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Al-Amin’s wicket of Ariful Haque in the 15th over of the match between Khulna Titans and Comilla Victorians on November 28 had raised suspicion

Mohammad Isam30-Nov-2017Fast bowler Al-Amin Hossain has been reported for a suspect bowling action in the Bangladesh Premier League. Al-Amin’s wicket of Ariful Haque in the 15th over of the match between Khulna Titans and Comilla Victorians on November 28 had raised suspicion.He will now have 14 days to respond to the BCB’s bowling action review committee, but can continue to bowl until then.”Al-Amin was reported for one delivery from the November 28 game,” Jalal Yunus, the BPL chairman and technical committee head, said. “The next step would be as per ICC’s rulings in these cases. Al-Amin’s bowling action will be reviewed after 14 days.”This is not the first time that Al-Amin’s bowling action has been in question. He had been reported in August 2014 and after a test in the ICC-accredited centre in Chennai, he was cleared by the ICC in November 2014.In the previous BPL season, Kevon Cooper and Arafat Sunny were pulled up for suspect actions. However, both bowlers are now playing in the league this season.

Fifteen-year-old legspinner Rachel Trenaman is set to line-up alongside some of cricket’s biggest names after she was a surprise selection in the Governor-General’s XI to meet South Africa on Sunday

Brittany Mitchell09-Nov-2016Fifteen-year-old legspinner Rachel Trenaman is set to line-up alongside some of cricket’s biggest names after she was a surprise selection in the Governor-General’s XI to meet South Africa on Sunday.The Wagga Wagga teenager, who signed with Women’s Big Bash League side Sydney Thunder in September, is the youngest player named in the squad and joins some of the country’s most talented players, including Ellyse Perry, Beth Mooney and Lauren Cheatle.In its second year, the Governor-General’s XI was inspired by the traditional Prime Minister’s XI match and will see some of Australia’s best young female players clash with a touring side.The match will give Southern Stars players Perry and Mooney an early look at South Africa ahead of their five-match series, while it will also be Perry’s first taste of captaincy at an international level with the allrounder taking on the lead role.”The selectors are looking forward to seeing how the next generation of Australian cricketers fare against a strong South African side,” national selector Shawn Flegler said.”Rachel Trenaman is an exciting young player and a game like this is a great opportunity for her to play with, and against, some of the best players in the world.”The match-up also gives 18-year-old Cheatle the opportunity to push her case for selection after missing selection in the 13-player Southern Stars squad for the first three matches of the ODI series.Governor-General’s XI squad: Ellyse Perry (captain, NSW/Sixers), Sarah Beard (Australian Defence Force), Sophie Molineux (Vic/Renegades), Beth Mooney (Qld/Heat), Tahlia McGrath (SA/Strikers), Heather Graham (WA/Scorchers), Ashleigh Gardner (NSW/Sixers), Rachel Trenaman (NSW/Thunder), Amanda Wellington (SA/Strikers), Lauren Cheatle (NSW/Thunder), Piepa Cleary (WA/Scorchers), Belinda Vakarewa (NSW/Thunder)

After a gap of more than two years, the third edition of the Bangladesh Premier League will begin on November 24

Mohammad Isam16-Sep-2015After a gap of more than two years, the third edition of the Bangladesh Premier League will begin on November 24. It will be a six-team competition with three new franchise owners set to take part.The Dhaka, Chittagong and Barisal teams will now be run by Beximco Group, DBL Group and Axiom Technologies respectively. There will not be a franchise for Rajshahi and Khulna this year.The BCB have retained only three of the old franchise owners. The board had said they would only accept bids from those who had paid their dues from the 2013 edition, as well as the Tk 5.5 crore (approx USD 750,000) bank guarantee that had to be paid for the third edition. Only Alif Group, Royal Sports Limited and I Sports were able to do so.Alif Group were previous owners of the Barisal franchise but this time they will own the Sylhet team and I Sports take control of Rangpur.Royal Sports Limited picked Comilla, which is not a division yet, but BPL governing council’s member secretary Haider Mallick reasoned that, “The government has made Mymensingh as a division recently and possibly Comilla is in line too. As a result, this year we have decided to go with City Corporations, and not divisions. It will be a 10-team competition in the future although there are 20 City Corporations. We are giving the team for four years and the contract can be renewed through discussions at the end of the term.”Mallick and BCB president Nazum Hasan are employees of Beximco, but Mallick said they will not be involved with the Dhaka franchise in any capacity. The BPL governing council has decided that none among them can own or advice a franchise but anyone outside the governing council can participate in a franchise.”Nobody from the BPL governing council can be involved with the teams. They can’t be an owner or even stay as an adviser. But board directors or anyone who is not in the governing council, they can participate with the team.”I work in Beximco Pharma. The team was bought by Beximco Group. I am employed by Beximco, I am not an owner. I will not be involved with the team. The board president is also not an owner, he is an employee. He will also not be involved with this team. There will be no conflict of interest in this matter,” Mallick said.

Member of parliament Thilanga Sumathipala has announced his candidacy for the position of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) president for next month’s election, while three others will run for other board positions

Andrew Fidel Fernando27-Feb-2013Member of parliament Thilanga Sumathipala has announced his candidacy for the position of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) president for next month’s election, while three others will run for other board positions as part of his group. Sumathipala has been SLC president three times from 1997 to 2004, and also served as president of the Asian Cricket Council from 2000 to 2001. He also served as the director of the ICC from 1998 to 2000.He currently represents Colombo as an MP for the ruling United People’s Freedom Alliance, of which both the sports minister and chief selector Sanath Jayasuriya are members, and is believed to have the support of fellow MP Namal Rajapaksa, who is the son of Sri Lanka’s president, Mahinda Rajapaksa. Sumathipala is also the joint managing director of a business conglomerate that owns a betting business.Sumathipala was also a candidate for the SLC president’s position last year, but his group withdrew from the race, allowing Upali Dharmadasa’s group to win the election uncontested, amid claims of political interference.Mohan de Silva, who contested one of the vice-president roles alongside Sumathipala last year, will do so again, while Shammi Silva, who is also part of Sumathipala’s group, will contest the other vice-president position. The two other members of Sumathipala’s group are Eastman Narangoda, who will run for treasurer, and Erwin Jayawardene, who will run for assistant treasurer.”After discussing it with some SLC members, we handed over our names today as a team with the experience, talent and ability to improve and develop cricket in Sri Lanka,” Sumathipala said on Wednesday.The Sumathi Group, of which Sumathipala is joint managing director, owns Sporting Star – a betting business that primarily deals in horse racing bets. He has distanced himself from Sporting Star in recent times, claiming the business was run largely by his family, with minimal involvement from himself. Betting on cricket is illegal in Sri Lanka.Sumathipala denied that either his political office or business interests constituted a conflict of interest should he become SLC president, and was adamant there were no laws, in Sri Lanka or the ICC, that prevented him from contesting the position. The SLC president occupies a seat on the ICC’s board of directors, and the ICC Code of Ethics states in section 7.2 (b) that “no director shall have any business association, or enter into any business arrangement (whether formal or informal) with any person or company who has interests in gambling.””I have been involved with Sri Lanka cricket since 1995 and have been serving cricket for a long time now,” Sumathipala said. “I am very well respected at the ICC. I was involved when the ICC was compiling many of these rules, and have also been part of the board of directors. So, given all that, I have a good knowledge of what the ICC says about politics.”The ICC had given boards two years to become free from government and political interference in 2011, in accordance with the Woolf Report’s recommendations , but has since said it would review that stance because some boards depended on government patronage. In 2011, the ICC had indicated that it would have to consider taking steps against boards that had not moved to become detached from political interference by June 2012, but are yet to impose any formal sanctions on members who have failed to do so.”I think what I have done in cricket administration in the past is appreciated by the ICC, and they trust me. There are many politicians in the world who have improved sports, not just cricket. I don’t think they’ll see this involvement in SLC as a political one, because I’ve been in cricket administration for 18 years.”Sumathipala’s group does not have a candidate contesting the position of secretary, but he hoped current secretary Nishantha Ranatunga would continue in that post, and even invited Ranatunga to join his team. Ranatunga has been linked to the government through the Carlton Sports Network (CSN) channel, of which he is also CEO. CSN is owned by the Sri Lankan president’s sons, and is the current local broadcast rights holder for SLC.Sumathipala was SLC’s president from 1997 to 1998, 2000 to 2001 and 2003 to 2004 and his board was forced to stand down in the wake of an investigation into alleged financial irregularities in 2001. In 2004, he had to pull out of the elections as he was in jail at the time for allegedly aiding and abetting falsification of travel documents for a suspected mafia assassin , who was said to have received travel expenses from SLC to go to the 1999 World Cup. Sumathipala was convicted of the crime and sentenced to two years hard labour in 2007, but was acquitted of all charges on appeal.Current SLC president Upali Dharmadasa’s brother, Jayantha Dharmadasa, has also expressed interest in contesting the presidency, while former captain Arjuna Ranatunga has also suggested he may run. Candidates must submit their nominations to the sports ministry by Thursday, February 28, and the elections will take place late in March, with the winners announced at the annual general meeting on March 30.

The BCCI top brass have denied reports of an alleged rift in the Indian team, saying that the media have taken an “exaggerated” stand in the wake of stand-in captain Virender Sehwag’s contentious comments following India’s defeat to Sri Lanka on Tuesday

Nagraj Gollapudi22-Feb-2012The BCCI top brass have denied reports of an alleged rift in the Indian team, saying that the media have taken an “exaggerated” stand in the wake of stand-in captain Virender Sehwag’s contentious comments following India’s defeat to Sri Lanka on Tuesday. Sehwag had said that he was unaware that one of reasons MS Dhoni wanted to rotate the three openers (Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar and Gautam Gambhir) was because he feared they would leak at least 20 runs in the field.”I don’t think there is any rift within the team,” Rajiv Shukla, the BCCI vice-president who was meeting with other board officials in Mumbai at the IPL governing council meet, said. “It is only speculation by a section of the media. The team is united. So I don’t think there is a problem.”Shukla said the board was constantly in touch with the team management. “From what we have understood, Sehwag has been misquoted.”Sehwag had lead India against Sri Lanka in the absence of Dhoni, who was serving a one-match ban for not meeting the required over-rate in the previous game against Australia. In the post-match media conference, speaking on the rotation policy, Sehwag said that Dhoni had had chats with him, Tendulkar and Gambhir individually, telling them that the young players in the squad should get enough exposure in Australian conditions, keeping in mind that the next World Cup will be played in Australia and New Zealand. Sehwag said he was fine with that reasoning, but was unaware that Dhoni had said, after the February 19 match against Australia, that he could not fit all three openers into the XI because of their slowness in the field. That statement sparked speculation in the media, raising the question as to whether there was a divide in the team.The BCCI president, N Srinivasan, said there was nothing to be “concerned” about. “We have to see what exactly they [Sehwag and Dhoni] have said. They were responding to some question in a press conference. I have spoken to the media manager there [in Australia]. I think the reports here are exaggerated.”Asked if the pair of Duncan Fletcher and Dhoni had informed the board of their plans to try out the younger players and adopt the rotation policy, Shukla said that matter was entirely the decision of the tour selection committee, comprising the captain, coach and team manager. “It is for the coach and captain to decide on the team composition,” Shukla said.Edited by Nikita Bastian

A round-up of the latest action from the MetBank Pro40 Championship, Zimbabwe’s domestic limited-overs competition

ESPNcricinfo staff17-Jan-2011The bowlers dominated Mountaineers’ 33-run win over Mid West Rhinos at the Harare Sports Club, with 20 wickets falling in under 76 overs of play. Timycen Maruma seemed the only batsman to come to terms with conditions, slamming five sixes in his quickfire 59 to boost Mountaineers to 163 all out. Rhinos’ chase never got going, the visitors chipping away with spin and seam alike to seal the victory in the 37th over.The Rhinos seamers soon had Mountaineers’ top order reeling after Vusi Sibanda won the toss and decided to field. The score had slipped to 77 for 6 before Maruma’s solo effort, Justin Lewis and Paul Franks picking up a wicket apiece and Graeme Cremer striking twice. His innings carried them to 145 before Ed Rainsford, who had picked up the wicket of opener Jonathan Beukes and effected Hamilton Masakadza’s run out, returned and trapped him lbw. Rainsford also removed Shingirai Masakadza and Tinashe Panyangara to finish with 4 for 27.Rhinos lost star batsman Brendan Taylor in the first over and had stumbled to 60 for 6 in the 17th over before some lower-order resistance from Franks and wicketkeeper Riki Wessels. After the early wickets had been shared by the seamers and young legspinner Natsai Mushangwe, Prosper Utseya’s introduction to the attack sent the innings into freefall. He ripped through the tail, finishing with 3 for 10 as Rhinos were bowled out for 130 in the 37th over.No result was possible in Matabeleland Tuskers’ game against Mashonaland Eagles at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo, Tuskers reaching 32 for 2 in 12 overs before the weather closed in

Chennai’s disheartening defeat at the hands of Punjab, the fitness problems of MS Dhoni and Justin Kemp, and repeated failures in their experiment with a fifth bowler are a serious cause for concern come tomorrow

The Preview by Siddhartha Talya22-Mar-2010

Match facts

Tuesday, March 23
Start time 2000 (1430 GMT)

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Can Chennai stop Jacques Kallis’ prolific run?•AFP

Bangalore and Chennai are capital cities sharing a traditional rivalry but when extended to the third edition of the IPL, there is little debate over which team is better placed going into Tuesday’s match-up. Bangalore are top of the IPL table while Chennai are bruising physically and mentally.Both teams suffered blips in their respective starts to the tournament before winning the next two games. However, Chennai’s Super Over defeat at home to Kings XI Punjab on Sunday, when they failed to chase 137, the fitness problems of two crucial players, MS Dhoni and Justin Kemp, and repeated failures in their experiments with the fifth-bowler slot are serious causes for concern. Manpreet Gony, who struggled against Punjab with both bat and ball, Joginder Sharma and Sudeep Tyagi have all been tried with poor results.Contrast that to Bangalore’s resurgence. There has been stability in their attack with the five frontline bowlers retained in their three successive wins; targets high, low and tricky have been chased ruthlessly with Jacques Kallis unbeaten in this IPL, and with three fifties in four games; and backing up a formidable opening pair of Kallis and Manish Pandey is a line-up with considerable international exposure, which Chennai’s bowlers, barring Muttiah Muralitharan, may struggle to contain.The absence of Dhoni hurt Chennai in their failed chase against Punjab; his recovery from an injury to his arm has been gradual, and coach Stephen Fleming had said he could take the field in the game against Mumbai Indians on March 25. Chennai, who could slip down further from their current fourth position in the event of a loss on Tuesday, need an urgent recovery with their star player missing.

Team talk

Bangalore will be tempted to retain the combination that has won them the last three games. Eoin Morgan, though, thanks to the success of the openers, hasn’t had much time in the middle and Bangalore will be keen to witness him perform.Chennai could leave out Gony after his disappointing turn-out against Punjab. Chennai will have prepared a contingency measure for Kemp, who hurt his back, bowling just one ball and not coming out to bat. In the event of his absence, Sri Lankan allrounder Thissara Perera remains an option, so does Makhaya Ntini, should Chennai aim to strengthen their bowling. C Ganapathy, a fast-bowling allrounder, who is a crucial member of the Tamil Nadu set-up, could fill in if Gony’s left out.

Previously…

Bangalore 3 Chennai 2
The teams shared honours in the first edition, with Chennai beating Bangalore at the Chinnaswamy Stadium by 13 runs, and Bangalore prevailing at Chepauk by 14 runs. The league stages in South Africa followed a similar pattern as Chennai triumphed in Port Elizabeth by 92 runs, followed by Bangalore surviving by two wickets in Durban. However, Bangalore had the last laugh, sealing an easy win in the semi-final by six wickets, with Pandey and Rahul Dravid seeing them through.

In the spotlight

Murali v Bangalore top order: Kallis and Pandey have been dominant while opening. While Kallis, with all his experience, has the wherewithal to combat Murali, Pandey has only faced the offspinner once. He proved adept against Shane Warne in Bangalore’s ten-wicket win, showing solidity in defence and picking the variations to find the boundary. While Murali generally doesn’t prefer bowling within the first six overs, Chennai may adopt a different strategy to halt Bangalore’s success at the top.Matthew Hayden v Dale Steyn: Steyn has clocked close to 150 kmph this tournament and has been economical, working well with his opening partner Praveen Kumar. He is foremost in Anil Kumble’s plan of bouncing out Indian batsmen. While the ploy may be designed more to target someone like Suresh Raina, who was found out in the World Twenty20, Hayden’s naturally audacious approach presents a different challenge.

Prime numbers

Anil Kumble has bowled 45 dot balls in this IPL, Steyn too has 45 and Praveen Kumar has 43. They are part of a list of six players with the most dot balls in the competition; Murali has 46 to his name.Bangalore have conceded 180 runs in the Powerplay in this IPL, at 7.19 an over. They are third in the list of most economical teams in the first six overs, with Deccan Chargers leading with 5.95, followed by Kolkata Knight Riders at 6.92. Chennai, with 7.68, are in fifth place.

The chatter

“We wanted Kallis to bat for the 20 overs and he has been doing that. He has been anchoring one end and when required he has been taking on the bowlers. He is a great player and with his ability to bowl he is a great asset. We hope that this continues.”
Anil Kumble, the Bangalore captain, sums up Kallis’ role, which he has lived up to with much success thus far.

Pooran is also captain of the MI franchises in the MLC and the ILT20

ESPNcricinfo staff14-Aug-2025Nicholas Pooran has been named Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) captain ahead of CPL 2025. He will take over from Kieron Pollard, who has led the team since 2019, when he replaced Dwayne Bravo in the role.”It means a lot, first and foremost, to represent Trinbago Knight Riders. It is a privilege that I’m getting the opportunity to lead this franchise,” Pooran said. “I want to give it my best shot, and hopefully make as many correct decisions as I can. It’s a responsibility that has been passed on from Bravo to Pollard, and now to me.”For me, the most satisfying thing is that Pollard is still playing; Sunil [Narine] and Andre [Russell] are here too. That’s a lot of experience I can bank on. To lead them on the field – it means a lot to me.”Related

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Pooran, who is one of the most sought-after players on the T20 circuit, made his debut in the format as a 17-year-old in the inaugural season of the CPL for TKR, who were then known as Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel. He switched to Barbados Royals (BR) and Guyana Amazon Warriors before returning to TKR in 2022. He’s played in all the CPL seasons so far except for 2015, when he was out injured due to an accident. Overall in the CPL, Pooran has 2447 runs at a strike rate of 152.27 in 114 matches. At present, he is also the captain of MI New York in the MLC and MI Emirates in the ILT20.Under Pollard’s leadership, TKR not only won their fourth CPL title in 2020 but had a record unbeaten season – with 12 out of 12 wins – before making two more playoff appearances. In 2024, they lost the Eliminator to BR. Bravo was named head coach this season after he retired last year.”I believe grooming the next generation is very important,” Pollard said. “With Bravo coming on board this year as the new head coach, we felt this is the right time to get a new captain in. Pooran is homegrown, and I think this is the right opportunity for him. We’ve actually been preparing him for this over the years.”I don’t know how much longer I’m going to be playing for, but I’m happy for the opportunity to still be on the field and help Nicholas ease into this role. He’s someone who we’ve seen grow in front of us and he understands our values and principles. He understands how we want to play cricket, he understands the winning culture that we want to create, and he shares a lot of respect with a lot of players around the world. So for me, it was an easy decision to hand over the captaincy to Pooran.”TKR start their CPL 2025 campaign against St Kitts & Nevis Patriots on August 17.

Mir Hamza, Tabraiz Shamsi and Leus du Plooy missed the game for Karachi because of a viral infection

Associated Press01-Mar-2024Sherfane Rutherford hit an unbeaten half-century and earned a five-wicket win for Quetta Gladiators over a depleted Karachi Kings in the Pakistan Super League on Thursday.Rutherford smashed 58 not out off 31 balls with six towering sixes and a match-winning boundary off the final ball as Quetta recovered from a middle-order collapse to chase down 166 for their fourth win in five games.Karachi couldn’t cash in on James Vince and Tim Seifert’s impactful batting in the powerplay before they got tangled against the Quetta spinners and were restricted to 165 for 8. It was Karachi’s third loss in five games.Several frontline Karachi players including Mir Hamza, Tabraiz Shamsi and Leus du Plooy missed the game because of a viral infection. Du Plooy was hospitalised.Legspinner Zahid Mahmood, playing in his first game of the season, and Hasan Ali brought Karachi into the game with two wickets each and Shoaib Malik had the key wicket of half-centurion Jason Roy as Quetta stumbled to 89 for 5 in the 12th over.But Rutherford led the counterattack – with Akeal Hosein – with his powerful hitting before smashing fast bowler Anwar Ali in the final over. Quetta needed 15 from six balls, and Rutherford’s two sixes off the first two balls tilted the game in their favour.Earlier, Shan Masood’s below-par first season as Karachi captain continued when he was bowled for 2 by left-arm spinner Hosein in the first over.Vince smacked eight fours in his whirlwind knock during the power play before spinner Usman Tariq changed the complexion of the game by trapping both Seifert and Vince lbw in his first over.Abrar Ahmed came back well in his last two overs and got three wickets as Kieron Pollard was bowled by the legspinner in the death overs. Anwar provided a late flurry with an unbeaten 25 that included 20 off Mohammad Wasim’s last over but it was not enough.

The opener batted all day and was on 97 when the players shook hands with two balls left

AAP09-Oct-2022A thirsty Henry Hunt insists there’s no bad blood with Victoria despite stumps being called early with the South Australian opener stranded three short of a stoic Sheffield Shield century.Hunt (97 off 326 balls) was impenetrable on Sunday, refusing easy singles for the last hour to farm the strike as the Redbacks finished 7 for 207 after 107.4 overs in unlikely pursuit of 425.After creeping through the 80s at Adelaide’s Karen Rolton Oval, Hunt began the day’s final over on 93 and glanced Will Sutherland’s fourth ball for four. But after denying Victoria victory they denied him a century.Related

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With two balls left and a result out of the equation, players shook hands for a draw to rob Hunt of potentially two swings at an eighth first-class hundred.”At the end of the day I just wanted to get off the field and have a beer,” a diplomatic Hunt said of the final over being cut short. “It’s nice to have personal success but the end result of the day was to try and get the draw.”Boxes ticked in that regard; hopefully I can maybe score a little bit quicker in the next game, hit a few more boundaries and it might be on the cards. Backs against the wall given the position we were in early after lunch, it was the best possible result for us.”Victorian captain Peter Handscomb’s day-three century was followed by a late declaration, with SA surviving 12 overs to resume on Sunday at 0-38 requiring a further 387 runs for an improbable win.Three wickets in each session extinguished hope of a successful chase, with debutant Fergus O’Neill dismissing Test pair Travis Head and Alex Carey.Head flayed at a drive but picked out short cover to officially kill-off the chase, while Carey’s grinding innings (2 off 38 balls) was ended when wicketkeeper Sam Harper snaffled an edge while standing up to the stumps.Allrounder Nathan McSweeney then struck a wide, looping Jon Holland full-toss to a diving Mitchell Perry at backward point to open up the tail.Victoria engineered another wicket when Nic Maddison’s direct hit from a tight angle found Wes Agar (19 off 56) just short of his ground.That was the only wicket to fall in the final session though, with No. 9 David Grant digging in for 45 balls without scoring to see it through with Hunt.There were few other chances, although Hunt survived a tight lbw appeal and almost chopped a ball onto his stumps in consecutive deliveries against spinner Holland.Sutherland went wicketless in the final innings but had a fine game, his first-innings maiden century followed by a four-wicket haul to give Victoria an 80-run first innings lead.