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Chippenham: Wiltshire v Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire 214-7 (DC Atkins 103) bt Wiltshire 138 all out by 76 runsManor Park: Norfolk v Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire 216 all out (EJ Wilson 54) bt Norfolk 110-3 on faster run rateThatcham: Berkshire v Hertfordshire
Berkshire 132 all out lost to Hertfordshire 133-4 (SG Cordingley 50*)by six wicketsWroxeter: Shropshire v Cumberland
Cumberland 179-7 (GD Lloyd*) lost to Shropshire 182-4 (MJ Marvell74) by 6 wicketsCopdock: Suffolk v Bedfordshire
Suffolk 216 all out (AD Mawson 72, PJ Caley 57) bt Bedfordshire 165 all out(AD Patterson 73) by 51 runsPorthill: Staffordshire v Herefordshire
Staffordshire won 4-3 on a bowl outChallow and Childrey: Oxfordshire v Dorset
Dorset won 5-3 on a bowl out

Indian Railways ground home their advantage on the second day of their semi-final clash with New Zealand ‘A’ in the MRF Buchi Babu Tournament at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. After dismissing New Zealand ‘A’ for a low 129 and notching up 114/4 at the end of the first day, Indian Railways went on to make 279. The first innings lead was a handy 150 runs. In their second essay, New Zealand ‘A’ are 216/6 off 42 overs. With one day to play, New Zealand ‘A’ are effectively up by 66 runs with 4 second innings wickets to come.For Indian Railways, Yere Goud was the hero, striking 125 (397 mins, 289 balls, 16 fours, 1 six). This is Goud’s second ton in the tournament and a timely one indeed. Remaining unbeaten, Goud batted in the company of several partners, with P Rawat (38) contributing the most.In the New Zealand ‘A’ second innings, it was a familiar story once more as Mark Richardson held fort with an attacking 71 (93 balls, 8 fours). Chris Nevin (6) promoted in the batting order, failed to impress. While skipper Matthew Bell got a start he did not spend a significant amount of time at the wicket and was dismissed for 38. Lou Vincent continued a run of good form and remained unbeaten on 57 off just 50 balls when play was called off for the day. Striking 8 boundaries in his innings thus far, Vincent has shown that a positive approach is crucial for taking on the spinners in the subcontinent.The match remains interestingly poised, and the first session of the final day could be crucial.

ScorecardJimmy Adams drives during his half-century•Getty Images

There is nothing like county cricket to remind you that, whatever else is going off out there, the big bad world will keep on spinning. As a new working week began with Britain convulsed by the news that a left-wing political party had elected a left-wing politician as leader, the pitch of public discourse seemed ever more shrill. Was the proletariat about to storm Buckingham Palace? Were the workers uniting to overthrow the establishment? By all available evidence at the Ageas Bowl, where Hampshire were entertaining Yorkshire in Division One of the County Championship, the answer was no.It might be a stretch to call it entertaining, actually. But, as Jeremy Corbyn could probably attest, excitement is often over-rated. Even the weather seemed flummoxed by the prevailing state of normalcy. The sun shone from the skies even as it tried to rain and, after play had been called off for the day, there was a brief appearance from a rainbow.None of which tells you much about Hampshire’s attempts to avoid relegation but, since their fate remains about as clear as the blotchy skies that hampered play around the country, that is fitting. This was an honest-to-goodness hard-working day of solid Championship battling, unfashionable down to its bootstraps and not much to write home about but nevertheless worthy of its place in the cosmos. It was also being shown on Sky Sports. Those worried about the revolution being televised only had to change the channel for proof to the contrary.”You can put lipstick on a pig,” goes a saying beloved of US politicians, “but it is still a pig.” Despite the presence of Sky’s cameras, it was hard to dress up a contest featuring one team scrapping at the foot of the table and another who secured their season’s fulfilment last week. Yorkshire can still claim records for points and wins since the advent of two-division cricket but, as the eventual defeat at Lord’s perhaps suggested, their fire appears to have been doused after retaining the Championship for the first time since the 1960s.Hampshire were, understandably, more concerned about not making a pig’s ear of things after being inserted on a wet September morning. They largely succeeded, amid the showers, compiling 219 runs for the loss of four wickets in 78 frill-free overs – well, aside from some late embroidery by Sean Ervine, who punched five boundaries in 26 off 25 balls before a final deluge brought an early close. The forecast suggests this match might end up in a watery grave but Hampshire will be striving to ensure they are not interred with it.There was some logic to their approach, given that the two clubs above them, Sussex and Somerset, are currently duking it out. Hampshire began this round 11 points behind and knowing that there is no likely scenario where both will be out of sight. If there is a result at Hove, a draw against Yorkshire would see them creep closer to the loser; a stalemate would not change the overall picture by much, leaving Hampshire to try and target a win over Nottinghamshire in their final match and hope that either Sussex or Somerset slip up.Such calculations rely on Hampshire not losing here and there would have been trepidation as well as precipitation in the air after Andrew Gale won the toss. In the event, Hampshire’s suitably on-trend lefty opening pair of Jimmy Adams and Michael Carberry saw off the new ball with grit, application and a little luck, before a solid fourth-wicket partnership between Will Smith and Liam Dawson took them towards higher ground.This match is the last for which Hampshire’s retiring groundsman, Nigel Gray, will prepare a pitch but although a greenish tinge caught Gale’s eye, the surface played true. Adams passed 50 for the second innings running – having not done so for the previous 18, a run of form that prompted him to hand the captaincy to James Vince – and drove pleasantly through the covers before being tempted by one that Steve Patterson pushed across him invitingly. As the edge landed in Andy Hodd’s gloves, Adams may have been guilty of some unparliamentary language.Yorkshire were true to their attacking selves, stacking four men in the slips at times, but the ball swung only intermittently – most often out of the hand of Matthew Fisher, the 17-year-old whose reward for missing school this week was 16 overs of toil at a thrifty cost of 24 runs. Even the anarchic Jack Brooks, Yorkshire’s “Headband Warrior”, struggled to run amok, although his frown at Peter Hartley’s decision to turn down an appeal for caught behind of Liam Dawson – an edge confirmed by the slenderest of spikes on the Snickometer – told of a desire to reject authority.The Yorkshire players wore black armbands in memory of Brian Close, who doubtless would have attempted to ruffle the opposition by positioning himself to glower at the batsman, in their soft southern helmets, from short leg. But Hampshire just got on with the dirty, everyday business of trying to survive. And Close would certainly have appreciated that.

Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc has questioned why the ICC doesn’t pay for the DRS technology in international cricket and believes they should use one provider across all matches to avoid the inconsistencies in decision-making that have been evident in the Ashes series.Both Australia and England have expressed frustration at several decisions across the series involving Real Time Snicko (RTS) with tensions boiling over during the Adelaide Test.England had a review reinstated by match referee Jeff Crowe on the second morning after BBG Sports, the suppliers of Snicko, conceded operator error had led to an incorrect reprieve for Alex Carey during his opening-day century.Related

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Another incident occurred on day two that led to Starc being overheard on the stump mic saying “Snicko needs to be sacked” .The ECB and CA plan to lobby the ICC to review its protocols and systems as a result of the error with the issue of the host broadcasters having to pay for the technology set to be a key a discussion point. Starc believes the process needs to be centralised.”I’m sure it’s frustrating for everyone, viewers, officials, broadcasters no doubt,” Starc said. “One thing I will say … I’m only going to speak for myself here, the officials use it, right? So why doesn’t the ICC pay for it? And why is it not just one [provider] across the board? Why don’t we use the same technology in all different series that’s going to perhaps create less confusion, less frustration? So that’s where I’ll leave that.”The ICC has two approved “sound-based edge detection technology” suppliers: RTS, which is used in Australia, and UltraEdge, which is used in the rest of the world. Ricky Ponting, the former Australia captain, said during the third Test that umpires “can’t trust” RTS and suggested that UltraEdge is superior.Australia captain Pat Cummins was diplomatic, but did note RTS seemed to be different to UltraEdge.”The one here seems a little bit different to sometimes what you get overseas,” Cummins said. “There’s always a few murmurs. You’re hoping that it matches up if you’re the bowling team. Sometimes you kind of just making sure that it’s all okay if you’re batting, even though you feel like you haven’t hit it. It sometimes doesn’t feel super consistent, but you just crack on whatever the umpire says.”Although UltraEdge is used in the BBL, there is no provision to change technology providers mid-series, with RTS set to be used for the final two Tests in Melbourne and Sydney.

The County Championship takes more than its fair share of flak. Uncompetitive, poorly supported, irrelevant …. only this week Bob Willis, one of its most vociferous detractors, weighed in with some all-too-familiar gripes.And yet it produced one of the most enthralling finales to a season in memory. It might not be perfect but, when it can generate such prolonged tension as it did today, it still has life and purpose.As the final day of the season began Durham sat at the top of the table courtesy of their three-day victory over Kent. Sussex still had to polish off an obdurate Worcestershire while, at The Oval, Lancashire were chasing a distant target of 489 and a place in history. Most people had written them off.Sussex, heavily disguised as Mushtaq Ahmed, duly did their bit in an hour and a half. The large crowd at Hove celebrated in a restrained way and then turned their attention to the match in London. Hundreds continued to mill around the County Ground like expectant fathers, unwilling to let go of the season until their county’s fate was known. The PA advised them to head off and come back later. Few took any notice and chose to bask and wait with their fellow fans in the late-September sunshine.Inpromptu games of cricket took place on the outfield and some of the Sussex players, too nervous to watch the Lancashire match on TV, joined in as players or umpires. There was a real sense that everyone was in it together.At lunch, Lancashire were 178 for 2 with VVS Laxman and Stuart Law in calm control. Even though Laxman fell soon after completing his hundred, to loud cheers at Hove, the tension grew as the afternoon session went on. Then two roars from the dressing room just before tea told the assembled spectators of the fall of two more wickets.While all this was going on ECB officials, in possession of the Championship trophy and the winners’ cheque for £100,000, were poised in their sponsored car on the M23, midway between the two venues. If they headed for Hove at the fall of those wickets, they were soon doing a U-turn and heading back towards Kennington as news filtered through that Lancashire were refusing to lie down.For the Sussex players it was too much. Mushtaq Ahmed went home, others got changed, some stayed in their kit. Beers were drunk but the tension grew. “It was the most excruciating afternoon,” Chris Adams, Sussex’s captain, admitted. “We were panicking like hell in there.” At The Oval the anxiety in the Lancashire corner was far worse, almost not daring to believe that they could pull off a sensational win.And then Dominic Cork swung and was bowled by Murtaza Hussain. Cork stayed on his knees, head bowed. The Lancashire players slumped, almost unable to believe they had fallen so close to the finishing line. Mark Chilton, their captain, buried his head in his hands and, in tears, admitted that “the lads are just broken”.Back at Hove the wicket was greeted with yells of triumph and a shower of champagne and beer, both inside and outside the pavilion. As the ECB car sped back towards the south coast, the celebrations, delayed for four-and-a-half hours, finally got underway.

The MCC, the owners of Lord’s, have announced plans to spend up to £20 million to refurbish the Mound Stand and install state-of-the-art scoreboards and replay screens.More than £50m has been spent on refurbishing the venue since 1987, including the addition of a new media centre and indoor cricket school. The Grandstand, the Compton and Edrich Stands and the Mound Stand have all been knocked down and rebuilt in that time. The award-winning canopy roof on the Mound Stand was only replaced last winter.The club will finance the redevelopment by issuing debentures which will run from 2007 to 2014. These will cost between £8000 and 12,000.Although the scoreboards are relatively new, they have already been left behind by technological advances, and the new board installed at The Oval is superior in every regard. The MCC hopes to have the replacements, which will cost almost £3 million, in place in time for the 2008 summer, and work on the Mound Stand should be finished by the time Lord’s hosts the Olympic archery competition in 2012.An MCC spokesman admitted that the club was also looking for ways of increasing the ground’s capacity, which is currently around 30,000. While extra seating has been installed in the last decade, the venue used to be able to hold several thousand more seated on the grass. Crowd and safety concerns led to that practice being stopped in the 1980s.

The problems blighting Zimbabwe Cricket just won’t go away. A fortnight after the board’s controversial AGM in Bulawayo, it suffered another setback with the news that Tavengwa Mukuhlani, the Mashonaland Cricket Association chairman, has stepped down from his post and has effectively ceased to be a ZC board member.Mukuhlani was ousted by Mashonaland’s clubs at the end of last year after they claimed he did not represent their growing disenchantment with ZC. He was seen by many as being too closely linked to the board. In June 2004 he was embroiled in a row after hijacking the AGM of the Matabeleland Cricket Association.There are also reports, which are denied by ZC, that Clive Barnes has also stepped down from the board.The rumour mill is now in overdrive, with the ZC board said to be divided into two camps, one headed by Peter Chingoka and Ozias Bvute and the other by Ahmed and Macsood Ebrahim. While there appears to be little doubt that the two have fallen out, just how deep the rift is remains unclear.

Michael Bevan, the man who amassed almost as many runs for New South Wales as Don Bradman and Steve Waugh combined, has turned his back on his home state and will see out his career with Tasmania.Bevan spent the weekend swotting for his coaching certificate after signing a two-year contract with Tasmania as player and assistant coach.At 34, he leaves behind an extraordinary record for the Blues: 37 first-class hundreds, five more than next-best Alan Kippax, and 9309 runs at 63.32. He is also, unsurprisingly, the state’s most prodigious one-day player with 2400 runs at a phenomenal 61.53.But the offer from Tasmania, he said, was too good to refuse. “I am very disappointed to be leaving NSW after such a long association. However … I look forward to being able to hone my coaching skills to the benefit of Tasmania and in preparation for my eventual retirement from cricket.”An almost obsessive student of his own game, with a gift for bringing the best out of himself at the most opportune moments, Bevan has the raw qualities to be an exceptional coach.Another motivation behind his move to Tasmania is money. Bevan lost his lucrative Cricket Australia contract earlier this year and The Sydney Morning Herald has speculated that Tasmania may have offered Bevan around $40,000 more than NSW could cough up.The recruitment of Bevan and the unwanted but exciting Zimbabwean allrounder Andy Blignaut suggests Tasmania have more than adequately compensated for the loss of Shane Watson to Queensland.The portents for NSW, who finished second from bottom last summer, are less encouraging. The departure of Bevan and the Waugh twins means they have lost three of their four greatest run-getters in history in a single off-season. True Blue, Bevan’s NSW record First-class: 105m, 9309r @ 63.32, hs216, 37x100s, 35x50s.One-day: 58m, 2400r @ 61.53, hs135*, 1×100, 21x50s