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Club captain signs three-year extension after successful 2021 campaign

ESPNcricinfo staff15-Mar-2022James Vince has extended his contract with Hampshire by a further three years, keeping him at the Ageas Bowl until at least the end of 2025.Vince, 31, has been a regular in the Hampshire set-up since 2010, having made his first-team debut in May 2009. He has now racked up 17,666 runs in 405 appearances across all formats and assumed the role of club captain in 2015.”I’m delighted to have extended my contract for a further three years,” Vince said. “I’ve been with Hampshire since 2006 and am proud to call The Ageas Bowl my home ground.”Vince was in fine form in 2021, averaging 40.80 in the County Championship – including 231 against Leicestershire – as Hampshire finished fourth in Division One. In the Vitality Blast he guided his team to another Finals Day with five group-match wins out of five before a remarkable comeback against Notts Outlaws in the quarter-final at Trent Bridge.”I’ve enjoyed some fantastic experiences with the club and we head into the 2022 season with an exciting group of players and added motivation after coming so close in 2021’s LV= Insurance County Championship,” Vince added. “We’re looking forward to the start of the new season, one which will hopefully mark the beginning of a successful period for the club.”In his time at the club, Vince has been involved in two T20 titles in 2010 and 2012, and the Royal London One-Day club in 2018. He was also a part of the County Championship Division Two title-winning side in 2014, and has featured for England in 50 matches across formats, including the 2019 World Cup win.Giles White, Hampshire Director of Cricket said: “James is not only a fantastic player in every format but also an excellent captain, so we are of course, delighted that he has committed for the long term. He’s an integral part of the club and it’s great to have him leading the team in what promises to be an exciting period for the club.”

The postponement of DPL is another setback for professional cricketers who rely on leagues for income

ESPNcricinfo staff20-Oct-2020BCB director and Abahani Limited coach Khaled Mahmud has said it is “not possible” to go ahead with the 2019-20 season of Dhaka Premier League, which was put on pause after six matches in March due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The board, according to him, is looking at January next year for a possible window, but said they might consider postponing it further if the DPL clubs show reluctance to play should West Indies’ tour of Bangladesh go ahead, which would make several of their main players unavailable for the league.Mahmud said that the BCB wants to complete a proposed T20 tournament by mid-December, after which they have to give clubs the time to prepare, especially under pandemic protocols, which would be a challenge given that DPL is a 12-team List-A competition.”It is not possible this year,” Mahmud said at a press-conference on Monday. “We can only start in January next year. We are already committed to the T20 tournament, which starts in November and will only finish in the middle of December. We have to arrange training facilities for the clubs, and allow them to get the players back to Dhaka, so I think we can only start around the first week of January.”If West Indies are touring in January, we will run the DPL side-by-side. Those playing international cricket won’t be playing domestic cricket. It has happened before. We cannot control every single thing. As simple as that. If the clubs decide they can’t play without those players, then we have to think about the league after West Indies’ tour. We have such a busy schedule next year that it is unlikely that we will get such a luxury. Perhaps we have some time in March or April.”The postponement of DPL is yet another setback for the majority of the country’s professional cricketers who rely on the leagues for their income. In a typical cricket season, the four-tiered Dhaka league (DPL and first, second and third division) and two first-class tournaments are played, along with the BPL.Mahmud said that organising and maintaining a 12-team biobubble is a major challenge, as the BCB has so far only experienced it with three teams in the ongoing BCB President’s Cup tournament.”It is a very complicated, difficult thing. We have three teams in the biobubble currently. Next we will have five or six teams in the biobubble for the T20 tournament. There are 12 teams in the Dhaka Premier League with at least 20 in each side, including the coaches and managers. The big question is where to put up around 270 people in one place.”Even if we hold a single league, there is a lot of matches. So we have to figure out how much time we will need. We are in talks with BKSP about the biobubble, but given how the clubs are such big stakeholders, their decision also matters,” Mahmud said.Mahmud suggested the BCB could give out loans to clubs although he was confident that most of them can manage the costs for the 2019-20 tournament.”BCB is positive because a lot of the players’ financial future is at stake. I think the Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolis (CCDM) meeting is important. We have to give utmost importance to the players’ well-being. If one player gets infected – God forbid – it can spread through the team.”The BCB can arrange for a loan for the clubs, who I believe can manage much of their funds. Everything is running now, unlike a few months ago when it was uncertain. I know it will be tough on the clubs but not so tough that they can’t run the teams for the DPL.”

ESPNcricinfo’s Live Report for Australia’s game against Pakistan in Taunton

Danyal Rasool12-Jun-2019

The Pakistan wristspinner was docked 20 percent of his match fee and handed one demerit point for his send-off to Chadwick Walton

ESPNcricinfo staff03-Apr-2018Pakistan wristspinner Shadab Khan has been fined 20% of his match fee after being found guilty of verbal abuse during the second T20 international against West Indies in Karachi. Shadab’s offence amounted to a Level 1 breach of the ICC’s code of conduct, which also earned him one demerit point.The incident occurred in the ninth over of the West Indies chase, when Shadab dismissed Chadwick Walton. After being taken for 11 runs in his first over by the batsman, Shadab returned to clean him up with a wrong’un off the first ball of his next over. Shadab then followed up by pointing his finger at the departing Walton, and made an inappropriate comment. Shadab, who is Walton’s teammate at Islamabad United, admitted his offence and accepted the sanction proposed by the match referee David Boon.As per the ICC’s code, Level 1 breaches carry a minimum penalty of an official reprimand, and a maximum penalty of 50% of a player’s match fee, and one or two demerit points. This is the first time Shadab has been caught breaching the player code. If he accumulates three more demerit points within a 24-month period, it will translate into suspension points that will earn him a one-match ban.Pakistan are presently hosting West Indies in Karachi, and have taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-T20I series. The third and final game takes place on Tuesday.

Dinesh Chandimal, Sri Lanka’s vice-captain, needs a break from the game to rediscover his form, according to stand-in skipper Upul Tharanga

Firdose Moonda07-Feb-2017Dinesh Chandimal, Sri Lanka’s vice-captain, needs a break from the game to rediscover his form, according to stand-in skipper Upul Tharanga. Chandimal was left out of the team to play the fourth ODI after a string of low scores on the South African tour and could even miss the final match on Friday as he seeks to put a poor tour behind him.”It was a hard decision [to leave him out],” Tharanga said. “We chatted to him and he was okay to rest. He needs a few days away from cricket. We all know he is a very good cricketer. He will come back in the next tour. For a few days he needs to get away from cricket and get some rest.”In 12 international innings across all formats on this visit, Chandimal has scored 180 runs all told at an average of 16.36. His highest return has been 36 in the second ODI in Durban and he has endured six single-figure scores. But a break would not be the obvious choice for the vice-captain.He sat out Sri Lanka’s last tour, to Zimbabwe, as he recovered from a hand injury and, earlier in the series, coach Graham Ford had said he thought Chandimal came into this tour “slightly underdone”. Ford believed Chandimal is not far off his best but that he needed game time to get there.Now it seems he may have to wait until the T20s in Australia, with his replacement Sandun Weerakkody impressing with a half-century in his second ODI. Weerakkody took Sri Lanka to the brink of victory at Newlands and earned special praise from Tharanga for making the most of the chance he got against a strong South African attack.”This series was a very good opportunity for youngsters to learn the game and the way we played today, everyone learnt really good lessons,” Tharanga said. “Sandun playing his second game – the way he batted is good for him and the team.”The same could be said for Tharanga himself. Although a veteran of the international game, who has played for more than a decade, he has gone almost four years without an ODI hundred and has only recently returned to opening the batting. Tharanga batted in the middle order in 2015 and 2016 but now, back at the top, he has fulfilled a life-long dream to score a century in South Africa.”Opening has given me the chance to get some big scores,” he said. “It’s very different conditions. The South African attack always has very good fast bowlers. To get a hundred in South Africa, as a batsmen, gives me a lot of confidence.”

Australia’s captain Steven Smith believes his men will have adequate preparation for their Trans-Tasman Trophy defence in New Zealand despite there being no warm-up match ahead of the first Test

Brydon Coverdale29-Jan-20161:22

‘Red-hot NZ will be tough to beat’ – Smith

Australia’s captain Steven Smith believes his men will have adequate preparation for their Trans-Tasman Trophy defence in New Zealand despite there being no warm-up match ahead of the first Test. The two Tests in Wellington and Christchurch are preceded by three ODIs, which will be the only local match preparation for several Test squad members including Smith, David Warner, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Marsh and Shaun Marsh.Three other Test players – Adam Voges, Nathan Lyon and Peter Nevill – will play in a Sheffield Shield match between New South Wales and Western Australia in Lincoln, New Zealand, which was scheduled to help local preparation in lieu of a tour game. Others such as Usman Khawaja, Joe Burns, James Pattinson, Chadd Sayers, Jackson Bird and Peter Siddle (fitness permitting) have a Sheffield Shield game in Australia before flying to New Zealand.It is hardly an ideal situation given that the conditions in New Zealand are likely to offer more swing and seam than was seen during the Test series between the two sides in Australia at the start of the summer. And with only two Tests, there is no room for a slow start as the Australians adjust; New Zealand are proven performers at home, and have not lost a Test in New Zealand since early 2012, before Brendon McCullum and Mike Hesson came together as captain and coach.”It is what it is. We’ve played a lot of cricket this summer,” Smith said in Melbourne on Friday ahead of his departure early on Saturday morning. “Everyone will be playing some form of cricket, whether it’s one-day cricket or the Shield match. I think it’s adequate preparation and we’ll be ready to go for that series.”None of Australia’s squad has played a Test in New Zealand, the last tour there having been nearly six years ago when a 20-year-old Smith was part of the squad but had to wait until later in the year to win his first baggy green. However, Smith thinks he knows the kind of pitches the Australians will face in New Zealand and he knows that the challenge of facing the moving ball will again be significant, as it was during last year’s Ashes tour.”It’s going to be a little bit different,” Smith said. “They’re going to prepare wickets that are going to do a little bit. We’ve got some bowlers there to hopefully get a bit out of that and the batters are going to have to adapt a little bit better than we have previously on wickets that have done stuff. Guys are working hard and we know what to expect.”It’s very difficult to do. When you grow up in Australia you can play out in front a little bit more, and in those conditions you’ve got to play under your eyes so your nicks don’t carry and you’re not getting out in front. It’s hard to train, you sort of have to get away from everything that you learn growing up and try and for a new technique, in a way. Hopefully the guys can do that and adapt, to all the conditions around the world.”Key to New Zealand’s hopes will be their pace attack led by Trent Boult, who struggled early on in the Tests in Australia but by the third Test in Adelaide with the pink ball was proving a handful for Australia’s batsmen. Boult has described the upcoming tour as the “pinnacle of the season” for New Zealand; Australia remember all too well the way he destroyed them in Auckland during last year’s World Cup, albeit swinging a white ball rather than a red one.”He looked like he was back to his best in the last couple of Tests here,” Smith said. “He got a bit more work into his body and he was ready to go. He’s done very well for New Zealand recently, he bowls extremely well in New Zealand, so he’s going to be a tough one for us. But guys know what to expect. Hopefully the batters can combat whatever he brings at us.”During that memorable World Cup game in Auckland, Mitchell Starc was just as deadly with the moving ball as Boult, and Australia will sorely miss the injured Starc in New Zealand conditions for this Test series. Hazlewood will lead the attack and two of Pattinson, Siddle, Sayers and Bird will round out the pace attack; choosing who makes the cut in Wellington could be difficult given the lack of a tour game.”We’re going to have a few net sessions before we start,” Smith said. “We’ll have a look and see how they’re going, see how their bodies are and see who’s going to be best for the conditions that we’re faced with. It’s going to be a tough call on whomever misses out but we’re confident that these guys are going to do a job for us in New Zealand.”

Misbah-ul-Haq said Pakistan were ready for to the Champions Trophy after a tricky warm-up in Scotland and Ireland

David Hopps29-May-2013Pakistan’s captain, Misbah-ul-Haq, has just turned 39 and he was asked at his side’s introductory media conference ahead of the Champions Trophy how he would celebrate it. “Just going for practice,” he said.There have been more exciting birthdays, but there have been few more wisely spent. What Pakistan need more than anything is a quiet time in their first appearance in England since a spot-fixing scandal in 2010 ended with three of their players serving custodial sentences and their reputation once again dragged through the mud.This is a tournament where for the sake of Pakistan’s cricketing future they need to rebuild the respect of the many as well as excite the passions of their committed supporters.Even as Misbah tried to give an impression of solidity, one of his greatest attributes since the day he took charge, the headlines were again suggesting that all was not well. As he sat down, attention centred upon the suspension of the PCB’s chairman, Zaka Ashraf, by the High Court in Islamabad pending investigations of what Justice Shaukat Siddiqui called a “polluted” election process.Once that had been digested, talk turned to Asad Rauf’s protestations of innocence after he had been withdrawn from the Champions Trophy umpiring panel amid media reports in India that he was under police investigation as part of the IPL betting scandal.Surrounded by all of this disruption, Misbah and the Pakistan coach, Dav Whatmore, strive to create a competitive side for the present and a bold vision for the future.Pakistan’s supporters must despair of better times. Their side will invariably possess volatile talent and their supporters can be expected to be out in force, especially in Birmingham, where they play two of their three group matches, against South Africa and India. Just for once, though, they would benefit from a lot less fun and a lot more sense. The fans deserve better.Their warm-up matches have not augured well. They were rained on in Scotland and in Ireland they came perilously close to becoming the first Full Member nation to lose a series to an Associate. Ireland tied the first game thanks to Kevin O’Brien’s blistering 84 from 47 balls in Clontarf and then seemed to have the second match won only for Kamran Akmal and Wahab Riaz to pull off a spectacular run chase.Misbah, having experienced Ireland and Scotland, is probably the only Champions Trophy captain to arrive in England thinking that when it comes to the swinging ball things can only get easier.”I think coming from Pakistan it’s really difficult to adjust to the conditions, especially the weather,” he said, “but we have played a game in Scotland and then in Ireland two games, so it really helped us to acclimatise here, especially now it’s really cold here also.”In Ireland especially, the ball was really moving in the air. So everybody has suggested that, and they’re ready to just face those sort of conditions. I think in England especially it will be better than Ireland, so I think mentally everybody is ready and now getting ready for this tournament.”Misbah has been a solid upholder of the faith in such taxing times for cricket’s itinerant nation. There is a staunchness about him that goes down well after the reign of Salman Butt, who initially charmed the English media with his sharp wit and well-modulated accent, but who became regarded as a latter-day snake-oil salesman after a tabloid newspaper sting led to the captain and two fast bowlers, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, bringing shame upon Pakistan cricket.Birmingham’s large number of Pakistan supporters should help them feel at home, their loyalty never wavering despite constant slights upon it. The final group match against India on June 15 sold out in three hours and, in a group also containing South Africa and West Indies, there is every chance it could prove critical to at least one of the side’s chances of reaching the semi-finals.”I’d say it’s special for us because a lot of fans here are for the Pakistan cricket team,” Misbah said. “I haven’t played before here, but Pakistan really had a good record here. Even in the last series, Pakistan won a Test match and played really well. We’re really looking forward to enjoying these games.”Pakistan’s Edgbaston record is actually not remotely as spectacular as Misbah imagines. In all competitions, they have won six, lost nine and drawn three. They lost their last Test in Birmingham against England three years ago and also lost their last ODI on the ground in 2006. Misbah has never lost at Edgbaston – but then he has never played at Edgbaston.He was right about his 39th birthday, though, even if the rain did affect his attempts to practice.