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Brad Hodge celebrated his 100th one-day game with Victoria with a dominant century that virtually guarantees the Bushrangers a spot in the FR Cup final. In a match reduced by three overs due to rain, Hodge patiently steered the team out of trouble and then accelerated as they reached the required 209 with seven wickets and four overs to spare.The Bulls had started the defence well, dropping Victoria to 3 for 52 in the 15th over, but there was no more joy as Hodge combined with the captain Cameron White in an unbroken stand of 157. White picked up a confidence-boosting 64 while Hodge starred with 119, which included 10 fours and a six.Hodge stayed for 134 balls and while he was around the Bushrangers always remained in control. They have one match remaining to seal their spot in the decider – they are five points ahead of the third-placed South Australia – and could host it if the leaders Tasmania falter.Queensland fought for their 214 in 48.4 overs after Chris Simpson started the target-setting with 42. While none of the top seven failed badly, the batsmen were unable to reach a significant total. The Bulls were in big trouble at 5 for 110 before Craig Philipson (32) and Aaron Nye (39) combined to add some respect.Bryce McGain, the leading wicket-taker for Victoria this summer, picked up two crucial victims, bowling Clinton Perren after taking care of Nathan Reardon. The double-blow continued the good work of Clint McKay and he finished with 3 for 42. McKay captured the captain Jimmy Maher and Ashley Noffke early in the innings before returning for Nye.

Rafiqul Alam, the former Bangladesh batsman, has replaced Faruque Ahmed as Bangladesh’s new chairman of selectors, the Bangladesh Cricket Board announced today. Naimur Rahman, Bangladesh’s first Test captain, is the other change in the selection panel and he replaces Athar Ali Khan.The new selectors were appointed by a panel appointed by the ad-hoc executive committee of the board and will begin their duties from September 1. Akram Khan continues as selector. The changes were necessitated as the contracts of Athar Ali Khan and Ahmed expire at the end of the month.”We commended the previous selectors’ work over the past four years but we thought that there was a need for change,” Shafiqur Rahman Munna, the head of the sub-committee that appointed the selectors, told . “I think we have selected two competent individuals for the demanding job because they not only played for the national side but have adequate knowledge of the domestic and international cricket.”We will maintain the same salary structure for the selectors, something that was made by our previous committee, but there will be some changes in the terms and conditions. We met with both the new selectors before finalising their names. We want hundred per cent commitment in the job because now it is no more an amateur duty.”Alam said the focus will be on improving Bangladesh’s Test record. “I would not like to comment on the previous committee. What I must say is that we are quite a handful side in one-dayers now but are far, far behind in Tests and our focus should be on the longer-version.”Alam played two one-dayers during the tour of Sri Lanka in 1986. He is also a match-referee with the board and has been involved in coaching as well.Offspinner Rahman led Bangladesh in its first ever Test, against India in Dhaka in 2000. He played eight Tests and 29 ODIs and was the first Bangladesh bowler to take a five-wicket haul in Tests, incidentally in their maiden Test.

Gill Woolmer, the widow of late Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer, has offered her good wishes to the South African team as they prepare to take on Australia in the World Cup semi-final in St Lucia. On the eve of the clash between the top two one-day sides, she urged the team to win it in memory of Bob Woolmer, quoting “do it for Bob – I hope they win”, referring to his stint as coach of South Africa in the 1990s.South Africa have a chance at redemption after they were lost out in a thrilling tie in the 1999 semi-final at Edgbaston. South Africa needed one to get off four balls with one wicket in hand before a farcical run-out ended their World Cup campaign, as Australia edged ahead on net run rate. The result left the South Africans devastated ,and Woolmer later referred to that moment as the darkest in his career. Woolmer, who later took over as coach of Pakistan, was murdered in Jamaica after Pakistan’s early exit from the World Cup.The team has been flooded with good luck messages from several supporters in South Africa, including ex-players. , a South African daily, forwarded over 1000 SMS messages of support from readers to the team.”They must play like they played against England,” Helen Zille, the Cape Town mayor, was quoted as saying on the website . “We’re all with them, behind them, holding our breaths and supporting them all the way.”Gary Kirsten, the former South African opener who also played in the Edgbaston semi-final, also extended his wishes, as did the father of current opener AB de Villiers. “It’s just going to be a mental battle,” Kirsten was quoted on the same website. “We’ve got the players. We chased down 438 not so long ago – and they’ll still have that in their memory.””AB said we have a very good chance of whipping them and they’re all in very good spirits,” said de Villiers senior. de Villiers slammed 92 against Australia in a group stage match in St Kitts recently.

The proposal made by the ICC chief executive’s committee to reduce the next World Cup from 16 to 14 teams “isn’t great news for the Associates” according to Warren Deutrom, the chief executive of the Irish Cricket Union.One of the major complaints of the 2007 tournament in West Indies was the number of one-sided matches during the 47-day event. Ireland enjoyed a memorable experience, beating Pakistan and forcing a tie with Zimbabwe to move into the Super Eight stage, where they overcame Bangladesh, but the other Associate countries didn’t come out in a great light.However, Deutrom says people are expecting the next rung of countries to become competitive too soon. “It is a move we both feared and expected and it’s not great news for the Associates,” he told Cricinfo. “Neither is it a great vote of confidence in the ICC’s own High Performance Programme.”The view of the HPP countries was that with another four years of funding – two of which would see heavily increased money coming through from ICC’s deal with ESS [ESPN-Star Sports] – would have seen significant improvements in the Associate countries and all would be better prepared.”He also said that the move to reduce the number of teams goes against the ICC’s stated aim of expanding the game. “The ICC are also quick to say how the World Cup should be a global showcase for the sport but it’s hard to see how that can happen when they cut back on countries.”It seems to also go against the recent increase in HPP countries to 10 and it’s difficult to see how the game will expand.”

National League Division OneDivision One TableGlamorgan 273 for 2 beat Essex 267 for 6 by 8 wickets at Sophia Gardens
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Jimmy Maher belted a magnificent 142 from 113 balls, inclusive of 18 fours and 4 sixes, as Glamorgan sauntered home with 6.5 overs to spare. Essex’s total had been inspired by Nasser Hussain’s superb 144 and Ronnie Irani’s 63. But Maher, and Robert Croft who made 64, made light of the stiff target on a day when bowlers on both sides took some fearful hammer.Leicestershire 295 for 7 beat Worcestershire 219 by 76 runs at Oakham School
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A comfortable victory for Leicestershire. Trevor Ward, with 68, and Virender Sehwag – who slammed three sixes in a blistering 59-ball 76 – gave Leicestershire the perfect start, while Darren Maddy provided the late innings-momentum with 58. Stephen Peters anchored the reply with 82, but Worcestershire were never on the ball as Jeremy Snape and David Brignull both finished with three wickets.Warwickshire 244 for 4 beat Surrey 242 for 9 by six wickets at Edgbaston
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Ian Bell (59*) and Mike Powell (26*) led Warwickshire to an ultimately facile victory after Nick Knight (74) had given the run chase the perfect start. Waqar Younis, who finished with 4 for 35, did the damage early on, before Collins Obuya – with 3 for 65 – mopped up the lower order. Mark Ramprakash held the innings together with 57, but it wasn’t enough against a Warwickshire team that was never behind the eight-ball.National League Division TwoDivision Two TableNorthamptonshire 215 for 7 beat Durham 166 by 49 runs at Chester-le-Street
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Another match, another Australian having a party. Mike Hussey carried his bat for a superb 112, before Ben Phillips and Ricaldo Anderson ripped through the fragile Durham batting. As for Shoaib Akhtar, his 9 overs cost 48 runs, for one wicket. Not quite his day, and certainly not Durham’s.Middlesex 337 for 5 beat Somerset 305 for 9 by 32 runs at Southgate
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Middlesex triumphed in a run-fest at Southgate. Owais Shah and Andrew Strauss both made 74 in quick time, but it was Abdul Razzaq, who slammed 5 sixes in a 49-ball 79, who provided the impetus as Middlesex cruised past 300. Keith Dutch (65) and Ian Blackwell (64) gave Somerset a chance, but Jamie Dalrymple and Chad Keegan did enough to ensure that Middlesex prevailed. Nottinghamshire 212 for 5 beat Hampshire 208 for 7 by five wickets at The Rose Bowl
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Chris Cairns and Chris Read saw Nottinghamshire home in a thrilling finish with a 55-run partnership. Cairns made 57 from 58 balls, while Read chipped in with an unbeaten 33 after Jason Gallian had nurdled 60 at the top of the order. Hampshire’s modest total owed much to Simon Katich’s sedate 56, and an unbeaten 45 from South Africa’s Nick Pothas. Derbyshire 235 for 4 beat Sussex 232 for 6 by six wickets at Arundel Castle
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A game of two centuries, with Christopher Bassano’s being the decisive contribution, as Derbyshire made it past the target with 20 balls remaining. Mohammad Kaif cobbled together 44, and Dominic Hewson – who had earlier snared 4 for 40 – made 34 in support of Bassano’s brilliant 126. Murray Goodwin was Sussex’s batting hero with a classy 129.

Doug Bollinger has been included in Australia’s Test squad to tour the West Indies as a replacement for Ben Hilfenhaus, who is suffering from a recurrence of a stress fracture in his lower back. Bollinger will make the trip as part of the 15-man squad as long as he can prove he has recovered from a broken foot he sustained in February.The news came while Bollinger was on his honeymoon, and barely a week after he was offered his first Cricket Australia contract. “I’m just wondering if they might bump me up to first class,” Bollinger told AAP before leaving Sydney for Honolulu. “It’s probably been the best week of my life. I’m so happy that it’s happened and I’m just so excited at the moment.”Bollinger, who was married to Tegan Sutherland on Friday, was unlucky not to be chosen in the original group for the Caribbean campaign following a breakthrough Pura Cup season. He topped the wicket tally with 45 at 15.44 despite missing the last three games with the injury.”I’ve had a bit of a bowl,” Bollinger said. “I’ve been running and I’ve been in the gym, so I feel really well at the moment.”Alex Kountouris, the Australia team’s physio, said Bollinger should be fine to make the trip. “Doug has recovered well from his fractured foot,” Kountouris said. “He has been bowling for the last couple of weeks with no complaints and, as long as he completes the final fitness test, we believe he will be fully fit to take part in the Test tour of the West Indies.”Hilfenhaus’ injury means he cannot bowl for several months, which rounds off a disappointing year after he collected 28 Pura Cup wickets at 43.82 and struggled to have the same impact as in his outstanding 2006-07. However, he did retain his Cricket Australia contract and the selectors said he would remain in the frame for future series.”Obviously this is very disappointing for Ben,” Andrew Hilditch, the chairman of selectors, said. “However, given the amount of cricket facing the Australian side in all forms of the game over the next 18 months, a conservative approach to the management of his back injury is best to ensure he makes a full recovery.”Kountouris said the aim was to have Hilfenhaus fit and fresh for the start of 2008-09. “Ben had some lingering back pain towards the end of the Pura Cup season and recent scans have revealed a possible recurrence of an old stress fracture to the vertebrae,” he said.”His recovery will involve not bowling for the next few months but continuing on with a rehabilitation and strength program. We believe this will be his best preparation for the beginning of the 2008-09 season.”The squad gathers in Brisbane for a training camp in early May ahead of the three-Test series against West Indies. Five ODIs and a Twenty20 international follow before the players return to Australia in July.

Match facts

Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Start time 1000 local (0430 GMT)

Big Picture

“We’re both young teams,” has been the phrase of the tour so far. “Both teams are rebuilding,” captains, players and team directors have said. All of this is another way of saying neither team is particularly good at present. There is a lot of chatter about potential and talent. Less about Test form and recent record.India are further down the transition track, and so appear the more polished outfit. KL Rahul is the least experienced batsman in the top order, but he already has a ton in Australia. Rohit Sharma is an unproven Test no. 3, but he has sent Sri Lanka bowlers into therapy in other formats. Between Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara, there is enough quality in that top order to hurt Sri Lanka, as long as the visitors can overcome their aversion to batting well away from home.After years of seeking a partner for Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sri Lanka’s opening partnership has emerged as one of the hosts’ strengths. Dimuth Karunaratne still plays the snazzy legside flicks, but has recently discovered the offside, and added a few points to his batting IQ. Kaushal Silva hangs on like a limpet, rarely punishing the opposition, but often annoying them.There are the flakier batsmen – Jehan Mubarak and Upul Tharanga are yet to prove they can be Test performers. But offsetting this uncertainty is Angelo Mathews, who after Kumar Sangakkara is becoming Sri Lanka’s sure thing.The attacks are evenly matched, even if Sri Lanka’s pace stocks are again diminished by injury. Dhammika Prasad and Nuwan Pradeep are improving bowlers, and in Rangana Herath and Tharindu Kaushal Sri Lanka have a varied spin threat. They will hope Sri Lanka stay within reach of India for the first three days, before the Galle surface’s cantankerous mood takes hold on days four and five.It isn’t a Galle match without a late batting collapse, and as India appear intent on fielding five bowlers, Sri Lanka will hope to expose the lower middle order. Virat Kohli and Ravi Shastri will feel the opposite. The extra bowler in the side will help put pressure right back on the Sri Lanka’s batsmen.

Form guide

(last five matches, most recent first)

Sri Lanka: LWLLL
India: DDDLL

In the spotlight

A day out from the match, Kumar Sangakkara already smiles down from almost as many hoardings as the politicians contesting in the election, in under a week. Fans in Galle will hope he can give the venue he calls his “favourite ground to play in” a final Test to remember. As big scores are rare at the P Sara, the first three days of this Test present his best chance of matching Don Bradman’s double-century record. It remains to be seen if he will be back to his hungriest in this series, after a lower-intensity outing against Pakistan.Virat Kohli had an outstanding tour of Australia, but has been short of runs across formats since the World Cup. Two failures in the practice match won’t have done him much good. The early stages of this Test should present conditions he is more comfortable in, but with all the talk of leading an aggressive team, and trialing new ploys to fit the new philosophy, will the focus on his own run-making persist?

Team news

Dushmantha Chameera has been bowling in the nets, but it appears as if the selectors would prefer to preserve him for the Tests in more seam-friendly conditions in Colombo. Lahiru Thirimanne has a weak grip on his no. 4 position, and could easily be replaced by Upul Tharanga. Tharindu Kaushal will likely play ahead of Dilruwan Perera.Sri Lanka (probable): 1 Kaushal Silva, 2 Dimuth Karunaratne, 3 Kumar Sangakkara, 4 Upul Tharanga, 5 Angelo Mathews (capt.), 6 Dinesh Chandimal (wk), 7 Jehan Mubarak, 8 Dhammika Prasad, 9 Tharindu Kaushal, 10 Rangana Herath, 11 Nuwan PradeepM Vijay is out with a hamstring injury, which means Rahul will open alongside Shikhar Dhawan. India will likely prefer the pace of Varun Aaron and Umesh Yadav to the skill of Bhuvneshwar Kumar. The spin attack will probably comprise R Ashwin and Harbhajan Singh.India (probable): 1 KL Rahul, 2 Shikhar Dhawan, 3 Rohit Sharma, 4 Virat Kohli (capt.), 5 Ajinkya Rahane, 6 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 7 R Ashwin, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Ishant Sharma, 10 Varun Aaron, 11 Umesh Yadav

Pitch and conditions

There have been intermittent rains in the days preceding the match, so expect a stop-start game. Despite the bad weather, however, the pitch seems to be a typical Galle track, which will dry out considerably over the course of the game.

Stats and trivia

• The match will be Angelo Mathews’ 50th Test.
• Once the hosts’ fortress, Sri Lanka have lost two of their last three matches in Galle.
• India have not won a series in Sri Lanka since 1993.
• None of India’s top six have played a Test in Sri Lanka.

Quotes

“In the last eight years of my career, Kumar Sangakkara has helped me personally. He is always willing to help the young guys and whenever you play a bad shot he comes up to us and says that we can play it in a better way. He gives confidence to the youngest and not only for the batsmen – for the bowlers as well. We learnt a lot from him and we are thankful for who he has been for the team on and off the field. He is your go-to man. You can always go to him and get an honest opinion.”
“It’s a great opportunity to create some momentum, knowing it’s a three-match series. Even if it’s an off day, you still have time to re-group and think about what went wrong. If it’s a good day you can learn from it.”

A Happy New Year to all our readers and to all genuine cricket-lovers everywhere. It has not been a happy New Year, though, for Zimbabwean or South African cricketers, struggling unsuccessfully overseas, or indeed for Bangladesh, overwhelmed yet again in a manner that should wake up the ICC to the fact that they did far too little to prepare their latest full member for the realities of Test cricket.For Zimbabwe, the First Test match against Sri Lanka went pretty much as could be forecast. Sri Lanka batted first and their grossly talented batsmen built up a huge total against an innocuous Zimbabwe bowling line-up. Then, aided as usual by umpiring errors that really did no more than hasten the inevitable, they failed twice with the bat, following on to be beaten by an innings.Incredibly, Zimbabwe set a record by being the first Test team to play in Sri Lanka without a specialist spinner. Captain Brian Murphy, out of form and confidence, felt he had no alternative but to stand down – and there was no other specialist spinner in the touring party! Surely the experienced Paul Strang should have been there, with Raymond Price a good alternative. Instead Zimbabwe had to rely on a four-man pace attack, backed only by two part-time spinners in Trevor Gripper and Grant Flower. Perhaps this was what persuaded them to take what at this distance (and in the absence of any discussion of the issue in the match reports) seems to be the incredible decision to put Sri Lanka in to bat on winning the toss. However justified it may have seemed at the time, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and this decision proved indigestible.The present trend of play in Zimbabwe cricket suggests we can hope for no better in the two remaining Tests. Sri Lanka have an awesome array of talent, especially in batting, and Zimbabwe have found the island the hardest place of all to tour – so far they have lost every single match they have ever played against the home side there. Four years ago, as I have mentioned before, they almost did achieve the near-impossible by winning a Test match there, only to be robbed by craven umpiring.If they play their best, and the home side does not, it is just conceivable they might be able to match Sri Lanka in one match, although they are without several of their experienced players on this tour. But to play their best they need to show more spirit than they have done for a long time. Just occasionally Zimbabwe surprise us with an unexpected victory, but things look very bleak at the moment.Further evidence that they could do better, with the bat at least, comes with the statistic that in both innings of the First Test, five batsmen passed 20. Yet not a single one reached 50. They did the hard work, but then got themselves out when they should have been setting their sights on a really big score.Back home, Bryan Strang, whose accuracy would have been invaluable on this tour, has in disenchantment announced his retirement from Zimbabwe cricket. He fought his way back to fitness after a hamstring injury in August, only to be overlooked by the selectors yet again, even for the Zimbabwe Board XI. He has now had enough, and is looking to find a job and play out his career overseas, in England or perhaps for a provincial side in South Africa.Bryan is a mercurial character and may change his mind, as he has done before. He has not always been easy for the administrators to get on with and he has sometimes been his own worst enemy, but Zimbabwe cricket cannot afford the loss of another experienced player with much to offer. Player dissatisfaction, some of it perhaps self-imposed, is surely a part of the team’s current failures, although it is impossible to say how much. But it is an issue that needs to be recognized, tackled and resolved.A New Year is also a time for looking back, and we can spare a moment for what might have been in Zimbabwe cricket. Murray Goodwin and Neil Johnson both walked out on the country just over a year ago, while several months ago Trevor Madondo, our most talented black batsman, sadly died of cerebral malaria. Updated profiles of all three are included in this issue, along with one of Bryan Strang.ZIMBABWE A IN KENYAThe Zimbabwe A team has just returned from an unsuccessful tour to Kenya, although they did fight back to win the last two one-day matches once the series had already been divided. Alistair Campbell, who was there, talks about that tour in this issue and he reveals how Kenya’s distinctive game plan took the Zimbabweans by surprise.THE JUSTIN ONTONG AFFAIRSouth African cricket, battered by the Australians as their players appear to have lost their spirit as well as their quality pace attack, is embroiled in another controversy as their board president vetoed the team chosen for the Third Test against Australia, insisting that coloured player Justin Ontong replace white player Jacques Rudolph in the selected team.This is an issue that also causes controversy in Zimbabwe, but here I am only going to comment on the situation as it concerns the young all-rounder Ontong. Playing for one’s country for the first time, being selected as one of the eleven best, should be a source of tremendous personal joy and sense of achievement. Is that still possible when the player knows that he is in the team, not because his ability demanded it, but because the colour of his skin got him in?How can Ontong be expected to take a real pride in his selection under these circumstances? The decision to put him in the national side because of the colour of his skin has stripped him of the dignity and worth he would deserve as being officially rated as one of his country’s eleven best. Surely he must feel demeaned by his inclusion under such circumstances, especially as he failed as a player in the warm-up match against New South Wales immediately before the Test.The `quota system’, supposedly designed to combat racism, actually exacerbates any that is there. White players omitted in favour of black or coloured players of lesser quality will naturally resent it; so will their team-mates, who want to play in the strongest possible team. The policy hits at team spirit and demeans the individual promoted on race rather than merit.By all means spend extra money to help the disadvantaged, but when it comes to selection on merit, surely all unprejudiced people must agree: the best team must be selected. It only causes trouble to put race or age or privilege or lack of it ahead of sheer merit. Ontong has become a Test player but at the same time, knowing he was not there on merit, he has become a victim.

Jagmohan Dalmiya, the president of the Indian cricket board, has blamed Zee Telefilms and ESPN-Star Sports, the opposing parties in the telecast-rights issue, for putting the Australian series in jeopardy. Dalmiya felt that the TV channels had placed their commercial interests ahead of the public interest for the game.Dalmiya’s comments came in the wake of the battle for TV rights to telecast international matches in India for the next four years. Addressing a press conference in Kolkata, Dalmiya revealed that the BCCI had been “pushed back to the wall” and had “no elbow-room” to arrive at a solution.”We need TV channels for the telecasting of the matches. But they are not ready to come to an agreement so that we can ensure the live coverage of the matches. We require TV channels, but cricket is supreme.”Dalmiya reiterated that the board was trying its best to ensure that the series was telecast live, and said that they had proposed four options to Zee and ESS. “We are making necessary arrangements. We will make an announcement within the next few days.”The first option was to submit fresh bids before the Mumbai High Court whereby rights could be awarded to the highest bidder. The second option was the division of the four-year telecast period into two parts. That would mean that the upcoming three cricket series will be segregated from the total period under consideration. Dalmiya added: “The four-year TV rights contract would then have commenced from May 2005.”As a third option, the TV companies were asked to submit tenders for the coverage of only these three cricket series. The final option was for the BCCI to produce the television coverage of these matches on its own.Dalmiya also said that the board had tried to convince the ICC about holding the series without TV coverage. “In a letter to the BCCI, the Australian Cricket Board even threatened not to come and play in India,” Dalmiya said. “If there was no television coverage. So, we had no option before us other than cancelling the whole tender process.”

Star spinner Muttiah Muralitharan and middle order batsman Kumar Sangakkarahave been included in an amended squad for the forthcoming quadrangularseries at Sharjah.Both Muraliltharan and Sangakkara had been surprise omissions from a 15-mansquad selected last weekend that was rejected by Johnston Fernando, theMinistry of Sports.Fernando refused to ratify the squad until the appointment of three newselectors, including Aravinda de Silva, who retired from all cricket afterSri Lanka’s World Cup semi-final.The selectors met on Friday evening, agreeing with the bulk of the changes,but including Muralitharan, who has assured the five-man panel of hisfitness, and Sangakkara.All-rounders Hasantha Fernando and Thilan Samaraweera, the A team skipper,were the players to miss out from the original squad.Three players were axed from the World Cup squad, including middle order duoRussel Arnold and Mahela Jayawardene and fast bowler Pulasthi Gunaratne.The squad includes three players without One-Day International experience:batsman Michael Vandort, wicket-keeper Prasanna Jayawardene and leg-spinningall-rounder Kaushal Loukuarachchi.The squad is scheduled to depart for the four-nation tournament alsoincluding Kenya, Zimbabwe and Pakistan on Tuesday morning.Sri Lanka will play their first match against Pakistan on April 4.Squad:Sanath Jayasuriya (Capt), Marvan Atapattu, Hashan Tillakaratne, JehanMubarak, Avishka Gunawardene, Michael Vandort, Kumar Sangakkara, PrasanaJayawardene, Kumar Dharmasena, Kaushal Loukuarachchi, Chaminda Vaas, PrabathNissanka, Dilhara Fernando, Muttiah Muralitharan, Buddhika Fernando