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Shoaib Malik, the Pakistan captain, has said Kamran Akmal, with his last-over heroics that allowed Pakistan to edge past West Indies in the first ODI, had “snatched a win from the jaws of defeat”.Pakistan were chasing 295 and needed 17 off the last over bowled by Jerome Taylor. Fawad Alam managed a single off the first delivery after which Akmal reduced the pressure by hitting sixes off the next two. The batsmen ran three off the fourth ball before Alam wrapped it up with a single off the penultimate delivery.”Even when I was batting I had the feeling that Akmal is to come and I had full confidence that he can do something extraordinary,” Malik said. Akmal arrived at the crease at the fall of Malik’s wicket with Pakistan needing 33 to win off 17 balls.Chris Gayle, the West Indies captain, said Taylor’s final over was where the match turned around. “We made 294 so there were no complaints, then they batted well until the end and it didn’t just come good for Taylor in the last over,” Gayle said.The teams meet for the second ODI on Friday, followed by the third on Sunday.

Gautam Gambhir, the India opener, will appeal the one-Test ban imposed on him during the Delhi Test on Friday for not conducting play “within the spirit of the game as well as within the laws of cricket”. Gambhir was involved in a verbal altercation with Shane Watson, the Australian bowler, and elbowed him in the process.By Sunday, the ICC will name a Code of Conduct commissioner, who will hear the appeal within seven days of his appointment.Gambhir, who pleaded guilty to the Level 2 offence, could miss the final game of the series against Australia in Nagpur from Thursday after match referee Chris Broad told him of the decision before the third day’s play.Broad delayed the verdict from Thursday’s hearing while he considered the evidence for the charge.The in-form Gambhir, who scored 206 in India’s 613 for 7 declared to follow his century in the second Test, had a series of verbal clashes with Watson during the middle session on day one. They had an argument in the 51st over of the first innings when Gambhir took his first run and the batsman caught Watson with his left elbow as he ran the second.”The decision to find Gambhir guilty of a Level 2 offence is indicative of the fact that any degree of physical contact is unacceptable,” Broad said. “Had Gambhir been charged with and found guilty of a charge under 2.4 [for deliberate or inappropriate physical contact], due to his previous offence, I would have been obliged to impose a minimum penalty of a two-test match ban. In the view of the umpires, the facts of this case – the lightness of the physical conduct and the element of provocation – would not justify such a penalty.”Broad took in to account Gambhir’s previous fine for running into Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi and said he hoped the batsman would learn from the incident. “It wasn’t deliberate, it just happened,” Gambhir said on Wednesday. “I didn’t need to get into this argument with Shane Watson because he had no option of getting me out. There wasn’t a need for me to stick my elbow out, it just happened.”Virender Sehwag, Gambhir’s opening partner, said that the ban was harsh. “I have heard the news just now, so it is difficult to react,” he said. “But Gambhir had pleaded guilty and it was natural that he would be punished. But I feel a match ban is too harsh, he could have done with a match-fee fine. It would have been good for us.”Watson was found to have been “verbally engaging with Gambhir in a manner that was not in keeping the spirit of cricket” and was fined 10% of his match fee. He pleaded not guilty to the Level 1 charge and has no right to appeal.Gambhir was fined 65% of his match fee for his run-in with Afridi in 2007 while batting in an ODI in Kanpur. In that case, he was found guilty of a Level 2 charge of inappropriate and deliberate physical contact between players as well as a Level 1 charge of not conducting himself within the spirit of the game.The current disciplinary measures follow Zaheer Khan being docked 80% of his match fee last week for his celebration when Matthew Hayden was dismissed in the second innings of India’s 320-run win in the second test at Mohali. The tense series, which India currently leads 1-0, follows a fractious contest in Australia’s 2-1 series win at home in 2007-08.

The Pakistan fast bowler, Yasir Arafat, has returned to join Sussex for his second stint.Arafat, 26, left Hove for Canterbury in 2006 and was Kent’s leading one-day and Twenty20 bowler with 27 wickets at 17.74. He also picked up 38 Championship wickets, but is now ready to return to the south coast.”Yasir’s signing is fantastic news and we are flattered that he is keen to return to Hove,” said Mark Robinson, Sussex’s manager. “It’s further evidence that people who play for the club fall in love with it.”He’s not only an outstanding new and old ball bowler, but a fantastic lower-middle order batsman, who should stand out in both our four and one-day cricket.”

Chaminda Vaas and Chamara Silva are notable absentees from Sri Lanka’s squad for the Canada Cup Four Nation Twenty20 tournament to be played in Toronto next month, while Dilhara Lokuhettige, Jeevantha Kulatunga and Thilina Kandamby have been rewarded for consistent first-class contributions.Kumar Sangakkara, who underwent a surgery on the index finger of his right hand last week in Australia, and Muttiah Muralitharan, also nursing an injury, were not considered for selection. Farveez Maharoof makes a comeback after an eight-month injury lay-off.Vaas, who recently became the fourth bowler to take 400 one-day international wickets, was replaced by the 28-year-old Lokuhettige, an allrounder who played eight ODIs in 2005.Silva, who scored 878 runs at 46.21 in 2007, has been dropped after failing to score more than one fifty in his last 11 ODI innings; his last three scores, all against India, read 0, 0, 1.He was dropped in place of Kandamby, who top scored with 463 runs at 77.16 in Sri Lanka A’s tour of South Africa. Captain of the A side, Kandamby was among the probables for the Champions Trophy. He is seen as primarily a one-day specialist and played four ODIs in 2004.Kulatunga, 34, has been called up for the first time in an 18-year first-class career. He has been a prolific scorer in domestic cricket and in May steered his club Wayamba to a 31-run victory in the inaugural inter-provincial Twenty20 final against Ruhuna.Otherwise there are no major changes to the ODI squad that lost 3-2 to India at home last month. With Sangakkara ruled out due to a finger injury, Tillakaratne Dilshan will keep wickets.The four-nation Twenty20 tournament, also involving Pakistan, Zimbabwe and hosts Canada, was scheduled to be held between August 14-17, but was postponed due to sponsorship issues. Bangladesh were slated to feature in the tournament, but the revised dates clash with their home series against New Zealand.Sri Lanka Squad: Mahela Jayawardene (capt), Sanath Jayasuriya, Mahela Udawatte, Chamara Kapugedera, Jehan Mubarak, Tillakaratne Dilshan (wk), Jeevantha Kulatunga, Farveez Maharoof, Nuwan Kulasekara, Thilina Thushara, Ajantha Mendis, Thilina Kandamby, Dilhara Fernando, Dilhara Lokuhettige, Kaushalya Weeraratne.

After two low-scoring games in Dambulla, the teams move to three straight day-night contests at the Premadasa, and the statistics suggest what happens in the rest of the series could lie in the starts given by the top-order batsmen.In 60 day-night games, Nos 1-3 average 35.78 per wicket, that figure falling to 29.84 for the next three in the line-up. Sanath Jayasuriya is the leading run-getter at the Premadasa – his 2212 is only 252 short of the record for most at a single stadium – followed by Marvan Atapattu, another top-order bat. Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Virender Sehwag have also scored big here – Tendulkar’s aggregate of 872 here is the most for any Indian batsmen at a venue outside of Sharjah.With the advent of Powerplays teams pack their top order with their most instinctive – and destructive – stroke players. Unlike India, who have major injury woes and are searching for rhythm, Sri Lanka are settled, with Jayasuriya and Kumar Sangakkara in their top three. Sangakkara feels the responsibility will be on the top order. “If one of them bats into the 40th over and beyond, the side is going to get a large score,” he told Cricinfo. “That is the kind of attitude that top-order players should carry into a match. A team then has one player who they can bat around and it gives the late middle-order a chance to attack. It is a foundation on which to build a huge score.”The Premadasa has hosted 81 one-day internationals and is a traditional one-day pitch that offers runs for the batsmen and purchase for the spinners. The pitch favours the batsmen more than Dambulla did, which should please both sides. The average runs per wicket is 29.33, scored at 4.61 an over, which equates to 230.5 in 50 overs. Teams that have won the toss and opted to bat first have won 32 times and lost 22.Beating Sri Lanka at home has always been tough, but it’s been even harder in day-night matches, and especially those played the Premadasa. In a line-up without Tendulkar and Sehwag, India are searching for adequate replacements at the top. Gautam Gambhir is likely to return but Virat Kohli has looked scratchy in his three innings on tour when thrust into the opening slot. Irfan Pathan didn’t fire when given the chance, leaving S Badrinath as a potential opener. He’s never opened in limited-overs domestic cricket but is a compact player and confident against pace.With a spin attack comprising Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis, it would not be a bad option for India’s best batsmen to get their eye in against the medium-pacers. That could mean a promotion to No. 3 for Yuvraj Singh (a better option than straightaway exposing his weakness against quality spin) or Mahendra Singh Dhoni (who seems a good anchor for the rest to play around, rather than leave himself for a recovery act).Both sides played six batsmen and five bowlers in the second game on a two-paced Dambulla track but such were the conditions that the batsmen were uncertain of when to play their shots. At the start of both matches the ball was doing a fair bit and it was hard for the batsmen to get into rhythm. “It was a very confusing time for both teams,” Sangakkara said. “None of them really came to terms with how the pitch was playing.”One-day cricket was irreversibly changed 14 years ago when India, chasing 143 to beat New Zealand in Auckland, sent Tendulkar to open. A few years later Jayasuriya’s revved-up approach to the same task powered Sri Lanka’s successful World Cup campaign and took pinch-hitting to a new level. Tendulkar is back in India nursing an injured elbow, but Jayasuriya will pad up to open the innings. A good opening shot by either side may well close down the series.

Worcestershire 457 for 8 dec and 102 for 0 (Moore 58*, Mitchell 44*) beat Glamorgan 279 (Imran 5-50) and 279 (Ali 6-58)
ScorecardIn mid-afternoon, after some determined resistance from the doomed Glamorgan, Worcestershire completed their third championship victory of the season and moved to second place in Division Two of the championship. They owed much to their dynamic quartet of seam bowlers, who bowled with admirable skill and persistence on what remained to the end a sound batting wicket.Glamorgan began the day with 189 for 7 following on, just 11 runs ahead. Perhaps local supporters doubted their team’s ability to finish off the match quickly, or else they were desperate to ensure that victory was completed, because several hundred of them turned up for play that might well have been over within half an hour. But the overnight pair of James Harris and Jason Gillespie continued their stubborn defiance of Worcestershire’s impressive pace attack, and soon took the score past 200. Despite a couple of frenzied appeals, they rarely looked in trouble, and every now and then played a handsome drive that reached the boundary.It took almost an hour before the first wicket fell, as Harris groped outside the off stump to a rather wide ball from Mason and was given out caught behind for a very creditable 43. The pair had added 79 for the eighth wicket and successfully avoided the innings defeat. Still the visitors refused to roll over, and it was not until Kabir Ali took the new ball that he was able to break through the defences of David Harrison (7) and remove his off stump.Finally the last man Dean Cosker hung around for a while, until he was caught at the wicket for 8, off Kabir again. Gillespie was left stranded on 49, the highest score of the innings, off 91 balls, an admirable mixture of steadiness and well-judged strokes, most notably a powerful off-drive to the boundary off Kabir with the new ball. For once, the new star Imran Arif had failed to feature, but Kabir stepped in with six wickets, a fine performance that had locals calling for a recall to England colours.By a curious coincidence, not only did both Glamorgan innings total 279, but in both the seventh wicket had fallen at 165. The last three wickets had thus added 114 runs each time, rather an indictment of the top order, especially those who had reached double figures (in nine instances out of twelve in the two innings), yet failed to go on to a major score. Worcestershire needed 102 to win.It had taken the home side 93 minutes to wrap up the innings, and they thus had an awkward period to survive before lunch. Daryl Mitchell and Steven Moore did so solidly while adding eight runs, but even after the break they left nothing to chance and took a while to get going. In the tenth over Moore twice pulled Gillespie for four and then cut him for another, and they were away.Moore at 37 was dropped at slip off Harris, while Mitchell on 27 lofted a drive that just cleared mid-off, but the end result was never in doubt. Glamorgan just did not have the bowling firepower to upset Worcestershire. Moore reached his fifty with a big six over long-on, over the new stand at the Diglis End, off Cosker; it took him 75 balls.Shortly afterwards, Mitchell cut Alex Wharf for four to win the match by ten wickets – except that, as they had completed a single before the ball went over the boundary, under the dubious new law he was only credited with one. He finished on 44 to Moore’s 58. Unusually, there was not a single extra conceded in this innings, a small but definite credit to Glamorgan.The emergence of Imran has caused some excitement at Worcester. With Imran to add to their already impressive international pace attack – imported though it may be – of Kabir, Jones and Mason, they now boast a line-up stronger than many Division One teams this season. Their ambitions and expectations are high, and they confidently expect to return to the top league next season.A last note on Imran: Worcestershire’s chief executive Mark Newton announced that he has today signed a contract with the county for 2009 and 2010, conditional to his obtaining a British passport, which he believes to be imminent.

Delivery of the day 1

It was the 132nd over of South Africa’s innings, and the match was drifting like a blimp from its moorings. Suddenly, an animated discussion kicked off at the non-striker’s end, involving the umpire Billy Bowden, England’s captain Michael Vaughan, the not-out batsman Neil McKenzie … and Andrew Strauss, who suddenly turned and legged it for the pavilion. As he went, Bowden motioned a sprinting gesture, and suddenly it all became clear. Despite his pre-match protestations that he’d stand his ground for England, Strauss had sized up the situation and decided that, in the circumstances, he could probably justify deserting his post. So off he headed to hospital, to attend the birth of his second child. And at 5.22pm, almost exactly half-an-hour after the close, his second son, Luca, was safely delivered. “He just didn’t want to field, he’d had enough,” said his captain, Michael Vaughan, after the close. “He’s a clever boy, he is.”Delivery of the day 2The newly-married Ryan Sidebottom awoke to headlines proclaiming he was a “bed-hopper”, thanks to some unfortunate innuendo-laden remarks from his bowling coach, Ottis Gibson. Gibson nevertheless was making a valid point about the difficulties of touring life, especially for fast bowlers whose backs are their most valuable asset, and who often find it tough to adapt to a different mattress every week. Sidebottom has clearly been struggling in this game, but true to form, he refused to complain and in his 29th over, he produced a beauty – an inswinging yorker that dipped late to rip Jacques Kallis off his feet. When the pitch is giving you nothing, it’s best to take it out of the equation entirely.Defender of the dayIn his second coming as an international cricketer, Neil McKenzie has been obdurate beyond belief. He batted eight-and-a-half hours for his double century in Chittagong in March, a total of eleven-and-a-quarter one match later in Chennai, and now here at Lord’s he’s added another nine-and-a-half hour stay – and undoubtedly the most vital of the lot. There was nothing that England could do to unsettle him, with spin, seam, over or around the wicket, but eventually McKenzie’s own body let him down. No sooner had Strauss gone to join his wife, Graeme Smith jogged out to join his opening partner as a runner. It was later reported that McKenzie had suffered a slight groin strain, and his lack of mobility doubtless contributed to his downfall, as he flashed at a wide one, and snicked a thin edge to the keeper.Drop of the dayIt was the chance that could have turned the Test. Ashwell Prince, South Africa’s first-innings centurion, was still finding his feet when he drove with hard hands at a ball from Stuart Broad that nipped away from him from around the wicket. Alastair Cook in the gully launched himself to his right, but the chance refused to stick. At 21 for 4, England would have sensed a genuine opportunity for post-tea mischief.Over of the dayMonty Panesar has never endured a more fruitless day’s work than this. A personal record 60 overs in the innings, and scarcely a sniff of a wicket on a pitch that needs to be ploughed, planted with carrots, left to lie fallow for a year then used to graze cattle if any life is ever to be injected back into it. But, never let it be said that Monty doesn’t raise his game when an opportunity arises. Prince had faced a solitary delivery and was yet to get off the mark when he took guard for Panesar’s 55th over. Suddenly the ball began spitting out of the rough at the left-hander, who fenced and jabbed for survival for each of the six balls of his over. After three howling appeals for lbw and a jab off the hip that flew just past Vaughan at leg gully, Prince was happy still to be standing at the end of it.Oddity of the dayHow many times in Test history have more than half the players in a team taken the new ball? Not very many, I’d wager. But in this match, England shared the duties around like a bag of liquorice all-sorts. First there was Sidebottom and James Anderson, then – in the fading light on the third day – Monty Panesar and Kevin Pietersen had a four-over burst at the start of South Africa’s second innings. Today, with the game already up, Stuart Broad was joined by Paul Collingwood, who found prodigious swing and produced more than a few hairy moments for the not-out batsmen – not least Prince, who ducked into a not-very-short ball, and gloved it back over the bowler’s head.Farce of the dayTest cricket really doesn’t help itself at times. Not only does it persist in producing desperate pitches such as this, but no-one can ever fathom what the rules for an early finish are. When the umpires made an offer of bad light late in the day, the smiles and handshakes from the players made it clear they were ready to call it quits. But then, as soon as they had gone into the pavilion, the sun burst back through the clouds, and the crowd – not without reason – began to voice its disapproval. And so, reluctantly, the teams were coaxed back out for an encore, during which time they were treated to Cook’s first over in international cricket.

Andrew Flintoff might be the one name whose return English cricket is desperate for, but his looming presence isn’t wavering James Anderson’s focus ahead of the first Test against South Africa.Flintoff hasn’t played for England since the Sydney Test in 2007, but has bowled himself into terrific form for Lancashire this summer after recovering from an ankle surgery in the winter. He was not picked for the first Test at Lord’s, though few doubt the selectors will resist the urge to call him up at some point this summer. For Anderson, however, Flintoff’s return is regarded “as an extra incentive”.”There’s not just Fred [Flintoff] knocking on the door but there’s also Steve Harmison, Matthew Hoggard and Simon Jones now back bowling well and players like Sajid (Mahmood) and Liam Plunkett desperate to get back into the side,” he said.”You’ve got all these guys taking wickets regularly so you know you’ve got to keep doing the same if you’re going to keep your place. It’s not just Fred we’re looking over our shoulders at, although he’s obviously the biggest of the lot trying to get back. We know he’s there but he’s a completely different bowler to me so I’m just going to have to continue what I’m doing and if they pick him ahead of me then that’s out of my hands.”Though the return of Flintoff is hotly anticipated, sneaking up on the inside is Jones. After moving from Glamorgan to Worcestershire in the winter, he has taken 26 wickets in five Championship games, nudging 90mph. He hasn’t played since his key role in the 2005 Ashes and Anderson admitted that he and his colleagues have been keeping a keen eye on the performances of former England bowlers.”When we’re in the dressing room we all look at each other’s counties to see how they’re getting on so we all know who’s doing well and what other people are doing,” he said. “I’ve been in the same situation as them when I’ve gone back to Lancashire and I had to bowl well and take wickets consistently for my county to try and get myself back in the team. I’ve been in their position and I know how they’re feeling and how frustrating it is when you can’t get back into the team, but all of them who are trying to get back into the team are my mates, I’ve been on tours and played with them so I hope they do well – I just hope I do better than them to keep my place.”He added: “We were talking the other day about how the four pace bowlers from the 2005 Ashes are now all back bowling again, fit and taking wickets.”From mine, Stuart Broad and Ryan Sidebottom’s points of view, we’re hoping they don’t get the chance to bowl again together for England – if we do keep them out of the team that obviously means we’re doing well which has to be a good thing.”

Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
How they were out

Rajasthan Royals may have ended the league stage on top, but it will be the Kings XI Punjab who head into the semi-finals full of confidence after triumphing by 41 runs in a dead-rubber top-of-the-table clash in Mohali.Shane Warne rested himself for the game, and there was not much the Rajasthan Royals’ captain-cum-coach could do watching from the dugout as Punjab’s top order knocked them out of the contest. Shaun Marsh led the way with a 69-ball 115 and James Hopes’ 51 provided him support in a century stand before Yuvraj Singh finally found his rhythm with a blistering 49. Without Warne, Rajasthan looked insipid in the field, and a weakened attack without him and Sohail Tanvir, the tournament’s best bowler, leaked away too many short and wide deliveries.Rajasthan, despite a stumbling start, made a spirited effort at hunting down an imposing 222. There was a fluent fifty from Niraj Patel and two blistering hands from Yusuf Pathan and Kamran Akmal, but the match had pretty much been sealed after Punjab’s batsmen provided a royal feast for the fans in their last home match.Marsh, who has been the in-form batsmen for Punjab, was quick off the blocks. Shane Watson had taken over the captaincy, but Marsh started by spanking two wide deliveries off him for boundaries through the off side. The cut, pull and the lofted straight drive were seen aplenty as Marsh began his assault to go past Gautam Gambhir as the tournament’s leading run-getter.At the other end, Hopes got the occasional boundary while letting his partner take most of the strike, and he had to take some evasive action as Marsh blasted one off Watson that went right under his legs. The Powerplay overs fetched 51, but there was no respite for Rajasthan as Pankaj Singh was taken for 17 in the seventh: Marsh clobbering one over midwicket, before lacing the next through extra cover.Marsh took a single off Dinesh Salunkhe’s first ball to become the tournament’s leading run-scorer, and a rank bad ball was blasted through midwicket to bring up his fifty. At 88 for 0 after ten overs, the Mohali crowd were set for a treat from their batsmen, and Hopes shifted gears as Punjab looked to build an imposing score. He got three boundaries off Siddharth Trivedi in the 11th over, and Yusuf’s offspin was slog-swept into the stands en route to his fifty, which came 30 deliveries.Next it was Marsh’s turn; Yusuf was flat-batted over long-on for four before the Western Australian stepped down the track for to send one sailing over long-on. Yusuf got a breakthrough as Hopes holed on to deep midwicket and the two quiet overs that followed were the brief lull before Yuvraj came out storming and landed the knockout blow.

By then Marsh was marching towards his hundred, and he struck a six over Pankaj’s head to move to 97, and a single later in the over – that cost 25 – brought up the sixth century of the IPL. The pressure was getting to Rajasthan, and Yuvraj cashed in: he swivelled around to pull one for six, before dispatching one through square leg.Yuvraj was in the sort of mood that caught him when he smashed six sixes off Stuart Broad in the World Twenty20. He did hit five sixes off six consecutive deliveries – though it was spread across three overs this time – before he was run-out off the last ball of the innings, one short of what would have been the tournament’s fastest fifty. Marsh had fallen earlier in the over, but Punjab were way past the par score of 180 initially suggested by Warne.Rajasthan surprisingly opened with Mohammad Kaif and Niraj. Kaif fell early, as did Younis Khan, but Niraj, who held his calm during the gripping run-chase that knocked out the Mumbai Indians, scored a sparkling fifty.He cracked four fours in a Sreesanth over: he worked the ball square on the off side as the bowler gave him width, and launched a slower ball down the ground. VRV Singh tried to test him with shorter deliveries, but Niraj managed to find the boundary. Punjab’s bowlers had frittered away a winning position in their shock loss to the Kolkata Knight Riders, but today they were largely disciplined and were backed up by sharp fielding.Though Niraj kept the score ticking, Rajasthan were struggling at 67 at the halfway mark. Piyush Chawla removed Niraj and Watson, but Rajasthan were given a glimmer of hopes as Yusuf Pathan and Kamran Akmal nonchalantly blasted sixes and scored 54 in three overs to bring it down to 90 off the final six.Punjab had conceded 71 in the final five overs against Kolkata, but Chawla picked up his third wicket, removing Akmal, and even the hard-hitting Yusuf, who’s been a revelation in the tournament, couldn’t save Rajasthan. Warne had experimented with his line-up and Delhi Daredevils will be wary of a backlash come the semi-final in on Friday. As for the Chennai Super Kings, they will know they’re up against a juggernaut.

Hot on the heels of felling Alex Tudor with a nasty bouncer in the third Ashes Test, the Australian tearaway has knocked Jeremy Snape out of the international limited overs series with a short ball that broke the England offspinner’s right thumb.Snape was struck by Lee from the first ball he faced in last night’s eight-wicket win by NSW at the SCG. It was also the first ball Snape faced in Australia.Right-arm Test offspinner Richard Dawson is likely to be drafted into the England squad, but he won’t arrive before tomorrow’s day-night match against England at the SCG.England’s so-far winless tour has been ravaged by injury to leading players and Snape’s sudden exit adds to coach Duncan Fletcher’s already throbbing headache.”The injuries we’ve had on tour have all ben real freak accidents,” said Fletcher.”I don’t think there’s one where we could say that could have been prevented. You just have to be philosophical about it and try to move on.”At the end of the day it’s like anything. If you sit there and get down on yourself you start spiralling down. You’ve got to try to be positive.”What alternative is there?”None.Tomorrow’s match starts at 2.15pm.