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'An impressive record the girls won't take lightly' – Alyssa Healy on Australia's 22-match winning streak

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Healy admits it’s a “special feeling” to have overtaken the record of 21 matches held by Ricky Ponting’s team in 2003

Andrew McGlashan04-Apr-2021Australia insist they hadn’t spoken about a potential new ODI winning streak of 22 matches and had largely downplayed the topic when asked in the lead-up, but having secured the victory over New Zealand in the first ODI in Mount Maunganui, Alyssa Healy admitted it was a “special feeling” to have overtaken Ricky Ponting’s team.In the end, it came at a canter as unbeaten half-centuries Ash Gardner and Ellyse Perry secured the run chase with more than 11 overs to spare.”I guess now the dust has settled. It’s a pretty special feeling and one I definitely think the girls won’t take lightly – it’s a pretty impressive record to break,” Healy, who struck 65 off 68 balls, said. “It’s a special record. A lot of players in that room – me in particular – have idolised Ricky Ponting growing up; he’s exactly how I wanted to bat and take on the game.Related

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“So for us to break a record that had him all over it is pretty special for this group. No doubt when we get back in the dressing room and flick our phones on there might be a bit of hoo-ha about it. We genuinely hadn’t spoken about it but think everyone has some smiles on their faces which is pretty cool.”Australia have been pushed at times during their run, which started back in March 2018, but plenty of the victories have been handsome margins. One of the aspects that most stood out for Healy was the span of the victories – it has taken more than 1100 days to go from the first win of this run to today’s moment. By contrast, Ponting’s team achieved their streak in the space of five months in early 2003.”There’s been a lot of years between those games. We don’t play at lot of cricket for Australia, especially over the last 18 months,” she said. “That’s been the most impressive thing that we can come back as a group and still be as consistent as what we have been.”Twenty-one players have been used in that time and Healy is one of four – alongside Beth Mooney, Rachael Haynes and Gardner – to have appeared in them all. “It just makes my hamstrings feel a little bit tighter than they did before the game,” she joked. “It is pretty special individually, I guess, to have the longevity that I’ve had throughout my career is pretty surreal actually. At the same time, it’s been really fun being part of a team that’s had so many different people come in and play a role.”Australia are in no mood to stop, either. The Rose Bowl – the trophy for which these teams contest their ODI series – has been held by Australia for more than 20 years, and remains up for grabs with two matches left in this series. “[New Zealand] are only 1-0 down in the series, they can still win the next game and take it to a third,” Healy said. “We’re wary of that.”In regards the schedule that Healy alluded to, their next cricket after this tour remains uncertain, although it is likely to be a series against India alongside next season’s Ashes before the World Cup back in New Zealand next March where they are desperate to atone for their semi-final loss against India in 2017.

Pietersen retires from international limited-overs cricket

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Kevin Pietersen has retired from all international limited-overs cricket with immediate effect. He will remain available for consideration as a specialist Test match player only

David Hopps31-May-2012Kevin Pietersen has retired from all international limited-overs cricket with immediate effect. He will remain available for consideration as a specialist Test match player only. The news comes four months before England defend their World Twenty20 title in Sri Lanka.”With the intensity of the international schedule and the increasing demands on my body, I think it is the right time to step aside and let the next generation of players come through to gain experience for the World Cup in 2015,” Pietersen said. “I am immensely proud of my achievements in the one-day game but still wish to be considered for selection for England in Test cricket.He has no plans to retire from the IPL, which will further increase tensions between the IPL and international cricket and heighten the debate over whether a window is becoming increasingly necessary to seek accommodation between the tournament and the international circuit.Pietersen’s decision ends protracted discussions about his England future, which he persistently denied, in which he envisaged a future playing Tests and T20s only.This was prevented by the terms of ECB central contracts which state that any player who makes himself unavailable for either format of one-day cricket is automatically ruled out of selection for both ODIs and T20s.”For the record, were the selection criteria not in place, I would have readily played for England in the upcoming World Twenty20,” Pietersen said.The stipulation is seen as essential in protecting England’s extensive Test summer in which 50-over cricket still plays a central part. England have just begun one of their busiest summers on record, a programme involving a summer of six Tests, 14 ODIs and four T20s.An ECB statement said: “Pietersen, who discussed his position with the ECB during the recent Investec Test at Lord’s, accepts that his current contract will continue to run through to September 2012 but that the contract will be downgraded to reflect the fact that he will only be selected for Test cricket for the remainder of his current contract.”The terms of the central contract state that any player making himself unavailable for either of the one-day formats automatically rules himself out of consideration for both formats of the game as planning for both formats is closely linked.”This is designed to reflect the importance of one-day international cricket which is a strategic priority as England look for improved performances in the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy and the 2015 ICC cricket World Cup.”Pietersen, 31, has played 127 ODIs and 36 T20s for England, making his international debut in 2004 against Zimbabwe in Harare. He has scored 4184 runs at an average of 41.84 in one-day internationals and averages 37.93 in international T20s.Hugh Morris, the managing director of England Cricket, said: “ECB is disappointed by the timing of Kevin’s decision less than four months before we defend our ICC World Twenty20 title.”Kevin is a world-class player and we would like to take this opportunity to thank him for his efforts and we look forward to his continued contributions towards the Test match side.”

Netherlands secure slim lead on bowlers' day

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Day one of the Afghanistan-Netherlands Intercontinental Cup clash in Sharjah belonged to the bowlers. Twenty-one wickets fell and Netherlands, driven by a career-best 6 for 43 from Mudassar Bukhari, secured a four-run first-innings lead

ESPNcricinfo staff02-Apr-2012
Scorecard Mudassar Bukhari took a career-best 6 for 43•ICC/Saleem Sanghati

Day one of the Afghanistan-Netherlands Intercontinental Cup clash in Sharjah belonged to the bowlers. Twenty-one wickets fell and Netherlands, driven by a career-best 6 for 43 from Mudassar Bukhari, secured a four-run first-innings lead. Afghanistan did not concede any sort of advantage though, knocking over Stephan Myburgh in the three-over spell they had against the Netherlands batsmen in the second innings late in the day.Netherlands were asked to bat, and found the going tough against the fast-bowling pair of Izatullah Dawlatzai and Dawlat Zadran. They claimed four apiece, as none of the batsmen could manage more than No. 10 Tom Heggelman’s 29. Afghanistan seemed to hold the early edge after bowling out Netherlands for 133, but that was completely blunted by Bukhari. If not for a brisk 67 from their captain Nawroz Mangal, Afghanistan would have fallen much shorter than their 129. However, the momentum swung once more, with Afghanistan striking that early blow in Netherlands’ second innings just prior to stumps, leaving them 7 for 1.

Australia A start well in chase

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Australia A made a solid start as they chased 224 for victory against Durham after another day dominated by the ball at Chester-le-Street

ESPNcricinfo staff02-Aug-2012
ScorecardAustralia A made a solid start as they chased 224 for victory against Durham after another day dominated by the ball at Chester-le-Street. The home side earned a lead of 38 before stumbling to 49 for 5 in their second innings, but a robust 62 from Ian Blackwell, the first half-century of the match, set a demanding total.However, in 13 overs before bad light brought an early close Ed Cown and Liam Davis added 56 – 44 of which came in boundaries – after the top order failed to convince in the first innings. Australia A had resumed on 111 for 6 and Nathan Coulter-Nile fell to the fourth ball of the day and, after a stand of 41 between Tim Paine and Mitchell Starc, the last three wickets fell for seven.Australia A’s pace bowlers were soon making inroads. Starc had Mark Stoneman, the Durham captain for this match, caught behind and Alister McDermott added two more scalps to the four he took on the opening day including that of Ben Stokes.Blackwell, though, responded with the most free-flowing innings of the match as he crunched six fours and three sixes in a 63-ball stay. He added 86 in 19 overs for the sixth wicket with Michael Richardson to push the lead towards 200.Jon Holland, the left-arm spinner, broke through in his fourth over and he claimed two further wickets to help end Durham’s innings. Coulter-Nile, who was a late addition to the squad after James Pattinson was injured, also ended with 3 for 32.

Ravindra Jadeja suffers dislocated left thumb, Rishabh Pant has elbow injury

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Both men did not take the field in Australia’s second innings

Sidharth Monga09-Jan-2021An already depleted Indian squad has been stretched further with injuries to Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja during the team’s first innings in the Sydney Test.”Rishabh Pant still has some pain in his elbow. He is currently being treated. Ravindra Jadeja has a dislocation in his left thumb,” said a BCCI spokesperson on Sunday, at the start of the fourth day’s play.*Both men had sustained their injuries on the third day. Pant, hit on the elbow, did not take the field in Australia’s second innings, and went to the hospital for scans. Jadeja, who received a blow to the thumb, didn’t take the field either and though he was initially present at the SCG on the third afternoon, he too was taken to the hospital for scans. Jadeja had earlier missed the T20I series with a concussion and a hamstring injury.Coming into the Sydney Test, India had already lost Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav and KL Rahul to injuries, and Virat Kohli to paternity leave. During the Covid-19 pandemic, it is not possible to fly in replacements should a side need them.Pant’s wicketkeeping gloves were taken up by Wriddhiman Saha, a substitution made possible by a recent amendment in the playing conditions allowing wicketkeepers to be replaced by other wicketkeepers. However, should Pant not be available to bat in the second innings, Saha won’t be able to replace him.2:46

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Pant was hit in the elbow when trying to pull pat Cummins, but the ball kept low and skidded on to miss the bat. It took a long time and attention from the physio to put Pant back up, but it was apparent he was struggling during the brief time he spent at the wicket after the injury.Jadeja was hit on the left thumb as he fended at a rising delivery from Mitchell Starc. Commentators on air speculated if he had dislocated his thumb, but he, too, carried on batting after treatment from the physio.Should the duo not be available for the next Test, Saha will have to play, but there is no allrounder to replace Jadeja in the squad. India might be forced to look at an extra batsman – Mayank Agarwal in all likelihood – or the spinner Kuldeep Yadav.Recently, Sri Lanka went through similar struggle with injuries in South Africa. Their coach Mickey Arthur tweeted: “This is a very real concern for touring teams in Covid times, bowlers under a lot of stress as conditioning is not what it should be due to bubble restrictions and quarantine…..we paid the price for it in South Africa!”*This story was updated at 11.20 pm GMT, January 9, after a BCCI update on the status of the injured players.

Rahmanullah Gurbaz's debut hundred helps Afghanistan hold off Ireland

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Rashid Khan blasts 55 off 30 and takes two wickets as Lorcan Tucker, Andy McBrine career-bests go in vain

ESPNcricinfo staff21-Jan-2021A boundary-laden century on debut from 19-year-old Rahmanullah Gurbaz led Afghanistan to their first World Cup Super League points with victory over Ireland in Abu Dhabi. Gurbaz made 127 from as many balls, with eight fours and nine sixes – the most by an ODI debutant – before Rashid Khan’s ballistic 55 from 30 took Afghanistan to a total that would prove just beyond Ireland’s reach.Ireland wicketkeeper-batsman Lorcan Tucker made a career-best 83, to follow Andy McBrine’s maiden ODI five-for, but they fell short despite some valiant hitting towards the end. Khan also took 2 for 56, including the key wicket of Tucker, while rookie seamer Naveen-ul-Haq claimed 3 for 68.The day belonged to Gurbaz, who became the first player to score a hundred on debut for Afghanistan. He tallied two-thirds of his team’s runs while he was at the wicket, reaching three figures from 115 balls before hitting 27 from his next 12 only to hole out against Gareth Delany’s legspin with more than 12 overs to go.At that stage, Afghanistan were 198 for 6 and Ireland might have been hoping to restrict them further. They had already reined things in after Gurbaz and Javed Ahmadi had put on 120 for the first wicket, McBrine claiming each of the first five to fall – including three caught at leg slip – on the way to figures of 5 for 29.But the last five overs of the innings went for 66, as Khan unleashed with another five sixes to leave Ireland needing to pull of their biggest successful chase against Afghanistan.Naveen struck straight away, Kevin O’Brien trapped lbw for 1 in the third over, and he also claimed the important wicket of Andy Balbirnie, Ireland’s captain, inside the Powerplay. Paul Stirling and Harry Tector put on 50 for the third wicket before falling in succession, and although Tucker added 86 with Curtis Campher the required rate was rising for Ireland.Mujeeb Ur Rahman broke the stand, having Campher lbw for 39 with Ireland needing 114 from 13.2 overs, and that had become 35 from 14 by the time Tucker was stumped trying to come down the pitch to Khan.The result gives Afghanistan 10 World Cup Super League points with two games left to play in the series. Ireland have 10 points from four games, after beating England in their previous WCSL fixture.

West Indies win by 33 runs, take series 2-1

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West Indies bowling and fielding led them to a series win against Sri Lanka with a 33-run victory in the third ODI in Dambulla

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Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsWest Indies bowling and fielding charged them to a series win against Sri Lanka with a 33-run victory in the third ODI in Dambulla. After they managed to score only 191 for 9 in their 50 overs, West Indies defended their modest target led by Tremayne Smartt’s figures of 2 for 26 from her 10 overs and four run-outs.Sri Lanka took advantage of their decision to field when they reduced West Indies to 51 for 4 within 15 overs. Eshani Kaushalya and Chamani Seneviratna struck twice each and devoid the West Indies of a healthy run-rate. Merissa Aguilleoira and Deandra Dottin stayed together for 14 overs and scored 42 runs but Dottin was then dismissed for 16, and soon Aguilleira was stumped for 29. Shemaine Campbelle continued her good form with a 37 and after partnerships with Kyshona Knight and Shakera Selman, took the team to 191.Sri Lanka got off to a cautious start but both their openers were dismissed within a span of four runs, at 31 and 35. West Indies did not let the hosts settle down from there, striking at regular intervals. Smartt took two wickets out of the five which also included three run-outs, of Dilani Manodara, Eshani Kaushalya and Chamani Seneviratna. Sri Lanka were now 128 for 7 and a long way from winning the match and West Indies continued their habit of defending low scores from the World Cup. Only Shashikala Siriwardene provided resistance with a 78-ball 29 but could not avoid the series defeat.

Delhi knock out Punjab and take top spot

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Delhi Daredevils confirmed their standing as the team to beat with a power-packed performance to knock out Kings XI Punjab

The Report by Siddarth Ravindran19-May-2012
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsGurkeerat Singh blitzed 26 off 11 balls after Kings XI Punjab’s top order had flopped•AFP

Delhi Daredevils confirmed their standing as the team to beat with a fearsome opening burst from their fast bowlers, Morne Morkel and Umesh Yadav, before a typically brutal David Warner innings pretty much guaranteed top spot. Kings XI Punjab, one of the lower-profile teams in the tournament, managed to stay alive till the final weekend of the league phase but couldn’t make it to the playoffs as a power-packed Daredevils line-up dismantled them with ease on a spicy pitch in Dharamsala. The result also meant that Mumbai Indians became the third team to qualify for the playoffs.On one of the best tracks for fast bowlers in the IPL this season, Daredevils stacked their team with five quicks, four of whom could nudge the 90-mph mark. Morkel and Yadav were virtually unplayable with the new ball, and by the end of the Powerplay overs, Kings XI were reduced to 20 for 4 and their campaign was seemingly over.Mandeep Singh has been Kings XI’s most prolific batsman this season, but he fell for a golden duck as he was drawn into nibbling an away-cutter from Yadav to the keeper. Adam Gilchrist has a century and two fifties in his last three innings in Dharamsala but he was dismissed cheaply this time, top-edging a pull, in what might well be his final competitive innings.Paul Valthaty’s disastrous season continued, as he flailed about in his comeback game against some high-quality pace from Yadav and Morkel before finally holing out for a ten-ball 2. The biggest blow, though, was in the sixth over, when Yadav got Hussey to mishit a shortish ball to mid-on. Yadav finished his first spell with the figures of 3-1-4-3.Kings XI have been written off before, only to repeatedly show they were no pushovers. They proved it again as Azhar Mahmood, who has been instrumental to Kings XI’s fight this season, stabilised the innings with a 57-run stand with Siddharth Chitnis. Both struggled to time the ball early on, but some freebies from Andre Russell helped them find their feet.There has been a clamour for Russell’s inclusion this season, especially given Ross Taylor’s horror run with the bat but the allrounder had a day to forget, leaking 51 runs on a day when no one else in his team went at more than 6.25. His worst over was the 17th, which was taken for 22 runs with Gurkeerat powering three boundaries, before Mahmood rounded it off with two more. That lifted the run-rate above six for the first time in the innings.Kings XI finished with 141, which seemed enough to challenge a Daredevils side missing both Virender Sehwag and Taylor. Those hopes were dashed once Warner unleashed those familiar hits over long-on and midwicket, again highlighting the number of match-winners Daredevils have in their squad.It wasn’t a flawless innings from Warner, who was hit by a bouncer from Ryan Harris early on, edged plenty and was put down at midwicket by Mandeep. That drop came at the end of an over in which Warner had muscled three sixes and a four off Parvinder Awana. Twenty-three came off that over as Awana, who went for only 12 in his four overs last game, watched helplessly.Warner chopped the first ball of the next over to bring up his 50 off 25 balls on a pitch where most batsmen struggled. He couldn’t add to his collection of Twenty20 centuries, though, as he slapped Harris to Mandeep at point in the 13th over. There was a brief lull in the scoring after that, but with the required-rate just above four, Daredevils were never really in trouble of losing.

Ashwin steps up preparation ahead of Tests

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R Ashwin, who was the most effective of India’s bowlers on day two of the tour match against the CA Chairman’s XI in Canberra, has said that he has worked on his strategy ahead of the Test series

ESPNcricinfo staff20-Dec-2011R Ashwin, who was the most effective of India’s bowlers on day two of the tour match against the CA Chairman’s XI in Canberra, has said that he has worked on his strategy ahead of the Test series.”You have to spin it; for the few days of a Test, I don’t expect the ball to turn,” Ashwin told . “It has to be in the air [have flight], and later [in the Test you can] exploit the rough. For the left-handers you attack the stumps and for the right-hander bowl outside the off-stump.””I have been speaking to a few umpires and they say it spins on day four and five. But I have to look at the match as a whole, keep spinning and flighting the ball, and hoping the batsmen would attack me. Later, probably, if I could sit down with Shane Warne and chat with him [it would help].”Ashwin picked up four of the seven wickets the Indians claimed on the second day, while reducing the Chairman’s XI to 215 for 7. He said that he had expected the batsmen to be more aggressive against him. “I was very surprised that they were not attacking me. I bowled a few bad balls, I wasn’t hit for a six. I am always prepared to be hit for a few sixes anyway.”His victims included centurion Ed Cowan, Phillip Hughes, Tom Cooper and Alex Doolan. He particularly enjoyed Doolan’s dismissal, he said. “It [the delivery] didn’t have much of spin but it just bounced a bit more. The catch belonged to Ajinkya Rahane … I haven’t seen such a good catch for a long time.” Doolan was caught at forward short leg for a duck.

Mitchell Marsh, Johnson among wickets in WA's massive win

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Test bowlers Mitchell Marsh and Mitchell Johnson were among the wickets as Western Australia sealed victory over Tasmania in the final session of the day-night Sheffield Shield match in Hobart

ESPNcricinfo staff31-Oct-2015
ScorecardMitchell Marsh took 3 for 30 in the second innings•Getty Images

Test bowlers Mitchell Marsh and Mitchell Johnson were among the wickets as Western Australia sealed victory over Tasmania in the final session of the day-night Sheffield Shield match in Hobart.The Tigers subsided to 4 for 81 when batsman Alex Doolan fell to Marsh, and a quick finish to the match seemed likely – Western Australia having been in charge more or less throughout.However, the captain George Bailey and the allrounder James Faulkner combined for a stand of 98 that soaked up 36 valuable overs and took the game into the evening.It took the left-arm spin of Ashton Agar to break the stand as he bowled Faulkner for 31. It was another important contribution for Agar, following his fluent first-innings century.Marsh nipped out Tim Paine and Evan Gulbis, and Johnson – ahead of his vital role in the Tests against New Zealand – then managed to defeat Bailey.The Tigers entered the final session with two wickets in hand but were unable to last the distance, having left too much for their bowlers to do.