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Cricket Australia has been forced to change the recent tradition of staging the concluding Tests of its major series in Melbourne and Sydney following negotiations with the India board. The 2007-08 season will take on a different feel after India, who are due to play Pakistan in November, insisted the first match of the four-Test contest would take place in Melbourne on Boxing Day. It will be followed by the New Year fixture in Sydney and games in Adelaide and Perth to decide the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.The large-scale reordering means the annual one-day tri-series, which usually starts in January, will begin in February and finish in March. Sri Lanka will open the Australian summer with two Tests in Brisbane and Hobart in November and return for the one-day tournament with the hosts and India. New Zealand will visit for three Chappell-Hadlee Series fixtures and a Twenty20 in December.”Our competitors’ global commitments create challenges for scheduling,” Michael Brown, Cricket Australia’s operations manager, said. Australia face a hectic program over the next 18 months, starting with the Twenty20 world championship in South Africa in September, a possible one-day tour of Zimbabwe and a limited-overs series in India. They are also expected to play 20 Tests in 2008.Australia will stage two Twenty20 matches next season, with games against New Zealand in Perth and India at the MCG. Canberra will host its first ODI since 1992 when India and Sri Lanka play there during the CB Series as part of Cricket Australia’s expansion program.Hobart will get two international games – a Test and an ODI – while the Northern Territory is covered by the five Australia-New Zealand women’s matches for the Rose Bowl in July. Tickets for all of Australia’s international matches are expected to go on sale in July.2007-08 Australian itinerary
Australia v Sri Lanka
1st Test, Brisbane, November 8-12
2nd Test, Hobart, November 16-20
Chappell-Hadlee Series
1st ODI, Adelaide, December 14
2nd ODI, Sydney, December 16
3rd ODI, Hobart, December 20
Australia v India
1st Test, Melbourne, December 26-30
2nd Test, Sydney, January 2-6
3rd Test, Perth, January 16-20
4th Test, Adelaide, January 24-28
Twenty20
Australia v New Zealand, Perth, December 11
Australia v India, Melbourne, February 1
CB Series
Australia, Sri Lanka, India
February 3-March 7

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Queensland brought South Australia’s three-match winning streak to a shuddering halt at the Gabba and took the Bulls to second on the table. Shane Watson and James Hopes hit fifties to shrug off the early loss of Matthew Hayden, Andrew Symonds and Jimmy Maher and ease to their twice-revised target of 156 from 29 overs.Daniel Christian’s unbeaten 94 in his second match for South Australia boosted them to 7 for 203 in the 39 overs made possible by the rain. Christian – “a massive pick-up for us,” according to his captain Nathan Adcock – compiled a sensible innings replete with clean, simple but effective shots after coming in with South Australia 3 for 28.Michael Kasprowicz, who bowled with consistency, accounted for the Daniel Harris (0), Matthew Elliott (6) and Mark Cosgrove (6) to leave the Redbacks wobbling. Watson, showing off a remodelled action, was next to strike with Callum Ferguson’s wicket, but Shane Deitz (32) helped to boost them past 200 before he miscued a top edge to point, becoming one of Hopes’ two victims.It wasn’t enough, with Hopes and Watson taking the game by the scruff of the neck. The pair offered consistent boundaries and a positive approach, leaving Jason Gillespie’s two in two balls – Maher on 12 and Symonds for zero – a distant memory. Australia will be encouraged by Shaun Tait’s continuing good rhythm and pace, and he knocked over Matthew Hayden for 9.A good contest was brewing before the second rain break interrupted Queensland’s chase and took the fizz out of proceedings. Hopes and Watson injected some life into the game and their flair guided them home. Watson’s 70 came from 86 balls while Hopes, the Man-of-the-Match, had 61 from 40.”They’re always difficult for both sides, those rain-interrupted games,” Maher said. “We had a little bit of a rusty performance but generally we’re quite happy.”Adcock also refused to blame the rain. “We just didn’t have enough on the board in the mix of things at the end,” he said. “It’s difficult for both sides and you have to adjust to that.” It was Hopes and Watson who adjusted the most effectively.

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The sight of James Anderson bowling was overshadowed on the second day at The Rose Bowl by Dominic Cork’s four wickets and events at Trent Bridge. For all Lancashire’s incision with the ball and control of this match, their title hopes are fast slipping away with Sussex on the verge of a comprehensive win, which would crown them champions.All Lancashire could do, though, was collect all available points from this match and on that front the day was a complete success. Their first ambition was to notch as many batting points as they could muster and they fought hard to in reach 400.Tom Smith was particularly impressive at No. 9 and, together with Luke Sutton, put on 88 for the ninth wicket to keep Lancashire’s hopes alive. Their bowlers then took over during the afternoon, removing both openers cheaply; only John Crawley – a cut above his team-mates in this game, and playing against his former team – stood in their way with a fighting fifty at the end of a prolific season.The performance of Anderson was pleasing. Tall at the crease and straight in his delivery stride, and playing his first Championship match since the debilitating stress fracture of his back, he was limited to short three and four-over spells at the bequest of the ECB (a maximum of 12 were permitted).However, it was the evergreen Cork who proved more incisive, cutting through Hampshire’s brittle line-up before Smith finished things off with three quick wickets. Last week it was Cork with the bat who kept Lancashire in with a shout of the title through his 154 against Durham; now it was the ball that did the work.He produced a hostile spell after tea, having Sean Ervine caught at point and quickly bouncing out Nic Pothas. Greg Lamb was trapped in front but Cork had Nathan Astle’s reflexes at first slip to thank for Crawley’s wicket. The batsman tried to guide the ball over the slips, but Astle stuck up his right hand and plucked the ball out of the air. Inevitably Warne bullied his way to a rapid 30 but he was soon back out on the field when Chilton decided against the follow-on.His decision not to ask Hampshire to bat again may appear perplexing with Lancashire having to win, but with the prospect of batting last against Warne he opted to build a commanding lead. Chilton won’t be part of that plan after falling late in the day and, even though his team are well placed, events at Trent Bridge are set to make the result here incidental.

Pakistan will host West Indies for three Tests and five one-day internationals in November and December, though the itinerary for the tour has yet to be finalised. That has been delayed until the outcome of the ICC Champions Trophy, to be held in India between October 7 and November 5Pakistan, seeded in the main round, await the result of West Indies matches, which are in the qualifying rounds of the tournament. “The tour is confirmed. However the itinerary will be finalised later due to some logistical reasons,” Subhan Ahmed,a PCB official, told Reuters.The PCB added that it had been requested by West Indies to schedule the one-day internationals first, but that given the winter season it would be better to play the Tests first. “In the last two series against England and India we lost a lot of time due to bad light,” Ahmed said. “The floodlights also don’t improve the light. So it would be better to have the Tests first.”He said the PCB would use five venues — Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Multan and Faisalabad — to host all the matches.The West Indies last toured Pakistan in 1997-98 and a proposed tour in 2002 was shifted to Sharjah over security concerns following the September 11 attacks.

1. Saqlain Mushtaq – hit to midwicket, Test No. 2 v Pak, Hobart, 1999
2. Paul Wiseman – extra cover, Test No. 7 v NZ, Auckland, 2000
3. Mahendra Nagamootoo – straight drive, Test No. 14 v WI, Sydney, 2001
4. Harbhajan Singh – mid-on, Test No. 15 v Ind, Mumbai, 2001
5. Harbhajan Singh – long-on, Test No. 15 v Ind, Mumbai, 2001
6. Rahul Sanghvi – midwicket, Test No. 15 v Ind, Mumbai, 2001
7. Rahul Sanghvi – long-on, Test No. 15 v Ind, Mumbai, 2001
8. Ashley Giles – mid-on, Test No. 18 v Eng, Edgbaston, 2001
9. Mark Butcher – midwicket, Test No. 18 v Eng, Edgbaston, 2001
10. Mark Butcher – long-on, Test No. 18 v Eng, Edgbaston, 2001
11. Mark Butcher – square leg, Test No. 18 v Eng, Edgbaston, 2001
12. Craig White – long-on, Test No. 18 v Eng, Edgbaston, 2001
13. Phil Tufnell – midwicket, Test No. 22 v Eng, The Oval, 2001
14. Nathan Astle – long-on, Test No. 23 v NZ, Brisbane, 2001
15. Daniel Vettori – long-on, Test No. 24 v NZ, Hobart, 2001
16. Daniel Vettori – long-off, Test No. 25 v NZ, Perth, 2001
17. Chris Cairns – straight drive, Test No. 25 v NZ, Perth, 2001
18. Andre Nel – square leg, Test No. 29 v SA, Johannesburg, 2002
19. Nicky Boje – midwicket, Test No. 29 v SA, Johannesburg, 2002
20. Nicky Boje – extra cover Test No. 29 v SA, Johannesburg, 2002
21. Neil McKenzie – square leg, Test No. 29 v SA, Johannesburg, 2002
22. Andre Nel – midwicket, Test No. 29 v SA, Johannesburg, 2002
23. Neil McKenzie – square leg, Test No. 29 v SA, Johannesburg, 2002
24. Nicky Boje – midwicket, Test No. 29 v SA, Johannesburg, 2002
25. Nicky Boje – square leg, Test No. 29 v SA, Johannesburg, 2002
26. Paul Adams – straight drive, Test No. 30 v SA, Cape Town, 2002
27. Paul Adams – midwicket, Test No. 30 v SA, Cape Town, 2002
28. Danish Kaneria – midwicket, Test No. 33 v Pak, Sharjah, 2002
29. Ashley Giles – straight drive, Test No. 35 v Eng, Brisbane, 2002
30. Ashley Giles – straight drive, Test No. 35 v Eng, Brisbane, 2002

31. Richard Dawson – midwicket, Test No. 36 v Eng, Adelaide, 2002
32. Richard Dawson – mid-off, Test No. 36 v Eng, Adelaide, 2002
33. Mark Butcher – long-off, Test No. 37 v Eng, Perth 2002
34. Pedro Collins – midwicket, Test No. 40 v WI, Georgetown, 2003
35. Vasbert Drakes – long-on, Test No. 40 v WI, Georgetown, 2003
36. Marlon Samuels – midwicket, Test No. 41 v WI, Port of Spain, 2003
37. Mervyn Dillon – midwicket, Test No. 41 v WI, Port of Spain, 2003
38. Tino Best – midwicket, Test No. 42 v WI, Bridgetown, 2003
39. Tino Best – midwicket, Test No. 42 v WI, Bridgetown, 2003
40. Omari Banks – long-off, Test No. 42 v WI, Bridgetown, 2003
41. Andy Blignaut – square leg, Test No. 46 v Zim, Perth, 2003
42. Ray Price – mid-on, Test No. 46 v Zim, Perth, 2003
43. Ray Price – mid-on, Test No. 46 v Zim, Perth, 2003
44. Trevor Gripper – long-on, Test No. 46 v Zim, Perth, 2003
45. Ray Price – midwicket, Test No. 46 v Zim, Perth, 2003
46. Anil Kumble – long-on, Test No. 49 v Ind, Adelaide, 2003
47. Sachin Tendulkar – midwicket, Test No. 49 v Ind, Adelaide, 2003
48. Kaushal Lokuarachchi – long-on, Test No. 53 v SL, Kandy, 2004
49. Sanath Jayasuriya – mid-on, Test No. 53 v SL, Kandy, 2004
50. Muttiah Muralitharan – long-on, Test No. 53 v SL, Kandy, 2004
51. Rangana Herath – midwicket, Test No. 54 v SL, Colombo, 2004
52. Rangana Herath – midwicket, Test No. 54 v SL, Colombo, 2004
53. Lasith Malinga – midwicket, Test No. 56 v SL, Cairns, 2004
54. Upul Chandana – long-off, Test No. 56 v SL, Cairns, 2004
55. Anil Kumble – long-on, Test No. 57 v Ind, Bangalore, 2004
56. Anil Kumble – long-off, Test No. 57 v Ind, Bangalore, 2004
57. Harbhajan Singh – long-on, Test No. 57 v Ind, Bangalore, 2004
58. Anil Kumble – midwicket, Test No. 59 v Ind, Mumbai, 2004
59. Daniel Vettori – midwicket, Test No. 61 v NZ, Brisbane, 2004
60. Daniel Vettori – midwicket, Test No. 61 v NZ, Brisbane, 2004

61. Daniel Vettori – long-on, Test No. 61 v NZ, Brisbane, 2004
62. Craig McMillan – square leg, Test No. 61 v NZ, Brisbane, 2004
63. Danish Kaneria – long-on, Test No. 64 v Pak, Melbourne, 2004
64. Danish Kaneria – long-on, Test No. 65 v Pak, Sydney, 2005
65. Mohammad Asif – square leg, Test No. 65 v Pak, Sydney, 2005
66. Mohammad Asif – straight drive, Test No. 65 v Pak, Sydney, 2005
67. Shahid Afridi – straight drive, Test No. 65 v Pak, Sydney, 2005
68. Shahid Afridi – long-on, Test No. 65 v Pak, Sydney, 2005
69. Daniel Vettori – long-on, Test No. 66 v NZ, Christchurch, 2005
70. Daniel Vettori – midwicket, Test No. 66 v NZ, Christchurch, 2005
71. Daniel Vettori – midwicket, Test No. 66 v NZ, Christchurch, 2005
72. Daniel Vettori – midwicket, Test No. 66 v NZ, Christchurch, 2005
73. Daniel Vettori – extra cover Test No. 66 v NZ, Christchurch, 2005
74. Nathan Astle – midwicket, Test No. 66 v NZ, Christchurch, 2005
75. Chris Martin – mid-on, Test No. 67 v NZ, Wellington, 2005
76. Chris Martin – long-on, Test No. 67 v NZ, Wellington, 2005
77. Daniel Vettori – long-off, Test No. 67 v NZ, Wellington, 2005
78. Daniel Vettori – midwicket, Test No. 67 v NZ, Wellington, 2005
79. Daniel Vettori – midwicket, Test No. 67 v NZ, Wellington, 2005
80. Paul Wiseman – long-on, Test No. 68 v NZ, Auckland, 2005
81. Matthew Hoggard – straight drive, Test No. 72 v Eng, Nottingham, 2005
82. Daniel Vettori – long-on, Test No. 74 v ICC, Sydney, 2005
83. Daniel Vettori – midwicket, Test No. 74 v ICC, Sydney, 2005
84. Daniel Vettori – midwicket, Test No. 74 v ICC, Sydney, 2005
85. Daniel Vettori – midwicket, Test No. 74 v ICC, Sydney, 2005
86. Shaun Pollock- extra cover, Test No. 80 v SA, Sydney, 2006
87. Shaun Pollock – midwicket, Test No. 80 v SA, Sydney, 2006
88. Mohammad Rafique – long-on, Test No. 84 v Bang, Fatullah, 2006
89. Enamul Haque – midwicket, Test No. 84 v Bang, Fatullah, 2006
90. Enamul Haque – long-off, Test No. 84 v Bang, Fatullah, 2006
91. Enamul Haque – long-off, Test No. 84 v Bang, Fatullah, 2006
92. Enamul Haque – midwicket, Test No. 84 v Bang, Fatullah, 2006
93. Enamul Haque – midwicket, Test No. 84 v Bang, Fatullah, 2006
94. Monty Panesar – long-on, Test No. 88 v Eng, Perth, 2006
95. Monty Panesar – long-on, Test No. 88 v Eng, Perth, 2006
96. Monty Panesar – long-on, Test No. 88 v Eng, Perth, 2006
97. Matthew Hoggard – long-on, Test No. 88 v Eng, Perth, 2006
98. Lasith Malinga – midwicket, Test No. 92 v SL, Hobart, 2007
99. Muttiah Muralitharan – midwicket, Test No. 92 v SL, Hobart, 2007
100. Muttiah Muralitharan – midwicket, Test No. 92 v SL, Hobart, 2007

Matthew Hoggard, the England fast bowler, has undergone an MRI scan which has revealed no significant damage to the side strain which forced him out of Yorkshire’s Championship match against Nottinghamshire on Tuesday.In a statement issued by the ECB this afternoon, it was confirmed he has sustained a minor abdominal strain and, consequently, will be rested from Yorkshire’s remaining fixtures this season. Scott McAllister, the Yorkshire physio, maintained that resting Hoggard was purely a precautionary measure.Of England’s bowling attack for the Ashes squad, which was announced this week, only Sajid Mahmood and Monty Panesar are currently fit. Despite injuries to a number of key players, David Graveney, England’s chairman of selectors, allayed fears this week that England were revisiting history by sending an injured squad to Australia.He is not viewed as a serious concern for the Ashes, which gets underway on November 23 at Brisbane.

Alex Hales failed for the second time in consecutive innings on the second day of England’s three-day warm-up match at Potchefstroom, leading his conqueror, the Zambia-born seamer Junior Dala, to claim he was “under pressure” going into his anticipated Test debut against South Africa at Durban in ten days’ time.Hales, who has been earmarked to open the batting alongside Alastair Cook in the Boxing Day Test, was bowled for 8 after a painstaking 42-ball stay, the same score he had made from just ten balls in the first innings.Dala was the successful bowler on both occasions, this time inducing an inside-edge on to the stumps after extracting a touch of extra bounce from back of a length, having bowled Hales while offering no stroke first time around.A supposedly stiffer challenge awaits later in the week, when the second warm-up against South Africa A gets underway in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday, but Dala’s assessment hardly augurs well given that Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel and South Africa’s newest fast-bowling talent Kagiso Radaba lie in wait for the first Test.”I knew he hasn’t played Test cricket yet so I knew he was under pressure,” Dala told the Press Association. “I just came in and went hard at him, trying to expose the fact he is keen to score runs.Alex Hales made 8 in both innings at Potchefstroom•Getty Images

Dala’s technical analysis was particular damning, and chimed with a similar assessment made by the former England coach Peter Moores, who claimed that Hales had been “found out” by the ball shaping back into him after he made an underwhelming ODI debut last year.”It looks like he is trying to open up the off side every time he faces the ball. I just tried to keep it simple and tuck him up because he struggles on the leg side.”In the first innings I was hoping I would bring one back, but I wasn’t expecting him to leave it. Second innings was a bit back of a length, but the same plan, just tuck him up and he chopped it on.”It’s nice when a game plan comes together.”Dala added that he hopes his efforts will help the Test team to make their own plans for Hales later this month. “With the video analysis we do in cricket we felt we could expose a few of the English top order and maybe that could be good for the Proteas in the Test series.”However Chris Woakes, who returned figures of 1 for 35 in ten overs as the South Africa Invitational XI were bowled out for 188, played down concerns about Hales’ aptitude for the challenge ahead.”He probably hasn’t had the time in the middle he’d like, but we’re only two days into the tour and there’s plenty of time to get into nick,” he said. “He’s a great player and he deserves his opportunity.”Fingers crossed in the next week or two before the first Test he can get some more time out there and show what he can do.”

Ian Bradshaw yesterday admitted that Barbados’ attack lacked the necessary firing power after Guyana performed the rare feat in attaining a first innings target in excess of 400. “We weren’t penetrative enough in our bowling. The pitch was a good one. It was a little bit slow, but I thought we could have been a little bit more penetrative,” the new Barbados captain said after the drawn opening Busta match at Kesington Oval.In the twinkling of an eye, Barbados swiftly lost their seemingly firm advantage after lunch.Corey Collymore’s splendid spell of fast bowling in the morning session in which he uprooted Carl Hooper’s off stump with arguably the best ball of the match, appeared to have been the decisive strike in defence of their big target of 422.Hooper, resuming on 117, was out for his best regional first-class score of 159 and it was Collymore’s sixth wicket which reduced Guyana to 391 for eight a few minutes before lunch.On resumption after the break, there was immediate success with the dismissal of Eion Katchay which left Guyana 23 short of overhauling Barbados.The hosts needed only to dislodge first-timer Ron Matthews or last man Kevin Darlington, but the Guyanese tail-enders quickly proceeded to wipe off the target in a stand of 37 which was only broken when leg-spinner Dave Marshall came on for his first bowl of the day.It was difficult to explain what went wrong for Barbados, but the skipper and new coach Hendy Springer also gave Guyana their due recognition for reaching their total of 436.”When you put tactics together, you don’t cater for hard luck or good luck or things like that,” Springer said. “The luck went Guyana’s way at times and they did well enough to get into that position and deserved to pull through with first innings lead.”Springer described Barbados’ overall performance as interesting.”The bowlers have been suffering from a lack of match practice, but I thought they did exceptionally well,” he said.”What we’ll probably have to do is to work on some sharpness in the field to save some of those runs that we gave away and a couple of sharp, missed chances, but I think we are waking up to the fact that we are into a first-class season.”For most of the last two days, there were some who argued that Barbados should have gone into the match with five specialist bowlers, but both Bradshaw and Springer defended the final choice.In the case of Springer, he felt there was a need to get away from the club mentality.”In first-class cricket, you have got to be a bit more patient. As far as the responsibility of the bowlers is concerned and the amount of work they had to do, every bowler went out there with a responsibility and knew they would have had to do a lot of work taking into consideration the nature of the pitch,” he said.”I think everybody tried really, really hard, For a lot of them, things did not work out wicket wise, but I think they made their contribution and they know what they are supposed to be doing.”Bradshaw, who went wicketless in 30 overs, made reference to the fact that two of the team’s bowlers – Hendy Bryan and Dave Marshall – who were among the leading wicket-takers last season, were not successful in this game.”When we sat down to pick the team, we obviously felt that we had a team that was good enough to beat Guyana,” the captain added.Bradshaw also responded to queries about why he chose to delay the taking of the new ball until early yesterday morning after 131.1 overs had gone by.”Late in the afternoon (Sunday), it was an option, but Corey had a little cramp and at that stage he was our most penetrative bowler. With him not being 100 per cent, we waited until the morning to take it,” he said.

Greg Chappell is likely to stay on as India’s coach irrespective of theteam’s performance in the World Cup, contrary to the widely held beliefthat his future with Indian cricket is linked to the World Cup.Cricinfo has learnt that the the Board of Control for Cricket of India(BCCI) is keen to retain the services of Chappell, whose two-year tenurecomes to an end in May, for the large-scale rebuilding of the team if itfails to perform well in the World Cup.A senior member of the Board told Cricinfo today that it will not be thecoach, but the non-performing players who will come under the scanner.The national selection committee has already sent a strong message – perform or be dropped – to India’s cricketers but the case of VirenderSehwag is not an isolated one. Sections of the BCCI have grownincreasingly worried about the team¹s stagnation and the recent poor performances and are no longer willing to sit back and watch.Traditionally the office bearers of the BCCI have taken a back seat whenit comes to the actual business of bat and ball, preferring to concentrateon administering the game and raising funds while leaving cricket to theselectors, the coach and the captain.However, indications are that they have had enough, and are raisingserious questions about the attitude of certain senior players who havefailed to deliver as expected.In the past, senior players have been virtually untouchable, despitesuffering from poor form or carrying niggling injuries. But, if a seniorIndian board official is to be believed, this is set to end quickly.”The way we see it, the World Cup could be a last hurrah for certainplayers,” he said. “If the performance in the World Cup is not up to ourexpectations, then you can expect a number of changes. No one will bespared, no matter how big he is.”Critically, in all this, the Board has given events a complete twist bystrongly suggesting that Greg Chappell, the coach, could continue afterthe World Cup.”He is a good coach. What can he do if players are not performing?” askedthe official. “It is media speculation and an assumption among the playersthat Chappell’s contract will not be renewed after the World Cup.”Only recently Dilip Vengsarkar and Chappell had visited Shashank Manohar,a vice-president of the BCCI who has repeatedly called for moreaccountability from the players and has been in the forefront ofimplementing a system where players will be paid in correlation to theperformance of the team.That system is set to be put in place shortly and the latest round ofassurances from the board to the coach could well result in a scenariowhere no player can take his place for granted.

Quebec 225 (48.2 overs; Qaiser Ali 64) and 165 for 8 (50 overs) beat Ontario 126 (43.1 overs: N Patel 3-23) and 210 (46.1 overs; Shamshuddeem 56, N Patel 3-51) runsQuebec regained the Atholstan Cup in LaSalle (Montreal) on Sunday (June 10), beating Ontario by 44 runs.Ontario battled back on the second day with some solid bowling that restricted Quebec to just 165 from 50 overs. Aftab Shamshuddeem was particularly impressive. He conceded just 13 runs from 10 overs and took two wickets. Jitender Singh and Hezron Lawrence each scored 35 for Quebec. Lawrence was out to a fine leg-side catch by Ontario wicketkeeper Azib Ali. He took three other catches in this innings.Shamshuddeem was pivotal in Ontario’s performance, making 56 (2×4, 1×6) when opening the second innings batting. He led the way for the visitors in this match and the hosts celebrated his dismissal. He was fourth out with the total on 102 for 4. Ontario then slumped to 148 for 8 wickets before Naresh Roopnaraine (43, including 2×4, 2×6) and Harvir Baidwan (24 runs) lead a spirited effort for the last two wickets.Quebec skipper Naresh Patel again took three wickets, as he had in the first innings, but he conceded