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ScorecardFile photo – Henry Davids anchored the chase with a 38-ball 35•BCCI

A spectacular innings from Mangaliso Mosehle took Titans to the Ram Slam T20 title after a seven-wicket win against Dolphins in Centurion. Mosehle smashed 87 off just 39 balls, with six fours and seven sixes as Titans overcame a target of 160 with 19 balls to spare.Dolphins were given a solid start, after being inserted to bat, as openers Jonathan Vandiar and Morne van Wyk put on 47 in the Powerplay. However, the momentum swung Titans’ way as their bowlers conceded only 30 in the next six overs to keep the score to 77 for 3.David Miller (33 off 25) and Dwayne Bravo (53 off 30), then, stitched an 83-run stand as Dolphins posted a total of 159. Both fell off successive balls – the last two of the innings- but not before plundering 65 off the last six overs to give Dolphins a competitive score in the final.The competition’s top-scorer, Quinton de Kock was dismissed for 12 in the fourth over after lobbing a leading edge to cover off the bowling of Andile Phehlukwayo. However, Henry Davids and Mosehle first stabilised the innings and then got stuck into their work. Seventy runs were still required off nine overs before Mosehle clobbered Imran Tahir for three sixes and a four off successive deliveries as the game turned decisively in Titans’ favour.A partnership of 123 off 67 balls was broken in the 15th over by Kyle Abbott who held onto a return chance to dismiss Mosehle. Davids, too, was caught behind off the next ball but with 12 required off five overs, it was too late for Dolphins.

Even as the Indian board remains inflexible over the Indian Cricket League (ICL) , the federal railway minister and Bihar Cricket Association president Lalu Prasad Yadav today openly backed the ICL, saying the million-dollar tournament could be played in stadiums owned by his ministry.Railways, the ministry’s side in the Ranji Trophy, have won the tournament twice in the past five seasons and own around 50 grounds across the country. That could come in handy for the ICL who face a lack of venues to stage the league. Most cricket grounds are owned by local cricket associations, and the BCCI has discouraged any sort of interaction with the ICL.Yadav described the ICL as a “good initiative” and said competition was good for the game. “The parallel league is a good thing for those who complain that they were not selected or were ignored. This competition will be good for spotting good players.”We will definitely allow them to play in our stadiums. We will charge money for it.”The board said yesterday that cricketers associating themselves with other organisations would not be entitled to any benefits from the BCCI or “be connected with any of its activities”. Niranjan Shah, the board secretary, had last week threatened to impose life bans on players who joined the unofficial body.

has revelations about team selection which has elicited reactions from former selectors. Here are a few extracts (published in Mumbai-based Mid-Day) followed by the reactions

Team selection and the zonal selection policy

John Buchanan, the Australian coach, has said that England’s weaknesses that he spotted during the NatWest Series were still obvious even though England has been dominant in the last two Tests at Edgbaston and Old Trafford.He said that Michael Vaughan and Andrew Strauss were let off early in their innings after which they proceeded to score centuries at Old Trafford. “I know England are saying ‘gee, isn’t it amazing Australia are happy to get a draw these days?’,” Buchanan was quoted as saying by sportinglife.com. “But in the course of a series things develop and we could talk about Ricky Ponting’s innings, what Brett Lee did throughout the Manchester match, Shane Warne again and we saw the failures of Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff with the bat.”Buchanan maintained that Australia had created winning opportunities all through the series and it was just a matter of taking advantage of them. “We created chances from the top order, we have all summer. So there are lots of good things there – it is now a matter of sticking it all together. The win will only come from us doing the things we can do well; we probably haven’t stuck all that together that well so that is our major focus, to put our game together and deliver throughout the whole Test.”The impetus is with England to go all out for a series win because a drawn series will result in Australia retaining the Ashes for a ninth consecutive time. However Buchanan said that playing for a draw was not in the Australian psyche. “We know two draws would be fine but I would be disappointed if that was in the thinking of any of our players. I don’t really want to go in with that sort of approach,” said Buchanan. “We are beginning our preparation for the one game that is really important to us right now, the fourth Test at Trent Bridge. That is our focus and we will go into that game wanting to win it.”Jason Gillespie’s spot in the team is in serious jeopardy after a terrible loss of form. He has taken only three wickets in as many Tests at an extravagant average of 100. Shaun Tait and Michael Kasprowicz are both staking their claims and they will have a chance to make an impression when the Australians plays Northamptonshire on August 20. “It [The tour game] will have some bearing obviously,” Buchanan said. “But I think what we need to do is be very clear on how we want to play the game and that really dictates the final make-up of the Test side. Jason is just the same as anybody else at the moment.”

Imran Khan admitted on Saturday that had he been in Shoaib Akhtar’s place, he would have sued the Pakistan Cricket Board for defamation after they set up a medical inquiry last month. Shoaib, who broke down during the final Test against India, was seen in many quarters as a scapegoat for the series defeat, and Imran reckoned that that just wasn’t right.”Had I been in Akhtar’s place I would have sued the PCB for defamation over the medical inquiry,” he said at a press conference yesterday. “They [the PCB] have challenged the integrity of Akhtar. He has every right to sue the PCB for defamation. Shoaib had a medical scan from my hospital but the PCB challenged that and now he has medical reports from Durham and they too proved he was injured.”Shoaib could conceivably miss the rest of the county season with Durham after a second bone scan revealed a definite stress fracture in a rib on the lower left side. Shoaib is on a lucrative contract with Durham, but has apparently told them to start looking for a replacement, raising fears that he might not play for the remainder of the county season.”The fracture is there and it is worrying me,” Shoaib said. “I now want to be 100 per cent sure it has healed before I start playing again. I will resume playing only after I get clearance after the next examination in two weeks.”

A report in the Pakistan-based International News claims that Abdul Razzaq was left out of the side to tour England because of his attitude, despite originally being included in the 16-man squad.Apparently Razzaq was originally picked by the selectors, but told them he would only be able to join the squad three days before the first of the three one-day internationals as he was committed to playing for Middlesex. He did much the same in the recent Bank Alfalah Cup, linking up with the side two days before the tournament began.The situation was further clouded with a claim that the decision was made to replace Razzaq with Bilal Asad, an uncapped allrounder, after two of the selectors had returned home, and that Rashid Latif, Pakistan’s captain, had been a key instigator of the change.The report quotes a source close to the selectors as claiming that Razzaq was only included because of his experience, and the general feeling was that he had become stale. When Razzaq tried to dictate his own terms, it is suggested that the change was made as it was felt that allowing him to do as he wanted would be detrimental to team morale.

A staunch Queen’s College supporter left the Cable & Wireless BETSports Complex at 4:45 p.m. yesterday with his chest pushed high.By the time he got to Bridgetown 15 minutes later, it would have takena massive droop.In the space of seven minutes, the Cable & Wireless Under-15 cricketfinal took a twist following a Lodge School fightback in the finalmoments of the day.For four hours yesterday, Queen’s College made all the running. In thelast hour, however, a moment of indecision and another of indiscretionbrought Lodge back into the match. If anything, they have a slightadvantage on the final day.With 50 minutes to the close, Queen’s College were 124 for two inresponse to Lodge’s 232. With 11 minutes remaining, they were 155 forthree, representing a very good day’s work.Then came their big setback. Nicholas Standford, their solid openingbatsman who had been firmly entrenched for more than four hours, wasrun out for a disciplined 61.And just before stumps were drawn, Kofe Hurdle was adjudged to haveedged a catch to the keeper off Shamarh Brooks’ probing leg-breaks.Even before those two went, Queen’s College suffered a major loss whenKerwin Elias, their captain, leading run-scorer and seemingly mostfree-scoring batsman, fell to a rash stroke after featuring in athird-wicket stand of 73 with Standford.The day went well up until the end of the last session when we gaveaway two or three wickets which we shouldn’t have, said Rory Sidaway,a Queen’s College official.Standford set off for a single to mid-off, but got no response fromnon-striker Kofe Hurdle and failed to regain his ground when wicketkeeper Nicholas Squires broke the stumps.If we were still two or three wickets down at the end of the day, I’dbe a bit more confident about the outcome, Sidaway said. I still thinkwe can get the 75 runs that we need, but it will be more difficultnow. That’s for sure.In the first half-hour, the St James boys polished off Lodge’s lowerorder. Lodge, 207 for six, overnight, lost their last four wickets forfive runs after a seventh-wicket stand of 69 between Pierre Atwell(53) and Rio Brathwaite (31).For the remainder of the day, Queen’s College diligently pursued thetarget with the type of disciplined application that some local clubteams should try to emulate.Standford presented a straight, broad bat for the entire afternoon andwas never drawn into playing any false strokes. He and Nekoli Parrisput on 43 for the second wicket after Niaz Dokrat was bowled by fastbowler Damien King as he went into a drive.Queen’s College lost Parris just after lunch to a neat stumping bySquires off Brooks, but Standford and Elias made sure only one wicketfell in the middle session that produced only 57 runs.Elias batted confidently and just before tea cracked two fours in anover, a rare occurrence on the day.Lodge desperately needed a wicket and captain Squires’ move to takethe second new ball two overs after it was due paid dividends.The pacy Andre Gill, operating from around the wicket, shattered thestumps of Elias, who was drawn into an inexcusable cross-batted shot.It was a wicket that turned the tide for Lodge.

Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsKieron Pollard ensured his team remained on top of the table•Caribbean Premier League

Barbados Tridents captain Kieron Pollard inspired his team to a 14-run win against Guyana Amazon Warriors with 4 for 30 to keep the team on top of the table in their last league match, in Guyana. Pollard defended 24 runs off the last over as Tridents defended a modest total of 125 by restricting Amazon Warriors to 111 for 6. Tridents, already in the playoffs, will now not make it straight to the final only if Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel lose one of their remaining two matches. Amazon Warriors are on second spot, but with the same points as Red Steel, Jamaica Tallawahs and St Lucia Zouks.Amazon Warriors started steady in their chase with an opening stand of 43 between Lendl Simmons and Brad Hodge before both fell within a space of six balls. Simmons scored a 31-ball 15. Umar Akmal and Denesh Ramdin also could not up the ante with their stand of 28 in 4.4 overs. When Pollard got rid of Akmal in the 15th over, Warriors still needed 53 runs from 31 balls with seven wickets in hand. But Ravi Rampaul gave only 14 runs in his next two overs to make it a more challenging equation of 37 from last two overs. Christopher Barnwell hit two consecutive fours in the penultimate over, which went for 13 runs, and started the last over with a six but Pollard finished his innings of 24 off 13 and took another wicket to finish with his fourth four-for in T20s, conceding nine runs in the last over.Tridents had opted to bat but could not get substantial partnerships going early on, thanks to David Wiese’s five-for, his third in T20s. He removed the openers, Dwayne Smith and Steven Taylor, in the fifth over, and was on a hat-trick when he had Jonathan Carter caught behind on the first ball of his next over. Legspinner Devendra Bishoo dented them further by getting rid of Robin Peterson and Misbah-ul-Haq within three deliveries, and Pollard was bowled in the next over for 2, to leave the score on 65 for 6 after 13 overs. Jason Holder and Rayad Emrit then hauled them past 100 with a 45-run partnership in under six overs. Holder smashed two fours and as many sixes in his 17-ball 30, while Emrit scored a run-a-ball 21 to help them finish on a competitive 125 for 9. Sunil Narine finished with 4-1-14-0.

Match facts

Sunday, July 12
Start time 3.00pm local (0900 GMT)1:31

Isam: Bangladesh need senior batsmen to step up

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Kagiso Rabada lit up a gloomy evening in Mirpur on Friday with a hat-trick in his six-wicket haul on debut. He now holds the record for best bowling figures on ODI debut, and the best ODI bowling figures for a South African. The visiting captain Hashim Amla, while not expecting Rabada to strike another six-for, will want the bowler as well as the rest of the young players to do enough to complete a series win on Sunday.South Africa completed their eight-wicket win through a strong, unbroken 99-run third wicket stand between Rilee Rossouw and Faf du Plessis. Amla later said the pair made a tough situation look easy. South Africa are brutal opponents for lower-ranked sides and Bangladesh are finding that out despite their own recent form.But the home side’s troubles seem more tactical in nature, although captain Mashrafe Mortaza has said that their strategy of using eight batsmen was a confidence issue. For the first time since December 2011, Bangladesh were bowled out for less than 200 when batting first in an ODI. Their batting form was not all that good even in the India series, but they managed to get the job done.South Africa did not give Bangladesh much of a chance to fight back after Rabada’s hat-trick and that is where the home side are behind. South Africa never give up, and in the second ODI, Bangladesh should be be prepared to put up a fight, something they have failed to do in the series so far.

Form guide

Bangladesh: LLWWWSouth Africa: WLWWL

Players to watch

With his team not doing well, much of the focus will be how Mashrafe Mortaza marshals his resources and inspires the group. He also has to bowl well and ensure South Africa do not get away to a quick start.A hat-trick and six-for on ODI debut has made Kagiso Rabada into an overnight sensation. He will be exciting to watch in the second ODI, particularly with the pace he generates off the slow pitches in Mirpur.

Team news

If Bangladesh stick to their eight-batsmen strategy, then there isn’t much need of a change. If they do revert back to five bowlers, either of Arafat Sunny or Rubel Hossain will likely be picked in the XI.Bangladesh (possible) 1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Soumya Sarkar, 3 Litton Das, 4 Mahmudullah, 5 Mushfiqur Rahim, 6 Shakib Al Hasan, 7 Sabbir Rahman, 8 Nasir Hossain, 9 Mashrafe Mortaza 10 Jubair Hossain, 11 Mustafizur RahmanAfter their eight-wicket win, South Africa will look to continue in the same vein, which means changes in the XI are unlikely.South Africa (possible): 1 Hashim Amla (capt), 2 Quinton de Kock (wk), 3 Faf du Plessis, 4 Rilee Rossouw, 5 David Miller, 6 JP Duminy 7 Farhaan Behardien, 8 Chris Morris, 9 Kyle Abbott, 10 Kagiso Rabada, 11 Imran Tahir

Pitch and conditions

Rabada said the first ODI wicket looked to have a bit more grass than the T20s. The second ODI wicket too is unlikely have turn and will continue to be a dull surface. Rain has again been forecast, but not in the evening.

Stats and trivia

• Kagiso Rabada became the second bowler after Taijul Islam to take a hat-trick on debut. They both did it at the Shere Bangla National Stadium and both from the same end.
• Shakib Al Hasan is the first batsman to score more than 2,000 runs at the Shere Bangla National Stadium. He reached the mark when he was on 14 in the first ODI.

Quotes

“Against India and Pakistan we played unbelievably well. If we can play like that we can win against South Africa as well. But we haven’t even been within touching distance of those performances or of South Africa. We hope to do much better in the second game.””They are not going to go down without a fight. We know they are going to be up for a good scrap tomorrow [Sunday].”

Ireland have named their Under-19 and Under-15 squads which will compete in two tournaments over the summer. The U-19 side take part in the European Championships in Belfast and the U-15s have their European competition in Netherlands.Greg Thompson, an allrounder from Lisburn, will lead the U-19 team as they attempt to qualify for the U-19 World Cup which will be held early next year in Malaysia. The qualifying tournament takes place in Belfast from July 23-27.The U-15 tournament takes place in Deventer in Netherlands from July 31 to August 2 and the side will be captained by Niall Delaney from Clontarf Cricket Club.U-19 squad Greg Thompson (Lisburn, capt), Ben Ackland (Merrion), Andrew Balbirnie (Pembroke), Andrew Britton (Donemana), Eoghan Delany (Clontarf), Chris Dougherty (Bready), Shane Getkate (Malahide), James Hall (Waringstown), Richard Keaveney (Merrion), Graham McDonnell (Pembroke), Gavin McKenna (N Down), Lee Nelson (Waringstown), Jamie Shannon (Instonians), Paul Stirling (Cliftonville)U-15 squad Niall Delany ((Clontarf, capt), Jonathan Andrews (North County) , Eoghan Conway (Rush), Harry Doyle (Waringstown), James Fleming (The Hills), Marc Fleming (Bready), Shane Getkate (Malahide), Cameron Grieve (Lurgan), Dean Mehaffey (Donemana), Philip Moon (Limavady), Robin Russell (Pembroke), Sam Shannon (Instonians), Jason van der Merwe (Muckamore)