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Zimbabwe 211 for 2 (Carlisle 103*, Gripper 65) drew with Bangladesh 168
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Stuart Carlisle reaches his hundred

Stuart Carlisle’s second Test hundred was the highlight of the final day of the second Test at Bulawayo’s Queens Sports Club – but there were no other challengers for the champagne moment on a day where both sides did little more than go through the motions.Carlisle brought up his century with a drive to the cover boundary, and the ball had barely hit the fence when the umpires removed the stumps and mercifully brought the rain-decimated match to an end. The loss of three full days was always going to make for a meaningless three sessions – the real puzzle was why as many as 50 spectators turned up to watch.When Zimbabwe wrapped up Bangladesh’s innings five balls after lunch, there was briefly a hope that Heath Streak might go for broke and try for quick runs, with the aim of bowling the fragile Bangladeshis out for a second time. The sight of Trevor Gripper striding out to bat ended any such fantasy.There was another brief flurry of excitement when, in the third over, Dion Ebrahim edged Tapash Baisya to Hannan Sarkar at second slip for 2 (5 for 1) but that was as good as the afternoon session got. Gripper, who was dismissed cheaply in both innings at Harare, set out his stall for runs by any means, while Carlisle was only marginally more aggressive.After tea, Gripper sped up, presumably for no reason other that had he continued at his pre-interval crawl he would have had no hope of reaching a hundred. As it was, that was academic – he tickled Tapash to wicketkeeper Khaled Mashud for 65 (134 for 2). Carlisle increased his scoring and reached his hundred. His first Test century came against Australia at Sydney – there is little question which one he will look back on with more satisfaction.In the morning Bangladesh’s innings had been of a funereal pace. Play started on time – remarkable given the recent downpours – and Bangladesh’s innings followed a to-be-expected course, with wickets falling and a sleep-inducing run-rate. The two-and-a-half hour session produced 80 runs and four wickets.Zimbabwe broke through with the second ball of the day, Douglas Hondo trapping Mushfiqur Rahman leg-before for 0 (89 for 6), but for the next 90 minutes Manjural Islam Rana and Mashud held firm in a seventh-wicket stand of 37 runs made at under two an over. Sean Ervine ended the torpor when he dismissed Mashud leg-before for 9 (126 for 7), and then Ray Price grabbed two quick wickets, including Manjural for a top-score 39.But Mohammad Rafique and Alamgir Kabir held firm for the last 40 minutes before lunch, Rafique clipping ones and twos while Kabir dropped anchor and showed little inclination to score. Their 24-run last-wicket stand was ended straight after the restart.

PERTH, Jan 2 AAP – Under-fire allrounder Andrew Symonds was in danger of having a restraining order brought against him by Lady Luck tonight.The surprise World Cup squad selection flirted with good fortune against Western Australia as Queensland posted a six-wicket win in the limited-overs cup match at the WACA Ground.The athletic Symonds (66no from 69 balls) and Clinton Perren (53no from 74 balls) coasted to victory with an unbeaten 124-run fifth-wicket stand to secure the four points.Chasing 227 runs, the pair reached the target with 29 balls to spare.But despite all his luck, the 27-year-old Symonds will be hoping to continue to build his form in the abbreviated version of the game before next month’s World Cup in Africa.Symonds faced 11 balls before scoring his first run which was an edge for four just past the grasp of first slip Kade Harvey.Then on five he flashed at a wide Matthew Nicholson delivery which fell just short of a diving Shaun Marsh at third man.And on 10 he flat-batted a shot just beyond the outstretched Marsh at mid-off before a leading edge over point later in the over.From then he mixed some brutal shots with more reckless ones before guiding the Bulls to a victory.The result moved Queensland to within a point of ING Cup leader New South Wales but the Blues can stretch their lead out again this Sunday in Tasmania.The Warriors remained mid-table on eight points and with plenty of time to make a charge for the final with six matches to go.Michael Hussey won the toss for Western Australia and teenager Shaun Marsh’s quickfire 40 from 31 balls helped his team to a total of 7-226.Only some sharp fielding from Daniel Payne stopped him pushing the home team’s score closer to 250.The Bulls did well to restrict the Warriors in warm conditions after Chris Rogers (57 from 80 balls) and Scott Meuleman (45 from 78 balls) laid the foundations with an opening stand of 94.Allrounder James Hopes (2-25 off nine overs of high-medium pacers) and spinner Nathan Hauritz (3-59 off 10 overs) were the pick of the bowlers.In reply, the Bulls were in early trouble with skipper Jimmy Maher (9) dismissed by the recalled Stuart Karppinen.Just over 12 months since his last state appearance Karppinen dived well to his right for a sharp return catch to remove the dangerous left-hander.Lee Carseldine received a slice of luck resurrecting the run chase on 26 when wicketkeeper Ryan Campbell dropped a tough chance off Callum Thorp’s first one-day over for WA.But the debutant Thorp made up for the miss in the field with a marvellous diving effort in the deep to remove opener Payne (32).Evergreen bowler Jo Angel (2-41) was then on a hat-trick after Carseldine (48) top-edged the next ball and Campbell made sure of his second chance.Stuart Law (2) kept out the ball but Thorp removed him soon after.But just as WA looked liked getting into the match Symonds entered and produced hardly one of his best knocks but an effective one nevertheless.

Adelaide-Australia met their first genuine challenge of the series withtypical, bloody-minded efficiency on the third day of the third Test yesterdaybut West Indian perseverance prevented them making the most of severalfavourable positions.Ricky Ponting shared successive, untroubled partnerships of 123 with Mark Waughand 59 with Damien Martyn that carried Australia to within 22 of the Larainspired West Indies total of 391 with five wickets in tact.A match-winning lead loomed but once the venerable Courtney Walsh produced oneof his specials to remove Ponting to a keeper’s catch for 92, his lesseraccomplices, Merv Dillon and Nixon McLean, followed the lead with the next threewickets for 12 runs.When the first rain in Adelaide for 38 days brought the day to a gloomy andpremature end, under the floodlights that had been switched on the ball beforePonting’s dismissal, the contest was dead even.As another 12 overs remained, it was welcome reprieve for the West Indies fromthe probablity of a few difficult overs in artificial light. As it stood,Australia held a marginal lead at 403 for nine with the prospect of dealing nexttime round with a dry, last day pitch already zig-zagged with widening cracks.The result would be determined by which team coped with the pressure and theconditions better from here on.On both counts, that would be Australia as the contrasting records of the twoclearly confirm. But Brian Lara’s sudden and spectacular return to form, withhis 231 against Australia “A” and 182 in the first innings in the past week, isthe critical variable in the equation.The evidence of the first three days indicated a renewed spirit in the WestIndies team, clearly inspired by Lara’s brilliance.It was in danger of dsintegrating on the previous afternoon when Michael Slaterand Matthew Hayden collared rubbish bowling in an opening partnership of 159before a fortunate run out and two late wickets to the speculative off-spin ofthe 19-year-old debutant Marlon Samuels restored confidence.Until the last hour yesterday, the West Indies pegged away to defensive fieldsfor the reward of only two wickets as Australia built their total. They neverlost their focus, inspite of the growing total and three incidents in the firstsession that might have distracted them.Ponting was 10 when McLean’s authentic lbw claim was negated by a no-ball. Theubiquitous television “snickometer” hinted that Waugh had touched a catch to thekeeper off Samuels at 39 but umpire Steve Davis seemed to have been put off byJacobs’ simultaneous claim to square-leg for a stumping.The clearest chance came two overs before lunch when Ponting, 41, edged a driveat the persistent Dillon.It flew to Lara’s left at solitary slip and the batting champion let the twohanded catch go to grass that would have made Australia 260 for five.By then, their only success was the nightwatchman Jason Gillespie, lbw to Walshafter 20 minutes. It was two-and-a-half hours before they gained another, justwhen Australia had laid the foundations of a massive score.Waugh, playing tentatively from the crease, was lbw for a laboured 63 (threehours, 20 minutes, 142 balls) in the eighth over with the second new ball duringan outstanding spell of stamina and accuracy by Merv Dillon.Severely punished for his waywardness by Slater on the previous afternoon,Dillon improved to the extent that he sent down 17 consecutive overs, brokenonly by lunch and a break for 10 minutes to rain. They cost him only 46 and hadthe satisfying return of Waugh’s wicket.Damien Martyn appeared next, where Steve Waugh normally would, and played withas much aplomb as the absent, injured captain to consolidate Australia’spowerful position.But the West Indies would not yield, as they had done so frequently in the firsttwo Tests. Only Marlon Black of the four fast bowlers did not exert control,stymied by his inexperience and the lack of pace in the pitch.It took a quality delivery from Walsh to dislodge Ponting eight short of hiseighth Test hundred 25 minutes after tea. He had been in three hours, 52 minutesand 156 balls when he got one that straightened and lifted to find the edge onits way to Jacobs.It was the last of Walsh for the day. McLean replaced him and promptly accountedfor stand-in captain Adam Gilchrist and Colin Miller to cut shots, the former tothe keeper, the latter to point.Dillon completed a satisfying personal day by persuading umpire Davis that hisbouncer had taken Stuart MacGill’s glove, rather than helmet, on the way throughto the keeper.

West Ham United manager David Moyes will have to do without another ‘threat’ against Aston Villa today as injury news emerges before the teams’ Premier League clash.

The Lowdown: Hammers missing Bowen…

Much has been made of Jarrod Bowen’s injury over the last week after he was forced off in West Ham’s last league clash away to Liverpool.

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The Englishman was absent for his side’s meeting against Sevilla in the Europa League on Thursday as Moyes’ men succumbed to a 1-0 first leg defeat in Spain. Arguably West Ham’s most potent threat, racking up the most goal contributions domestically (eight goals, eight assists), the Hammers arguably missed his presence at the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan Stadium.

Moyes has also confirmed that Bowen won’t be available for today’s bout against Villa either, with The Guardian now sharing an update on another Irons player in Ryan Fredericks.

The Latest: The Guardian share Fredericks update…

As relayed by their match preview, West Ham must do without the attacking full-back as an option this afternoon, as Fredericks’ return date from a groin injury remains unknown.

Vladimir Coufal, still sidelined from his hernia operation, is also unavailable, leaving defender Ben Johnson as Moyes’ only right-back option.

The Verdict: Setback for Moyes…

Not having Fredericks to call upon in case of emergency comes as a slight worry for West Ham and Moyes given how heavily reliant they are on Johnson right now.

In highlighting Fredericks’ usefulness as an attacking option out wide, journalist Sam Delaney has called the 29-year-old an ‘extra threat’ on the overlap. Speaking to the press last year, Moyes labelled the defender as a ‘really important’ option, citing his pace as a real outlet which can provide an ‘extra dimension’ for West Ham.

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The right-back could have been a solid backup option today, but alas it appears that the Irons will remain without him for the visit of Aston Villa.

In other news: West Ham could now make great offer to sign £45m-rated star as they already prepare for major exit, find out more here.

	Cricket Australia’s restriction on image rights had led to a boycott by agencies during the Sri Lanka series last year © AFP

Two weeks before its launch, the Indian Premier League has raised a potential controversy by placing unprecedented demands on media organisations planning to cover the tournament, including a regulation that prevents photographs appearing on news websites. IPL officials say there is room for negotiation, while one respected international news agency, Agence France-Press (AFP), says the present terms don’t allow it to cover the tournament.The accreditation forms were posted online overnight with a deadline of April 8, leaving companies five days to sign on to cover the tournament under these terms or be refused entry.The conditions include the IPL’s right to use all pictures taken at its grounds for free and without restrictions; the commitment by news organisations to upload on the IPL site, within 24 hours, all images taken at the ground; and the restriction of web portals’ access to images without prior permission from the IPL.”The terms and conditions are too strict and raise questions about press freedom,” Barry Parker, AFP’s South Asia bureau chief, told Cricinfo. “The present terms and conditions don’t allow us to cover the event.”Several hours after the accreditation forms were posted online, the IPL indicated it was open to negotiations. “We don’t feel the rules are stringent in any way, as we are only protecting our rights,” said IS Bindra, a member of the IPL’s governing council. “We are treating the issue of photographs just as we would in the case of TV production. However, we are ready to discuss the issue with all parties involved to reach an amicable solution,” he said. “The production is ours. We are not being rigid here and saying that only what we say is right. Of course, we will ensure that things don’t lead to a situation where media outlets decide to boycott the event.”Asked why websites would be denied access to the pictures, Bindra said: “We have not allowed online usage only because we have sold the portal rights of the event to a respected company based in North America for US$50 million. We can’t disclose the company’s name at the moment as they are in the process of getting listed.””We’re monitoring the situation closely and working in collaboration with the News Media Coalition to try and find a solution,” Ken Mainardis, the director of photography and major events at Getty Images, told Cricinfo.Andrew Moger, a spokesman for the News Media Coalition, which includes some of the world’s major news and photograph agencies, said the decision would have an enormous impact on media groups with websites and news agencies supplying pictures around the world. “As feared, the media accreditation terms for the Indian Premier League represent some of the most restrictive and burdensome access arrangements ever seen by the news media worldwide.”Moger worked for the news agencies, including Reuters, AFP and AP, and the photo distributor Getty Images, when they had similar concerns over image rights in the accreditation guidelines set by Cricket Australia for the 2007-08 summer. There were fears media groups would have to pay for access and the body wanted to maintain rights over photographs taken in the stadiums. However, limits over the number of reports sent from the ground remained in place.The demands resulted in News Limited journalists being locked out for day one of the first Test against Sri Lanka, while the agency boycott ended a week later when Muttiah Muralitharan was on the verge of breaking Shane Warne’s then world record.

The team of Pakistani investigators, which went to Jamaica to investigate Bob Woolmer’s murder, has finalised its report and will be submitting it to the government today. The two-member team was dispatched from Pakistan on the request of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).According to a member of the Pakistani investigation team, Mir Zubair Mahmood, left for Islamabad along with Kaleem Imam, additional director-FIA Islamabad, and will present the report to the federal secretary of Interior Ministry, Kamal Shah. The investigation team arrived in Jamaica on April 10 and there in collaboration with Scotland Yard and Jamaican police investigated the case for two weeks up to April 26.Mahmood said that the Jamaican police and the Scotland Yard officials fully cooperated with the team during the investigation. According to the sources of the investigation team, various aspects of the murder case were discussed in Jamaica. The most important among them was the involvement of bookies in Woolmer’s murder, often cited as the prime reason behind his murder.

Shoaib Malik: fit enough for the English challenge? © Getty Images

Returning from South Africa after corrective surgery to his elbow, Shoaib Mailk, the Pakistan allrounder, hopes to make it to the team’s tour to England beginning July 1.Malik underwent surgery in Cape Town to improve his bowling action, which had been first declared suspect in October 2004 during the Paktel Cup one-day tournament at home. His doctors in South Africa termed the surgery a success after extracting a `piece of floating bone from his elbow. They were confident that physiotherapy and exercise would help Malik, who complained of pain in his elbow while batting and bowling, recover within four to six weeks.Malik had been in a car accident in 2003 causing the tendons in his arms to loosen. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) claimed that it was because of this accident that his elbow straightens when he bowls.Meanwhile, Shoaib Akhtar, recovering from a stress fracture to his heel began bowling at the nets in Lahore. His doctor, Tauseef Razzaq, said that Shoaib will begin full training in a month’s time. The PCB expects both bowlers to be fit for the tour to England in July.

Dennis Lillee: ‘I only needed to make slight adjustments’ © AFP

Dennis Lillee, the former Australian fast bowler who was present at the recently concluded fast bowlers’ training camp in Bangalore, has said that the top Indian medium-pacers are in fine fettle ahead of the new season.This will come as welcome news to the Indian team after a season when many of their frontline bowlers- Zaheer Khan, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Irfan Pathan and Ashish Nehra – were rendered ineffective through fatigue and varied injuries.Lillee, who interacted with Greg Chappell and the players, said that both he and TA Sekhar, the chief coach of the MRF Pace Foundation, had analysed video footage of all the 15 bowlers. Chappell had also been told of the adjustments that each bowler had to make. “Remember they have come out of the off season,” said Lillee. “So they are just trying to bowl a line and length. It is good that I had the chance to see them just before they start a new season.”Lillee felt that the players were doing the right things and said he had made corrections wherever necessary. “After all, all of them had been with me earlier at different times. I only needed to make slight adjustments,” he said after analysing the video footage that was sent to him by Chappell. Sekhar also added that there would be frequent sessions analysing the bowlers’ progress and that the players were happy with the opportunity to be monitored under Lillee at the start of a new season.Lillee felt that today’s budding fast bowlers understood the rigours of the trade and were genuinely interested in developing their fast-bowling skills. Lillee said that in 1987, he had trouble finding fast bowlers in the 14-17 age group and attributed this to a lack of fast-bowling role models in India. Lillee was optimistic about the current batch of young fast bowlers and added that “some ‘Sikh boys’ and a few others are really good and look to be long-term future prospects”.He agreed with Javagal Srinath’s view that fast bowlers could win matches for India and cited instances in the past when fast-bowling combinations had proved to be matchwinning in most conditions. “History also proves that Australian and West Indian fast bowlers have won matches for their teams during their visits to India.” Lillee also added that a pitch that assisted quick bowling would provide for more entertainment as a spinning track might hinder fluent strokeplay. “Wickets in Australia and the West Indies do help fast bowlers and the batsmen,” he said. “A fast wicket will be interesting for the paying public as solid stroke makers could keep fast bowlers at bay.”

Close South Africa 532 (Boucher 122*) and 38 for 0 (Smith 18*, Gibbs 19*) lead West Indies 427 (Gayle 116, Lara 115, Nel 5-87) by 143 runs
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Brian Lara celebrates his 24th Test century © Getty Images 2004

Brian Lara scored his 24th Test century, and in the process became the fastest batsman ever to reach 9000 runs, as West Indies continued to fight back strongly on the third day at Cape Town. But Andre Nel’s best Test figures of 5 for 87 restricted the Windies to 427 all out, a deficit of 105.Lara began his innings with uncharacteristic circumspection, taking 23 balls to get off the mark, but reached his hundred with a hooked six off Jacques Kallis, after being stuck on 99 for five overs. He was helped to his landmark by the belligerent debutant Dave Mohammad, who clattered to a run-a-ball 36 with seven fours and a six, which earned him several cautionary words from his captain along the way.After the turbo-charged start to their innings, West Indies had throttled back and fallen apart in the first session of the day, as South Africa conceded just 59 runs in grabbing three wickets. Chris Gayle, who had enthralled the crowd with a devastating 79-ball century on Saturday evening, demonstrated that valour was the better part of discretion. He lasted just four more overs before offering no stroke to Shaun Pollock, and was adjudged lbw to a ball that might just have nipped off stump (183 for 2).Ramnaresh Sarwan also fell inside the first half-hour of the day, as he slashed loosely at Nel and picked out Neil McKenzie at backward point for 44 (187 for 3), and when a nervous Wavell Hinds grazed a catch off Jacques Kallis to take his series tally to 34, West Indies were 224 for 4 and in danger of collapsing.Dwayne Smith, making his debut in place of Shivnarine Chanderpaul, walloped Adams for a pair of boundaries through midwicket, and pulled Pollock’s sixth ball after lunch behind square for another four. But he became Andre Nel’s third wicket of the innings, when he went fishing outside off stump and offered a regulation slip catch to Kallis (252 for 5),With the new ball looming, Lara decided a gear change was necessary, and flailed Kallis for three fours in an over to bring up his half-century from 134 balls. Ntini was then crashed both sides of the wicket by Lara, but Ntini exacted his revenge on Ridley Jacobs instead, with a brute of a delivery that hit a crack and reared off a thick outside edge to Pollock at first slip (306 for 6).Lara saved the follow-on shortly after tea, and in the same over cracked Nel through the gully to register his 9000th run in his 177th innings – two fewer than Sachin Tendulkar had required when he passed the same mark on Friday. Drakes then clobbered Ntini for six over midwicket, before slashing Nel to Mark Boucher, diving in front of first slip (361 for 7).After Adam Sanford had been run out by a direct hit from Kallis, Lara was the last man out, bowled by Nel as he heaved across the line. But his 115 had ensured that West Indies remained in the hunt with two days to go, even though Graeme Smith and Herschelle Gibbs had rattled South Africa along to 38 for 0 at the close.

Mark Waugh accepted the blame for his axing from the Australian one-day cricket team today but said only time would tell whether selectors had prematurely ended his record-breaking career.Waugh acknowledged he did not make enough runs at home during the summer, giving selectors the chance to sack Australia’s most successful one-day batsmanahead of matches in South Africa and Zimbabwe later this month.Just three weeks after twin and captain Stephen was dumped, Mark learned his one-day international career was finished as selectors gave the first insight into the players they expect to feature in Australia’s World Cup defence in 12 months.Andrew Symonds also was dropped while fellow all-rounder Shane Watson and versatile Queensland off-spinner Nathan Hauritz were named in their first Australian one-day squads.Queensland mates Matthew Hayden and Jimmy Maher were returned to the national squad as selectors went for 15 players for the 10 African matches, starting inJohannesburg on March 22.It will be the first time Australia has played without a Waugh in the squad since January 1986 although Mark insisted he was still, at 36, good enough to play for his country.”It was disappointing but life goes on. I’ve played a lot of games so it’s not like I haven’t had a good run,” he said here today.”I would like to keep playing because I think I’m probably batting well enough now to do the job in one-day cricket.”But I thought this might happen, reading between the lines.”I should have made more runs last summer … and we lost games so I guess there were always going to be a few changes.”Jimmy Maher and Matthew Hayden will come in and, who knows, if they don’t score a lot of runs then maybe I was dropped too early.”If they score a lot of runs then selectors were probably right.”I can’t look into the future and tell you that but I feel like I’m playing pretty well at the moment.”Twilight is now upon the Waugh twins, who remain part of the Australian Test squad which has barrelled its way through South Africa, heading to the second Test in Cape Town on Friday.While both insist they can return for the World Cup next season, albeit unlikely according to Mark, national selector Trevor Hohns admitted the odds were againstthe Waughs ever wearing Australia’s one-day strip again.”You never close the door on anybody these days, however in the near future it’s going to be difficult to go back on that decision,” Hohns said.”It’s never easy. Both of them are probably legends of the game in Australian cricket and it’s never easy to adjudicate on their futures.”Mark was woken this morning by phone calls of support from home, while South African fans struggled to believe that Australian selectors could drop the brothers.Steve and Mark have made more runs than any other Australian batsmen and both have scored centuries in tour matches since arriving in South Africa.It was a mixed announcement for the Australian players already on tour, with Watson and Hayden receiving their chance to press for a World Cup berth.Hayden will be given an extended run at the opening role alongside Adam Gilchrist after he was dropped in January during Australia’s ill-fated home triangular series against the Proteas and New Zealand.The 20-year-old Watson was selected even before he smashed an unbeaten century in his international debut yesterday, while taking match figures of 3-60 againstSouth Africa A.Maher’s inclusion, after playing two one-day internationals four years ago, comes as just reward for his performances for Queensland while the 20-year-old Hauritz has been marked as a finger spinner capable of developing all-round talents.”Right from the first time he played for Queensland he looked like a young fellow who knew how to bowl,” Hohns said.”He was relaxed, he was comfortable with what he was doing, he just seemed to know what he was doing, so he is another outstanding prospect for us.”