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A day after taking charge of the BCCI’s day-to-day affairs, Jagmohan Dalmiya is yet to fill up the key posts of board secretary and treasurer. The sticking point, it appears, is the lack of suitable candidates

Amol Karhadkar04-Jun-2013A day after taking charge of the BCCI’s day-to-day affairs, Jagmohan Dalmiya is yet to fill up the key posts of board secretary and treasurer. The sticking point, it appears, is the lack of suitable candidates, with the possible replacements either occupied with their primary roles in and outside the game or wary of accepting a temporary, high-stakes position.Both Sanjay Jagdale and Ajay Shirke, who resigned as the BCCI secretary and treasurer last week, had conveyed their inability to reconsider their decision on Monday. Shirke told ESPNcricinfo that he had written to the BCCI “before” Dalmiya told the media he would give Shirke another 24 hours to make up his mind. This meant Dalmiya had to swing into action at the earliest, with the board finding itself facing multiple issues and lacking its two main executive officials.And even Dalmiya, a seasoned administrator, can’t do much about the delay in filling up the vacancies – both positions are on an honorary basis – because of a lack of viable options.”Most of the most eligible options don’t want to consider the role since they are either too busy with their primary commitments or due to the fact that none of them are too forthcoming to accept the role as a caretaker at a time when the responsibility is so huge,” a board insider said. “Most of them would prefer to be appointed office-bearers for a full term rather than being appointed as a caretaker for just three months going into the AGM.”Anurag Thakur, the incumbent joint secretary, was clearly the first choice to take over from Jagdale. However, Thakur, an MP and leader of the BJP, the main opposition party, declined the offer since he couldn’t spare “so much time from preparations for the next year’s (general) elections.”With Thakur unavailable, former India captain Anil Kumble and Orissa Cricket Association chief Ranjib Biswal emerged next in line. However, it is unlikely, for different reasons, that either of them would be willing to take up the offer. Biswal is in the UK as the Indian team’s manager for the Champions Trophy and could be there till the tournament is over on June 23. Besides, ESPNcricinfo understands that Biswal, a former MP, is contemplating contesting next year’s parliamentary elections, so he would also not be able to spare a lot of time for BCCI affairs upon his return.Kumble, on the other hand, already wears too many hats. The president of the Karnataka State Cricket Association also heads the ICC’s Cricket Committee and is mentor of Mumbai Indians. His association with an IPL franchise from another region of the country has already invoked opposition from a few KSCA members ahead of the KSCA elections. If Kumble accepts the role, he will either have to quit as Mumbai Indians mentor or be prepared to handle the next episode of the “conflict of interest” series in Indian cricket.This could eventually mean that either Anirudh Chaudhry or SK Nair, two of Dalmiya’s staunch loyalists during the Kolkata businessman’s stint as the BCCI president, could be handed over the crucial responsibility. Chaudhry, son of former BCCI president Ranbir Singh Mahendra, heads the Haryana Cricket Association, while Nair was the BCCI secretary when Dalmiya was dictating Indian cricket’s administration.As for the treasurer’s post, Sanjay Patel, Baroda Cricket Association’s joint secretary who is also a member of IPL governing council, and Biswarup Dey, Cricket Association of Bengal’s treasurer, have emerged as front-runners. Mumbai Cricket Association acting president Ravi Savant, a chartered accountant, may emerge as a dark horse.Besides appointing secretary and treasurer, Dalmiya also has to reconstitute the probe panel to enquire complaints against Gurunath Meiyappan, BCCI president N Srinivasan’s son-in-law who was granted bail in the IPL betting case, Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals. However, it was learned that the office bearers’ appointments was the “top-most priority” and the probe panel’s reconstitution would follow soon after that. ESPNcricinfo’s repeated attempts to get in touch with Dalmiya didn’t materialize since he was “busy with business meetings”.

ESPNcricinfo previews the IPL qualifier match between Chennai Super Kings and Delhi Daredevils in Chennai

The Preview by Siddarth Ravindran24-May-2012

Match facts

Friday, May 25, 2012

Start time 2000 (1430 GMT)Mahela Jayawardene will be looking to raise his game for the big occasion•AFP

Big Picture

Virender Sehwag and Delhi Daredevils are in a familiar position. Like this year, they had utterly dominated the 2009 season, before their mighty batting line-up faltered in the semi-final, much like their flop against Kolkata Knight Riders on Tuesday. This time though, with the changed format, they get a second opportunity.One of Daredevils’ puzzling decisions in the game against Knight Riders was to send in Ross Taylor as low as No. 7, below even teenager Pawan Negi, who is in the side primarily as a left-arm spinner and isn’t known for his batting exploits. TA Sekar, Daredevils’ team mentor, said the team had reassessed its batting order the game; so Taylor can expect to bat at a more customary position on Friday.Chennai Super Kings are also in a familiar position. Once again, they seem to be at their best in the final stages of the tournament. After several days of nervously watching other teams’ results go their way, Super Kings looked unstoppable when they took apart Mumbai Indians on Wednesday.They have always looked like the team with the greatest depth in their batting, and that was amply demonstrated against Mumbai Indians. Even after losing M Vijay and the IPL’s highest run-scorer Suresh Raina as early as the second over, their crisis men Michael Hussey and S Badrinath stabilised the innings, before the flamboyance of MS Dhoni and Dwayne Bravo switched the innings mode from build to blast. Even without using the heavy-hitting of Albie Morkel, even against the bowling of Lasith Malinga, Super Kings ran up 187 and coasted to victory.The trouble for Super Kings is that they need to bring their A game three times in five days, to beat each of other three playoff teams, if they are to make it a hat-trick of titles. They have done it once. Can they do it a second time on Friday?

Form guide

(most recent first)
Chennai Super Kings: WLWWW
Delhi Daredevils: LWLWL

Players to watch

In five years of the IPL, Mahela Jayawardene is yet to win a playoff match. He’s only had two chances: once in 2008, when Kings XI Punjab were thrashed by Super Kings, and then the defeat to Knight Riders earlier this week. In addition, his form this season hasn’t matched the high standard expected of him. In successive World Cups, Jayawardene has shown his ability to lift his game for the big occasion, something Daredevils would love him to do over the next three days.Ben Hilfenhaus has taken over from Doug Bollinger as Super Kings’ Australian fast bowler of choice. He’s played seven matches since his arrival from the West Indies, and hasn’t gone wicketless even once. After Dwayne Smith clubbed a succession of boundaries off Hilfenhaus to steal a last-ball victory, Hilfenhaus showed his temperament by bouncing back with consecutive Man-of-the-Match performances. Besides the outswinger which serves him well even in the longer formats, he has a quick bouncer, an accurate yorker and he likes to bowl full and wide to stifle batsmen. He accounted for both Sehwag and David Warner in the last game against Daredevils. Can he do it again?

Team combination

Super Kings don’t like to tinker with their team composition, re-securing their core players even during the re-shuffle before the 2011 season. They have used only 17 players this year, the least by a franchise, showing how much they like a settled side. After Shadab Jakati’s tight spell in the previous game with the new ball, expect him to retain his place. The only question for them is whether to retain M Vijay, or to pick S Anirudha if he is fit.Daredevils will have to ponder whether to play an extra spinner in Chennai, or stick to their preferred pace-heavy attack. Irfan Pathan had injured his hand while attempting a return catch in the game against Knight Riders, but team mentor Sekar said Irfan was fit to play on Friday.

Meetings this season

Both encounters this season have been one-sided: Daredevils won by eight wickets at the Kotla after four run-outs undermined Super Kings, and less than two weeks ago Hilfenhaus ran through the Daredevils top order to set up a straightforward nine-wicket* victory at Chepauk.

Stats and trivia

• Suresh Raina has scored only 341 runs this season, his lowest tally in any IPL
• Morne Morkel is three wickets away from equalling Malinga’s record of 28 wickets in an IPL season
• For stats on Super Kings’ spinners’ struggles at home, click here

Quotes

“We have a team that is better suited to the conditions in Chennai. We have seamers who are adequate but not startling.”

“Ross got a 21-ball fifty against Royal Challengers in Bangalore. He showed his class there and I think he is in a good space and I think he should fire tomorrow.”

*05.15 GMT May 25 The margin of victory has been corrected

James Middlebrook hit 109 – his highest score for Northamptonshire – as the visitors established an iron grip against Gloucestershire

12-May-2011
Scorecard
James Middlebrook hit 109 – his highest score for Northamptonshire – as the visitors established an iron grip on the County Championship Division Two clash with Gloucestershire at Bristol. Middlebrook and Niall O’Brien, who extended his overnight score of 123 to 166, took their seventh-wicket stand to 187 before being parted, and helped their team to a massive first-innings score of 557 for 9 declared.By the close of the second day, Gloucestershire had replied with 172 for 7, having been 31 for 5 at one stage after Jack Brooks (4 for 30) took three wickets in the space of seven balls. Chris Taylor (54) and Will Gidman (72 not out) led a spirited recovery with a stand of 115 but the hosts trailed by 385 runs with just three wickets remaining.Northamptonshire began the day on 381 for 6, having been in trouble themselves at 125 for 5, and were soon piling on the agony for a largely-inexperienced home attack. From his overnight score of 24, Middlebrook moved confidently to a half-century off 88 balls, with eight fours.O’Brien was dropped on 147 by David Payne at long-off as he skied a delivery
from Kane Williamson, but otherwise the pair made untroubled progress. O’Brien finally perished shortly before lunch, 10 short of his career-best score, top-edging a pull shot off 16-year-old seamer Craig Miles and being caught at fine leg by Jon Lewis. He had batted for more than five hours, facing 206 balls and hitting 20 fours and a six.Middlebrook went on to reach three figures off 184 balls, with 12 fours, finding more solid support from David Lucas, who finished on 34 not out. The centurion fell to a catch at mid-off, driving at the off-spin of Taylor and Lee Daggett’s second-ball duck brought the declaration.Gloucestershire’s batting problems began when Ian Cockbain was bowled
shouldering arms to Lucas with the score on 15. Without addition and in the same
over, Williamson fell for a duck, caught in the slips by David Sales.Brooks then accounted for Richard Coughtrie, Alex Gidman and Jon Batty in rapid
succession as the home side’s top order was blown away. But Taylor and Will Gidman were in no mood to surrender meekly. They took the score to 61 for 5 at tea and then counter-attacked with relish as the ball went soft.Taylor was first to his fifty off 78 balls, with eight fours, and Gidman’s statistics were similar when he got to his half-century off 80 deliveries, also with eight boundaries.It was 146 for 6 when Taylor was caught behind cutting with no foot movement
and Brooks struck again to remove Ian Saxelby, leaving Gidman defiant, but with
only the tail to bat in the morning.

The India women’s team is geared up for their first tour of the Caribbean and hopes to get off the mark in the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 with victory over New Zealand

Cricinfo staff30-Apr-2010The India women’s team is geared up for their first tour of the Caribbean and hopes to get off the mark in the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 with victory over New Zealand on May 6.”Winning will give us the momentum. Twenty20 is all about maintaining it. Beating New Zealand will be a good way to begin,” said Jhulan Goswami, the India captain.India batsman and former captain Mithali Raj had a different opinion. “Twenty20 is about each player contributing to the team effort,” she said. “I am supposed to be the main player in batting, so teams will have special plans for me. If others can chip in at the right times, it will help.”India’s preparations for the tournament comprised of three matches against England at home and then a camp in Mumbai in sweltering conditions. “The heat was so much that we got fried,” said Raj. “It will help us in the West Indies.”We have been told that wickets in the West Indies are on the slower side. If that is true, then we have the spinners to make best use of conditions. If the tracks in the West Indies are slow, then India has the bowling unit.”India will go on to play Pakistan on May 8 and Sri Lanka on May 10, both in St Kitts.

Having stumbled to 39 all out against West Indies, Uganda will hope to end their tournament on a high

Andrew Fidel Fernando14-Jun-2024

Match details

New Zealand vs Uganda
Providence, 8.30pm local

Big picture

For Uganda, for whom the T20 World Cup 2024 has been the biggest and most consequential outing in their many decades of playing senior men’s cricket, Friday’s match is one last chance to show what they’ve got at the top level. So far in this tournament, they’ve been brushed aside by Afghanistan and West Indies. In their most recent match against West Indies, they were all out for 39, their lowest total in T20Is. But then they’ve also registered a victory against Papua New Guinea, sparking no little joy and satisfaction.Related

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Ugandan cricket has plenty of distance to travel, but it’s had a showing at a World Cup now. There has been a heartbeat there for much of the last 50 years, but it’s now as loud as it ever has been. Uganda just want to get another solid performance under their belt. An upset? This is of course the dream.New Zealand, now out of the tournament, having lost badly to Afghanistan then more narrowly to West Indies, have less to gain. Already there are assertions that the greatest era of New Zealand’s cricket is over, and some rebuilding must begin. Tim Southee and Trent Boult are not the forces they once were, perhaps, and that top order seems short of firepower.A big showing against Uganda won’t necessarily crush those critiques. But there will at least be an opportunity for a proud group of players to reassert themselves.

Form guide

New Zealand LLLWW
UgandaLWLWLKane Williamson has endured a troubled World Cup as captain and batter•ICC/Getty Images

In the spotlight: Riazat and Williamson

Uganda have some decent bowling stocks, but it’s their batting that is seriously deficient, as seen in the match against West Indies. Their best bet for resisting New Zealand’s attack is Riazat Ali Shah a batter of Pakistani origin who moved to Uganda from the Hunza Valley in Gilgit-Baltistan to pursue his cricket dreams. Riazat was not only the Player of the Match in their game against PNG but was also their highest run-scorer in the Africa Region Qualifier. His 42 off 28 against Zimbabwe was one of the most telling contributions of that tournament.Kane Williamson, arguably the centrepiece of New Zealand’s greatest cricket era, is captaining a team that bows out of the tournament before they reach the next level. And he is doing it without really having contributed meaningfully to the campaign, scoring 9 and 1 against the top teams in the group. There will be plenty of time to pick apart this World Cup showing. But, for now, Williamson needs some runs.

Pitch and conditions: Slower pitch in Tarouba

No rain is forecast for Tarouba on Friday night. The pitches at the Brian Lara Stadium have not been conducive to run-fests. They have had a bit of turn for the spinners, and rewarded bowlers who take the pace off.

Team news

Barring last-minute injuries, Uganda seem unlikely to make too many changes.Uganda: 1 Roger Mukasa, 2 Simon Ssesazi (wk), 3 Robinson Obuya, 4 Alpesh Ramjani, 5 Riazat Ali Shah, 6 Kenneth Waiswa, 7 Dinesh Nakrani, 8 Brian Masaba (capt), 9 Juma Miyagi, 10 Cosmas Kyewuta, 1 Frank Nsubuga.Ish Sodhi is the only member of New Zealand’s squad to not get a game so far in this World Cup. He could come into the side if conditions are expected to favour spin.New Zealand: 1 Devon Conway (wk), 2 Finn Allen, 3 Rachin Ravindra, 4 Kane Williamson (capt), 5 Daryl Mitchell, 6 Glenn Phillips, 7 James Neesham, 8 Mitchell Santner, 9 Tim Southee, 10 Trent Boult, 11 Lockie Ferguson.

Stats and trivia

• Frank Nsubuga’s figures of 2 for 4 against PNG were the most economical by any bowler to have completed their four-over quota in a Men’s T20 World Cup game.
• This is the first time in a decade that New Zealand have not made the semi-finals of an ODI or T20 World Cup. The last time they missed out was in 2014.

Chasing 275, the visitors were bowled out for 76 in 19.5 overs in Auckland

Andrew Fidel Fernando25-Mar-2023Sri Lanka crashed to 76 all out in pursuit of a target of 275, after Henry Shipley blasted out the their top order, eventually claiming 5 for 31. Where New Zealand had scrapped to 274 all out, their scorecard featuring a highest score of 51 – by Finn Allen – Sri Lanka succumbed meekly against the bounce that Shipley, Blair Tickner, and even Daryl Mitchell generated, on an Eden Park surface with plenty of carry.Some Sri Lanka batters fell to the short ball, which New Zealand’s batters had also struggled to contend with in their innings. Others were dismissed by full deliveries that seamed. And the run-out of opener Nuwanidu Fernando, who had charged most of the way down the pitch for a third even though his partner was not interested, set off the whole, sorry collapse.Only three Sri Lanka batters got to double figures; their best individual score was Angelo Mathews’ 18.Shipley, a tall bowler whose braced front leg in his delivery stride ensures a very high release point, did not merely generate awkward bounce on a helpful pitch, but was also good when he pitched the ball up. His best delivery was perhaps to Pathum Nissanka, whom he bowled through the gate, having jagged the ball into the batter off the seam. Later, he had Dasun Shanaka edging a fullish delivery to the slips as well.

SL penalised for slow over-rate

Sri Lanka have been docked a point for maintaining a slow over-rate in their first ODI against New Zealand. They were found an over short of the target in their 198-run loss. The players were each docked 20% of their match fees.

His three other wickets were from the short ball, though – Kusal Mendis was rushed into a pull and sent the ball to the fine-leg fielder, Charith Asalanka nicked a wideish short delivery to the keeper, and Chamika Karunaratne holed out trying to bludgeon a pull, late in the game. This was Shipley’s first five-for in internationals, in just his fourth ODI. In fact, he’d only had three five-fors before this across List A and first-class cricket.Tickner and Mitchell took two wickets apiece, and Matt Henry was unfortunate not to produce a dismissal, such was the quality of his bowling, and the haste with which Sri Lanka’s batters seemed to throw their wickets away. Sri Lanka were all out in the 20th over. This was their lowest total against New Zealand, and their fifth-lowest ever.Mitchell had also contributed with the bat, as his 47 helped New Zealand progress through the middle overs. Allen’s 51 at the top of the innings had given the hosts their impetus, though, as he prospered against the seamers’ fuller deliveries initially, before later walloping Wanindu Hasaranga’s legspin for consecutive sixes.Pathum Nissanka loses his leg stump to a Shipley inducker•AFP/Getty Images

Debutant Rachin Ravindra’s 49 off 52 was not particularly flashy, but was perhaps the most important innings of the match, as he kept New Zealand ticking in the late overs despite the fall of wickets at the other end. He and Glenn Phillips had come together with the score 152 for 5 in the 30th over, and proceeded to put on the only half-century stand in the game, producing 66 off 59 balls.When Phillips was dismissed, holing out trying to thump Dilshan Madushanka over the square-leg boundary, Ravindra continued to accumulate meticulously in the company of the tail. He hit four fours and a six, before he himself holed out – a common dismissal for the New Zealand batters, who kept trying to clear the short straight boundary but were forced to do so against shorter lengths, which Sri Lanka’s bowlers utilised heavily. New Zealand left the last three deliveries of their innings unused.Though Sri Lanka showed little spine with the bat, they displayed spunk in the field and with the ball. Chamika Karunaratne relied on short-of-a-length deliveries to fetch him career-best figures of 4 for 43 from his nine overs. Lahiru Kumara was rapid, and intense, as he took 2 for 46, with Kasun Rajitha also claiming two wickets. And Sri Lanka took the catches that came their way.This defeat means automatic qualification for this year’s World Cup appears unlikely for Sri Lanka. If South Africa win their two matches against Netherlands, or Ireland win their three remaining games, those teams put themselves on 98 Super League points each (provided no over-rate penalties), which Sri Lanka now cannot reach even with two wins against New Zealand.

The men’s team need a new head coach after Langer stepped down despite considerable success

Andrew McGlashan05-Feb-2022May 2018: Rebuilding the team
Amid the fallout to the Newlands ball-tampering scandal, Justin Langer is appointed as head coach. ​​”We look to encourage great cricketers but also great Australians and great citizens,” he says. “I think one of the things that’s really important is that we keep looking to earn respect.”June 2018: Hammered in England
The first tour of the Langer era is a limited-overs trip to England where Australia are thrashed 5-0 in the ODIs and also beaten in the one-off T20I. “I knew it was going to be a big job, knowing where we came from in South Africa,” Langer says at the end of the tour. “On the surface it looks like a complete disaster but we have talked about building a team that’s going to be ready for the World Cup and the Ashes and I think we have unlocked a few answers. But it hurts when you get beaten, particularly in England.”October 2018: Drawing encouragement, then losing it
The Test team comes back together and the opening match against Pakistan provides an early high-point as Usman Khawaja and new captain Tim Paine fashion a superb draw in Dubai. However, things are brought back down to earth with a bump in the second Test which Pakistan win by 373 runs.A heavy Boxing Day defeat decided the 2018-19 series against India•Cricket Australia

December 2018: MCG meltdown proves costly
The series against India stands at 1-1 after Australia respond to a narrow defeat in Adelaide with a resurgent victory in Perth. But that’s as good as it gets for the home side as they collapse against Jasprit Bumrah at the MCG, and at the SCG they are forced to follow on before the rain arrives. Marnus Labuschagne is recalled and bats at No. 3March-April 2019: One-day revival
Australia revive their flagging one-day form with a stunning come-from-behind series win in India followed by a 5-0 victory over Pakistan in the UAE as, at the last moment, their World Cup plans take shape.July 2019: It was all looking so good
David Warner and Steven Smith return to international cricket with the former playing a key role as Australia look one of the strongest sides in the tournament. Aside from an early defeat against India, they canter to the semi-finals with Mitchell Starc in stunning form before a rampaging England exact revenge for a league-stage defeat.Australia secured the 2019 Ashes at Old Trafford•Getty Images

August-September 2019: Ashes retained
Edgbaston is conquered thanks to the remarkable Test return of Smith, then after Ben Stokes pulls off the Miracle of Headingley (Langer kicking a dustbin later becomes a viral clip from documentary) Australia regroup to retain the Ashes with victory at Old Trafford. It is set up by a double-century from Smith who had missed the Leeds defeat due to concussion while Pat Cummins’ second-innings dismissal of Joe Root is a social-media regular. However, Australia can’t ice the cake as they lose at The Oval. “We are a good team, we are a maturing team and we’ve got some great players in it, but we’re aspiring to be a great cricket team,” Langer says.November-January 2020: Summer whitewash
Warner and Labuschagne feast on Pakistan and the latter continues to do the same against New Zealand as Australia reassert home dominance against two visiting sides who significantly underwhelm.September 2020: Covid cricket
Australia’s pandemic-life cricket starts with a return to England, which finishes in spectacular style as centuries from Glenn Maxwell and Alex Carey secure a remarkable victory in the decider.Australia’s unbeaten record at the Gabba ended in 2021•Matt Roberts/Getty Images

January 2021: End of an era
India are bowled out for 36 in Adelaide. Rebound with victory in Melbourne. A fraught draw in Sydney. It’s all square going to the Gabba where Australia haven’t lost since 1988. And they lose. India pull off one of their greatest victories with a side badly hit by injury and also missing Virat Kohli. Shortly after, reports begin to come out of discontent in the Australia dressing room – it involves a toasted sandwich – and the cracks start to emerge.July-August 2021: Alarm bells
With a tour to South Africa postponed due to Covid, Australia do not play again for months and the team they take to West Indies and Bangladesh is missing a host of key names. They are heavily beaten in both T20I series but take the ODI series against West Indies. When the squad returns and is in quarantine in Adelaide there are more reports of a major rift in the camp and this time it nearly claims the coach before high-level emergency talks rescue the situation. “We all got a lot off our chests,” Langer tells the . “I think we are all in a better place now.”Mitch Marsh is given a celebratory dowsing by the Australian team•Getty Images

October 2021: Of course they won another World Cup
Would you believe it? Among the least-fancied teams, Australia recover from a crushing defeat against England to secure a semi-final berth. There they overcome Pakistan with Matthew Wade playing the innings of the life. In the final against local rivals New Zealand it’s Warner and Mitchell Marsh who lead them to the title.January 2021: Ashes demolition
It is never a contest. Literally from the first ball, when Starc removes Rory Burns’ leg stump, Australia are never threatened in retaining the Ashes. It takes just 12 days as Scott Boland’s scarcely-believable 6 for 7 grabs the headlines at the MCG. It’s not quite 5-0 as England cling on in Sydney, but despite a suggestion the final game could be a contest it’s another emphatic win in three days. Justin Langer sits among his players on the stage during the presentations. It proves his final match.

Having signed a three-year deal from next season, Overton can now play Surrey’s remaining BWT and Blast matches

ESPNcricinfo staff02-Sep-2020Jamie Overton will join Surrey on loan for the rest of the 2020 domestic season.Overton, who has already agreed a three-year deal to join Surrey from Somerset at the end of the current season, will now play for Surrey throughout September.He will be available for all South Group matches in the Vitality Blast and Surrey’s one remaining Bob Willis Trophy fixture against Sussex, starting on Sunday.Surrey Director of Cricket Alec Stewart thanked his Somerset counterpart, Andy Hurry, and the club for releasing Overton. “I’m looking forward to seeing Jamie play and perform in a Surrey shirt,” Stewart said.Overton, who went on loan to Northamptonshire last season, has struggled to gain opportunities in Somerset’s first-choice attack, with twin brother Craig, Lewis Gregory and Josh Davey all ahead of him in the County Championship pecking order in recent times. Somerset have also boosted their seam-bowling stocks by adding Jack Brooks and Vernon Philander, although the latter’s deal was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.While Surrey have several seamers on their books, they are regularly without the Curran brothers due to international duties.Part of England’s 30-man training group ahead of the West Indies Test series, Overton has been in impressive form with bat and ball for Somerset in the Bob Willis Trophy.He claimed a five-wicket haul – and seven wickets for the match – against Glamorgan before scoring 68 and taking 4 for 26 among five wickets for the match against Northamptonshire. He then scored a maiden first class century with his 120 in Somerset’s draw with Warwickshire.Hurry said: “Jamie has requested an immediate loan move after recently agreeing a contract with Surrey CCC for next season and beyond and we have agreed to this request. I want to take this opportunity to thank Jamie for all his contributions and commitment to the club over the last 10 years and we wish him well in the next chapter of his career.”

Performance in Ireland tri-series has given everyone a lot of confidence, says chief selector Minhajul Abedin

Mohammad Isam21-May-2019There will be no changes to the 15-man provisional World Cup squad Bangladesh had announced over a month ago, with Minhajul Abedin, the chief selector, saying that the performances in the Ireland tri-series, which Bangladesh won, had convinced the selectors that the squad was the right one.”There is much confidence on and within the 15-member squad currently in England,” Abedin, who was also the team manager during the tri-series, told ESPNcricinfo. “Everyone in the squad has shown that they are capable of performing at the highest stage, which is why we selected them in the first place.”The question marks were mainly over Abu Jayed and Mosaddek Hossain, but both passed with flying colours. Mosaddek’s quickfire half-century against West Indies in the final helped Bangladesh clinch their first multi-team ODI trophy, while Jayed took 5 for 58 against Ireland in an earlier game.Liton Das and Rubel Hossain, also not considered automatic starters at the World Cup, also did enough in their limited opportunities during the tri-series to stay in the squad. Liton hit a 67-ball 76 against Ireland in his only outing, while Rubel picked up 1 for 41 in the same game.Four reserve players – Taskin Ahmed, Farhad Reza, Nayeem Hasan and Yasir Ali – had travelled to Ireland for the tri-series, but will now continue training in Dhaka along with the two other standby players – Imrul Kayes and Taijul Islam – in preparation for the July series against Afghanistan A, who will play two four-day and five one-day games.Most of Bangladesh’s World Cup squad is now training in Leicester before the squad – including captain Mashrafe Mortaza and Tamim Iqbal, who were given a break – head to Cardiff for their two warm-up games against Pakistan and India on May 26 and 28 respectively.Squad: Mashrafe Mortaza (capt), Liton Das, Mohammad Mithun, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Mahmudullah, Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Mohammad Saifuddin, Abu Jayed, Mustafizur Rahman, Rubel Hossain, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Sabbir Rahman, Mosaddek Hossain

Pakistan climbed to the top half of the ICC Women’s Championship table with a resounding win against Sri Lanka in Dambulla, on the back of a half-century from captain Bismah Maroof and a four-for from offspinner Sana Mir

ESPNcricinfo staff22-Mar-2018Getty Images/ICC

Pakistan climbed to the top half of the ICC Women’s Championship table with a resounding 94-run win against Sri Lanka in Dambulla, on the back of a half-century from captain Bismah Maroof and a four-for from offspinner Sana Mir. Once Pakistan posted 250 for 6, the hosts were bowled out for 156 to give the visitors an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series.Opting to bat, Pakistan saw slow starts from openers Nahida Khan (29) and Muneeba Ai (31) before they were sent back by medium-pacers Ama Kanchana and Sripali Weerakkoddy, respectively, by the 20th over. The innings was then steered by Maroof, who struck nine fours and a six to register her 12th ODI half-century. Her 89 off 90 balls lifted the run rate along with lower-order contributions from Nida Dar and Sana Mir’s 25-ball 27. Weerakkoddy finished with 2 for 46 from her ten overs.Sri Lanka’s chase wobbled as early as the fifth over when Nipuni Hansika was run-out by Muneeba for 5 off 16. Captain Chamari Atapattu scored a brisk 24 off 23 but she fell to Nashra Sandhu’s left-arm spin in the ninth over and four wickets from Mir had them in serious trouble at 67 for 6. Chamari Polgampola, Kanchana and Weerakkoddy steered the score past 100 before a last-wicket stand of 50 runs helped them to 156 but they were bowled out in 37 overs. Mir finished with impressive figures of 10-3-32-4 and Nahida Khan took four catches in the match.The third ODI will be played on Saturday in Dambulla.