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- India field in soggy Cardiff
Cricket365 - India won the toss and chose to bowl first in their Champions Trophy semi-final against Sri Lanka in a soggy Cardiff, and named an unchanged side as the match got under way slightly late.
- Sri Lanka make changes, asked to bat on wet day
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- India won the crucial toss on what was expected to be wet and a stop-start day, and expectedly asked Sri Lanka to bat first
- Albie Morkel joins Derbyshire T20 campaign
- Derbyshire have signed the big-hitting South African, Albie Morkel, for their Friends Life t20 campaign
- Pietersen in T20 squad to face Black Caps
Cricket365 - England will be able to call on batsman Kevin Pietersen during the T20 series against New Zealand, after he was named in the squad for the two-match series following his recovery from a knee injury.
- India v Sri Lanka: Champions Trophy ? live! | Daniel Harris
Guardian
- Over-by-over report: Who will advance to face England in the Champions Trophy final? Find out with Daniel Harris nowRob BagchiDaniel Harris
- Rutherford, Latham picked for T20 squad
- New Zealand have picked batsmen Hamish Rutherford and Tom Latham have along with left-arm spinner Roneel Hara in the squad for the two Twenty20 matches against England next week
- England trounce South Africa to reach Champions Trophy final ? video highlights
- England produce a dominant performance against South Africa winning by seven wickets
- Pietersen makes England return
- Kevin Pietersen, out of action for England since March, is poised to return in the second of two T20s against New Zealand at The Kia Oval next week
- Cricket: Vettori has surgery to save career
New Zealand Herald
- Daniel Vettori has had an operation on his troublesome Achilles in London in an attempt to extend a stellar international career.The spinner has been dogged by an Achilles problem since his last test appearance almost 12 months...
- Departing Kirsten accepts 'chokers' label
Cricket365 - As of Wednesday night, Gary Kirsten became the former South Africa head coach, and before he exited the arena he lamented the Proteas' failure to yet again capture an ICC title.
- Cricket-Rain delays start of second Champions Trophy semi-final
Reuters
- CARDIFF, June 20 (Reuters) - Early morning rain delayed the start of play in the Champions Trophy semi-final between India and Sri Lanka in Cardiff on Thursday.
- CT 13 semis: Toss delayed due to wet outfield
ThatsCricket
- Cardiff, June 20: The toss has been delayed due to wet outfield in the India-Sri Lanka Champions Trophy semi-final here on Thursday. Overnight and morning rain has left the outfield wet. The pitch is still under covers and there is
- Senate gives green light to Ahmed
Fox Sports
- Pakistani asylum seeker Fawad Ahmed is on the brink of a baggy green after the Senate clears amendments to citizenship laws.
- Cricket-Pietersen named in England Twenty20 squad
- LONDON, June 20 (Reuters) - Kevin Pietersen has been named in England's 14-man squad for a two-match Twenty20 series against New Zealand after returning from a knee injury, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Thursday.
- India v Sri Lanka, Champions Trophy: live
Telegraph
- Follow over-by-over commentary from the ICC Champions Trophy semi-final between India and Sri Lanka in Cardiff on Thursday, June 20 2013.
- 20 great Ashes moments No16: Don Bradman's 334 at Headingley, 1930 | John Ashdown
- A ferocious, sustained assault such as cricket had never experienced paved the way for Australia's Ashes victoryIt was, quite simply, a sustained assault the ferocity of which English cricket, indeed cricket in general, had never before experienced: the 21-year-old Donald Bradman, all 5ft 7in of him, carting the England bowling attack of 1930 ? an attack that had won an Ashes series 4-1 in Australia little more than a year before ? to all parts of Headingley in a barrage that saw him score 309 runs on the opening day. It is a record that, even in these comparatively switch-hitting, trampoline-batted days of Twenty20-tinged Test match thrash, has never been surpassed.It seems strange to think of Bradman, now with his own private suite in the pantheon of greats where he looks down on his dominion from a pedestal built of record books and bowlers' broken spirits, as anything other than the batting behemoth he was but in 1930 he arrived in England with only four Test matches under his belt and having already felt the painful blow of the axe. He had made his international debut in the first Ashes Test of 1928-29 in Brisbane (a game which England won by 675 runs) and was promptly dropped for the second. Injuries brought him back into the side and a couple of centuries followed, although England cruised to an emphatic 4-1 series victory.Plenty in England were unconvinced he was cut out to cope on the country's rain-warped pitches. The Surrey captain Percy Fender, who covered the 1928-29 series, recognised his precocity but felt that he will always be in the category of brilliant and unsound ones. He does not inspire me with any confidence that he desires to take the only course that will lead him to a fulfilment of that promise.The warning signs were there ? in January 1930 his 452 not out for New South Wales against Queensland in the Sheffield Shield had set a world record ? but Bradman's account of his arrival and first few days in England smacks not of a steely-eyed nemesis hell bent on the destruction of the land's medium-pacers but has the ring of no one more than Terry Pratchett's Twoflower, wandering round the country in wide-eyed bliss while unseen pickpockets hover and thin-moustachioed spivs fix their grins and move in for the kill.There were the seasickness, the constant bewilderment at the sights and sounds of England, the gushing amazement of a Wembley Cup final and the sight of the German Graf Zeppelin flying overhead. He asked Neville Cardus for a list of books that might help him to develop his mind and enlarge his conversation. It would be no surprise to discover a scale model of Stonehenge, a stick of Blackpool rock and an I Love London T-shirt finding their way into his suitcase before the trip was out.But while Bradman may have arrived a tyro, he departed a tyrant, his supreme dominance established by 2,960 runs at an average of 98.66, scores of 236, 185, 252, 191, 254, 232 and 205, and capped by that insatiable innings at Headingley.The entirety of England's 1928-29 squad were available for selection for the series. There existed a general feeling of confidence that the side chosen by the Australian authorities to come to England in pursuit of the mythical Ashes would fail in the object of their endeavours, wrote Wisden's editor, Charles Stewart Caine. In other words, the home side expected to win and to win handsomely.Only four members of the 1930 Australia squad had been to England before and Bradman was out of his comfort zone ? I found it difficult for instance to adjust myself to the idea of wearing a sweater, blazer and overcoat before a roaring fire awaiting my turn to bat, he wrote of the chilly May conditions. He nevertheless began the tour with 236 against Worcestershire and 185 at Leicester. The 78 that followed against Yorkshire therefore represented something of a flop. Day after day he cut and drove and hooked bowlers right and left, never raising the ball from the ground, wrote Cardus in Cricket All The Year.A mammoth 252 against Surrey and 191 against Hampshire meant 1,000 runs in May (despite the weather) and put him in fairly decent nick for the first Test, where he scored 131 in the second innings as England, who enjoyed the better of the conditions, won by 93 runs. That would be his fourth highest score of the series. His 254 in the second Test at Lord's was, thought Bradman, technically the best innings of my life. The power and the ease, the fluent, rapid, vehement, cold-blooded slaughter were beyond sober discussion, reckoned Cardus. Australia declared their first innings on 729 for six and went on to win by seven wickets.Then to Headingley. Australia won the toss and opted to bat but lost Archie Jackson with two on the board. That brought Bradman to the crease and by 12.50pm he had his century, joining Victor Trumper and Charlie Macartney as the only cricketers ? at that time ? to score Test tons before lunch on the first day.Richard Tyldesley at one o'clock actually bowled a maiden over to Bradman: from internal and external evidence I concluded that it was one of the cleverest bits of bowling he has achieved in his hard-working career, reports Cardus in his report from Leeds in the Guardian.The Australia captain, Bill Woodfull, batted steadily at the other end. When he was dismissed in the afternoon session the pair had put on 192 for the second wicket. Bradman's share was 142. I imagine the England bowlers were trying to get Woodfull out ? leaving Bradman to Providence, writes Cardus. Not often is an attack reduced to trying to get the stonewaller out while washing its hands of the brilliant player as a problem insoluble, and apparently everlastingly so.The highest score against England prior to the series, George Headley's 223 in Kingston earlier that year, was steadily constructed over the best part of two days. Bradman had made 219 by tea, hammering 30 boundaries in the process.The great Cardus, never the most understated, was clearly filing pieces of copy throughout the day and by late afternoon was letting his pen off the leash. At four o'clock Bradman reached 200, after three hours and a half of cricket which for mingled rapidity and security is unparalleled in my experience. Then: Bradman arrived at 288 in five hours and a half out of a grand Australian total of 414: no chance to hand had he given and not more than three strokes had he shown which told us it is human to err.And finally: From the last ball of the day Bradman, by a superb drive through the covers, a stroke handsome enough for any batsman who has ever done honour to cricket, hit his 42nd boundary. That was a royal way to finish a day which Australia will not forget as long as the game is played and loved there.The 288 was noticeable as it eclipsed Tip Foster's previous Ashes record, though it was not until the second day that Bradman went past Andy Sandham's score of 325 against West Indies earlier that year. When at last he was caught off the bowling of Maurice Tate he had amassed 334 in 383 minutes and 448 balls. Though that was a record for less than three years ? Wally Hammond smashing 336 against New Zealand in early 1936 ? only Brian Lara (twice) has made bigger scores against England. And, indeed, it was the pace of the innings that had taken the English breath away.It would be the start of a love affair between Bradman and Headingley. He returned in 1934 to score 304 and in four matches (and only six innings) at the ground he scored four hundreds, 963 runs in total and averaged 192.60. Only at the MCG did he score more centuries. Though plenty of players have thrived on particular home pitches ? Lara at the Rec, Jacques Kallis at Newlands, Mahela Jayawadene at Colombo's Sinhalese Sports Club, for example ? there can be few who have found such a welcoming 22 yards on foreign soil.More immediately it could only help Australia to a draw and a rain-affected match at Old Trafford also ended with no result. It was 1-1 entering the final Test at The Oval. England scored 405 in their first innings but were still beaten by an innings and 39 runs thanks in no small part to Bradman's 232, his third double-century in seven innings in the series.While Bradman's own recollections, even at the end of the tour, tended to focus on events outside the game (the beauty of the countryside, our meeting with His Majesty King George V and Queen Mary at Sandringham; my talk with the Prince of Wales at The Oval; Harold Williams singing in Hiawatha at the Royal Albert Hall), his batting had left England a pale, shaking shell.It is not too much to say that he took England and the whole cricket world by storm, wrote Wisden. Those who had seen him play in Australia were fully prepared for something out of the common but little would we dream that his progress would be of such a triumphal nature. The Ashes were back in Australian hands and they had Bradman's bat to help keep them there.England were going to have to come up with something rather drastic ?The AshesAustralia cricket teamEngland cricket teamAustralia sportCricketJohn Ashdownguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
- India to play five ODIs in Zimbabwe
- India will tour Zimbabwe for a series of five one-dayers starting July 24 and ending on August 3, the BCCI has confirmed
- Kevin Pietersen called into England squad for Twenty20 series against New Zealand at the Oval
- Kevin Pietersen will make a surprise return to England duty in the second of next week's two Twenty20 matches against New Zealand at the Oval.
- We're laughing at cocky Poms: Harris
- Ryan Harris says winning back the Ashes is motivation enough as the Test team laugh off a barrage of jibes from the English press.
- Kevin Pietersen named in England's Twenty20 squad to face New Zealand
- ? Batsman returns for second match next week? England will be captained by Eoin MorganKevin Pietersen will add much-needed lustre to the least-anticipated international series of the summer next week as the only Ashes contender who has been included in England's 14-man squad for two Twenty20 internationals against New Zealand at The Oval.The rest of the Ashes squad, including England's T20 captain, Stuart Broad, were declared off limits to the one-day coach, Ashley Giles, as they will spend next week under the supervision of Andy Flower refamiliarising themselves with red balls before a four-day warm-up match against Essex at Chelmsford that starts on June 30.But Pietersen is in a different position, with a need to play cricket after missing the first half of the season with the knee injury he sustained in New Zealand in March. He is due to make his first appearance of the summer in Surrey's County Championship game against Yorkshire starting at Headingley on Friday, which makes him unavailable for the first t20 game against New Zealand next Tuesday.But the plan is for him to play in the second game on Thursday before linking up with the England squad for the Chelmsford fixture ? which could mean the chance of a fifth innings, albeit a brief one, as well as more time in the field to test out his knee before the first Test against Australia on 10 July.Eoin Morgan will captain the team in the absence of Broad, as he did in two T20 internationals in India in December, and the absence of other first-choice players such as Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow has allowed the selectors to make a couple of eyecatching additions.Gary Ballance, the 23-year-old nephew of the former Zimbabwe captain Dave Houghton, was born in Harare but completed his education at Harrow and has since played for Derbyshire and now Yorkshire, is in line to make his England debut.Boyd Rankin, Warwickshire's former Ireland fast bowler who was called into the squad for the 50-over series against New Zealand before the Champions Trophy without playing a game, is also included.But perhaps the most surprising selection is Ben Stokes. The Durham all-rounder, who was born in New Zealand, was sent home from the Lions tour of Australia last winter after an alcohol-related incident. Stokes, 22, has made two T20 international appearances and five in 50-over cricket, and his recall suggests that he has impressed the England management with his attitude and form in county cricket this summer.Geoff Miller, the national selector, said: We have selected a squad with plenty of T20 experience as well as young players new to the international game. With an intense period of cricket coming up we are conscious that we need to manage the workloads of our players throughout the summer and this NatWest series gives an opportunity for players who have performed well in domestic cricket and on the England Performance Programme and with the Lions to step up and test themselves in an international environment. New Zealand are a talented limited-overs side and with a World T20 competition less than a year away this series gives us a chance to look at a number of different options.New Zealand have recalled Hamish Rutherford from Essex to join their squad for the games with Tom Latham and Roneel Hira also in contention. Grant Elliott, Tim Southee and Daniel Vettori have all been ruled out by injuries, with Vettori having surgery on his long-standing achilles problem in London on Wednesday.Dan has been suffering from this injury for the past year and surgery was the only option to prolong his career, said the New Zealand physio Paul Close.England's T20 squad v New Zealand, The Oval, 25 and 27 JuneEJG Morgan (capt), GS Ballance, RS Bopara, DR Briggs JC Buttler (wkt), JW Dernbach, AD Hales, MJ Lumb, KP Pietersen, WB Rankin, BA Stokes, JC Tredwell, CR Woakes, LJ WrightNew Zealand squadBrendon McCullum (capt), Corey Anderson, Doug Bracewell, Ian Butler, James Franklin, Martin Guptill, Roneel Hira, Tom Latham, Mitchell McClenaghan, Nathan McCullum, Kyle Mills, Colin Munro, Hamish Rutherford, Ross TaylorKevin PietersenEngland cricket teamCricketAndy Wilsonguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
- India bowling not the best: Jayasuriya
- Cardiff, June 20: Former captain Sanath Jayasuriya said Sri Lanka will target the Indian bowlers during the Champions Trophy semifinal slated for today at the Sophia Gardens here. Their (India) bowling isn't the best, so we need to have a
- Players commit to playing in Dhaka League
- Bangladesh's professional cricketers have withdrawn their threat to stay away from the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League
- We have good chance of winning CT final: Cook
- London, June 20: England captain Alastair Cook believes his team has a good chance of winning the Champions Trophy on Sunday when they contest the final at Edgbaston. Cook and his men eased past South Africa in the semi-final on
