 2085 4.21 – 12No 6 7 3 193 63* 48.25 288 4.02 – 2No 7 1 0 4 4 4.00 9 2.66 – -208 16 6786 145 35.34 9086 4.48 4 55RECORD ON DIFFERENT GROUNDSM I NO Runs HS Av. Balls R/Ov 100 50 Ct/St O R W Av. Best R/OvIn Zimbabwe:Bulawayo AC 1 1 0 10 10 10.00 19 3.15 – – 1/1Harare SC 38 38 4 1291 142* 37.97 1682 4.60 1 12 43/4 4 14 0 — — 4.60Kwekwe SC 1 1 1 58 58* — 43 8.09 – 1 -Queens SC 22 18 0 586 81 32.55 763 4.60 – 4 19/462 58 5 1945 142* 36.69 2507 4.65 1 17 63/9 4 14 0 — — 3.50Abroad: 151 150 11 4841 145 34.82 6579 4.41 3 38 78/23 1 9 0 — — 9.00In England:Birmingham 1 1 0 4 4 4.00 9 2.66 – – 1/0Bristol 1 1 0 42 42 42.00 59 4.27 – – 0/0Canterbury 1 1 1 7 7* — 8 5.25 – – 0/0Chelmsford 1 1 0 29 29 29.00 35 4.97 – – 1/0Chester-le-S 1 1 0 11 11 11.00 17 3.88 – – 0/0Leeds 1 1 0 0 0 0.00 2 0.00 – – 0/0Leicester 1 1 1 68 68* — 85 4.80 – 1 0/0Lord’s 2 2 0 48 48 24.00 82 3.51 – – 1/0Manchester 1 1 0 28 28 28.00 57 2.94 – – 0/0Nottingham 1 1 0 10 10 10.00 24 2.50 – – 1/0Taunton 1 1 0 34 34 34.00 46 4.43 – – 1/0The Oval 2 2 0 65 61 32.50 100 3.90 – 1 2/1Worcester 1 1 0 41 41 41.00 60 4.10 – – 0/0In Australia:Adelaide 1 1 0 50 50 50.00 73 4.10 – 1 1/0Albury 1 1 0 7 7 7.00 16 2.62 – – 3/0Brisbane 3 3 0 91 52 30.33 122 4.47 – 1 5/1Canberra 1 1 0 19 19 19.00 44 2.59 – – -Hobart 4 4 0 116 51 29.00 170 4.09 – 1 5/1Melbourne 1 1 0 23 23 23.00 33 4.18 – – 0/0Perth 3 3 0 57 29 19.00 70 4.88 – – 3/0Sydney 3 3 0 54 39 18.00 81 4.00 – – 2/0In South Africa:Benoni 1 1 0 35 35 35.00 34 6.17 – – 0/0Bloemfontein 2 2 0 100 63 50.00 162 3.70 – 1 -Cape Town 2 2 0 33 20 16.50 77 2.57 – – 2/0Centurion 2 2 0 25 16 12.50 33 4.54 – – 3/1Durban 1 1 0 59 59 59.00 91 3.89 – 1 2/0East London 1 1 0 38 38 38.00 51 4.47 – – -Johannesburg 2 2 0 2 2 1.00 8 1.50 – – 0/0Kimberley 1 1 0 8 8 8.00 14 3.42 – – 0/0Paarl 1 1 0 7 7 7.00 16 2.62 – – 0/0Pt Elizabeth 1 1 0 37 37 37.00 55 4.03 – – 0/0In West Indies:Kingston 2 2 0 59 52 29.50 68 5.20 – 1 1/0St George’s 1 1 0 31 31 31.00 45 4.13 – – 1/0St John’s 1 1 0 18 18 18.00 36 3.00 – – 0/0In India:Ahmedabad 2 2 0 52 51 26.00 60 5.20 – 1 1/0Bangalore 1 – – — — — — — – – 0/0Baroda 1 1 0 25 25 25.00 34 4.41 – – 0/0Chandigarh 1 1 0 29 29 29.00 35 4.97 – – -Cuttack 2 2 0 14 11 7.00 31 2.70 – – 2/0Delhi 1 1 0 73 73 73.00 67 6.53 – 1 1/0Faridabad 2 2 0 80 71 40.00 93 5.61 – – -Guwahati 2 2 0 27 26 13.50 45 3.60 – – 1/0Hyderabad 3 3 0 114 89 38.00 158 4.32 – – 2/0Indore 1 1 0 56 56 56.00 82 4.09 – 1 1/0Jodhpur 1 1 0 77 77 77.00 106 4.35 – 1 0/1Kanpur 2 2 0 47 28 23.50 65 4.33 – – 0/0Nagpur 1 1 0 7 7 7.00 15 2.80 – – 0/0Patna 4 4 1 48 32 16.00 75 3.84 – – 0/1Rajkot 1 1 0 19 19 19.00 25 4.56 – – 2/0In Pakistan:Gujranwala 1 1 0 4 4 4.00 6 4.00 – – 0/0Karachi 1 1 0 0 0 0.00 1 0.00 – – 0/0Lahore 2 2 0 66 51 33.00 76 5.21 – 1 0/0Peshawar 1 1 0 1 1 1.00 2 3.00 – – 1/0Quetta 1 1 0 82 82 82.00 119 4.13 – 1 0/1Rawalpindi 2 2 0 75 61 37.50 116 3.87 – 1 0/0 1 9 0 — — 9.00Sheikhapura 1 1 1 15 15* — 28 3.21 – – 2/1In Sri Lanka:Colombo Pre 5 5 0 202 145 40.40 236 5.13 1 – 3/1Colombo SSC 7 7 1 213 78 35.50 311 4.10 – 2 1/2Kandy 1 1 0 21 21 21.00 47 2.68 – – 1/0In Bangladesh:Chittagong 1 1 0 6 6 6.00 10 3.60 – – 1/0Dhaka 8 8 0 359 83 44.87 453 4.75 – 4 5/3In Kenya:Nairobi AK 2 2 0 136 70 68.00 158 5.16 – 2 4/1Nairobi Gym 8 8 0 301 81 37.62 359 5.03 – 4 1/1In Sharjah:Sharjah 19 19 3 689 120* 43.06 978 4.22 1 3 11/5In Singapore:Singapore 2 2 1 152 89 152.00 168 5.42 – 2 1/0213 208 16 6786 145 35.34 9086 4.48 4 55 141/32 5 23 0 — — 4.60The following bowlers have captured Andy Flower’s wicket in one-day internationals:7 – Wasim Akram (P)5 – A R Kumble (I)4 – S T Jayasuriya (SL), Saqlain Mushtaq (P), S R Tendulkar (I), C White (E)3 – N J Astle (NZ), D W Fleming (A), Harbhajan Singh (I), S R Joshi (I), A D Mullally (E),T M Odoyo (K), D N Patel (NZ),K R Pushpakumara (SL), W P U J C Vaas (SL), S K Warne (A)2 – Abdur Razzaq (P), A B Agarkar (I), W J Cronje (SA), H D P K Dharmasena (SL),M Dillon (WI), B C Hollioake (E), R C Irani (E), Z Khan (I), G R Larsen (NZ),C R Matthews (SA), Mushtaq Ahmed (P), D J Nash (NZ), S B O’Connor (NZ),M O Odumbe (K), S O Tikolo (K), D L Vettori (NZ), G P Wickremasinghe (SL)1 – Aamer Nazir (P), Aamer Sohail (P), J C Adams (WI), R Ali (K), G I Allott (NZ),C E L Ambrose (WI), Aminul Islam (B), S A Ankola (I), Arshad Khan (P),K C G Benjamin (WI), M G Bevan (A), N W Bracken (A), D Brown (WI), A J Burger (N),A R Caddick (E), C L Cairns (NZ), R K Chauhan (I), N Chopra (I), C E Cuffy (WI),A C Dale (A), A C Dawson (SA), P A de Silva (SL), A A Donald (SA), M A Ealham (E),P A J DeFreitas (E), C R D Fernando (SL), A R C Fraser (E), S C Ganguly (I), D Gough (E),A P Gurusinha (SL), C W Henderson (SA), G A Hick (E), G B Hogg (A), M J Hoggard (E),Irfan Bhatti (P), D P M D Jayawardene (SL), J H Kallis (SA), R S Kalpage (SL),Khaled Mahmud (B), R D King (WI), N A M McLean (WI), Manzoor Elahi (P),Mashrafe Mortaza (B), T B A May (A), Mohammad Ashraful (B), Mohammad Sami (P),Mohammad Sharif (B), D S Mohanty (I), D B Mongia (I), M Muralitharan (SL),M V Nagamootoo (WI), Neeyamur Rashid (B), M Ntini (SA), B P Patterson (WI),M Prabhakar (I), S L V Raju (I), P R Reiffel (A), Saleem Malik (P), M S Samuels (WI),Shahid Afridi (P), M Sheikh (K), Sheikh Salahuddin (B), E Schiferli (H), Shoaib Akhtar (P),Shoaib Malik (P), C E W Silverwood (E), R R Singh (I), J N Snape (E), S Sriram (I),A O Suji (K), M A Suji (K), G P Sulzberger (NZ), A Symonds (A), S A Thomson (NZ),D R Tuffey (NZ), Waqar Younis (P), S R Waugh (A), H S Williams (SA), P J Wiseman (NZ),D N T Zoysa (SL)Details of dismissals:bowled 36 18.75lbw 13 6.77caught 64 33.33caught by wicketkeeper 41 21.35caught and bowled 8 4.17stumped 10 5.21run out 20 10.42TOTAL 192 100.00%BREAKDOWN OF INNINGSScore Out Not out0 13 11-9 43 210-19 30 120-29 25 230-39 2040-49 9 350-59 15 160-69 12 270-79 1580-89 890-99 1 1100-109 -110-119 – 1120-129 – 1130-139 -140+ 1 1LIST OF CENTURIES1 115* (152 balls; 8×4, 1×6) v Sri Lanka New Plymouth (WC) 1991/922 120* (141 balls; 8×4, 1×6) v Sri Lanka Sharjah 2000/013 142* (128 balls; 16×4, 1×6) v England Harare Sports Club 2001/024 145 (164 balls; 13×4) v India Colombo (R Premadasa) 2002/03HIGHEST SCORES AGAINST ALL COUNTRIESv England 142* Harare Sports Club 1996/97v Australia 99* Harare Sports Club 1999/2000v South Africa 59 Durban 1999/2000v West Indies 89 Singapore 1999/2000v New Zealand 81 Auckland 2000/01v India 145 Colombo (R Premadasa) 2002/03v Pakistan 82 Quetta 1996/97v Sri Lanka 120* Sharjah 2001/02v Bangladesh 81 Nairobi (Gymkhana) 1997/9881 Queens Sports Club 2000/01v Kenya 83 Dhaka 1998/99v Holland 71 Queens Sports Club* 2002/03v Namibia 39 Harare Sports Club* 2002/03LONGEST INNINGS145 off 164 balls v India Colombo (R Premadasa) 2002/03115* off 152 balls v Sri Lanka New Plymouth (WC) 1991/92120* off 141 balls v Sri Lanka Sharjah 2000/01CENTURY PARTNERSHIPS1st wicket:161 G W Flower (79)/A Flower (81), v Bangladesh (Nairobi Gymkhana) 1997/98154 G W Flower (69)/A Flower (79), v Kenya (Nairobi Gymkhana) 1997/98124 A Flower (56)/G W Flower (63), v New Zealand (Harare Sports Club) 1992/93124 G W Flower (71)/A Flower (66), v Kenya (Nairobi Aga Khan) 1997/98121 A Flower (49)/G W Flower (57), v Pakistan (Sharjah) 1992/932nd wicket:104 A Flower (73)/M G Burmester (39), v Pakistan (Harare Sports Club) 1994/95103 D D Ebrahim (36)/A Flower (72), v Pakistan (Harare Sports Club) 2002/033rd wicket:154 S V Carlisle (75)/A Flower (80), v New Zealand (Taupo) 2000/01146 G W Flower (91)/A Flower (48), v Pakistan (Sharjah) 2001/02144 G W Flower (112)/A Flower (68), v Sri Lanka (Colombo SSC) 1997/98132 A Flower (72)/G J Whittall (83), v Kenya (Nairobi Gymkhana) 1997/98121 G W Flower (89)/A Flower (73), v Australia (Delhi) 1997/98118 S V Carlisle (60)/A Flower (63), v India (Sharjah) 2000/01113 C B Wishart (102)/A Flower (55), v India (Harare Sports Club) 1998/99111 A D R Campbell (84)/A Flower (71), v India (Faridabad) 2001/02101 A D R Campbell (124)/A Flower (51), Australia (Hobart) 2000/014th wicket:158 A Flower (77)/G W Flower (70), v India (Jodhpur) 2000/01148 N C Johnson (72)/A Flower (95), v Sri Lanka (Sharjah) 1998/99148 A Flower (81)/G W Flower (142*), v Bangladesh (Queens SC) 2000/01143 G W Flower (91)/A Flower (82), v Pakistan (Quetta) 1996/97131 S V Carlisle (121*)/A Flower (53), v Sri Lanka (Harare Sports Club) 1999/2000125 A Flower (79)/A D R Campbell (55), v Bangladesh (Dhaka) 1998/99123 A D R Campbell (80)/A Flower (61), v England (The Oval) 2000118 A D R Campbell (100)/A Flower (77), v New Zealand (Dhaka) 1998/99114 A D R Campbell (80)/A Flower (89), v West Indies (Singapore) 1999/2000109 M W Goodwin (76*)/A Flower (55), v Kenya (Nairobi Gymkhana) 1999/2000106 A Flower (83)/A D R Campbell (37), v Bangladesh (Dhaka) 1998/99105 A Flower (63)/G W Flower (54), v Pakistan (Harare Sports Club) 2002/035th wicket:153* A Flower (120*)/D P Viljoen (63*), v Sri Lanka (Sharjah) 2000/01145* A Flower (115*)/A C Waller (83*), v Sri Lanka (New Plymouth, WC) 1991/92135 A Flower (77)/C N Evans (68), v Pakistan (Harare Sports Club) 2002/037th wicket (world ODI record)130 A Flower (142*)/H H Streak (56), v England (Harare Sports Club) 2001/02He has a share in no fewer than 31 of the 55 century partnerships recorded byZimbabwe in one-day internationals up to the end of his career.WICKET-KEEPINGWICKET-KEEPING CATCHESAndy Flower dismissed 136 batsmen to catches as a wicket-keeper in one-day internationals. His victimsare as follows:4 – S C Ganguly (I), G A Hick (E), S T Jayasuriya (SL), Saleem Malik (P), A J Stewart (E)3 – S P Fleming (NZ), A C Gilchrist (A), Habibul Bashar (B), N V Knight (E), Rameez Raja (P),S R Tendulkar (I)2 – Al-Sahariar Rokon (B), R P Arnold (SL), M S Atapattu (SL), M A Atherton (E),M A Azharuddin (I), W J Cronje (SA), M J Greatbatch (NZ), C Z Harris (NZ), B R Hartland (NZ),Inzamam-ul-Haq (P), A D Jadeja (I), D P M D Jayawardene (SL), J H Kallis (SA), M V Nagamootoo (WI),A C Parore (NZ), A V Vader (K)1 – Aaqib Javed (P), J C Adams (WI), Akram Raza (P), M W Alleyne (E), Asif Mujtaba (P), N J Astle (NZ),Azhar Mahmood (P), I D Blackwell (E), I T Botham (E), S L Campbell (WI), U D U Chandana (SL),D N Chudasama (K), P D Collingwood (E), D J Cullinan (SA), V Dahiya (I), P A J DeFreitas (E),P S de Villiers (SA), R S Dravid (I), N H Fairbrother (E), A Flintoff (E), D Ganga (WI),C H Gayle (WI), H H Gibbs (SA), A P Gurusinha (SL), N Hussain (E), Javed Miandad (P),Javed Omar (B), Khaled Mahmud (B), A R Khurasiya (I), A Kumble (I), G F J Liebenberg (SA),D K Liyanage (SL), N A M McLean (WI), B M McMillan (SA), C D McMillan (NZ), C R Matthews (SA),S V Manjrekar (I), Mehrab Hossain (B), Minajul Abedin (B), Mohammad Sharif (B), M Muralitharan (SL),T M Odoyo (K), K O Otieno (K), B K V Prasad (I), K R Pushpakumara (SL), A Ranatunga (SL),J N Rhodes (SA), D J Richardson (SA), R B Richardson (WI), Saeed Anwar (P), R S Samuels (WI),V K Sehwag (I), O A Shah (E), Shahid Afridi (P), Shakeel Ahmed (P), V Shewag (I), R R Singh (I),C M Spearman (NZ), S Sriram (I), P J R Steyn (SA), S O Tikolo (K), M E Trescothick (E),R G Twose (NZ), D L Vettori (NZ), Wasim Akram (P), S R Waugh (A), C White (E)Andy Flower’s catches were made off the following bowlers:37 – H H Streak18 – G J Whittall12 – E A Brandes7 – N C Johnson6 – H K Olonga, J A Rennie, P A Strang5 – B C Strang4 – T J Friend, M Mbangwa, D P Viljoen3 – G B Brent, A H Omarshah2 – A M Blignaut, D H Brain, I P Butchart, M P Jarvis, D A Marillier, D T Mutendera1 – M G Burmester, G J Crocker, S M Ervine, C N Evans, G W Flower, D L Houghton (!), A G Huckle,B A Murphy, M L Nkala, A R WhittallIn the field he caught out the following batsmen: A J Burger (N), M Kaif (I), Shahid Afridi (P),M J Slater (A) and Younis Khan (P).The catches were taken off D T Hondo (2), H H Streak (2) and G W Flower.STUMPINGSAndy Flower’s 32 stumpings in one-day internationals were at the expense of:2 – S T Jayasuriya (SL)1 – A B Agarkar (I), Azhar Mahmood (P), M A Azharuddin (I), M G Bevan (A), A R Border (A),A J Crawley (E), P A de Silva (SL), H D P K Dharmasena (SL), T M Dilshan (SL),S C Ganguly (I), Inzamam-ul-Haq (P), R C Irani (E), A H Jones (NZ), S B Joshi (I),A Y Karim (K), C D McMillan (NZ), H S Modi (K), M O Odumbe (K), R T Ponting (A),M Prabhakar (I), S J Rhodes (E), Saeed Anwar (P), Shahriar Hossain (B), S B Styris (NZ),Taufeeq Umar (P), S O Tikolo (K), A V Vader (K), Wasim Akram (P)His stumpings were made off the following bowlers:8 – P A Strang6 – A R Whittall4 – G B Brent, G W Flower2 – G J Whittall1 – A D R Campbell, M H Dekker, D A Marillier, S G Peall, B C Strang, A J Traicos, D P Viljoen4 OR MORE DISMISSALS IN AN INNINGS5 (all ct) v South Africa, at Harare Sports Club 1995/965 (all ct) v England, at Harare Sports Club 1996/974 (all ct) v West Indies, at Brisbane 2000/01

Jimmy Maher scored his third century of the summer to put Glamorganright back into their CricInfo Championship Division One clash withEssex at Sophia Gardens.The Queenslander reached his 100 off 157 balls with 14 fours as heguided the home county to 188-2 at the close of the second day – 139behind Essex’s first innings of 327 all out.Glamorgan created a good platform to their reply, with Maher and IanThomas putting on 63 for the first wicket before Thomas was caught atsecond slip off Mark Ilott.Matthew Maynard looked in good form until he edged Justin Bishop behindto leave Glamorgan 94-2.But Maher continued Glamorgan’s charge with Mike Powell, who got intohis stride after a quiet start and the third-wicket pair doubled thescore before the close. Essex had few answers to Glamorgan’s batting,using seven bowlers in the first 51 overs.Earlier Steve Watkin recorded season-best figures of 6-67 to take thelast three Essex wickets.But it took the second new ball for Watkin to dislodge Essex’s tailafter they resumed on 242-7 75 minutes later than scheduled because ofearly morning rain.The mainstay of Essex’s late order batting was Ashley Cowan who scoredhis first half-century of the season.Cowan was eventually out, bowled by Watkin, ending an innings that lasted108 balls with eight fours, ending an 86-run partnership for the eighthwicket with Mark Ilott in 35 overs.Watkin continued his mopping up operation to dismiss both Ilott andJustin Bishop in consecutive overs.

Jack Otway of The Daily Express has name-checked Ronald Koeman as a possible candidate to take over the managerial reins at Leeds United.

The Lowdown: Three known targets…

It seems as if Marcelo Bielsa’s time in charge at Elland Road will come to an end after a 4-0 defeat to Tottenham on Sunday.

Reports earlier this month suggested that the Whites are already identifying candidates to replace the Argentine in the summer, including Jesse Marsch, Ernesto Valverde and Carlos Corberan.

The former now looks likely to come in for Bielsa with 12 games to go, with Fabrizio Romano believing that an agreement with the 48-year-old is in the ‘final stages’.

The Latest: Koeman touted as potential Leeds candidate

Otway shared a story on The Daily Express on ‘Leeds board’s top four candidates to replace Bielsa’.

The first three were the already-linked Valverde, Marsch and Corberan, with Koeman the fourth and final inclusion in the report. The journalist admitted that a swoop for the Dutchman is ‘unlikely’ but labelled him ‘worthy of consideration’.

The Verdict: Avoid

Koeman has experience in the Premier League, but his last stint in the division with Everton didn’t exactly go to plan. He won just 19 of his 47 games in charge at Goodison Park before being sacked back in 2017.

Since then, he has continued to struggle at club level and was sacked as Barcelona boss earlier this season when they were ninth in La Liga.

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Whoever Leeds bring in will have a hard act to follow after Bielsa, but following his recent spells at club level, Koeman could be one potential candidate to avoid.

In other news: ‘I’m told’ – Phil Hay drops hint of possible return date for injured Leeds duo

	Grant Elliott missed out on a full New Zealand contract but has been handed a special winter deal © Getty Images

New Zealand have announced winter contracts for the first time with seven players, including Grant Elliott, on the list. The deals run from May to September and cover the Emerging Players Tournament in Queensland in July and the New Zealand A tour of India in September.”All players contracted will be under consideration for winter tours by the New Zealand A or Emerging Players Tournament sides, or even the Blackcaps,” a New Zealand spokesman confirmed to Cricinfo.”These contracts have been awarded in recognition of their performance in the last domestic season,” Glenn Turner, one of New Zealand’s selectors, said. “We have identified them as possible future Blackcaps, or as players who we expect to build on existing international experience. There is an expectation that they will keep working on their game during the winter.”The allrounder Elliott, 29, made his Test debut against England last month but was overlooked for a full contract two weeks ago. However, the winter deal gives him hope his international career will not stall at one match.Nathan McCullum is one step closer to joining his brother Brendon in the national set-up again after receiving one of the seven contracts. His only match in New Zealand colours came at the World Twenty20 last year, when he made 1 and was not required to bowl against South Africa.Neil Broom, Martin Guptill, Greg Hay, Bradley Scott and BJ Watling were also included in the list. McCullum, Broom and Scott have played together for New Zealand A in 2007, the trio appearing in the Emerging Players Tournament final in Australia where they lost to South Africa.Guptill, 21, is a former New Zealand Under-19 player who made his first-class debut two years ago while Watling, 22, played his initial first-class match in the 2004-05 season. The deals begin on May 19 and continue until the end of September, before the resumption of major association contracts.

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Panna Ghosh bowls to China opener Sun Huan © ACC

Bangladesh’s bowlers led their team to an 86-run win over China in the ACC women’s tournament at Johor Bahru. Bangladesh dismissed China for 22 after scoring 108 batting first.Bangladesh’s batsmen hadn’t impressed greatly in being bowled out for 108 against a pretty sound Chinese attack. Their 108 needs to be put into perspective by the fact that China dropped seven catches (all skiers) and bowled 21 wides. It could have been a lot less.”Even with all that I was happy with the team,” said Rashid Khan, China’s coach. “They showed a lot of energy and application in the field. Bowling out a team like Bangladesh inside 30 overs is no small matter.”Bangladesh can bat. Up to now only the openers had been on show as they’d won both their preceding matches in the tournament by ten wickets, but in Panna Ghosh and Salma Khatun they have two exceedingly sound bats and the rest all showed enough to suggest that they’re no strangers to the crease.Bangladesh’s coach Zafrul Ehsan was a little concerned by his team’s batting performance, “They forgot to take singles and tried for too many big shots. I thought their running too, could have been a lot better,” he said during the lunch interval, adding “But our bowlers will win it for us”.That they did. Panna Ghosh – the fastest bowler in the competition – was kept out but Shamima Akhter made the initial breakthrough in the fourth over and then the spinners came on. Sui Shuai was bowled between bat and pad by an off-break from Salma Khatun and then Champa Chakma’s left-arm spin simply bamboozled the middle-order.”We’ve never faced anything like her before,” said China’s captain Mei Chun Hua. Certainly China’s best batsman Hu Ting Ting had never before seen any googly quite like the one which led to her second-ball stumping – a smart piece of work from Mina Khatun off Chakma.Rain for an hour and a half merely delayed the inevitable and China’s last five bats barely troubled the scorers. China’s only batting consolation was that they scored more runs than overs faced.A bowling machine or immersion in the wiles of Asian spinners is a must for China’s batsmen, as for Bangladesh, their captain Tajkia Akhter says, “We truly believe, God willing, that we can win this competition. We’re ready to move up to the next level.”

New Zealand’s players are struggling to sort out a contracts dispute with their board © Getty Images

The New Zealand players and their board might be heading for a showdown over disagreements regarding their contracts during ICC-governed tournaments. A clause in the contract requires the players to renounce their individual sponsorship deals when it clashes with the official sponsors of tournaments like the World Cup and the Champions Trophy, but the players are reluctant to toe the line.According to a report in the , the players are yet to sign a collective participation contract, which stipulates that they cannot endorse products that are in direct conflict with the tournament sponsors during major competitions like the World Cup and Champions Trophy. The issue in this clause that affects the players the most is that the ICC imposes this restriction for a period of six months – three months each before and after the tournament.A similar showdown was witnessed with the Indian team on two occasions – during the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy and the 2003 World Cup. However, the Indian board had worked out a solution at the last minute, and the players eventually signed the contract conditionally. The tournament sponsors retaliated by seeking damages with the ICC and even withheld the payment due to India, to the tune of over US$13million. The smaller size of the New Zealand board – their annual turnover is only around $25million – means that they could be hit very hard if similar action is taken against them.NZC and the New Zealand Players’ Association (NZPA) are yet to comment on this issue. The agreement was supposed to have been signed on June 1, and with the Champions Trophy to be held in October, the warring parties don’t have much time to sort out the issue.