Darren Lehmann celebrated Yorkshire winning the CricInfo Championship by tearing up the record books with a a sensational knock of 191 in Yorkshire Phoenix’s match against Nottinghamshire Outlaws in Division One of the Norwich Union League at Scarborough.It led to them going on to gain victory by 179 runs over Notts who were bowled out for 173 as they replied to Yorkshire’s formidable score of 352 for six.The festival crowd of over 6 000 roared with delight as the Australian left-hander powered his way to the highest one-day score ever made by a Yorkshire batsman.Lehmann’s blistering assault brought him 11 sixes and 24 fours and his avalanche of runs came off only 103 balls. His innings lasted 116 minutes – and that included an eight minute hold-up in play while an ambulance drove on to the field to pick up a spectator who had been taken ill.Lehmann’s epic innings was the highest by a Yorkshire batsman in any one-day competition and Yorkshire’s final score was also a record for the county in limited overs cricket.The fireworks started when Lehmann joined Anthony McGrath with Yorkshire on 52 for two and the pair thrashed 172 in 22 overs for the third wicket before McGrath was out for 38.Then Lehmann battered 62 out of 80 in only seven overs with Craig White and the carnage ended when he went for another might blow off Kevin Pietersen and was caught at long on by Gareth Clough.Lehmann’s part in the match was still far from over because he claimed two for 38 off his nine overs but Yorkshire’s best bowler was Gavin Hamilton who captured three for 14 from five overs.Notts had little to offer after the wind had been knocked out of their sails by Lehmann but Darren Bicknell managed 50 from 67 balls with six fours.Lehmann said afterwards: “I had no intention before hand of trying to make a big score, it just happened. You don’t often get days like this and when they come along you make the most of them.”

New Zealand A were looking for heroes to get themselves out of a fix in their Buchi Babu tournament match against Indian Railways and Lou Vincent and Shane Bond answered the call.As a result of dismissing the home team for 145, New Zealand A achieved a 23-run victory and will now contest the final of the Indian pre-season tournament against the Cricket Association of Bengal XI, starting tomorrow evening (NZ time).After being dismissed for a paltry 129 on the first day, the result of some individual batting problems more than anything else, according to coach Ashley Ross, the side conceded more runs than they wanted when the Railways XI made 279.With a deficit of 150 runs, New Zealand A were 216/6 at stumps on the second day.”Once we had lost the first innings advantage we knew we couldn’t make the final unless we got the outright victory,” Ross said.”We planned out where we wanted to be and it was a case of checking the signposts as we went along, but we were not quite where we wanted to be at stumps on the second night,” he said.The side had failed to realise the fine line between achieving a suitable scoring rate and keeping wickets intact.The aim on the final morning was to get a lead of around 180 and Vincent and Kyle Mills did an outstanding job while giving the bowlers enough runs and time to do the job.”We had worked out a few things with their batsmen that we wanted to expose them to with our faster bowlers,” Ross said.Mark Richardson, who had been much more impressive in his first innings of 59 not out than earlier in the tournament, was still not at his best.But in his second innings he was a batsman transformed and much more impressive and his 71 was reward for the work he had been doing on playing spin bowling.”He was using his feet well. He has been working hard on that part of his game with the Pakistan tour, and Shane Warne, coming up later. He and Matthew Bell worked well in adding 100 and set the run rate where we wanted it.”They both got out and then Lou came in and started brilliantly. He played quite beautifully but we lost more wickets than we needed to on the second evening.”However, he was absolutely spectacular in the morning and it was worth charging people to see it. Some of his shot making was breathtaking,” Ross said.Vincent was left 102 not out, off 102 balls as New Zealand A reached 318/8 before declaring. That left a target of 169 for Indian Railways to win.”The bowling effort was quite outstanding. Shane Bond had huge penetration on the first day but the wickets were being taken at the other end. But he was intimidating people.”Yesterday he was putting the ball past the batsmen’s nose and that is not easy on Indian pitches,” he said.Ross said it was known that Bond had a big heart and the whisper had got around the first-class scene last year that he was probably as quick as any bowler around in New Zealand.He had worked hard at the High Performance Centre during the winter and when Scott Styris was unavailable to make the tour, Bond was keen to make the trip and to bowl fast.”He bowled an intimidating length and of the eight wickets he took in the game four or five would have been caught at short leg or in the slips-gully region from balls lobbing off the bats or fingers.”It was a very courageous effort. He was physically unwell at lunch but demanded the ball when we went back out afterwards,” he said.The problem for the side was the emotion spent in achieving what was a tight victory.”The big thing now is to refocus and make sure we go forward in the final. We are very excited about the way we are playing and it was a great day yesterday,” Ross said.

Sourav Ganguly in power glasses came down through the West Gateentrance of the Wanderers on a lovely Tuesday afternoon. It was a kindof day where sun, shade and breeze were in such perfect harmony thatyou felt even a person in coma would be stirred.The last few days had been spent in gleaning inside information aboutthe South Africans. Ganguly, of course, has his own opinion aboutShaun Pollock and his men and, as is to be expected from him, he is attimes dismissive of them.Ganguly can’t see the Proteas scorching the turf consistently without’White Lightning’ Allan Donald. Mfunenko Ngam, of course, has been inthe news a great deal and Ganguly is certain that the South Africawill let the ‘Eastern Express’ loose on them in at least one Test,possibly the last one at Centurion. But as far as the Prince ofKolkata is concerned, it is Donald and Donald alone who is the mainthreat.

“I remember him in Nairobi (the ICC mini World Cup) last year and hewas the same Donald I have known all these years – lovely variationsand pacey as ever,” says Ganguly in a voice full of admiration. Themention of Roger Telemachus’ name also catches his attention. But notthose of Shaun Pollock and Jacques Kallis!”I also feel they are a bit light in the batting,” says Ganguly asplucks a few tufts of grass here and there while collecting histhoughts. “I have seen Neil McKenzie and he is not the kind of batsmanyou would back against spinners.”Far away in the middle of Wanderers, an imposing coliseum made up oftiers and more tiers, the rest of the Indians are practicing theirthrows, after having been broken down into two divisions facing eachother.Ganguly is with another Sourav, a certain Sourav Chakravorty, whoonce played with him on the of Kolkata and is now basedin Johannesburg. “He was my captain at club and he is now the captainof the Indian team,” gushes Sourav the pretender, as captain Gangulysmiles benignly.Ganguly thinks the present South African team is not a patch on theAustralians. “They (the Australians) have four fast bowlers and all ofthem are match-winners,” says Ganguly, while comparing the SouthAfricans with the likes of Glenn McGrath, Jason Gillespie, Brett Leeand Shane Warne. Perhaps it is running the names those big names overin his mind that throws up the next statement. “Australia is in aclass of its own in world cricket at the moment,” he states with afinality that is hard to dispute.He is surprised to know the South Africans are playing six back-toback Tests against Australia, three away and three at home, afterseeing off the Indians and wonders how the Proteas would cope with thestrain of it all. “They (the Aussies) play with a rare intensity,”states Ganguly. “There is no letting up, they just squeeze out of allyour resources.”Ganguly, interestingly, has the highest average among internationalbatsmen who have played against South Africa in one-dayers. He is alsoamong a handful of batsmen who have two one-day hundreds against theProteas. “And I missed two, including an unbeaten 97 in the World Cupopener at Hove,” Ganguly reminds gently.Incidentally, Ganguly’s 141 at Nagpur during the now infamous home2000 one-day series is the highest by an Indian batsman against SouthAfrica. The score is put in the right perspective when one remembersthat no international batsman has crossed 150 against South Africa ina one-day international.The Indian skipper feels that himself and the rest of the batsmen canhandle everything the South Africans throw at them. But, Ganguly adds,it would have been helpful if Hemang Badani could also have comealong. The skipper feels sorry for the classy Badani, who sadly raninto a terrible patch in Sri Lanka. One could see he is still willingto back him. After all, a certain Sourav Chandidas Ganguly wentthrough a similar ordeal by fire when he started his internationalcareer in 1991.

Without a win in the Standard Bank Series and without their captain, Kenya lit up St George’s Park on Wednesday night with a quite astonishing 70-run victory over India.It was, without doubt, one of the three greatest moments in the history of Kenyan cricket, following the 1996 World Cup upset of the West Indies and the 69-run win against India in Gwalior in 1998.It was a victory achieved against all expectations and, although one hesitates to use the term in the match-fixing era, against all the odds. The Kenyans played out of their skins, none more so than Joseph Angara who took the new ball, did not concede a run off his first four overs and fitted in the most prized wicket in cricket, that of Sachin Tendulkar for 3, during his opening spell.Angara was to come back into the attack later to snaffle Jacob Martin and Reetinder Singh Sodhi and effectively snuff out India’s last remaining hopes and he finished with three for 30 to claim the man of the match award. But it was much more than a one-man show with most of the Kenyans contributing in one way or another.Last Friday Kenya had been bowled out by India for just 90 as they lost to India by 10 wickets in a match which failed to stretch to half of the game’s allotted 100 overs. On Sunday their batting improved against South Africa, but they still lost by nine wickets and they had to go into Wednesday’s game sans captain Maurice Odumbe, banned for two matches for remarks made about umpire Dave Orchard.The Kenyans were perilously close to losing all credibility, but they batted well to reach 246 for six with Kennedy Otieno (64), Ravindu Shah (50) and Thomas Odoyo (51) all reaching the half-century mark.The Indians were loose in the field, giving the impression that they thought all they had to do to win was to get to St George’s Park on time. Still, few would have betted against their dazzling top order failing to reach the target, but the innings simply did not get going.Tendulkar was out in the sixth over, Sourav Ganguly (24) and Martin (36) both looked to have played themselves in before getting out, but as often as India tried to get up, Kenya kept on knocking them down again.Tony Suji accounted for Rahul Dravid and Yuvraj Singh with successive balls and there was a quite magnificent catch from Collins Otieno, diving, one-handed low to his right at point, to get rid of Sodhi and although the Kenyans contrived to drop no fewer than four catches as the ball swirled in the air late in the innings, they had still had enough to spare to win quite comfortably.In point of fact, Kenya’s fielding went to pieces a little in the last 10 overs as they seemed to panic as the prospect of victory loomed. They also had more cause for complaint about Orchard who once again failed to call for a television replay which would have shown him that Harbhajan Singh had been run out by a direct hit.As well Kenya played overall, though, it cannot be stressed enough how poor were India. They rested three players – Virender Sehwag, Javagal Srinath and Ajit Agarkar, but, more importantly, they seemed to have left their competitive spirit back in the team hotel.Kenya’s win will have done wonders for their cricket. It has also brought a Summer Spice Series, which was starting to verge too close to predictability for comfort, back to life. Certainly, when Kenya play again in Cape Town against South Africa on Monday, this win should assure a crowd somewhere near close to capacity.Ganguly was at a loss to explain what went wrong afterwards. “It’s difficult to find reasons for losing,” he said, adding a little later that he hoped “it’s a kick in the backside for us”.”We played poor cricket for 100 overs,” said Ganguly. “All credit to them. They batted well and fielded brilliantly apart from a few missed catches.”Steve Tikolo, the acting captain, was “over the moon. This is right up there with the West Indies win in the World Cup.”The Kenyans had done it, he said, for their missing captain and manager Mehmood Quraishy who is in hospital awaiting heart surgery.

A dramatic West Indies batting collapse inspired by spin wizard MuttiahMuralitharan pulled Sri Lanka back into the first Test in Galle onWednesday, to leave the match evenly poised after the second day.West Indies, who started the day well placed on 316-3, extended their scoreto 409-4 at lunch, before collapsing in a heap during a frenetic hour afterlunch, in which six wickets fell for 69.Sri Lanka, replying to 448 and thus first needing 248 to avoid the followon, started like they wanted a first innings lead by lunch the next day,racing to 37 off the first five overs.They slowed after the fall of Jayasuriya (25 off 19 balls), who was caughtat backward point trying to hit his fifth boundary, but lost no furtherwickets before bad light stopped play, finishing on 103-1.Opener Marvan Atapattu unbeaten on 46 from 107 balls and wicket-keeperbatsman Kumar Sangakkara on 27 from 85 balls.Muralitharan had toiled away for 40 overs on the first day without his usualsuccess, taking just one wicket. On the second morning, he was not useduntil the second hour, but in his third over of the day he deceived CarlHooper (69 from 120 balls) in air to end a stylish innings from the captain.It also brought to a close a West Indies record 153 run fourth wicketpartnership against Sri Lanka that had threatened to overwhelm the hometeam.Still, with Lara at the wicket at lunch, Sri Lanka looked in deep trouble.Muralitharan then swapped ends and soon captured the prize scalp of Lara(178 from 293 balls), who gloved a sweep and was smartly caught by an alertSangakkara diving forward, to leave the West Indies 423-5.The tourists then capitulated. Chaminda Vaas, probing away diligently fromthe Fort End, joined in the action with Muralitharan, and the pair pluckedout the remaining five wickets for 14 runs.Marlon Samuels foolishly tried to drive a flighted off-break against thespin and was bowled through the gate for 16. Ridley Jacobs nibbled anoutswinger from Vaas and Mervyn Dillion flashed a snick to first slip.Three balls later Muralitharan finished off the innings as DinanathRamnarine was picked up at silly point and Colin Stuart was bowled firstball.Muralitharan had finished with 6-125, the 29th time he had taken fivewickets in an innings (only Richard Hadlee has taken more). Moreimpressively, he had taken 5-21 in the day from 13.3 overs.Speaking afterwards, with a Cheshire cat-like grin, he said: “During thefirst day my rhythm was not quite there, but today it was coming out reallynicely.”We always thought that if we could get Lara out we get all the otherwickets quickly, as they had some inexperienced batsmen to come and it iseasy for me to take the wickets of tailenders,” he said.Sri Lanka, instead of facing a total in excess of 500, that had seemedprobable, they were left with a manageable total on the best batting pitchseen at Galle in its seven Test history.All three results remain possible. In 1998 England scored 445 at the Ovalagainst Sri Lanka and believed they had safeguarded the game only to see theopposition rattle up 591, before Muralitharan grabbed nine wickets in theEnglish second innings to win the game.Muralitharan was upbeat about the team’s chances: “Unfortunately, Lara got abig one, but this is a batting wicket and still we can get a result if wescore around 500. By the fourth and fifth day it is going to spin a longway.”The West Indies will believe that any lead will be useful on a turningpitch, which this is sure to be by the fourth and fifth day. Sri Lanka arestill a not inconsiderable 345 runs adrift.Both Atapattu and Sangakkara played well. Atapattu drove fluently straightdown the ground for two boundaries and square cut McGarrell for another,whilst Sangakkara played himself in carefully, before hitting four fours inthe final hour.The tourists look like they will depend heavily upon Mervyn Dillion, whobowled a testing ten over spell with the new ball, and leg-spinner DinanathRamanarine, who came on in the 23rd over of the innings.Dillion’s new partner, Colin Stuart, who looked impressive in Matara beforehe retired with leg cramps, lacked rhythm and was wayward, conceding 22 runsin his first three overs.Neil McGarrell, playing his first game of the two-week long tour, lookedrusty and failed to trouble the Sri Lankan batsmen unduly with his flattrajectory.

Cameron White, Rob Bartlett and Shane Harwood have all been named for their ING Cup debuts, in the Bushrangers one-day clash with Tasmania this Sunday. Making way for the three from the Bushrangers last ING Cup match are the injured Damien Fleming, Shane Warne who is being rested, with Shawn Craig omitted.Victorian Chairman of Selectors, Shaun Graf said the absence of Warne and Fleming provided selectors with an opportunity to look at new players. “Obviously we would love to have Warney and Flem available, but on the positive side Cam, Rob and Shane have earned their spots and we expect all three to give a good account of themselves”.18 year-old leg-spinner White, has played three Pura Cup matches for the Bushrangers and will be used as a bowling option, providing extra batting depth. Melbourne fast-bowler Harwood hails from Ballarat and is a former Victorian and Australian Country XI member, whilst Fitzroy-Doncaster opening batsman Bartlett, leads all run scorers in Victorian Premier Cricket this season.MATCH DETAILS: BUSHRANGERS v TIGERS: Sunday, December 9, Bellerive Oval, HobartBUSHRANGERSMatthew Elliott (c), Brad Hodge (vc), Rob Bartlett, Darren Berry, Simon Dart, Ian Harvey, Shane Harwood, Ian Hewett, Michael Klinger, Michael Lewis, Jon Moss, Cameron White

Irresponsible batting on the third day Friday left Islamabadfacing defeat against Rawalpindi in their Quaid TrophyGrade-I match at the KRL Stadium.Rawalpindi, thanks to a 50-run eighth wicket stand betweenYasir Arafat and Nadeem Abbasi, hit up 221 in their secondinnings to leave Islamabad with a difficult target of 294for victory. They had resumed at the overnight score of 179for seven. But Islamabad batsmen instead of battingpatiently just threw away their wickets and were aprecarious 140 for seven at the close.Ali Naqvi (6) Bilal Asad (43) and Azhar Mahmood (34) werethe culprits and fell to reckless strokes as Rawalpindiprepared to celebrate victory early Saturday, the last dayof the game.The damage was done by Test discard Mohammad Zahid whocaptured four for 46 while Naeem Akhtar had two for 17.In the Rawalpindi innings Yasir excelled with the bat as hedid with the ball and struck 49 before being dismissed bySaad Janjua.

Two centuries – one from each side – ensured an absorbing battle between Namibia and Scotland in their ICC Under-19 World Cup match at Eden Park.In the end, the bigger century, 142 by their captain, Stefan Swanepoel, ahead of the 100 not out by Steven Gilmour, saw Namibia home by four wickets.They were individual innings of sharp contrasts. Scotland, after winning the toss and choosing to bat on the pitch that Zimbabwe had plundered 291 from the previous day, quickly found themselves 26 for three.From that position, Gilmour’s first task was to rebuild the innings. He found an able assistant in Qasim Sheikh (60) as the pair carefully compiled 50 in 20 overs, 100 in 30 and 150 in 40 before Gilmour, helped at the end by Kyle Coetzer (27 not out), powered the score through to 234/4. A single off the last ball of the 50 overs ensured a deserved century in an innings that blossomed from survival into rampant attack.Swanepoel’s, on the other hand, started with a blast as Namibia went looking for the bonus point available if they could reach the 235 target inside 40 overs. He had 68 of the first 100 when it was brought up in the 17th over. He went into the 90s in the 25th with Namibia 139/1.However, he was still on 91 in the 27th when the innings hit a rock. First Johan Nel, a junior member of an 81-run partnership with 24, departed after coming too far down the pitch to the off spin of Stewart Leggat, and then the Scotland pace bowler Christopher West in his first over of a new spell took two wickets in succession.Namibia had gone from 144/1 to 145/4 in the 28th over and it was time for a different sort of captain’s innings. He finally brought up his century in the 33rd over as he and Colin Steytler (32 not out) brought the innings back on track.From there, the victory was hardly in doubt. Swanepoel himself departed when the score was 222/5 and the victory just a couple of overs away, Namibia finishing on 237/6 in the 44th.The tall, lanky West ended with the most wickets of the Scotland bowlers, conceding 51 runs for his three, in the process getting them back into the match when they most needed it.However, the individual to take the eye was the leg-spinner, Moneeb Iqbal. A whirl-wind action, plenty of loop, some destructive turn and a mystery wrong’un all served to keep the Namibians watchful if not on occasion bemused. They may have collared him towards the end of his spell but that was more by good luck than good management and his one for 43 off 10 hardly reflected the web he spun around the Namibian batsmen.As for the Namibian bowlers, when Scotland’s Gilmour threatened to take control of the match Swanepoel rang the changes. Nine were used in all. However, the best of them remained the contrasting opening pair who did the damage at the beginning. Left-arm medium pacer Hendrik Geldenhuys took two for 19 in his first seven overs before returning at the end and finishing with two for 36 from nine. At the other end, the off spinner Michael Durant bowled his 10 overs straight through, ending with one for 24.Swanepoel won the man of the match award. Gilmour will remember – probably ruefully – the day when he reached a century and only came second.

New Zealand had to play the conditions on memory but their handling of a difficult pitch to beat England by 155 runs in the National Bank Series One-Day International on WestpacTrust Stadium in Wellington tonight was a clinical lesson in adaptability.Recent efforts by administrators and groundsmen in New Zealand have made these sorts of pitches a thing of the past, and it was only because of watering, to eliminate the scars of last weekend’s IRB Rugby Sevens at the same venue, being followed by two and a half days of torrential rain, that this pitch slipped through the net.It wasn’t a pretty sight, nor was it a comfortable ride for batsmen unprepared to play themselves in, adapt to the pace, and to recognise that boundary hitting was always going to be a luxury on such a slow outfield.That New Zealand appreciated this was obvious from their score of 244/8 – in that score there were only 14 fours and three sixes. Or 74 runs out of 244. That left an awful lot of running to be done by batsmen using placement and timing to gain maximum utility from the ground.England failed to bowl either the right length or line consistently enough to pressure New Zealand. When confronted by those requirements being met by New Zealand’s bowlers, their batsmen couldn’t cope.New Zealand have been looking to develop their batting along these lines and recognition of what was required under the circumstances was a hint of greater consistency emerging.Some facts:England were dismissed for 89 in 37.2 overs.The 155-run loss was the third highest they have suffered. The worst remains defeat by the West Indies by 165 runs at Kingstown in 1993/94 and by 162 runs in Melbourne against Australia in 1998/99.It was the lowest total they have scored against New Zealand. The previous worst was at Lancaster Park in 1982/83 when they scored 127. Their all-time lowest score is 86 against Australia at Manchester last year.In that same series they suffered their worst margin of defeat by New Zealand by 103 runs at the Basin Reserve.From a New Zealand perspective, the win was its second highest winning margin against Test-playing nations. The highest remains a victory by 206 runs against Australia in Adelaide in 1985/86. (A big win against East Africa was recorded at a World Cup and Bangladesh were beaten in Sharjah).New Zealand have now won four games in a row against England and been unbeaten in five (after the tie at Napier in 1996/97).In plain words, this was a rout.England bowled badly, fielded and caught worse, and their batting disintegrated.On a pitch of which the New Zealanders were given first use by Nasser Hussain, New Zealand batted by accumulation to achieve domination.There were long periods without boundaries, but the score kept ticking over and once the batsmen were established they were better equipped to hit out.Chris Nevin continued to give an edge to the opening and while the opening stand was only worth 25 when Nathan Astle departed, it was still the second best start of New Zealand’s ODI summer.Nevin scored 21 off 20 balls before he was out. Then after impatience got the better of Brendon McCullum, Stephen Fleming and Craig McMillan worked well to see the side through a potentially difficult patch while 58 were added for the fourth wicket.The disappointment was that Fleming, having scored 40 got out cheaply again when he was handling the situation so well. One six he hit off Craig White over the mid-wicket boundary was a beautifully fluid shot. Two straight drives were examples of Fleming at his best, but they were of the quality side of his game that, unfortunately, he is not showing as often as New Zealanders would like to see.McMillan then joined up with Lou Vincent, a not insignificant liaison in terms of New Zealand’s prospective ODI batting order, to add 84 off 97 balls before the stand ended in the 43rd over.The artisans had finished their job, now it was time for the demolition squad and while they struggled with the pace of the pitch, they did add 46 runs in the last six overs. Chris Cairns 11 off six, Chris Harris 14 off 19 and Andre Adams 25 off 18.Darren Gough is clearly the most combative bowler in the side but his three wickets cost 47 runs. White bowled a tidy first spell of five overs for 19 runs, figures only marred when 12 come off the fifth.Then when New Zealand came out to bowl it was as if the runs had dried out of the pitch in the tea break.Daryl Tuffey’s first two overs were maidens while Adams conceded a single off his first ball and then had Marcus Trescothick caught by wicket-keeper Nevin.Adams maintained some sterling pressure and in the process helped himself to a more permanent place in the New Zealand side. He generates good pace and bowled with great accuracy to take three for 13 from seven overs.Fleming decided that was enough and put him out of sight of prying English eyes but, one suspects, not out of their thoughts.Hussain departed to a bad shot which saw Fleming complete a good catch for a Tuffey wicket while Nick Knight was bowled by Adams for nine. When Graham Thorpe departed, leg before wicket to Adams for 10, it was effectively the end of the England cause.Andrew Flintoff provided some final resistance to score 26 and Ashley Giles hit 12 but the final destroyer proved to be Astle who took three for four to polish off the innings.

The South Australian Cricket Association (SACA) today confirmed that tickets for the third One Day International final will go on sale to the public tomorrow, Wednesday December 18.This is the first time that Adelaide has hosted a One Day final and the first time a final has been held outside of Sydney or Melbourne.The One Day International VB Series during 2002/03 sees England and Sri Lanka play in Adelaide on January 17, and Australia and England in a day-night match on January 19.The third final, if required, will take place on January 27 and will be day-night match.The SACA chief executive, Mike Deare, says it is an exciting opportunity for South Australia to show how well it can stage world-class events.”The One Day International series is an enormously popular sporting event and as a State, we have the opportunity to showcase how well we can stage events of this calibre,” Mr Deare said.”This is a fabulous opportunity, particularly in the lead-up to the World Cup Rugby 2003, to show the world that Adelaide Oval and South Australia can really shine when it comes to hosting events.”Tickets are available from Venuetix and start at $35 for adults. An outlet fee of $2 will be charged for pre-booked tickets, which will not be refunded in the event the third final is not required.