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In a thrilling encounter at Utrecht, Ireland beat Holland by 10 runs in another rain-affected match to draw level with Scotland and Holland on the points table. The ECB XI are two points clear at the top, but they still have Scotland and Holland to play, meaning the championship is still wide open. The Irish victory was set up by a superb allround performance by man-of-the-match Trent Johnston, who hit a rapid 49 from 30 balls, then took 3 for 44 as Holland fell just short of their target.Persistent rain delayed the start of the match for some time, and when play did start Ireland got off to a poor start, losing Jeremy Bray (8) and Jason Molins (13), who has just recovered from a hamstring injury, in quick succession. Andre Botha was run-out for 24 after some excellent fielding on the boundary, but Andrew White and Trent Johnston swung the match firmly back into Ireland’s favour with their aggressive batting.Johnston’s innings included a clutch of sixes, but he fell one short of his half-century when he was caught by Tom de Grooth off the bowling of Tim de Leede. White also fell short of his milestone, caught and bowled by Luuk van Troost for 40. Kyle McCallan was run out for 12 after he attempted a single to a misfield, and JJ Esmeijer took two wickets in the last three balls, as Ireland finished on 181 for 9 after their 31 overs.Naseer Shaukat, who took 5 for 30 in Holland’s second innings in Ireland’s Intercontinental Cup victory prior to the championship, immediately put Holland on the back foot again here, removing Tom de Grooth early, caught behind by Steve Ogilby.Darron Reekers was then bowled by Botha for 17, but Daan van Bunge and Bas Zuiderent fought back, taking Holland to 100 for 20 after 20 overs. Then came the vital breakthrough as Johnston bowled van Bunge for 50. In the next over Paul Mooney had Zuiderent caught by Molins for 36, and despite good innings from de Leede and Edgar Schiferli, two wickets each to Johnston and Gordon Cooke kept Holland in check, and Ireland squeezed home.

Australian top-order batsman Damien Martyn has been ruled-out of the one-day international leg of the 2003 Travelex Tour of the West Indies due to a finger injury, the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) announced today.He will be replaced in the 15-man squad by New South Wales Blues batsman Michael Clarke, currently on tour in the West Indies with the Australian Test side.Martyn, who fractured his right index finger while fielding during Australia’s five-wicket World Cup victory over Kenya on 15 March, missing the Test leg of the West Indies tour, has been undergoing specialist treatment since his return from South Africa in March.A medical review of the injury has discovered that whilst the fracture has healed, joint stiffness will prevent him from batting for another four weeks.Upon learning of the news that he would not be taking part in the one-day international leg of the tour Martyn said: "Having had some time to contemplate the injury, I have been able to come to terms with sitting on the sidelines."Missing the Test series in the West Indies was probably the biggest blow, but as time went by it became apparent that things weren’t going to be entirely right for the one-dayers either."I guess the selectors could have ruled me out of the squad earlier, but they gave me as much time as possible to prove my fitness, which I appreciate."I’m naturally disappointed that I won’t be on the plane to the Caribbean, but it’s important that I allow the treatment to take its course and get things right for good."I’m making steady progress, which is encouraging, and I’m really looking getting myself 100 per cent right for the Top End Tour in Cairns and Darwin," he said.Clarke, 22, made his one-day international debut for Australia in the VB Series match against England at the Adelaide Oval in January, scoring an unbeaten 39 runs from 47 balls, and taking 1-24 from seven overs with his left-arm orthodox spin.Speaking from Barbados, Clarke said: "I feel really sorry for Damien that he still isn’t fit, after what must be a frustrating time on the sidelines."However I’m thrilled to be able to stay on with the Australian side and hopefully play some part in the one-day series."Just being around the senior players on tour has been a terrific learning experience and I’m grateful for being given the chance to continue that."The one-day international that I played in Adelaide in January was the highlight of my career to date, so to I’m really excited that there’s the opportunity for more matches in national colours," he said.

A logistical headache in the lead-up to the New Zealand tour of Pakistan appears to have been solved should New Zealand A make the final of the Coromandel King Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup in Hyderabad.New Zealand’s tour of Pakistan opens with a warm-up game on Sunday and three of four members of the NZ A team need to be in Karachi on Saturday. The A players who have been selected for the One-Day International series against Pakistan are: Chris Nevin, Jacob Oram, Glen Sulzberger and Lou Vincent.If the NZ A side loses its quarter-final game tonight, or a semi-final game on Friday, there will be no problem.To cover the eventuality of NZ A making the final, Test selection Chris Martin will fly to India on Friday morning. That would see him arrive on Saturday for the Sunday match.If NZ play the semi-final and lose, Martin will carry on to Pakistan arriving before other members of the Test side but having the chance to practice with the ODI side.New Zealand Cricket’s operations manager John Reid said the NZA team had been told that NZC did not want to pull them out of their tournament to solve the logistical problems. They had done so well NZC wanted to see them continue.”We are flying Test player Chris Martin to India which will give the A team 11 players and the CLEAR Black Caps 12 players for their first warm-up game, as captain Stephen Fleming does not finish his Middlesex commitments until the weekend,” Reid said.”The priority for us has to be the Black Caps.”Of the players who would go to Pakistan, Reid said Nevin had to be one as he is the wicket-keeper and it was likely that Vincent would remain in India because he could also keep wickets.”It is probably not the solution they want but it is the practical solution to a practical problem,” Reid said.

Muthumudalige Pushpakumara led a Sri Lankan recovery in the second Under-19s’Test at Northampton.Pushpakumara scored 125 not out in four hours, including a stand of 129 for the seventh wicket with Kausbal Lokuarachchi after the tourists had collapsed to 74 for six in their second innings.Sri Lanka, who trail 1-0 in the three-match series, finished the day on 268 for eight. They lead by 291 runs, so England’s batsmen have a mountain to climb on a pitch already generating a response for Sri Lanka’s four-man spin attack.England were all out for 263, their last four wickets falling for the addition of 41 runs at the start of the day. Ian Pattison of Durham was ninth out after battling his way to 39 in over three hours.Slow left-arm spinner Ranil Dhammika secured two more scalps to finish with five for 59 from 37 overs, while Pushpakumara accounted for Justin Bishop and Pattison with his off-breaks.When Sri Lanka batted the Surrey seamer Tim Murtagh used the new ball to good effect, taking the wickets of Ian Daniels, Thilina Kandamby and Jehana Mubarak for just seven runs in six overs.David Harrison trapped Malintha Gajanayake lbw, and opener Nimesh Perera was beautifully caught at extra cover by Ian Bell, leaving Sri Lanka just 74 runs ahead with five wickets gone.Then captain Kaushalya Weeraratne was clean bowled by Bishop. It was then thatLokuarachchi arrived to join Pushpakumara.Just after tea Lokuarachchi was missed at slip off Monty Panesar, who later bowled him to break the dangerous partnership.Panesar also dismissed Dhammika before the close, but Sri Lanka remain in the driving seat with Pushpakumara still at the crease.

Tammy Beaumont, the Kent wicketkeeper-batsman, has been recalled to the England Women’s squad for the T20 series against South Africa but Mark Robinson, the new head coach, has kept faith with the players who lost the Ashes to Australia last yearBeaumont last played in the one-day series against India in August 2014 and her previous T20 came against Australia in Dhaka in the final of the 2014 World T20.She is only included in the 15-player squad for the T20 with Lancashire’s Kate Cross playing the one-day series.

England squad for SA tour

Charlotte Edwards (capt), Tammy Beaumont (T20 only), Katherine Brunt, Kathryn Cross (ODI only), Georgia Elwiss, Lydia Greenway, Rebecca Grundy, Jenny Gunn, Danielle Hazell, Amy Jones, Heather Knight, Natalie Sciver, Anya Shrubsole, Sarah Taylor, Lauren Winfield, Danielle Wyatt

Sarah Taylor is in line to win her 100th ODI cap during the series. She currently sits on 98 one-day appearances and will be the seventh England player to reach a hundred caps.The nine members of the squad who are currently playing the Women’s Big Bash will join the rest of the party in South Africa at the end of January for a 10-day training camp before the ODI series starts on February 7 in Benoni. The three ODIs will form part of the ICC’s Women’s Championship in which England currently sit fifth and South Africa fourth.It will be the first assignment for Robinson and he is looking forward to getting the team back into the middle.”Having started to work with some of them, having watched recent footage and through following the progress of those playing in the WBBL, there is no doubt that this is a hugely talented squad with enormous potential,” he said. “I am relishing the prospect of helping them unearth even more of that potential and to seeing them develop in their next chapter as professional cricketers.”The ICC Women’s Championship table is currently very tight so the next twelve months are vitally important for us. We need to hit the ground running in the three ODIs against South Africa, who we know will pose a strong challenge on home soil. I am excited to see what this England team can do.”

Michael Clarke says Australia are approaching the inaugural Twenty20 World Championship with enormous confidence and are eager to annex another trophy after their recent World Cup triumph. “I’m really looking forward to the opportunity of playing in the inaugural Twenty20 championship and I’m certain we can bring home the trophy,” Clarke told journalists in Johannesburg during an ICC conference call from Sydney.”In a game of such a short amount of overs, one player can win the match, whether it be in batting, bowling or fielding. We have a lot of talent, a lot of guys who can win a game on their own.”Clarke named the hosts South Africa and England as Australia’s main rivals for cricket’s newest prize, but it is, as usual, going to take something special to snatch another trophy from Ricky Ponting’s grasp. In the last year Australia have widened their lead in the Test Championship rankings, won the Champions Trophy and the World Cup, and they will arrive in South Africa with almost the same squad that triumphed in the Caribbean. Brett Lee comes in for the retired Glenn McGrath and Clarke believes the passing of one great generation will provide the gap for new stars to reveal their talents.”That’s a part of the game, people come and go and they will be missed,” Clarke said. “But other players in Australia will see it as an opportunity and some new blood has now moved into the national team. That is good, it keeps the team fresh and I’m looking forward to seeing how we go without Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Justin Langer and Damien Martyn.”Clarke is one of those players who can be a match-winner in all three departments and after making merry in the World Cup, he is looking forward to providing more entertainment in South Africa. He said Twenty20 cricket was the most instinctive form of the game.”It would be wrong to plan too much ahead of a match,” he said. “You’ve got to go with the flow, go with your instincts. As a batsman, you’ve probably got to go for it a bit earlier than you’d like. Twenty20 cricket is fantastic. I love it, especially how fast it is.”

The Indian board has left it to the selectors to decide on the number of probables for the ICC Champions Trophy.”It’s up to the selection committee to choose the number of probables. It should not exceed 30 as per the ICC’s directive,” said Niranjan Shah, the board secretary. “But it’s up to the selectors to decide on the upper limit.” He said that Rahul Dravid and Greg Chappell, the coach, seemed inclined towards selecting around 20 or 22 players for the Champions Trophy in October.There has been speculation that Sourav Ganguly, the former captain who has returned home after a stint at Northamptonshire, would find a place in a 30-player list. It remains to be seen whether Ganguly, ignored by the selectors since the three-Test series in Pakistan in January, would still find favour if the list consists of only 20 or 22 players.The final 14-member squad has to be chosen before September 7 and submitted to the ICC.

Stephen Fleming, New Zealand’s captain, said he feared for the future of the game in Zimbabwe after his side had completed a crushing innings win inside two days at Harare Sports Club.”It’s good for us, but I’m not sure it’s good for the game,” he told reporters after the woefully one-sided first Test. “The mood was clinical out there. After the first hour the goal was to win this Test today.”To be able to turn the game around so quickly was a good effort. To get 20 wickets in a day you have to bowl well and this was some of the best cricket I’ve seen this team play.”But Tatenda Taibu, Zimbabwe’s captain, struggled to find any positives. “It was very disappointing,” he said. “I thought we would bowl them out on the first day and our batting wasn’t good enough. It’s not a good feeling.”Phil Simmons, Zimbabwe’s coach, said that the side would need to look at where they went wrong, especially on the first day when they had New Zealand 113 for 5 and let them amass 452 for 9 by the close. But he rejected the inevitable calls for Zimbabwe’s Test status to be reviewed. “I don’t think it makes sense to think like that, all we can do is try to improve our cricket. It’s always been hard for us. We are one of the smaller countries in Test cricket.”

England v New ZealandEngland (possible) Michael Vaughan (capt), Marcus Trescothick, Geraint Jones (wk), Andrew Strauss, Paul Collingwood, Anthony McGrath, Ian Blackwell, Rikki Clarke, Darren Gough, Stephen Harmison, James Anderson.
New Zealand (possible) Stephen Fleming (capt), Nathan Astle, Hamish Marshall, Scott Styris, Craig McMillan, Chris Cairns, Gareth Hopkins(wk), Chris Harris, Jacob Oram, Daniel Vettori, Ian Butler.

New Zealand umpire Brent Bowden has been added to the International Cricket Council’s elite panel of umpires.While no official announcement has been made by the ICC, New Zealand Cricket announced the appointment at its annual awards night.Bowden is in Dubai for a meeting of the international panel and will head to Dhaka shortly for the TVS Cup tri-series involving home team Bangladesh, India and South Africa.It is understood that Bowden is one of three new appointments to the panel which has been extended from that first announced last year.Bowden was on the panel of umpires for the World Cup in South Africa and was awarded the fourth umpire’s role for the final between Australia and India.Bowden, who turns 40 on April 11, made his first-class umpiring debut in the summer of 1992/93, and was immediately recognisable for the variations he developed on the traditional umpiring signals, especially as Cricket Max was developed and varied, but also in one-day cricket.He has stood in three Tests and 32 One-Day Internationals.His first Test was the 1999/00 first Test between Australia and New Zealand at Eden Park. His most recent ODI was the World Cup semi-final between Australia and Kenya.New Zealand umpiring manager Brian Aldridge said: “We are extremely pleased for Billy [Bowden’s nickname]. He has worked hard for this recognition which is well deserved.”The quality of Billy’s umpiring impressed the ICC during the early stages of [the] World Cup. This lead to umpiring opportunities in later matches and culminated in the appointment.”The appointment has been a goal of Billy’s and is a significant achievement.”