Somerset County Cricket Club Junior Sabre members are all invited to go along and watch Bristol City play against Peterborough United absolutely free of charge.Over the next few days all paid up Junior Sabres members of the club will be receiving their invitation in the post from membership secretary Joanne Arnold to go along to Ashton Park in Bristol on Saturday March 15th to see the match.All Junior Sabre members have to do then to receive their free ticket is to complete the form at the bottom of their letter and return it to Jo Arnold with a stamped addressed envelope before March 5th.Accompanying adults will have to pay £10 at the turnstiles, or alternatively they can book in advance by calling the Bristol City Hotline on 0117966 6666.Earlier today the membership secretary told me: "This offer is all tied in with the link that we have developed with both Bristol City Football Club and Bristol Shoguns Rugby Club, that gives our Junior Sabre members the chance to watch top class sporting action in the region absolutely free of charge. However it is only on offer to those who have joined for the 2003 season."On the day of the match the Junior Sabres will be joined by Somerset’s friendly dragon mascot Stumpy. Several members of the playing staff are also expected to be present at Ashton Gate.Anybody who has any queries regarding the arrangements for the day should contact Jo Arnold at the County Ground on 01823 272946.
It was India’s 468th and West Indies’ 428th match.
It was the 65th match between these two sides. The record nowreads : India 23, West Indies 40, tied one and abandoned one.
Umpires KC Barbour and GR Evans were officiating in their eighthand 13th match respectively.
Carl Hooper, on one, completed his 1000 runs in matches againstIndia. He was playing his 35th match and 33rd innings. Hooper alsobecame the third West Indian after Desmond Haynes (1357 runs in 36matches ) and Gordon Greenidge (1181 runs in 24 matches) and 16thbatsman overall to do so. Incidentally Pakistani Saeed Anwar with 1901runs from 49 matches holds the record of aggregating most runs in acareer against India.
India conceded only five extras in West Indies’ innings – twowides and three no-balls. It was only the seventh occasion when Indianbowlers and fielders conceded five or less extras in opponents’ totalof 200 or more. The details :
Extras
3
India
v Pakistan (252-3)
Lahore
31-12-1982
4
India
v Australia (263-3)
Rajkot
07-10-1986
4
India
v Australia (235-7)
Melbourne
31-01-1986
4
India
v NewZealand (207-3
Sydney
05-03-1985
5
India
v England (250)
Sharjah
11-12-1997
5
India
v Australia (236-4)
Indore
06-10-1984
5
India
v West Indies (229-5)
Harare
04-07-2001
Tendulkar (122*) when reached 76,completed his 1000 runs against WestIndies. He became first Indian and ninth batsman overall to do so. Hewas playing his 28th match and innings. Tendulkar now holds the recordof completing 1000 runs in a career against West Indies in leastmatches and innings. The earlier record was held by Pakistani Inzamamul-Haq who took 33 matches and 32 innings for his 1000 runs.
The hundred was Tendulkar’s 29th in ODIs and second against WestIndies. His only other hundred against West Indies was made at Jaipuron November 11,1994 when he scored 105 off 148 balls.
Tendulkar’s innings was the highest score by an Indian against WestIndies-home or away. -bettering Navjot Sidhu’s 114* at Visakhapatnamon November 7,1994.
Tendulkar’s innings was the highest for India on this ground. Theprevious highest was a paltry 70* also by Tendulkar against Zimbabwein the second league match of this series on June 27,2001.
The hundred was Tendulkar’s second in Zimbabwe. The other being 127*against the hosts at Bulawayo QC on September 26,1998. Tendulkar hasnow become only the third batsman to score more than one hundred onZimbabwean soil. The others being Alistair Campbell in 42 matches andRoshan Mahanama in three matches.
The hundred was Tendulkar’s 17th on foreign soil-yet another record !He was earlier at level with Pakistan’s Saeed Anwar with 16 hundreds.
Tendulkar has now aggregated 6712 runs (ave.41.43) in 182 `away’matchesmaximum by any batsman in ODIs. He surpassed the aggregatesof two Pakistanis – Saeed Anwar (6685 in 186 matches) and Inzamam-ul-Haq (6647 in 209 matches) . The following table lists the leading runscorers in away matches in ODIs :
Runs
Batsman
For
Mts
Inns
NO
Ave
Hs
100
50
0
6712
SR Tendulkar
Ind
182
178
16
41.43
143
17
32
9
6685
Saeed Anwar
Pak
186
185
11
38.42
194
16
32
11
6647
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Pak
209
201
25
37.77
137*
5
49
12
6215
M Azharuddin
Ind
221
206
34
36.13
111*
4
42
6
6208
PA de Silva
SL
213
207
16
32.50
134
6
43
13
6075
DL Haynes
WI
189
188
17
35.53
138*
7
45
11
5916
IVA Richards
WI
154
141
20
48.89
189*
11
38
7
5548
A Ranatunga
SL
201
196
29
33.22
102*
2
35
16
5455
Salim Malik
Pak
218
202
26
30.99
102
3
35
15
5405
Javed Miandad
Pak
165
158
23
40.04
116*
4
39
8
5290
BC Lara
WI
146
144
12
40.08
169
9
34
10
The 133 run-partnership between Ganguly and Tendulkar was the secondhighest for India for the opening wicket against West Indies. The besthowever still remains the 176 run partnership between Ajay Jadeja andTendulkar at Cuttack on November 9,1994. Incidentally the previoushighest opening stand for India against West Indies in `away’ matcheswas unbroken 116 runs also between Ganguly and Tendulkar at Port-of-Spain on April 27,1997.
Ganguly and Tendulkar also became the third pair to participate in twocentury partnerships for the opening wicket against West Indies afterAustralians Adam Gilchrist and Mark Waugh and Indians Ajay Jadeja andSachin Tendulkar.
Tendulkar was getting involved in a century partnership for the 47thtime in his careera new world record. The break-up of Tendulkar’scentury partnerships- 20 for the first,11 for the second,10 for thethird,3 for the fourth and 3 for the fifth. The previous record ofmost century partnerships was on the name of West Indian DesmondHaynes who featured in 46 such partnerships. The following table liststhe batsmen who have been involved in most century stands
Batsman
Country
Total
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th
SR Tendulkar
India
47
20
11
10
3
3
–
–
–
–
–
DL Haynes
WestIndies
46
26
11
6
1
1
1
–
–
–
–
ME Waugh
Australia
40
14
11
9
4
1
1
–
–
–
–
SC Ganguly
India
37
16
12
5
2
1
1
–
–
–
PA DeSilva
SriLanka
35
–
3
22
5
2
2
1
–
–
–
M Azharuddin
India
34
–
5
18
9
1
1
–
–
–
–
IVA Richards
WestIndies
32
–
9
17
3
2
–
–
–
–
1
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Pakistan
30
1
7
5
13
4
–
–
–
–
–
Tendulkar was winning his 41st Man of the Match award. This was alsohis sixth award against West Indiesmaximum by any player. He waspreviously at level with Pakistan’s Imran Khan with five awards.
Crystal Palace face an uncertain managerial future after contract negotiations with Oliver Glasner reached a critical juncture this week.
Fabrizio Romano revealed in his latest YouTube video that the manager has made a final decision regarding his future at the club after extensive discussions and negotiations spanning several months.
The well-respected transfer journalist confirmed that talks between both parties have been ongoing for a while, without reaching any breakthrough that would secure the coach’s services beyond 2026.
Romano explained that the manager has been carefully weighing up aspects like the Palace’s project direction, long-term vision and ambitions for sustained growth at the highest level
The reporter also claims that, after plenty of thinking, Glasner has elected not to sign a new deal.
Since arriving at Selhust Park, Glasner has transformed the club into genuine European contenders while delivering their first major trophy in the club’s 120-year history with a memorable FA Cup final victory over Man City in May.
His remarkable achievement in guiding the Eagles to silverware represents the pinnacle of success for a club that had previously never won a single major trophy.
The Austrian followed up that historic triumph by securing another piece of silverware when Palace defeated Liverpool on penalties in the Community Shield in August.
Crystal Palace learn Brennan Johnson stance on January transfer from Tottenham
The Wales international is a key target heading into the winter.
ByEmilio Galantini
His performance over the past 18 months have attracted admiring glances from numerous clubs across Europe who view him as one of the continent’s most talented young managers.
That is according to TEAMtalk and journalist Graeme Bailey, who report that Palace are now in the process of identifying replacements for Glasner.
Crystal Palace eye Strasbourg boss Liam Rosenior
One name that features prominently on Palace’s shortlist of potential successors is Strasbourg manager Liam Rosenior, who has impressed during his time in charge of the French club.
Hull City managerLiamRoseniorand Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna before the match
However, the 40-year-old also appears on Chelsea’s radar as BlueCo consider their own succession planning should Enzo Maresca depart Stamford Bridge at some point in the near future.
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Palace are believed to be real admirers of Rosenior following his exceptional time in Ligue 1, where he guided them to Europe last season and briedly had them contending with PSG near the top of the table this term.
The former Hull City boss has been lavished with praise for his development of players as well, with European football expert Andy Brassell calling him ‘exceptional’ in this regard.
Unfortunately, BlueCo hold almost all the cards here unless Rosenior pushes to leave Strasbourg, so Chelsea will be overwhelming favourites to hire the boss if they decide to replace Maresca with him.
In the last 11 years, Bangladesh have won only three out of nine deciding matches in a bilateral ODI series comprising three or more games. The three wins have come against Zimbabwe in 2005 and 2009, and against West Indies in 2012.The third ODI in Chittagong on Wednesday gives them a chance to add another win to that list – this time against South Africa.After losing to South Africa by eight wickets in the first game, Bangladesh bounced back in the second match with a seven-wicket win. With the three-match series tied 1-1, Bangladesh have a chance to claim their third straight home bilateral series win in 2015 and allrounder Shakib Al Hasan has little doubt about the importance of the occasion.”This is big, no doubt,” Shakib said. “We haven’t achieved such things before. Whenever you go to achieve something you haven’t, then it will obviously seem big. We haven’t beaten South Africa in a series before so that is a big deal.”Every match is important for us. Whenever we get on the field, we think the same but all matches don’t go according to plan. Because this is the series decider, however, it is important. We haven’t lost at home in a long time. So this will be another opportunity for us if we can win this match. I won’t tell you how big a match this is, but this is a very big opportunity for us.”Against Zimbabwe in 2005, Bangladesh were trailing 2-0 in the five-match series before they made a comeback and won the decider by eight wickets. In the three-match series against Zimbabwe in January 2009, they lost the first match but bounced back quite comfortably to win the series 2-1. Against West Indies, they took a 2-0 lead in Khulna before losing the third and fourth games, and the fifth ODI was a tight affair which they won by two wickets.Shakib was a part of two of those turnarounds and it was his bowling that brought Bangladesh back into contention in the current series against South Africa. Shakib stated that his returns of 0 for 30 in the ten overs in the second ODI in Mirpur was his best bowling performance in recent times, which should be encouraging for Bangladesh after he had conceded difficulty in bowling before the Tests against Pakistan in late April. He is only two wickets away from becoming the seventh cricketer – after Sanath Jayasuriya, Shahid Afridi, Jacques Kallis, Abdul Razzaq, Chris Harris and Chris Cairns – to take 200 wickets and score 4000 runs in ODIs.”I think after a long time I bowled quite well in the last match,” Shakib said. “I was satisfied personally. After a long time I think I bowled as I wanted to. If you get rewards, then you will feel good but I am not that disappointed regarding those things. I am happy as long as I can contribute.”I don’t think I have changed much in my bowling. But the opponent’s batsmen don’t charge at me as much as before so in one-dayers it is difficult to get wickets, unless you have a pitch of that kind. I think you also need luck to get wickets. I try to do everything that is in my hands.”Shakib said that the team’s confidence has remained even after contrasting results in the series: “Actually I don’t think our confidence will go down the drain when we lose one match or be sky-high if we win one match. No player thinks that way. All our matches are important. It’s not possible [to win] all the time but I am sure that if we can stick to our processes then it’s possible to do well at home.”
Former Surrey and England one-day captain Adam Hollioake is reported to be about to hold discussions with Essex over playing for them in this year’s Twenty20 Cup, according to a report in today’s Guardian.The move stems from Hollioake’s appearance in a beach-cricket tournament in Australia in January which left Graham Gooch impressed. “I played pretty well and Goochie said I was good enough and young enough to play county cricket again,” Hollioake told The Guardian from his home in Perth. “Later, when he got home, he sent me an email asking if I’d be interested. I am. Nothing has been confirmed yet. We’re still talking. But it’s not the worst idea in the world.”Essex’s chief executive, David East, confirmed to Cricinfo that the talks were taking place. “We have had some initial discussions with Adam and are jointly exploring the possibility of him playing Twenty20 cricket for us.”Hollioake will be in the UK next week to attend a charity event and is expected to chat to Essex officials then. He admitted that he was approached by Nottinghamshire a while back but nothing came of it.
Download MP3 (right click and select “save target as”) Streaming Audio: Real :: WMAIt seems like yesterday – well, maybe last week! – that a 16-year-old kid was charging down the pitch and hitting Abdul Qadir into the crowd. Sachin Tendulkar is 33 now, and as his career enters his last phase, he struggles with injury and a desire to play that simply isn’t matched by his physical fitness. In this interview with Dileep Premachandran, which was conducted for the , he talks about his “desire to get back into action” and “the hunger to go out there and perform.”He tells us of “sleepless nights”, of “nights full of frustration” as he waits to get back into action. He also talks of the vagaries of time, and of how he ignores what the outside world says about him. “I don’t need a newspaper to make me believe that I’ve scored a double-hundred,” he says, remembering the time a journalist asked him during the Sydney Test against Australia in 2004 if he would read the papers the next day.It’s our greatest batsman at his most candid. Listen in!Download MP3 (right click and select “save target as”) Streaming Audio: Real :: WMA
Injuries continue to plague Australia and a squad of 14 players has been named to prepare for the second Test against Zimbabwe starting in Sydney on Friday. The latest concern is for Darren Lehmann who has suffered an achilles tendon strain.Simon Katich has been included in the squad as cover for Lehmann while Brad Hogg would take Stuart MacGill’s place if MacGill should fail his fitness test. Nathan Brackan has also been included in the squad. With a replacement necessary for Jason Gillespie, Brad Williams would be favoured to make his Test debut.In a worst case scenario with Lehmann and MacGill out of the side and Katich, Hogg and Williams included, with only 53 Tests between them, it would be the least experienced Australian attack for many years.The Australian squad is: Steve Waugh (capt), Ricky Ponting, Andy Bichel, Nathan Bracken, Adam Gilchrist, Matthew Hayden, Brad Hogg, Simon Katich, Justin Langer, Brett Lee, Darren Lehmann, Stuart MacGill, Damien Martyn, Brad Williams.
Guyana 310 and 148 for 8 (Ramdass 60; Smith 4-46) drew with Barbados 395 (Campbell 81, Smith 114; Nagamootoo 5-116) ScorecardBarbados narrowly missed out on an eighth straight win in the Carib Beer 2004 Cricket Series, but went through to the final against Jamaica as a result of having gained a first-innings lead. Guyana, who started their second innings 85 in arrears, were 148 for 8 when stumps were drawn with Sewnarine Chattergoon and Mahendra Nagamootoo having defied the bowlers in the final stages.Dwayne Smith, later named Man of the Match, captured 4 for 46 from 25 overs, and Fidel Edwards took 3 for 34 as Guyana collapsed in their second innings. But Chattergoon, who came out to bat nursing a sore shoulder, and Nagamootoo did enough to thwart any attempt to go for an outright win.Barbados will now play Jamaica in the final on home turf – the venue has yet to be announced – from March 25 to 28. They have already won the Carib Beer Cup, and are looking to win a second trophy for the season.
Steve Harmison’s place in England’s World Cup squad is in doubt after he twisted his ankle in the field during England’s 19-run win over Sri Lanka at the Adelaide Oval.Harmison, after bowling two overs which cost 27 runs, had just been taken out of the attack when he slipped while fielding at mid-on.”He’s hobbling around but the physio says it hasn’t swollen up too much,which is a good sign,” said the England captain, Nasser Hussain. “He will go for the regulation scans.”Hussain was full of praise for Andrew Caddick, who was made Man of the Match for his four wickets, two of which were taken in a key period near the end of Sri Lanka’s innings.”Andy’s had a really good couple of weeks,” Hussain enthused. “We’ve missedDarren Gough’s experience on this tour but Andy has got his rhythm andconfidence back.”The wicket in Sydney at the Test match helped him regain his confidence. The bounce at Sydney gave him his confidence back and he has always been fit, which means he will always grow as a tour continues whereas others fade away.”I thought it was the best game in the tournament so far. Sri Lanka thought they had it in the bag for a while but we used our brains well. “I think we need a point now to make the final but we’ll play our next game (against Australia in Adelaide) normally and see what we can get from it.”Caddick said: “Things are going well for me at the moment. There’s plenty of rhythm there and I’m getting the ball in the right area.”I’m quite happy to take responsibility but it would be nice for our youngerplayers to pull through and get experience under their belts.”England also had Alec Stewart to thank for another sterling performance with the bat and behind the stumps.”Alec had an excellent game and I thought he should possibly have been man ofthe match, Hussain added. “It was typical of him when in our management meeting yesterday he said he would like to bat at five. If you back yourself that much you bat at five.”Michael Vaughan justified the confidence Hussain showed in his bowling, with seven overs of off-spin at a cost of just 35 and the wicket of Chaminda Vaas.”He bowled well against Sri Lanka at Old Trafford last year and bowls well atleft-handers, tucking them up a bit, and he did well under pressure because it’sthe first time he’s bowled in a long time,” Hussain said.Both captains agreed that the turning point of match was when Sanath Jayasuriya was run out attempting a straightforward single which would have brought him his third ODI hundred in four innings.Kumar Sangakkara obstructed his captain, who was left stranded as Hussain hit the stumps from mid-off.”It was a lot closer than the result and probably the best game of the tournament so far,” Hussain said. “Our coach has told us we don’t hit the stumps enough so it was nice to hit and Sangakkara also did us a favour. That was the turning point because Sanath was playing beautifully.”Jayasuriya said: “It was the crucial thing because I was batting well. The match would have changed if I had been there but unfortunate things happen.”
Former West Indies fast bowler, Wes Hall and Anguillian bank executive, Val Banks are likely to become the next president and vice president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).The WICB yesterday confirmed that Hall and Banks were the only nominees to fill the vacant posts of president and vice president of the regional body; this, in accordance with Article 92 of the WICB’s Memorandum of Association.The nomination of Hall, who is also a former chairman of selectors was supported by both the Barbados Cricket Association and the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board of Control.Meanwhile, Banks’ nomination was supported by the Leeward Islands Cricket Association and the Barbados Cricket Association.Election for the two top posts in West Indies cricket will take place on 21 July when the WICB convenes a special general meeting at the Savannah Hotel in Barbados.The positions of president and vice-president became vacant after Jamaican lawyer Pat Rousseau and Antiguan business executive Clarvis Joseph resigned at a meeting of the WICB directors in Barbados earlier this month.The elevation of Hall and Banks to the two top positions in West Indies cricket is likely to be a formality since the Memorandum of Association (Article 92) clearly states: “No person shall be eligible for election to the office of President or Vice President at any meeting of Members unless, not less than thirty days before the date appointed for the meeting of Members at which the election of the President or Vice President is due to be considered, there shall have been left at the office of the Secretary of the Board a nomination in writing, signed by two Full Members accompanied by a notice in writing signed by the nominee of his willingness to serve if elected.”