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ScorecardColin Ingram posted his second first-class hundred of the season•Getty Images

Unbeaten centuries from Colin Ingram and Chris Cooke batted Glamorgan to safety on the final afternoon of the LV= County Championship match with Gloucestershire at Bristol.By the time the players shook hands on a draw at just before 4.20pm, the visitors had reached 365 for 3 in their second innings and led by 240. Gloucestershire took 13 points, while their opponents claimed 12. Ingram was 101 not out and Cooke unbeaten on 102, with their fourth-wicket partnership worth 180.Gloucestershire had claimed three wickets in the first session to keep alive hopes of winning after Glamorgan had begun the day on 88 without loss.Richard Kettleborough was first to go, lbw to left-arm spinner Tom Smith playing across the line for 34 with the total on 99.David Payne then claimed the prized wicket of Jacques Rudolph, lbw on the back foot to an inswinger having made 69, with 10 fours, to make it 124 for 2.The third wicket was a gift as Aneurin Donald, on 35, called for a single having played the ball to mid-wicket and was run out by Hamish Marshall’s throw after being sent back by Ingram.Donald had come within two runs of becoming Glamorgan’s youngest-ever Championship century-maker in the first innings and again displayed his promise.From 191 for 3 at lunch, Ingram and Cooke batted without alarms. Even when the second new ball was taken at 266 for 3 it posed few problems.The final action of the season was played out in bright afternoon sunshine with the only question being whether the two Glamorgan batsmen would reach three figures.In the event they both timed it perfectly. Cook was first to his hundred, having faced 135 balls and hit 12 fours and two sixes, while Ingram followed in the next over, reaching his century off 220 deliveries, with 11 fours and a six.It was Ingram’s second Championship century of the season and Cooke’s first.By the end the Glamorgan batsmen found themselves facing the less than fearsome part-time bowlers Will Tavaré and Chris Dent, although the hosts had stuck with their main attack for most of the day.During the tea interval 24-year-old seam bowler Tom Hampton, formerly with Middlesex, was presented with his Gloucestershire county cap.

ScorecardIn what appears to have been a strategic move, Leeward Islands declared their first innings on 24 for 7 in 18.3 overs before lunch on the first morning of their four-day match against Windward Islands in Roseau. The unusual decision, according to a report on , was seemingly made because of concerns over a deteriorating pitch at Windsor Park.Having been asked to bat, Leeward Islands lost four wickets with the score on 3 and than another two when the total was on 11. Orlando Peters, who made 11 not out, was the only batsman to score more than 5. The captain Steve Liburd, who made a duck, declared the innings despite having three wickets in hand. Mervin Matthew, Kevin McLean and Kenroy Peters took two wickets each for Windward Islands, and there was one run-out.Windward Islands were batting before the lunch interval and passed Leeward Islands’ score without loss. However, Alzarri Joseph dismissed Devon Smith soon after and took two more quick wickets to reduce Windward Islands to 33 for 3. That became 36 for 4 when Gavin Tonge dismissed Sunil Ambris.The innings was steadied by a 50-run stand between opener Tyrone Theophile, who ended the day unbeaten on 54, and wicketkeeper Andre Fletcher, who made 31 off 46 balls. Windward Islands were 104 for 5 at stumps.Though only 43.3 overs were possible in the day, 12 wickets fell for only 128 runs.

Central Zone drew with West Zone in their Duleep Trophy match at the Vidarbha CA ground in Nagpur on Sunday. Sairaj Bahatule was the star of the day with 4/26 as he along with Valmik Buch (3/49) reduced Central to 156/8 in their second innings.Resuming at 364/6 West were quickly bowled out for 421 in 154.4 overs. NK Patel who was unbeaten on 41 overnight made 64 before being dismissed by Sriwastava. Bahatule made 39 as the other batsmen fell cheaply. Sriwastava was the best of the bowlers picking up 4/62. Kanwat and RR Parida took 3 wickets each. Central having assured themselves a 115 runs first innings lead made a shaky start to their second innings. JP Yadav was the first batsman to be dismissed for just 3 runs by IR Siddiqui. Then Sairaj Bahatule and Valmik Buch ran through the Central innings. GK Khoda made 31 and R Ali made 55 with nine boundaries in the middle of the innings as Central declared at 156/8.The West chase was never on as there was little time left in the match. In the 11 overs bowled before close of play, Central Zone reached 44 without loss. Central took five points and West took three out of the drawn match.

The BCCI’s working committee will meet on October 18 in Mumbai, for the first time since the death of Jagmohan Dalmiya and Shashank Manohar’s subsequent election as president. The most pressing issue on the agenda is likely to be a decision on the suspended owners of two IPL teams – Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals- and a discussion on the intricacies of the Lodha Committee’s order.A BCCI official confirmed the development and said the agenda was likely to be the same as the one that had been originally chalked out for the Kolkata meeting on August 27, but that had been adjourned due to confusion over the legality of N Srinivasan’s presence.

The issues on BCCI’s plate

• Decision on the two suspended IPL franchise owners

• Fixing the date of the board’s annual general meeting

• Looking into the bottle-throwing incident in Cuttack

• Decision on moving National Cricket Academy out of Bangalore

• Formalising contracts to women cricketers

The working committee meeting will also fix a date for the board’s annual general meeting. The decks for conducting the AGM have been cleared after the Supreme Court, while dismissing BCCI’s plea seeking clarification on Srinivasan’s presence at its meetings, asked the BCCI to stick to its stand of not allowing him to attend the meetings due to his alleged conflict of interest.A working group that was set up in July to formulate guidelines for the IPL’s future conduct is also likely to submit its report at this meeting. The group comprises IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla, BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur, treasurer Anirudh Chaudhry, legal advisor Ushanath Banerjee and former India captain Sourav Ganguly.The working committee meeting, which can’t be held before October 16 with Thakur going to Dubai later this week for the ICC Chief Executives’ Committee meet, may also decide on possible action against Odisha Cricket Association regarding the bottle-throwing incident in Cuttack.There may also be clarifications made on the document seeking no conflict of interest declarations, after four BCCI members sought explanation on its scope.The working committee is also likely to confirm the finance committee’s decision to award central contracts to women cricketers, the first time India’s women players will have annual retainers. Also, there may be a discussion on whether the National Cricket Academy will be moved out of Bangalore. The NCA board had shortlisted Pune, Mohali and Dharamsala as alternative venues, but Pune has already opted out.The conundrum surrounding India’s coaching staff – another issue that was up for discussion in Kolkata – has been sorted, at least in the near future, with Ravi Shastri, Sanjay Bangar, B Arun and R Sridhar receiving extensions till the end of the World T20 in April 2016.However, the major issue that couldn’t be resolved in August was the ratification of the technical committee’s decision to introduce new points system in the Ranji Trophy and changes to the format of domestic one-day and T20 tournaments. With the Indian domestic season having begun already, all new implementations will have to wait at least another year.

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‘We’re still right in this match’ – Borren

A pair of fighting lower-order partnerships in the first innings, followed by a tight bowling performance in Netherlands’ second innings left Scotland with a target of 201 for a win in the Intercontinental Cup match at the Voorburg Cricket Club. The visitors reached 52 for 3 at the end of the third day and need another 149 runs on the final day for a victory.Netherlands bowled out Scotland for 133 to secure first-innings points with a 77-run lead, but wasted the advantage with a middle-order collapse that saw them reduced to 44 for 5 before they crawled to 123 in 43 overs.Resuming the day on 35 for 6, Rob Taylor was part of two key partnerships that helped Scotland narrow their first-innings deficit against Netherlands’ total of 210. Taylor added 36 with Matthew Cross for the seventh wicket and another 35 with Safyaan Sharif for the ninth wicket, rescuing Scotland from the danger of being bowled out for a double-figure total.Roelof van der Merwe claimed Cross for the first wicket of the day, trapped lbw on the back foot for 17, before Quirijn Gunning pinned Con de Lange for a second-ball duck in the following over. The Taylor-Sharif stand took Scotland past 100 but Taylor fell a short time later to Vivian Kingma for 46, inside-edging a ball off his pads that trickled on to the stumps.Kingma’s desperation for a five-for backfired as Sharif and Alasdair Evans seized on a series of overpitched deliveries to drive through the off side during a vital 30-run tenth-wicket stand. Michael Rippon was eventually brought on for his left-arm wrist spin to finish the Scotland innings and, in his third over, trapped Sharif in front for 32, with the lunch break 30 minutes away.Netherlands only had to bat four overs before the break but still managed to lose a wicket as Rahil Ahmed edged Evans to Kyle Coetzer at first slip, closing out a disappointing first-class debut with four runs in each innings. Resuming at 17 for 1, Netherlands lost a wicket in the first over after lunch as Ben Cooper’s edged drive off Josh Davey found Hamish Gardiner at third slip.After top-scoring with 73 in the first innings, van der Merwe fell without scoring when his attempted drive off Davey resulted in a thin edge to the keeper Cross. Wesley Barresi inside-edged a ball from Sharif off his pads and the carrom floated toward Gardiner again, who lunged from third slip with a one-handed effort to cling on to his fourth catch of the match.Pieter Seelaar joined Rippon, who had scored 37 of Netherlands’ first 44 runs in the innings, but Seelaar’s nervy start – it took him 16 balls to get off the mark – put pressure on Rippon and eventually resulted in a run-out. Seelaar pushed for a tight single off Sharif to start the 16th over and de Lange flew in from square leg with an underarm direct hit 10 yards out to catch Rippon short at the striker’s end.Just as he had with van der Merwe on Wednesday, Stephan Myburgh led a solid counter-attack after entering at No. 7 with the score at 44 for 5. He made 31 off 55, including a 41-run stand with Seelaar to alleviate a bit of the mounting pressure before Seelaar was bounced out by Davey, hooking to Evans at long leg for 19 and Netherlands entered tea at 105 for 6.Mommsen brought Richie Berrington on for the first time in the match at the start of the final session and the move paid off almost immediately as Myburgh drove him straight to Davey at short cover for 31. Four overs later, Berrington was the center of attention during a slightly controversial run-out appeal to dismiss Paul van Meekeren, which was eventually upheld.Van Meekeren was on strike and defended a Berrington delivery towards silly point. Peter Borren called for a run from the non-striker’s end while van Meekeren initially stayed put before taking off. Mommsen ran forward from slip to field and fired to Berrington in plenty of time, but Berrington struggled to collect the low and wide throw in front of the non-striker’s stumps. He managed to grasp the ball eventually but was off balance and fell backwards into the stumps and, at the same time, appeared to have just elbowed the off stump with ball in hand to dislodge the bails.Umpire Peter Nero was in perfect position and initially gave a not-out decision. However, after consulting with C Shamshuddin at square leg for several minutes, van Meekeren was given out, though Borren did not offer much protest and later said after play that he thought the right decision was made despite the sequence appearing “a bit messy.”Borren skied Berrington to Gardiner at cover for his fifth catch of the match two overs later to make it 121 for 9. Gunning added two runs to take Netherlands’ lead to exactly 200 before Kingma fell, caught by de Lange at square leg after failing to fend off a bouncer from Sharif.With 90 minutes to bat out before the end of play, Scotland were in deep trouble at 18 for 3. Van Meekeren got Coetzer to edge to second slip for 8 before Gardiner was pinned in front playing across to Van der Merwe for 7. Machan was the third wicket, unable to sway out of the path of a bouncer from Gunning.Mommsen and Berrington, however, stayed positive in the final 45 minutes with Berrington sweeping Rippon twice to the square leg boundary. The pair walked off unbeaten on 18 and 16 respectively. The possibility of a draw is not out of the question for Friday with rain in the forecast for early in the day, which may cut into the 106 allotted overs remaining.

ScorecardTom Curran took two wickets but it was his brother Sam that made the bigger impact•EMPICS/Surrey CCC

Sam Curran celebrated becoming the second youngest player to make his first-class debut for Surrey by taking a wicket with his fourth ball on the opening day of the Division Two clash against Kent at the Kia Oval.At stumps, Kent had reached 132 for 4 off the 30 overs made possible by the weather and the floodlights, thanks largely to Daniel Bell-Drummond (39) and Sam Northeast (45) staging a recovery by adding 60 for the visitors’ third wicket atquicker than a run a ball.Damp conditions put paid to any play before 3pm, but the younger of Surrey’s two Curran brothers soon made up for lost time by parting Joe Denly’s middle and off stumps with an inswinging delivery in the second over.Both Currans shared new ball duties and older brother Tom justified Surrey’s decision to bowl first by having Adam Ball, driving uppishly, caught at backward point five overs later.At 17 years and 40 days old, Sam Curran’s first-class debut came 69 years to the day after Tony Lock, the youngest player to play for Surrey at 17 years and eight days, made his first appearance – also against Kent – at the Oval on July 13, 1946.He also came close to adding to his tally when Bell-Drummond, on six, was dropped at square leg. Bell-Drummond then joined forces with Northeast and brought up the fifty partnership in the 16th over, with the first of two fours in the space of three balls from James Burke.But the introduction of Zafar Ansari’s left-arm spin just before tea conjured up the wicket of Bell-Drummond, who was lbw for 39.Northeast, who opened his account with a four straight down the ground and batted positively for his 45 in 47 deliveries, was caught behind off Tom Curran shortly after a brief delay for bad light.Darren Stevens got off the mark with a six over long-on off Ansari but was unable to add to his score before bad light brought a premature end to proceedings at 5.58pm, with Ben Harmison the other not out batsman on 11.

The State Central Hinds team to play the State Northern Spirit at Westpac Park, Hamilton on December 7 and 8 in the State League is:Aimee Mason (captain), Abby Burrows, Cindy Forsyth, Megan Graham, Erin McDonald, Sara McGlashan, Zara McWilliams, Elizabeth Perry, Kate Pulford, Toni Street, Nicole Thessman and Donna Trow.The coach is Warren Marr and the manager is Jacqui Gardiner.

*Sodhi to lead Punjab in Ranji league matchesReetinder Sodhi will lead Punjab in the first three league matches of the Ranji trophy in the absence of Vikram Rathore, who shifted to Himachal Pradesh this year.MP Pandove, secretary of the Punjab Cricket Association, who made the announcement, added that the Punjab team will take on Baroda in the first league match at PCA stadium, Mohali from November 9 to 12.The other member of the 15-member team are Ravneet Ricky, Samrat Sharma, Ankur Kakkar,Harminder Jugnu, Navdeep Singh, Amit Uniyal, Gagandeep Singh, Vineet Sharma, Rajesh Sharma, Pankaj Dharmani (wicket-keeper), Sandeep Sawal, Harish Puri, Munish Sharma and Sanjay Mahajan.*Zuffri to lead Assam in Ranji TrophySyed Zakaria Zuffri has been named as the Assam captain for the 2002-03 Ranji Trophy season. Among the 14 other players are new recruits Kiran Powar and Sunil Viswanathan.Assam launch their challenge with a match against Orissa at NFRSA Stadium, Maligaon from Nov 9- Nov 12.Squad: Syed Zakaria Zuffri (capt), Parag Kumar Das, Sukhvinder Singh, Kiran Powar, Sumit Ranjan Das, Arland Konwar, Manoj Joglekar, RM Gohain, Mark Ingti, Zaved Zaman, Sunil Viswanathan, Mrigen Talukdar, Mansoor Ahmed, Samarjit Nath and Sourav Bhagawati.Coach: Lalchand Rajput Manager : Sanjay Dey.*Sutane to lead Vidarbha in Ranji TrophyStaff ReporterParesh Sutane will lead 14-man Vidarbha team in the 2002-03 Ranji Trophy leagues matches against Saurashtra and Services.Ali Akbar, meanwhile, will lead the under-19 team> Chandrasekhar Atram has been named the vice-captain.Squad: Paresh Sutane (captain), Alind Naidu ( vice-captain), Amit Deshpande (wicket-keeper), P Vivek, Rupesh Shahane, Ulhas Gandhe, Samir Khare, Chandrashekhar Atram, Madhusudan Acharya, Abhijieet Piprode, Nitin Gawande, Swaroop Srivastva, Sandeep Singh, Rahul JadhavStand byes: Amol Jichkar, Amit Date, Umesh Patil, Ketan Kaore, Adwait ManoharCoach: Murthy Rajan Manager SN AbhyankrVidarbha Under-19: Ali Akbar (captain), Chandrashekhar Atram (vicecaptain), Faiz Fazal, Virat Mishra, Anup Fulper, Owamir Afzal, Saurabh Ambedkar, Mohammad Hashim, Akshay Wakhare, Ashwin Rajan, Abhijeet Gaidhane, Vaibhav Rajurkar, Azhar Sheikh, Madhup Aney.Stand byes: Srikant Kotlikar, Mangesh Bhoyar, Amit BhomleCoach: Praveen HignikarManager: Shrish Joshi

First Division

Callum Thorp’s fourth five-wicket haul put Durham to the top of the table – overnight at least – and level with Yorkshire on 77 points but with a game in hand. Thorp worked his way through Yorkshire’s line-up at Headingley, with Steve Harmison and Liam Plunkett lending handy support who grabbed the other five between them. Michael Vaughan spent valuable time in the middle for his 72 although he survived a confident caught behind appeal on 59, when a no-ball was called because Durham had three men behind square on the leg side. He was also dropped on 66 and was eventually bowled by Harmison. Adam Lyth provided the other main resistance and top scored with 80 to set Durham 111. After a brief scare against Matthew Hoggard, Michael Di Venuto (65) combined with Paul Collingwood to finish off the job – Collingwood’s unbeaten 44 will lift him ahead of the first Test against South Africa after his first-class form has been shaky recently.Nottinghamshire are well placed against Hampshire at The Rose Bowl, requiring a further 134 with nine wickets left after another four-wicket haul from Andre Adams. He ended with match figures of 8 for 108 after helping to dismiss Hampshire for a second time to leave Nottinghamshire with a target of 188. Charlie Shreck backed him up with three wickets, Darren Pattinson took two and it was only Chris Tremlett’s fourth first-class fifty that held them up following a mid-innings burst. Michael Brown had earlier contributed a half-century. Nantie Hayward nipped out Matthew Wood for 7 as the visitors began their chase, but by the close Will Jefferson and Mark Wagh had steadied proceedings. Hampshire, however, are by no means out of it and they will search for early wickets.Click here for a full report on the third day between Surrey and Kent at The Oval.Click here for a report on all the action at Hove, where Lancashire are still handily placed against Sussex.

Second Division

Worcestershire pushed up the table with a 10-wicket destruction of second-placed Leicestershire to win inside three days at Grace Road. Although Leicestershire reached 346 in their second innings- helped by Paul Nixon’s 92 – it was their first which was their undoing. Claude Henderson at least helped Nixon prolong the fight as the pair added 103 in 27 overs before Gareth Andrew produced a beauty to take Henderson’s off stump. Andrew and Kabir Ali shared seven wickets and the visitors needed only 88 for the victory, which Daryl Mitchell and Stephen Moore collected between them. Mitchell ended with 40 and Moore 46.Ian Bell’s double-century, in a third-wicket stand of 221 with Jonathan Trott, was the undoubted feature of the day, helping Warwickshire to a hefty 528 for 8 declared against Gloucestershire at Edgbaston. Bell was finally caught off Hamish Marshall but not before he had racked up 215 from 288 balls with 32 fours. A double ton is always handy, but particularly when there have been concerns over Bell’s form and after his failure to build on starts in the one-day series. Trott himself racked up 165 before the declaration, with a lead of 194. Gloucestershire began chipping away at the deficit by the close, but face a day of survival tomorrow.Ben Scott and Eoin Morgan turned round Middlesex‘s second innings after Johann van der Wath continued his bowling assault for Northamptonshire. Scott reached his third first-class century and was unbeaten overnight on 141, while Morgan fell for 93, to lift Middlesex from 35 for 4 to 377 for 8 – a healthy 240-run lead at Uxbridge. The home side began the day at a pallid 4 for 2 and slipped further when they lost Billy Godleman and Owais Shah cheaply to van der Wath who has so far collected five wickets. Then came the rescue act which has left Northamptonshire with a big task on their hands on the final day, weather permitting.A solid all-round day from Essex put them within five wickets of victory against Derbyshire at Chelmsford, where the visitors needed 184 further runs to overhaul what was becoming an increasingly out of reach target. Chasing 372, Derbyshire made a strong start and were 184 for 3 when a pair of late wickets severely dented their chances. Dominic Telo had guided the innings with 69 and Rikki Clarke was a useful ally with 44, but when both men fell it meant a stumps score of 188 for 5 on a day when they had knocked over Essex for 238. The hefty first-innings deficit Derbyshire had conceded was coming back to bite them as four-wicket hauls to Charl Langeveldt and Graham Wagg failed to stop Essex posting the challenging target. Ravi Bopara, fresh from one-day duties with England, made 71 from 82 deliveries and an unbeaten 55 from Ryan ten Doeschate continued his excellent match after he made a century in the first innings, and fittingly it was he who removed Clarke just before stumps to bring the goal closer for Essex.

The Australian Cricketers’ Association has rejected suggestions that it ignored a comprehensive report on the security situation in Pakistan when making its decision to advise Australia’s players not to tour. The ACA chief executive Paul Marsh said the organisation relied heavily on an assessment from the Australian security expert Reg Dickason, who visited Pakistan briefly in June.But the Pakistan Cricket Board believes a more detailed and more positive report was supplied by Nicholls Steyn & Associates, the security firm engaged by the ICC, who investigated the situation in Pakistan for months. Pakistan are concerned that the ACA made its decision without taking enough note of that analysis, a claim that Marsh denied.”Without getting into the specific details of the Nicholls-Steyn report, if you were to read that you’d probably share our concerns,” Marsh said. “From a player’s perspective we need to be absolutely sure that if we’re recommending that players go into an environment like this that we need to be comfortable that they’re going to be safe, and reading that report we couldn’t be.”However, Marsh conceded that Dickason’s advice played a large part in the ACA’s decision to recommend Australian players do not visit Pakistan for next month’s Champions Trophy. “We’ve relied on Reg’s recommendations for 12 years,” Marsh said. “Reg has never let us down, so, yes, we put a lot of faith in what he has to say.”Our job is to assess whether it’s safe for the players to go. We’ve done that and we do that through independent sources, it’s not as though we just read the newspaper and make the decision.”Those newspapers have in the past few days carried stories on the resignation of Pakistan’s president Pervez Musharraf. While Marsh said that development had not affected the ACA’s decision, general terrorism concerns and the assassination of the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto last December remained in the back of their minds.”There are other issues here at play,” Marsh said. “The level of terrorist activity in Pakistan over this year and last year – and I could quote you some statistics that are from our perspective relatively scary – they’re at play without Musharraf standing down.”There are external threats, and you only have to go to the DFAT [Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade] website to be able to get a bit of a handle on that, and there are internal threats, the ability to actually secure the team. Once again we could probably point to a Benazir Bhutto situation to see whether the team could be secured.”Such comments will do nothing to diminish suggestions from Pakistan that Australia had made up their minds some time ago that they did not wish to tour. Marsh said while there was virtually nothing Pakistan could do to change the ACA’s stance, he did not expect a final decision to rest with Australia’s players.”If [the ICC] decide that it will take place in Pakistan then it will I guess become Cricket Australia’s decision as to whether Australia participates. If Cricket Australia make the decision to send a team, then and only then will it become a player’s decision. Talk of a boycott and all of those sort of things are some way off and I don’t expect that it will get to that point.”