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Mumbai

Can Ajinkya Rahane and Wasim Jaffer, who stitched together four 100-plus partnerships last season, reprise their glorious form?•ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Mumbai have always entered the Ranji Trophy with one thought: that there is no point in coming second. It is not a cocky attitude; rather it is the confidence that comes from being the indisputable heavyweights with 38 Ranji titles. But in the 76th year of the competition, apart from the weight of history, the defending champions face a few stiff challenges.Mumbai’s coach Praveen Amre’s biggest concern remains the unreliable middle order, which has proved brittle in the past. A long-time Mumbai loyalist and former captain Amol Muzumdar’s decision to move to Assam might have raised eyebrows but the veteran batsman had consistently failed to provide any stability in the middle order after the opening pair Wasim Jaffer and Ajinkya Rahane had built solid platforms.In the absence of Muzumdar, the onus now is on Rohit Sharma, who would like to reprise last season’s form when he scored three centuries – including two in the final – and three half-centuries. If he fails, it would put enormous pressure on the likes of Abhishek Nayar. Mumbai have tried to push Rahane to No. 3 but Sahil Kukreja’s failure as an opener hasn’t solved the problem. It’s surprising that Mumbai have managed to win the Ranji title twice in the last two years despite their handicaps.To make matters more difficult, four of their key performers – Rohit, Rahane, Nayar and Dhawal Kulkarni – will be absent in the second game as they are part of the Board President’s XI squad that will take on the Sri Lankans in Mumbai.The other area of concern will be the absence of a proven legspinner who can take the ball away from the right-handers. With Sairaj Bahutule joining Muzumdar at Assam, the responsibility lies with the much persisted with Iqbal Abdulla, who embarrassingly can’t even spin the ball consistently. The 17-year old Harmeet Singh, another left-armer, has been drafted to provide an alternative option.Still, Mumbai have reasons to be optimistic. Players like Jaffer, Rohit, Rahane, Nayar and Kulkarni remain in the peripheral vision of the national selectors. In their quest to capture their own summits lies the fate of Mumbai maintaining its credo.What they did last season
Barring the near-embarrassment against Saurashtra, Mumbai remained undefeated, winning five of their seven league games. The only time they looked likely to crumble was in Rajkot when Cheteshwar Pujara and Bhushan Chawan hit big hundreds as Saurasthra piled a mammoth 643 for 4. In reply Mumbai followed-on and at 89 for 5 the ignominy of defeat loomed large. But the spirited Ramesh Powar’s four-hour long vigil extinguished Saurashtra’s hopes. Mumbai gained revenge by knocking out Saurasthra in the semis, of course this time bolstered by the presence of Sachin Tendulkar and Zaheer Khan, who returned for semis and finals.Men to watch
Jaffer and Rahane were the only two batsmen last season to cross the 1000-mark. Such was their dominance that pair combined to script four 100-plus partnerships. Both men have been playing for the same club Indian Oil Corporation and play in an aggressive mode. Another key player is the fast bowler Kulkarni, who ended up as the last season’s highest wicket-taker (42 at 19 including five five-fors). For the record it was Kulkarni’s debut season so the challenge this time, as Jaffer admitted, would be to repeat that effort to prove his worth.

Gujarat

Bhavik Thaker, who averaged 86.62 in the last season, is the man to watch out for•Sivaraman Kitta/K Sivaraman

Gujarat might be one of the less-formidable teams on the Ranji circuit but they dazzled in the 2008-09 season, winning four out of seven games, before they were halted by Uttar Pradesh in the quarter-finals.Bhavik Thaker starred by accumulating 693 runs at 86.62 and was well supported by Parthiv Patel, Nilesh Modi, and Niraj Patel. The bowling was led by the spin-seam combo of Mohnish Parmar, who took 41 wickets at 19.53, and Sidharth Trivedi, who grabbed 34 wickets at 19.08.The biggest news this year, though, occurred beyond the boundary with the state chief minister Narendra Modi becoming the president of the association in September.What they did last season
Gujarat cantered to victory against Saurashtra in their first game but suffered a reverse against Mumbai. What followed was a splendid run of form: They had Hyderabad following on but couldn’t win it outright, took the first-innings lead against the powerful Delhi, thrashed Punjab by ten wickets, overwhelmed Rajasthan by seven wickets and thumped Orissa by an innings.So far so good but unfortunately for them, their worst batting effort came in the quarter-final. They restricted Uttar Pradesh to 305 in the first innings but were shot out for 117. UP went on to score 375 in their second and Gujarat, chasing 564, ended up on 106 for 3.Men to watch
Thaker, who averages 48.24, had a great last season where he amassed 893 runs with 86.62 with the help of three hundreds. Parthiv and Nilesh were the other centurions in the last season and it can be expected that these three will form the fulcrum of Gujarat’s batting line-up. Trivedi, a medium pacer, did well last season and went on to earn laurels from his IPL captain Shane Warne. Parmar, a Murali clone, has continued to tantalize domestic batsmen around the country but there have been always murmurs about his action. It would be interesting to see how he goes this year.

Railways

You have to turn the clock back to the 2004-05 season when Railways last clinched the title. They stirringly came back from the brink of relegation to lift the crown, beating Punjab in Mohali. The loyalists – Sanjay Bangar, Yere Goud and Kulamani Parida – have stayed on from that famous triumph, and through thick and thin since, while the likes of Harvinder Singh and Raja Ali have called it a day. But a bigger worry is that many of the current crop, after performing well for their respective associations last season, have shown a reluctance to appear for their employers.The non-availability of players employed with the Railways under the sports quota like Bhavik Thaker, Rajesh Bishnoi (Gujarat), Shivakant Shukla (Uttar Pradesh) and M Suresh (Andhra Pradesh) severely hampered the team’s build-up to the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. Shukla scored 589 runs, including two centuries in the last season for Uttar Pradesh, while Bhavik Thaker amassed 830 runs at 75.45 and M Suresh had 32 wickets to his name from nine matches and without them Railways will need to be at the top of their game if they are to avoid relegation.What they did last season
The return to the top flight last season did not bring with it the coveted results. Railways found themselves wallowing in the lower depths of Group B, just above Maharashtra and the relegated Andhra Pradesh. They began well, taking the bigger share of points in their drawn game against Karnataka. Their solitary win of the campaign soon arrived after another stalemate against Baroda, against Andhra. But on the wrong side of draws in the next three matches meant the twelve points were not going to be enough for a quarter-final berth or an improvement from the fifth place finish among the seven teams.Men to watch
Left-handed opener Faiz Fazal, the former Vidarbha captain, was the highest run-getter last season with 484 runs that included an unbeaten 200 against Services. Performances in the Plate Division, though, in his own words, tend to get overlooked, and so the crossover to the Railways team happened this year. Having been extremely consistent through the last two seasons, Fazal also hit a crucial 58 against South Zone as Central Zone were crowned Deodhar Trophy champions.A member of Railways’ two Ranji Trophy triumphs, Tejinder Pal Singh, has many good memories of the time spent at the Karnail Singh Stadium. Now back on home ground after a two-year hiatus – he had signed up with the Chandigarh Lions in the ICL – things are happening fast for the middle-order batsman and Northern Railway employee. The most important being a one-year deal offered by the Mumbai Indians in the IPL. The vast experience of Goud, Bangar, and Murali Kartik will always be special as they aim to rekindle the past glory.

Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh do have Sarandeep Singh and Vikramjeet Malik but Ashok Thakur is the man they would depend on to make the early blows•ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Himachal Pradesh are back in the Super League a year after they were relegated to the Plate League. They are here by virtue of having topped the Plate League with 19 points, winning three of five games. Their mammoth first-innings lead in the semi-final against Madhya Pradesh in Nagpur guaranteed their promotion to the top division, but for good measure Sarandeep Singh, along with Mohinder Sharma, bowled them to an emphatic win.They were the best side in the Plate League last year for one simple reason – everyone contributed. The top order churned out runs and the bowlers, led by Vikramjeet Malik, Ashok Thakur and Sarandeep, performed admirably to ensure Himachal Pradesh lost just one game last season. They’ve been a flip-flopping side, shuffling back and forth between the two leagues, and need to prove they can be a consistent threat to top teams. Pooled together in a group that includes Mumbai and Tamil Nadu, who beat them in 2007, Himachal Pradesh cannot afford slip-ups like those that relegated them last time.What they did last season
Himachal Pradesh began on a high, beating Haryana handsomely with five points thanks to Malik’s 13 wickets. Then they thrashed Kerala and followed up with 480-run hiding of Jammu & Kashmir. A draw and defeat to Goa didn’t dampen spirits too much because of their crushing semi-final success. .Men to watch
HP’s strength is their bowling attack. Leading them again will be the opening pair and Sarandeep, the former India offspinner, who took his 300th first-class wicket last season. Malik and Sarandeep, with 32 and 27 wickets last season, can always be counted on but it was the efforts of the left-arm seamer Thakur, with 29 scalps in that winning campaign, that boosted Himachal Pradesh. Up against tougher teams and in a tough group, how Thakur delivers in tandem with his new-ball partner and Sarandeep will be interesting to see. He’s a veteran, being 32 and having played 43 matches, so don’t expect him to be overawed by the competition.The batting last season centered around Sangram Singh (632 runs) and Bhavin Thakkar (586 runs) but in the top division contributions will have to be more forthcoming from the likes of Ajay Mannu and Vinit Indulkar, both vital cogs in the set-up.

Huma Akram, the wife of former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram, died on Sunday after developing heart and kidney complications. She was admitted to the Apollo Hospital in Chennai last Tuesday after her condition deteriorated on board an air ambulance flying from Lahore to Singapore, where she was due to be treated at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital. She breathed her last around 9:45am, hospital sources informed.Huma, 42, is survived by two children, Taimur and Akbar, and arrangements are underway to fly her body back to Pakistan. A trained medical practitioner herself, she had stints with some of the leading hospitals in Pakistan as a psychologist and a hypnotherapist.In the mid-1990s, during her husband’s second stint as captain, Huma also worked with the Pakistan team for a while as a psychological counsellor, helping players such as Saqlain Mushtaq. Wasim also regularly credited her for helping him mentally, especially in the aftermath of the players revolt against his captaincy in 1993-94.Ijaz Butt, the PCB chairman, also expressed his grief over the demise. “We are with Wasim and his family at this hour of need and pray to God to give them strength to bear this great and irreparable loss,” he said. “All the management of PCB and fellow cricketers have also extended their condolences and prayed eternal peace for the departed soul.”Wasim, 43, played 104 Tests and 356 ODIs during his 17-year career, before retiring in 2002 with 414 and 502 wickets in the respective formats.

Michael Clarke has been confirmed as Australia’s new Twenty20 captain and Cameron White will step into the vice-captaincy following the retirement of Ricky Ponting from the format. Clarke was widely expected to take on the leadership and the decision was confirmed by Cricket Australia on Friday.”I’ve learnt a lot from Ricky Ponting over the last few years and I’ll continue to learn from him,” Clarke said. “I’m really excited to lead Australia in the newest form of the game. We’ve got a young and enthusiastic group but we must recognise that we’ve got a lot of work to do in Twenty20 cricket and our recent form hasn’t been good.”Clarke will have his sights set firmly on next year’s ICC World Twenty20 in the Caribbean after Australia were eliminated during the group stage at this year’s tournament. Clarke has captained Australia in three Twenty20 internationals and 15 one-day internationals.”Michael has continued to grow as a player and a leader,” Ponting said. “We have developed a strong working relationship and he has always led the team well in my absence. I am sure he will do a very good job with the Twenty20 team and I congratulate him and Cameron White on their appointments.”The appointment of White, 26, as the vice-captain comes during his most successful period in international cricket. He was preferred ahead of Brad Haddin and Michael Hussey for the full-time deputy’s role and Cricket Australia’s chief executive officer James Sutherland, said White was the right man for the job.”Michael will be supported in the Twenty20 vice captaincy by Cameron White, whose leadership qualities have been to the fore in recent months and are currently on show at the Champions League Twenty20, where he is leading Victoria in that tournament,” Sutherland said. Australia are not scheduled to play their next Twenty20 international until early next year.

Close to a year after retiring from international cricket, former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly has said he may play for Bengal in the upcoming Ranji Trophy season. The 37-year-old pointed out that he was open to the idea of playing “a few of the four-day Ranji Trophy matches” if the Bengal selectors were keen on including him in the team.”At the moment I haven’t spoken to anybody, but I’ll definitely be speaking to the selectors, and if I’m required, then I won’t mind playing a few matches,” Ganguly told the , the Kolkata-based daily. “The 2009-10 season is again a very crucial one for Bengal and we’re in a tough group. So, if I’m required, I’ll be there.”It was reported earlier that Ganguly would be playing for Bengal only in the Vijay Hazare Trophy to gain some match practice before turning out for Kolkata Knight Riders in the third edition of the IPL in March-April next year. However, he said he was keen on playing the home games during the Ranji season and the knock-out matches later, if Bengal qualified.”I cannot sit out 11 months in a year and hope to fire in the IPL,” Ganguly told the . “It may be Twenty20 cricket, but let’s not forget that it’s a top-class international tournament and the standard of cricket is very high. I need to get into the groove before IPL 3 starts in March 2010.”Ganguly played 113 Tests and 311 ODIs and scored 7212 and 11363 runs respectively at an average of 40-plus. He also featured in 242 first-class matches, and is 67 short of reaching 15000 runs.With Bengal taking on heavyweights like Uttar Pradesh, Saurashtra, Karnakata, Maharashtra, Baroda and Delhi in Group B of the Ranji Trophy Super League this season, Ganguly’s experience is expected to bolster Bengal’s fragile middle order. Bengal are also set to welcome back ICL players like Deep Dasgupta, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala and Rohan Gavaskar.Bengal captain Laxmi Ratan Shukla and selector Devang Gandhi were both delighted with Ganguly’s decision. ” making a comeback is big news. It will be great for Bengal and a huge plus for Bengal cricket. It will be of great advantage if he turns out this season,” Shukla told the .”With the world of experience Sourav’s presence brings to the team, it will definitely help Bengal cricket,” Gandhi said.However, the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) said it was not yet aware of the development. “He hasn’t told us anything,” said CAB joint-secretary Biswarup Dey. “It won’t be fair to make a comment based on media statements.”Ganguly, who is also the chairman of CAB’s new cricket development committee, said the decision was unlikely to interfere with his administrative responsibilities. “Not at all. I will do what I can as a member of the CAB working and cricket committees,” Ganguly said. “Balancing the two won’t be a problem. And like always, I will give it my best shot.”

Former South African umpire Wilf Diedricks died early on Tuesday morning after a lengthy illness at the age of 64.Diedricks became a well-known figure in South African cricket as a first-class umpire post-1991. But his contribution to non-racial cricket from the mid-1970s to 1991, both at provincial level in Kwazulu Natal and nationally, was enormous.In the 1969 season, he linked up with Universals Cricket Club in the Durban Districts Cricket Union at Tills Crescent. It was during this time that he began his umpiring career. Diedricks stopped playing just prior to the first attempt at unity in 1976-1977 and together with Krish Mackerdhuj and Sagren Naidoo, joined the umpiring ranks.He helped to establish the Natal Umpires Body which was followed by the SA Cricket Board Umpires Association. In his first assignment, under the auspices of the United Cricket Board, Diedricks, along with Brian Jerling, umpired the match between Eastern Province B and Natal B at the University of Port Elizabeth .Diedricks’ first four-day game was a New Year affair at St Georges Park in a match between Eastern province, captained by Kepler Wessels, and Orange Free State, led by Hansie Cronje.He officiated in just the one Test, between South Africa and India in Port Elizabeth in 1992-93. He also stood in 31 ODIs, the last being the Standard Bank Triangular Tournament match in 2001 between South Africa and Kenya.Diedricks is survived by his wife Ethne, a cricket scorer, and his four children.Cassim Docrat, the KwaZulu-Natal Cricket Union chief executive, said the passing away of Diedricks was a tremendous loss to South African cricket. “He was a person who had committed and dedicated his life to the improvement of the game in all facets,” he said. “His administrative skills will be sadly missed and we extend our condolences to his family during this difficult time.”

Merv Hughes watched from the Nursery End as Peter Siddle spent his first day at Lord’s preparing for his next engagement as Australia’s Ashes enforcer. The two could not look more different: Hughes is a block tower with a handlebar moustache that seems to have grown longer for this trip; Siddle is fitter and leaner than Hughes ever was and can barely grow stubble.Hughes is now an Australian selector but many of his on-field qualities live on through Siddle, a 24-year-old fast bowler from country Victoria. Terrorising England batsmen, verbally and with the ball, comes high on their life’s aims and the pair has spoken regularly during Siddle’s career. Siddle’s bowling was particularly Merv-like in Cardiff where his list of achievements included three bruises to Graeme Swann in the same over, a shoulder-barging incident with Stuart Broad and short, sharp rhetorical questions to England’s batsmen.There were also three wickets, but it was the way he roughed up the opposition and failed to tire that were the biggest reminders of Hughes, who marked English grounds with his heavy boots and batsmen’s minds with his deliveries during the 1989 and 1993 tours. If send-offs hadn’t been banned in the quest for good behaviour Siddle would probably be pointing and spitting batsmen towards the pavilion. He is more polite than Hughes was, but is not afraid to be abrasive on the field and revealing off it.While Cricket Australia have suggested to the players that they sledge less to improve their status as role models, the message didn’t make it to Siddle’s inbox. “If it was sent I don’t think we received it,” he said before a wide, rounded smile appeared. He’s been nicknamed ‘Sid Vicious’ since his days at the Academy, but promises he is laid-back when he’s not bowling.”They reckon I go a bit fiery and the eyes go red when I get going,” he said. “That’s what gets me going out in the field. That’s when I reckon I’m bowling at my best, when I get fired up, charging in. The sooner it happens, the better it is for the team.”In South Africa he and Dale Steyn traded bouncers like primary-schoolers do sports cards and the sight of the local hero being treated so badly turned the crowd against Siddle. He loved it. Melbourne’s Bay 13 spent summers chanting “Hadlee’s a w***er” and Siddle has heard spectators shout a similar line ever since.His parents Steve and Allison heard the cry among the cheers for their boy as they sat in the stands in Cardiff. They are a woodchopping family and are not the sort of people who would have stuck their fingers in their ears. When Siddle clipped Paul Collingwood’s edge on the final afternoon his mum and dad were high-fiving their neighbours.”They don’t usually have to pass them [the comments] on to me – I can usually hear most of them,” Siddle said. “[My parents are] fine about it all. I copped a lot of grief in South Africa. It’s just something you’ve got to get used to. No doubt the English hear it when they come to Australia. It’s just the way I play my game, so I’ve got to get used to copping the grief.”Siddle walked into Lord’s for the first time on Tuesday and the place was still exciting him after training. “It’s amazing,” he said. “Growing up there were two Tests I wanted to play in. As a Victorian it was always the MCG on the Boxing Day Test and I got that opportunity last year. The other one was an Ashes series playing at Lord’s.”He spoke to Glenn McGrath at Worcester about playing at the home of cricket and has already picked out the Pavilion End to mark his run, preferring to bring the ball back in with help from the terrain. “He gave us a few little ideas,” Siddle said. “The main focus was the slope and how to get used to that – either you’re getting pulled downhill or you’re running the other way. You’ve got to get used to those things, but there’s not much to it.”Hughes played two Tests at Lord’s, taking 10 wickets, and will also chat to the team before the toss. Siddle already knows how Hughes feels about the Ashes contest. “I spent plenty of time with him growing up through the junior ranks and all that kind of stuff,” he said. “He’s good to have a laugh and joke with. He’s good fun. He loved [playing against England]. He loved the Ashes series, the fight and the contest.” After only five days, Siddle does too.

Match facts

Friday, July 17, 2009
Start time 10.00am (14.00 GMT)

The Big Picture

Shakib Al Hasan and Mahmuddulah dominated the first Test without exactly breaking their backs to do so. Can they help clinch a rare series win?•AFP

Now this is a situation Bangladesh aren’t accustomed to. Undoubtedly buoyant after beating West Indies in St Vincent, Bangladesh go into the second and final Test as favourites, something they have never been against Test opposition. Forget the ugly spat between the WICB and WIPA, forget that a second-string team was put together at the last minute. The ICC recognises this as a West Indies team and Bangladesh beat them fair and square. Bangladesh need only draw this game for their first series win overseas, and second ever.They still didn’t hit the heights in the first Test but Bangladesh were good enough in the end to seal the win they needed to take a 1-0 series lead. With momentum and the knowledge that conditions in Grenada could be subcontinental, the tourists have to be fancied to wrap up the series by winning the final Test. Shakib Al Hasan, who bowled superbly and captained exceptionally on the fifth day in St Vincent as the hosts threatened to pull off a gritty escape, will lead full-time in Mashrafe Mortaza’s absence.This is a situation West Indies aren’t accustomed to either. As the dispute between board and players rumbles on, West Indies will again field a weakened line-up as they seek to drawn level with Bangladesh. The hosts let themselves down in the first innings in St Vincent and will need to bounce back strongly if they are to avoid a series defeat to Bangladesh. If its inspiration they seek, well then they can look at how on the fifth morning they ran through the Bangladesh tail, taking five wickets for 24 to give themselves an outside chance of winning. The rest will have to come from better application with the bat.This series was never going to be the stuff of headlines, but there remains enough subtext – and plenty at stake – for this Test to be an intriguing battle.

Form guide

(last five matches, most recent first)
West Indies– LLLDD
Bangladesh – WLLLL

Watch out for …

Mahmudullah Eight wickets on Test debut, a real bonus for Bangladesh. Mahmudullah, earlier considered a limited-overs specialist, stamped himself on proceedings in St Vincent with the ball, picking up five wickets in West Indies’ second innings. He was relentless in applying pressure with his offspin and the home side need to watch out against him.Omar Phillips Another debutant who made an impression in St Vincent. The young opener fell six short of what he described as “one of the easiest hundreds you will ever get at this level”. Phillips’ innings had laid a strong foundation for a sizable lead before Bangladesh struck back to limit the damage to 69 runs. His departure for 94, when he played a loose shot off Rubel to short cover, Phillips said, was a consequence of a change in tactics after he had reached the 90s. If he gets as far again and doesn’t make any changes, watch out Bangladesh.

Team news

Bangladesh have replaced Mortaza with Enamul Haque jr, the slow left-armer who took 6 for 45 to send Bangladesh fans wild with an inaugural Test victory over Zimbabwe in 2005.Bangladesh: (probable) 1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Imrul Kayes, 3 Junaid Siddique, 4 Mohammad Ashraful, 5 Raqibul Hasan, 6 Shakib Al Hasan, 7 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), 8 Mahmudullah, 9 Shahadat Hossain, 10 Rubel Hossain, 11 Nazmul Hossain.The West Indies selectors have retained their new-look squad for the second Test, with batsman Ryan Hinds added to the team. Floyd Reifer, the captain, said after the first match that West Indies might play another batsman. In that case the likely candidate would be Hinds, who last played a Test in March in the home series against England. He will probably replace the offspinner Nikita Miller, who went wicketless. The rest of the bowlers from the first Test should pick themselves. If West Indies retain faith in Miller – who batted stubbornly for 63 minutes and 54 balls in the second innings – and decide not to play an extra batsman Hinds may still get the nod and replace Travis Dowlin who contributed only 22 and 19 in St Vincent.West Indies: (probable) 1 Omar Phillips, 2 Dale Richards, 3 Floyd Reifer (capt), 4 Travis Dowlin, 5 David Bernand, 6 Ryan Hinds, 7 Chadwick Walton (wk), 8 Darren Sammy, 9 Kemar Roach, 10 Ryan Austin, 11 Tino Best.

Pitch and conditions

Grenada has only hosted one Test, in 2002, and that was a three-innings, high-scoring draw. This is a track known to wear slowly and assist spin as the days go on. Scattered showers are forecast in the afternoon through the five days, however. The teams’ training sessions were interrupted by rain.”It [the pitch] was a touch wet when we saw it on Wednesday. A bit of moisture maybe on top. It will be interesting to see how it eventually looks,” said Shakib. “We don’t have a problem with the wicket. If it is slow, which I have heard it traditionally is, then that’s okay and if it is quicker than Arnos Vale then I believe our bowling, especially spin, will be more effective.”

Quotes

“Everybody knows I am not an out-and-out attacking bowler who will fire out batsmen. I like to build pressure and try to get among the wickets.”
“The boys are all keyed up. We know that our job is not finished. The best part is that we all know that it is possible.”
Shakib Al Hasan knows where the momentum lies.