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The PCB has made a plan B of holding the Pentangular T20 Cup in case the proposed India-Pakistan series doesn’t go ahead

Umar Farooq28-Nov-2015The PCB has made a plan B of holding the Pentangular T20 Cup in case the proposed India-Pakistan series does not go ahead.Although the Pakistan government has given the nod to play India in Sri Lanka, the PCB has been fretting over the continuous delay from their Indian counterparts. While there were ideas to engage an international team, PCB believes it is not feasible to arrange an international tour in such a short notice.”We are concerned and given the short time we have to have a back-up plan,” a senior PCB board official told ESPNcricinfo. “We were expecting them [BCCI] to respond by this week, but unfortunately news coming from India is extremely discouraging. We, in the meantime, are planning a five-team T20 tournament for next month in case BCCI pulls out of their commitment.”The tournament, which is a new addition to the domestic calendar, will be a one-off and feature provisional sides – Punjab, Sindh, Baluchistan, Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa and Federal Areas. The format is in-line with the already planned Pakistan Super League, with the top 75 players distributed among the five teams. Should it materialise, it would be the third T20 tournament organised by the PCB this year.According to the Future Tours Programme, a series of two Tests, three ODI and two T20 was originally scheduled between India and Pakistan in the UAE in December 2015.With the BCCI insisting they would play Pakistan only at home, which the PCB categorically rejected, a compromise formula appeared to have been reached when Sri Lanka was proposed as an alternate venue for a short limited-overs series following meetings between Shaharyar Khan and Shashank Manohar in Dubai, with Giles Clarke, the ECB chief, playing the role of a mediator.While the Pakistan government has responded positively, there has not been much said by India yet. On their part, the BCCI confirmed earlier that they had written to their government asking for a clearance for the tour. But the delay in granting permission has put a cloud over the revival of the series.

West Indies’ spirits would have been lifted when a verdant green surface was unveiled at Bellerive Oval and although the nature of the pitch is expected to change as the Test nears, Kemar Roach was encouraged by it

Daniel Brettig07-Dec-2015What better to lift the sagging spirits of a West Indies touring team after their hiding at the hands of a modest Cricket Australia XI than the unveiling of a verdant green surface at Bellerive Oval?While the pitch’s appearance four days out from the Thursday start of the first Test for the Frank Worrell Trophy is likely to be deceiving, as warm temperatures will affect its colour and moisture content, there was an unmistakable spring in the step of the pacer Kemar Roach as he contemplated a kind of strip seldom seen in the Caribbean.For all their recent woes, West Indies have a strong enough bowling unit to cause Australia’s transitional batting line-up some problems, given the right conditions and circumstances. Plenty of members of Steven Smith’s team can remember Jerome Taylor’s piercing spells in Jamaica earlier this year, and many will also recall the duel Roach fought with Ricky Ponting at the WACA Ground in 2009 – his pace causing an uncertainty hitherto unseen in the then captain.”Of course, there aren’t many wickets in the world like that, so it’s good to see that for a change. I’m pretty excited to get a go on Thursday,” Roach said of the pitch. “Yeah I think so [it will still be green on Thursday]. I know Australians play very hard cricket and they believe in what they do, so that’s what they give us, and that’s what we’re going to take.”There’s some very good fast bowlers in our group, our job is to go out there and give it our best shot. Jerome Taylor has been leading the attack very well, he’s in good form, one of the fastest bowlers in the world Shannon Gabriel, and then myself. And Jason Holder the captain has been good as well. I think we can give the Australians some trouble.”A grassy pitch is West Indies’ best chance to get into the contest, as their batsmen have commonly lacked the application and technique required to build the more substantial innings required by flatter wickets. This much was confirmed by a glance at their morning net session, where edges abounded, and the young right-hander Shane Dowrich was at one point clean bowled, by a ball the coach Phil Simmons delivered with a “dog thrower”.Roach’s speed and skiddy bounce had been similarly disconcerting for Ponting six years ago. He was struck a painful blow near the elbow, its effects on tendons and muscles described by the team physio Alex Kountouris as similar to a cut of meat being tenderised by a mallet. Years and injuries have dulled Roach’s speed, but he is a useful man to have on tour for his experience and effervescence.”It was good memories, Ricky Ponting was a great batsman for Australia, and to go out there and give him a hard time at the crease was a good thing for me at a young age,” he said. “My role has changed since 2009, I’ve had a lot of injuries the last couple of years and that’s set me back a bit.”But I’m here and there’s a reason I’m here, the selectors have put their faith in me to come down here and do the job. I believe in myself as well, so given a go on Thursday I’ll go out there and give it my best shot. Consistency, hitting the areas as much as possible has always been the way in Australia. I watched Australia and New Zealand and it’s simple, just keep the ball in good areas and just do something with the ball as well, then you should be on top.”West Indies’ troubles have been many and varied, with several of their best players now skipping Test duty to play in the Big Bash League, and more recently Simmons being suspended from his role for disputing the choices made by a selection panel of which he was a part. Roach said Simmons’ return had a positive effect, while also welcoming the “underdog” tag that is indisputably theirs this week.”I think Phil Simmons is a great coach,” Roach said. “I like him around, he has been working with the guys very well, he has a comfortable dressing room, and that’s what most guys need to perform, once they’re comfortable then there’s no other reason you can’t perform.”I love being the underdogs. If we can come out on top then it’s going to be a whole different story, they will change their mouths, I think we’ve got to go out there, do the best that we can and give Australia a good run.”

A round-up of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy matches on January 4, 2016

ESPNcricinfo staff04-Jan-2016

Highlights of the day

Cheteshwar Pujara blasted his highest score in Twenty20 cricket, as Saurashtra thrashed Jammu & Kashmir by 73 runs in Kochi. Pujara slammed five fours and sixes each during a 55-ball 81, and shared a 70-run partnership with Chirag Jani, who stroked 38 off 19 balls. Their efforts lifted Sauarashtra to 157 for 7. J&K failed to string together a single meaningful stand in their chase, and folded for 84 inside 18 overs, with only two batsmen managing double-digit scores. Dharmendrasinh Jadeja was the pick of the bowlers, ending with figures of 3.1-0-19-3.Gujarat nearly made a mess of a small chase against Hyderabad in Nagpur, but Parthiv Patel’s 70-run blitz ensured the team had enough gas in the tank to register a three-wicket win. Set 132 for victory, Parthiv drilled eight fours and three sixes during a 40-ball 70, and added 99 for the opening wicket with Priyank Kirit Panchal. Parthiv’s dismissal in the 12th over triggered a slide, as Gujarat lost seven wickets for just 30 runs, but held on to complete the chase with three balls to spare.Domestic heavyweights Karnataka suffered their second defeat of the season, going down to Uttar Pradesh by five wickets in Cuttack. Karnataka, opting to bat, compiled a total of 160 for 6, thanks to a 40-ball 45 from Mohammed Talha, and handy lower-order knocks from CM Gautam and Aniruddha Joshi. UP, though, gunned that total down with relative ease, as their top and middle order all got in among the runs. The opener Prashant Gupta top-scored with 48, while Suresh Raina carried forward the momentum by smoking a 15-ball 28 with three sixes.Biplab Samantray’s maiden T20 ton went in vain, as Odisha failed to defend 183 against Maharashtra. Samantray thumped a 59-ball 102, and put up 155 for the third wicket with Govinda Poddar, but important knocks of 44 and 49 from Prayag Bhati and Ankit Bawne respectively helped Maharashtra to a last-ball win.

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Josh Hazlewood will lead Australia’s attack in the Test series in New Zealand confident that he has learnt from the mistakes he made on last year’s Ashes tour

Brydon Coverdale in Wellington10-Feb-2016Josh Hazlewood will lead Australia’s attack in the Test series in New Zealand confident that he has learnt from the mistakes he made on last year’s Ashes tour. Hazlewood will join two of James Pattinson, Peter Siddle, Jackson Bird and Chadd Sayers in Australia’s frontline pace attack for the first Test in Wellington and he will do so as the most consistent presence in a group that has changed significantly in the past few months.In England for the Ashes, which was Australia’s most recent overseas tour, Mitchell Johnson and Mitchell Starc were the more established members of Australia’s pace line-up, but Johnson has retired since then and Starc is still recovering from ankle surgery. Hazlewood collected 16 wickets at 25.75 during that series, hardly figures to be concerned about, but he readily admits he was trying for too many wicket-taking deliveries.What the Australians want from Hazlewood in New Zealand, where there will again be swing on offer for the fast men, is consistent lines and lengths, rather than trying too many different things. Although Australia do not have a red-ball warm-up match ahead of the first Test, some have seen something of the local conditions during three ODIs, in which Hazlewood took seven wickets, and others during a Sheffield Shield game in Lincoln.”Three one-dayers, it’s not perfect but it’s pretty close I think,” Hazlewood said of Australia’s preparation. “The fact we’ve been playing in these conditions against their batting order, it’s pretty similar in Test cricket and one-dayers. And a few of the guys obviously played in that Shield game [near] Christchurch. I think the build-up has been really good and we’ll be ready to go.”The wickets will do a fair bit in New Zealand, so it’s a matter of putting the ball in the right area and not trying too hard. I was a victim of that in England, of trying to do too much, whereas you’ve still got to hit that line and length and let the ball do its work.”One area in which the Australians will need to improve is their tendency to overstep, which twice cost Pattinson the wicket of West Indian Carlos Brathwaite during the Boxing Day Test at the MCG. To that end, in the Basin Reserve nets on Wednesday they trialled a prototype of a new device that can sense where the front foot lands and determine when bowlers have delivered no-balls at training.The Australians know that there are several batsmen in the New Zealand line-up who could punish them if given such a reprieve, most notably Kane Williamson, who did not have significant impact in the recent ODI series but piled on the runs against them at the start of the summer. Williamson also has a strong record at the Basin Reserve, where he averages 85.50 from six Tests.”I still think he’s a better Test player than a one-day player,” Hazlewood said. “He’s great at both but we have to get him out in Test cricket and I think the way we bowled to him in these last three games has been pretty much spot on. We’ve tried to tie him down and get him driving so that’s going to be the key in these Test matches.”He showed in Australia how good a player he is and I think he’s got runs against every country in the world. So he knows these conditions well so we’ve got get on top of him and try and get him early. I think he’s that rock in their order that they feed off.”However, one man who performed well during the one-day series was Martin Guptill, who made two half-centuries from three matches, but they are hopeful that under the pressure of patient red-ball cricket Guptill might return to his struggles of the past against the Australians. During the Tests in Australia earlier in the summer he struggled to have any impact, with a top score of 23.”I think we did get the better of him in Australia,” Hazlewood said of Guptill. “He plays a lot differently in Tests compared to one-dayers. He’s quite confident in limited-overs games, he knows his game really well at the top of the order. But I think he’s still a bit uncertain in the Test arena so we’ll be looking to exploit that again and stay on top of him, as we’ve done in Australia.”

ESPNcricinfo’s guide to the four teams vying to emerge out of the Asia Cup’s qualifying group

Alagappan Muthu18-Feb-2016

Qualifying round – format and fixtures

Afghanistan, Oman, Hong Kong and UAE will play a single round-robin stage where each team plays three matches. The top team will advance to the main event starting on February 23. In case two teams finish with the same points total, their net run rates will be used as tiebreaker.
Feb-19 Afghanistan v UAE, Fatullah
Feb 19 Hong Kong v Oman, Fatullah
Feb 20 Afghanistan v Oman, Fatullah
Feb 21 Hong Kong v UAE, Fatullah
Feb 22 Afghanistan v Hong Kong, Mirpur
Feb 22 UAE v Oman, Mirpur

Afghanistan

A maiden Asia Cup appearance was the result of wowing a very small but influential crowd. Successful talks with the BCCI and the SLC placed Afghanistan as the fifth member in the 2014 edition and the team shook the world, beating hosts Bangladesh and registering their first win against a Test-playing nation. This time, Asghar Stanikzai and his men don’t need the leg up. They will get the chance to make their own arguments in the qualifying leg of the Asia Cup 2016, and are favourites to win it.The squad is as strong as any Afghanistan have had. Shapoor Zadran returns and that tall glass of protein shake will also invigorate Dawlat Zadran, whose 18 wickets at an average of 15.50 since January 2015 puts him second on the global wicket-takers’ list in T20s. Mohammad Shahzad has been reliable and electric. Former captain Mohammad Nabi has kept his form up in the Pakistan Super League, while palling around with his Quetta Gladiators team-mates Kevin Pietersen and Kumar Sangakkara. The experience he has gained will come in handy for Afghanistan – Samiullah Shenwari will be key in this regard as well – considering they have dropped former captain Nawroz Mangal.Watch out for: That first big hoick from Mohammad Shahzad which leaves the bowler on the fritz. Sometimes even the best laid plans end up about as clever as a lion tamer learning his craft by watching cat videos on YouTube. His brute strength can be a daunting prospect to face first up, as Zimbabwe found out when he smashed 118 off 67 balls, the highest score by an Associate batsman in T20Is.Form Guide (Last five completed T20Is): WWWWL. They won back-to-back series, away and in the UAE, over Zimbabwe in 2015-16.Amjad Javed will play a crucial role with bat and ball for UAE•Getty Images

United Arab Emirates

Not new to the Asia Cup, but would like to savor the novelty of winning a game in the tournament. UAE have had four tries – in 2004 and 2008 – and none have been successful. Back then it was all going in a downward trajectory, but recently they’ve managed to swing up a few times. Two days ago, they squared a two-match T20I series after going 1-0 down against Ireland by defending 133.They may not be a bunch of superstars, nor can they make the competition nervous simply by rocking up for work, but they are an industrious team with a tendency to surprise. Take Shaiman Anwar for example: he finished as the top-scorer from the Associates at the 2015 World Cup – 311 runs, six more than Virat Kohli. Pinning performances like that for longer, with other departments, especially their fielding, dovetailing together has been a virtue UAE are yet to master.Watch out for: Amjad Javed left his home shores with the words, “if God would give me the chance to play cricket for UAE, I wanted to become like Imran Khan.” As luck would have it, he is playing cricket for UAE, well into his 30s, as an allrounder, and is now their captain. He has the mettle to withstand the pressure of a collapse in the middle order, as he showed against West Indies in the World Cup, and can summon the kind of discipline with his medium-pace to have an economy rate under 8 in Twenty20 cricket.Form Guide (Last five completed T20Is): WLWLW, which comes after a string of six straight lossesHong Kong’s Mark Chapman is the second youngest batsman to score an ODI century on debut•ICC/Sportsfile

The qualifying group in numbers

• Mohammad Shahzad’s strike rate of 155 in the Powerplay overs against Associate teams is the best among all batsmen who have faced 150 or more balls

• Mark Chapman is the highest run-getter for Hong Kong in T20Is, with 286 runs in 12 innings

• Amjad Javed is one of only two players to score a half-century for UAE in T20Is, and his 76 against Scotland is their highest score

Hong Kong

Another alumni of Asia Cups past (2004 and 2008), although digging into the yearbook would show them to be the pimply-faced kid photographed with eyes half-closed. Hong Kong weren’t defeated so much as dismantled in four matches; they batted second every time and fell over 100 runs short each time. Their first order of business may well be to not look so out of place this time.They are not really all that far from accomplishing that. They beat Bangladesh, memorably, at the 2014 World T20, and then beat Afghanistan in a last-ball thriller at the World T20 qualifier last July to punch their ticket for the 2016 event. They’ve built themselves a home ground in Mong Kok, and the team registered wins in the first-ever ODI and T20I played there. Those are signs of growth, and this year’s Asia Cup will test how much further Hong Kong are willing to reach.Watch out for: In most Associate teams, expatriates provides considerable firepower but Hong Kong have found that in a homegrown talent – Mark Chapman. Born to a father from New Zealand and a Chinese mother, Chapman, the second-youngest batsman to score an ODI hundred on debut, is an exciting prospect. Still only 21 – he was 20 when he struck that unbeaten 124 against UAE in Dubai – he has the chance not only to build his team’s success but also to increase the local following for cricket in Hong Kong.Form Guide (Last five completed T20Is): LWWWL. They have a 2-1 advantage over AfghanistanMunis Ansari doesn’t quite gallop to the crease in the same way, but his slingy action has earned him the nickname ‘Malinga’•ICC/Sportsfile

Oman

The debutants, but lots of them should feel reasonably at home. The Oman team is built around players who were born in India and Pakistan. They are still very new to cricket – a debut in 2002 and 50 Twenty20 matches till date – but there have been a few momentous ones. Like back-to-back upsets in the World T20 Qualifier: Oman beat Netherlands and stunned Afghanistan a day later, paving the way to gaining a place in the T20I rankings.Jatinder Singh, the 26-year old batsman, provides the bulwark at No. 3 and was Oman’s top-scorer in the World T20 qualifier. They are not short on spin resources either. Aamir Kaleem, the vice-captain, Ajay Lalcheta and Zeeshan Maqsood are all left-arm spinners – fitting for a tournament in Bangladesh, whose best player also practices the same art.Form Guide (Last five completed T20Is): LLLWL. They haven’t played a single T20I since November 2015, though.Watch out for Munis Ansari a.k.a Malinga. The 29-year old seamer doesn’t quite gallop to the crease, but the slingy arm has led Oman to some shock victories. His T20I best of 4 for 15 came against Netherlands, who were bundled out for 135 in the World T20 Qualifier. Oman overhauled it with six wickets to spare.

Australia entered their fourth straight final of the Women’s World T20 with a five-run win over England in Delhi

The Report by Shashank Kishore30-Mar-2016
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‘Our fielders did a great job’ – Lanning

International victories are sweet, but some are sweeter than the others. On Wednesday, it was Meg Lanning-led Australia Women side that won the bragging rights over England Women, who stumbled to yet another defeat to their arch-rivals in a knockout clash. It left Australia eyeing a delicious prospect of pitching for their fourth successive Women’s World T20 title come Sunday.Lanning’s 50-ball 55 on a slow Feroz Shah Kotla deck was the cornerstone to Australia’s 132 for 6. England, who needed to achieve the highest successful run chase in the tournament to have a crack at their second title, choked despite having the target well within touching distance. They imploded with a combination of nerves and reckless shots. Katherine Brunt, who had a forgettable day with the ball, muscled a six and four to bring the equation down to 17 off 10 deliveries before Australia’s killer instinct prevailed; England agonisingly falling short by five runs.England came out all attacking in their chase, and also benefitted from some luck as a diving Beth Mooney put down a tough chance offered by Tammy Beaumont at mid-off in the fourth over. Charlotte Edwards, who started slowly, lent the artistic touch to the innings, before she chipped a catch to cover, against the run of play. Her dismissal ended a 67-run opening partnership that came at better than a run a ball.Sarah Taylor, who had failed in each of her four innings in the group stages, then showed why she is a feared striker in the women’s game as she stamped her authority immediately by hitting Jess Jonassen inside-out over cover for six. But the pressure of the asking rate resulted in her partners attempting shots they wouldn’t otherwise.Beaumont, after doing all the hard work, chipped one to cover where Lanning pulled off a stunner. Nerves then turned into proper panic when Natalie Sciver, who had brought England back into the contest with the ball, walked across the stumps, only to miss a full and straight delivery from Ellyse Perry. By then, England were reduced to 91 for 3, needing 42 off the last five overs.Lanning then introduced spin even as Taylor, who grew increasingly frustrated, tried to reverse sweep and paddle her way, but to no avail against Kristen Beams, the legspinner. The slowness of the surface forced another change as Erin Osborne, the offspinner, brought in for the first time in the 17th over struck off her second delivery as Heather Knight holed out to long-on. From bossing the chase, England had almost bottled it by that point as the asking rate escalated to close to 10 runs an over.That Australia had the luxury of runs on the board was courtesy a strong start from the openers Alyssa Healy and Elyse Villani. Healy, under scrutiny after a poor run of scores in the tournament, did the early running by taking the attack to Brunt and Anya Shrubsole with a 41-run stand, their highest of the tournament.Healy’s game is mostly about timing, and she set the template early on, showing the surface was a far cry to the ones both sides had encountered early on. Healy’s four boundaries in the first three overs somewhat took pressure off Villani, who took a while to get going. England’s pacers were guilty of not varying their pace and were duly put away, the first four overs yielding 35, before Australia were pegged back by a double-strike.Sciver, the seamer, struck in her first over as Villani missed a straight one to be adjudged lbw. Off the next over, the sixth, Healy, also fell lbw attempting a reverse paddle to give Laura Marsh a breakthrough and leave Australia at 50 for 2.Lanning and Perry did what they do best, milking the runs in the middle overs through smart strike rotation, seldom looking for the big hits to largely defensive fields set by Edwards. England didn’t help their own cause by reprieving Lanning twice, once on 20 and 45, with Taylor being the culprit on both occasions.Lanning went on to make a half-century, and help Australia post a more than competitive score courtesy support from her deputy Alex Blackwell, who contributed all of 11 in a 37-run stand for the fourth wicket. While most other sides may have looked to hit out, the match awareness of the pair on a surface that demanded application, and not flamboyance, may have resulted in those few extra runs that made the difference in the end.As much as those extra runs may have come in handy, it wouldn’t have been enough had Rene Farrell not brought her experience into play. She held her nerve, defending 12 off the final over in style, as Australia showed why they were the three-time champions.

Experienced batsmen Mark Cosgrove and Tom Cooper have lost their contracts with South Australia after a summer in which neither man had a significant impact on the Sheffield Shield campaign

ESPNcricinfo staff15-Apr-2016Experienced batsmen Mark Cosgrove and Tom Cooper have lost their contracts with South Australia after a summer in which neither man had a significant impact on the Sheffield Shield campaign. The 2015-16 season was one of regeneration for the Redbacks, who were runners-up in both the Shield final and the Matador Cup final, and were pleased at the emergence of several young players.Cosgrove, 31, played every match in the Shield campaign but failed to pass 65 in any innings, scoring 565 runs at 26.90. Cooper, 29, scored 249 runs at 17.78 in his seven Shield games but was more effective in the one-day competition, where he was among the top ten run scorers for the tournament and posted a fighting century in the final.Instead of the experienced duo, the Redbacks will put their faith in younger batsmen such as Jake Lehmann, Jake Weatherald, Alex Ross, Sam Raphael and Kelvin Smith. Weatherald has earned his first South Australia contract, while other inclusions are Alex Carey, Patrick Page and the spinner Tom Andrews, who has been upgraded from a rookie deal.Along with Cosgrove – who began his career with the Redbacks before moving to Tasmania and then returning home in 2014 – and Cooper, South Australia have also cut the fast bowler Gary Putland and the rookie fast bowler Nick Winter. Putland, 30, played four Matador Cup matches last season but did not figure in the Shield campaign, although injuries affected his summer.”We’re really excited to have Alex, Jake, Tom and Patrick in our senior squad after some outstanding efforts from them this year,” Tim Nielsen, South Australia’s general manager of high performance, said. “Their inclusion into the squad is another example of the successful pathways implemented in South Australian cricket, as well as the exciting talent pool we have in this state at the moment and we’re confident they’ll have long futures with the Redbacks moving forward.”It’s never easy to see experienced players go, especially when they have been an important part of the team for such a long time, but we’re confident we still have a good balance of youth and experience in our side. We have no doubt that all of the players who missed out on a contract will still be in selection plans if they are performing for their respective Premier Cricket clubs.”New South Australia rookies for 2016-17 include fast bowlers Wes Agar and David Grant, and opening batsman John Dalton. Agar, 19, is the younger brother of Australia representative Ashton Agar.South Australia squad Travis Head (capt), Tom Andrews, Nick Benton, Alex Carey, Callum Ferguson, Jake Lehmann, Tim Ludeman, Joe Mennie, Patrick Page, Sam Raphael, Kane Richardson, Alex Ross, Chadd Sayers, Kelvin Smith, Jake Weatherald, Daniel Worrall, Adam Zampa.

Rookies Wes Agar, John Dalton, David Grant, Alex Gregory, Harry Nielsen, Cameron Valente.

Former Pakistan fast bowler Aaqib Javed has declined the BCB’s offer for the post of Bangladesh’s bowling coach

Mohammad Isam06-Jun-2016Former Pakistan fast bowler Aaqib Javed has declined the BCB’s offer for the post of Bangladesh’s bowling coach. Javed’s response came a day after BCB president Nazmul Hassan said the board was in talks with the ex-UAE coach.Javed declined the offer to continue in his new role as director of cricket operations with the Pakistan Super League franchise, Lahore Qalandars, but said he may be open to a short-term consultancy stint after the second season of the PSL later this year. Javed had stepped down as UAE coach in April, after a four-year tenure, to take up the role offered by Qalandars.”I have recently joined Lahore Qalandars and started working from last Friday only, so it’s not possible for me to take any other job,” Javed told ESPNcricinfo. “But I may be open for a short-term coaching consultant job after the second edition of PSL, not as full-time [coach]. Right now I am in a long-term relationship with the Qalanders and I am committed to them, and it’s not really reasonable for me to take up role with Bangladesh.”BCB CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury confirmed that Javed had communicated his decision and the board is now looking at other candidates.”After we contacted him, Javed considered our proposal but [declined] because it would be very difficult to handle two important positions at the same time,” Chowdhury said. “As we were doing before, we are looking for other options in this position.”

Fast bowler Jerome Taylor has been left out of the West Indies squad for the final leg of the tri-nation series involving South Africa and Australia, in Barbados

ESPNcricinfo staff18-Jun-2016Fast bowler Jerome Taylor has been left out of the West Indies squad for the final leg of the tri-nation series involving South Africa and Australia, in Barbados. Taylor’s omission, after taking only two wickets in West Indies’ first four games, was the only change to the squad that now comprises 13 players.All three teams have two wins and two defeats after four games each, but West Indies are bottom of the table because they conceded a bonus point in defeats to Australia and South Africa.The Barbados leg of the tri-nation series comprises three ODIs, with each team playing the other once before the top two qualify for the final.Squad Jason Holder (capt), Sulieman Benn, Carlos Brathwaite, Darren Bravo, Jonathan Carter, Johnson Charles, Andre Fletcher, Shannon Gabriel, Sunil Narine, Ashley Nurse, Kieron Pollard, Denesh Ramdin, Marlon Samuels

Leon Johnson will lead the WICB President’s XI against the touring Indians in a two-day practice match at Warner Park in St. Kitts on July 9 and 10

ESPNcricinfo staff05-Jul-2016Leon Johnson will lead the WICB President’s XI against the touring Indians in a two-day practice match at Warner Park in St. Kitts on July 9 and 10. Johnson, who has scored 275 runs in four Tests at an average of 39.28, is one of six Test players in the 12-player President’s XI squad, the others being Jermaine Blackwood, Rajendra Chandrika, Shane Dowrich, Shai Hope and Jomel Warrican.Rayon Griffith has been named manager-coach of the team, and Henderson Springer the coach.India will play two warm-up games against the President’s XI before their four-Test series against West Indies. The selectors have not yet named the President’s XI squad for the second warm-up game, a three-day match that will also be played at Warner Park from July 14 to 16.The first Test starts on July 21 at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua.WICB President’s XI squad: Leon Johnson (capt), Jermaine Blackwood, Rajendra Chandrika, Roston Chase, Jason Dawes, Shane Dowrich, Shai Hope, Damion Jacobs, Keon Joseph, Marquino Mindley, Vishaul Singh, Jomel Warrican