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ESPNcricinfo staff16-Feb-2022Sohail Tanvir and Ben Cutting have both been fined 15 per cent of their match fees after reviving a dispute that has been running for several years. The incident occurred in Tuesday’s PSL game in Lahore between Peshawar Zalmi and Quetta Gladiators, which the former – Cutting’s team – won.In the 19th over of Zalmi’s innings, Cutting hit Tanvir for 27 runs, including four sixes off the first five balls. After the third consecutive six Cutting stuck out both middle fingers at Tanvir. After the fourth six, the pair had an exchange out in the middle, when the umpires intervened.Off the very first ball of the next over – the 20th – Cutting sliced Naseem Shah into Tanvir’s hands at short third man. Tanvir reciprocated Cutting by sticking up both his middle fingers as a send-off.

Eight-run victory piles more pressure on Northants’ stalling campaign

ECB Reporters Network15-Sep-2020Hamish Rutherford’s first half-century of the Vitality Blast helped Worcestershire to just their second win of the tournament and heaped more pressure on Northamptonshire’s stalling campaign in an eight-run victory at Wantage Road.Rutherford’s 62 in 37 balls underpinned Worcestershire’s 178 for 6 before Northamptonshire were held to 170 for 7 having been 82 for 2 after eight overs.It was a third consecutive defeat for Northamptonshire following a positive Covid-19 test among their squad. The disruption to their selection and practise has stopped a flying campaign in its tracks. They had won their first four completed matches.They now need at least one win from their remaining games at Taunton and Edgbaston to have a chance of qualifying for the quarter-finals.Their defeat here ensures Gloucestershire, who won a sixth straight T20 earlier in the day, qualify for the knockout stage for the fourth time in five years.Worcestershire, champions of 2018 and finalists last season, were already unable to qualify after winning just one of six completed fixtures but found solace on Tuesday.They looked to be cruising to victory after Ed Barnard, whose four overs claimed 2 for 15, and Daryl Mitchell, 1 for 17 from his three, had strangled the chase to leave 52 needed from the final four overs.But Adam Rossington swung Charlie Morris over the midwicket fence, charged at Pat Brown and pulled another boundary before edging four more to leave 29 from the final 12 balls.Saif Zaib then lifted the first two deliveries of the 19th over through the off-side for four and it left Brown 16 to defend from the final over.After conceding only four in three balls, Rossington was run out trying to retain the strike and the hosts’ daring comeback was ended.Northamptonshire had been well ahead of their chase after Richard Levi slammed a 27-ball fifty. He took 22 from the second over bowled by Dillon Pennington. Three times he swung to leg and three times cleared the infield for boundaries before the final ball of the over was hoisted over long-off. Levi added a second six over the head of Morris. Brown was then pulled and flicked for boundaries in the final over of the Powerplay.But two balls after raising his first T20 fifty since 2018 he crashed Barnard to point and it caused a critical slide. Rossington’s 45 in 34 balls was too late.It rendered Rutherford’s effort a match-winning innings, albeit too late for Worcestershire’s chances of reaching the last eight. He had previously made four scores above 20 this season but no match-defining score.He cut and drove Josh Cobb for boundaries in the opening over of the game before flicking Nathan Buck over deep square for the first six of the match. His second maximum, over midwicket off Brandon Glover, brought fifty up in the fifth over.Rutherford then cut and scooped Buck for consecutive fours in his second over before he skipped down to smash Zaib over his head for a third six to reach fifty in 30 balls.He steered White over cover – one of only two boundaries the left-arm spinner conceded in his fours overs that cost 29 – and carved Buck past point. But trying to whip the same bowler to leg was held on the deep-backward square fence.Rutherford and Jack Haynes gave Worcestershire an excellent start, adding 58 in 33 balls for the first wicket. But they couldn’t kick on to a more demanding total and only took 44 from overs 14 to 19.Mitchell and Ross Whiteley struck boundaries in the last over and in the final counting, they proved the difference.

A wicket from the second ball of the day hints at trouble but Dean Elgar impresses as Surrey reach 244 for 6

Richard Hobson at The Oval07-Jul-2019The walls alongside the staircase inside the Oval pavilion are decorated with framed photographs of Surrey’s capped players. There, side-by-side a few yards from the Prince of Wales room on the second floor, hang pictures of two batsmen honoured in 2014, both with hair flicked back, both moustachioed, both now England players. And soon, perhaps, Test match opening partners.Barring injury, Rory Burns must be a certainty to face Ireland later this month and Australia at the start of August. Jason Roy may well be there with him. Trevor Bayliss has confirmed that the selectors are thinking of rewarding his white-ball brilliance, saying: “Whether it’s at the top of the order or number three, there’s no secret in Test cricket we’ve been looking for a solid combination.”Not long after the story broke, Burns was demonstrating his own value in some of the most challenging conditions for batting. Grey above, green below, the ball seaming and wobbling maliciously. A situation demanding judgement, saintly patience and soft hands. Roy can utilise a Powerplay, but how will he cope if it is like this at Edgbaston come day one of the Ashes, August 1?Bayliss and national selector Ed Smith might reflect on the judgement of Michael di Venuto, the Surrey head coach, who thinks they would be mistaken to use Roy in that role when he bats in the lower middle order for the county. Roy would have liked capitalising on the foundation given by Burns and Dean Elgar here. But he might have struggled to lay it.The scorecard tells only a partial story. Burns and Elgar were superb in the 70 minutes before lunch. When play began at noon the outlook had 150 or so all out written all over. Darren Stevens and Harry Podmore must have licked their lips in anticipation of edged catches and balls nipping back onto pads. Spinner Ollie Rayner might have wondered if he’d get a bowl.Kent did not operate badly at all, but they missed opportunities in the field. By the time they did have Surrey three down conditions had eased greatly. Sam Curran and Ben Foakes profited; they should have stood Burns and Elgar rounds at the bar once bad light brought an absorbing day to a premature end some ten overs ahead of schedule.Nothing quite matched the drama of the first two balls. Burns edged the first, from Podmore, to first slip where Sean Dickson dropped the catch. Cheekily, Surrey took the run. But Mark Stoneman opted not to play the next delivery which swung late into his pads and resulted in a leg-before decision. The idea that only five more wickets would fall in the next six hours seemed preposterous.Both Stevens and Podmore, then Matt Milnes, maintained full lengths to give the ball every chance of deviating. Cuts and pulls were conspicuous by their absence. Podmore overstepped when he thought he had Elgar lbw on 8, and it was not until the 14th over that Surrey hit a first four, Burns forcing Grant Stewart through extra cover.Stewart was to prove relatively expensive, but at least he was encouraging the drive. And although Elgar, in a new position at No. 3, forced clinically through mid-on, boundaries were few and far between across the truncated first session. With the sun emerging during the break it started to feel like a different game, as though Surrey had qualified for round two of a series.Easier, but never actually easy. Stewart was increasingly impressive, quick and powerful with a low arm, and he undid Burns with a brute of a ball that bounced and went across the left-hander to the keeper. An inswinger from Podmore did for Scott Borthwick, but Dickson dropped a second chance when Elgar edged Stevens on 51.Instead, it was Stewart who removed the South African, the ball perhaps keeping a touch low from a length that always leaves unresolved the question of whether to go forward or back. Elgar’s 63 in 206 minutes was worth three figures on another occasion, and for the next hour or so Curran was able to play strokes that would have brought a very quick demise had he tried them earlier.Throwing his hands at the ball, he struck his first and third balls to the cover point boundary and soon forced Rayner straight for six. His battle with the spinner was closely contested, another six following while Rayner also turned one sharply past the bat. Adventure finally got the better of Curran when he top-edged an attempt to pull Milnes.Foakes offered steady support, restraining some of his own strokeplay before completing a half-century from 115 balls. In the previous home game, against Warwickshire, he twice gifted his wicket when he looked a million dollars. By taking more care this time, he was giving his top-order colleagues the respect their endeavours deserved.

The Australia allrounder is thrilled at the attention the women’s game has been getting over the last couple of years, and is all praise for the atmosphere she has experienced at Indian grounds

Gaurav Kalra21-Mar-20185:58

Women’s cricket has become a lot more exciting – Perry

You can tell that Ellyse Perry loves her job as a professional cricketer. She’s only 27 but has already been doing this for a decade, debuting as a not-yet-17-year old in 2007. Nothing of the grind, though, appears to have worn her down. An easy smile greets every question and Perry, the world’s pre-eminent allrounder, is relishing this era of televised games, packed stadiums, decent wages and the respect her peers get as professional sportspersons.”We’ve spoken about how it almost feels like a second career at the moment,” she tells ESPNcricinfo in Mumbai, ahead of the T20 Tri-Series also involving England and India. “We are very fortunate to have the support of Cricket Australia back home who have made our roles full-time and we are all full-time professional cricketers now who get to train every day and work really hard at our craft.”The quality of cricket being played now around Australia and around the world has just grown really rapidly and it’s just an exciting game to watch and people are really drawn to that. As a result, we are getting lots of crowds and people wanting to watch the matches on TV and a lot of interest from the media. From that point of view, it has been absolutely brilliant.”I think it was growing really solidly for the 10 years that I have been involved and before that as well, but for whatever reason things have just come into alignment in the last couple of years and there’s been a huge shift and growth in the sport. I think in a large part the ICC have done a lot to make sure that the game is built on really solid foundations but also that we’ve got a lot more to build on and grow which is exciting for the future.”Much of the impetus for women’s cricket came from the World Cup in England last year. In an unforgettable semi-final, Perry’s Australian team was demolished by India on the back of an astonishing assault from Harmanpreet Kaur. Though Perry politely sidesteps the question when asked if revenge was on their minds as they landed in India for a three-match ODI series earlier in the month, they certainly have played like a team possessed. The games in Baroda were won by eight wickets, 60 runs and 97 runs. Perry herself, as she usually does, made an impression with both bat and ball, making 127 runs and picking up four wickets with her lively medium-pace.”Certainly, in terms of the process and development of our team it has been a really important series for us and particularly in the manner that we’ve played, not just the result,” she says. “The performances across the board from so many different individuals in each match was just brilliant and really satisfying for us because it’s never easy to come to India and playing in Indian conditions so to do what we’ve done has been really great.Getty Images

“It has been amazing, looking at the amount of people that came to our matches in Baroda, the support that they were displaying for the Indian team was just brilliant. It was one of the best atmospheres I have played in front of and consistently across those three games. The Indian team are very, very good, they’ve got some exceptional players who are world class. Some senior players and also some really great youth that are up and coming and are going to be wonderful cricketers for a long period of time.”Over the next ten days, Perry and her teammates will lock horns against England and India in a tri-series of T20 matches in Mumbai. Perry believes that with the World T20 later in the year in the West Indies, the series, which she says features “arguably the three best teams in the world at the moment”, provides the opportunity for invaluable match practice and to identify personnel and tactics for the tournament.While the focus is on the limited-overs formats for now, Perry, who has played only seven Tests over her career, would like to see more long-format games played. She suggests more teams could adopt the formula used for the Women’s Ashes where the series is decided based on points accumulated across Test, ODI and T20 games. However, for now, Perry’s focus is on ensuring she can help Australia capture a fourth World T20 title in November. And, of course, build on the momentum the women’s game has gained in recent times.”I think the World Cup last year where the final was sold out was just tremendous and it has really set a very high standard for future tournaments,” she says. “Since that we have obviously seen the reception of the Indian team here and how much support they’ve now got and interest in how the girls play. Back home we had a very successful Ashes series, it drew lots of crowds and people to that event which was absolutely brilliant.”Going forward, I hope that occurs everywhere around the world, wherever we are playing, so it’s a great opportunity for the West Indies and everyone is really looking forward to this competition. From my point of view, every T20 World Cup we have played since it started, each one has got bigger and better. I think the quality of play has gone to a new level as well. So, I think it is really exciting.”

Quetta Gladiators started off strongly last year, losing only two games during their run to the final – but eventually fell short against Islamabad. Can a refurbished side go one better?

Danyal Rasool08-Feb-20170:48

Will Quetta Gladiators fight their way to the top?

Inaugural season results
Quetta Gladiators were the form team of the group stages last year, demonstrating what could be achieved with savvy recruitment as opposed to throwing money at the big names. After six wins in their eight group-stage games, they eked out a thrilling one-run victory against Peshawar to qualify for the final. That was as good as it got, the Gladiators finding themselves outplayed by an Islamabad side which was flying by that stage, ending a dynamic first season somewhat meekly.Team assessmentOf the five franchises in the format last year, Quetta Gladiators had, by far, the lowest profile. However, their 2016 results mean they won’t be flying under anyone’s radar this time around. They are led by Sarfraz Ahmed, who looks like the clear favourite to take over Pakistan’s limited-overs captaincy, and whose chances were certainly done no harm by his ability to make an unassuming Quetta side click last season.Quetta have retained their biggest foreign stars Kevin Pietersen and Luke Wright, as well as a large number of local players who exceeded expectations 12 months ago. But a number of new players have been drafted in, including Sri Lankan allrounder Thisara Perera, South Africa’s Rilee Rossouw, and Bangladesh’s Mahmudullah Riyad.Exciting English quick Tymal Mills, who can comfortably exceed speeds of 90mph in addition to possessing a devilishly disguised slower ball, has also been brought in. With Umar Gul well past his prime and David Willey replaced by Nathan McCullum, proven fast bowling resources are scant for Quetta, meaning Mills is almost guaranteed a starting berth.Opener Ahmed Shehzad is another concern for the team from Balochistan. When recruited last year, he was one of Pakistan’s most valuable limited-overs players, and ended up being the fourth highest run-scorer of the tournament. But his stock has fallen sharply since. He has lost his place in the national team, having played almost no international cricket since last year’s PSL. Should he struggle this time around, it could put a lot of pressure on the likes of Mohammad Nawaz and Anwar Ali, last year’s brightest local boys, to simply pick up where they left off last February.Ahmed Shehzad was the tournament’s fourth-highest scorer last season with 290 runs at a strike rate of over 140•Chris Whiteoak

Key foreign player
It would be neither informative nor original to say Kevin Pietersen’s performance will be important to Quetta Gladiators’ success this tournament, but his countryman Tymal Mills’ T20 performances have also begun to catch the eye. In the recently concluded Super Smash, a T20 competition in New Zealand, Mills was among the top ten wicket-takers, and, at 6.61 per over, had the best economy rate of anyone who bowled more than 16 overs. After a pair of impressive games for Brisbane Heat during the Big Bash, he was called up by England for the T20 series against India. He mixes express pace with cunning slower deliveries, making him a useful asset at both top and tail of an innings. With the Gladiators looking rather thin in the fast bowling department, Mills could quickly establish himself as leader of the pace attack.Under the radar local lad
Not much is known about 18-year old slow left arm bowler Hasan Khan, and the numbers aren’t particularly impressive. But ask Quetta Gladiators head coach Moin Khan which player fans should watch out for, the response is immediate: Hasan Khan. He’s an Under-19 Pakistan international who Moin thinks has potential to go all the way. On paper, his brand of cricket – left-arm spin bowling – is well suited to the slow wickets of Sharjah and Dubai. Just ask his teammate Mohammad Nawaz.Availability
Carlos Brathwaite and Rovman Powell of the West Indies will miss the tournament, after the WICB made it mandatory for players seeking national selection to play in the Reigional Super 50, the domestic one-day cup. Moeen Ali was initially drafted, but he withdrew to undertake the Umrah pilgrimage, so Mahmudullah Riyad and Thisara Perera have been called up to replace the West Indian duo. International commitments mean Mohammad Nabi misses out, replaced by Rilee Rossouw. In addition, David Willey was dropped in favour of Black Caps allrounder Nathan McCullum.Coaches and Staff
Moin Khan (head coach), Sir Vivian Richards (batting coach/mentor), Abdul Razzaq (bowling coach), Julien Fountain (fielding coach)Quetta Gladiators squad
Sarfraz Ahmed (c, wk), Kevin Pietersen, Ahmed Shehzad, Luke Wright, Anwar Ali, Tymal Mills, Umar Gul, Zulfiqar Babar, Mohammad Nawaz, Rilee Rossouw, Mahmudullah, Asad Shafiq, Saad Nasim, Umer Amin, Hassaan Khan, Noor Ali.
Supplementary players: Nathan McCullum, Thisara Perera, Bismillah Khan, Mir Hamza

In Perth 309 was insufficient, and in Brisbane 308 was inadequate. But for a short while it looked like India’s 295 in Melbourne might have been enough to keep this series alive

The Report by Brydon Coverdale at the MCG17-Jan-2016
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