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Joe Denly’s first century for three years helped Kent coast home against Gloucestershire at Bristol. In conjunction with Sam Northeast the pair saw their side to a target of 241 with eight wickets in hand.

Press Association21-May-2015
ScorecardJoe Denly, seen here in his Middlesex days, made his first century for three years•Getty Images

Joe Denly’s first century for three years helped Kent coast home against Gloucestershire at Bristol. In conjunction with Sam Northeast the pair saw their side to a target of 241 with eight wickets in hand.Denly was 117 not out and skipper Northeast unbeaten on 88 as the visitors reached their target with 29 overs to spare to claim 20 points to three for Gloucestershire, who slumped to a second home defeat following excellent away wins over Essex and Lancashire.Kent were 35 for 2 at one point but Denly rode his luck early on to blossom with 12 fours and 3 sixes in reaching his ton off 179 balls. It was the first time he had reached three figures in first class cricket since May 2012. Northeast provided solid support and once the shine went off the ball the result was never in serious doubt.The tone for the day was set by the very first ball, which saw Gloucestershire lose their last second innings wicket on 282. Matt Taylor clipped a catch to midwicket off Ivan Thomas, who finished with 4 for 53 and the home side’s hopes of adding 10 or 20 more valuable runs were dashed.Even so a close contest looked in the offing when Kent opener Daniel Bell-Drummond fell with the total on only three, snapped up at second slip by Chris Dent off Craig Miles.Gloucestershire’s bowlers maintained a testing line and length with the new ball, causing Denly to play and miss several times.
The second breakthrough came when Brendan Nash, who had played positively for his 25, was well caught by diving wicketkeeper Gareth Roderick in Liam Norwell’s first over of the innings.That gave Norwell five wickets in the match and took his first class tally for the season to 33. But it was as good as it got for Gloucestershire as their opponents progressed to 85 for 2 at lunch. With the sun shining in clear skies, the pair blossomed in the afternoon session, playing with increasing confidence as the boundaries started to flow.Denly began to go for his shots and there were few alarms as Northeast also started to flow against the softer ball.The job had virtually been done when Denly reached three figures with a pull shot off Matt Taylor that brought his 12th four. There were also three sixes in his hundred. It was his 15th four that sealed Kent’s win, with Northeast still there, having faced 146 balls and hit 14 boundaries.”Everything suddenly seems to be going in the right direction,” victorious Kent skipper Sam Northeast said. “We thought that was the case going into the game and we have now recorded a very good victory on top of a promising start in the T20. I’m thrilled for Joe Denly because he had really been striving for that hundred. But it was a great team effort and the bowlers, led by Matt Coles, did a brilliant job, particularly on day three when the pitch had flattened out.”Gloucestershire director of cricket Richard Dawson added: “I would rather look at how we have played over our first five Championship games than merely at this one. That has been very encouraging. It was a good toss for Kent to win and batting wasn’t easy on the first day, but in England you have to be able to cope with whatever weather conditions are thrown at you.”

The PCB has denied Umar Akmal, Saeed Ajmal and Shahid Afridi permission to play this season’s Big Bash League (BBL) to ensure the trio’s participation in their domestic Twenty20 tournament ahead of the tour of India

Umar Farooq15-Nov-2012The PCB has denied Umar Akmal, Saeed Ajmal and Shahid Afridi permission to play this season’s Big Bash League (BBL), the Australia Twenty20 league, to ensure the trio’s participation in their domestic Twenty20 tournament ahead of the tour of India. Akmal had signed with Sydney Sixers and Ajmal with Adelaide Strikers for the season, while Afridi would have moved from Melbourne Renegades to Sydney Thunder.The PCB had earlier issued the players No Objection Certificates to play in the BBL that begins on December 7. The PCB’s national T20 championship is set to be played between December 2 and 10, and will be followed by a week-long conditioning camp before the team leaves for India on December 22.Ajmal and Akmal, who signed with their respective BBL teams earlier this month, had not played in the league’s inaugural edition. Afridi had moved to Thunder during the transfer window in July. In the last season, for Renegades, while he did not have much of an impact with the bat – he made 69 in four innings – he was their leading wicket-taker, with 10 scalps at 20.80 apiece.Sydney Thunder will now move to find a replacement for Afridi. The franchise’s general manager, John Dyson, said he was disappointed with this late development: “Afridi is one of the most exciting and popular T20 players in the world. It is a pity that our Thunder supporters, many of whom follow Afridi closely, will miss out on seeing him first hand this season at our home ground.”Adelaide Strikers have also begun the hunt for Ajmal’s replacement. “We’ve already started hunting for an international replacement and, let me assure you, there are some really exciting prospects out there, ” Jamie Cox, SACA’s Director of Cricket, said. “Once we’ve finalised Ajmal’s replacement, Striker fans will be the first to know.”

John Inverarity, Australia’s new national selector, has not ruled a line through Simon Katich’s name but he has signalled the need for Australia to look to the future when choosing squads

Brydon Coverdale28-Oct-2011John Inverarity, Australia’s new national selector, has not ruled a line through Simon Katich’s name but he has signalled the need for Australia to look to the future when choosing squads. On a day when Katich scored a match-saving Sheffield Shield century at the SCG and then said his 2009 dressing-room scuffle with Michael Clarke was a key reason for his axing, Cricket Australia unveiled Inverarity as its full-time selector.A former Perth headmaster who saw Katich play during his school days, Inverarity was handed a three-year deal and will pick Australian sides almost until the 2015 World Cup. That period will feature two Ashes series, with back-to-back contests scheduled in England in 2013 and in Australia later that year to avoid a clash with the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand the following summer.Inverarity’s five-man panel will face the challenge of managing a succession plan for several older players. By the 2013 Ashes, Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey will both be 38, while Brad Haddin will be 35, and the timing of the retirements of any or all of those men will be critical to Australia’s preparation for their battle to regain the urn.Katich, 36, was moved on by the previous selectors this year as they aimed to start the transition process, a decision that sparked an angry reaction from several quarters, including from Katich himself. While Inverarity was reluctant to speak about individual players, he said he would keep an open mind, while also balancing the short-term needs of the side with long-term goals.”The selectors’ role is always a very demanding role,” Inverarity said. “If you’re going to bring in youth and invest opportunity in young players, well you’ve only got a certain number in the squad, so people have got to come in and people have got to go out. As far as I’m concerned, the book is closed on nobody.”When you sit down to select the side you select for that next week, for later in the season, later in the year, the next year and probably two or three years hence. You need to keep all of those in balance as you make selection. Generating youth is the lifeblood of all sports. You need to keep an ideal balance in terms of age profile and how much longer people have got in their careers.”You need to exercise very good judgment in managing that and making appropriate decisions, investing opportunity wisely. All games in all forms the Australian team play, they are all of great importance. But there are some especially important times. Those times would be World Cups and Ashes series and playing against very strong sides like India. You try to manage it so that you’ve got plenty of talent who are experienced and available when you need them most.”Inverarity’s panel, which will include Clarke as captain, as well as the coach and two yet-to-be-named part-time selectors, will need to manage some of the youngest players Australia’s team has fielded in recent years. Pat Cummins, 18, could make his Test debut during next month’s series in South Africa, and Inverarity said it was important to balance the concerns of age with the benefits that could be gained by such a young man being exposed to the highest level.”I don’t think you can say how young is too young,” he said. “It depends on them and their general maturity. It depends on what it is, whether it’s a fast-bowling load or a batting load or a wicketkeeping load. Selection is based on merit. You select on the expectation of how well that person is expected to perform and contribute to the team, but at the same time you’ve got to invest opportunity wisely.”For example, I recall Steve Waugh … didn’t do particularly well for a number of Test matches but opportunity was invested in him and as it turned out it was invested very, very wisely, because there was an obvious identification there of talent, and not only talent but the right character and attitude that was going to come through. Of course it bore wonderful fruit.”Waugh came into the national side at a time when the Australians were struggling, and there are similarities to current era. Inverarity said that while in an ideal world players would be ready for international cricket when chosen, sometimes patience had to be shown to young men finding their way.”A lot depends on what’s available,” he said. “It’s all very easy to select when there’s a wealth of talent available. Sometimes that’s not the case… There’s always a case for being patient for talent to develop. You hope that develops at a lower level and it’s ready when that person is selected to play for Australia.”

If Bangladesh win the third ODI against Mirpur, they will have not lost an ODI series against major opposition for the first time ever

The Preview by George Binoy10-Oct-2010

Match Facts

Monday, October 11, Mirpur

Start time 09:00 local (03:00 GMT)Shakib Al Hasan’s performance will be pivotal to Bangladesh’s chances of pulling off another upset•Associated Press

The Big Picture

New Zealand’s best-laid plans of preparing for the 2011 World Cup by scheduling series in each of the host nations are being laid to waste. They went to Sri Lanka first, to give their inexperienced team insight into the conditions there, but didn’t perform adequately enough to make the tri-series final. A tour of India will follow, but only after their ongoing assignment in Bangladesh, where a depression over the Bay of Bengal has caused enough rain to wreck their first ten days in the country. Both warm-ups were washed out, as was an international, and the only ODI New Zealand played ended in a nine-run defeat on D/L terms.There was, though, a shimmer of hope ahead of Monday’s match. The intensity of the depression had eased and the sun shone, albeit briefly, on the eve of the third ODI, allowing the Shere-e-Bangla Stadium time to recover from all the rain. New Zealand, who have been confined indoors for a while, were finally able to practice outside and get a feel of Mirpur. Brendon McCullum, their opening batsman, spoke of a sense of frustration at the weather, and hoped New Zealand would be able to play the remaining three games. Trailing 1-0 in the five-ODI series, they now have to win three in a row to leave Bangladesh with a trophy.The hosts have challenges of their own to overcome. They are without Mashrafe Mortaza and Nazmul Hossain, both of whom were involved in the victory but are ruled out by injury. More importantly, however, they face the challenge of achieving collective consistency. If not for Shakib Al Hasan’s quality all-round performance, it’s likely that New Zealand would have taken the series lead and Bangladesh will find it hard to string wins together on the back of a single man’s performance. All of the top six batsman got to double figures in the first ODI, but only Shakib made it past 40. It’s an issue their opening batsman, Shariar Nafees, said needed urgent addressing. Bangladesh are one win away from not losing the series, an accomplishment they’ve never achieved against a major opposition, not counting a weakened West Indies.

Form guide

(most recent, completed matches)
Bangladesh: WLWLL
New Zealand: LLLWW

Watch out for…

New Zealand’s opening batsmen, Brendon McCullum and Jesse Ryder, are among the most watchable opening pairs in international cricket today. McCullum is forever innovating, opening up previously unexploited regions with inventive stroke play, while Ryder possesses oodles of talent. He’s also remarkably quick for someone who could be several kilos lighter. They added 53 in 6.5 overs in the first ODI before Ryder fell. The goal will be to convert an explosive start into something more damaging.Shakib Al Hasan is Bangladesh’s captain again for the remainder of the series because of Mortaza’s injury. He is also their most valuable match-winner, especially in the absence of Tamim Iqbal. He made 58 in the first game and his four wickets were crucial in dragging New Zealand below the D/L equation. A lesser performance from him and Bangladesh will struggle to make it 2-0.

Pitch and conditions

The Mirpur square has spent a lot of time under covers and McCullum expected it to not change too much from the way it played in the first game – slow without massive turn. The rains had eased considerably on the eve of the match but there was some showers forecast for Monday. The third ODI is unlikely to be a complete washout though.

Team news

Bangladesh (probable): 1 Imrul Kayes, 2 Shahriar Nafees, 3 Junaid Siddique, 4 Raqibul Hasan, 5 Shakib Al Hasan (capt), 6 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), 7 Mahmudullah, 8 Naeem Islam, 9 Abdur Razzak, 10 Rubel Hossain/Shafiul Islam, 11 Syed Rasel.New Zealand (probable): 1 Jesse Ryder, 2 Brendon McCullum (wk), 3 Ross Taylor, 4 Grant Elliott, 5, 6 Kane Williamson/BJ Watling/Shannan Stewart, 7 Daniel Vettori (capt), 8 Nathan McCullum, 9 Kyle Mills, 10 Tim Southee, 11 Daryl Tuffey.

Stats and trivia

• Daniel Vettori needs two wickets to become the highest wicket-taker in New Zealand-Bangladesh bilateral contests. Unless the incumbent, Kyle Mills, adds to his tally of 27.
• Imrul Kayes averages 34.20 against New Zealand, which is the highest for a Bangladesh batsman with a minimum of five innings.

Quotes

“I’m a positive scorer when going well … I would like to cement myself in the team with a couple of match-winning performances.”
“Shakib is definitely a world-class player and you will have to check him if you want to win matches.”
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The openers Travis Dowlin and Adrian Barath provided the best news of the tour for the struggling West Indians

Peter English20-Nov-2009West Indians 271 and 1 for 133 (Barath 65*, Dowlin 53) trail Queensland 7 for 617 (Kruger 172, Reardon 147, Townsend 100, Simpson 73) by 213 runs

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Travis Dowlin overcame some nervous moments to post a confidence-boosting half-century at Allan Border Field•Getty Images

The openers Travis Dowlin and Adrian Barath provided the best news of the tour for the struggling West Indians as they reached 1 for 133 at stumps on the third day. Since the squad arrived in Brisbane last week they have lost their captain Chris Gayle, who flew to Jamaica to be with his sick mother, and received a tough initiation in their opening tour game against Queensland. Ramnaresh Sarwan, one of the two leading batsmen, has also been told by his doctor to stay off the field due to an infection.So after the Bulls declared at 7 for 617, with a lead of 346, the tourists needed something to cheer and Dowlin and Barath provided it during a 95-run opening stand. With Gayle increasingly unlikely to be back in Australia before Thursday’s first Test, the side is desperate for the remaining openers in the squad to be in form. The team management is still waiting to learn when Gayle is likely to return and the selectors are expected to meet over the weekend to consider possible replacements and whether to extend the outfit to 16 men for the three-Test series.Life has been tough and will become harder when they run into an Australia side preparing for their first series since the Ashes defeat. Dowlin, who went for 2 in the first innings, backed up with a much more authoritative display, striking seven boundaries in his 53 before he was caught behind off the unstoppable Nathan Reardon.Barath is expected to make his debut next week and he followed his first-day duck with a composed 65. He was dropped by Chris Hartley on 34 but held on to make it to stumps, taking advantage of some loose bowling by the legspinner Dan Doran to increase his boundary tally to nine.Reardon’s 147 was the major problem for the tourists on the third day as he became the third local batsman to register a maiden first-class century in the innings. Kemar Roach, the 21-year-old fast bowler, continued to run in hard despite his side’s situation and returned 3 for 135 from 32 overs, but he did not receive much help from his team-mates, who wilted against a modest batting line-up.The day began well for them when Hartley (12) edged a Roach short ball in the third over, but they were soon being pummelled by Reardon’s muscular stroke-play. Reardon, a 25-year-old in his second four-day game, joined Nick Kruger (172) and Wade Townsend (100) in raising centuries, which was only the second time in Australia three players have achieved their maiden first-class hundreds in the same innings. Reardon resumed on 45 and sped towards his century, equalling a state record with his seven sixes while taking advantage of the mediocre offerings.He was particularly brutal against the left-arm spin of Sulieman Benn, who was lashed for two sixes in one over and later launched on to the roof of Queensland Cricket’s offices at midwicket. Another Reardon sweep off Benn cleared the fence and the hitting was so strong that the bull mascot sitting in the back of a caged ute was asking to go back to the farm. After lunch he also pulled a tiring Roach high into the Matthew Hayden Stand before eventually falling caught behind to Dwayne Bravo.Chris Simpson, the captain, also blasted one on to the office roof off Ravi Rampaul, who continued to find life in Australia difficult. He was not the only one. Benn gave up 151 runs in 34 overs and Rampaul went for 131 in 29, while Bravo and Narsingh Deonarine also failed to make much of an impact. Simpson and Reardon clumped 156 in 30.4 overs for the sixth wicket before Simpson was bowled by Roach on 73, but the tourists were kept waiting before the innings was closed 40 minutes before tea. They needed the break.

The India captain emphasised that the team management doesn’t want to tamper with the batters’ mindsets

Alagappan Muthu24-Dec-20244:16

Rohit on Gill and Jaiswal: Such tours can be challenging to score big runs

India’s batting is in transition and two men who are expected to take it forward have had an up-and-down time during the 2024 Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Yashasvi Jaiswal has suffered some soft dismissals since his 161 in Perth and Shubman Gill hasn’t made the most of the starts he’s had.Their captain Rohit Sharma, speaking ahead of the Boxing Day Test, backed both players to succeed using their own methods.”When you have a guy like [Jaiswal] in your squad, in your team, you don’t want to tamper too much with his mindset,” Rohit said. “Let him be as free as possible and not overburdened with too many thoughts regarding his batting. He understands his batting more than any one of us, you know.Related

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“Every venue here has different challenges. So, it’s just about adapting to those challenges, playing on different pitches. The bowlers are the same.”So, it’s just about understanding what they usually do and what are their plans against certain batters when we come out to bat. And then just going out there and doing their thing.”Talking about Gill, I mean, look, he is quality, we all know that. It’s just about backing that quality and making sure, you know, we give clear messaging to him and not, again, like Jaiswal, we don’t want to complicate too many things with him.”So he knows how to score big runs. So it’s just making sure that when you get those 30s, 40s, you try and get on to a big one. Because getting in here is the toughest part. And when you get in, that is when you cannot leave that opportunity of scoring that big runs.”Rohit batted for over half-an-hour in India’s final training session before Boxing Day. He didn’t look in any trouble after taking a blow to his knee earlier.There were some crisp shots, including a couple that brought a crowd of about 200 or so people to raptures. They’d asked for the pull and they got one off the front foot right as his session ended. Rohit didn’t engage with them while he was batting but once he’d pulled his pads off, he did go over for a playful word or two.Rohit Sharma backed Shubman Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal to succeed using their own methods•Getty Images

India were able to practice on significantly quicker pitches in the nets on Christmas Eve, pitches that might bear closer resemblance to the one for the match. Rohit had a look at it on Sunday when it had some grass on it. The curator Matt Page said there won’t be excessive seam movement but that it would provide a thrilling contest.”In the previous two or three Test matches, the wicket didn’t have that much grass on it,” Rohit said. “It was dry. But this certainly doesn’t look to me like a dry wicket.”The first day of the MCG Test is expected to be seriously hot with temperatures reaching 40 degree Celsius but then it should cool down. India are weighing up the option of playing an extra spinner – Washington Sundar, who had a bat against the main bowlers including Jasprit Bumrah and who also enjoyed himself bowling to KL Rahul and Virat Kohli in the nets – or an extra seamer – Prasidh Krishna, who hasn’t played on this tour but has put in a lot of work in the nets over the last month.The Border-Gavaskar Trophy series is tied 1-1 with two Test to go and those results will also have an implication on both teams’ hopes of making the World Test Championship final in June. Australia or India, if they can win in Melbourne and Sydney, will qualify for that game regardless of other results.

Twenty-five players have been elevated to the top groups across the WBBL and BBL

ESPNcricinfo staff30-Aug-2023Fifty players have been handed platinum status across the BBL and WBBL drafts, including Haris Rauf, Nicholas Pooran, Harmanpreet Kaur and Marizanne Kapp.England players dominate the BBL list with 14 names, Ashes stars Harry Brook and Zak Crawley among them, while there are seven in the WBBL platinum group. South Africa provide six of the WBBL players and India five.Related

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The drafts will take place on September 3. The WBBL runs from October 19 to December 2 and the BBL goes from December 7 to January 24.BBL platinum players
(Possible retention clubs marked)

• Gus Atkinson, Sam Billings (Heat), Harry Brook, Joe Clarke (Stars), Zak Crawley, Tom Curran (Sixers), Quinton de Kock, Faf du Plessis (Scorchers), Martin Guptill (Renegades), Alex Hales (Thunder), Will Jacks, Chris Jordan (Sixers), Rashid Khan (Strikers), Shadab Khan (Hurricanes), Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Dawid Malan, Tymal Mills (Scorchers), Colin Munro (Heat), Nicholas Pooran, Haris Rauf (Stars), Mohammad Rizwan, Rilee Rossouw (Thunder), Phil Salt (Scorchers), Mujeeb Ur Rahman (Heat), James Vince (Sixers)

WBBL platinum players
(Possible retention clubs marked)

• Chamari Athapaththu (Renegades), Lauren Bell, Tazmin Brits, Alice Capsey (Stars), Kate Cross, Nida Dar, Sophie Devine (Scorchers), Deandra Dottin (Strikers), Richa Ghosh, Sarah Glenn, Shabnim Ismail (Renegades), Marizanne Kapp (Scorchers), Harmanpreet Kaur (Renegades), Amelia Kerr (Heat), Heather Knight (Thunder), Hayley Matthews (Renegades), Nonkululeko Mlaba, Jemimah Rodrigues (Stars), Deepti Sharma, Stafanie Taylor (Strikers), Chloe Tryon (Thunder), Pooja Vastrakar (Heat), Laura Wolvaardt (Strikers), Issy Wong (Hurricanes), Danni Wyatt (Heat)

It is the first time overseas recruitment will be determined by a draft in the WBBL but there is also a mechanism which has allowed players to sign directly with a club, a route that six have taken, for a reduced fee. They are: Suzie Bates, Tammy Beaumont, Sophia Dunkley, Amy Jones, Mignon du Preez and Lizelle Lee.In the WBBL, platinum players will earn AUD 110,000, gold will earn AUD 90,000, silver AUD 65,000 and bronze AUD 40,000. Those taking the direct nomination path can only earn up to 95% of the silver category.England players make up a large part of the BBL platinum group, but availability will be an issue for many•Getty Images

There has been an increase in the men’s BBL overseas salary bands after the cap was increased from AUD 1.9 million to AUD 3 million. Platinum players are now set to earn AUD 420,000, up from $340,000 last year although there are caveats. They will only earn the full amount if they are available for the entire season including finals, which runs from December 7 to January 24.If they are only available for 10 matches, they will earn AUD 400,000. If they can only play nine matches the price will be AUD 380,000. Anyone only available for eight matches or less in the platinum category will earn AUD 360,000 regardless of whether they play one game or eight.Gold players will earn AUD 300,000, silver AUD 200,000, and bronze AUD 100,000 with no minimum matches required for those players.The key factor in the BBL will be availability due to both international commitments and other T20 leagues. The SA20 starts on January 10 so the players who head to that will miss the latter part of the regular BBL season. The schedule for the ILT20 in UAE has proved more favourable with that tournament starting January 19 although it will impact BBL finals.Internationally, England have tours at either end of the BBL with a white-ball trip to West Indies in December then the start of the Test series in India in January. That could limit the interest in the likes of Brook and Crawley.Pakistan, who also provide a sizeable group of players in the overall draft list, have a Test series in Australia at the same time as the BBL then a T20I series in New Zealand later in January.How retention picks work

• Have been in a Big Bash squad for a minimum of two seasons and haven’t been contracted to another team since
• Have been in a Big Bash squad the previous season
• Was in a team squad last season but did not play in the starting 13 and have been approved by the Big Bash Technical Committee
• Is otherwise approved by the Big Bash Technical Committee due to exceptional circumstances

Trailing Sussex by 118 but with nine first-innings wickets in hand, hosts close in

ECB Reporters Network13-Jun-2022Glamorgan 258 for 1 (Ingram 145*, Byrom 105*) trail Sussex 376 (Carter 185, Clark 55, Salter 4-107) by 118 runsA double-century partnership between Colin Ingram and Eddie Byrom was the highlight of a run-filled day in Cardiff in the LV= Insurance County Championship match between Glamorgan and Sussex. The Glamorgan pair both finished the day with undefeated hundreds with Sussex’s first-innings lead reduced to 118 with Glamorgan still just one wicket down.The day had started with Oli Carter marshalling the Sussex tail as they plundered 131 runs in 23.4 overs. Carter finished with a career-best 185 with Sussex posting 376 all out.Glamorgan lost David Lloyd early on but from there Ingram and Byrom batted superbly against a green Sussex attack who seemed to have few answers in the face of some class batting.Glamorgan reached the close at 258 for 1 with Ingram on 145 not out and Byrom undefeated on 105 on a day that saw 389 runs for the loss of just four wickets.While day one was characterised by patient accumulation, the second day’s play saw runs flowing throughout. By the time 50 overs had been sent down there had been more runs scored than in the 96 overs on the first day.It was Carter who set the tone as he took the attack to Glamorgan in the morning session. He had resumed on 113 and when he was the last man out he had added 72 runs to his overnight score. His demise came when he attempted to go for his fifth six of the morning session with James Weighell taking a simple catch on the boundary. Carter was the fourth wicket for Andrew Salter who bowled 41.4 overs in the Sussex innings.Carter was well supported by Henry Crocombe and Jack Brooks who both made 36 as Sussex claimed three batting bonus points.The home team had a tricky 10 minutes to bat before the lunch break and Sussex claimed the wicket of David Lloyd before the interval, the Glamorgan captain edging a ball through to Tim Seifert off the bowling of Sean Hunt in what was to be the only success for the visitors.The runs continued to flow after the lunch break with Ingram and Byrom sharing an unbeaten stand worth 253. Ingram looked in superb touch from the moment he arrived at the crease, driving the ball both sides of the wicket on his way to his first hundred in first-class cricket since 2017. He reached the landmark from 143 balls with his 19th boundary.Byrom looked less assured than Ingram at first, but he battled hard. His confidence grew steadily as he made his best score for Glamorgan. Injury meant he hadn’t played in the County Championship so far this year and his arrival has immediately added some solidity to a Glamorgan top order which has been flaky at times this season. His first hundred for Glamorgan came from 178 balls with a ball clipped through the leg side for four.Glamorgan finished the day in sight of Sussex’s effort and with nine first-innings wickets remaining they will be hopeful of posting a significant lead on day three.

The idea of making it an All-Indigenous team was first raised by CA as part of the reconciliation movement

Daniel Brettig and Adam Collins26-Jan-2021Plans to field an All-Indigenous Prime Minister’s XI for the annual match at Manuka Oval in Canberra were dropped by Cricket Australia after the re-election of the current Prime Minister Scott Morrison in 2019.The idea to rejuvenate the traditional concept of the PM’s XI fixture by making it an All-Indigenous team versus an overseas touring team was first raised by CA as part of the same reconciliation movement to redress Australian cricket’s poor history of racial inclusion that saw it drop any reference to “Australia Day” for Big Bash League matches to be played on January 26.It was floated prior to the 2019 federal election, widely expected to be won by the Labor Opposition led by Bill Shorten, but shelved after it is believed to have been given a less than enthusiastic response in the months after the Liberal/National Coalition was returned to government in defiance of opinion polls.Amid a gradual growth in the number of Aboriginal cricketers in Australian domestic ranks, CA’s high-performance wing is understood to have welcomed the idea on the basis that the chosen XI would be more than strong enough to hold their own against the touring Sri Lankan team.However, ESPNcricinfo understands that the pushback was couched as a new government indicating it “wasn’t quite ready” for such a move, forcing CA and ACT Cricket into a series of changes to their plans.Related

• Australian cricket's Indigenous inclusion – 'You can't just window dress things'

• Justin Mohamed: Cricket Australia needs Indigenous leaders as well as cricketers

Early in the second Morrison government, the Indigenous Affairs Minister Ken Wyatt gave a National Press Club address outlining a blueprint for a referendum on Aboriginal recognition in the Australian Constitution, a move that drew criticism from some of the more conservative elements of the government.Aboriginal players who had toured England in 2018, as part of a tour to commemorate the 1868 journey by the first ever team to represent Australia on foreign soil in any sport, had been informally told of the plans and even reached the stage where diary space in their summer schedules was cleared for training and playing time in Canberra.A source close to the players described their reaction as “irate” when informed of the plan being dropped, ostensibly because it was felt that the government was “already sufficiently active” in the Indigenous sphere.A compromise of sorts was reached by having the PM’s XI co-captained by the Aboriginal allrounder Dan Christian alongside Peter Siddle, and coached by Jason Gillespie, who became Australia’s first male Aboriginal Test cricketer when he made his debut in 1996, after Aunty Faith Thomas became the first Aboriginal Test cricketer in 1958.Morrison subsequently used the match as a photo opportunity, running drinks to the PM’s XI while clad in a team cap and sharing high fives with the players, while also doing a stint in the commentary box.Nevertheless, the episode underlined a difference of opinion on inclusiveness between Morrison and CA that has been further heightened by the Prime Minister’s publicly stated opposition to CA’s stance on January 26, which was reached after consultation with its Indigenous Advisory Council, co-chaired by Mel Jones and Justin Mohamed.”I think a bit more focus on cricket, and a little less focus on politics would be my message to Cricket Australia,” Morrison told radio 4R0 on Thursday. “I think that’s pretty ordinary – that’s what they’re putting on their press releases – that would be my view.”In December 2019, CA released their second Reconciliation Action Plan with the stated aim of finding more common ground between Indigenous communities and the sport. As of last season, just 69,000 of the reported 1.7 million Australians playing cricket are from Indigenous backgrounds. To help grow that number, the report included 104 areas for action, including the aim for all cricket clubs in Australia to commit to an annual reconciliation statement each year.CA has subsequently discussed plans to hold an annual match between an All-Indigenous XI and a touring team separate to the Manuka fixture, however both this idea and the PM’s XI game itself were put on hiatus for the 2020-21 season due to Covid-19.The Indigenous leader Mick Dodson, a former Australian of the year and co-author of a 2010 independent report on cricket’s Indigenous past, For The Love Of The Game, that helped drive CA’s current approach, said the governing body had already driven great change, with more to come.”They’ve taken Aboriginal participation in official cricket around the country from 8,500 [in 2013/14] to almost 70,000,” Dodson told the ABC’s PM program. “That’s over 800% increase. They’ve done a terrific job. No other sport in Australia could claim that. It’s not just Indigenous Australians, it’s people from diverse and different cultural backgrounds, they’ve done a terrific job.”Adam Cassidy [Cricket Australia’s diversity and inclusion manager] and the Cricket Australia team should be very, very proud of what they’ve achieved in such a short time. Because they’re inclusive and have an inclusive and diverse policy, you get figures like that.”A CA spokesperson said: “CA places great importance on the annual PM’s XI fixture – a tradition that has spanned successive governments and CA administrations dating back to the 1950s.”We have welcomed the Prime Minister’s support for continuing the tradition and look forward to working together on the next iteration of the fixture next summer.”The Prime Minister’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

Appointment suggests Bell can look forward to a career in coaching when his playing days end

George Dobell02-Oct-2019Ian Bell is set to be confirmed as England’s batting coach at the U19 World Cup.While Bell missed the entire 2019 season due to injury, he plans to continue his playing career in 2020 and has beaten several more established coaching candidates to the role.The appointment underlines how well thought of Bell is and suggests he can look forward to a career in coaching when his playing career end. He will be 38 in April and is out of contract at Warwickshire at the end of the 2020 season.The next edition of the U19 World Cup, featuring 16 sides and ODI playing regulations, will be staged in South Africa in January and February.England finished a disappointing seventh in the previous tournament played in New Zealand in 2018. India won the trophy after beating Australia in the final. Jon Lewis remains the head coach of England U19s.Former England batsman Bell this year played no part in Warwickshire’s County Championship campaign for the first time since 2000, after his comeback from a foot injury sustained during the Pakistan Super League in Feburary was ruined by a tendon issue in his left knee. It was the first time he had failed to play at least one first-class game since making his debut for the club in 1999 at the age of 17.