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The six limited-overs matches in Sydney and Canberra have almost sold out

ESPNcricinfo staff20-Nov-2020The prospect of the opening Test between Australia and India remaining in Adelaide has received a boost with South Australia to come out of its strict Covid-19 lockdown three days early on Saturday.The state was put into a hard six-day lockdown on Thursday amid growing concerns around a Covid-19 cluster which emerged last weekend, but on Friday it was announced that new information had come to light which would allow an early loosening of restrictions.Last week Cricket Australia flew international and BBL players into New South Wales to avoid the risk of them being unable to travel if further borders were closed.A number of players who had been involved in the Sheffield Shield hub which finished in Adelaide earlier this month had to go into self-isolation in their home states when the cluster emerged, but CA was able to get approval for those involved in the limited-overs and Australia A squads to fly to Sydney.Currently the South Australia-Victoria border is closed but it is hoped that it can reopen on December 1 if the Covid cluster is kept under control. That will be a key part of staging the first Test in Adelaide on December 17 because the teams then need to be able to travel to Melbourne ahead of the Boxing Day Test.Throughout last week CA remained committed to hosting the opening Test as planned in Adelaide even if restrictions mean reduced or no crowds.The tour starts with the first ODI at the SCG on November 27 with the three ODIs and three T20Is split between Sydney and Canberra. As of Friday, all but one of the six limited-overs game had sold out with just under 2000 tickets remaining for the first ODI. Both venues are operating at 50% capacity.

West Indies player called in a substitute despite being instructed otherwise by the on-field officials

ESPNcricinfo staff06-Aug-2019Kieron Pollard has been pulled up for “disobeying” the on-field umpires’ instructions during the second T20I against India in Florida on Sunday, picking up a 20% match fee fine and a demerit point.The incident in question took place during the Indian innings, when, according to an ICC statement, Pollard “called a substitute onto the field despite having been repeatedly told by the umpires that a request must be made for a substitute to come onto the field and being advised to wait until the end of the next over” and he “failed to follow the umpire’s instructions”.After being charged by Nigel Duguid and Gregory Brathwaite, the on-field umpires, third umpire Leslie Reifer and fourth official Patrick Gustard, Pollard denied his guilt in the matter and that necessitated a formal hearing with match referee Jeff Crowe, who found him guilty and handed out the penalties.Pollard didn’t bowl in the match and scored a run-a-ball 8 not out as West Indies got to 98 for 4 in 15.3 overs after India had put up 167 for 5, which meant a 22-run win for the visitors on the DLS method, giving India the three-match series 2-0 with one game left to play.Pollard did have a better outing in the first game of the series in Florida – his first game for West Indies since November 2018 – where he scored 49 in 49 balls in a poor West Indies batting effort of 95 for 9.The third and final match of the series will be played at Providence Stadium in Guyana later today.

After crushing Bangladesh in a warm-up match with a second-string side, Afghanistan are firm favourites, but Bangladesh have the nous to counter the opposition’s spinners and exploit their weaknesses with the bat

The Preview by Mohammad Isam02-Jun-20181:44

‘Mujeeb takes pressure off me’ – Rashid Khan

Big Picture

In two weeks, Afghanistan’s players will take part in possibly the most important game of their lives – their first ever Test match – and on Sunday, they will be preparing for it by going crash, bang, wallop in a T20I against Bangladesh.If that seems a bit odd, don’t worry, it’s just the way cricket works these days. The BCB opted for T20s because Bangladesh don’t play them often enough, and the Afghanistan Cricket Board, being the smaller board, had to oblige. The shortest format is right up Afghanistan’s alley though. Their second-string side crushed Bangladesh by eight wickets in a warm-up match on Friday.Afghanistan are also placed higher than Bangladesh in the ICC rankings. They trounced Zimbabwe in their most recent T20 series and possess a spin attack that has quickly become the envy of the world. With Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan and Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Afghanistan can bank on controlling more than half of their bowling innings.To tackle them, Bangladesh will rely on the experience of Tamim Iqbal, Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan and Mahmudullah, and hope Liton Das, Mosaddek Hossain and Sabbir Rahman live up to their promise. Their bowling will almost entirely depend on Shakib, but Rubel Hossain, Mehidy Hasan and Nazmul Islam can provide good back-up.Mohammad Shahzad is expected to be a major threat in the top order, but Afghanistan’s batting is otherwise an area of concern. Rahmat Shah, their highest run-getter and only centurion in the last 12 months, is not in the T20 squad. Given their focus on youth, Afghanistan will want one of the younger batsmen, like Darwish Rasooli and Najeeb Tarakai, to step up in this series.

Form guide

Afghanistan WWLLL
Bangladesh LWLWL

In the spotlight

Bangladesh have already identified Rashid Khan to be their biggest threat. His stellar IPL campaign adds to his reputation of being a dangerous legspinner, particularly when he delivers them at a high pace.Mushfiqur Rahim could be one of the Bangladesh batsmen best equipped to take on Rashid and the other Afghanistan spinners. He was a major reason for Bangladesh making the final of the Nidahas Trophy in January; his unbeaten 72 against Sri Lanka to help chase down a target of 215 was characterised by superb death-overs boundary-hitting and Bangladesh would love more of the same in Dehradun.

Team news

Karim Sadiq is the only Afghanistan player missing from the XI that beat Zimbabwe in their last T20I in February. Tarakai, who is returning after more than a year, would hope to take Sadiq’s place in the batting line-up. Young allrounder Karim Janat and Under-19 batsman Rasooli also remain in contention.Afghanistan (probable): 1 Mohammad Shahzad (wk), 2 Asghar Stanikzai (capt), 3 Najeeb Tarakai, 4 Mohammad Nabi, 5 Najibullah Zadran, 6 Shafiqullah, 7 Sharafuddin Ashraf, 8 Gulbadin Naib, 9 Rashid Khan, 10 Aftab Alam, 11 Mujeeb Ur RahmanBangladesh are searching for a replacement for Mustafizur Rahman, who is missing with a toe injury. And they are mainly looking at Abul Hasan, Abu Hider or Abu Jayed. Soumya Sarkar’s spot in the line-up is also under threat with Mosaddek and Ariful Haque waiting in the wings.Bangladesh (probable): 1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Liton Das, 3 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), 4 Shakib Al Hasan (capt), 5 Mahmudullah, 6 Sabbir Rahman, 7 Mosaddek Hossain 8 Mehidy Hasan, 9 Abu Hider, 10 Rubel Hossain, 11 Nazmul Islam

Pitch and conditions

The pitch was slow and low and two-paced on Friday. The one for the match doesn’t look as soft but don’t expect big fireworks. Advantage Afghanistan spinners. Weather is expected to be clear.

Stats and Trivia

• If he can pick up two wickets in the first T20I, Shakib will become only the third cricketer to take 500 wickets and score 10,000 runs in all formats of international cricket. Shahid Afridi and Jacques Kallis are the others, but they needed more than 500 matches to do so. Sunday will be Shakib’s 300th.
• If he can take one wicket on Sunday, Rashid will become the fastest to 50 T20I wickets in terms of time taken – two years and 220 days – and second-fastest in terms of matches played.
• Mohammad Nabi is 39 runs away from becoming the fifth allrounder, after Afridi, Shakib, Thisara Perera and Dwayne Bravo to amass 1,000 runs and 50-plus wickets in T20Is.
• The Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Dehradun will become India’s 21st venue to host T20 internationals.

Rajinder Goel and Padmakar Shivalkar will receive the CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award, while India’s first Test captain Shantha Rangaswamy will be the inaugural recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Women

Nagraj Gollapudi and Bharath Seervi27-Feb-2017Former left-arm spinners Rajinder Goel and Padmakar Shivalkar will receive the CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award this season. Starting this year, the BCCI has also decided to institute the Lifetime Achievement Award for Women with India’s first Test captain Shanta Rangaswamy being the inaugural recipient of the honour. The trio would each get a cash prize of INR 25 lakhs too.

The unheralded four

Goel and Shivalkar are two of only four non-Test players, the others being wicketkeeper Bhausaheb Nimbalkar and journalist KN Prabhu, to receive the BCCI’s lifetime achievement award. Here is the full list
1994 – Lala Amarnath
1995 – Mushtaq Ali
1996 – Vijay Hazare
1997 – KN Prabhu
1998 – Polly Umrigar
1999 – Hemu Adhikari
2000 – Subhash Gupte
2001 – MAK Pataudi
2002 – Bhausaheb Nimbalkar
2003 – Chandu Borde
2004 – Bishan Singh Bedi, Erapalli Prasanna, S Venkatraghavan, Bhagwath Chandrasekhar
2007 – Nari Contractor
2008 – Gundappa Viswanath
2009 – Mohinder Amarnath
2010 – Salim Durani
2011 – Ajit Wadekar
2012 – Sunil Gavaskar
2013 – Kapil Dev
2014 – Dilip Vengsarkar
2015 – Syed Kirmani

The winners were chosen by a three-person jury comprising the pair of Ramachandra Guha and Diana Edulji (both of them sit on the Supreme Court-appointed committee of administrators that presently supervises the BCCI) along with senior journalist N Ram. Former India and Tamil Nadu legspinner VV Kumar and the late Ramakant Desai, former India and Bombay fast bowler, will have been named as recipients of a Special Award for their yeoman services to Indian cricket. This award also carries a cash prize of INR 15 lakhs each.Both Goel, who played for Haryana and Delhi, and Shivalkar, who represented Bombay, never played for India. Still, their legend is well-known in Indian cricket history. In the mid-1960s, when Bishan Singh Bedi was making his mark, the question that was asked was, “is he as good as Goel?” Ironically, one reason Goel never played for India was because Bedi had cemented his position in the Indian team. The closest Goel came to play for India was in the unofficial Test against Ceylon in 1964-65.In 1985, Goel retired aged 43. He had 637 wickets in the Ranji Trophy, a record that stands to date, going past VV Kumar’s tally. He had an incredible 53 five-fors and 17 ten-wicket match hauls. Overall, Goel played 157 matches and got 750 wickets.Another young man who was denied an India berth as his career clashed with that of Bedi was Shivalkar. A product of the famous Shivaji Park Gymkhana, Shivalkar’s accuracy to land the ball repeatedly on the same spot and then spin it viciously made him unique. He made his Ranji debut at 22 and retired when he was 48. During that time, Shivalkar finished with an aggregate of 589 first-class wickets at an average of 19.69 in 124 matches, between the 1961-62 and 1987-88 seasons. Shivalkar’s 361 Ranji wickets came for Bombay, most by any bowler. He had 11 ten-wicket hauls (joint-second).Rubbing shoulders with the greats: Rajinder Goel (left) with MAK Pataudi•Rajinder Goel

While recognizing their efforts, the awards committee praised Goel and Shivalkar saying: “The two left-arm spinners traumatized the batsmen picking wickets in a heap.”Rangaswamy, who is 63, played 16 Tests for India out of which she led in 12 matches. In her own words, Rangaswamy was a batting allrounder. She shared the new ball and was a hard-hitting, middle-order batsman. There were many other notable firsts attached to her name: she scored the first Test century, hit the first six and led India to their first series victory (against West Indies in 1976). Rangaswamy, who was the chairman of the selectors till 2016, had also won the Arjuna Award in 1976.Rangaswamy was thrilled to receive the BCCI honour, and felt it was a reward to the collective brilliance of the “pioneers” of Indian women’s cricket. “It is more a recognition of the services rendered to the game of Indian women’s cricket by the pioneers, those founding mothers if I can use the word. Because had we done badly in the initial stages the game would have just withered away. We did well. We could rub shoulders with international teams and that ensured the longevity of the game. And that I feel is the single-most significant contribution of all of us. With pride I can say – yes, we did it.”

Rahul Dravid will be team mentor and Paddy Upton head coach in a re-jigged coaching team for Delhi Daredevils

ESPNcricinfo staff01-Mar-20162:33

‘Great to be part of a young, exciting team’ – Dravid

Former India captain Rahul Dravid has been appointed team mentor of Delhi Daredevils. Dravid will head a refurbished coaching bench at Daredevils, who have also hired former South Africa and India assistant coach Paddy Upton as head coach.Dravid and Upton will work with a team of assistants: Zubin Bharucha (technical director), former India batsmen Sridharan Sriram and Praveen Amre (batting coaches), and former Tamil Nadu and India fast bowler TA Sekhar (bowling consultant).”I am very excited by the challenge of taking Delhi Daredevils on to the next level. From what I have seen I have been impressed by the ambition and energy demonstrated by the team and I look forward to working with a group of players that I believe have what it takes to succeed,” Dravid said.”Along with the rest of the support staff, I am fully aware of what this franchise means to its supporters and I intend to do everything possible to help build a team that the fans can be proud of.”The franchise was forced to ring in changes to the coaching staff once former South Africa batsman and coach Gary Kirsten’s three-year contract was terminated after two seasons. Under Kirsten, who took charge in September 2013, Daredevils finished bottom of the table in IPL 2014 and second from the bottom last year. Daredevils also axed Kirsten’s assistant Rob Walters, who was the trainer.Incidentally, the trio of Dravid, Upton and Bharucha were part of the core team at Rajasthan Royals, which has been suspended for two seasons by the Lodha Committee. In 2014, having served as captain in previous seasons, Dravid assumed the role of team director cum mentor at Royals. In the 28 matches Dravid oversaw, the franchise won 13 matches and lost 12, with two ties and one no result.One of the most sought after coaches in the T20 format, Upton recently won the Big Bash League with Sydney Thunder, before also coaching Lahore Qalandars in the inaugural Pakistan Super League.”I relish the privilege to work again with Rahul and Zubin, and to have the opportunity to do so at a franchise like Delhi Daredevils,” Upton said. “I am constantly learning about the Twenty20 format as I move around the world, and look forward to applying and furthering this knowledge at the coming IPL season with Delhi.”

Geoff Cook, the Durham head coach, is in a critical but stable condition in hospital after suffering a heart attack on Thursday

ESPNcricinfo staff20-Jun-2013Geoff Cook, the Durham head coach, is in a critical but stable condition in hospital after suffering a heart attack on Thursday.Durham released an update of his condition on Friday morning and said the club had been inundated with messages of support for Geoff, his wide Judith and their family. Many of those came from players who took to Twitter on Thursday evening with their well wishes.Graham Onions, the Durham and England bowler, tweeted: “Sad day for Durham CCC! my thoughts are with Geoff and his family,lets hope for a speedy recovery.”Durham’s next fixture is on Saturday against Hampshire in the Yorkshire Bank 40 at Chester-le-Street. Jon Lewis, the 2nd XI coach, will take charge of the first team in an interim capacity and be helped by Dale Benkenstein during the Friends Life t20.Cook has been involved with Durham since their inception as a first-class county in 1991, being appointed head coach in 2007. That season he led the county to their first silverware, the Friends Provident Trophy, and a maiden Championship title followed a year later.Last season, Cook decided to replace captain Phil Mustard with Paul Collingwood half-way through the campaign. It proved an inspired decision as Durham hauled themselves off the bottom of the County Championship Division One table with a string of victories that saw them survive very comfortably.Cook enjoyed a long career as a player with Northamptonshire, for whom he scored 23,277 first-class runs between 1971 and 1990, and played seven Tests for England in 1982 and the New Year’s Test of 1983.

Sean Ervine hit his first half-century in the Friends Life t20 for two seasons as Hampshire beat Middlesex by four wickets with four balls

28-Jun-2012
ScorecardSean Ervine hit his first half-century in the Friends Life t20 for two seasons as Hampshire beat Middlesex by four wickets with four balls to spare at Richmond to record only their second victory in the South Group.Ervine struck five fours and three sixes in his unbeaten 75 and brought up the winning runs with a boundary off Tim Murtagh with just four balls remaining.Hampshire had been set a target of 157 after Paul Stirling, the 21-year-old Ireland batsman who has been tipped by Middlesex cricket director Angus Fraser to become one of the most dangerous batsmen in the world in limited-overs cricket, had batted through the innings to finish with 82 not out, which lead the hosts to a total of 156 for 2.Stirling, who made his third half-century in successive t20 innings and his highest score in this form of the game, struck seven fours and three sixes as he shared stands of 38 in five overs with Joe Denly, 67 in 10 with Adam Rossington and an unbeaten 51 in five with Dawid Malan.They should have made more than that but Denly contributed only eight off 16 balls before Dimitri Mascarenhas had him caught by Ervine at long off and Rossington had hit only one four in his 19 when he was bowled by Chris Wood.Glenn Maxwell conceded only 18 runs and actually bowled a maiden in four overs of offspin as Middlesex got bogged down in the middle overs and it was not until Malan hit 30 off 16 balls that Stirling got the support he needed..The Middlesex total still looked beyond Hampshire when they slumped to 41 for 3 in the sixth over but then Simon Katich, playing his first t20 match of the season because Michael Carberry is injured, and Ervine put on 69 in eight overs.Katich had scored 40 off 25 balls with four fours and a six when he drove Gareth Berg to Denly at long off and Hampshire stumbled when Maxwell was also brilliantly caught by the former Kent opener on the midwicket boundary, while Liam Dawson was bowled by Toby Roland-Jones.There was no stopping Ervine, though, as he made his 75 off 51 balls and Mascarenhas made 14 off eight deliveries to briskly help see Hampshire home.

The injury to Gautam Gambhir had not been playing just on the selectors’ minds when they got together to pick the team for the Test series against West Indies in the Caribbean

Siddhartha Talya and Nagraj Gollapudi27-May-2011The shoulder injury to Gautam Gambhir had not been playing just on the selectors’ minds when they got together to pick the team for the Test series in the West Indies. Abhinav Mukund was among the frontrunners to replace Gambhir, like he had done last year in the Bangalore Test against Australia, and his call-up in Virender Sehwag’s absence means he is likely to open the innings with his Tamil Nadu team-mate M Vijay in the Caribbean.”There was a lot of talk of me replacing Gambhir, so that played on my mind as well,” Mukund told ESPNcricinfo. “I’ve been doing very well in the last two years in domestic cricket, I’m glad the selectors have taken notice of that. My efforts have paid off.”Mukund, 21, made his debut in 2007, and in 40 first-class games, he has averaged 59.41 with 13 centuries, including a triple-ton. He began the 2010-11 domestic season with 161 and 63 in the Irani Cup, finished as Tamil Nadu’s second-highest run scorer in the Ranji Trophy and scored a century in each innings of the Duleep Trophy semi-final for South Zone.Joining Mukund on the tour are his state team-mates, Vijay and S Badrinath. “Vijay and I opened a lot together initially and we understand each other’s game well,” Mukund said. “We share a very good rapport and our past experience in opening together will definitely help us.”Vijay and Mukund amassed 462 for the first wicket in a Ranji Trophy game against Maharashtra in 2008-09 and could well pair up again in the absence of Gambhir and Sehwag. Although Mukund admitted filling the void would be a tough task, he was confident his mental strength would hold him in good stead. “My temperament is my biggest strength,” he said. “I learnt a lot about that from Badri. Even Sachin told me that he constantly keeps working on his game and I’m only starting out in international cricket.”Mukund is part of the Chennai Super Kings squad in the IPL but hasn’t played a game this season. He’s been in the company of several others whose brains he’s been picking through the tournament. “I’ve been spending time with the left-handers in my team, mainly Suresh Raina and Michael Hussey, and their inputs will certainly help.”Mukund, who’s been part of India’s Under-19 team, the A team tour of England and the National Cricket Academy in the Emerging Players Tournament in Australia, won a Border-Gavaskar Scholarship in 2009 and spent five weeks at the Center of Excellence in Brisbane. In an interview with ESPNcricinfo last year Mukund had said: “I learnt how to be self-sufficient in life. The facilities were amazing. It was a good experience batting against the Kookaburra ball, especially against the bowling machine. I also got good exposure against the short ball.”And now, after another successful Ranji season, he’s won the selectors over and is preparing for his first international tour with the national team as its youngest member. “I had been part of the Test squad in Bangalore, it just feels good to be sharing the dressing room with them once again.”Another player who was expecting the call-up for the tour was Parthiv Patel, who will double up as reserve wicketkeeper and reserve opener. He is returning to the Test fold after an absence of three years. “I was expecting it a little bit based on my domestic showing in the last few years,” said Parthiv, who last played in 2008.Parthiv made his debut on the 2002 tour of England but has played only 20 Tests because he found chances hard to come by once MS Dhoni secured his spot as wicketkeeper. He has continued being a strong performer in domestic cricket, scoring 526 runs at an average of 47.81 in the 2008-09 Ranji Trophy and 727 at 66.09 in 2009-10.A century in the Irani Trophy boosted his confidence in 2010-11 after which he scored consecutive fifties while opening in the ODIs against New Zealand. He opened in two ODIs in South Africa as well, scored 49 runs, but worked on his game under coach Gary Kirsten.”If I have learned anything it that I need to focus more and I need to tighten my defence,” Parthiv said. “He [Kirsten] was instrumental in me changing my thoughts with respect to approaching a match. For example in South Africa, he said that the ball moves a lot initially and the essential thing for me to do was to be on top of the ball. These are pretty basic things but the way he told me made a big impression.”I have been working hard on my game and I now believe in my game more. That makes me more confident compared to in the past.”Also making a comeback is Manoj Tiwary, whose only ODI innings in 2008 was terminated early by a crushing Brett Lee yorker. Tiwary, who’s part of the ODI squad for the West Indies tour, was beset by injuries and poor form and has taken a couple of seasons to work himself back in to contention. “I should be honest enough to admit that when I was bowled by a Brett Lee yorker in Brisbane, I wasn’t matured enough. Now I have played three more seasons of first-class cricket,” Tiwary told . “I have done well in IPL against international bowlers. Definitely the confidence level and the self belief has improved.”

Wahab Riaz, who received his maiden call-up to Pakistan’s Test squad for tour of England, and opening batsman Yasir Hameed are eager to translate their domestic form into success at the international level

Cricinfo staff21-Jun-2010Left-arm fast bowler Wahab Riaz, who received his maiden call-up to Pakistan’s Test squad for tour of England, and opening batsman Yasir Hameed, who was given a recall, are eager to translate their domestic form into success at the international level.Riaz was at home watching television when the news of his selection came through and he was overjoyed. “I just couldn’t believe my eyes when my name came up,” Riaz told the website . “I see this selection as a show of faith from the PCB and the selectors in my ability as a bowler. I’m in good form with the ball and I can only hope that I will carry this form onto the international stage with me.”Riaz made his ODI debut for Pakistan against Zimbabwe in 2008 and played five one-dayers and a Twenty20. He picked up two wickets on debut but, after a promising start, struggled in the Kitply Cup in Bangladesh in 2008, where he was taken out of the attack for bowling two beamers against India. Riaz last played an ODI for Pakistan in June 2008 but strong performances for the A team against England Lions in Abu Dhabi, and against Australia A and Sri Lanka A, brought him back into the reckoning. In six games during last season’s Qaid-e-Azam Trophy, Riaz picked up 14 wickets.Opening batsman Yasir Hameed was returning to the Test squad after a gap of nearly three years. Hameed’s last Test appearance was against India at Bangalore in 2007 where he made 19 and 39. Hameed made 513 runs at an average of 42.75 in the Qaid-e-Azam Trophy and he said he had ironed out the technical deficiencies in his batting.”You have to understand that the hardest part for a professional sportsman is to admit that he does have weaknesses and that there are flaws in his technique which need to be addressed,” Hameed told . “I’ve worked really hard on the problems I had against spin and I’ve done a lot of homework on this specific problem. As for my off-stump weakness, I’ve been using a tape ball to learn when to leave the ball and when to go for it. It’s all about patience and application and I’ve been working hard on both those things.”Pakistan play their first T20 game against Australia in Birmingham on July 5, and the first Test against Australia at Lord’s begins on July 13.

Queensland and Tasmania share the points after only 16 overs were possible due to rain and bad light, with Renshaw posting 51 off 36

ESPNcricinfo staff25-Sep-2024Matt Renshaw’s first half-century of a new summer was the only shining light on an otherwise gloomy day in Melbourne as Queensland and Tasmania shared the One-Day Cup points on offer after rain and bad light meant only 16 overs were possible.Renshaw made 51 off 36 balls with four fours and three sixes as Queensland posted 128 for 5 from the only play possible on a day where rain delayed the start by four-and-a-half hours and bad light ended it early.Persistent rain fell at the Junction Oval on Wednesday ensuring no play was possible until 2.30pm. The rain meant the match was shortened to a 20-over affair, albeit with 50-over powerplay rules in place. Tasmania unsurprisingly sent Queensland in having been skittled by Victoria on the same surface two days earlier.They made early breakthroughs with Gabe Bell removing Ben McDermott while Beau Webster picked up Max Bryant. Renshaw and new Queensland recruit Lachlan Hearne then shared a 79-run stand in just 8.4 overs. They struck seven fours and four sixes between them before Webster broke the stand.Matt Kuhnemann got his first wicket for his new state against his old side, bowling former team-mate Jack Wildermuth for 8. Hearne holed out to deep midwicket off Bell in the 15th over before the umpires checked the light after 16 overs and called a halt to proceedings. Play never resumed and the points were shared.Queensland will remain in Melbourne and face Victoria on Friday with Australia Test opener Usman Khawaja set to play after missing the clash with Tasmania.