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Leicestershire enjoyed a dream first day against Sussex in their County Championship Division Two game at Hove, dismissing their hosts for 163 before making a confident reply

ECB Reporters Network01-May-2016
ScorecardBen Raine picked up 4 for 30 as Sussex collapsed (file photo)•PA Photos

Leicestershire enjoyed a dream first day against Sussex in their County Championship Division Two game at Hove, dismissing their hosts for 163 before making a confident reply which took them to 140 for 2 at stumps. Sussex’s batting fell apart with a succession of soft dismissals during the afternoon session when they lost seven wickets for 33 runs in 12 overs including three in five balls.Ed Joyce made 56 and Ross Taylor 36 and when they added 76 either side of lunch for the third wicket Sussex looked capable of making good use of a decent batting pitch after winning the toss. Their problems began shortly after lunch when Taylor tried to pull out of an attempted hook as Charlie Shreck dropped short and gave a thin edge to Niall O’Brien, one of five catches in the innings for the Leicestershire wicketkeeper.Their decline gathered pace in the 46th over when Luke Wells, who had begun positively, picked out midwicket and three overs later Joyce, who had played fluently for his second half-century of the season, was strangled down the leg side by Wayne White.White’s next over fatally holed the Sussex batting as three wickets fell in five balls. O’Brien produced a superb diving catch when Ollie Robinson clipped another ball down the leg side, Ajmal Shahzad was run out by Neil Dexter’s throw from the covers when he was sent back by Ben Brown looking to get off the mark first ball before Brown, driving loosely outside off stump, was held by O’Brien.Sussex had lost five wickets for 12 runs as they slumped to 142 for 8 and although George Garton and Danny Briggs managed to cobble together 21 runs together the innings ended in the 58th over when Ben Raine’s late away movement accounted for Garton and Steve Magoffin.It completed an excellent day for the promising Raine, who had dismissed Chris Nash and Matt Machan with the new ball during a testing spell in the first hour. He finished with 4 for 30 from 15 overs and got consistent seam movement.Sussex did make an early breakthrough when Angus Robson lost his middle stump as an attempted cut cannoned off his inside edge but Horton and Dexter showed their experience in putting on 100 for the second wicket with relatively few alarms. Brown rung the changes in an attempt to find a breakthrough but his seamers lacked the control shown by their opponents until Dexter was leg before to Robinson the ball after he’d received lengthy treatment when he was hit on the glove.

BJ Watling made his second Test century as he and Trent Boult frustrated Bangladesh with a 127-run partnership for the final wicket, after which Mominul Haque counterattacked for Bangladesh

The Report by Mohammad Isam10-Oct-2013
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsBJ Watling and Trent Boult put on 127 runs for the final wicket•Associated Press

New Zealand were braced to defend a below-par first innings score in the first session of the second day. BJ Watling and Trent Boult slowly developed a mischievous plan that has been repeated seven times already this year. They fended off the Bangladesh bowlers first, then got comfortable, soon they were dominating the attack and New Zealand were in charge of the Chittagong Test.Watling and Boult, the tenth wicket pair, added 127 runs. It shot their total up from 342 for 9 to 469 all out by the end of the second session. Watling completed a second Test century off 171 balls. He was finally dismissed for 103 while Boult was unbeaten on 52 – the fifteenth time a No. 11 has made a half-century in Tests.The visitors added 189 runs on the last day, after which Bangladesh went to stumps at 103 for 2 with Mominul Haque, on 77 off 71 balls, and debutant Marshall Ayub at the crease.But the home side were shaken by New Zealand’s late charge, and it was evident in how they lost two wickets in the first 3.3 overs. Opener Tamim Iqbal chased a slightly full ball while Anamul Haque was done by Doug Bracewell’s predictable inward movement. Mominul and Ayub, however, stopped the rot till the end of day’s play, as they added 95 runs for the third wicket.It was Tamim’s first-ever golden duck, and the shot he played wasn’t much of a surprise. It is one that has fetched him boundaries throughout his career, but here Boult got the ball to move slightly towards the slips. Kane Williamson, fresh from two sessions of rest, took a fine catch at gully that greatly delighted captain Brendon McCullum.Anamul had survived an edge to slip off a no-ball off the sixth ball of the innings from Doug Bracewell. But it wasn’t for too long, as he was done by the same bowler’s in-ducker that was as predictable as Anamul’s gap between bat and pad.But as Ayub’s confidence grew after a few overs when he looked genuinely nervous. He left and ducked any delivery that shouldn’t be bothered with, playing only those within his reach as he mostly defended and letting Mominul do the scoring.Quite different than his usual dour method of batting, Mominul went after New Zealand who committed the mistake of bowling too wide to him at first and then too full. He latched onto Bruce Martin’s left-arm spin, taking him for three boundaries in a row in his first over. In the next over, he struck Bracewell for three more on either side of the ground. There were six more boundaries, and each one in front of the wicket.He completed his third half-century off 36 balls, the second fastest for Bangladesh. Ayub supported him quite well for a debutant but they are still some ways short of doing what Boult and Watling did for the first half the day.The duo put on the fourth-highest final wicket stand for New Zealand, and also the second-highest against Bangladesh, after the 133 added by Sachin Tendulkar and Zaheer Khan in 2004.Watling was the more technical of the two, but didn’t have to sweat too much when he left Boult on strike. Boult was severe on the Bangladesh spinners, particularly Shakib Al Hasan who was struck twice for sixes over deep midwicket.Watling also survived an early let-off when he was on four. Rubel Hossain, who had bounced out nightwatchman Bruce Martin for the first wicket of the day, was celebrating when Nasir Hossain safely held an edge from Watling at gully but a replay asked by the on-field umpires confirmed a no-ball by Rubel, who has been quite regular in stepping over the line.Razzak bowled the most, 55 overs, taking three for 147. Sohag Gazi took two wickets while there was one each for Rubel, Nasir and Mominul.

An all-round performance by the captain Salma Khatun helped Bangladesh win a rain-shortened Twenty20 against South Africa by seven wickets in Mirpur

ESPNcricinfo staff11-Sep-2012
ScorecardAn all-round performance by the captain Salma Khatun helped Bangladesh Women win a rain shortened Twenty20 international against South Africa Women by seven wickets in Mirpur. Chasing 106, opener Lata Mondal, the highest run-getter in the ODI series, departed with two runs on the board. However, Bangladesh recovered through a brief stand between Rumana Ahmed and Farzana Haque before rain interrupted the game in the fifth over.Set a revised target of 73 in 13 overs on resumption, Bangladesh stuttered briefly with two run-outs off successive deliveries in the eighth over, but Khatun and Shukhtara Rahman put on 42 runs to guide their side home in the 13th over. Seamer Susan Benade was economical: she gave away five runs in her three overs and took a wicket.South Africa’s innings was built on a stand of 44 for the second wicket between Benade and Shandre Fritz, but they lost wickets regularly before and after that partnership. At 69 for 4 in the 17th over, captain Mignon du Preez, Sunette Loubser and Marizanne Kapp accelerated to push them past 100. Khatun took two wickets in her four overs and South Africa were limited to 105 for 6.Bangladesh lead the three-match series 1-0. The second Twenty20 will be played on September 12 at the same venue.

A career-best 144 from captain Alviro Petersen in a record score of 328 for
4 helped Glamorgan to a convincing Clydesdale Bank 40 victory over Lancashire
Lightning at Colwyn Bay

21-Aug-2011
ScorecardA career-best 144 from captain Alviro Petersen in a record score of 328 for
4 helped Glamorgan to a convincing Clydesdale Bank 40 victory over Lancashire
Lightning at Colwyn Bay.The South African shared in a record opening stand of 199 with Gareth Rees
(76). His century came off only 89 balls and included 10 sixes – one which
smashed the window of Lancashire’s dressing room. In all there were 18 sixes in the Dragons innings, and in total 208 runs came in a clatter of boundaries.Even when Petersen was out the momentum continued with Stewart Walters
plundering a half-century from just 19 balls. In reply Lancashire could only make 259 all out in 30.4 overs to slip to a 73-run defeat. Glamorgan were indebted to slow left armer Dean Cosker, who recorded impressive figures of four wickets for 43 runs from seven overs.Glamorgan’s total was all the more impressive considering the match was reduced
to a 33 overs a side contest because of rain. The Dragons were set on their way when they reached 50 in only seven overs with Petersen the main aggressor – he reached his 50 from only 36 balls, including two sixes.He struck Oliver Newby for three consecutive sixes in an over before Rees got
in on the act hitting Stephen Parry for two sixes as the 150 came up in the 19th
over. Rees also lofted Steven Croft for six onto the pavilion roof before Petersen
reached his first one-day hundred for the Dragons from 76 balls.When the total become 184 the stand beat the previous best for the first
wicket, passing the 181 made by Jimmy Maher and Robert Croft against Essex at
Sophia Gardens in 2003.But the first wicket stand was ended when Rees, who had gone to a run-a-ball
half-century, was caught on the boundary at long-on. The Dragons took the batting powerplay but Petersen fell to the first delivery when he holed out at long-off.Glamorgan lost Chris Cooke and Mark Wallace but Walters and Graham Wagg, who
put on 75 in 25 balls, ensured Lancashire would have to chase nearly 10 an over
for victory. In the urgent need for quick runs Lancashire lost Tom Smith in only the first
over when he was caught at midwicket attempting a sweep off Nick James.A breezy half-century from 20 balls from Stephen Moore kept the Lightning up
with the required rate but he was bowled by Will Owen and 82 for two became 103
for three when Karl Brown was stumped off Cosker.Steven Croft and Paul Horton put on 94 runs in 10 overs as they attempted to
get Lancashire back in the game – but their momentum was checked when Cosker
bowled Croft, who scored 85 in 55 balls. Cosker also accounted for Paul Horton and Luke Procter as the pressure became too much for the Lightning.

Lancashire survived a major scare to secure a thrilling last-ball Clydesdale Bank 40 win over the Unicorns at Colwyn Bay on Monday

30-Aug-2010

ScorecardLancashire survived a major scare to secure a thrilling last-ball Clydesdale Bank 40 win over the Unicorns at Colwyn Bay on Monday. Surviving a five-wicket haul from medium pacer Neil Hancock, the Lightning had to score 13 runs off the last over in their pursuit of 254. Kyle Hogg hit 12 of them, including a straight six off the bowling of Jonathan Miles, to finish 35 not out off 26 balls as Lancashire won by two wickets.The Red Rose county had looked to be cantering to their target after openers Karl Brown and Paul Horton shared 115 inside 21 overs. But 34 year-old Hancock, formerly of Somerset, returned career-best figures of 5 for 64 from eight overs to put a fifth Group A win in major doubt.
Lancashire needed 93 off 10 overs and it took a 43-ball 51 from Steven Croft to get them back on track even though they kept losing wickets.Innings of 84 not out off 69 balls and 64 off 70 from Keith Parsons and wicketkeeper Josh Knappett respectively had earlier fired the hosts to a competitive 253 for 7. Luke Procter finished with 3 for 29 from his six overs of medium pace and Hogg returned an impressive 2 for 27 from eight. The Unicorns had recovered from 31 for 2 but they would surely have posted too many for Lancashire to chase had they not lost four wickets in the last nine overs of their innings.Veteran skipper Parsons and Knappett took a liking to Stephen Parry and Gary Montgomery during a fourth wicket stand of 120 in 16 overs. Knappett swept Parry for two sixes into the pavilion while Parsons smeared Montgomery for a six over midwicket and also pulled Parry over the square leg boundary.Procter bowled Michael O’Shea and Neil Saker and also had Hancock caught at deep midwicket. The young allrounder had also taken a superb diving catch on the run from deep square leg to give Daren Powell the early wicket of Jackson Thompson.Brown then hit 64 off 70 balls and Horton 63 off 71 to put the visitors on top, hitting three sixes between them. But Australian-born Hancock bowled Brown off an inside edge, had Mark Chilton chipping to deep midwicket, bamboozled Gareth Cross with a slower ball, bowled Croft and had Procter caught at long on.Croft hit three sixes – two in successive balls before he was bowled – and four fours in his effort to keep Lancashire in the hunt. Parry was bowled by Miles and then Powell run out before Hogg, who only hit one other boundary, and Keedy were there at the end to prevent a shock.

Their knocks helped Markhors pile up 284 before Agha and Imran picked three-fors to bowl out Dolphins for 192

ESPNcricinfo staff18-Sep-2024Kamran Ghulam’s second century in three outings, backed by three wicket-hauls from Mohammad Imran and Salman Agha handed Markhors their third consecutive win, as they beat Dolphins in Faisalabad. The win helped them consolidate their lead at the top of the points table.It was an all-round show from Markhors with Ghulam making 113 off just 110 balls, which included a 122-run third wicket stand with Mohammad Rizwan. That helped Markhors pile up 284 for 9 in their 50 overs. In reply, Dolphins lost wickets at regular intervals and were bowled out for 192 with Markhors winning by 92 runs.After Dolphins decided to field, Mir Hamza removed Markhors openers Bismillah Khan and Mohammad Faizan inside five overs. But Ghulam, fresh off a 115 against Panthers last week, continued his good form. He stabilized the innings with Rizwan, who also scored a half-century.Faheem Ashraf picked four wickets for Dolphins but Markhors managed to put up a big score on the board.Dolphins never really got going in the chase. Opener Mohammad Hurraira fell for a 12-ball duck while Muhammad Akhlaq was dismissed by Naseem Shah. Captain Saud Shakeel tried to hold his end up with 41, but got little support from the others.Asif Ali hit a quick 43-ball 50, but the Dolphins batters failed to stitch a solid partnership. Eventually, they were bowled out in 43.5 overs. Markhors employed six bowlers, and each one of them managed to pick at least a wicket.This was Dolphins’ second defeat of the tournament and they are now the only side to not register a single point on the table.

He is frustrated at not converting starts but has been satisfied with the way he has played

Andrew McGlashan25-Jul-2023David Warner has shut down rumours that he will retire from Test cricket after the fifth and final Test at The Oval as he prepares to face England for the final time.Speculation was fuelled in Australia when Michael Vaughan told that he had heard “whispers” during the Old Trafford Test that the final Ashes encounter would be Warner’s last, rather than him going through to the Pakistan series and a Sydney farewell in early January that he had set out at the beginning of this tour.”No, not at all,” Warner said at The Oval when asked if he had considered making it his final Test. “I haven’t seen anything…I don’t have an announcement. For me it’s about trying to work hard in the nets as I did today and if selected, go out there and play and try and win an Ashes series.”Related

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“I came here last time and it was a draw. Hopefully, we can go away with a series win and then that’ll be a fitting Ashes campaign for us and a fitting tour over here in England with the World Test Championship as well.”In the same comments, Vaughan also raised the possible retirement of Steven Smith but, that too, was laughed off. “Obviously it’s a joke,” Warner said. “I won’t take that too seriously.” When asked in recent months, 34-year-old Smith has dead-batted talk of when he may close out his international career.Warner’s Test retirement plan is still a finish at his home ground of the SCG in early January, although there does remain the question of whether the selectors could decide to start afresh at the beginning of the home summer.David Warner has failed to convert a number of his starts in the Ashes•Getty Images

Warner has scored 201 runs at 25.12 in the four Ashes Tests – having scored 43 and 1 in the World Test Championship [WTC] final against India – which has been an improvement on the horrors of the 2019 tour when he averaged 9.50. However, this means his overall Test return since the beginning of 2021 is 28.26 and that includes the double century against South Africa.After failing twice against Stuart Broad at Headingley – to revive memories of the last Ashes in England – he made a pair of starts at Old Trafford before falling to Chris Woakes on both occasions. Warner has been frustrated not to convert into something more substantial but believes he has played his part in helping Australia retain the Ashes at 2-1 up heading to the last match, sharing three half-century stands with Usman Khawaja in the two victories.”I’ve probably left a few out there, but in saying that I’ve played a lot better than what I did last time,” he said. “I’m looking to score. I’ve had a couple of unlucky dismissals and then been dismissed where I’ve tried to negate the swing or the seam and it’s caught the outside edge of the bat.”So for me, I feel like I’m in a good space, contributed well, and as a batting unit, we’re all about partnerships. And I think the partnerships that we’ve had in key moments of this series so far have actually worked very well for us as a team.”With one Test to go in England, Warner’s average in the country (including the final against India) stands at 25.60 from 18 matches and he has never made a hundred. His overall average away from home is 32.31 compared with 58.39 in Australia.Warner came into this series promising a more attacking mindset than in 2019, when he felt that a lot of his problems came from looking to defend against the moving ball. Although he has only managed one half-century this time, he has been happy with his method.”Look at the dismissal against Woakes in the first innings last Test. That one seams,” he said. “If it doesn’t seam, it hits the middle of the bat and that’s what happens in this game. I would have been disappointed if I went forward to that and just tried to defend it. So that’s how I’ve wanted to play. I do feel like I’m playing pretty decently.”

Given that the ICC events schedule is now fixed for the next cycle, fitting another tournament was a non-starter

Osman Samiuddin11-Apr-2022As was widely expected, Ramiz Raja’s proposal for a quadrangular T20 event got no further than a presentation to the ICC board meeting, the board deciding such a tournament could not fit into the next rights cycle.But Ramiz, whose own future at the board is now under a cloud, took some solace from the fact that it sparked discussion among Full Members over the weekend ICC meeting, at the chief executive level first and then at the board meeting itself on Sunday.Related

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“Great discussion regarding 4 Nations series today at the ICC meet,” Ramiz tweeted. “As a concept it was welcomed and debated upon and seen as promoting the interest of the game. Fingers crossed. More when I am back at the office tomorrow.”The note of hope suggested in the “fingers crossed” sits at odds with the observations of officials at the meeting. Some members at the Chief Executives Committee (CEC) meeting earlier had signalled interest and approval of the generic idea of members hosting quadrangular events (which current regulations prohibit at the moment) but at the board level – although there was no vote – it was turned down.One official echoed Ramiz’s tweet that there were “plenty of good discussions around it and acknowledgement that from a cricketing perspective it’s a great idea.” But given that the ICC events schedule is now fixed for the next cycle and that the FTP is almost done, fitting something like this in was, in a practical sense, a non-starter in the short-to-medium term.A big driver behind that is the need for the ICC to sell its media rights for the next cycle with clarity in their schedule and no ambiguity about the number of events and new tournaments being added.There was also the small matter of the members who weren’t included in Ramiz’s proposal; that is, the eight members outside Pakistan, India, Australia and England. They were, predictably, not happy at not being considered.How much more will emerge once he s back in office, as Ramiz tweeted, is also not certain. With the dramatic removal of Imran Khan from the premiership of Pakistan in dramatic fashion on Saturday night and Sunday morning, Ramiz had lost the man who appointed him chairman as he went into the ICC meeting.Ramiz did not respond to questions on Sunday about his future but with a new prime minister to be appointed this week, logic would suggest – as has been the case with nearly every change in government in Pakistan – that he or she brings with them a new administration to head the cricket board.Greg Barclay to finish his term in November
The other significant development from the board meeting was that a new process on electing the next ICC chairman has been agreed upon in principle. That will take place in November once Greg Barclay, the current chair, comes to the end of his two-year term.Barclay became ICC chairman in November 2020, after a long and fractious process after Shashank Manohar stepped down in June that year. Barclay eventually beat Imran Khwaja after the second round of voting took place because he had been unable to secure enough votes in the first round.The nature of that win compelled the board to agree on the principles of a new voting requirement this weekend whereby a candidate with a simple majority of votes will win. When Barclay won, the process required him to win two-thirds of the board’s votes – or 11 of the board’s 16 directors.In the first round, he won 10 votes which, though comfortably more than Khwaja’s six, meant they would go through another vote. It was in that round, when CSA became his 11th vote, that he won.

Investment in league planned for 2022 adds to Knight Riders’ interest in IPL and CPL

Shamya Dasgupta and Peter Della Penna30-Nov-2020The Knight Riders Group will play “a very broad role” in the USA-based Major League Cricket (MLC), the latest attempt to launch a franchise-led T20 tournament that is expected to kick off in 2022. That brings to three the number of leagues in which the Knight Riders Group have a team, after the IPL and CPL, and they will hold a “significant” stake in the tournament.The investment in the MLC by the Knight Riders group, which is owned by Bollywood actors Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla along with her husband Jay Mehta, will be strategic and see them playing the role of “consultant” to help USA Cricket run the six-team T20 league.The league will be unlike a number of others at least in one way: the six (to start with) franchises will own a part of it. “In the IPL or the CPL, you own a franchise, and that’s all you own and operate”, whereas in the case of the MLC, “you have a stake in the league”, Venky Mysore, CEO and managing director of the Knight Riders, said.ALSO READ: USA Cricket targets ICC Full Membership by 2030The Knight Riders Group, which owns Kolkata Knight Riders and the Trinbago Knight Riders, was invited by American Cricket Enterprises (ACE), USA Cricket’s partner in developing a professional T20 league in America. The result is what both ACE and Mysore have called “a long-term investment in American cricket”.”When they invited us, we said we want to take a deep dive into this, and not just have a short-term outlook,” Mysore told ESPNcricinfo. “So they see us as a consultant in many ways, apart from being a big part of the league. They want us to play a very broad role, to help and assist them with all aspects of cricket in the US.”USA Cricket are looking at a bigger national cricket set-up, academies, develop talent, and all that is complementary to what the T20 league will do as well. In addition, we will be working hard to build infrastructure there, six world-class stadiums in the next few years.”It will be like a public-private partnership where you have conversations with the city council and they are used to doing it with other sports when it comes to, say, giving you land, or long-term financing arrangements.”Eventually their ambition is to host international competitions, including, potentially, the World Cup. So this could be on the agenda. USA has a strong sports culture. It’s also the No. 1 media market. Cricket is the second-most-watched sport in the world, so you combine it all, it’s got all the ingredients of a very successful product.”Only last week, Greg Barclay, the new ICC chairman, indicated that the USA would likely be one of the places cricket will target in its push for further growth. He had also hinted at the possibility of wresting global events away from India, England and Australia, and that the USA would be “the logical place to start”.If and when it is launched, having been postponed by a year already due to the Covid-19 outbreak, MLC will be the second professional T20 league in America. It is already the latest in a string of attempted professional T20 league ventures in America since the start of the millennium.ProCricket was launched with much fanfare in 2005 and was headlined by numerous former internationals including Mervyn Dillon, Robin Singh and Colin Miller, but it folded operations after just one season. A planned venture by independent New York businessman Jay Mir called American Premier League was targeted for 2008 but never launched.The USA Cricket Association then signed an agreement in 2010 with New Zealand Cricket, Neil Maxwell’s Insite and Podar Enterprises to start a franchise league by the year 2012 but various administrative issues resulted in another failed launch. USACA later signed a $70 million agreement in 2016 with former St Lucia Zouks owner Jay Pandya, once again aimed at launching a T20 league. However, USACA was under ICC suspension at the time, throwing the validity of the Pandya agreement into doubt and plans fizzled out a year later when USACA was formally expelled by the ICC.Pandya’s “American Cricket Premier League” subsequently filed a lawsuit in May 2019 attempting to block American Cricket Enterprises from pursuing a T20 league in partnership with USA Cricket, but the suit was withdrawn a year later.Kieron Pollard with the CPL 2020 trophy after leading Trinbago Knight Riders to 12 wins in 12 matches•Getty Images

“What you are looking at here, is that everyone is aligned,” Mysore said. “You have a stake in the league, and the decisions that are made have a bearing on you and the league. You are also looking out for the health of the tournament. Here, we will be party to the decision-making, which is important.”Normally, the finances flow into the entity that owns the league, whereas here, the stakeholders get a large chunk of it. To that extent, you gain or lose based on the kind of decisions that are made.”From the point of view of the Knight Riders Group, who had also bought a team in the aborted South African T20 Global League – the Cape Town franchise – the aim has been to become a round-the-year entity, something they have made clear for some time now.”Lots of people say we are the only global brand in T20 cricket, and we take a lot of pride in that,” Mysore said. “That was always our vision. The IPL is for two months, and maybe a month leading up to that, but what do you do to keep your brand alive the rest of the year.ALSO READ: Former Dallas baseball ground to become new home of USA cricket“The vision is to build the business at a global level, and own two, three, four, five franchises around the world, and build them on the mother brand of Knight Riders, and use a common template and model about how you operationalise the business, how you do your branding, your sponsorship deals, your merchandising deals, etc.”MLC is expected to be a city-based competition, but while developing six stadia is a big part of the plan, it is likely to start with three venues, according to Mysore: Fort Lauderdale, which has hosted international cricket in the past; a Dallas-based baseball ground that will be repurposed; and one in Morrisville, North Carolina.”They were very encouraged that UAE was able to hold an eight-team event in three cities, and this is a six-team event,” Mysore said. “In five years, they might think about expanding it. That’s the broad thought process.”There is talk of at least some prominent names from Test-playing countries being on the radar of MLC, as and when the time for such a thing comes up, but the player-recruitment process will be the same as elsewhere to start with: a draft or an auction, with players from around the world listed. “Then, over time, when the scouting and grassroots programmes kick in, we are hoping more and more local players get involved,” Mysore said.

CSA also name a mix of experienced and upcoming players for spin camp in India

ESPNcricinfo staff12-Aug-2019Rassie van der Dussen has earned a Cricket South Africa contract for the 2019-20 season, having met the criteria to qualify during South Africa’s World Cup 2019 campaign.In an otherwise lacklustre campaign, van der Dussen was among South Africa’s bright spots, scoring 311 runs at an average of 62.20 and a strike rate of 90.40. He will become the 17th player on a national contract, taking the spot left vacant following Duanne Olivier’s decision to take the Kolpak route.In the women’s team, wicketkeeper Sinalo Jafta is one point away from qualifying for a full 12-month contract. She could earn that point if she is selected for the women’s upcoming tour of India in September and plays in at least one match.”Rassie’s promotion is thoroughly justified on the back of a brilliant debut season at international level and has also served as an inspiration to all aspiring cricketers at domestic level of what can be achieved by showing top-class form on a consistent basis,” CSA chief Thabang Moroe said.Spin camp in India
South Africa will also be sending several players, including those who have played for the national team and those who are viewed as potential candidates, to a spin camp that will take place in Bengaluru from August 17 to 23. Both South Africa A and the national team will be touring India in the final quarter of the year. But Moroe indicated that the move to familiarise themselves with subcontinent conditions was also keeping in mind the long term, with the 2023 World Cup scheduled in India.The group of players includes Aiden Markram, Temba Bavuma and Dane Piedt, who will be accompanied by a number of coaches and technical staff. Former national coach and current South Africa A coach Russell Domingo will head the support staff, and he’ll have former players Ashwell Prince and Paul Adams as batting and spin consultants with him.”We have identified Aiden Markram, Zubayr Hamza and Temba Bavuma as key Proteas batsmen to benefit from this project and we have also included some of our potential stars of the future such as Janneman Malan and Sinethemba Qeshile, who have already both played for the Proteas, as well as Matthew Breetzke,” Moroe said.”The batting group is completed by two of our most consistent runs scorers in franchise cricket in Pieter Malan and Edward Moore. The bowling group is headed by the experience of Dane Piedt and includes highly promising talents, among them being Bjorn Fortuin, Tsepo Ndwandwa and Senuran Muthusamy.”It is a fact that most international cricket is played on the subcontinent these days and we have to look ahead not only to the tours on the immediate horizon but the next edition of the World Cup in India in 2023.”Batsmen for spin camp: Aiden Markram, Janneman Malan, Zubayr Hamza, Matthew Breetzke, Sinethemba Qeshile, Edward Moore, Temba Bavuma, Pieter Malan.Bowlers for spin camp: Dane Piedt, Bjorn Fortuin, Tsepo Ndwandwa, Senuran Muthusamy, Thomas Kaber, Dyllan Mathews, George Linde.Support staff for spin camp: Russell Domingo (South Africa A coach), Ashwell Prince (batting consultant), Paul Adams (spin consultant), Sidwe Hadebe (physio), Vincent Barnes (high performance manager).