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Their victory was set up by new-ball quick Xavier Bartlett, who knocked over the top three Zimbabwe batsmen inside 11 overs

ESPNcricinfo staff17-Jan-2018
Lloyd Pope took two wickets against Zimbabwe•Getty Images

Australia scored their first win of the 2018 Under-19 World Cup, by a comfortable seven-wicket margin against Zimbabwe in Lincoln.Their victory was set up by new-ball quick Xavier Bartlett, who, after his captain won the toss, knocked over the top three Zimbabwe batsmen inside 11 overs. Zimbabwe never recovered fom 34 for 3, regularly losing wickets to be dismissed for 134 in 33.2 overs. Robert Chimhinya top-scored for them with 27 at No. 8. Bartlett finished with 3 for 20, while Will Sutherland and Lloyd Pope claimed two each.Australia’s openers Max Bryant and Jack Edwards set off at terrific speed in the chase, adding 46 in 4.2 overs before their stand was broken. Edwards was the first dismissed for 40 off 20, while Bryant made 44 off 27. They got home in 18.2 overs.The victory meant that Australia were well placed to progress to the quarter-finals, after having lost their opening Group B match against India. their final group game is against Papua New Guinea.

Australian debutant Peter Handscomb said he is determined to cement a middle-order spot after scoring a free-flowing fifty on the second day of the Adelaide Test

Daniel Brettig in Adelaide25-Nov-2016Peter Handscomb’s mother was in tears at the sight of her son notching a Test match fifty on debut, but Australia’s new No. 5 stated plainly after stumps that he does not wish this day to be the high-point of his international career.Helped greatly by the platform Matt Renshaw, Usman Khawaja and Steven Smith built on the first evening and second afternoon, Handscomb was able to showcase his batting method – crease-bound defence allied to adept shots all around the ground – while skating through a 99-run stand with Khawaja. He hopes it will be seen on plenty more days.”Very determined,” Handscomb said when asked how determined he was to make a midde-order berth his own after the raft of recent changes to the Test side. “There is that chance there to try to cement a spot in the middle order, which I’ll be trying to take with both hands. I’ll just go out there and do what I do and hopefully that will be enough.”It was an amazing platform they set, especially Matt on debut. It was a great testament to him. He went about playing his own way, playing his own game and hopefully that’ll continue to work for him. Uzzy [Khawaja] did an amazing job last night and today. They set that platform where the middle order were able to come in and still wait for that bad ball, but we were able to try and jump on it and score as many runs as we could.”Handscomb got a good idea of what Test match batting should look like from Khawaja, who made his own debut in 2011, the same year Handscomb first played for Victoria. “He’s seeing the ball really well and his movement patterns are great,” he said.”Batting out there with him was awesome because he just kept it really calm. In between overs, we discussed what we think the bowler’s trying to do and from there we developed our own plans. He was very collected and very calculated.”He never looked flustered out there even if the ball beat his outside edge, he’d just go back, do his routine and do what he was doing all day, keep backing his process. It was awesome to watch.”Normality can be hard to come by in the week a cricketer first receives his baggy green, but Handscomb said the presence of numerous friends in town for the occasion had helped to keep his head from expanding too much.”A few of my mates have been coming in and having a coffee before the game,” he said, “which is nice to get away from what’s going on around me. You can keep a level head, which is good.”As I was going out to bat as well, the mates were off to the side yelling all sorts of stuff. It takes your mind off what’s happening, you go out and try to play with freedom.”As for mum, Handscomb wasn’t aware of the tears, but looked forward to a catch-up. “I didn’t actually know that, I haven’t been able to speak to her yet or see her,” he said, grinning. “Looking forward to getting back to the hotel. Going to see how she’s going and hopefully she’s feeling alright.”

It took just 16.5 over for defending champions, Assupol TUKS, to outscore Loughborough Marylebone Cricket Club University and win the Red Bull Campus Cricket World title by eight wickets at the Abhimanyu Cricket Academy, Dehradun on Saturday.

ESPNcricinfo staff24-Oct-2015It took just 16.5 over for defending champions, Assupol TUKS, to outscore Loughborough Marylebone Cricket Club University and win the Red Bull Campus Cricket World title by eight wickets at the Abhimanyu Cricket Academy, Dehradun on Saturday.TUKS had a poor start to the tournament and lost their first Group match against International College of Business and Technology by two wickets on October 19.The loss didn’t dent TUKS’ confidence as they regrouped to win three-straight matches to lift the title for the second-year running.TUKS won the toss and put their opponents from England in to bat first. Their opening bowlers, Corbin Bosch and Lungi Ngidi, kept a strong LMCC top order in check.Anish Patel, LMCC’s captain, fell in the third over for just eight. Irfan Karim and Nitish Kumar then added 31 runs for the second wicket, before the latter departed in the seventh over.LMCC hoped to build partnerships thereafter, but they failed, as medium-pacer – Vincent Moore – ran through the middle-order by claiming three wickets. Dustin Melton added to LMCC’s woes and picked up two wickets.Karim was LMCC’s top-scorer with a solid 42. His departure in the 17th over cost his side, who managed just 120 in their 20 overs.TUKS batsmen, buoyed by a strong show by their bowlers, began confidently. Openers Aiden Markram and Murray Coetzee added 88 runs for the first wicket.When Markram departed in the 11th over, TUKS was just 32-runs adrift from winning the title. Coetzee remained unbeaten and took his side home in the 17th over.

Allan Donald, who has been elevated from bowling coach to head coach for Pune Warriors this year, has spelled out his expectations from the players in no uncertain terms

Amol Karhadkar31-Mar-2013Despite being around for two years in the Indian Premier League, Pune Warriors – the most expensive franchise in the event – seem to be struggling to find their feet. In both the editions they have featured in, they have finished near or at the bottom.No wonder then that their third successive season will see a new captain and coach going into the tournament. While both their previous coaches – Geoff Marsh in 2011 and Sourav Ganguly as captain-cum-mentor last year, when they participated without a head coach – were diplomatic ahead of they stints, Allan Donald, who has been elevated from bowling coach to head coach this year, spelled out his expectations from the players in no uncertain terms.Referring to his new role as “intimidating” in a tournament that moves “at a million miles per hour”, Donald, the former South Africa pace spearhead, urged the players to “care” for one another.”I am going to have a meeting with our overseas players on their own to explain their commitment to our cause for the next two months. Every one of those players wants to play. I would be disappointed if I wasn’t picked. But what is important for Pune Warriors is for everyone to be swimming up one stream, [and] not every way and direction like it went last year,” Donald said, referring to a disgruntled unit in the latter half of last year’s IPL.”And negativity spreads cancer. It does because it gets people talking, players talk among each other. And my message to the team is [to] be up front and honest. [This] is going to be the key. I am not here to make anyone promises.”That’s what this format requires. You just can’t be pleasing cricketers for the sake of it. I just want guys to be part of the team and helping each other out. The care factor for me is huge. I want guys to look after each other. That creates that relaxed environment that I talk about. That’s pretty much what I look for. How we gel as a team, how we grow as a team and how we care as a team is going to be the key for us.”In a season in which Pune Warriors tried out 23 players during the season, not many players were given a long rope. It led to team harmony going for a toss as the tournament progressed, and affected the team both on and off the field. Donald seems to have learned the lessons from the disappointing previous outing: “[I] don’t think last year was a great example for me. That was my first year, and I felt that at times, we were a bit gung-ho with our selection.”At times, [we tried] quick fixes, which didn’t work. I see that the teams that have been successful in the IPL have stuck with a certain group of players for a long period of time. And that’s what I intend to do.”Why fix [something] if it’s not broken? All coaches and teams are looking for early momentum and confidence, and we have to earn the right to do that first of all. The hard part about this competition is to get your nose in front. I am not looking far ahead. I am not looking at the semi-finals or anything like that. I just want to concentrate on every game, and on what we do in every game. If it doesn’t work and we go down fighting, so be it. To try and stick to certain processes is the key.”

Australia’s Test wicketkeeper Brad Haddin is returning home from the Caribbean for personal reasons

Daniel Brettig15-Mar-2012Australia’s Test wicketkeeper Brad Haddin is returning home from the Caribbean for personal reasons, casting doubt over his place in the team for three matches against the West Indies next month.Mindful of the distance between Australia and the West Indies, the selectors have named Haddin’s New South Wales understudy Peter Nevill as his replacement.”Brad Haddin is in transit returning to Australia for personal reasons and has the full support of Cricket Australia, the National Selection Panel and his team mates in so doing. We hope that Brad will be able to re-join the squad in the West Indies in the not too distant future,” the national selector John Inverarity said.”The NSP has selected Peter Nevill as Brad’s replacement and Peter will head to the West Indies as soon as possible. Peter has just completed an outstanding season with New South Wales, both with the gloves and the bat. He was the overwhelming choice of his fellow Sheffield Shield cricketers as wicket-keeper in the Australian Cricketers’ Association All Star Team of the Year announced at the State Cricket Awards this week.”Haddin travelled with the ODI squad as the back-up to Matthew Wade, who had usurped the more senior gloveman as Australia’s limited overs wicketkeeper this summer.However Haddin is now on his way back from the West Indies to be with his pregnant wife Karina, their son Zac and daughter Mia. His departure was arranged so swiftly that Haddin is flying home via London, a longer trip than returning via the United States. His management has said that more will be made clear in coming days.”Yes, Brad Haddin is returning from WIndies for personal reasons. There will no further comment from or on his behalf,” the Cricket Australia public affairs manager, Peter Young, tweeted this morning.It is not yet clear how long Haddin will be at home, or whether he will return to the squad in the Caribbean.When announcing the Test squad in Adelaide on Wednesday, the selector Rod Marsh had indicated that Haddin remained the Test wicketkeeper of choice.”At this point of time, obviously the first Test team will be selected after the one-dayers, a lot will depend on what happens in the one-dayers, no doubt,” Marsh said. “But if I wanted to place a punt on it, I would have Haddin will play in the first Test match, as he should, and we’ll wait and see what happens after that.”Wade had said that he had enjoyed the first week of the tour, working alongside Haddin as the pair competed for one spot in the team.”It’s started really well. Obviously we’ve had a couple of sessions working together leading up to the one-day series,” Wade said this week. “He’s really good, he’s got a lot of knowledge obviously in these conditions and he’s played a lot of international cricket.”I’m just opening my ears and listening to everything he’s got to say.”

Cricket Kenya chief executive Tom Sears has told ESPNcricinfo that plans are progressing to introduce a new national tournament in the country

Martin Williamson10-Jan-2011Cricket Kenya chief executive Tom Sears has told ESPNcricinfo that plans are progressing to introduce a new national tournament in the country with the aim of improving the domestic structure and helping bridge the current gulf between the local and international game.At present, the Nairobi Provincial Cricket League is the country’s main competition, but standards are widely regarded as being poor and not conducive to bringing on young players. An attempt by CK to start a provincial event in 2009 failed for a variety of reasons, but Sears believes now is the time to try again.”That was a senior men’s competition, this is a junior competition and is different,” he explained. “This proposal will be put forward to the board and discussed at our next meeting.”We are looking at basing it around a club structure primarily in Nairobi. The plan is to have eight teams in two pools of four. Six would be Nairobi-based clubs and we would probably invite the top six teams from the Nairobi league and a combination side from the Rift and a combination side from the Coast … but this is just a proposal at the moment and has yet to be ratified. If it is, we would put the Coast and the Rift in opposite pools to limit the amount of travelling and the top two in each pool would go through in semi-finals and a final.”It’ll create an opportunity for our national players, best club players, and also we have a good clutch of Under-19s and Under-17s and it will give them the chance to play in good, hard cricket because the standard of league cricket here is just not good enough at the moment.”Sears wants this to start in 2010, and unlike other attempts, this will spread right down through the age groups and into the vital area of schools cricket.”It’s about development all the way up, particularly at schools level. At the moment you can have a 12 year-old kid in Nairobi playing a completely different format of the game to a 12 year-old in Nakuru, Mombasa or anywhere else. So what we are trying to do is standardise the format of cricket we are playing at various age groups and have a regional competition that feeds into regional teams that compete in a national competition. This will create opportunities for kids to play locally and the best of those will be creamed off into regional teams at all the age groups up until 17.”And then four regions, which will possibly be a Coast, Rift and two Nairobi sides who will compete in a national competition. We are making sure the kids can play and then we are looking at the best of those kids with a view to selecting those national sides. And once we have selected those national sides, making sure they are playing meaningful fixtures.”Funding remains a major obstacle, but Sears says CK is “in discussions with broadcasters who have verbally committed to televising some of it” as well as speaking to a variety of commercial partners.”We’ve got the ICCC, who provide the majority of our funding, onside and they are supportive of what we are trying to implement. If the ICC stipulate that this is a kind of structure they want to have in place, it adds a lot of weight to it. If we can’t do all of it, certainly the senior men’s league and some more structured junior competitions and that is what we have budgeted for.”Another issue historically has been the reluctance of clubs to agree to anything which dilutes their stranglehold on domestic cricket. “The provinces have their own leagues and place a lot of importance on them and that is fair enough,” Sears said. “But any board member who sits on the board of a governing body has to look at the good of the game nationally as opposed to their own locality. I am sure there will be some interesting discussions but we are looking to implement something from the middle of the year onwards.”

Marvan Atapattu, the former Sri Lanka captain and opening batsman, has been hired by Singapore as their coach till the end of 2010

Cricinfo staff22-Jan-2010Marvan Atapattu, the former Sri Lanka captain and opening batsman, has been hired by Singapore as their coach till the end of 2010. This is Atapattu’s first full-time assignment of a coach of a national side, after a short previous stint as Canada’s batting coach in early 2009, subsequently helping them qualify for the 2011 World Cup, and his main task will be the World Cricket League Division 5 in Nepal next month.”We have been looking around for a suitable person to help us move our cricket forward,” said Singapore Cricket Association deputy president Mahmood Gaznavi. “And Atapattu is definitely one who has the experience to push the team in the right direction.”Atapattu, 38, has previously also worked with the Fingara Cricket Academy, a coaching facility in Sri Lanka, for a couple of months before the Canada role. He will travel with Singapore to the six-nation tournament and fight for a place among the top two to advance to Division 4.”I am looking forward to doing all possible to help Singapore cricket,” said Atapattu, whose assignment started this week. “It is a challenge that can be realised by effort from both the players and the coach. I have seen some of the players at practice sessions and I must say I am impressed with the quality of some of these players.”Singapore won the World Cricket League Division 6 tournament last September with an unbeaten run against Guernsey, Botswana, Bahrain, Malaysia and Norway. In Nepal, they will face the hosts, Bahrain, Fiji, Jersey and the United States of America.”We have a realistic chance of doing well in Nepal,” said Singapore captain Munish Arora. “With proper application and commitment, Singapore can take on any of the other teams in Division 5. Atapattu’s engagement will be useful.”The Australian Trevor Chappell had coached Singapore for the World Cricket League Division 5 but his engagements back home did not permit him to continue with the team this year.

India batter keen to score “heaps of runs” and help an upcoming team flourish

Shashank Kishore26-Aug-2025India batter Hanuma Vihari has signed with Tripura as one of their three professionals ahead of the 2025-26 domestic season. Vihari, who finished as Player of the Tournament at the recently concluded Andhra Premier League, has been granted a no-objection certificate (NOC) by the Andhra Cricket Association (ACA).ESPNcricinfo understands Vihari’s contract is for a season to begin with, and is extendable by mutual consent. It’s a decision, he says, that stemmed from a desire to play all formats, something Andhra couldn’t promise him.”I was keen on other opportunities since I believe I’m good enough to play all three formats,” Vihari told ESPNcricinfo. “Andhra made it clear they were looking at youngsters for the T20 format. That was why I decided it didn’t make sense playing even the 50-over format, so I sat out of the Vijay Hazare Trophy as well. I also wanted to play in a new environment.”Related

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Vihari’s signing marks closure to a slightly tumultuous past few years with Andhra. A full-blown public spat after their 2023-24 Ranji campaign had left him “humiliated and embarrassed” at the treatment meted out to him by certain factions within the ACA. At the time, Vihari alleged “political interference” as one of the reasons for him stepping down as captain at the start of that season.Ahead of the 2024-25 season, Vihari was in talks to move to Madhya Pradesh (for a second year in a row) but was talked out of it by Nara Lokesh, general secretary of Andhra’s ruling party, TDP. Vihari’s u-turn had left the MPCA upset.”For the last two seasons, I’d been talking of going out [he’d been in talks with Madhya Pradesh], but I stayed back,” Vihari said of the previous season. “I felt given the circumstances around me, and also where my own cricket is at, this was the best time to sign with an upcoming team. This year they approached me first, and I felt it’ll be a challenge worth taking up.”