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The quick took 5 for 8 to raze Bangladesh for 43 and set West Indies up for a 158-run lead at stumps on day one

The Report by Mohammad Isam04-Jul-2018
Kemar Roach celebrates a wicket•AFP

Fast bowler Kemar Roach’s blistering five-wicket haul dismissed Bangladesh for 43 – their lowest total in Test cricket – and helped West Indies tighten their grip on the Antigua Test. The hosts went to stumps at 201 for 2, with a lead of 158.After being put into bat on a well-grassed pitch, Bangladesh could not even last the first session. Their 43 all out was the lowest total in Test cricket in 44 years and the second-shortest first innings.In response, West Indies’ openers showed good application and added 113 for the first wicket. Kraigg Brathwaite was at his dogged best, making an unbeaten 88 off 204 balls, while Devon Smith provided able support with a fifty of his own – 58 off 123 balls. After he became Abu Jayed’s maiden Test wicket, Kieran Powell lifted the scoring rate with 48 off 65 balls.But the day belonged to Roach. Backed up by Shannon Gabriel who was fresh from a 20-wicket series against Sri Lanka, the new-ball pair put Tamim Iqbal and Liton Das under early pressure with a clever mix of full and short deliveries, beating their inside and outside edges repeatedly with the new ball.Tamim fell when he was squared up by a Roach delivery that held its line and found the outside edge. Mominul Haque then dangled his bat at a delivery that was moving away from him, only to be caught at gully.Roach, who by now was struggling with a knee injury, wasn’t done yet. He removed Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan and Mahmudullah in a space of four deliveries in his fifth over. Nurul Hasan somehow managed to avert the hat-trick. His 5 for 8 in five overs broke Bangladesh’s spine and possibly ruined their West Indies tour as early as the first hour of the first Test. The following 40 minutes saw Miguel Cummins and captain Jason Holder taking the remaining five wickets.If Bangladesh’s hare-brained approach was the highlight of the day’s first session, the post-lunch session belonged to Kraigg Brathwaite and Devon Smith, who patiently built the West Indies’ lead.They first moved to 90 for no loss in 32 overs at the tea and soon brought up their fifties. Bangladesh were also guilty of squandering a chance. Nurul Hasan, playing his first Test since January 2017 and given the designated wicketkeeper’s job ahead of Mushfiqur Rahim and Liton Das, dropped a regulation catch off Smith’s edge when he was on 34.Nurul made up in the third session when he held Smith’s catch to give debutant Abu Jayed his maiden Test wicket. It came the ball after Brathwaite had reached his fifty, for which he took 121 balls.Powell’s arrival then raised the tempo. His first four was a powerful cut off Mehidy Hasan before he hit fours off Jayed and Rubel. He was also adept against Mehidy Hasan’s offbreaks.But there were some lapses in concentration as well. In the final hour, Brathwaite and Powell were involved a mix-up that could have had the latter in trouble. Mushfiqur also dropped Brathwaite at mid-on, on 78. Mahmudullah, eventually, broke the 81-run second wicket stand when Liton took a fine catch at slip to dismiss Powell. Devendra Bishoo, the nightwatchman, and Brathwaite then saw West Indies through to stumps.

Derbyshire’s seamers recovered from a patchy opening hour to offer the Kent batsmen a stern examination on the opening day of their Specsavers County Championship clash at an overcast Canterbury

ECB Reporters Network21-Apr-2017
ScorecardWill Davis began Derbyshire’s fightback•Getty Images

Derbyshire’s seamers recovered from a patchy opening hour to offer the Kent batsmen a stern examination on the opening day of their Specsavers County Championship clash at an overcast Canterbury.When bad light ended play with 15 scheduled overs remaining, Kent had battled on to reach 238 for 8 after 81 overs, having been seemingly in charge and sitting pretty at 83 without loss after the opening 99 minutes of the match.Fielding first after an uncontested toss, Derbyshire bowlers had made a sloppy start in offering too many leg-side and overpitched deliveries which Daniel Bell-Drummond and Sean Dickson (41) happily dispatched to pick up 15 boundaries in their opening stand.That was the precursor to a dramatic collapse that saw the hosts lose four wickets for five runs in the space of 15 deliveries. Will Davis started the rout with two wickets in as many balls. Dickson drove loosely at a wide away swinger to nick to the keeper, then Joe Denly departed for a duck when he played outside the line of an in-ducker to go lbw after barely moving his feet.Sam Northeast survived the hat-trick delivery, but Bell-Drummond followed for a season’s best 38 when he nibbled at one from left-armer Luis Reece for Darren Smit to dive in front of first slip and pull off a stunning one-handed catch.Kent’s misery continued when Will Gidman played outside a Davis in-swinger to go leg before for a duck as Kent limped in at lunch on 91 for 4, while despite bowling the tidiest of bowling stints, Tony Palladino ended the session wicketless.In-form fifth-wicket partners Northeast and Darren Stevens hauled their side’s total into three figures after lunch but, with his score on 17, Stevens got a leading edge to a late-swinging delivery from Tom Milnes to chip a low, return catch back to the bowler.After helping to post 48 for the sixth wicket Northeast departed for 32 after 103 minutes at the crease. Pushing with firms hands at one from Reece, the Kent skipper edged behind to give Gary Wilson, the keeper, a second catch.Fresh from an unbeaten half-century at Hove in his only previous innings of the season, Wayne Parnell contributed a useful 41 before he fell to Reece. Prodding down and squared up by late away swing, the left-hander edged to third slip to make it 193 for 7.James Tredwell and Adam Rouse saw Kent through to 200 for their first batting bonus point but, with his score in seven Tredwell perished to the fifth ball of the day from leg-spinner Jeevan Mendis. Working across the line to one that dipped late, Tredwell went lbw to one that hit him flush on the right boot.The floodlights came on for the final session of the day when, after an initial ten-minute stoppage for bad light, the day’s events finished early at 5.51pm with Rouse, who played the longest innings of the day, and James Harris, still unbeaten with their side still 12 shy of a second batting bonus point.After spending the last two hours of the day at the crease, Rouse argued that Kent already have a decent score on the board. He said: “We felt Derbyshire got their lengths slightly wrong at the start there before they really started to hit their straps and make it tougher for us.”By the time I got in it was a case of digging to get us through a tricky period and I’d like to think that partnership at the end can give us a bit of momentum going into tomorrow. We’ll push for a second bonus point, but the first hour will be crucial.”Derbyshire skipper Billy Godleman praised his side’s character. He said: “After electing to bowl first we would have wanted to have put the ball around the off or fourth stump area a lot more than we did in that first hour, but we showed great fight and courage to go again thereafter.”We reassessed our position and went back to the plans we’d talked about before the start and to everyone’s credit we fought back. We fielded well, threw ourselves around and took good catches because we were clear that every run on this wicket and in these overcast conditions may well be vital.”The hosts made one change to the side that comfortably defeated Sussex last week. Harris, the Middlesex loanee seamer, getting the nod at the expense of the unfortunate Mitch Claydon, who had taken five wickets in the win at Hove.

Mark Robinson, the head coach of the England women’s team, has blamed their five-run defeat against Australia in the World T20 semi-final on the squad’s poor standards of fitness

Andrew Miller in Delhi30-Mar-20161:30

‘We couldn’t run our twos’ – Mark Robinson

Mark Robinson, the head coach of the England women’s team, has blamed their five-run defeat against Australia in the World T20 semi-final on the squad’s poor standards of fitness, and has challenged his players to improve their running between the wickets in particular, after falling short in yet another major global tournament.Speaking alongside England’s beaten captain, Charlotte Edwards, at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi, Robinson said that the defeat was still too raw to contemplate its full implications. However, he exonerated Edwards herself from any criticism, saying that he needed “a few more warriors like the captain” to take the team to the next level.”We lost by five runs,” said Robinson. “There’s nothing between these two teams. But we’ve got to get fitter. We’re not fit enough. They out-ran us.”Athleticism is something you are given by God, but aerobic fitness is something we’ve got to get better,” he added. “We missed out on twos, and we’ve lost by one boundary. We’ve got to change our mindset a bit, and toughen up a bit.”Not for the first time this tournament, England appeared to be cruising to victory while Edwards and Tammy Beaumont were adding 67 for the first wicket in the space of ten overs. But a familiar middle-order wobble left them with too much ground to make up in the closing overs, as they drifted out to 117 for 7.”Both teams got to similar stages,” said Robinson. “Both teams struggled to get boundaries in the end. It was all about the first 10 overs. The batting will get all the attention but, with big boundaries, slowish bowlers and no one in front of the wicket, it’s hard to find the boundaries.”Since his appointment last summer, Robinson has focused on adding new levels of aggression to England’s batting, which manifested itself in the only three sixes of the day, from Beaumont, Sarah Taylor and Katherine Brunt. However, his call for “360 degree” batting proved less successful, with Taylor in particular guilty of a limp dismissal off an attempted reverse-sweep.Robinson, however, reiterated his original point in defence of such attempts at innovation.”It was a bit of a problem because we couldn’t run our twos,” he said. “It was a catch-22 because, if you can’t get past the boundary and you can’t run twos, you’re starting to struggle a bit. But we hit six sixes in the tournament, so I know they’re going in the right direction.”There’s a lot of potential in the group,” he added. “A lot of girls with a lot to offer, we’ve got to give them belief and stick with the right players as well and accept there will be some bumps. But we’ve got to push them and extend them as well, because there’s a lot more in the tank.”Though Edwards’ place is hardly under scrutiny given her form in the tournament, her 10-year role as captain may yet come under review. Likewise, the place of veteran players such as Lydia Greenway, who played in the 2005 Ashes win, and Jenny Gunn may have to be called into question if the team is to evolve in time for the 2017 World Cup on home soil.”We’re 45 minutes after losing a semi-final by a boundary,” said Robinson. “It’s too early to get into those situations. You’ve got to make sure your base is big enough, you’ve got players to come in, There needs to be competition.”We’re looking for players who can stand up and be counted, and play under the pressure, and have the aerobic fitness to do the job necessary. That will be a necessity for any women’s team going forward.”We need more players like the captain,” he added. “She’s led fantastically well over the years. She’s got a fierceness inside her to keep improving and keep scoring runs. That’s something you want in all your players.”Edwards herself reiterated her desire to continue as England captain. “Absolutely,” she said. “I’ve been challenged pretty hard to expand my game and I feel I’m playing as well as I ever have done. Of course I want to keep captaining England. If I’m not the right person, it’s not going to be my decision. But I love what I do and I hope to keep giving more to this group.”

Sohail Tanvir’s devastating early burst of pace bowling enabled one-day specialists Hampshire to leapfrog Essex to second in YB40 Group B with a 30-run win at the Ageas Bowl.

11-Aug-2013
ScorecardJames Vince’s 68 helped Hampshire overcome the loss of early wickets•Getty Images

Sohail Tanvir’s devastating early burst of pace bowling enabled one-day specialists Hampshire to leapfrog Essex to second in YB40 Group B with a 30-run win at the Ageas Bowl.Pakistani allrounder Tanvir dismissed the first three in the Essex order in his first three overs as Hampshire successfully defended a modest total of 216 after being put in by Essex captain James Foster.Graham Napier, Greg Smith and Ryan ten Doeschate led a brave revival and while Napier was swinging away in typically aggressive style, hitting sixes off Tanvir and Danny Briggs, there was hope for Essex.At 180 for 7 with three overs remaining an unlikely Essex win was not to be discounted but left -armer Chris Wood came back to remove David Masters and Napier in the 38th over and Tanvir fittingly came back to get rid of last man Reece Topley.Tanvir finished with figures of 4 for 29 as reward for setting up Hampshire’s sixth win in eight group fixtures in the same week as the club booked its place in the semi-finals of the T20 competition at Edgbaston for the fourth successive year.As holders of both titles, Hampshire showed they know how to win tight finishes and after losing the prolific Michael Carberry in the second over to a slip catch off Masters, they fought back through James Vince as wickets tumbled around him.Tymal Mills, Topley and Masters each took two wickets and at one stage Hampshire were in trouble at 148 for eight with top-scorer Vince among the departures, caught at the wicket off Ten Doeschate for 68 from 75 balls.Former Essex batsman Adam Wheater led a late charge with a stand of 64 for the ninth with Wood before being run out, backing up in the last over.Foster will have cause to remember the match with affection despite the result, taking five catches and stumping Liam Dawson who had been lured from his crease by spinner Tim Phillips.Essex were soon in a dire position, Hamish Rutherford was bowled in Tanvir’s first over, Ravi Bopara went in his second and Mark Pettini followed to leave them 14 for 3 after five overs.Smith and ten Doeschate attempted a rescue with a stand of 71 for the fourth wicket in 17 overs but at 142 for 7 it looked to be all over for Essex with only nine overs left. But Napier is never to be underestimated in such situations and with Masters as a willing aid, the eighth wicket pair caused Hampshire hearts to flutter in a productive stand of 42 in six overs.Only then did Wood and Tanvir return to the attack and the Essex challenge died as Hampshire went above them in the table.

Only 11.2 overs were bowled on the second day of the County Championship Division Two match between Gloucestershire and Kent at Bristol before a torrential downpour left the outfield resembling a lake.

16-Aug-2012
ScorecardOnly 11.2 overs were bowled on the second day of the LV= County Championship Division Two match between Gloucestershire and Kent at Bristol before a torrential downpour left the outfield resembling a lake.Knt had progressed to 29 for 1 when the rain arrived at 11.45am. Umpires Neil Bainton and Martin Bodenham ruled out any further prospect of play at 1.15pm.After the first day washout, Gloucestershire won the toss and skipper Alex Gidman not surprisingly elected to field as the grey clouds began to gather. Play began on time in some sunshine and Kent had 12 on the board when Sam Northeast was given a life on 7, Rob Nicol spilling a relatively straightforward chance at second slip. The unlucky bowler was Will Gidman, back in the Gloucestershire side after a side injury, which had kept him out since June.Gidman, the club’s player-of-the-year last season after doing the allrounder’s double of 1,000 first class runs and 50 wickets, sent down 4.2 overs from the Ashley Down End, conceding 12 runs. But it was James Fuller who made the breakthrough from the Pavilion End, when, with the score on 20, Rob Key attempted to pull a short ball and got a thin edge through to wicketkeeper Jon Batty to depart for nine.With nine runs added the players were forced off and the heavens opened to end the day’s play.

James Taylor, the Leicestershire batsman, will captain England Lions in their four-day and one-day matches against Sri Lanka A next month

ESPNcricinfo staff25-Jul-2011James Taylor, the Leicestershire batsman, will captain England Lions in their four-day and one-day matches against Sri Lanka A next month. The squads include Scott Borthwick, the Durham legspinner, Nottinghamshire batsman Alex Hales while Ben Stokes, the Durham allrounder, is included for the one-day matches.Taylor takes over the Lions captaincy from James Hildreth who led them on the tour of West Indies and against Sri Lanka, at Derby, earlier this season. Taylor has already faced Sri Lanka A for Leicestershire and scored an unbeaten 168 in the recent four-day match with began their tour. When he faced the full Sri Lanka team in May he scored an excellent 76 in tough conditions.However, the really interesting selections are those players who haven’t appeared for the Lions before. Borthwick has moved ahead of Adil Rashid as a legspinning allrounder after taking 19 wickets at 30.57 in the County Championship along with scoring 348 runs at 38.66.Hales has impressed at the top of the order for Nottinghamshire and has made 592 runs in the Championship, including a career-best 184 along with 214 runs in the CB40 and 409 in the Friends Life t20 at a strike-rate of 149.81. The other new faces in the squads are Joe Root, the 20-year-old Yorkshire batsman, an interesting choice as he has yet to score a first-class hundred, and pace bowlers Jack Brooks and Stuart Meaker from Northamptonshire and Surrey respectively.Stokes, meanwhile, may already have played for England this season if it hadn’t been for an untimely broken finger after he began the summer in fine form. Overall he has 609 Championship runs included three hundreds – one a career-best 185 – and has chipped in with 17 wickets.It isn’t just fresh faces who make up the squads, however, with Ravi Bopara included in both parties and Steven Finn for the three one-day matches along with Warwickshire allrounder Chris Woakes who has played ODI and Twenty20 cricket for England.The four-day match takes place at Scarborough from August 2-5 with the three one-day games on August 12, 14, and 16 at New Road and Wantage Road.Four-day squad James Taylor (capt), Jonny Bairstow, Ravi Bopara, Scott Borthwick, Jack Brooks, Jade Dernbach, Alex Hales, James Harris, Craig Kieswetter, Stuart Meaker, Samit Patel, Joe Root.One-day squad James Taylor (capt), Jonny Bairstow, Ravi Bopara, Scott Borthwick, Danny Briggs, Steven Finn, Alex Hales, James Harris, Stuart Meaker, Chris Nash, Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes.

Steven Davies hammered a 19-ball half-century as Surrey eased to a six-wicket
victory over Gloucestershire, who finished bottom of the Friends Provident t20
South Division

18-Jul-2010

ScorecardSteve Davies continued his impressive form at the top of the order for Surrey•Getty Images

Steve Davies hammered a 19-ball half-century as Surrey eased to a six-wicket
victory over Gloucestershire, who finished bottom of the Friends Provident t20
South Division.Needing a win to have a chance of qualifying for the quarter-finals, Surrey
restricted Gloucestershire to a modest 147 for nine after Will Porterfield (37)
and James Franklin (33) had got the home side off to a reasonable start.Chris Tremlett finished as Surrey’s most successful bowler with 3 for 18
off four overs, while veteran leg-spinner Chris Schofield took 2 or 27.The outcome was never in doubt once Davies (73) and captain Rory Hamilton-Brown
(48) had plundered 78 in the six power-play overs. Aware that run rate could be a factor in their attempt to qualify, Davies and Hamilton-Brown continued to score rapidly until the Surrey captain was lbw to
Richard Dawson for 48 to make it 112 for 1 in the ninth over. His 30-ball
innings contained six fours and two straight sixes.Jason Roy was bowled second ball by Dawson and one-time Gloucestershire player
Andrew Symonds was dismissed by Aaron Redmond in the next over when Chris Taylor
took a catch at long-on.Davies continued to pepper the boundary boards with some powerful drives on
both sides of the wicket until Redmond had him caught on the midwicket boundary
in the 12th over. His scintillating 73 came from only 30 balls and included
seven fours and four sixes.That brought Gary Wilson to the middle and he hit three successive boundaries
off Redmond to complete the win with 49 balls remaining.Earlier, Tremlett had struck twice in the first six overs of the
Gloucestershire innings when he had Redmond caught behind and dismissed Alex
Gidman lbw with a yorker.Ireland captain Porterfield played impressively in compiling 37 from 34 balls
before he skied a drive off Schofield and Hamilton-Brown took a well-judged
catch, running back from mid-off.Porterfield’s dismissal prompted a Gloucestershire collapse in which another
three wickets fell for nine runs in three overs.Taylor was caught on the deep square leg boundary, off Matthew Spriegel. Chris
Dent was bowled while trying to sweep Schofield and Steve Snell was caught
behind off Andre Nel.Franklin was scoring at better than a run a ball until he was run out by
Wilson’s direct hit from deep cover, and Tremlett claimed his third wicket when
he had Jon Lewis lbw with a yorker.Dawson made an unbeaten 24 from 28 balls, but Gloucestershire’s total never
looked enough to trouble Surrey’s strong batting line-up.

England captain says line has been drawn under “blackface” issue ahead of Bangladesh challenge

Andrew Miller04-Oct-2024Heather Knight, England’s captain, says that the challenge of leading her team into the Women’s T20 World Cup has her full focus, and insists that “the line has already been drawn” on the disciplinary measures taken against her for a historic “blackface” photograph that appeared on social media recently.Knight, 33, was last week reprimanded and given a suspended £1000 fine by the Cricket Discipline Commission, after a compromising fancy-dress photograph surfaced on Facebook, dating back to a party in 2012, when she was 21. While it was accepted by the Cricket Regulator that there was “no racist intent in her conduct”, Knight said in a statement that she was “truly sorry” and had “long regretted it”.Now, speaking on the eve of England’s T20 World Cup opener, against Bangladesh in Sharjah on Saturday, Knight turned the focus squarely to the task at hand for her team, as they seek to improve on their semi-final finish at the last event in South Africa two years ago, and land their first ICC global title since 2017.Related

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“It was obviously something that has been ongoing the last couple of months and it is something, as far as I am concerned, that has been addressed, and something that was a long time ago, so it hasn’t been in my mind at all,” Knight said.”The line has already been drawn, in my opinion, so I am really excited, obviously, for what is to come. We have got super supportive group, there is no doubt about that, so yeah, I’m pretty happy to get cracking with the cricket.”England came through an unbeaten home summer, winning 13 out of 14 matches against New Zealand and Pakistan, with only a washout at Taunton denying them a clean sweep. In addition to Bangladesh, they will play against Scotland, West Indies and South Africa in the World Cup group stage, with their two likeliest rivals for the title, Australia and India, awaiting them in the other half of the draw.”Australia are going to be favourites, for sure,” Knight said of the defending champions, who have won six of the last seven stagings of the T20 World Cup, dating back to 2010. “Obviously, their success in this event has been huge, but we feel in a really good place. We’ve been playing some brilliant cricket, and while the first goal is to get out of the group stages, we’re pretty confident in what we bring. We believe we can beat anyone on our best day.”Much of England’s summer was spent honing a side that could compete in spinning conditions, with Bangladesh having been the World Cup’s original host country. The event has since moved to the UAE for security reasons, but Knight is confident that England’s spin contingent – led by the ICC’s No.1-ranked bowler in white-ball cricket, Sophie Ecclestone – will thrive at a tournament that, to judge by the tournament’s opening fixtures, already appears to favour slow bowling.”We feel very prepared for what we’ve got to come, and now it’s just about executing it and being really smart about how we do things in-game,” Knight said. “We’ve obviously got the quality spin attack. It’s been our big strength, particularly through those middle overs, how we really squeeze teams and try and rush them in that middle period.”England opted to overlook the extra pace of Lauren Filer for this tournament, instead relying on Lauren Bell as a sole specialist seamer, backed up by a trio of seam-bowling allrounders in Nat Sciver-Brunt, Freya Kemp and Dani Gibson. Charlie Dean and Sarah Glenn also offer batting depth as spinning allrounders, meaning that England – on paper, at least – have an enviably versatile squad.”We’ve got really good options, which is the nice thing,” Knight said. “The depth that we’ve got allows us to play based on the conditions that we face, and the team that we’re playing against.”It’s not going to be easy picking the team, but we’re pretty set on the little tweaks that we might need to make to get the most out of the conditions and teams that we’re playing against.”There are going to be times where we are going to have to graft a little bit, the boundaries are big and there might be times when we get on slow wickets where we are going to have to adapt to what is in front of us and be really smart with how we go about things.”Both Kemp and Sciver-Brunt were managed back to bowling fitness during the summer, after coming through back and knee issues respectively. But Knight was adamant that each was in the right place to deliver a full all-round role for the cause.”The allrounders are the fittest in the team, because of the role they have to do,” she said. “Freya, in particular, she’s super impressive with how she’s come back from that [second] stress fracture, and the work that she’s put in to be in a place to perform, it’s been brilliant.”

Holder, Joseph, Paul and Hosein ran through Nepal despite a poor fielding display by West Indies

Danyal Rasool22-Jun-2023Centuries from Shai Hope and Nicholas Pooran saw West Indies post 339 and demolish Nepal by 101 runs to shore up their Super Six hopes. After early wobbles, Hope and Pooran combined for a 216-run partnership for the fourth wicket, scoring 132 and 115 respectively as West Indies registered the highest score of the tournament. Nepal were never in the chase despite extensive sloppiness in the field from West Indies, and wickets for Jason Holder, Keemo Paul and Akeal Hosein helped them bowl Nepal out for 238.Nepal won the toss and Rohit Paudel elected to field first, a trend that has seen most sides be successful in these qualifiers. It seemed to pay off immediately with his side enjoying the better of the first ten overs. Karan KC and Gulshan Jha removed Kyle Mayers and Johnson Charles within the first five overs to leave them two wickets down for nine. Sandeep Lamichhane – much improved from the first two games, also got his first wicket of the tournament when he cleaned up Brandon King with a googly shortly after.That brought Pooran and Hope together, but a costly drop when Pooran had just scored three by keeper Aasif Sheikh would prove to be a real sliding doors moment. Pooran smacked one six each off Lalit Rajbanshi and Lamichhane immediately after as West Indies began to move through the gears, and Hope joined in on the aggression. He would soon bring up his half-century, before Pooran reached his at a much quicker clip off 51 balls. By now, West Indies were 162 for three with a third of the innings set to go, beautifully set up for the finish.Related

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It was a platform they took advantage of, with Pooran throwing caution to the wind thereafter as Hope played second-fiddle, willing to be a spectator to the fireworks. Jha was tonked for 15 in an over and Karan for 12, and it even appeared as if Pooran might beat Hope to three figures. In the end, they both got there in the 40th over, Hope easing to it with a brace while Pooran carved a boundary behind point to bring his up in 81 balls.West Indies had a free rein in the final ten overs, through which they’d contribute 98, helped by cameos from Rovman Powell and Holder, giving Nepal 340 to get their first points on the board.Shai Hope celebrates his 15th ODI century•ICC via Getty Images

It was an overwhelming ask, and Nepal almost seemed to treat the target as a suggestion rather than a goal. Early wickets for Joseph and Holder didn’t help as Nepal went back into their shell. But they continued to lose wickets as the run rate climbed, despite the profligacy of the West Indian fielding, which bordered on the uninterested at times. There were at least seven catches put down all innings, as well as a number of misfields that could be put down to lackadaisical efforts.But, true to West Indies form, it was interspersed with moments of divine brilliance in the field. A catch on the boundary by Keacy Carty was the pick of the lot, leaping over the rope before coming back in to complete a perfectly executed catch to dismiss Kushal Malla. A sharp grab by Roston Chase sent Dipendra Airee packing too, and by now, Nepal had long been nudged out of the contest, tottering on the brink of a colossal defeat at 128 for six.Aarif Sheikh hung around with the lower order, scoring a spirited half-century to ensure his side put up a respectable total. Nepal crossed 200 and ensured they took the game to the final over thanks to Karan, who played his shots as West Indies went through the motions. It was a successful effort, of sorts, to delay an outcome that had been obvious for at least a couple of hours, as West Indies shook hands on their second successive win.

Australian had a huge impact on the game in England, and the teams he played with there

Valkerie Baynes15-May-2022As Kent and Surrey players lined up on the boundary in front of the Beckenham pavilion to observe a minute’s silence to honour Andrew Symonds, they represented two clubs which had been touched by his “magic” more than most.It was on this suburban out-ground in South London that Matt Walker, the Kent head coach, can remember Symonds whacking a Hampshire attack featuring the likes of Wasim Akram and Alan Mullally into the adjoining training facilities of the Crystal Palace football club. Indeed his unbeaten 96 off 37 balls against Hampshire in the first season of the Twenty20 Cup in 2003 remains a pivotal innings in Symonds’ career.Another innings Walker shared with Symonds was arguably more of a trailblazing one, even if the true significance of it was somewhat lost at the time in an air of puzzlement about the feat and the format itself, which was still very much in its infancy. A good distance from Beckenham, deep into Kent at Maidstone, was where Symonds struck his world-record 34-ball hundred in 37 minutes against Middlesex the following season. It was the fastest T20 hundred until Chris Gayle reached the mark off 30 balls in 2013. Symonds went on to reach 112 off 43 deliveries as Kent won the rain-affected match by seven wickets with 29 balls to spare.”It was almost surreal, because it was so early on in T20,” Walker says. “No one really then knew how to play the game. It sounds really strange but those first couple of years it was so far removed from anything we’d done as cricketers. This new form of cricket came in which I think everyone was scratching their heads about how they go, some people would try the slog first, it didn’t really work out, and the game sort of passed us by and no one really quite got it. But he got it.”Surrey and Kent players observe a minute’s silence for Andrew Symonds•Kent CCC

Symonds clubbed 18 fours and three sixes in that knock, Walker came in a No. 4 with his powerfully built team-mate all guns blazing and ended unbeaten on 12.”Looking back I can’t remember a shot he played because it was so long ago, but what I do remember is there was such shellshock around the ground, especially from the Middlesex players, they couldn’t quite believe what was going on,” he says. “It was almost a sense of this is like nothing we’ve ever seen before.”Now it happens quite a bit, doesn’t it? We see it most weeks in the IPL or in our Blast and it’s quite commonplace, but bearing in mind when that was, I don’t think anyone could quite believe what they’re seeing.”It just felt like he was playing in the back garden with his kids, how easy it was, with how much power he gained, how hard he hit the ball. We just were left a bit sort of bewildered by it really. But Symo being Symo sort of walked off, bat under his arm and, ‘whatever, no big deal’.”It was Symonds’ ability to combine a larger-than-life physical presence with a down-to-earth, humble, honest persona which swept people along with him – made them feel special – that Walker remembers most from the Australian’s time with Kent from 1999 to 2004.”He was a force of nature and an incredibly talented athlete that probably could have played any sport he wanted to if he chose, and he was magic, he really was absolutely magic,” Walker says. “It was the presence he had everywhere he went… you felt unbeatable with that sort of bloke in your presence.”He made it a great place to be for those years and that period was one of the happiest I think I’ve been playing cricket, with that group of players and him in it.”Andrew Symonds on his way to 112 for Kent against Middlesex•Getty Images

During his time with the county, Symonds made 49 first-class appearances, scoring 12 centuries and amassing 3,526 runs at an average of 45.20. He also contributed 65 red-ball wickets with his right-arm seam and off-spin.Symonds also made 62 List A appearances for Kent and scored 1,690 one-day runs at an average of 30.17. His highest one-day total of 146 came against Lancashire at Tunbridge Wells in 2004 and he took 69 wickets at 21.53, including two five-wicket hauls. In 2020, he was voted Kent Spitfires’ Greatest Overseas Player by the club’s members and supporters.Speaking about Symonds’ death, just hours after the news broke late on Saturday night UK time, Walker is almost overcome with emotion initially before the memories flow and he returns to his usually verbose self.”He’ll be hugely missed,” he says. “I know that for a fact. And I can say that when he was with us at Kent, it was an amazing period of time of cricket. We won a lot of games. We were one of the best sides in the country. We won a couple of things and he was a massive part of that and my thoughts are so much with the family and especially the Australian group of players that have had such a horrible time of it.”Related

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Symonds’ death in a single-car crash in north Queensland at the age of 46 follows the deaths of Shane Warne and Rod Marsh in March. Their loss has been felt around the sporting world, and other corners of English county cricket who were moved deeply by Australian cricket’s latest loss, including Surrey, whose players stood shoulder to shoulder with Kent’s under Sunday’s leaden skies which ultimately contrived to end their Championship contest in a washed-out draw.Symonds joined Surrey for the Friends Provident T20 campaign of 2010 and Gareth Batty, then Symonds’ team-mate now Surrey’s head coach, vividly remembers the Australian’s classy response to a then 19-year-old Jason Roy scoring his maiden T20 hundred to propel their side to victory against Kent at Beckenham that season.”Andy Symonds is someone that we knew personally, we had him for a period of time at Surrey nearer the end of his career and he was very big around the group,” Batty says. “I remember Jason getting his first hundred in a T20 game and he was the one, fresh into the group, that said, ‘hang on a minute, we’ve got a young fella here, we hang around for 20 minutes and we bask in his glory with him.'”I certainly think Jason will remember that to this day. I certainly remember it and I still try and aspire to be as good a team man as he certainly was throughout his life. He’ll be sadly missed.”Symonds also played stints with Gloucestershire, where he scored 254 not out against Glamorgan in 1995, including a then first-class record of 16 sixes, and at Lancashire in 2005.”He was a brilliant, three-dimensional player but he was also very driven and asked a lot of his team-mates,” Mark Chilton, Lancashire’s director of cricket.”We caught him at a time in his career when he was flying and he seemed to affect every game in which he played. He was a cricketer who imposed himself on the opposition in a competitive way but without crossing the line. You felt his presence and he had a massive impact on what we were trying to create.”