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A round-up of the action from the ICC Women’s Cricket Challenge where West Indies, South Africa and Pakistan all recorded victories

ESPNcricinfo staff06-Oct-2010

ScorecardStafanie Taylor’s century set up a crushing win•International Cricket Council

Former captain Stafanie Taylor blasted West Indies to a 148-run win over Netherlands on the opening day of the the ICC Women’s Cricket Challenge in Potchefstroom.Opening the innings after Netherlands captain Helmien Rambaldo won the toss and put West Indies in, Taylor thrashed 147 from 141 balls to launch West Indies to an imposing 283. In contrast the Netherlands chase never got going as they were restricted to 135 for 8 from 50 overs.Taylor received able support from Stacy-Ann King who made 22 in an 80-run stand for the fourth wicket but it was the following 113-run stand with Deandra Dottin that carried West Indies out of sight.Dottin shot to prominence when she became the first woman in history to score a Twenty20 international hundred – which she made off 38 balls – against South Africa in the World Twenty20 earlier this year and she was in typically aggressive form in this game, reaching 59 from 58 balls. The standout innings, however, came from Taylor who smashed 15 fours and a six before falling in the penultimate over.The total was always going to be beyond Netherlands but their approach seemed more concerned with survival than at giving themselves a chance of victory. Esther Lanser top-scored with 39 at the top of the order, but her innings, which came off 92 balls set the tone.Rambaldo’s 27 was the only other score of note as the rest of the line up struggled to get to grips with the West Indies attack. Dottin made her good day even better by picking up 2 for 15 from her seven overs of medium pace as Netherlands crept to 135 for 8 to finish well short.

ScorecardSouth Africa thrashed their Sri Lankan counterparts by 153 runs – rolling them out for 75 after battling to 228 on the North-West University No2 Ground.The spin pair of Dane van Niekerk and Sunette Loubser were the chief destroyers, taking four wickets each to help inspire a collapse from 50 for 2 to 75 all out in 10.5 overs. Just three players reached double-figures, Chamari Polgampola top-scoring with 25 at the top of the order. The 4 for 13 that 17-year-old legspinner van Niekerk finished with was her best figures and she now has 15 wickets from seven ODIs.What was barely a contest in Sri Lanka’s chase was more of a tussle in the South Africa innings. Captain Cri-zelda Brits anchored the innings with 78 from 108 balls. At 131 for 3 it looked as though a big total would be built but Polgampola struck back with three wickets to help reduce South Africa to 189 for 7 by the time Brits fell.Yet Loubser and Shabnim Ismail rallied to take the score to 228. It meant that Brits’ knock, which featured six fours, was not wasted and allowed enough for the bowlers to surge to victory.

ScorecardPakistan gave their country’s cricket fans some much-needed cheer by thrashing Ireland in their opening match of the ICC Women’s Cricket Challenge in Potchefstroom.Opting to field they made light work of the Ireland line-up, bundling them out for 116 in 31.5 overs. Only three players made reached double- figures as Asmavia Iqbal took an impressive 3 for 17 from nine overs. She was ably backed up by Kanwal Naz who took 3 for 18 with her left-arm spin.Jill Whelan top-scored for Ireland, striking three boundaries in her 18 before being run-out. All around her the Ireland line-up came and went in a procession leaving a simple chase for Pakistan.Whelan followed up her relative success with the bat by taking the first wicket in the second over of Pakistan’s chase but that only brought Nain Abidi to the crease. She laid a sound platform alongside Javeria Khan in a 50-run second-wicket stand and despite two more wickets falling, Abidi held firm to reach an unbeaten fifty and seal the victory.

The England allrounder Dimitri Mascarenhas will replace Sri Lanka’s Lasith Malinga for Tasmania’s Twenty20 campaign this season

Cricinfo staff16-Nov-2009The England allrounder Dimitri Mascarenhas will replace Sri Lanka’s Lasith Malinga for Tasmania’s Twenty20 campaign this season. The Tigers announced in July that they had signed Malinga but Sri Lanka’s international commitments in January have forced the state to change their plans.”When Malinga was first signed we knew this was a possibility,” David Boon, Cricket Tasmania’s cricket operations general manager, said. “Although it is disappointing, we have a suitable back-up player in Dimitri Mascarenhas who will arrive in Hobart during December.”Mascarenhas, 32, was raised in Australia and has played club cricket in Melbourne and Perth, but this will be his first taste of state cricket in Australia. A regular member of England’s Twenty20 international side, Mascarenhas will offer Tasmania powerful striking and medium-pace bowling.Malinga is not the first Sri Lankan star to sign for the Big Bash only to later become unavailable – South Australia have already gained and then lost Ajantha Mendis, who was replaced by Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi. Victoria are yet to make an announcement on Muttiah Muralitharan, who had agreed to play for the Bushrangers.Each state is allowed to sign two international players for the Big Bash, which runs from late December to January. Chris Gayle has signed with Western Australia, Dwayne Bravo with Victoria, while Kieron Pollard and Afridi will play for South Australia.

Defending champions take the long route to final after defeats in first three matches

Firdose Moonda06-Feb-2025Sunrisers Eastern Cape 177 for 2 (de Zorzi 78, J Hermann 69*) beat Paarl Royals 175 for 4 (R Hermann 81*, Pretorius 59) by eight wicketsSunrisers Eastern Cape will play in a third successive final after winning two matches in two days. They will take on first-time finalists MI Cape Town on Saturday, with memories of their wins over Pretoria Capitals (2023) and Durban’s Super Giants (2024) fresh in their minds. The defending champions have now won knockout matches both batting first and chasing on the Highveld, where MICT last played a week ago, and may fancy themselves as favourites.For now, they will celebrate another successful campaign, irrespective of whether they win the trophy or not. They have shown all the ingredients for a champion team, specifically that they have enough depth in the squad for sustained success.Less than 24 hours after beating Joburg Super Kings, SEC returned to Centurion with what looked like a completely different batting blueprint and new bowling plans.Liam Dawson, who has been both economical and attacking in the tournament so far, was only used when Ottneil Baartman had to leave the field with what looked like a hamstring concern and Aiden Markram bowled a full quota of four overs instead. That may be mostly to do with match-ups against a Paarl side filled with left-handers but also shows the versatility of SEC’s attack. Baartman will be a particular concern for them ahead of the final but he will have some time to assess the seriousness of the niggle.Importantly, their top-order, who were the least successful of the group stage, came together at the right time. David Bedingham and Tony de Zorzi posted 46 inside four overs against JSK in the Eliminator and de Zorzi’s 78 anchored their successful chase against Paarl in Qualifier 2.De Zorzi is a particularly interesting case because he is not really considered a T20 player. He was named as a replacement when allrounder Patrick Kruger was ruled out of the tournament with a calf injury and immediately displaced a misfiring Zak Crawley, who only contributed two scores over 20 in eight matches.Lhuan-dre Pretorius has been one of the finds of the tournament•Sportzpics

De Zorzi did not initially look the part with 24 runs in three innings and was doubting himself. “It is tough. We don’t play that many T20 games,” de Zorzi said in the post-match press conference. “I think you would obviously want to play a lot more and find your rhythm or your blueprint. Marco [Jansen] kept saying to me, ‘just keep your intent up’. There’s definitely times where you look in the mirror and you think, ‘Maybe I must put that [hopes of being a T20 player] in the cupboard.”Tonight was not one of those times. Against expectation, de Zorzi pulled off his highest score since his century in the 2018 Abu Dhabi T20. His was an innings that started riskily with a top-edge that fell safely and went for four, and an outside edge that evaded first slip, and then evolved spectacularly. There were drives and cuts but the shot of the night was when the ball became but a speck in the night sky as he pulled Mitch Owen high over deep square leg for six. That shot created distance between Sunrisers and the DLS par score as lightning strikes surrounded Centurion.The storm didn’t arrive but Paarl Royals were still blown away, and one family in particular will have felt they’d navigated changing winds. The Hermann brothers were on either side of this contest and their father, Marius, was in attendance in his custom-made half-and-half shirt and cap. One half is the pink of Paarl; the other is the orange of the Eastern Cape and on the back it says “Hermann supporter.”At least, he was rewarded for the surname. Rubin top-scored with 81 off 53 balls and was key to Paarl getting over 160 but Jordan was there at the end, when SEC won the match. By the end, Marius was in full SEC kit, which was as good a signal as any that Paarl’s race was run.Related

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In reality, it ended after their home stretch, where they became the first team to win all five of the games they’ve played, and when they lost Joe Root to national duty shortly after. “Him leaving left a little bit of a gap with that all-round role,” David Miller said. “That one or two overs of spin, or sometimes four and the kind of experience that he has batting through, or getting through the Powerplay, and just playing good cricket shots.”Paarl’s attack may also need a re-think after it was primarily set up for the slower, lower conditions of Boland Park and then struggled up-country. In particular, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, who was the leading wicket-taker at one stage of the tournament, has gone wicketless in the last three games, while Lungi Ngidi, their senior seamer, only played in five of their 12 games and no knockouts. Asked if they could have used him more, Miller concurred.”We definitely could have. It’s a very unfortunate situation… but the way the team is set up, there was only really one position between a couple of fast bowlers and, you know, we went with Kwena [Maphaka] with the extra pace and the left arm variation,” Miller said, also dousing any worries that Ngidi is not fully fit. “But Lungi has been bowling a lot outside of the games and really getting back to where he knows he can bowl. He’s been fantastic off the field for the squad.”But all is not lost for Paarl. Root’s opening partner, Lhuan-dre Pretorius, was the find of the tournament and is currently the leading run-scorer. Though he had a lean patch after his two big scores in his first three games, he struck a sweet 59 in the second qualifier and will be one to watch in future.”He’s unbelievable. He’s 18 years old so he’s got a lot of time,” Miller said. “He plays length really well, he’s got a really good head on him and he wants to do well so those are all very good things. He’s an incredible talent and I’m really looking forward to watching his progress and seeing what he can achieve.”Some will be saying the same about SEC as they wonder how much more they can win. They remain the only team to win the SA20 and their ability to step up when it matters means it would be difficult to bet against them.”They’re a team that never leaves you as an opposition, so you always have to be on your game. They’re clever cricketers and gutsy cricketers,” Miller said. “When you’ve got a squad like that and a never-say-die attitude, it often goes a long way in T20 cricket, especially in the field. They give absolutely everything. They’ve got a great thing going and I wish them all the very best.”

The tour will follow England’s three T20Is and Test match, with both sets of matches to be played in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai

ESPNcricinfo staff27-Oct-2023Australia are set to tour India in late December for a multi-format women’s series comprising a Test, three ODIs and three T20Is.The Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai will play host to the one-off women’s Test and three ODIs while the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai will be host for the T20Is. The ODIs will not be part of the ICC Women’s Championship.This is after England finish their tour of India starting with three T20Is in Mumbai followed by a Test in Navi Mumbai. All T20Is – against England as well as Australia – are night fixtures starting 7pm IST while the ODIs are day-night matches starting at 1.30pm IST.Both the Test matches are day games with a 9.30am IST start. During the home ODI series against West Indies earlier this month, Australia trained with pink balls in anticipation of a day-night Test match against India.Related

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Both the Tests are four-day fixtures, as has been the norm in the women’s game. In a departure from that, the women’s Ashes saw a five-day one-off Test match at Trent Bridge, which was only the second such game in women’s cricket.The red-ball fixture against England will be the first women’s Test in India since 2014, when the hosts beat South Africa. Since then, India have played two women’s Tests – one each against England and Australia – the latter being a pink-ball affair – in 2021. Both matches were thrilling draws.Since Australia’s tour of India late last year, all of India’s home cricket has been played in and around Mumbai. While the five-match T20I series last year was held at DY Patil Stadium and Brabourne Stadium, the inaugural edition of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) earlier this year was also played across the two stadiums in Navi Mumbai and Mumbai.The twin series against the women’s Ashes rivals will be India’s first under new head coach Amol Muzumdar.Apart from the international series, three T20 games are also set to be played at the Wankhede Stadium between India A and England A from November 29 to December 3. All those games are afternoon fixtures with 1.30pm IST starts.

Five second-innings wickets follow crucial century as Worcestershire are outgunned

ECB Reporters Network28-Jul-2022Derbyshire 130 (Dal 55, Pennington 4-36) and 343 (Dal 112*, McKiernan 71, Madsen 69) beat Worcestershire 185 (Kashif 52, Aitchison 4-40) and 190 (Roderick 53*, Dal 5-40, Aitchison 3-55) by 98 runsAnuj Dal completed a superb all-round performance with a crucial intervention with the ball as Derbyshire overcame Worcestershire by 98 runs in the LV=Insurance County Championship match at New Road.Dal followed up a first-innings fifty and then a superb century with a career best return of 5 for 40 off 15 overs as Worcestershire were dismissed for 190 in 64.1 overs.The all-rounder initially struck three times in the space of seven balls to break Worcestershire’s resistance after they had resumed on 108 for 5 in pursuit of a 289 target.He made the crucial breakthrough when trapping Jack Haynes lbw for 45 after a partnership of 92 with Gareth Roderick (53 not out).Dal then sent back Joe Leach, and Josh Baker in quick succession to effectively seal a third Championship win of the campaign for the Peakites.It capped a tremendous fightback by the visitors who faced several positions of adversity in the game.They showed the character and spirit instilled into them by Head Coach, Mickey Arthur, since he arrived at the Incora County Ground this season.Derbyshire are now firmly in the race for a promotion spot for when they return to Championship action after the Royal London Cup.But Worcestershire were left to reflect on failing to press home a position of strength for the second home game.They had established a first-innings lead of 132 against Glamorgan and ended up being edged out by three wickets on a bowler-friendly surface.This time they reduced Derbyshire to 14 for 5 in their first innings and then 92 for 5 in the second when their lead was just 37.A third defeat of the campaign was a blow to their own promotion hopes.Haynes and Roderick were relatively untroubled during the opening hour of the day but the introduction of Dal at 143 for 5 started a swift decline by Worcestershire.Haynes had battled away for nearly three hours for his 45 before he pushed forward to Dal and was lbw.Leach lasted only two balls before he drove at Dal and picked out Hilton Cartwright at cover.Baker lost his off stump after offering no shot and keeper Brooke Guest claimed his ninth catch of the match from a Dillon Pennington edge.Roderick had time to complete his maiden Championship half century for Worcestershire off 126 balls before Muhammed Hasnain edged Sam Conners to second slip to seal Derbyshire’s win.

This time the wickets were shared around with Peter Siddle taking three

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It took Tasmania rather longer to bowl New South Wales out a second time, but they wrapped up a 298-run hammering with more than a day to spare following yesterday’s record-breaking 32 all out for the visitors.Second time around New South Wales were six down with less than 100 on the board before some lower-order resistance from Mitchell Starc and Trent Copeland. The defeat leaves them fractionally behind Queensland in second place with them facing the Bulls in their last match in early April which could decide who hosts the final, although Queensland have two games to play.On this occasion the wickets were shared around by the Tasmania attack with Peter Siddle’s 3 for 31 worthy rewarded after he also bowled superbly in the first innings when Jackson Bird had his day out.It was Siddle who started things off for Tasmania when Daniel Hughes shouldered arms and lost his middle stump in the eighth over. In his next over, Siddle hit the perfect channel to find the outside edge of Nick Larkin.Related

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As they had in the first innings Tasmania’s seamers largely pitched the ball full and found enough movement to make life very tricky for the batsmen. However, Kurtis Patterson certainly wore the expression of someone who had received a rough decision when he was given caught behind off left-armer Sam Rainbird but there was no doubt about Rainbird’s second when Jason Sangha picked out point with a flashing drive.Daniel Solway battled for 100 deliveries before receiving a ball from Siddle that he could do little about as it bounced from just short of a length to take the shoulder of the bat to gully.When Peter Nevill edged Jarrod Freeman to slip – via Tim Paine’s pad – to give the offspinner his first wicket of the game it appeared things could finish very quickly but Starc and Copeland added 60 in 10 overs.Starc then missed a sweep off Freeman and Nathan Lyon was given lbw against Bird but Copeland was able to bring up a 49-ball fifty which included two hooked sixes.

He warned that the Ranji Trophy would remain an ‘orphan and poor cousin’ of the IPL if wages don’t rise

ESPNcricinfo staff12-Jan-2020Sunil Gavaskar has called for a “substantial” hike in the wages paid to India’s domestic cricketers, and asked BCCI president Sourav Ganguly to look into bridging the pay gap between the Ranji Trophy and the IPL.At present, domestic cricketers earn a match fee of INR 35,000 per match day, and share among themselves 10.40% of the BCCI’s annual media rights income. Their revenue pales in comparison to the amounts that players can earn from the IPL auction, with a minimum base price of INR 20 lakhs.”IPL dominates Ranji Trophy,” quoted Gavaskar as saying, while delivering the Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial Lecture in Delhi. “Unless their match fees are increased substantially, it will be considered an orphan and poor cousin of Indian cricket.”Gavaskar placed the earnings of domestic and IPL cricketers in relation to their respective workloads.”I am hoping new president Sourav Ganguly will look into this,” he said. “The disparity that you see between IPL players, who don’t always play first-class cricket, and those who play all the domestic games, about 80 days, and somebody who plays 14 days of IPL.”There is big disparity. I am talking about the uncapped players. Hopefully that will be narrowed down as much as possible.”

Bayern Munich boss Thomas Tuchel has given his team some time off to clear their heads after losing three games in a row.

• Bayern suffer three straight defeats
• Now eight points behind Leverkusen
• Take on RB Leipzig next

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  Bayern have slipped eight points behind Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga table after losing to Xabi Alonso's side and Bochum. Tuchel's men are also in trouble in the Champions League after slumping to a 1-0 loss to Lazio in the first leg of their last 16 tie. The results have led to scrutiny of Tuchel's position and speculation the club could look to replace him with Alonso. Kane has also come in for criticism for his recent performances for the Bavarian giants despite scoring 25 Bundesliga goals already this season.

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  Tuchel will be hoping his players can clear their heads and get back on track next time out against Leipzig. The Bavarians surely can't afford to drop any more points if they are to pip Leverkusen to the title but face a tough test against Marco Rose's men.

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Depois de encaminhar a contratação de Everton, do Grêmio, o Benfica está confiante para levar Bruno Henrique, do Flamengo, na mesma bagagem – ou em uma posterior. Isso porque, de acordo com informações do jornal português “A Bola”, o clube de Lisboa tem no atacante rubro-negro o “próximo alvo” e o trunfo Jorge Jesus, esperado para convencê-lo a partir rumo à Europa.

-Falta limar arestas para concretizar a transferência de Everton Cebolinha para o Benfica e, concluído esse processo, a mesma equipa de emissários em quem as Águias têm delegado vários processos no Brasil, liderada pelo empresário Giuliano Bertolucci, vai iniciar negociação que permita a Bruno Henrique acompanhar a mudança de Cebolinha para a Luz mas por valores inferiores aos que têm vindo a público – diz trecho da publicação lusitana.

O veículo diz que o Benfica tentará a contratação pela quantia de 10 milhões de euros (cerca de R$ 63,9 milhões), ou seja, abaixo da multa rescisória, que é de 35 milhões (R$ 214 milhões), e até de uma possível cláusula pontual destacada pelo diário, que seria de12 milhões de euros (R$ 75 milhões) – e que foi negada que exista pela assessoria de imprensa do Flamengo.

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O Benfica já havia destacado, oficialmente, que não tinha interesse em contratações dessa magnitude. Mas Cebolinha está na iminência de assinar. Quanto a Bruno Henrique, ele se diz “bem tranquilo em relação a tudo”.

– Estou bem tranquilo em relação a tudo. Especulações saem a todo momento. Mas nada chegou para mim ou para o Flamengo. O Flamengo e eu temos uma relação muito boa desde a primeira comunicação que tive com eles em Belo Horizonte, quando soube que viria para cá, e é assim até hoje. A minha cabeça está focada no Flamengo, em fazer outro grande ano, chegar no final do ano e poder conquistar de novo tudo aquilo que conquistamos no ano passado – falou Bruno Henrique, ao site do “Globo Esporte”.

Com ou sem proposta, Bruno Henrique, que tem vínculo com o Flamengo até dezembro de 2023, estará em campo neste domingo, a partir das 16h, para enfrentar o Atlético-MG, pela primeira rodada do Brasileiro, no Maracanã.

The hosts have preferred to deploy players who were not regularly involved from the group stage to the knockout rounds

Cameroon coach Toni Conceicao has dropped Golden Boot prime candidates Karl Toko Ekambi and Vincent Aboubakar for the Africa Cup of Nations third-place game against Burkina Faso at Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium in Yaounde on Saturday.

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  Goalkeeper: Andre Onana

  Onana has been handed a chance to book another clean sheet in the tournament for the hosts.

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  Centre-back – Harold Moukoudi

  Moukoudi will feature in place of Michael Ngadeu-Ngadjui who played from the group stages all through to the semis.