All posts by csb10.top

BCB president Nazmul Hassan has said he was happy to see the allegations of fixing in the Bangladesh Premier League being thoroughly investigated by the ICC’s Anti-Corruption and Security Unit, even though the entire episode has been distressing. It was necessary to take strict and swift action, he said, given how “corruption is spreading in sport”.”I am not happy at all [about the alleged corruption in BPL],” Hassan said. “Many of our favourite players and people are involved. We trusted them and if anybody breaks the trust, it is painful. But at the same time, I am also happy that we took this initiative.”If we didn’t do anything, [at the rate at which] corruption is spreading in sport, it will be almost impossible to stop it in the future. We are happy for the ACSU to do a thorough investigation, and whatever the result, it will be a message to everyone that whoever is found guilty will not be spared.”On Tuesday, the BCB and ICC jointly announced that nine individuals have been charged with various offences allegedly committed in the BPL in violation of Bangladesh’s anti-corruption code. The nine persons were not named, but the Bangladesh cricketers who are among the nine will not be able to participate in the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League, the domestic one-day tournament, which is scheduled to begin on September 3.ESPNcricinfo has learned that the BCB had wanted to name the nine individuals during the press conference but ICC chief executive officer Dave Richardson wanted to strictly adhere to the provisions of the anti-corruption code.Explaining how the case will progress, Richardson said the hearing for the accused could still be a couple of months away. “The prosecution of the case and conduct of the hearing will be carried out on behalf of the BCB by the ICC,” he said. “There will be pre-hearing procedures where the ICC will make its own submissions once we know whether the charged have pleaded guilty or not. Then the accused will be able to reply to those submissions. Then, once everyone is available – the tribunal, the witnesses and all the accused – a date will be set. We think that it is still a couple of months away.”If any of the nine individuals are from overseas, they are still liable under the BCB’s anti-corruption code, Richardson said. “All those individuals who have been charged have submitted to the jurisdiction of the BCB’s anti-corruption code. Obviously one is required to sign a contract with the BPL as a foreign player, by which one of the terms would be to submit yourself to the jurisdiction of the code. The same applies to support personnel, or any other person involved with the teams.”Now, the BCB, as per Article 5 of the anti-corruption code, is required to appoint a disciplinary-panel chairman. The chairman is supposed to be a retired justice of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He is required to then form a 10-member disciplinary panel, which should comprise of three retired judges, three eminent civilians and four cricket experts. Then, the chairman must form a three-member anti-corruption tribunal – which will hear the case – from among the disciplinary panel’s members, with one representative from each of the panel’s three groups.Hassan said that the BCB will immediately initiate proceedings to form the disciplinary panel, though the anti-corruption code specifies that BCB directors choose only the disciplinary panel’s chairman. “The tribunal will be formed immediately,” Hassan said. “The [disciplinary] panel will be announced within the next two or three days. It will be a ten-member panel from which three members will form the tribunal. We are just re-confirming the panel.”

ScorecardNottinghamshire ended Derbyshire’s winning run in the Friends Life t20 when they cruised to a six-wicket victory with 15 balls to spare in the top-of-the-table clash at Derby. A sell-out crowd of 4,999 packed into the County Ground but the match was something of an anti-climax as Nottinghamshire comfortably overhauled Derbyshire’s total on a slow pitch with Michael Lumb leading the chase with 45 from 41 balls.Samit Patel took the bowling honours for the visitors with 3 for 16 in his four overs and although Derbyshire spinner David Wainwright was equally impressive with 3 for 21, it was not enough to prevent Nottinghamshire leapfrogging the hosts to go top of the North Group.Derbyshire had been aiming to win four games in a row for the first time in domestic Twenty20 but lost both openers with only nine on the board and tight bowling backed up by sharp fielding kept Nottinghamshire in control. Shivnarine Chanderpaul was caught behind as he tried to nudge Jake Ball to third man in the eighth over and skipper Wayne Madsen was run out by a direct hit from Chris Read two overs later for 36 from 28 balls.Derbyshire were so pegged down that they did not hit a boundary for 52 balls and Patel had Dan Redfern caught behind cutting before he landed a double blow in his final over when he struck twice to reduce the home side to 84 for 8.Jon Clare was caught at long-off and the next ball ended Derbyshire’s hopes of setting a challenging total when Albie Morkel was bowled for 9 giving Patel the charge. At least Wainwright and Tim Groenewald gave Derbyshire a measure of respectability by adding 24 from 22 balls but the Outlaws knew they did not need to take risks to chase down the target.Derbyshire needed early wickets to have any chance but Lumb twice drove Morkel through the covers for four as Nottinghamshire cruised to 41 without loss after five overs before Wainwright gave the home crowd something to cheer with two wickets in consecutive balls. Alex Hales was bowled as he pushed forward and Rikki Wessels was lbw first ball and the spinners proved hard to get away as only two fours came in 7.5 overs.Lumb swung Madsen over deep midwicket for six but was run out off the next ball and although Taylor was caught at slip with 13 needed, David Hussey and Patel clubbed three fours in five balls to complete an impressive night’s work by Nottinghamshire.

David Warner has publicly apologised for his bar-room altercation with Joe Root in Birmingham last week, which has seen him suspended until the first Ashes Test.In front of a phalanx of TV cameras and photographers, Warner faced the press for the first time since the incident, and he accepted that he had to be “a bit smarter with what I do on and off the field”. Australia captain Michael Clarke termed Warner’s behaviour “unacceptable” and would not be drawn into endorsing Warner’s leadership qualities as he had done in the past.”I’m here today to apologise publicly and put my hand up and say I am responsible for my actions,” Warner said. “I am extremely remorseful. I have let my team-mates down, the support staff, myself and my family.”Cricket Australia has already fined him and he has also been suspended for the rest of the Champions Trophy, as well as two Ashes warm-up matches. “I have accepted the punishment. It is up to me to do everything I can to help the team to progress in the Champions Trophy, and move on to have a great preparation for the Ashes.”Warner didn’t expand on the details about the incident with Root – and would not confirm or deny that fancy dress was involved – but accepted that he had been drinking. “I definitely remember the night. It started out with a few drinks in the bar and as a team we went to the Walkabout. I made a mistake and I put my hand up,” he said, adding that he had already apologised to Root. “I have exchanged text messages with Joe. He accepted my apology, which I am thoroughly grateful for.”He also denied he had a drinking problem. “I don’t think I have a drink problem at all. I’ve got to make the right decisions at the right time. That night wasn’t a good time to go out and have a beer. We’d lost the game, and even though we’d had a day off we’d still lost. We don’t have curfews, but looking back I shouldn’t have been in that situation.”This was Warner’s second disciplinary problem in less than a month – having earlier had a Twitter spat with two journalists, Malcolm Conn and Robert Craddock, last month. “Although the punishment for David is quite harsh, that’s the reality when you play for the Australian cricket team,” Clarke said. “This is not an IPL team, this is not state cricket, it’s not county cricket, when you play for Australia there are standards you have to uphold.”David Warner: “I am extremely remorseful. I have let my team-mates down, the support staff, myself and my family”•Getty Images

“It’s probably not the right time for me to sit here and be bragging about David’s leadership qualities,” Clarke added. “I’ve said in the past that he does have a lot of leadership qualities, but right now as captain of this Australian team, he knows very clearly how I feel. His behaviour is unacceptable as an Australian cricketer.”Clarke said that Warner “deserves credit” for owning up to his mistake. “I respect the fact David has put his hand up and wants to move forward, has apologised to Joe, and acknowledged he has made a big mistake. He does deserve credit for putting his hand up.”Clarke felt the next few weeks provide Warner a chance to show his maturity, and insisted the incident wouldn’t disturb Australia’s Ashes preparations. “I’ve said for a long time it’s not what you say, it’s what you do, and this is an opportunity for Warner to show the world what he does rather than what he says. We’ll be 100% ready for the Ashes. There’s no doubt about it.”Warner admitted he was thankful to still be part of the tour, although with a lack of warm-up matches his chances of appearing in the first Test at Trent Bridge appear slim. “I’m grateful to still be on this tour,” he said. “I’ve got no cricket in the next month so I will have to go back into the nets and prepare as well as I can, and help my team-mates that I’ve let down as much as I can.”It’s disappointing to have two incidents in a matter of months. It’s come three, four weeks after that incident out in India as well, so I have to keep moving on from this.”

Gloucestershire 280 (Taylor 61, Freckingham 4-69) and 191 for 1 (Klinger 103*, Dent 71) beat Leicestershire 250 (Thakor 75, Howell 5-57) and 217 (W Gidman 4-39) by nine wickets
ScorecardMichael Klinger, seen here for Worcestershire last season, steered Gloucestershire home•Getty Images

Australian Michael Klinger hit his first County Championship century to lead Gloucestershire to a nine-wicket victory on the final day at Grace Road.After surviving a tricky first half-hour, openers Klinger and Chris Dent shared a stand of 129 to ensure there would be no major problems chasing a target of 188.Dent was out for 71 to the last ball before lunch but Klinger hit the winning runs and reached his century at the same time with his 16th boundary. He was unbeaten on 103 from 172 balls.It was Gloucestershire’s first win of the season and earned them 21 points, while Leicestershire collected five as they slipped to their first defeat of the season following drawn games against Hampshire and Kent.With Gloucestershire starting the day on 16 for 0, Leicestershire needed to take early wickets if they were to have any chance of snatching an unlikely victory. Pacemen Ollie Freckingham and Robbie Williams bowled well without any luck early on a slow pitch starting to show signs of uneven bounce.Both batsmen played and missed on several occasions and three times the ball flashed through the slip cordon down to the vacant third-man boundary. But as the shine went off the ball, the sting went out of the bowling, and both Klinger and Dent began to play with far more confidence and assurance.Dent was the first to reach his 50 off 68 balls with eight fours and Gloucestershire captain, Klinger, brought up the 100 partnership with a well-timed square drive to the boundary off Freckingham.A neat late cut off Michael Thornely saw Klinger reach his 50 off 100 balls, and Leicestershire’s frustrating morning was summed up when Josh Cobb put down an easy slip catch offered by Dent off Jigar Naik’s off spin.Naik gained some revenge by having Dent lbw with the last ball before lunch. But Klinger remained in good touch, straight driving Claude Henderson for a six before square cutting another boundary off Shiv Thakor to reach his landmark century and clinch victory.

ScorecardKenya continued their dominance in the T20 Quadrangular tournament, beating South Africa Emerging Players by five wickets on Sunday. The win puts them at the top of the table with two wins in two games.Kenya, who won the toss, inserted South Africa Emerging Players and backed that decision by dismissing the openers quickly. A 56-run, third-wicket partnership between captain Jean Symes and Yaseen Vallie steadied the innings. Vallie added another 50 runs with David Wiese for the fourth wicket and once Vallie fell for 61, Wiese carried on, guiding the middle order to 174 for 6.Kenya’s top and middle order set up the chase. Opener Tanmay Mishra led the way with a 32-ball 45, before Morris Ouma, Collins Obuya and Rakep Patel struck useful 30s to guide Kenya to a close win, with two balls to spare.

Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
Hanuma Vihari picked up his second Man-of-the-Match award•BCCI

For the second match in a row, Sunrisers Hyderabad turned it on in the penultimate over to clinch a tight victory and go top of the table, defying all pre-tournament predictions. While Amit Mishra conjured a heist in the previous match with a hat-trick, this time it was Thisara Perera’s three massive sixes in the 19th over that settled the game.Kings XI Punjab’s Azhar Mahmood got a duck in the previous match against Kolkata Knight Riders, but he made up for that with a three-wicket haul. He failed with the bat again, and was doing a terrific job of compensating with the ball once again, having given away only 15 in his first three overs. With the game on the line – 18 needed off 12 – Kings XI trusted in Mahmood again, but this time he came up short, as he served up three length deliveries that were clobbered into the crowd by Perera.The first six over long-on would have exorcised some demons for Perera. A week ago, in the game against Delhi Daredevils, he had attempted a similar shot in a similar match situation and had picked out the man at long-on, leaving the tailenders the responsibility of closing out the chase. Today, there was no chance for the fielder at long-on, as the ball sailed comfortably beyond the rope to effectively seal the match.In a game featuring two of the weakest batting line-ups in the competition, and on a turning track, another low-scoring encounter was to be expected. Adam Gilchrist, yet again, played some cracking cuts to raise hopes of a run-filled game, but his 26 proved to be the highest score of the innings. Legspinner Karan Sharma completely bamboozled the returning Paul Valthaty with his big turn to show runs may not prove easy.Piyush Chawla, though, justified his promotion to the heights of No. 5 with a couple of sixes in a 15-ball 23, and lifted Kings XI to a solid 88 for 3 after 14 overs. On his departure, Kings XI looked to the experienced David Hussey to provide the acceleration, but he too holed out, skying a catch to sweeper cover.Still, with Mahmood, Manpreet Gony fresh off an 18-ball 42, Dimitri Mascarenhas and Praveen Kumar there was enough firepower for some big-hitting in the final overs. Instead, Kings XI lost four wickets in four deliveries, as batsmen repeatedly kept finding the fielders in the deep, Gony went for a second run that wasn’t there and Dale Steyn proved too pacy for Gurkeerat Singh. The wickets tumbled with such haste that No. 11 Praveen didn’t even have all his equipment on when it was his turn to bat.Faced with a small target of 124, most teams would have been strong favourites, but Sunrisers’ batting is short on experience and quality. Quinton de Kock may find himself on the sidelines after his second failure, but two other youngsters, Hanuma Vihari and Akshath Reddy, calmly guided the chase early on. Vihari’s 46 was the highest score of the match and earned him his second Man-of-the-Match award. His dismissal in the 12th over and that of an out-of-sorts Cameron White in the 16th ratcheted up the tension, before Perera’s mighty hits showed why he is quickly becoming Sunrisers’ most important player.

Shakib Al Hasan has been ruled out of Bangladesh’s tour to Sri Lanka next month after it was decided that he will undergo surgery this week on his right calf muscle*. His involvement in the Zimbabwe tour in April is also in doubt, as it will take him six weeks to return to active cricket, according to BCB’s chief medical officer, Dr Debashish Chowdhury.”Shakib will be out of action for at least six weeks after the surgery,” Chowdhury said. “BCB has granted him permission to undergo the surgery. BCB president Nazmul Hasan agreed to release him as per the advice of the specialist in Australia.”Chowdhury however is unsure whether Shakib will return to action immediately after making a full recovery. “Apart from the exertional compartmental syndrome for which he is undergoing surgery, Shakib has sustained tenoperiostitis and stress reaction on his tibia,” he said. “To heal the other two complications, he will need rest, physiotherapy, a rehabilitation programme and biomechanical correction.” Shakib is expected to do the biomechanical correction test on Sunday.He first complained of pain in his shin during Bangladesh’s Test series against West Indies in November last year. He was immediately given rest and recovered in time for the Bangladesh Premier League, but he missed a couple of games in the tournament and afterwards was seen bowling off a very short run-up.Towards the end of the tournament, Shakib was diagnosed with exertional compartment syndrome on his shin bone, a condition that can be caused by frequent running, and leads to pain and swelling. After the final, he admitted that his movement was restricted.As a result, he was sent to Australia on February 20 where a specialist suggested he undergo the surgery to reduce stiffness in the injured area.Bangladesh will leave for Sri Lanka on February 28, to play two Tests, three ODIs and a Twenty20.13.15GMT, February 23: The article had previously incorrectly stated left calf muscle

Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
Adam Voges scored his first international century•Getty Images

Johnson Charles was seven years old last time West Indies beat Australia in an ODI in Australia. For much of the second half of this game, it appeared that Charles was going to ride his luck and steer West Indies to victory but not even his maiden century could end 16 years of Australian dominance at home. Under the captaincy of Shane Watson and without several of their best players, Australia completed a 5-0 clean-sweep thanks largely to Adam Voges and his first international hundred.Voges scored an unbeaten 112 that rescued Australia from a shaky start after they were sent in by Darren Sammy and they were able to post 5 for 274, a very competitive total given the absence of the injured Michael Clarke, David Warner and George Bailey, as well as Matthew Wade and Glenn Maxwell, who have already flown to India for the Test series. In reply, West Indies had their ups and downs but with Charles and Kieron Pollard at the crease they remained firmly in the contest.Even after Charles’ fortune ran out, Pollard and Devon Thomas managed a couple of thumping sixes and brought the equation to a very gettable 48 off six overs, but somehow they just couldn’t quite find the intensity to bridge the gap. Thomas was run out for 19, Pollard drove a catch down the throat of long-on for 45 and their hopes fizzled out. By the end 24 were needed off the final over bowled by McKay and West Indies lost their final two wickets.It meant that Australia extended their record to 17 consecutive victories over West Indies in Australia. Last time West Indies won an ODI against Australia in Australia was in January 1997, when a team led by Courtney Walsh beat Mark Taylor’s men in Perth. They began their chase hoping to end that drought but the loss of Kieran Powell, caught at slip off Mitchell Johnson in the second over, was not ideal.Charles and Darren Bravo put together a 106-run second-wicket stand before Bravo sent a Xavier Doherty ball in the air to mid-off, and Dwayne Bravo followed for 13 when he was bowled by Johnson. That brought Charles and Pollard together.Charles played some impressive strokes on his way to a century, including a six crunched over long-on against Ben Cutting and a four slashed behind point off the next ball. Those shots came in the same over that Charles survived a caught-behind appeal on 55 when an attempted pull bounced off his arm; Australia’s review of the not-out call resulted in a difficult Hot Spot call and in the end the third umpire Nigel Llong felt unsure if the ball had grazed the edge of the bat before hitting Charles.That over was a microcosm of the way Charles played in this innings: risk and reward. He was dropped twice, at slip by Aaron Finch off McKay on 7, and on 77 at deep cover by the substitute fielder Ryan Carters off James Faulkner. Another perilously close call came next ball on 79 when Charles was given lbw and asked for a review. The ball clearly came off the bat onto the back pad, but it may also have brushed the front pad before the bat. Again, Charles was given the benefit of the doubt.He made the most of his opportunities, finding the boundary eight times including a dab past the wicketkeeper off McKay to bring up his century from his 120th delivery. Remarkably, it was his first hundred in any form of elite cricket, including first-class, List A and Twenty20. Perhaps the moment got to him, for he was out next ball when he lazily tried to swivel McKay around the corner and lobbed a catch to short fine leg.The Australians had done well to ensure such a healthy target after Tino Best rattled them with two wickets in the first three overs of the game. That included Watson, who played on to a bouncer first ball of the game. Later, the Australians were wobbling at 4 for 82 but a century partnership between Voges and Brad Haddin launched the recovery before Faulkner joined Voges for some quick late runs. Voges finished unbeaten on 112 and Faulkner on 31 and during their partnership the wheels really fell off for West Indies, who leaked 100 runs in the final ten overs.Singles and twos were far too easy and Voges was also finding the boundary, including with a crunching six over long-on against Best in the 50th over. Voges had brought up his ton from his 97th delivery with a hastily-run two and he celebrated like a man who thought the moment would never come. That would be understandable, for Voges made his one-day international debut nearly six years ago and since then has been almost permanently on the fringes of the national side, playing 17 ODIs but never more than three in a row.Like Charles would later, he made the opposition pay for giving him a life on 7 when he was put down at slip by Sammy off the spin of Sunil Narine. His half-century came from 64 balls and he had good support from Haddin during a 111-run fifth-wicket stand that prevented West Indies capitalising on their impressive start. Eventually Haddin was caught at deep midwicket top-edging a swivelled pull off Kemar Roach but by then Australia were well set.Australia had been in early trouble due to a couple of fine catches which accounted for Phillip Hughes and Shaun Marsh. If only West Indies’ sharp catching had extended to Sammy holding Voges on 7, a 16-year drought might have been broken.