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The BCCI and PCB will meet in Dubai on May 29 to discuss the MoU to play six bilateral series between 2015 and 2023

Sidharth Monga25-May-2017The BCCI and PCB will meet in Dubai on May 29 to discuss the MoU to play six bilateral series between 2015 and 2023. Because of the strained relations between the two countries, the BCCI has not had the federal government’s clearance to honour the MoU, which was signed in 2014. India didn’t play the proposed series in 2015, and look set to give it a miss in 2017 too.Earlier this month, the PCB had sent a notice of dispute to the BCCI, claiming losses for the BCCI’s refusal to tour in 2015. Although the BCCI indicated this MoU was “just a letter” and not a formal “contract”, it wrote to the government of India again about two weeks ago. Amitabh Choudhary, the acting BCCI secretary, said he communicated the same to PCB’s chairman Shaharyar Khan. Choudhary said the PCB’s response invoked a provision in the MoU for dialogue should a series not go ahead. Choudhary will represent the BCCI in the meeting with Shaharyar and/or PCB’s legal representatives.”We still remain committed to playing,” Choudhary said, “but the position doesn’t change: the series cannot go ahead without the permission of the government of India. After PCB wrote to us, we have written to the government of India again, and are awaiting the response. I believe the dialogue should go on, which is why we are meeting.”However, India continue to play Pakistan in multi-team events, as they did in Kolkata in the World T20 last year, and will do again in Birmingham during the Champions Trophy, six days after this meeting between the two boards.India were supposed to play away against Pakistan in 2015, and are scheduled to host them in 2017. In 2015, the BCCI had offered PCB a series at home, which the PCB declined. India in turn refused to play Pakistan’s home series at a neutral venue without specifying any reasons. “We are not asking any permission from the government,” the then BCCI president Shashank Manohar had told ESPNcricinfo. “We are not playing in UAE. That is certain. There are reasons. But I don’t want another debate on that. So I will not tell you the reasons.”

Wayne Parnell won all of Cabe Cobras’ limited-overs awards after an impressive 2015-16 domestic season, which earned him a recall to South Africa’s squad for the triangular series in West Indies

Firdose Moonda31-May-2016Wayne Parnell did not have the best start to his international comeback, conceding 35 runs in four overs in a fifty-over warm-up match against the WICB Presidents XI, but he was the big winner in absentia at the Cape Cobras Awards presentation. Parnell scooped four awards including Player of the Year, one-day cup Player of the Year, twenty-over Player of the Year and players’ Player of the Year.After being left out of South Africa’s national squads in all formats, the 2015-16 season afforded Parnell an opportunity to spend a full summer playing domestic cricket. Although he spent the early part of the season nursing a foot injury, he played a crucial role in helping Cobras reach the one-day cup final, and finished as the third-highest wicket-taker with 16 wickets at 23.00 and an economy rate of 4.83.Parnell, who opened the batting in some of the T20s, scored 237 runs in the Ram Slam competition at an average of 47.40 with a strike rate of 133.14. He also took eight wickets. His all-round performances earned him a recall for the one-day triangular series in West Indies, which starts on June 3. “I have not seen Wayne play this well for many summers. It is a just reward for good, consistent performances,” Paul Adams, Cobras coach said.The first-class Player of the Year was awarded to Dane Vilas who finished second on the run-scoring charts. Vilas scored 761 runs at 69.18, including an unbeaten 216 in a record fifth-wicket partnership of 393 with JP Duminy. That came after Vilas was dropped from South Africa’s Test squad following a poor tour of India.”Dane picked himself up so quickly after being dropped from the South African team. People forget that he is not only a wicketkeeper, but a dynamic presence with the bat,” Adams said.Adams lost out to Western Province Women’s coach Cobus Roodt in the Coach-of-the-Year category. Western Province Women won both the fifty-over and twenty-over competitions while Shandre Fritz, who was the third-highest run-scorer in the fifty-over tournament and seventh in the T20s, was named Women’s Player of the Year.

Rizwan Cheema and Junaid Siddiqui inspired Canada to a 62-run win over Suriname in their ICC Americas Regional Division One T20 game in Indianapolis

Peter Della Penna in Indianapolis03-May-2015Rizwan Cheema started his newest reign as Canada captain in winning fashion with a 62-run victory over Suriname in the first match ever played at Indianapolis World Sports Park on Sunday morning.Suriname won the toss and wisely sent Canada in to bat on a wicket never before used on a slightly overcast and cool morning but were unable to capitalize on a series of chances offered in a sloppy batting display. Cheema was the chief beneficiary, top-scoring with 34 off 31 balls in Canada’s total of 121 for 8 after being dropped on 0 at extra cover in the second over by star allrounder Sauid Drepaul.Cheema was the only player in Canada’s top six who scored at better than a run a ball as the middle order struggled to come to terms with the slightly sluggish nature of the pitch. Drepaul was on a hat-trick in the 18th over after Jimmy Hansra was caught at long-off for 15 and Hamza Tariq bowled for 16 mistiming a cut to make it 96 for 6 with 15 balls to go in the innings.Nikhil Dutta and Satsimranjit Dhindsa provided a late burst for Canada and though the output with the bat was average at best, it could have been much worse. By the end of the first innings, Suriname had dropped four chances and missed a stumping but still held hopes of an upset.However, Junaid Siddiqui sparked Canada in the field as he opened the bowling with back-to-back maidens, including the wicket of Shazam Ramjohn pinned on the crease for a duck to end the first over. He eventually finished with 2 for 7 from his four overs.Medium-pacer Khurram Chohan opened at the opposite end and struck three balls later to keep up the momentum for Canada, getting Muneshwar Patandin edging to Srimantha Wijeratne at slip for 1 to make it 2 for 2 nine balls into the chase. After 10 overs, Suriname were 30 for 4 with captain Mohindra Boodram lofting Hansra’s offspin to Cecil Pervez at long-on for 1 to end the 10th.Dutta arrived to start the 12th and struck with his first ball, getting Troy Dudnath stumped for 3 after the batsman overbalanced groping at a full and wide delivery out of reach. Dutta proceeded to rip through the rest of Suriname’s middle order and finished with 4 for 8 in four overs to be named Man of the Match. Wasim Akram Haslim was the only Suriname batsman to reach double figures, scoring 19 off 35 before he fell to Dutta in the 14th. Suriname eventually finished on 59 for 9.

Australia have retained the Women’s World T20 trophy with a 4-run win over England in Colombo

The Report by George Dobell07-Oct-2012
Scorecard and ball-by-ball commentaryJess Cameron’s score of 45 from 34 deliveries was Australia’s highest of the tournament•Associated Press

Australia have retained the Women’s World T20 trophy with a 4-run win over England in Colombo. Australia, who won the 2010 tournament in the Caribbean, impressed with the bat, with the ball and in the field to inflict just England’s second defeat in their previous 25 completed T20 internationals.While England’s record over the last 18 months or so has been excellent, they looked nervous in this game. Australia were on top throughout. Having set a challenging total, they bowled with discipline and just about held their nerve as England, as their run chase became increasingly desperate, fell to a series of catches in the deep.Perhaps England might still have stolen a win in the end. Australia, with their nerves becoming more apparent by the moment, put down four catches of varying difficulty in the final few overs – Blackwell’s dropping of Arran Brindle the most memorable of them – and with Erin Osborne donating a head-high full-toss for a no-ball in the final over – England could have won had Danielle Hazel hit the final ball for six. She could only mis-time it to midwicket, however, allowing Australia’s women to clinch the trophy.In truth, England had done well to go so close. They had been behind the rate throughout their innings and, but for some bucolic hitting from Jenny Gunn in the dying overs, the margin would have been much greater. Gunn, thumping a four and a six off Julie Hunter, had reduced the equation from 35 required from three to 16 from the final over and, despite Osborne’s no-ball and Jess Jonassen dropping a simple catch, England had always left themselves too much to do.England may also reflect that their decision to insert Australia after winning the toss backfired. While England have an excellent record batting second, by giving Australia first use of a fine batting surface, they allowed them to build a commanding total and then succumbed to the pressure of chasing against a disciplined attack and tight fielding unit. Only three times in their 63 match T20 history had they successfully chased more than 142 to win and, on the biggest stage, it proved beyond them. England will surely also rue the eight wides and no-ball they sent down. Bearing in mind the eventual margin of victory, those extra were to prove costly.

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• Australia won their second consecutive Women’s World Twenty20. In the previous final in 2010, Australia defeated New Zealand by three runs.

• The margin of victory (4 runs) is the second-lowest for Australia (in terms of runs) in the Women’s World Twenty20. It is also their narrowest margin of victory against England in Women’s Twenty20 internationals.

• Australia’s total of 142 is their third-highest against England in the Women’s World Twenty20. In their group game earlier in the tournament, Australia had scored 144 and lost by seven wickets.

• Jess Cameron’s strike rate of 132.35 during her 45 is the highest strike rate for Australia in a Women’s World Twenty20 game against England and the fifth-highest for Australia in the competition (40-plus scores).

• The 51-run stand between Meg Lanning and Alyssa Healy is the third-highest opening partnership for Australia in the Women’s World Twenty20 and their second-best in this year’s tournament.

• Anya Shrubsole’s economy rate of 10.33 is the highest for an England bowler in a Women’s World Twenty20 game (min 3 overs bowled).

Australia’s opening batsmen set the tone with a partnership of 51 in 41 deliveries. Meg Lanning, taking advantage of some uncharacteristic loose bowling from Katherine Brunt, took 16 from the third over of the innings. Twice she drove Brunt – who also donated a front foot no-ball during the over – through the cover for boundaries, while Alyssa Healy pulled another boundary though square leg. With England’s spinners unable to stem the flow of runs, Australia reached 47 for 0 after their six Powerplay overs.The introduction of Holly Colvin’s left-arm spin brought the breakthrough. Lanning, attempting to hit over the top, could only clip a return catch to the bowler while Laura Marsh, the fourth spinner introduced into the attack by the eighth over of the innings, might have had Healey caught at deep-square leg but the pull dropped just short of Shurbsole. At the halfway stage of their innings, Australia were 68 for 1.Jess Cameron was soon into her stride. Having swept Marsh to the boundary, she then skipped down the pitch to drive her for another. While Healey was bowled after missing an attempted pull, Cameron, whose innings of 45 from 34 deliveries was Australia’s highest of the tournament, brought up the 100 with a very well executed reverse sweep for four off Marsh, before slog-sweeping Shurbsole for six, then ramping and pulling her for fours in an over that cost 17.While Colvin, the pick of the bowlers, had Cameron taken at long-on, Alex Blackwell swept another four off Wyatt and, in partnership with Lisa Sthalekar, picked up the ones and twos as Australia set a challenging total of 142.England were always behind the rate in their chase. While they picked up a boundary in each of the first four overs, they were unable to accumulate any singles and Marsh, frustrated by the escalating required run rate, perished when she mis-timed a drive and gave a return catch to the bowler.Charlotte Edwards looked in fine form, though. Having hit the first ball of the innings for four, she clipped another over midwicket when Perry drifted on to her legs and greeted the introduction of the offspin of Osborne by taking two steps down the pitch and lofting the bowler over long-on for six. Two balls later, she lofted four more over the head of the same bowler and, after their six Powerplay overs, England were 34 for 1.The end of the Powerplay resulted in the field spreading, however, and Edwards’ attempt to hit Sthalekar’s teasing off-breaks over the top resulted in a catch to long-on. Ellyse Perry produced an outswinger to account for the dangerous Sarah Taylor, edging an attempted drive, and with Lydia Greenway also falling to a catch in the deep and Danny Wyatt brilliantly caught at cover by a diving Blackwell, England were always behind the game.

Paul Grayson, the Essex coach, has admitted the 2011 season fell well below the club’s expectations

ESPNcricinfo staff20-Sep-2011Paul Grayson, the Essex coach, has admitted the 2011 season fell well below the club’s expectations and he has already started planning for next summer with the signing of Derbyshire allrounder Greg Smith.The county finished seventh in Division Two of the County Championship and failed to qualify for the knockout stages of both the Clydesdale Bank 40 and Friends Life t20. The team suffered having failed to fill the hole left by Danish Kaneria, the Pakistan legspinner, and early-season attempts to sign Peter Siddle were unsuccessful. Grayson is now looking ahead and picked out the performances of a number of youngsters – such as legspinner Tom Craddock and left-arm quick Reece Topley – as a sign of a brighter future.”At the start of 2011, myself and the cricket Committee set the objectives of gaining promotion to Division One and securing a one-day trophy,” Grayson said. “Defeats in the opening two Championship games have cost us dearly and from then on we were always playing catch-up.”There is no denying the fact that a number of players have been inconsistent this season,” he added. “However, we have a very talented and determined squad with a number of exciting players coming through the ranks. This season has seen the arrival of the likes of Reece Topley, Tymal Mills, Adam Wheater and Tom Craddock. We hope we can further progress the young blood we have at the Club and develop the winning combination that was missing in 2011.”Over the winter months the squad will take a much needed break and will prepare for what we hope will be a successful 2012 season across all formats of the game. We have to aim for promotion, it’s where we need and want to be and despite comments elsewhere, the County Championship remains our number one priority.”Smith, meanwhile, will bring some experience to the middle order plus the ability to bowl both seam-up and offspin. “Greg is a cricketer that I admire. He is a very talented all-rounder and has a great character for the dressing room which I feel will benefit us,” Grayson said. “He is a very good cricketer who will fit in well with the team and I look forward to working with him at Essex.”

Round-up of the third day’s action in the Karnataka Premier League

ESPNcricinfo staff19-Sep-2010After messing up their chase a day earlier, Shamanoor Davangere Diamonds held their nerve in a close finish to beat Bangalore Provident (Rural) by four runs in Bangalore.Chasing a target of 117, Provident were in control at 88 for 3 after 16 overs. However, the Davangere spinners kept things tight and the pressure showed on Provident as they lost five wickets to end up on 112 for 8. Offspinner Sunil Raju picked up 2 for 12 in four overs and was named Player-of-the-Match. Three run-outs didn’t help Provident either.Their bowlers had earlier restricted Davangere to 116 for 6. Medium-pacer Abhishek Jagan and leftarm spinner Anand Katti took two wickets each while Yere Goud top-scored for Davangere with 30 off 31 deliveries.In another match-winning performance by a spinner, Balachandra Naveen’s 4 for 20 helped Belagavi Panthers defeat Bangalore Brigadiers (Urban) by the narrowest margin of one run in Bangalore.Naveen, along with Stalin Hoover and Srinivasa Dhananjaya, had earlier helped Belagavi recover to 131 for 8 after they were in trouble at 55 for 6. Offspinner M Vinod picked up 2 for 19 in two overs.Vinod later kept Brigadiers in the chase after they had collapsed to 89 for 7, hitting three sixes in his 15-ball 29. However, after his dismissal in the 19th over, the other batsmen could get only 16 of the 18 needed for victory.

Heinrich Klaasen, Pat Cummins and Abhishek Sharma were the first three capped players set to be retained by Sunrisers Hyderabad

Nagraj Gollapudi30-Oct-20243:26

Four big questions from SRH’s retentions

Travis Head and Nitish Kumar Reddy are set to be retained by Sunrisers Hyderabad as their final two capped retained players ahead of the 2025 IPL auction. ESPNcricinfo has learned Head is likely to be be retained for INR 14 crore while Reddy is set to get INR 6 crore.With these two signings, SRH will have completed their quota of five capped retained players before the auction, securing the core group that led them to the IPL 2024 final, and will lose INR 75 crore from their purse of INR 120 crore. ESPNcricinfo reported earlier SRH were set to retain Heinrich Klaasen (INR 23 crore), Pat Cummins (INR 18 crore) and Abhishek Sharma (14 crore). They can now use a right-to-match card to buy back only one of their uncapped players at the auction.October 31 is also the deadline by which the ten franchises have to submit their list of retained players to the IPL. The IPL franchises have been allowed to retain up to six players ahead of the mega auction before the 2025 season, of which a maximum of five can be capped internationals and two can be uncapped. While the IPL has set minimum deductions from the auction purse for each player retained – INR 18 crore for the first player, INR 14 crore for the second, INR 11 crore for the third, INR 18 crore for the fourth, and INR 14 crore for the fifth – the franchises are free to pay more than those amounts to their retained players.Cummins will continue to captain SRH after he, along with the coaching staff led by Daniel Vettori, led them to the playoffs for the first time since 2020.If Klaasen’s price tag, which is INR 5 crore more than the IPL’s slab of INR 18 crore for the first retained player, was a surprise, the amount agreed with Head is likely to raise further eyebrows.Head had his breakthrough season in the IPL with SRH in 2024, smashing 567 runs at a strike rate of 191.55 at the top of the order. In 2024, he also became only the second T20 batter to score 1000-plus runs at a strike rate of more than 175 and average of more than 40 in a year.Related

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While Head did not have an impact in the IPL final against Kolkata Knight Riders, he has a proven record of performing on big occasions – he scored a hundred against India in both the World Test Championship final in and the ODI World Cup final in 2023. His 137 in the ODI World Cup final in Ahmedabad played a key role in SRH buying him for INR 6.8 crore ($819,000 approximately then) at the IPL 2024 auction. And though his price tag has more than doubled, it is likely that he may have fetched a higher bid had he entered the auction.Reddy, 21, has also had a huge increase in his value from the INR 20 lakh SRH paid for him in 2023. He was the Emerging Player of the Year in IPL 2024, for scoring 303 runs at a strike rate of 143 and taking three wickets with his seam bowling. He was then picked for India’s T20I series in Zimbabwe but missed the tour because of injury. Reddy eventually made his international debut during the home T20Is against Bangladesh earlier in October. He was part of the reserves for the ongoing Test series against New Zealand and will travel to Australia as part of the India A squad to play two four-day games from October 31 as well as the India squad for the Border Gavaskar Trophy starting November 22.

Departing seamers share eight fourth-innings wickets to seal win after five overs on day three

Paul Edwards21-Jul-2023
Leaving a county mixes the emotions of even the most clear-minded young cricketer. On the one hand you are, you hope, furthering your career. On the other, you are saying farewell to the coaches who may have played a vital role in your development, the team-mates with whom you have spent good and bad summers and the ground you called home. So imagine, if you will, the feelings of Dillon Pennington and Josh Tongue a week or so ago when they returned to New Road and told their colleagues they were leaving Worcestershire at the end of the current season.Both fast bowlers are taking the well-travelled road to Nottinghamshire, a county that seems to sign players from other counties as frequently as Imelda Marcos bought shoes. But both will, one assumes, be required by Worcestershire for the remainder of a season in which Brett D’Oliveira’s side have genuine promotion hopes. Such aspirations were boosted this morning when the visitors took just five overs to complete their 100-run victory over Leicestershire at Oakham School. The win takes Worcestershire level on points with their hosts this week and only Durham are currently above them in the Second Division table.And maybe it was particularly encouraging that both Pennington and Tongue played major roles in the triumph. Pennington did not bowl on the final morning of this game – only Tongue and Matthew Waite were required – but at least his match figures of 7 for 61 might have gone some way to assuage the affront caused when he recently undertook some publicity about his move to Trent Bridge while still a Worcestershire player.Tongue’s situation was even more complex. Earlier this week he was with the England squad at Emirates Old Trafford but having been released from Test Match commitments, he was free to join his county at Oakham, where he replaced Adam Finch and wreaked havoc.Having dismissed Peter Handscomb and Wiaan Mulder in the space of three balls on the second evening, Tongue was even more lickety-split about his work on this third morning His third ball tempted Rehan Ahmed into a loose drive that only succeeded in edging a catch to Gareth Roderick, an admirable cricketer who had a quietly impressive match behind the stumps.Having removed the only player capable of winning the game for Leicestershire, Tongue then sealed his side’s victory four overs later before many of the press pack had finished their morning coffee. Callum Parkinson was caught by Azhar Ali for 14 and Matt Salisbury yorked for a second-ball nought. The players trooped off the field at just gone 11.15 and some of them might have wondered why they had bothered to change into their whites.Within half an hour the accessories needed for county cricket were being dismantled, the pitch was being covered and Alan Richardson, Worcestershire’s head coach was reflecting on his side’s third victory of the season.”For us to be successful it is not going to be about one or two people, it is going to be a squad effort, with people stepping up at different times,” said Richardson. “In this game I thought Matthew Waite bowled extremely well, him and Joe [Leach] at that far end kept control of the game, allowing Adam Finch in the first innings, Josh in the second and Dillon throughout to do their stuff at the other end.””Obviously I’m disappointed that Josh and Dillon are leaving but at the same time they are still our players and they still want to perform for us for the rest of the season, to help us achieve our goals and having them in the team makes us better. We aren’t going to change our opinion on that just because they are leaving at the end of the season.”

Australian set to be preferred to Paul Collingwood as ECB nears head coach appointment

Nagraj Gollapudi16-May-2022Matthew Mott, the Australia women’s head coach, has emerged as the frontrunner in the race to become England men’s white-ball coach, and is likely to be appointed later this week. ESPNcricinfo understands that Mott has been preferred by the interview panel over former England allrounder Paul Collingwood, who was the primary contender having stood in as head coach on the recent tours to the Caribbean.Following the appointment of Rob Key as managing director of men’s cricket, the ECB opted to split the coaching roles. Former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum was unanimously appointed as the head coach of the Test team last week after impressing the interview panel comprising Key, Andrew Strauss (ECB consultant) and Tom Harrison (ECB chief executive officer). In the case of the white-ball head coach job, it is learned the panel also consulted England captain Eoin Morgan.Related

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Coincidentally McCullum had “recommended” Mott for the New Zealand head coach role nearly a decade ago, a job that eventually went to Mike Hesson.Mott, 48, has been at the helm of the Australia women’s team since 2015 when Cricket Australia appointed him as the head coach. Since then Mott, along with the help of the Australian leadership group led by captain Meg Lanning, has turned the women’s outfit into the “Invincibles”. Having sworn to bounce back after losing their 2017 Women’s World Cup semi-final against India, Australia have lost just two matches in 42 ODIs with the winning streak stretching through an unbeaten run to lifting to this year’s World Cup.When it comes to coaching in men’s cricket Mott, a top-order batter for Queensland and Victoria, has been in the head coach roles at New South Wales and Glamorgan along with a few short stints with Australia A. In 2009, Mott was also an assistant coach for Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL. During the women’s World Cup Mott was also mentioned as one of the contenders to replace Justin Langer as Australian men’s head coach. However, at the time Mott pointed out he was keen to stick to the leading the women’s team.”As a coach, you have to look at the next pathway … there will always be that ‘what’s next?,” Mott told AAP. “But I’m thoroughly enjoying what I’m doing at the moment. I don’t feel the need to rush off anywhere else. A lot of people think it’s a step up to go into the men’s program. I think it’s just a step across.”I’ve been involved with Australia A men’s program a couple of times. I’ve enjoyed my work in there.”

He will have scans in Tauranga on Thursday

Umar Farooq23-Dec-2020A left-thigh injury has ruled Shadab Khan, the legspinning allrounder who led Pakistan to a 2-1 defeat in the T20I series in New Zealand, out of the first Test, starting December 26 in Mount Maunganui. Left-arm spinner Zafar Gohar has been called up from the touring Pakistan Shaheens squad to fill in.Related

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Khan had missed the home white-ball series against Zimbabwe in October-November with a groin injury, but had recovered in time for the New Zealand tour. The problem got worse during a tour game in Christchurch, but he was cleared to lead Pakistan in the T20Is after Babar Azam picked up a finger injury, which will keep him – along with Imam-ul-Haq, who has a thumb injury too – out of the first Test as well.The PCB has confirmed that the allrounder complained about the pain in his left thigh and the initial assessment is that he won’t be available for selection for at least seven more days. He will have scans in Tauranga on Thursday to decide on the recovery and rehabilitation period.Gohar, meanwhile, has already joined the Test side, travelling in from Hamilton, where he was preparing for the Shaheens’ T20 against the Northern Knights on Sunday. He was added to the touring party after a productive 2019-20 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, where he was the third-most successful bowler with 38 wickets, including five four-wicket hauls and one five-wicket haul for Central Punjab.Gohar, 25, made his international debut in an ODI in 2015, in England, but hasn’t played for Pakistan since. He was in line for a Test debut when just 20, back in 2016, during the Test series in the UAE against England. But after being called up to replace the injured Yasir Shah, Gohar reached the Lahore airport only to sleep through the departure announcements. He has so far taken 144 wickets in 39 first-class matches, at an average of 28.56.