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MS Dhoni has said India’s 126-run victory in Hyderabad was an important one as their losing-streak had lasted a bit too long and they needed to start enjoying the game again. India had not managed a single international win on their recent tour of England, and had lost all four Tests and three ODIs.”It’s important to win games,” Dhoni said after the match in Hyderabad. “If you’re not winning games, you don’t enjoy playing cricket and our losing streak was a bit too long. We actually played quite well during the ODIs in England and our batsmen got us the runs. But the rain there made it hard for our spinners to grip the wet ball and the seamers too were easy to score of since the ball would come on to the bat better after it rained. Tonight there was no dew and our bowlers showed that they can win us games if the conditions are in their favour.”A lot of the runs that India scored in the ODIs in England were contributed by Dhoni himself, and he continued that form in Hyderabad, scoring his fourth half-century in as many one-day innings. He said his innings of 87 from 70 balls was a calculated one in that he went for some lofted strokes through the off side that he doesn’t play as much since remodelling his game to be a steadying influence on the middle order at No. 6.Dhoni started his innings on Friday slowly, getting to five of 18 balls before he got his first boundary. He then targeted the off side, hitting eight of his ten fours through there, including a couple of lofts through extra-cover.”I normally don’t believe in rating my performance but yes this innings is a precious innings for me,” he said. “Once I started batting at No 6, I had remodelled my game but this innings of mine was a very well calculated one. It was not easy to rotate strike in the middle overs particularly when Graeme Swann was bowling. It was important to just get through that phase.”I tried a lot of aerial shots which I normally don’t play nowadays. I have been practising hitting over the cover region and I felt this was the right match to try that out and it worked well.”After Dhoni’s innings had helped India reach 300, Ravindra Jadeja and R Ashwin sparked an England collapse. While praising his bowlers, Dhoni was also mindful of the role dew would play in the series, and said though the lack of dew in Hyderabad on Friday was a big help to his bowlers, they couldn’t rule out there being dew at other venues, which is why picking the right combination and making the right choice at the toss would be tricky.”The timing of this series is wrong. Had it been in April or May, there’d be the guarantee of no dew and most of the wickets would turn a lot and the fast bowlers too could use their slower ones to be effective. But now, it’s the beginning of winter so it’s hard to predict whether there will be dew or not.”Last night [Thursday] there was quite a bit of dew here but today there wasn’t. If we were playing in November or December we could blindly field first knowing the ball would be hard to grip in the evening. But now it’s tricky and some decisions may go wrong. Also, we will probably have to stick with three quicks and two spinners because if there is dew then it will be hard to manoeuvre three spinners.”

Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsMohammad Hafeez, with Imran Farhat, put on Pakistan’s best opening partnership in ODIs•Associated Press

Pakistan strolled to victory with no trouble at all, chasing a below-par score on a batsman-friendly pitch in Harare. They won the three-match series in comprehensive style as Mohammad Hafeez scored his third ODI century and Imran Farhat came good as well, in the second match after making his comeback. The pair put on 228, Pakistan’s highest opening partnership, to ensure an emphatic win.It was a tough day for Zimbabwe’s bowlers, who failed to threaten and were unable to stem the run-flow. By contrast, Pakistan’s attack restricted Zimbabwe after Brendan Taylor mistakenly put his side in to bat. Taylor actually wanted to bowl, but asked to bat instead, and when he asked if he could reverse his decision, he was denied permission to do so.With some assistance on offer for the seamers, Pakistan’s left-arm pair of Sohail Tanvir and Junaid Khan gave little away. Tanvir extracted movement early on and both bowled around the off stump to deny Zimbabwe easy runs. Their opening pair, Chamu Chibhabha and Vusi Sibanda, gave in to frustration. Chibhabha was caught at mid-off while trying to go over the top and Sibanda perished, for the sixth time in 11 innings this summer, to the pull.Junaid continued to impress as his spell went on and caused problems with the short ball. After seven overs, he injured his ankle while racing to square leg to field off his own bowling and had to go off, but returned to complete his spell.

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• The 228-run partnership between Mohammad Hafeez and Imran Farhat is the highest opening stand for Pakistan in ODIs and their fourth-highest overall.

• The 253 balls faced during the opening partnership is the highest ever for Pakistan in ODIs, surpassing the previous best of 243 balls between Anwar and Wajahatullah Wasti against New Zealand in 1999.

• The double-hundred partnership is the 14th for Pakistan in ODIs, bringing them level second with Australia on the list of teams with the most 200-plus stands. India are on top with 17.

• The victory is Pakistan’s fourth ten-wicket win in ODIs. Their previous such win came against West Indies in the World Cup game in Dhaka.

• Hafeez’s 139 is the second-highest score by a Pakistan batsman against Zimbabwe in ODIs behind Mohammad Yousuf’s 141 in 2002. Hafeez has now scored two centuries and two fifties in his last six ODI innings.

• The 47 balls remaining at the end of the win is the second-highest for Pakistan against Zimbabwe in ODIs, in games in which they have successfully chased 200-plus targets.

• The 104-run stand between Hamilton Masakadza and Brendan Taylor is the third-highest third-wicket stand for Zimbabwe against Pakistan in ODIs.

Spin was introduced from both ends after 20 overs and Zimbabwe eased into single scoring mode, with Hamilton Masakadza and Taylor putting on the team’s best performance against Hafeez and Saeed Ajmal. Zimbabwe scored 52 runs in 10 overs with the bulk of them coming in singles. Masakadza played responsibly, spotting the gaps and doing most of the calling.Cheema returned to try and break what was becoming a sizeable partnership but he did not succeed, though he kept the runs down. Masakadza brought up his half- century with a small nudge to fine leg and Taylor reached the milestone with a quick couple in the same area. They had crafted the platform to launch from, but neither were able to.Taylor was caught at third man after upper-cutting a short and wide delivery, and Masakadza was run out by a direct throw from Misbah-ul-Haq, after he had started the acceleration with Tatenda Taibu at the other end. With the energy Taibu brought to the crease, Masakadza was encouraged to take on the bowling and smashed the biggest shot of the match, a six that landed in the rugby field.Taibu swept confidently and was the most at ease with the attack, but could not provide the required impetus. Tanvir bowled him and it was up to Elton Chigumbura to finish strongly but it was a tough ask. Only at the end did Chigumbura launch and Zimbabwe finished with a 14-run over.Zimbabwe’s bowlers were always going to struggle to defend 225. Chris Mpofu and Brian Vitori were able to keep Pakistan to 36 in the first ten overs. The change bowlers, however, were ineffective and expensive, and Pakistan were running away with the chase at 70 without loss after 15 overs.Ray Price tried his best to contain, but had no support from the other end. Hafeez played aggressively, the pull shot serving him well, while Farhat accumulated. The pair had to take few risks as they were rarely put under any sort of pressure.Hafeez’s century came with a slog-sweep for six. He then tore into Vitori, smacking him for three fours in his eighth over. Hafeez, fittingly, finished the match off with a trademark pull behind square to win the series for Pakistan.

Cricket Kenya has taken a hard stand against a handful of players who have refused to sign new central contracts, dropping them from the national squad. The decision represents a new approach after years of seemingly endless disputes over play and conditions.Alex Obanda, Shem Ngoche, James Ngoche, Nehemiah Odhiambo and Elijah Otieno, who had previously declined full contracts, were made renewed offers while Maurice Ouma, Nelson Odhiambo and Alfred Luseno also were also offered new agreements. Each was offered a three-month agreement with a provision entitling them to a full contract until May 2012 subject to a satisfactory performance review at the end of three months. This review was to take place in conjunction with the same review that all current nationally contracted players will be required to go through.”It’s a shame that yet again some of these players have turned down their contracts but that is their choice,” said CK’s chief executive Tom Sears. “We met with these players as we promised we would, we listened to their views and made them offers that reflected what they wanted – an agreement that would run until the end of the contract year in May 2012 if they met certain performance criteria which all players have to meet.”For some reason they have rejected this so now we have to move on and look for players who do want to be involved. Perhaps the most disappointing aspect was that they refused to represent their teams in the East African Competitions last weekend pulling out at the very last minute.”Their participation in these competitions has nothing to do with their contract negotiations. If they thought that this action would help their cause they were very misguided and it is likely that all the players will face disciplinary action from their teams for letting them down after committing to play.”Again sadly it calls into question the professionalism of these players, how committed they are to putting in the effort, their application in fulfilling their potential and the advice they have been getting from their advisors.”

ScorecardSomerset stepped up their challenge for the Division One title in the County Championship with victory by an innings and eight runs after polishing off Worcestershire for 95 at New Road. Peter Trego (4 for 22) spearheaded a well-balanced attack with the variety to run through the relegation-threatened home side as a wearing pitch offered bounce for the seamers and some turn for Murali Kartik.Back-to-back wins have lifted fourth-placed Somerset to within 23 points of leaders Durham although Warwickshire could be the team to watch with their game in hand on the other contenders. Somerset were the nearly men of last season when they lost the championship on the last day, but this year they are gearing up to make a late run for a prize that has always eluded them.Four of their last five matches are at home, and while results can be hard to come by on the flat pitches at Taunton, it could boil up to a decider with Lancashire, currently in second place, in the final fixture. For Worcestershire it is back to the drawing board after briefly escaping from the bottom two with a couple of home wins. Now they have to re-build from a deflating defeat after posting their highest and lowest totals of the season in the same match.Somerset bravely followed their strategy to make close to 600, which they did after a double century by Marcus Trescothick, and then bowl out Worcestershire when the pitch began to deteriorate. Overhead conditions on a gloomy morning probably gave their seamers another advantage as a number of bowling changes paid off with immediate wickets.Steve Kirby angled his second delivery across Matt Pardoe to have the opener caught at first slip and Vikram Solanki edged Trego’s fifth ball to second slip. Moeen Ali, having made a career-best 158 in the first innings, got to 10 before a top-edged pull gave Alfonso Thomas an early success and worse still for Worcestershire, this led to a clutch of wickets.Jack Manuel was bowled by Kartik from only the third ball he faced and Thomas (3 for 13) accounted for Gareth Andrew and Alexei Kervezee, the latter giving James Hildreth his fifth catch of the match. Captain Daryl Mitchell stayed for nearly two hours but went for 26 when the second ball of a new spell by Trego kept horribly low.Trego and Kartik then mopped up the last three wickets for 11 runs in six overs after lunch, leaving Ben Scott unbeaten on 15.

ScorecardIn a low-scoring match at the Harare Sports Club, Australia A trounced South Africa A by 60 runs, topping the table with 10 points after their second victory in two games.Choosing to bat, Australia got off to a promising start with openers Aaron Finch and David Warner putting on 52. Their stand was followed by solid performances from the middle order, before John Hastings’ 28 off 20 balls in a 45-run eighth-wicket partnership finished things with a flourish. Rory Kleinveldt was the most economical of the wicket-taking bowlers, giving away just 32 runs in 10 overs for his two wickets.Despite a modest target of 215, South Africa never quite settled into a rhythm, losing wickets at regular intervals. Kleinveldt, who came in at No. 9, combined with Ethy Mbhalati for the highest partnership of the innings – 48 for the 10th wicket – but it proved to be too little too late. Hastings removed Kleinveldt in the 34th over – one of his four scalps in a miserly nine-over spell – to end South Africa’s innings on 154.South Africa take on Zimbabwe XI on July 2 at the same venue.

Simon Katich, the Australia opening batsman, has broken his silence over not receiving a central contract, telling the that he has not been treated fairly. Katich believes he was judged solely on his performances in his last four Tests, which he played despite being injured, and not on his overall form since returning to the side in 2008.Since his comeback, Katich has made 2928 runs at 50.48 and has been not only Australia’s most reliable batsman but among the most bankable in the world. In that time only Alastair Cook has scored more runs.”Do I think I have been treated fairly? Not at all, not at all,” Katich said. “From my point of view I have had to play through injuries in the last four Test matches, two with a broken thumb and two with a torn achilles. I didn’t want to play Test cricket like that although I know that is what they have judged me on.”In India they kept telling me it was a bruised thumb and I could hardly hold the bat but they kept telling me it was bruised so I thought ‘Well I can’t not play Test cricket if it’s a bruise’.”Katich revealed that his recovery program began the night after the Adelaide Ashes Test ended. A fellow player offered him a beer at the airport but Katich turned him down, saying, “No thanks mate. Recovery starts now.”He has been undergoing rehabilitation since then and it was at the SCG on Tuesday that he received the phone call from Andrew Hilditch about being left out of the list of contracted players.”I was in the middle of a fitness test, saw the phone ringing and saw who it was and thought ‘Damn, I better answer this’,” Katich said. “I knew full well what it was, I didn’t want him to have the luxury of leaving a message, so I grabbed it. It’s funny, I have been treated like this before by them. I have been down this path a number of times.”I spoke my mind, I certainly didn’t hold back. There was no shirking the issue, but there was nothing said that was personal, it was just about the decision. I vented my spleen about the decision and explained why. There was no name-calling or anything like that.”Katich believes he still has much more to give Australia and that if he didn’t, there was no way he would have undergone such a rigorous rehabilitation program.”Put it this way I don’t think I would have wasted our physio and our fitness trainers’ time over the past six months or my time doing this rehab every second day for the sake of it. That is not how I operate. It’s not just my time, it is the staff’s time as well and I am always respectful of that.”Up to Tuesday I had done three weeks’ training ahead of the rest of the squad starting and I did that because I wanted to be ready and firing in Sri Lanka.”Katich is scheduled to hold a press conference on June 10 to announce his future plans.

Patrick Cummins, the promising New South Wales pace bowler, has been ruled out of the Australia A tour of Zimbabwe due to a back injury. Though Cummins has avoided the more lasting problems of stress fractures, it is a further blow to Australian pace bowling stocks that have taken hit after hit over the past 18 months as a succession of young bowlers succumbed to ailments.The injury adds Cummins to a list that has included Josh Hazlewood, Ryan Harris, Ben Cutting, Ben Hilfenhaus, Peter Siddle, Burt Cockley, Doug Bollinger, Mitchell Starc and Clint McKay. Following a debut season for the Blues in which he startled many batsmen with his sustained speed, bounce and movement, 18-year-old Cummins complained of discomfort in his lower back, and examinations showed up a strain.Greg Chappell, the national selector, said Cummins was still “two or three” years away from maturity as a bowler and a man, but did not rule out Australian duty for him in the intervening years.”We know that young bowlers are vulnerable until their bones mature. We’ll have to be very careful with him,” Chappell told . “The advice we were given was that it would probably be too early for him to go to Zimbabwe and give it another couple of months it gives him a chance to recover from the soreness and also start building that body up.”He’s going to need two or three really good pre-seasons in him before we could expect him to be at his full strength and fitness, but we also see him as someone we could possibly use in that intervening period, so we’ve got to give him the best opportunity to be right for the critical moments. Zimbabwe it wasn’t important that we try to rush him to get him for that.”We know he’s right there, he’s performed in first-class cricket, he’s done well at that higher level so he has the potential to go the whole distance. But as with Hazlewood, [James] Pattinson, Starc, we’re just going to have to be really conscious of that management process, albeit wanting to get as much bowling into them as they can so they gain experience and gain knowledge to help get them there faster.”Players and observers had marvelled at Cummins’ ability at such a young age to keep hurling the ball down in lengthier spells than the brief bursts he was permitted in Twenty20 cricket, impressing particularly in the last two Sheffield Shield matches of the season.Against Western Australia at the SCG he delivered one spell from around the wicket that seriously threatened the health of the two Warriors batsmen at the crease, while in the Shield final against Tasmania his fiery bursts were maintained over the course of a marathon bowling stint. Cummins’ tally of overs for the match was a gargantuan 65, 48 of those in the first innings when he returned the figures of 3 for 118.Brett Lee, who fought a lengthy battle with an elbow problem to be fit in time for this year’s World Cup, has said that fast bowlers should expect to get injured in their early years as part of learning how to manage their body.”It is about making sure that guys are looked after and understand too that it is such an unnatural action, and not be put in a class where they think you’ve got to be rested and can only bowl a certain amount of balls,” Lee said during the Indian Premier League. “Because you’ve got to be hardened as well for a fast bowler, you can’t be put in the nets and be told you can only bowl 30 balls for that week and then see you next week type of thing.”Your body and your bones have got to get used to that stress going through it. The old saying goes that through all the impact of bowling you get bone on bone and it creates a stronger platform to leverage off. If you haven’t got that, your bones are soft and you haven’t done the work, you can’t expect to go bowling in the SCG nets at 130kph twice a week, then go into a Test match and try to bowl 150 clicks for five days straight – the jump is massive.”It’s a massive catch-22 [situation] because you’ve got to do the work but you’ve also got to be fresh somehow. I don’t really know what the answer is but I think it comes down to the individual. As bowlers get older they definitely got to know their body a lot better. I certainly know now the stiffness that might be my legs, might be my elbow, might be my back, I just know its stiffness because I haven’t bowled for a week or because I’ve bowled for 10 overs flat-out, it’s been hot, it’s been humid, you’re dehydrated.”Cummins is on a modified training program as he recovers from the strain and hopes to join other scholars at Cricket Australia’s Centre of Excellence in Brisbane later in the year. George Bailey, the Tasmania captain and leader of Australia A last winter, is also missing the tour due to his rehabilitation from surgery on his right shoulder

Stuart Law, Sri Lanka’s interim coach, believes that England’s Test cricketers currently pose the “toughest deal on the planet”, but insists that his players have the expertise and character to put up a strong fight when the first Test in Cardiff gets underway on Thursday.Despite being considered outsiders in English early-season conditions, Sri Lanka enter the series full of confidence after a pair of impressive victories in their warm-up matches against Middlesex at Uxbridge and England Lions at Derby, where they overcame the follow-on to win a thrilling contest by 38 runs on the final day.They have since suffered a major setback with the news that Nuwan Pradeep, their matchwinner at Derby with 4 for 29 on the final day, is set to fly home with a knee ligament injury. However, Law was confident that his squad was sufficiently well rounded, even in the absence of the retired Muttiah Muralitharan, to pose a challenge to England’s strong batting line-up.”It seems everyone else isn’t confident in our bowling, but we’ve played four different seamers [in the warm-ups] and won both games,” he said. “Our seamers run in and hit the seam, and in England conditions that’s always a bonus. Our spinners do a lot of work for Sri Lanka, and yes we haven’t got Murali, but we’ve got good spin. Given the right conditions and the right attitude, and if they are consistent enough, yes they can take 20 wickets.”Sri Lanka will be further buoyed by the memory of their last meeting with England, in the World Cup quarter-final in Colombo two months ago, when they romped to a ten-wicket victory with more than 10 overs to spare, thanks to centuries for Upul Tharanga and the new captain, Tillakaratne Dilshan. However, Law believed that in five-day cricket, England would pose an entirely different challenge.”I’ve said it openly, in the last 18 months, I believe England are the best team in Test cricket,” said Law. “They’ve beaten teams in their own backyard and away from home as well, they are well drilled, they leave nothing to chance, they prepare well. You can’t complain with the way they are going, and as an Englishman you’d be very happy after the Ashes, which is one of the biggest contests on the planet. We know we’ve got our work cut out, but we’ve not come here to roll over and die. We’ve come here to fight.”Injuries aside, Sri Lanka have had a difficult build-up to the Test series. There was a change-over in leadership following the resignation of Kumar Sangakkara in the aftermath of their World Cup final defeat against India, and a clash of priorities which led to several of the squad, including Sangakkara and his fellow veteran Mahela Jayawardene, missing the early part of the tour to concentrate on the IPL in India.In the circumstances, Sri Lanka have done remarkably well to make light of such difficulties, although Law – who himself is coaching in an interim capacity following the resignation of Trevor Bayliss – said that off-field problems were part and parcel of the country’s cricket.”If you understand what goes on in Sri Lanka cricket behind the scenes you’d be amazed how well these guys play,” he said. “They do have to put up with extra pressures, but this tour is a magnificent opportunity for [some] young guns to come in, stick their hands up, and say ‘I want to be here for 10 or 15 years and have a great career for Sri Lanka’.”Although Law admitted that his IPL latecomers, Sangakkara and Jayawardene, had looked a bit rusty during the match in Derby, he said he could sense a sharpening of focus during the squad’s practice in Cardiff on Tuesday morning. “Looking at them today their mindset has completely changed,” he said. “They are preparing for the first day of battle on Thursday. They are two quality individuals, two quality players, I’d expect they’d leave no stone unturned.”Although Sri Lanka’s Derby victory showed that they are not afraid of grassy wickets, the Cardiff wicket is one that could well play into the hands of a team of strokemakers who know how to make the most of flat surfaces. Two years ago, Australia posted a mammoth 674 for 6 at the same venue, and on first inspection, the 2011 pitch looks to be similarly full of runs.”The pitch looks a belter, completely different to the nets,” said Law. “It’s a true batting surface as they have been down here for a long time. In Test cricket you expect to see those sorts of pitches, and with all the weather around it might not change too much. And that’s what I’ve been trying to tell our boys. In all conditions, never give in, because you never know what’s round the corner.”We’re just preparing for them to be the toughest deal on the planet at this stage,” he added. “We are not underestimating one facet of their game. People are saying that certain areas of their batting line-up can be exposed, we are not seeing it that way, we are just coming up with good plans for each batsman, rather than say we are targeting this guy or that guy. If we can sniff a result, we’ll try to put our foot on their throat.”

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Four wickets for Monty Panesar undermined Durham as they subsided from 173 for 1 to 292 all out against Sussex in their County Championship Division One encounter at Chester-le-Street today. The visitors replied with 30 for 1, Ed Joyce falling to a brilliant right-handed diving catch by Gordon Muchall at first slip off Mitch Claydon.Durham rested Graham Onions after his excellent comeback in the win at Headingley, and with Liam Plunkett out with a thigh muscle injury they brought in Claydon and West Indian Ruel Brathwaite. On as early as the 17th over after Durham won the toss for the third successivegame, Panesar commanded respect without threatening to take wickets until hesuddenly captured his first two in his 19th and 21st overs.Ben Stokes had been tied down but two balls after advancing to drive a six over long-on he sat back to force a back-foot shot through the off-side and got an inside edge into his stumps. Dale Benkenstein popped up a catch to short leg and Panesar had bowled 25 overs for 55 runs when Scott Borthwick set about him.Crisp strokes on both sides of the wicket produced six fours off the spinner, including four off successive balls, and the young allrounder succeeded in having Panesar briefly removed from the attack. Borthwick’s knock of 35 ended when he edged to wicketkeeper Ben Brown to giveAmjad Khan a third wicket, and Panesar returned to claim two lbw verdicts and finish with 4 for 88.Durham’s slide started when Muchall miscued an attempted pull off James Anyon, skying a catch to mid-on. Muchall had taken up where Michael Di Venuto left off, the opener having scored30 off 33 balls before falling lbw to the first ball when Anyon came on for the ninth over. The left-hander was looking to work the ball to leg.Muchall raced past anchor man Will Smith and dominated a stand of 129, hitting 13 fours in making 74 off 119 balls. Smith made 59 before edging a drive at Rana Naved-ul-Hasan to first slip and wicketkeeper Michael Richardson, again deputising for the injured Phil Mustard,perished in similar fashion to give Khan his first wicket. This time the ball flew to second slip, where Joyce held a good catch.Khan’s second wicket swiftly followed when Ian Blackwell drove loosely wide of off stump and played on for 19, leaving Borthwick to harvest what runs he could accompanied by a tail lengthened by Plunkett’s absence.

Queensland’s James Hopes has been named the Sheffield Shield Player of the Series for 2010-2011 at the State Cricket Awards in Hobart. Western Australia were honoured with the Benaud Spirit of Cricket Award for the season.The annual State Cricket Awards are held in the lead-up to the Sheffield Shield final each year. Hopes, who has averaged 58.70 with the bat and 20.11 with the ball this season, winning 23 votes, won the award ahead of Tasmania allrounder Luke Butterworth.Other awards announced included the Ryobi One-Day Cup Player of the Series Award that went to Victoria’s Brad Hodge, and the Twenty20 Big Bash Player of the Series Award, bagged by South Australia’s Daniel Harris.New South Wales capped a dominant season in the Women’s National Cricket League (WNCL) with the WNCL and Women’s Twenty20 Spirit of Cricket Awards. Australian Capital Territory captain Kris Britt was named the WNCL Player of the Series, while South Australia’s Karen Rolton bagged the Women’s Twenty20 Player of the Series Award.Darcy Short, originally from the Northern Territory but currently playing grade cricket in Perth, took home the Indigenous Cricketer of the Year Award, while Bruce Oxenford – who is currently officiating in the World Cup – was named Umpire of the Year.The players’ awards are decided based on the votes awarded at the end of each match in inter-state competitions by the on-field umpires. The Australian Cricketers’ Association All Star Teams were also announced. These players are chosen by contracted Australia, state-level and rookie cricketers.The four-day, one-day and Twenty20 ACA All Star teams, in batting order, are as follows:Four-day Team of the Year: Wes Robinson, Shaun Marsh, Usman Khawaja, Mark Cosgrove, Robert Quiney, James Hopes (captain), Graham Manou, Luke Butterworth, Nathan Hauritz (vice-captain), Peter Siddle, Trent Copeland, Andrew McDonaldOne-day Team of the Year: Ed Cowan, Aaron Finch, Brad Hodge, George Bailey (captain), Marcus North (vice-captain), Daniel Christian, Matthew Wade, Brett Lee, Brendan Drew, Xavier Doherty, Ben Edmondson, Adam VogesTwenty20 Team of the Year: Daniel Harris, Aaron Finch, Shaun Marsh, James Hopes (vice-captain), George Bailey (captain), Kieron Pollard, Ben Rohrer, Luke Ronchi, Nathan Lyon, Stuart Clark, Patrick Cummins, Daniel Christian