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For the second time in five days, New Zealand’s well-oiled bowling attack turned in a clinical bowling display, beating Bangladesh by nine wickets, and giving their team a foothold in the semi-finals of the World Cup. A target of 175 was never going to pose too many problems, not with Stephen Fleming sealing the nine-wicket win with an assertive century, his second in World Cups and eighth overall.Carrying on from where they had left off against West Indies, New Zealand’s varied pace attack refused to let up. Shane Bond’s incisiveness was complemented by Jacob Oram’s awkward lift and Scott Styris’s dibbly-dobblies as they snaffled ten wickets between them. Bangladesh’s batsmen came unstuck for the second match in a row – a frenzied collapse against Australia was followed by a lacklustre capitulation today – despite enjoying their best opening stand of the tournament. None of the top four converted their starts, giving it away when set, and left the underbelly exposed to the incisive New Zealand attack.Javed Omar, making his World Cup debut 11 years after his first ODI, and Tamim Iqbal, the youngster, provided Bangladesh the unhurried start they required, adding 55 in 16.4 overs. But Oram’s double-strike instigated a steep slide. Oram stuck to a back of a length, extracted uncomfortable bounce and hardly gave the batsmen room to maneuver. Tamim was once struck on the chest, being followed by a short one after trying to charge down the track, and, barring one aggressive crack across the line, couldn’t break free that often. He fell trying an overambitious scoop-paddle, dragging his back foot out of the crease and watching Brendon McCullum, standing up, whip off the bails in quick time. Omar edged a short one a couple of overs later and all their good work began to come apart.Bond opened up the floodgates with a couple of wickets on returning for his second spell before Styris, who bowled Mason’s quota of overs after he was injured, mopped up the tail with his nagging seamers. Aftab Ahmed’s dismissal typified Bangladesh’s day: mistiming a loft off Styris when well set, and holing out to long-off. Habibul Bashar joined in operation surrender, attempting a non-existent second run and being beaten by a direct hit from Oram, a sharp flat hit from deep third man.Saqibul and Mushfiqur had no answer to Bond detonators, losing their stumps by playing around full deliveries, before Mohammad Ashraful and Mashrafe Mortaza fell to Styris. It took a 34-run tenth wicket stand between Mohammad Rafique and Syed Rasel to lend the total some respectability.A target of 175 was always going to be within New Zealand’s range and they went about hunting it down with the ease associated with a stroll in the park. Fleming went about his business in a composed manner, putting away the wayward deliveries, clipping effortlessly off his pads and handling the left-arm spinners with ease. He shimmied down the track towards the latter part of his innings, lofting three sixes with minimum fuss.Giving him support was Hamish Marshall, in the side for the injured Lou Vincent. He took some time to get into his stride, especially against the fastish left-arm spin of Abdur Razzak, but finished with a flurry of fours. He grew in confidence as his innings went on and completed the match with a big six off part-time legspinner Ashraful .Their 134-run partnership had taken just 20 overs and was similar to the hammering Bangladesh received at the hands of Australia just a few days ago.

Rebecca Rolls, one of New Zealand’s longest-serving players, has retired from all forms of women’s cricket. Rolls, the team’s wicketkeeper and a hard-hitting batsman, leaves the game having played 104 ODIs – second only to Debbie Hockley on New Zealand’s all-time list.Since making her debut in 1997, Rolls has missed only one ODI series. She kept up her form until the end, hammering 104 from 87 deliveries against Australia in the opening match of last month’s quadrangular series in India. She was a key member of New Zealand’s World Cup-winning squad in 2000 and took a critical last-over catch in the final.Rolls, 31, was the first wicketkeeper to reach 100 dismissals in women’s limited-overs games and her 133 victims are a world record. She scored 2201 runs at 25.01, making her the third-highest run-scorer in New Zealand’s history. Her decision comes less than a week after women’s cricket also said goodbye to the retiring Australian champion, Cathryn Fitzpatrick.Rolls, who also represented New Zealand at soccer, said she felt the time was right to move on. “I’ve enjoyed my time immensely and I’m very excited for the future of women’s cricket and for the White Ferns, even though I won’t be part of it,” she said.

A training camp for the Pakistan U-19 team comprising of 21 players has been announced by the chairman and members of the junior selection committee. The camp will commence from June 4, 2007, and will help prepare the team for their upcoming tour of England that starts from July 25, 2007.The players will head back to play in their respective district tournaments after attending the camp till June 13. The second phase, from July 5 to July 23, will see them re-assemble in Abbottabad from where the team will depart for England to play two 4-day matches, two practice 2-day matches and 5 one day matches in this series.Mansoor Rana will be the coach while Sajjad Gill has been appointed as trainer.Camp probables: Shan Masood, Usman Salahuddin, Umer Ameen, Zeeshan Mushtaq, Adil Ameen, Ahmed Iqbal, Taimur Ali, Immad Wasim, Kamran Hussain, Shahzaib Ahmed, Gulraiz Sadaf, Muhammad Hussain, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Rameez, Rahatullah, Jibran Khan, Ali Asad, Mohammad Aamir, Azhar Attari, Junaid Nadir, Ahmed Shahzad.

Send us your feedback … what do you think?”Cricket Kenya (CK) has suspended its Central province ahead of next month’s board elections.”The province has not promoted any form of the game in their area of jurisdiction,” Samir Inamdar, CK’s chairman, told Cricinfo. “They have less than the prescribed three active clubs as required for the formation of branches. The decision to suspend their membership of CK was unanimously reached in a special council meeting. “The province was set up by the old Kenyan Cricket Association, and at the time Cricinfo reported that it appeared to have been created to give the existing board extra votes as there was little evidence of any meaningful cricket being played there.When the old KCA executive was ousted in May 2005, the new board decided to embrace Centrals (and Rift Valley, another disputed new province) and try to promote the game there. To safeguard the possibility that a province could not simply be guaranteed its place as a member with representation rights without ensuring that it had a minimal level of cricket being played within it, it was decided, in keeping with past practice, that a province had to have a minimum of three cricket-playing clubs to remain as a provincial affiliate.While in Rift Valley that faith has been justified – there are now 12 active clubs in the region – in Centrals there has been almost no activity Inamdar said: “the province is at present, from a cricketing perspective, totally moribund”.S Bindal, Centrals’ provincial representative, never attended any board or council meeting and, as a result, lost his seat under CK rules.Joshua Kiragu, the Centrals chairman, was appointed as CK’s development convenor. “He was given the task of co-ordinating the Cricket Without Boundaries project in Western Province,” Inamdar said. “The board had raised queries about the application of certain funding given to him for this project and despite repeated requests he failed to report to the CEO and/or the treasurer on this issue.” The CK executive has resolved to remove him from his seat on the ground that he too has failed to attend any board or council meetings for over a year. The executive voted to suspend Central, citing the fact that “it had no active cricket being played, no real structure, no constitution and no recognised officials”.CK officials believe that cricket has a future in the region and they will attempt to relaunch the game when new and more reliable people can be found. “There is great potential there particularly among schools,” Inamdar said, “and a good possible source of funding from the many high profile businesses and industries in the vicinity.”

Gamini Lokuge, the sports minister, has expanded the interim committee of Sri Lanka Cricket from its present size of five members to seven. Sidath Wettimuny, the former Test opener, Premasara Epasinghe, a commentator, and Dion Gomes, president of the boxing association, have been added to the committee along with Lalith Wickremasinghe, a representative of the ministry.Prakash Schaafter and Damien Fernando, a representative of Jeevan Kumaratunga, the former sports minister, have been replaced. The replacement of Fernando was expected following the appointment of Lokuge, who replaced Kumaratunga as sports minister during a cabinet reshuffle in March.The top three members in the interim committee however remain unchanged, with Jayantha Dharmadasa as chairman, Kanganan Mathivanan as secretary and Sujeewa Rajapakse as treasurer. The new-look committee is due to have its first meeting on July 11. Sri Lanka cricket has been under interim administration since April 2005, after the elected body was accused of misappropriation of funds by Kumaratunga.

Inzamam-ul-Haq, the former Pakistan captain, is the latest international star to have been approached by the Indian Cricket League (ICL).Inzamam, who announced his retirement from one-day cricket after Pakistan’sfailed World Cup campaign, confirmed that ICL officials had contacted him. “They have been in touch with me and I am considering their offer,” Inzamam told Cricinfo. “If the terms are right, I will play.”The parallel league has stirred the cricket world, evoking visions of aKerry Packer-style circuit. The players it has targeted so far, however, are those who have retired from international cricket in one form or another. Brian Lara has already signed on, while Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Stephen Fleming have also expressed an interest.The PCB announced recently that centrallycontracted players would be unable to join the league but kept the door open for ex-internationals or players not contracted.Nasim Ashraf, PCB chairman, told that any player joining the leaguewould be ruled out of future internationals. “Our position on the breakaway Indian league is clear and firm. Since it [league] is not approved by the ICC any player joining it will not be considered for future selection. No current player will be allowed to sign the league and all cricket boards of the world have this same stance.”Inzamam said he believed the league would ultimately benefit Indiancricket itself. “What harm is there if it means that more people willwatch cricket, come to the grounds and watch stars in action? It furthersthe profile of cricket.”Inzamam did acknowledge that ultimately the choice will come down to financialbenefits to the player. “Players who are out of favour, or not international cricketers, or who are nearing the end of their careers will rightly see this as an opportunity to benefit financially and I don’t see anything wrong with that.”For younger players too, there are rewards. Playing alongside playerssuch as Lara or McGrath can only be a good thing for your development as ayoung player.”Inzamam’s own international future is currently uncertain. Though he hasleft one-day cricket, he wants to carry on playing Test cricket “for as longas I feel I am performing.” Noises coming from the board in recentmonths suggest Inzamam may not be a part of Pakistan’s next Test squadagainst South Africa but the selectors have publicly said he will becalled to the probables camp for the series in September and October.Inzamam is currently Pakistan’s second-highest run-scorer in Tests, just 19 runs behind Javed Miandad and he plans to fight for his place. “I want to pass 10,000 Test runs and I believe I am capable of doing that, given the opportunity.”He has limited opportunities to prove his form and fitness to selectors,however. Pakistan’s domestic season is not due to start till December.Reports linked him to some county sides earlier in the season but thoseplans have fallen through. Until the season starts, Inzamam will play clubcricket for Lahore Gymkhana.

It’s becoming a familiar, sorry tale. Simon Jones has suffered yet another injury setback – this time it’s his calf. He has hardly played this season with his knee injury and, after 11 overs at Colwyn Bay, has broken down againHe won’t play any further part in Glamorgan’s Championship game against Northamptonshire and will miss the Pro40 with Somerset on Sunday.Jones was out for most of last season following a knee operation, and the same knee flared up again this year. His contract is up at the end of the season, but Glamorgan are keen to retain him.The latest match was only his third Championship match since mid-May, when he suffered another knee problem. His comeback for Glamorgan during the 2006 season, following his aborted return on England’s tour of India, lasted four matches before he broke down against Ireland in the C&G Trophy.

India were at the receiving end of two contentious umpiring decisions in the deciding match of the series but Rahul Dravid, their captain, didn’t think present-day technology was good enough to aid umpires in all situations.Both Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar were disappointed with their caught-behind decisions and stood their ground after umpire Aleem Dar raised his finger, but Dravid wasn’t in favour of technology being used more often.”I don’t think the technology is good enough at the moment, especially for fine edges, snicks and lbws,” he said. “It is for line decisions and I think there it should stay.”Replays were inconclusive with regard to Dravid’s dismissal, suggesting that there might have been a faint edge after all. “I did not feel the snick at that stage,” he said when asked about the Andrew Flintoff delivery that cut him in half before he had opened his account. “The technology showed that I got a snick and I have to accept it. May be they were right as I did not feel it at that moment because generally, you feel when you snick it. May be this time I didn’t feel it. But I can’t argue with snicko, can I?”There were no doubts, though, about Tendulkar’s dismissal. The bat did not make contact with the ball and television replays indicated that the bat had brushed the pad.India’s administrative manager Rajeev Shukla had earlier said that the team were planning to lodge a protest regarding umpiring standards in this series. “We’ll lodge a complaint with the ICC about the decisions,” Shukla was quoted as saying in . Dravid was expected to furnish an umpires’ report, as all captains do at the end of the series, and said he will convey his thoughts in that report.England captain Paul Collingwood was satisfied with the overall quality of the umpiring despite the number of errors over the tour, starting from the Tests.”I think overall the standard of umpiring has been pretty high,” he said. “There’s been some decisions that probably haven’t been correct at times but we all make mistakes.”

Cricket Kenya has secured a sponsorship deal worth Sh7 million (US$105,000) with East African Breweries Limited.The four-year deal, which runs to 2011, will mean the national side wearing shirts with the Tusker branding. In anticipation of this tie-up, Kenya’s players have been using Tusker-logos on kit since before the ICC World Twenty20.Although the official launch of the contract is not expected until next month, Tom Tikolo, the board’s CEO, told The Standard that some of the income from the deal would be used to pay players and the remainder for development, including an ambitious schools’ programme.Kenyan cricket has been without a major sponsor since before the 2003 World Cup.

Brad Hodge will use Victoria’s one-day game against Western Australia on Wednesday to try and end his batting slump after he made 2 and 0 in the Pura Cup on the weekend. Hodge and Clinton McKay have been included in Victoria’s 12-man squad while the Warriors welcome their international trio of Adam Gilchrist, Michael Hussey and Brad Hogg.Hodge said the Bushrangers would need to put their comprehensive 288-run Pura Cup loss to Western Australia behind them. “It’s been a tough few days but we’ve all got to pick ourselves up and bounce back as best we can,” he said.”Naturally I’d like to get back amongst the runs, but it’s also important to stay focused on the game and helping the Bushrangers get the points. Tomorrow’s match is another opportunity for me and all the guys to play the sort of cricket we know we’re capable of.”Victoria have left out Andrew McDonald, who will miss two to three weeks as he continues to recover from shoulder surgery, and Mick Lewis. The Warriors have dropped Aaron Heal, Shawn Gillies and Matt Johnston, and have also included two wicketkeepers with Luke Ronchi likely to open and Gilchrist to bat in the middle order.Victoria squad Michael Klinger, Aiden Blizzard, Brad Hodge, Rob Quiney, David Hussey, Cameron White (capt), Aaron Finch, Adam Crosthwaite (wk), Shane Harwood, Clinton McKay, Bryce McGain, Peter Siddle.Western Australia squad Justin Langer, Luke Ronchi, Michael Hussey, Adam Gilchrist (wk), Adam Voges (capt), Luke Pomersbach, Shaun Marsh, Sean Ervine, Darren Wates, Brad Hogg, Steve Magoffin, Danny McLauchlan.