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Pace bowler wins both his contests with England’s second-Test centurions

Nagraj Gollapudi24-Jul-2020Brilliant spells of fast bowling make Test cricket richer. Spells that usually set up a contest. Invariably the tussle is between the best fast bowler and the best batsman in the opposition. As a fan, you are always anticipating something about to happen.Part of a good or a great spell of fast bowling is the set-up. The bowler sells the dummy. The batsman gets drawn, at times willingly, most times without being privy to the strategy, and suddenly you start seeing the trap.Kemar Roach v Ben Stokes on Friday afternoon in Manchester was one such enticing contest.Stokes had just faced just four deliveries from Roach in the first half-hour after lunch. Roach was now in his fourth over in the second session. The first ball was short of length and Stokes dabbed it without any struggle. But Roach had spotted Stokes standing way out of his crease. The Barbadian’s ego would have surely been challenged, but he did not show it.ALSO READ: Brathwaite defends Holder’s decision to bowl first againRoach ran back in, banged down a perfect bouncer that rattled Stokes’ helmet. The sharp knock might have echoed through the empty ground. It was now the turn of Stokes’ ego being dented a bit as he had to undergo the regulation concussion protocol.Next ball Roach repeated the same short-ball treatment. Stokes this time played the hook spontaneously. It went for a four. Was Roach disappointed? Nope. He had spotted Stokes had stepped back closer to the crease after the knock on the head.Roach maintained a fourth stump or wider line for the next two deliveries. The penultimate ball of the over, Roach went closer to the stumps, something he does not so often anymore. Stokes was back in his crease. The ball pitched on length, seamed in. There was no forward press. Stokes was not expecting the ball to come straight and move in at speed. It burst through his defence. Timber! England’s best batsman just kept looking in disbelief at spot where the ball had pitched.Roach did not say a word. Just ran past Stokes with a confident stride, with glaring eyes that conveyed the message: “I beat you. I set you up.”Two overs later Roach would hit Ollie Pope on his helmet with a scrambled seam delivery as the right-hander went for a hook and was beaten by the pace. Roach would finish the spell, with a spectacular outswinger, delivered from close to stumps, pitching on length, drawing Rory Burns forward, exposing his outside edge with the away movement.It was as spell to remember. A spell built on toil, discipline and determination. According to ESPNcricinfo ball-by-ball data, of the 36 deliveries in that first spell of the second session, Roach fired 15 on the stumps, with an equal number outside off, in the channel. There were 21 deliveries on length, which is something bowlers have long utilised to dominate batsmen. But for Stokes he mixed them up well, pitching half-a-dozen short, eight fuller, and just one short-of-length.Roach did not waste his deliveries. He invested them in setting up the batsmen.Ben Stokes was bowled by Kemar Roach•AFPIn the morning there was another set-up.The first three balls of the match to Dom Sibley were all pitched well outside off stump. Sibley had amassed one of the slowest Test centuries at the same ground in the previous Test by leaving such balls alone.Roach pushed the square leg fielder slightly behind square. Sibley might not have bought into the plan, but where Roach surprised him was by pitching straighter in line with the stumps. With his slightly awkward half-open stance, Sibley attempted to play the ball across the line. The bat face was closed when the ball hit his front pad.”I told you. I told you.” Roach celebrated his first wicket of the morning ecstatically.Two set-ups. Two wickets. Both the centurions in the second Test.Wicketless and hungry in Southampton. Disciplined and determined in the second Test at Old Trafford, yet still left three short of the landmark of becoming only the ninth fast bowler from West Indies to bag 200 Test wickets.Roach nearly had his 200th Test wicket in the first two overs with the second new ball late in the afternoon, Jos Buttler’s outside edge flying through the empty fourth slip. Pope got lucky, too, as John Campbell failed to be proactive at short extra cover. Roach nearly screamed in delight.He was made to wait once again. The smile, though, did not vanish.As Ian Bishop said on TV during the tea break – Kemar Roach in full flow is a joy to watch.

A look at the big moments – with videos – that swung the MCG Test India’s way

ESPNcricinfo staff31-Dec-2020 Ashwin sends Smith back for a duck

After Australia chose to bat, India dismissed the openers cheaply, but Steven Smith was the big wicket. R Ashwin had dismissed Smith in Adelaide, and got him again at MCG, with just his second ball to him at that. He got one to dip and then turn, and Smith was caught at leg slip, where a fielder had been placed exactly for that. Early advantage to India.Labuschagne falls into the leg-side trap too

With Smith gone, Marnus Labuschagne was Australia’s most important batsman and had got to 48. At 134 for 4, Australia would still have been hopeful of a decent first-innings total. But Labuschagne flicked casually at a delivery going down leg from debutant Mohammed Siraj, and it went to the leg gully where Shubman Gill took a smart low catch – exactly as planned. Australia had lost the advantage of winning the toss.Smith drops Rahane on 73

Australia were uncharacteristically poor in the field during India’s first innings. Gill had been given two lives, one when he was on just five, and Rishabh Pant got a chance too, but was dismissed shortly after. Then Smith put Ajinkya Rahane down at second slip off Mitchell Starc. When India were just 40 runs ahead, with just Aswhin and the quicks left to bat. It was a tough chance, but had it been taken, the first-innings lead may have been half of what it ended up being.Bumrah bowls Smith around his legs

Australia needed a big second-innings contribution from Smith after conceding the 131-run lead. He had faced 30 balls and looked like he was set when Bumrah got one to nip back at him. Smith often walks across and exposes leg stump but rarely misses connecting with the ball. This time, Bumrah’s pace and a little bit of movement back in made Smith miss. The ball removed the leg-stump bail to leave Australia three down and still 60 behind.Paine gets unlucky with the DRS

At 99 for 5 in the second innings, Australia’s last hope was for Tim Paine, Player of the Match in the first Test, to put together a big partnership with Cameron Green. He missed a cut shot against Ravindra Jadeja, and there was an appeal for caught behind that was turned down. Rahane, standing at first slip, reviewed immediately, but both the bowler and keeper looked unsure. Paine shook his head, confident he had not nicked. Hot Spot showed no mark, but the real-time snickometer showed a small spike, and Paine was given out. As Paine walked back dejected, and a bit puzzled, India knew they had closed in.

Five takeaways from the intra-squad practice matches and the one-day BCB President’s Cup

Mohammad Isam25-Oct-2020Cricket at last, but…
On the day Bangladesh’s tour of Sri Lanka was postponed for a second time, BCB president Nazmul Hassan announced that Bangladesh’s preliminary touring party would play intra-squad matches instead. The board quickly organised a one-day tournament, later naming it the BCB President’s Cup, which officially became the start of the 2020-21 domestic season.To make up the numbers in the three line-ups, the selectors called up 22 more players. The board also put together an attractive package for the best performers, spending over $43,000 as prize money for the seven matches.All good there, but only 46 players actually got a chance to play the tournament, and that’s only a fraction of the total number of professional cricketers in the country. There remains uncertainty about the remaining part of the 2019-20 Dhaka Premier League, but with the announcement of another T20 tournament next month, competitive cricket is slowly making its return.Pacers’ improved fitness
The extra zip in the bowling of Taskin Ahmed and Rubel Hossain, the latter adjudged best bowler of the President’s Cup, was noticeable throughout the one-day matches. They bowled at their usual pace but looked more disciplined all along, which was a missing ingredient in their make-up in the past. Hossain, who finished with 12 wickets at an average of 10.33, also had a 4.02 economy rate, while Ahmed managed to pick up seven wickets at 26.28, and he was also impressive in the early and late spells in the two two-day intra-squad matches.It was a refreshing change after the rough couple of years the two have had, and it was down to the extra work they put in on their fitness during the pandemic.It wasn’t just Ahmed and Hossain, but also the likes of Mohammad Saifuddin, Mustafizur Rahman, Al-Amin Hossain, Ebadot Hossain and Abu Jayed, who looked fitter and bowled more accurately than often in the past. Among the younger lot, Shoriful Islam and Sumon Khan also impressed with their pace, swing, and yes, fitness.Sumon Khan’s five-wicket haul helped Mahmudullah XI bowl out Najmul XI for 173 in the BCB President’s Cup final•Raton Gomes/BCBUnder-19 champions get a taste of the higher level
Eight members of Bangladesh’s Under-19 World Cup-winning squad, including captain Akbar Ali, were distributed in the three President’s Cup teams. Mahmudul Hasan Joy spent more than two hours for a half-century and the patience was good to see, as he supported Imrul Kayes and Mahmudullah in two partnerships. Shoriful, the only fast bowler chosen from the age-group set-up, took a four-wicket haul in one of his three appearances, and generally impressed everyone with his spirit.The likes of Islam and Ali, however, come with the heavy “very talented” tags, and as Bangladesh coach Russell Domingo pointed out last week, it is going to be crucial that patience is shown with these young achievers.A few new contenders
The selectors picked an array of players to diversify the bowling attacks of the three one-day sides, in particular. The fast bowlers did well, including Khan, who took a five-wicket haul in the final. And Nayeem Hasan was the only spinner who stood out in the two-day matches and the one-day competition with his accuracy and spin.Among the three legspinners, only Rishad Hossain bowled enough to catch the eye, while Irfan Sukkur, the left-hand wicketkeeper-batsman, struck two half-centuries. Some of these players will remain in the selectors’ log if they continue to do well in the T20 tournament in November.Domingo’s note of caution
But as coach Domingo pointed out, these matches were mere practice matches, and he warned against putting too much emphasis on these performances. Part of Domingo’s statement was partly a counter towards the criticism of the batsmen, but he was mostly correct in his assessment.The cricketers had come back from a long break, and it was an unusual time for a group of batsmen who do better when playing international cricket regularly. That said, there were good signs, especially in the performance of the fast bowlers, and in how some of the younger cricketers did well despite the brief period of training before the tournament.

Changes to T20 could well have achieved the desired ends instead

Ian Chappell01-Aug-2021Throughout my playing career I believed there were two possible solutions to a problem: a simple one and a complicated one. I also believed that to the benefit of Australia, England would regularly choose the complicated solution. They’ve done it again.To overcome the perceived problem of a public not fully conversant with cricket, they’ve concocted another form of the game – The Hundred. That’s right, they’ve reduced by a mere 20 balls a format that was extremely popular with players and the public.At least previous changes to format options were substantial; from five days to 50 overs and then a further abbreviation to 20 overs. If you’re going to introduce reductions don’t do it in half-measures. And don’t make changes simply for change’s sake; what cricket’s evolution needs is improvements. To make matters worse, the Hundred hasn’t so much made changes as it has engulfed the game in gimmicks.If the requirement for a terrestrial television deal truly is a format that doesn’t exceed a three-hour time frame, then why include tactical time-outs? The original plan for T20 cricket was for the overs to be completed in 80 minutes, with a ten-minute break between innings. That’s a not unreasonable four minutes per over (with a bit of leeway built in) and a match finished in three hours.Related

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However, when you allow lengthy DRS deliberations and numerous replays to decide boundaries – to mention just a couple of administrator-induced interruptions – it’s difficult for the players to uphold their end of the bargain.Surely a terrestrial television deal that gave the game a wider audience reach, could have been arranged around the T20 format.And if you’re truly interested in further educating the public about cricket, why not utilise the video screen at the ground. Showing valuable tips on the game from current players could replace the tradition whereby fathers used to educate their kids at the ground.Useful tips on the game would be far more educational than constantly bombarding patrons with the inane rubbish that regularly invades the video screens. “Every ball counts.” Now there’s a revelation. If that hasn’t always been the case then I wasted the bulk of my first 36 years.In smaller markets T10 leagues are already sprouting and the Hundred is a logical stepping stone on the way to mainstream cricket heading in that direction.At what point does cricket become less of a game and more of an entertainment? When does it become more fulfilling for the patrons than the players? For cricketers of my vintage – I’m pre-helmets, not prehistoric – that point is probably reached at 20 overs. I recall days where play was severely restricted by poor weather and the after-stumps beer didn’t feel like it was earned. I can imagine feeling the same way if I had only faced two balls at the end of an innings while fielding for 20 overs. I loved fielding but more so if the potential was there for a decent bat in between stints chasing leather.Imagine the frustration of Australia’s Michael Clarke – a prolific run scorer in longer formats – who played five matches in the ICC’s 2007 World T20 tournament for a total of four balls faced.Apart from reducing the number of balls to obtain a terrestrial television deal, the reasoning behind the Hundred could well be that it improves the chances of cricket fulfilling the Olympic dream. This is often cited as a way to spread the game’s popularity to a wider audience. Surely the T20 format could achieve that same outcome without yet another reduction.Cricket is a team game ideally played by 11 members a side. Performance satisfaction is a big reason why youngsters fall in love with the game. Administrators would do well to remember that before they rush into devising shorter forms of the game.The more the length of an innings is reduced, the greater chance that there will be players “just making up the numbers”. Even those players crave occasional performance satisfaction.

This is a more touchy-feely version of the old gnarled champions, but among them is a match-winner every bit as bullish as the old macho men

Osman Samiuddin15-Nov-20212:28

Aaron Finch: Back against the wall brings best out of David Warner

They used to call David Warner the bull. That was when Warner was a cricketer but was also a living, breathing embodiment of The Line. The Line that Australia drew, the precise location and pulse rate of which only Australia knew, the policing of which only Australia could do.He was The Line because he once had no hesitation raising doubts about what South Africa did to get a ball to reverse and then, four years later, was one of the lead instigators in Sandpapergate.Cricket on ESPN+

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He was The Line because he was such a serial sledger that the ICC warned of drawing their own line ahead of the 2015 World Cup, but who has gotten into a near-physical scrap once, and walked off the field once when he deemed the sledging to be too much.Somewhere along the way they started calling him The Reverend. It’s not clear why, other than because he became a father, smiled a bit more and stopped throwing punches at cricketers and constantly being all up in their faces.After he returned from Sandpapergate, they started calling him Hum-bull (humble, geddit?) More smiles, more Tiktok videos, less sledges (though Ben Stokes didn’t think so).It’s very likely that he’s none of these, was never really any of it, but also is all of it and was always all of these. In the real world of ordinary humans – who do not have every single detail of their lives publicly scrutinised as mercilessly as athletes – this is what we call growing up. But over the last week, Warner has shown us a truer, more genuine core, that can’t be faked or nicknamed, a trait that used to be ascribed to the best Australian cricketers.Justin Langer, Steven Smith, David Warner and Aaron Finch react as the winning runs are hit•ICC via GettyLet’s break this down. This is not an Australia side like those old Australia sides, those habitual winners, those snarling, gnarled champions. Sides don’t fear them the way they used to in big tournaments; some, like England, have treated them with disdain recently.Tim Paine gets a lot of attention for being a nice guy, but Aaron Finch is a decent man with the kind of open smile that his not-so-distant predecessors took for weakness. It is a side in which Glenn Maxwell can talk openly and bravely about mental health, not mental disintegration. In which Adam Zampa can be all kinds of a vegan, coffee-connoisseur hipster. In which Marcus Stoinis is Zampa’s bromance, not his mate. In which, as a fast bowler, Pat Cummins is Tom Cruise in Top Gun, not Ben Stiller in Dodgeball. This is, in the context of Australian cricket, a touchy-feely kind of side.And Warner, whatever he is now, is not exactly out of place in this side. Maybe there is something to Hum-Bull after all; the guy who silently served his time, didn’t snitch, and returned with dignity enhanced; maybe he’s just waiting till he’s done and then he’ll drop the memoir on it. But in this latter part of the tournament, he alone has summoned this old-school link to those champion sides and its greatest players; players who pulled out their biggest game for the biggest games; who, when they saw an occasion, rose to it; who went by nicknames like Tugga, Pidge, Punter or WarnieThese days such a conclusion sounds primitive. Data has been used – often persuasively – to argue that there are no clutch moments or games, let alone clutch players. Data can be a buzzkill, albeit a necessary one. In which case, take the following sentences of pure fact in whichever way makes most sense.David Warner is all smiles with his Player-of-the-Tournament trophy•Associated PressIn three successive games that Australia needed to win in a country in which their win-loss record before this tournament was 3-6, they first chased 158 against the defending champions, then 177 against the unbeaten, virtual home side, and then 173 in a final. Warner hit 89*, 49 and 53; 191 runs all told, strike rate 154, a boundary or a six struck at less than every five balls.This wasn’t the early, pioneering Warner. This was smart, ruthless Warner, working his way through his battles, picking his match-ups. It’s easy enough to calculate in numbers how he squeezed those preferred match-ups. But there’s no measure of how it deflated the opposition.Related

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The Imad Wasim over for instance, the fourth of the semi-final chase; favourable match-up sure, 17 runs in all from it, but quite tangibly it sucked the energy out of whatever vibe Shaheen Afridi had created. Or when he hit Mohammad Hafeez for that six and then stepped out to Shadab Khan for another; these weren’t metrics as much as a new Pakistan being taught an old lesson.Tim Southee came into the final on Sunday a transformed T20 bowler, conceding under five runs an over in the powerplay. Warner hit him for two boundaries in his very first over. Then he hit a six in his second. Southee came out the powerplay the old Southee: 2-0-20-0. Mitchell Marsh was well on his way by the time Warner went after Ish Sodhi, but that ninth over didn’t just take out a key member of the attack, it changed the mood of the chase. He doesn’t hit as many sixes as he used to, but each one of the six he hit through the two knock-outs, had an incremental effect on the opposition’s morale: going, going, going – as the late Dean Jones used to say – gone.Plus, he hasn’t totally lost the ability to be downright outrageous. The pull off a Sodhi slider that went straight down the ground for four, or the square drive off Imad having moved well outside leg-stump – this is what makes Warner, finding his own solutions to various problems. Those shots were also to be reminded of what Greg Chappell once said about Warner, that he is wired different to others.He sure is, although, as the last few days have shown, not so different to the greatest of those who came before him.

West Indies are also in contention to make the semis, but their fate is out of their hands

S Rajesh24-Mar-2022The washout in Wellington means South Africa are through to the semi-finals as the second-ranked team, while England’s emphatic win in Christchurch puts them in an excellent position to qualify as well. Here is how the teams stack up, with two positions still up for grabs, going into the last four games of the league stage.England
England’s win against Pakistan in 19.2 overs means their net run rate has gone up to 0.778, marginally above India’s and the best among the teams in contention for the semi-finals. If they beat Bangladesh on Sunday, they will qualify regardless of other results, but whether they finish third or fourth will depend on the result – and margin – of India’s match against South Africa. A washout will be enough for England too, given their high NRR.However, if Bangladesh upset England and if India beat South Africa, then England will be knocked out. In that case, Australia, South Africa, India and West Indies will qualify. However, if India lose to South Africa, then England could qualify even with a defeat on Sunday, as long as their NRR is the best among the teams on six points.West Indies
The only way West Indies can qualify is if at least one of India or England lose their last game and stay on six points. If both teams win, or even if their matches are abandoned, then West Indies will be knocked out because of their poor NRR.India
The one point that West Indies have got from the washout has made the task tougher for India: it is now highly unlikely that they will qualify if they lose to South Africa. For that to happen, England will need to lose to Bangladesh, and finish on a lower NRR than India.On the other hand, even one point from their last game will be enough for India to qualify.New Zealand
With three teams already having more than six points, and England and India on six with much better NRRs, New Zealand are pretty much out of it. Even if they score 300 and beat Pakistan by 200 runs, their NRR will only improve to 0.427. Both England and India will have to lose by around 75 runs for their NRRs to drop in the vicinity of New Zealand’s.Bangladesh can theoretically get to six points too, but their NRR is poor (-0.754) and their last two games are against Australia and England.

“I do understand the responsibility that I have as an individual, and as a player as well, which is something I have failed to do”

Nagraj Gollapudi16-Apr-20222:35

Tahir: Rohit just needs one innings to turn it around

A call to arms about not pressing the panic button. Sachin Tendulkar joining the team huddle for a motivational speech. Shuffling the batting order. Trying out different bowling combinations. Playing just two overseas players. Mumbai Indians have tried whatever they could. And yet, they have lost all their six matches in IPL 2022, making the five-time champions the worst-performing team in the competition. And the defeat against Lucknow Super Giants on Saturday has virtually booted them out of the playoffs’ race.Rohit Sharma, however, isn’t ready to throw in the towel. “It’s not end of the world. We have come back before. We will try and come back again,” he said after the match on . Rohit, whose bat has barely made a murmur despite the 2022 season nearing the halfway stage, also owned up to his shortcomings, something he said had played a big role in Mumbai’s tottering campaign.Related

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In six matches, Rohit has scored 114 runs at an average of 19 and a strike rate of 129. In powerplays, the strike rate is 132.05; he has managed a 40 [in Mumbai’s first match] and couple of 25-plus scores, but his challenge has been in converting the starts.”If I know it, probably I will do it,” Rohit said when asked if he had figured out why he had been failing repeatedly. “Honestly, I am trying to prepare myself in a way that I prepare for every game. There is nothing different there. It’s just not coming off. I take the full responsibly of not putting the team in that situation what they expect from me.”Honestly, I do understand the responsibility that I have as an individual, and as a player as well, which is something I have failed to do in the six games. But, again, I back myself to go out there and enjoy my game and do what I have been doing all these years. It is important to not completely look down. It is important to keep looking forward.”It’s not just Rohit. Ishan Kishan has fizzled out after 81* in 48 balls and 54 in 43 in the first two games. The pressure of being the most expensive buy of the auction can’t be ignored, but bowlers have been smart against left-hander. He likes to hit in the arc between mid-on and behind square on the leg side, but bowlers have stuck to wide-of-off-stump lines. On Sunday, he tried to flick a slower ball from Marcus Stoinis, but played on.

“Every game we play is an opportunity, so we try and find a combination which is best suited for that particular position and the particular conditions. Unless you win games you can’t really keep playing the same XI”Rohit Sharma

While Suryakumar Yadav has been Mumbai’s best batter, he has mostly had to do it on his own in the middle overs. The young duo of Tilak Varma and Dewald Brevis have shown character, composure and derring-do, but as Rohit pointed out, Mumbai have not had a top-order batter playing deep into the innings. He cited the example of Super Giants captain KL Rahul, whose century was the backbone of his team’s 199 for 4 on Saturday. “KL batted brilliantly, batted till the end. And that is something that is missing [for Mumbai]. We want one of our top four to bat as long as possible, which is not happening.”While the target of 200 was chaseable on a ground – Brabourne Stadium – with small boundaries, Rohit felt Mumbai were hampered by a lack of big partnerships. They’ve had seven 50-plus stands – the joint-highest so far this season – but not enough that have gone on to be match-winning.On Saturday, Rahul and Quinton de Kock helped Super Giants raise 57 in the powerplay, a phase where Mumbai used six bowlers – an unprecedented move for them. Barring Jasprit Bumrah, who has delivered cutting-edge spells in the last two matches, the rest of Mumbai’s bowlers have struggled to cope.Tymal Mills’ reaction sums up Mumbai Indians’ season•BCCIThe bowling plans, too, have been confusing. Against Super Giants, Tilak Varma bowled the opening over, followed by Jaydev Unadkat and M Ashwin, before Bumrah was introduced. Why not open the bowling with Bumrah – as Sunil Gavaskar and other pundits asked on the broadcast – especially against Rahul, who had been out first ball in Super Giants’ last match?”There is no particular reason to it,” Rohit said. “It’s just whatever we feel as a team we need to do we try and do that. We try and put team before the individual. And seeing their [Super Giants’] batting line-up, they bat quite deep, so it is important to hold your key bowlers towards the backend.”We always try and keep Bumrah for the back end. Yeah, it didn’t seem to work out. He bowled pretty well, but the others need to pull their socks up a little bit.”Rohit, who has called on 16 players so far this season, says he will keep doing whatever it takes to win. “Every game we play is an opportunity, so we try and find a combination which is best suited for that particular position and the particular conditions,” he said. “Unless you win games you can’t really keep playing the same XI. We have lost six games now, so obviously we are trying to understand what probably will be the right combination. I mean, when you lose games, it is very easy to point out that the changes are being made, but we try and go with right combination.”