Michael Vaughan: under fire from the media© Getty Images

"England contrived to achieve the near-impossible yesterday by producing a collective batting performance inferior to the derided effort of two days earlier," wrote Richard Hobson in . "Embarrassingly, a floodlit game was completed more than three hours ahead of schedule, before twilight had the chance to kick in, defeat stemming from hot-headed shot selection and lack of gumption. James Franklin, the left-arm seam bowler, could not have found victims much easier to snare when he was playing for Rishton in the Lancashire League a few weeks ago."John Westerby, also in , summed the situation up by saying: "While England have played musical chairs with their batting line-up recently in an attempt to create harmony among their top order, the only noises emanating from that end of the orchestra at the moment are bum notes."In the , Derek Pringle also put the blame on England’s clueless batsmen: "Most of them were toying with disaster with their gung-ho approach in challenging conditions." He continued, "the shot-a-ball culture prevailing among England’s top order appears to treat every pitch as a belter and every bowler as a dobber in a misguided quest to score 250-plus, irrespective of conditions."At one stage wickets seemed to be falling every seven runs, which meant spectators were treated to endless replays of Eminem’s Lose Yourself a strident ditty that contains the lyric: `You only get one shot, so don’t miss your chance.’ It was prescient too. Most of England’s batsmen did only have one shot – an awful one."As usual, didn’t hold back. "One-day quicket!" read the headline, under which John Etheridge was just as scathing. "England produced another shocking performance yesterday that plunges the whole future of this one-day team into doubt," he decreed. "Maybe the thief who pillaged their dressing room also stole England’s batting brains as well as a complete set of coaching manuals.It is almost impossible to comprehend — but this was an even worse display than their inept effort against West Indies at Trent Bridge on Sunday.""Frankly, that was rubbish!" ran the . "This woeful defeat extended Vaughan’s record of England losing every one-day international in which they have batted first, and winning in every run chase, since he took over 20 games ago," Mike Walters pointed out. "Just as they had shot their bolt far too early against the Windies at Trent Bridge, England were a busted flush inside the first 20 overs."So what can be done now? Well, Mark Nicholas, writing in the , had an idea. "Three consecutive World Cup failures are an embarrassment to a country which plays so much of the limited-overs stuff in its own first-class structure," he said. "Specialists must be chosen and used in the position which led to their choice. If England put the successful, confident and better-balanced Test team on the park at Headingley tomorrow, would they fare better than the one in their place? Yes, quite probably, is the answer." He’s got a point.

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India, September 16, 1998It’s a rather plain and uninteresting photograph. A staged photograph of two Bank employees at work in a vault (S. Gurumoorthy, left and Karitha Vishwanathan, right). Nothing special. But in that vault, a few months after this photograph was taken, these two people were buried alive.The Regional Head of Strategic Sourcing for India and Nepal knows the story as well as anyone. It had been his job to lease the space and build the vault.The Bank leased space in the basement of an eight-storey commercial building called Poonam Chambers. It was to be the new location for the Bank’s custody division. The most important feature was the vault. It would house all the hard copies of all the shares and commercial documents placed in the Bank’s care by its many corporate and institutional customers.The vault was constructed to extremely high international standards. The branch opened and the Bank had been conducting business as usual for almost a full year. There was no indication that anything was amiss. But unbeknownst to many, a number of elements were conspiring to bring disaster.First, the building was old and had not been maintained properly. It was near the ocean and on stormy days the wind blew salt water onto the building. Over time, the salt had weakened the structure. Second, renovations were being carried out on the fourth floor. It’s believed that contractors had drilled holes through supporting beams to make way for new wiring. The holes had weakened the beams. And finally, the night before the disaster, someone had filled two 65,000-litre tanks located on the roof of the building with water.The day of the calamity began as any other day. However, in the early afternoon, the building suddenly began to shake and shudder. There was a tremendous amount of noise. And then oddly all fell silent. For five or six minutes there was nothing. No sound. No sense of impending doom. And then, in an instant, the structure failed and the floors pancaked one on top of the other. People on the upper floors had a good sense of what was happening and had time to evacuate. Unfortunately, people on the lower floors did not escape.She had been trapped in utter darkness andhad no idea of the fate of her colleague.A total of 19 people perished in the collapse of Poonam Chambers. Most deaths occurred on the lower floors. The Bank lost one full-time employee and four out-sourced employees who had been engaged by the Bank on a part-time basis.By this time, the whole city was aware of the building collapse. Traffic had come to a standstill. Flights were delayed or cancelled. The Regional Head was stuck in traffic. He spotted a man on a motorbike weaving through the traffic toward him. He got out of his car, stopped the man and asked if he could borrow the motorbike. He offered the keys to his car as security.The Poonam site was `complete chaos.’ The fire brigade didn’t have the equipment necessary for cutting people from the rubble. Ambulances jammed the street. Friends and family of the missing called desperately for their loved ones.The Bank had more than 100 employees at the Poonam Chambers location. The first concern was to get the people out. Second, they had to save the Bank’s assets and the assets of its clients. Fortunately, most of the custodial staff were able to free themselves from the rubble, in large part because the reinforcing structures put in place for the vault prevented the building from collapsing on top of them. When the Regional Head arrived, they had already set up a command post and a project management office. The Regional Head said with some pride that his team `had put the Standard Chartered machinery of project management expertise into play.’ The Bank was also working closely with the fire brigade. Before long, they were able to source metal shears and other heavy equipment the fire brigade lacked. They also contacted a number of doctors and summoned additional ambulances.After the collapse, emergency lighting allowed the custodial staff to escape. They then used this light to re-enter the collapsed structure to remove precious documents. By the time the Regional Head had arrived, they’d removed 99 per cent of the documents. This effort was at considerable personal risk as the building continued to shift and fall. The custody department, like many of the Bank’s back-office processing departments, work on what is called an `operational risks model.’ This means that they are trained to exit any location as quickly and effectively as possible. Evacuation drills are staged on a monthly or quarterly basis. This accounts for the high survival rate and the team’s ability to salvage so much in such little time.Unfortunately, two Bank employees, S. Gurumoorthy and Kavitha Vishwanathan, remained in the vault when the building collapsed. Both had been working to remove documents. Because of the vault’s central location in the building’s basement, the vault itself received the full force of the eight-story collapse. As a result, the roof of the vault had caved in slightly, jamming the doors and trapping the two inside.Apparently, the two had been in the process of emptying the vault when they were ordered to evacuate. Once outside, S. Gurumoorthy decided to return to make sure that the remaining cabinets had been properly locked. He had told Kavitha Vishwanathan to remain outside. Nevertheless, she followed him back into the vault.Within the vault were two rows of heavy fireproof cabinets on steel tracks. The tracks allowed the staff to roll the cabinets apart to make space for access. Fortunately, Vishwanathan had fallen into the space between the two rows of cabinets. She survived. Gurumoorthy was not so lucky. He too had fallen into a space between two cabinets. But when the building collapsed, the wall of the vault was pushed in, forcing the cabinets together and crushing him.It took more than 90 minutes to free Vishwanathan. They had to dig through the rubble and the concrete and cut a hole in the vault. She had been trapped in utter darkness and had no idea of the fate of her colleague. Within minutes of being freed, Vishwanathan was anxious to help save her colleague and continue her work removing documents.The Regional Head could not praise the custodial staff enough. He points out that within seven hours of the collapse, after having lost a colleague, the custodial staff were up and operational at a business-continuity planning site. The very next day they were ready to receive customers and conduct business as usual. And within three months, they were fully operational at a new location.Poonam Chambers collapsed in 1998. Today, there is little need for a vault the size of the one that saved Vishwanathan’s life. Most documents are now `dematted’ or de-materialized–rendered and stored in a digital or electronic format. Nevertheless, the need for business-continuity planning remains. Around the globe, country by country, business by business, each and every function is protected by a mirror site. In Chennai, the Bank has a 100,000- square-foot site up and operational to mirror the Bank’s new 750,000-square-foot facilities. Nothing is left to chance.

India are unlikely to be awarded any major ICC events until the Indian government clears up its tax position. Jagmohan Dalmiya, the BCCI president, and Ehsan Mani, the ICC president, spoke to reporters in Delhi and expressed their disappointment about being unable to host major events in India.According to an AFP report, India may not be allotted the 2006 Champions Trophy. "The 2004 Champions Trophy was supposed to be held in India but it was moved to England because there was lack of clarity in the tax position in India," said Mani. "The 2006 edition is likely to be held in India. But unless the tax positions are clear, the event may not be awarded to India"The ICC cannot afford to shell out 40 to 50 percent tax for major tournaments like the World Cup or the Champions Trophy," said Mani, referring to the government’s entertainment tax levied on all international matches. "The ICC is not a profit-making body. Even the Caribbean governments have waived all taxes for the next World Cup in the West Indies in 2007. If the Indian government does not resolve its tax position, they might not get the next Champions Trophy in 2006. It will be difficult to bring cricket to India."Dalmiya meanwhile said that he was hopeful the government would change its position. "We’re confident the government will listen to us," he said. "If they don’t listen, we’ll go to the public and tell them the reason for our not being able to host big events. We’ll ask the people to support us."

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Scotland closed the second day of their Intercontinental Cup match at Clontarf in Dublin with all the aces as they went some way towards avenging their European Championship defeat to Ireland last month. After Scotland were all out for 167 in their first innings, Ireland crashed to 178 with Asim Butt taking 5 for 47. Fraser Watts then scored 57 not out as Scotland closed in on their target at 118 for 2.Scotland only added another 34 runs in the remainder of their first innings in the morning, as Naseer Shaukat mopped up the tail to finish with figures of 5 for 60. That gave Ireland a lead of 26, but they soon wasted the initiative as Asim made early inroads into the top order. He removed the top three, and Craig Wright and Paul Hoffmann then chipped in with two wickets each. Only Andrew White, who scored 67, and Trent Johnston, who managed 47, contributed to the meagre total, which left Scotland requiring 205 for victory.However, in keeping with the match so far, both Scottish openers fell early, but Watts and David Lockhart added an unbroken stand of 80 to put Scotland 87 runs away from victory.The result isn’t yet a foregone conclusion, but the final semi-final place may be inching towards Scotland, who will only qualify only if they pull off a comprehensive victory. Ireland, on the other hand, have to avoid defeat in this match to qualify for the semi-finals in Dubai in November.

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Taking no prisoners: Flintoff flays his way to 99© Getty Images

England broke their 11-match run of defeats after batting first in one-dayers with an emphatic 70-run victory over India to clinch the three-match NatWest Challenge in the second game at The Oval. The platform for their win was set up by Andrew Flintoff, the Man of the Match for his stroke-filled 99, and Paul Collingwood who hit 79 not out. They shared in a record fifth-wicket stand of 174, which rescued England from a mid-innings slump. After a cautious start, the batsmen broke free to set an imposing total of 307: India’s innings fired in fits and starts, but never really got going, and despite some lower-order resistance they were eventually bowled out for 237.Flintoff came in with England wobbling after a bright start, and played himself in quietly before stamping his authority with two sixes off Virender Sehwag. Flintoff brought up his half-century with a swept four, and Collingwood wasn’t far behind: he took their vital stand past 100 by clipping Sehwag powerfully over midwicket for four, and reached his own half-century with a drive through the covers off Lakshmipathy Balaji’s slower one.Flintoff stepped up a gear in the last ten overs, straight-driving Yuvraj Singh and then smashing Balaji for an astonishing low six that was never more than three metres above the ground. He should then have been out, but Balaji put down a swirler at deep square.Balaji’s nightmare continued next over, as Flintoff carted him for another six and two more fours to move to 96. Balaji was mercifully removed from the attack – after conceding 77 in eight overs – but then Flintoff’s fine innings came to an abrupt end, just one short of what would have been his third one-day hundred of the summer (279 for 5), as Rahul Dravid made no mistake in holding a catch from a top-edged swipe off Ajit Agarkar, who proved even more expensive (6-0-60-1). Flintoff and Collingwood’s stand comfortably beat England’s previous best for the fifth wicket in ODIs – the 142 of Robin Smith and Graham Thorpe against Australia at Edgbaston in 1993.

Harbhajan Singh conceded just 14 runs, and picked up two wickets, in an excellent early spell© Getty Images

Earlier, England made a strong start before the offspinning combination of Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh pegged them back. Marcus Trescothick and Vikram Solanki had been motoring along at almost seven an over before Sourav Ganguly switched to spin, triggering a mini-collapse in which four wickets tumbled for 34.Trescothick got going with some meaty drives through the off side, and Solanki, who reached 1000 runs in one-day cricket this season early on, played a series of excellent shots all round the wicket. Agarkar came into the attack in only the sixth over, but the boundaries continued to flow, and the fifty partnership came up from only 49 balls.Harbhajan, who missed out on the last match at Trent Bridge, was brought on after just ten overs. He made an immediate impact today, tempting Trescothick into a leg-side heave that was snapped up by Balaji (71 for 1). Harbhajan then struck again to have Michael Vaughan well caught down the leg side by Rahul Dravid (93 for 2). Sehwag came on at the other end, and England’s batsmen started to self-destruct, with Andrew Strauss top-edging a gentle catch to Ganguly to depart for just 2 (98 for 3).Solanki brought the hundred up in the 19th over, but was out shortly afterwards, just two short of what would have been a superb half-century. Mirroring Vaughan’s dismissal, Solanki was caught down the leg side, and a fourth wicket had fallen to spin (105 for 4). India seemed to have the game by the scruff of the neck – but Flintoff and Collingwood clawed their way back to set up what was, eventually, a matchwinning total.India were in trouble from the very first over, as they lost Sehwag to the third ball of the innings, lbw to Darren Gough (2 for 1). Ganguly briefly threatened with some characteristically brutal slashes past point, but he was then run out by Flintoff after a mid-pitch collision with VVS Laxman (10 for 2).Both Laxman and Mohammad Kaif went on the counter-attack, putting on 89, but the match tilted firmly back England’s way after a double strike by Ashley Giles, who was the pick of the bowlers with 3 for 26. Giles kept the pace off the ball, and wasn’t afraid to keep it pitched up either. He soon reaped the rewards, as Laxman was completely undone by a flighted delivery and popped a simple catch to Collingwood at extra cover (99 for 3). Things then got worse for India, as Dravid came and went very quickly for just a single, edging Alex Wharf to Geraint Jones (102 for 4).

Sourav Ganguly vents his frustration after being run out© Getty Images

Kaif brought up a good half-century with a whipped two off Alex Wharf, and many Indian fans would have started harbouring hopes of a fightback to equal the one between Yuvraj and Kaif in the NatWest Series final at Lord’s in 2002, but it was not to be. Kaif fell to Giles in tame fashion, top-edging a sweep to Vaughan at short fine leg (113 for 5)Rohan Gavaskar then played over the top of a full delivery from Giles and was bowled for 13, and at 143 for 6 things were looking very dire for India. Agarkar went down fighting, crashing sixes off Giles and Vaughan, but he couldn’t stop India’s slide. Yuvraj chipped Gough straight to Vaughan at midwicket (169 for 7), and two balls later Pathan was out too, top-edging a pull after being cramped for room by a Gough bouncer (169 for 8).Gough wasn’t done there, and had Agarkar caught by Trescothick at long-off to take his tally of ODI wickets to 199 (173 for 9). The 200th evaded him, though, as Balaji and Harbhajan compiled a record tenth-wicket partnership of 64 for India before Flintoff wrapped up the innings, and a fine day in the field for himself, by bowling Balaji for 18.

Matthew Hayden: enjoys cooking wild animals?© René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo

The ruthless efficiency of the world’s best team is making them an easy target. As successfully predictable as a Delta Goodrem song, their clinical side is masking the brilliance. By playing so well and often, the spectacular has become normal over frequent examinations and what was once an A is a comfortable pass.Build a big lead through a few of the top seven, unleash the four bowlers, grind them towards collapse and don’t enforce the follow-on. The bat-first theoryhas been followed meticulously and even Stephen Fleming has fallen asleep in the dressing room.But it is not an attack of the clones that has pushed Australia to current home-and-away wins against every side except India, Bangladesh and New Zealand, who should be added any day. If their lustre clouds it is necessary to view this almost-all-conquering side in other ways. Off-beat lists and loony comparisons are a successful way of staying awake, and can be helpful remembering favourite cartoons and comics.The destructive missions of Justin Langer and Matthew Hayden are like those of Asterix and Obelix, the indomitable Gauls. Asterix is small, shrewd, ready foranything and full of intensity; Obelix is a hulking figure with superhuman strength who travels at his own pace and enjoys cooking wild animals. An incredibly successful partnership, the Gauls despise the Romans while Langer and Hayden dislike bowling. Beginning the day intent on more plunder, Langer collected his 6,000th Test run and Hayden picked up a bleeding chin from a top-edged sweep off Daniel Vettori on the way to a half-century.Ricky Ponting completes everything at full pace and his sprint across the pitch from bat-pad yesterday was classic Taz, the Tasmania devil who sees the world ina hungry spin. Yogi Bear is an old-style character to be matched with Darren Lehmann: both are swayed by picnic baskets and colourful adventures, althoughLehmann seems happy to wear pants. Usually next to Lehmann in the order, Damien Martyn is Boo Boo, the small, under-rated, but essential accomplice.

New Zealand on tour: no plan has fully ignited and the dynamite either quickly ran out or was faulty© Warner Bros.

Michael Clarke, the young pup, is all excitement, has been in a hurry throughout his career and gets everybody’s attention. Already a star after six Tests,he is Pluto and shines ahead of Adam Gilchrist, the side’s clean-cut Clark Kent ready to don cape or gloves. Bugs Bunny keeps chewing after any disasterand like Shane Warne is always the show’s star. Warne spent much of the first innings asking "What’s up, Shep?" Not much was the answer.A huge presence in Asia, Michael Kaprowicz is Hong Kong Phooey as he charges in ready to strike. When Jason Gillespie pulls his helmet down he could beMarvan the Martian, and as he bowls on his home ground there are always expectations of an earth-shattering kaboom. Running through the 400-wicket wood is Glenn McGrath, a Tigger-like pest who, as Stephen Fleming discovered yesterday, pops in for regular surprises. Relief comes only when he’s gone.New Zealand currently resemble Wile E. Coyote on a tour where no plan has fully ignited and the dynamite either quickly ran out or was faulty. Australia havespent four days running them around on an Adelaide road, and the second innings will determine the remaining strength of their characters.

The 2004-05 season has been a miserable one for the India team, but suddenly it’s been lit up by two personal milestones being achieved in successive days by two of India’s greatest cricketers: on the first day of the Dhaka Test against Bangladesh, Anil Kumble went past Kapil Dev as India’s leading wicket-taker in Tests, and today, Sachin Tendulkar equalled Sunil Gavaskar’s world record of 34 Test hundreds.Both reached that landmark in their 119th Test, but as the table below shows, Tendulkar had a lot of catching up to do: he had 15 hundreds after 60 Tests, compared to Gavaskar’s 22. However, Tendulkar’s golden run from 1997-98 meant that he made up for his relatively poor start pretty quickly – by the 80th Test, he was only one behind. They both recorded their 28th centuries in their 88th Tests – Gavaskar against West Indies at Georgetown in 1982-83, Tendulkar versus England at Ahmedabad in 2001-02. Since then, Tendulkar has kept pace with Gavaskar – both got their 30th hundreds in their 99th Tests, and their 34th in the 119th. (Gavaskar’s last century was a 176 against Sri Lanka at Kanpur.)

Hundreds after…	20 Tests	40 Tests	60 Tests	80 Tests	100 Tests	119 Tests
Gavaskar	6	15	22	25	30	34
Tendulkar	4	9	15	24	30	34

Tendulkar’s century at Dhaka was his first against Bangladesh. It completes the full set for him, and he joins Steve Waugh and Gary Kirsten as the only batsmen to score hundreds against all Test-playing nations. Gavaskar only got to play against six teams, though, and managed centuries against each of them.

Versus	Gavaskar 100s/ Tests	Tendulkar 100s/ Tests
Australia	8/ 20	7/ 21
England	4/ 38	6/ 16
New Zealand	2/ 9	3/ 16
Pakistan	5/ 24	2/ 10
Sri Lanka	2/ 7	6/ 13
West Indies	13/ 27	3/ 16
Bangladesh	–	1/ 2
South Africa	–	3/ 16
Zimbabwe	–	3/ 9

Tendulkar has been more prolific in victories than Gavaskar, but Gavaskar has much better stats in matches when India lost the toss, when, surprisingly, he averages almost 14 more than in games when the toss was won.

	Gavaskar 100s/ Ave	Tendulkar 100s/ Ave
Matches won	6/ 43.97	10/ 63.15
Matches lost	6/ 35.06	8/ 36.77
Matches drawn	22/ 65.64	15/ 73.49
1st innings	23/ 50.90	25/ 62.52
2nd innings	11/ 51.46	9/ 46.90
Toss won	18/ 44.71	20/ 66.71
Toss lost	16/ 58.06	14/ 47.02
Home	16/ 50.16	15/ 58.53
Away	18/ 52.11	19/ 55.87

India tsunami relief As a global charity working in all of the countries affected by the tsunami, World Vision as global agency has given a long-term commitment of $100 million. This money will be spent over the coming few years, not only to provide immediate aid and relief but to rebuild, rehabilitate and restore.Targeted beneficiaries so far: approx 200,000
Monies committed so far (toward a US$2m budget): US$1.34 mWith procurement of relief material going forward at a very fast pace, the distributions in Cuddalore and Nagapattinam have moved into top gear. To ease the workload of the teams in the field some of the major items such as utensils are being procured centrally in Chennai while food items and clothes are purchased close to the project locations.In Cuddalore, the relief teams reached 1,039 families with clothes, towels and blankets in the villages of Thalanguda, Puddukuppam and Sonangkuppam. The team in Nagapattinam, while continuing enumeration in various locations, managed to reach 2,275 families in the villages of Kallar, Thiruthuraipoondi, Vetharanyam and Tharangampadi. In addition to clothes, towels and blankets, the people were provided with cooked food, biscuits, bottled water, soaps, disinfectants, and tooth powder.As most of the families are still based in camps, World Vision continues to provide them with food aid as well as non food items. Once the families start heading back to their homes, more food items will be provided to them.As part of a long-term assistance program, World Vision is looking at rebuilding houses of 2,000 families in Cuddalore.Sri Lanka tsunami relief World Vision Lanka is helping people across Sri Lanka who were affected by the events of December 26. In the first week, World Vision targeted 200,000 beneficiaries in twelve of the countries fifteen districts. US$1.2 million in aid deliveries made it to the field between December 27 and January 3.The majority of aid items, including food, clothing, hygiene products, sleeping mats, pillows and blankets were purchased locally. Additional aid is scheduled to arrive on several humanitarian airlifts in the coming days. Additional vehicles to deliver aid are to arrive at Colombo airport tomorrow as well as blankets for relief distribution.Two other relief flights are scheduled to arrive on Thursday (Jan 6). The first, a 747cargo plane from the World Vision/WFP warehouse in Brindisi, Italy will bring 83 tonnes of blankets, sleeping mats, tarps, cook sets and soap. The second flight from Dubai loaded with 55 tonnes of equipment including gerry cans, tarps, blankets, and water filters is also due for arrival. The goods will be rapidly transported to areas in need within the next few days. Additional humanitarian flights are being arranged for next week.Emergency Relief teams deployed in Ampara, Batticaloa, Killinochchi, Galle, Matara, Hambantota, Gampaha, Jaffna, Mullaitivu and Trincomalee have distributed relief packs to 30,908 families – benefiting a total of 153,700 people in these districts. World Vision relief teams have directly distributed cooked food, dry rations, kitchen utensils, clothing, medicines and water to the displaced living in temporary shelters in the affected districts. Of the 15 affected districts, six are located in the North and East and consist of both government-controlled and LTTE-controlled areas. World Vision Lanka has an established presence in some of the LTTE-controlled areas and has already distributed aid there.World Vision is a humanitarian relief and development organisation and has been engaged in humanitarian work in Sri Lanka since 1977.

Western Australia 7 for 204 (North 71) beat Victoria 177 (Elliott 77, Casson 3-34) by 27 runs
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Marcus North top-scored for WA with 71© Getty Images

For the second time in a week Western Australia defeated Victoria in a one-day match at the WACA. On Wednesday WA won Australia’s first official Twenty20 gamne, and today they took the honours by 27 runs in the ING Cup, and closed to within two points of Victoria and Tasmania in the cup table, which Queensland lead by some 12 points.WA recovered from a poor start to post a handy total of 7 for 204. After the early loss of the openers Justin Langer for 5 and Luke Ronchi for 6, which left WA 2 for 19, Marcus North rescued them with an innings of 71. North, who was born near Melbourne in Victoria, defied his native state by sharing a series of handy partnerships, even though the next-highest score was only 28, by Michael Hussey.Ian Harvey, looking to reclaim his place in Australia’s one-day side, took 1 for 32 in his ten overs, but Shane Warne took some punishment, his nine overs costing 51 runs for the wicket of Murray Goodwin, who made 24. Michael Lewis ended up with the best figures – 2 for 31.Victoria made a poor start under the lights, as Darren Wates bowled Jonathan Moss for 15 and Brad Hodge for 5. Wates then ran out David Hussey for a single, to leave Victoria reeling at 3 for 43. Matthew Elliott dropped anchor for 77, putting on 42 with Graeme Rummans (25) – but both eventually fell to the slow left-armer Beau Casson, who finished with 3 for 34 as Victoria subsided to 177 all out.

Happier times have arrived for Jeff Wilson since the 1999 Rugby World Cup in Wales© Getty Images

Jeff Wilson’s transition from Black Cap to All Black and back became another step closer today when he was named in New Zealand’s squad for the first two one-day matches against Australia. Kyle Mills joins Wilson in the 13-man squad for the Twenty20 match on Thursday and 50-over games at Wellington and Christchurch after recovering from an Achilles injury.Wilson, who played 60 rugby Tests, first showed his all-round cricket talents for his country almost 12 years ago and has been given an opportunity to add to his four international matches following success against the FICA World XI. “Jeff has slotted in very well and probably surprised a few people, especially with his pace," John Bracewell, the coach, said. "He has given us glimpses of his potential and now he will get the chance to give us an eyeful." Wilson, a bowling allrounder, took 3 for 9 in the third match of the series last month.Bracewell said Mills was not showing any lingering effects from the injury that restricted his involvement in the Auckland Aces’ last State Shield match and ruled him out of the State of Origin fixture at New Plymouth. New Zealand will release one player for domestic duties after the Wellington game on Saturday.New Zealand Stephen Fleming (capt), Nathan Astle, Mathew Sinclair, Scott Styris, Craig McMillan, Hamish Marshall, Chris Cairns, Brendon McCullum (wk), Jeff Wilson, Daniel Vettori, Andre Adams, Kyle Mills, Daryl Tuffey.