J&K Bank Club defeats Eleven Star club
KT NEWS SERVICE JAMMU, Feb 6: J&K Bank Club has been declared winner on the basis of the better run rate due to bas weather in the ongoing Sunday Cricket tournament being organised by Tawi Sports & Social Club at Government Gandhi Memorial Science College here today.
After winning toss and opted to bat first, J&K Bank Club has made 177 runs for eight in the allotted 25 overs match.
Both Sanjay and Sehdev had scored 57 runs for the opening wickets whne Sanjay was bowled on 11 runs.
Rakesh who came in after fall of Sanjay's wicket could add just one runs.
However, Shehdev and Rajesh made 77 runs partnership for the third wicket.
Rajesh scored 36 runs off 25 balls with the help of four boundaries and one six.
Sehdev played a brilliant knock of 94 runs off 73 balls, which include nine boundaries.
Ravi was remained not out on 5.
Deepak Singh and Manmohan did not bat.
There were fifteen extras in 177 runs.
From Eleven Star Club Farooq, Nittu, K Sharma took two wicket each, while Bittu got one wicket.
In reply to J&K Bank 177 runs, Eleven Star Club scored 45 for five when the rain stopped the day play.
The play could not be resume and the J&K Bank Club declared winner on the basis of better runs rate.
Babblu and Shugul scored 9 and 11 runs respectively.
Nittu scored 10 runs.
From J&K Bank club Subash took three wickets for 23 runs.
Shehdev Singh of J&K Bank Club was declared best player of the match.
Australia wrap up series win against Pakistan SYDNEY, Feb 6 (Reuters): Glenn McGrath demolished Pakistan's batsmen to steer Australia to a 31-run win in the second one-day final at the Sydney Cricket Ground today and clinch the best-of-three series 2-0.
McGrath ripped through the Pakistan top-order then mopped up the tail to finish with figures of five for 27 as the tourists collapsed to be all out for 208 in the 46th over.
We haven't played anywhere near our best but we've still managed to win thanks to some outstanding bowling from our fast bowlers in particular, Australia captain Ricky Ponting told a news conference.
We've been in hard, tough fights and we've managed to scrape through without being at our best - that's the sign of a very, good side.
Needing to win the match to force a series decider after their 18-run loss in Melbourne on Friday, the Pakistanis bowled and fielded tightly to restrict Australia to 239 for nine before their batting let them down again.
I think we bowled very well in the last two games but we didn't take our opportunities, Pakistan skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq said.
The Australian tour is always very tough, they play their cricket hard.
We didn't play well in the tests but we were better in the one-dayers so hopefully our guys will have learnt a lot from this.
Pakistan made a bright start to their reply, surviving the first eight overs without loss when the wheels suddenly fell off.
Opener Taufeeq Umar skied a catch off man of the series Brett Lee to McGrath in the outfield then McGrath, named man of the match, made more inroads with the ball.
The lanky paceman, playing in his 201st one-day international, had Kaan Akmal caught behind for 12 and Mohammad Hafeez caught by Michael Clarke for six.
He then trapped Inzamam leg before wicket for a duck.
The tourists were in deep trouble at 38-4 and although Yousuf Youhana hit a defiant 51 off 57 balls, Abdul Razzaq chipped in with 43 and Shahid Afridi made 31, Australia comfortably won the match.
McGrath was reintroduced to the attack with eight wickets down and quickly finished off Razzaq and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan to claim his seventh five-wicket haul in limited-overs internationals.
Australia had made a flying start with Adam Gilchrist (40) and Clarke (38) blasting 55 runs off the first nine overs for the opening wicket.
Captain Ricky Ponting made a brisk 41 and Damien Martyn top scored with 43 before the middle-order collapsed.
Darren Lehmann was bowled by Afridi for six, Simon Katich was run out for five after a terrible mix-up with Martyn, all rounder Shane Watson was caught in the deep for 21 off a full toss from Rao Iftikhar Anjum and Brad Hogg was clean bowled by Naved-ul-Hasan for 13.
Naved-ul-Hasan also bowled Jason Gillespie for a golden duck and was unlucky not to claim a hat-trick when his first ball to McGrath clipped the inside edge and raced to the boundary, giving the Australian his 100th one-day run after 12 years of international cricket.
Afridi and Razzaq also captured two wickets apiece but Razzaq was banned by umpire Rudi Koertzen from completing his final over after bowling two beam balls at Lee.
The first struck Lee on the backside and the second would have hit him high on the shoulder had he not fallen to the pitch.
Razzaq apologised to Lee but Azhar Mahmood was told to finish his over.
TINA factor cements Inzi's leadership Given the politics of Pakistan cricket, nothing should really surprise us.
Even so, it is hard to believe any of the rumours surrounding the captaincy.
Surely, Inzamam-ul-Haq will lead Pakistan on their equally historic journey across the border this time.
Whether Inzi should lead his country is a different issue altogether.
It is only for the sake of continuity that the Pakistanis will agree that the incumbent should lead rather than some self righteous whistle blower whose sell-by date as a cricketer came a long time ago.
Inzi has his faults.
He is far too inhibited to be an inspirational leader of men on the cricket field as Ian Khan was.
The theory is the bunch of egomaniacs who play collectively as Pakistan needs a father figure for forging any unity in a common cause.
While that may be largely true, where failure lies is in accepting that the best player in the team is not necessarily the ideal captain.
Javed Miandad had too much talent at politicking to be as successful at the captaincy as Ian was.
Under him, Pakistan was a shadow of the team that won the World Cup on a dramatic day in Melbourne in 1992.
Inzi may not have sparked the revival that his country was looking for after the World Cup of 2003.
Has Pakistan got anyone more qualified? Great levels of tolerance are required if Pakistan is to appoint Yousuf Youhana, a Christian, as full time Test captain.
Inzi has major faults, too many unalterable traits that render him incapable of knitting a young side into a fighting combination.
Tactically, he is as naive as a tribal chieftain in a nuclear war.
How else can anyone explain away his decision to bat against the West Indies in the semi-final of the Champions Trophy in conditions in which no side could hope to bat and win? It is clear that not even Woolmer's remote control has helped change Inzi's ways which are steeped in his indolent manner at the crease.
The time at his disposal as he plays pace bowlers makes his batting such an aesthetic spectacle.
The problem is Inzi carries such an unhurried response into his leadership too.
He is more of the old fashioned foot soldier rather than the commander in charge of storm troopers in a situation that calls for a quick response.
Inzi's sportsmanship in the historic series that went off without a hitch last year has to be appreciated.
He came through as the gallant cricketer who could view the game beyond the confines of the emotional potboiler that India-Pakistan cricket often is.
Defeat at the hands of India should have floored him.
As if that were not bad enough, came the tour of Australia that can be so draining for a sub continental leading a side in the land of pace and bounce.
Defeat in Australia crushed Sachin Tendulkar's spirit so much that he abdicated.
Few captains emerge from Australia unscathed as Sourav Ganguly did.
Cricket-wise, it becomes easy to see why India were successful in Pakistan.
A hard series Down Under is the best possible preparatory ground.
Inzi will be carrying such an advantage into the India series.
What remains to be seen is whether he has come on as a captain.
The conclusion inescapably is Inzi's men are not going to set the Ganga on fire.
Not in the heat of India in March when the fire of Pakistan's pace will be doused.
It is better Inzi does not carry the Shoaib baggage.
There is no captain in the world who can tackle the mercurial paceman's mood swings.
His hands will be so full that Inzi would do well to survive the India tour as captain.
About his leading his troops in India there should be no doubt.
But foresight, rare enough a commodity, is even more uncommon in cricket.
So, for better or for worse, Inzi it is.
Zaheer primed for Pakistan series NEW DELHI, Feb 6 (UNI): Yet another pacer whose career has been plagued by sporadic and nagging injury, left arm bowler ZaheerKhan felt the worst was over and said he was primed for thehigh-voltage series against Pakistan.
In an interview to Wisden Asia Cricket, the Baroda pacer exuded confidence about a successful rehabilitation process and said, "The plan was really to get through the first half of the season before moving on to a higher level.
Now I am working towards that level and looking forward to Pakistan coming." It all started with the 2003-4 tour of Australia and since then, Zaheer has been in and out of the squad due to injury.
"It was the toughest phase of my career.
Till the Brisbane Test everything was going to plan.
I had gone past 80 wickets in Tests and was looking forward to soon getting my 100th wicket which, as it happened, I got on the tour of Bangladesh last December." "The most frustrating thing was both Andrew (Leipus, the team physio) and I couldn't work out what was happening.
After an injury, he would prescribe a period of rest and then an exercise programme to get the injured muscle back to full strength and I'd do it all and feel fine and then, on returning to cricket, tweak something else.
The third time I got injured, in Sri Lanka during the Asia Cup, it was while fielding.
I just could not believe what was happening," he recalled.
Incidentally, it was against the Aussies again where Zaheer made a comeback in the home series.
"When I came home early from Sri Lanka, Andrew again set me a specific set of exercises.
I did those and prepared at F (Pace Foundation in Chennai) for a return to cricket when Australia arrived," Zaheer narrated.
"I was really nervous in the first Test at Bangalore.
The last few times I had come back, I would be out again after one game.
I couldn't bring myself to go all out.
The confidence started coming back in the second Test at Chennai, and at Nagpur I got a pitch that really helped the fast bowlers and took six wickets there.
I know that I'm not back to my best yet.
But I feel that everything was coming back," he added.
While the previous year saw him being outshone by fellow Baroda pacer Irfan Pathan, Zaheer feels he is getting into the groove and the series against Pakistan would be a perfect opportunity to regain his place as Team India spearhead.
BCCI to decide alternative venue: PCB NEW DELHI, Feb 6 (UNI): Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has leftit to its Indian counterpart BCCI to decide the alternativevenue after it formally objected to playing a Test match against India at Ahmedabad.
The formal objection from the PCB came after its two-member recce committee submitted a report after inspecting the proposed venues for the series.
PCB, however, refrained from making any suggestion regarding alternative venue and said Pakistan would have no problem to play in any other place.
BBC Hindi quoted PCB Chairman Sharayar Khan as saying "We haven't suggested any alternate venues - we will play anywhere else they want us to play." The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) initially had suggested Mohali, Ahmedabad and Bangalore as Test venues while Kochi, Vishakapatnam, Kanpur, Jamshedpur and New Delhi were proposed to host the one-dayers.
Ahmedabad was supposed to host the second Test scheduled to start on March 12.
Explaining the reasons behind Pakistan's reluctance to play at Ahmedabad which witnessed religious riot, the PCB chief said, "There are possibilities of security problems erupting and tensions running high.
We have informed the Indian board of our concerns and we hope to settle the issue mutually." Khan also expressed doubt over the timely completion of the under-constructuion Ferozeshah Kotla ground here, which is supposed to host the fifth one-dayer.
Beating India an arduous task, says chief selector LAHORE, Feb 6 (UNI): Playing at home, India is as tough an opponent as Australia and it would be a herculean task for Pakistan to beat them in the forthcoming series, according to chief selector Wasim Bari.
"Indian tour had always been difficult for Pakistan because of certain reasons and beating India in India is as tough as defeating Australia in Australia," Bari was quoted as saying by the Dawn.
Bari, however, sounded optimistic and said it was good to see the fighting spirit back again in the squad.
"I do hope that with the same fighting spirit Pakistan can win in India," he said.
Though he did not disclose anything about the probable team composition forn the India tour, Bari hinted the team might included couple of spinners.
"The load will be on the spin department as the Indians are very much likely to follow their tradition of preparing spinning wickets," he observed.
Talking about the possibility of Shoaib Akhtar finding a place in the squad, Bari said the enigmatic speedster could be considered only after getting a nod from the PCB.
Pak want neutral umpires for one-day games KARACHI, Feb 6 (Reuters): Pakistan have called on the International Cricket Council (ICC) to introduce neutral umpires for one-day internationals.
In a letter written to ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed, the Pakistan cricket board (PCB) has also asked for a review of all umpiring decisions in the one-day series in Australia.
PCB director of media Abbas Zaidi confirmed a letter had been sent to the ICC on the subject of umpiring but was not willing to reveal the contents.
"It is a confidential document and we would not like to discuss it in public," Zaidi said today.
Sources close to the board said Pakistan felt the umpiring in the triangular series, which also involved West Indies, had been inconsistent and the ICC needed to review some of the decisions given in their games.
"It is not a complaint about the umpiring.
But the Pakistan board has suggested that, like in test matches, neutral umpires should now supervise the ODIs," one source said.
"Another suggestion is that umpires should make more use of the modern technology available to them while ruling on contentious caught behind or leg before decisions," he added.
The ICC introduced an elite panel of umpires, who officiate almost all test matches, in 2002.
For one-day internationals, one neutral umpire and one from the host country are appointed.
Australia wrap up series win against Pakistan SYDNEY, Feb 6 (Reuters): Glenn McGrath demolished Pakistan's batsmen to steer Australia to a 31-run win in the second one-day final at the Sydney Cricket Ground today and clinch the best-of-three series 2-0.
McGrath ripped through the Pakistan top-order then mopped up the tail to finish with figures of five for 27 as the tourists collapsed to be all out for 208 in the 46th over.
Needing to win the match to force a series decider after their 18-run loss in Melbourne on Friday, the Pakistanis bowled and fielded tightly to restrict Australia to 239 for nine before their batting let them down again.
Pakistan opener Taufeeq Umar skied a catch off man of the series Brett Lee to McGrath in the outfield.
McGrath, named man of the match, then did his job with the ball.
The lanky paceman, playing in his 201st one-day international, had Kaan Akmal caught behind for 12 and Mohammad Hafeez caught by Michael Clarke for 6.
He then trapped Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq leg before wicket for a duck.
The tourists were in deep trouble at 38-4 and although Yousuf Youhana hit a defiant 51 off 57 balls, Abdul Razzaq chipped in with 43 and Shahid Afridi made 31, Australia comfortably won the match.
McGrath was reintroduced to the attack with eight wickets down and quickly finished off Razzaq and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan to claim his seventh five-wicket haul in limited-overs internationals.
Australia had made a flying start with Adam Gilchrist (40) and Clarke (38) blasting 55 runs off the first nine overs for the opening wicket.
Captain Ricky Ponting made a brisk 41 and Damien Martyn top scored with 43 before the middle-order collapsed.
Darren Lehmann was bowled by Afridi for six, Simon Katich was run out for five after a terrible mix-up with Martyn, all rounder Shane Watson was caught in the deep for 21 off a full toss from Rao Iftikhar Anjum and Brad Hogg was clean bowled by Naved-ul-Hasan for 13.
Naved-ul-Hasan also bowled Jason Gillespie for a golden duck and was unlucky not to claim a hat-trick when his first ball to McGrath clipped the inside edge and raced to the boundary, giving the Australian his 100th one-day run after 12 years of international cricket.
Afridi and Razzaq also captured two wickets apiece but Razzaq was banned by umpire Rudi Koertzen from completing his final over after bowling two beam balls at Lee.
The first struck Lee on the backside and the second would have hit him high on the shoulder had he not fallen to the pitch.
Razzaq apologised to Lee but Azhar Mahmood was told to finish his over.
Harbhajan hopes to shed chucking tag after new rule SYDNEY, Feb 6 (UNI): Heaving a sigh of relief after ICC gave its nodfor the 15-degree flexion rule, star off-spinner Harbhajan Singh said he now hopes to continue bowling without bothering about being called for suspect action.
The Punjab offie's doosra delivery was questioned during the away series against Bangladesh and Harbhajan was subsequently asked to mend his action under an ICC approved biomechanic expert.
Relieved that questions won't be raised about his doosra delivery, Harbhajan told The Sun-Herald, "I have taken over 300 international wickets and I am confident that I will come out strong from this.
"I have always thought that my doosra is more wrist than elbow, but now I hope that I can just keep bowling," said the spinner who is scheduled to work with biomechanics expert Bruce Elliott to correct his action.
The daily also quotes Muttiah Muralitharan, the other prominent exponent of doosra, saying, "I'm very happy the rule is in force.
Hopefully that will be the end of it.
But you never know because people can see different angles." Waugh may coach South Africa SYDNEY, Feb 6 (UNI): If everything goes according to plan, former Australia skipper Steve Waugh would replace Ray Jennings as their new coach, according to Sydney Morning Herlad.
South Africa captain Graeme Smith has already expressed his wish to have an Australian as the new coach before his side tour Down Under for a full series in December.
Besides Waugh, his compatriots Geoff Marsh and Tom Moody are also in the fray, the daiuly said.
Waugh's manager Robert Joske said, "It is something we would consider.
Our management philosophy is that we consider every offer that comes across the desk.
We haven't heard from South African cricket authorities in relation to the job.
But if an approach was made, or the opportunity arose, we would definitely sit down and talk it through."