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The Pub Charity CCA Club Cricket Draw – 11 October 2003MEN’S CRICKET1st Grade Men:R1 – 4 & 11 Oct (2 Day)2nd day of 22nd Grade Men:R1 – 4 & 11 Oct (2 Day)2nd day of 2Please note ground change:St.A v OC (Now at Hag 3)3rd Grade Gold Men:R1 – 4 & 11 Oct (2-day)2nd day of 2Please note ground changes:LPW v Ricc (Now at Ensors 2),Syd v BWU Maroon (Now at Syd 2),ES Gold v BWU Gold (Now at HC 3).3rd Grade Red:R1 – 11 & 18 October (2-day)Christs College v SBHS SBHS 1,STAC v St. Bedes St. Bedes 1,TBHS v Burnside HS TBHS 1,St. Thom v CBHS Straven 1.3rd Grade Black:R1 – 11 & 18 October (2-day)Christs College v SBHS CC 1,STAC v St. Bedes STAC 1,CBHS Blue v Burnside HS Burn HS 1,Ricc HS v CBHS Black Ricc HS 1.4th Grade Men:St. A A v LPW Yabbage Ensors 1,BWU v St. A B Burn 3,ES v Mar Ilam 1,ES Hooters v OC Cavs Elm 2.5th Grade Men:Ricc Gold v OC Gold Ilam 6,Ricc Hogs v BWU Maroon HC 8,BWU Gold v BWU Blue Burn 4,LPW Yaks v St. A Wool 2,BWU SNCC v Syd Muppets Ilam 3.6th Grade Men:Mar Fozzie B’s v LPW Ensors 3,OC SGC v OC Tan Polo 2,Syd Red v Mar Gold Ilam 5,Parklands v Syd Blue Polo 4,BWU v St. A Polo 3.President’s Men:Ricc v ES Gold Clare 1,Mar v LPW Gladiators Wool 1,HSOB Gold v OC HSC,LPW Red v BWU Burn 1,ES Blue v St.A Blue HC 9,Syd v St.A Gold Ilam 4,Sum Misfits v Hospital Ilam 2.WOMEN’S CRICKET1st Grade Women:R1 – 4 & 11 Oct2nd day of 21st Reserve Grade Women:R1 – 4 & 11 Oct2nd day of 22nd Grade Women:OC-Country v LPW Malvern 1,Syd v St.A HC 7,Hare Bye.3rd Grade:BWU v Oc-Country Malvern 2,LPW v Ricc Polo 1,St.A v Syd Syd 4.4th Grade Primary Girls:Coaching for all 4th Grade Primary Girls with the State Canterbury Magicians. Coaching starts at 8.45am at Hospital Corner, meeting at the Helicopter Pad – all new players welcome.

A West Indies-Australia semi-final was all but confirmed at the ICC Under-19 World Cup today after the West Indies beat Sri Lanka by 62 runs in their Super League match at Hagley Park in Christchurch.There is still a mathematical buffer that could deny Australia, although that is reliant on New Zealand thrashing the Australians tomorrow and South Africa similarly thrashing England.Chasing 203 to win, Sri Lanka was bowled out for 140, scoring more than 25% fewer runs than the opposition.In a tournament where spinners have abounded, West Indies coach Gus Logie rotated his four slow men to strangle the Sri Lankan middle-order.The West Indies were ever mindful of the fact that Pakistan could deny them a place if they could take a bonus point from India.Logie had some anxious moments before being informed by CricInfo that his team were through, largely thanks to his spin quartet.West Indies manager Courtenay Daley said, “All the spinners were getting help from the wicket, so we thought we’d try and exploit that.”Strangely it was Sri Lanka, the home of Muttiah Muralitharan, that struggled against spin; while the fast bowling factory – the West Indies, lost wickets to pace.Logie suggests that private ownership of pitches in the West Indies has caused them to be neglected, thus lessening their pace. This has meant fewer players wanting to be fast bowlers, and more spinners on the scene.”Not too quick,” he called to his captain Narsingh Deonarine, who bowled 13 mid-innings overs for 18 runs in tandem with Shane Shillingford.Shillingford took one for 25, Deonarine two for 20, and Lorenzo Ingram one for 23 in their 10-over spells. Alcindo Holder also spun out a Sri Lankan.”The thing is that I don’t think that wickets are laid over enough to get quicker, so it just gets docile after a while,” commented Daley on the demise of the fast bowler in the West Indies.Earlier, the West Indies collapsed, losing their last eight wickets for 48 after being poised at 154/2 in the 37th over. Following the second drinks break three West Indies wickets fell in two overs in a familiar sounding crash.”We are very worried about it,” Daley said. “We are not holding our heads and we are causing pressure to be built against us rather than putting pressure on the fielding side. It is something the coach will be working on.”Left-handed Deonarine, the 18-year-old West Indies captain, kept his team in the game with 65 off 95 balls, and helped set a defendable score of 202 all out. Thirteen balls remained to be bowled when the last wicket went down.The West Indies, only other contributor, man of the match Donovan Pagon, who looked odds on to score the first century of the Super League, was bowled by Sri Lanka captain Dhammika Niroshan, swinging a mighty drive across the line when on 92.At that point a good sign for the West Indies was that when Pagon has failed, against Australia and India in this tournament, his team has lost. In the four West Indian victories the Jamaican right-hander has now hit 378 runs at an average of 126.Sri Lankan coach Brendon Kuruppu was as aware as anyone as to whom the main threat to his team’s place in the tournament was.Pagon was the man who was causing Kuruppu to worry, and with 14 boundaries in 107 balls he was right to be nervous.Daley said: “Pagon played a very splendid innings and hit the ball into spaces well. Deonarine has been out of touch, but he showed that now he’s coming back and getting better and better.”The West Indies bowled Australia out for 200 in their group game a week ago, but were dismissed for 158 in the run chase.”It was close, so we hope that if we can improve on how we batted against them and bowl similarly it will be a good game. Australia has been playing very good cricket,” he concluded.

Border rose from the ashes of a disappointing first knock of 244 to rip out the Easterns top order. The hitherto unbeaten visitors were left reeling on 40 for four after the first day of their Supersport Series encounter on Friday.Off-spinner Geoff Love, introduced to the fray early after Easterns’ slow left-armer Anthony Botha had enjoyed a field day on the Buffalo Park pitch, knocked over both Easterns openers, Brad White and Dylan Jennings, before skipper Pieter Strydom claimed a third wicket for the slow men, that of Allied Mabene, before the close.The 20 overs Easterns had to face turned into a trial of epic proportions and there is plenty of work for Gareth Flusk, unbeaten on 12, and the evergreen Mike Rindel, who has yet to score, to do to right the Easterns ship on Saturday.Despite the absence of fiery paceman Andre Nel, serving a one-matchsuspension, Easterns managed to knock over the Border line-up with relative ease, thanks to Botha’s three for 23 on his 24th birthday and a command performance from Kenny Benjamin, who took six for 73.The Border innings was almost entirely built around a fourth-wicket stand of 134 between Steven Pope and Strydom, which contained an inordinately high proportion of boundaries. Pope blasted 18 fours in his 92, made off 200 balls, and Strydom hit nine fours and a six in his 63, which took only 93 deliveries.However, when both were out in successive overs with the total on 208, the writing was on the wall for the home side. Benjamin removed Ian Mitchell, such a stalwart with the bat in recent matches, before another run had been added and then he and Botha grabbed another two each to end an innings in which the last seven wickets fell for a paltry 36 runs.By close of play, however, Easterns’ proud record this season of winning all four of their matches in firs-class and limited-overs cricket was facing a stern test in what is their first encounter away from Benoni’s Willowmoore Park.

Newcastle United journalist Dominic Scurr has given his reaction to the news that Wolves will now be without both Ruben Neves and Raul Jimenez in their April meeting.

The Lowdown: Ruled out

The Midlands club have revealed that Neves has now been ruled out until May after suffering a medial collateral ligament injury to his knee in the 3-2 loss at home to Leeds United in the Premier League on Friday evening.

Raul Jimenez picked up a red card in that match too, his second of the season, which means that he now faces a two-game ban.

With the North East club set to host Bruno Lage’s team at St. James’ Park on April 8th, it means that the Portuguese manager will now be unable to call on both players for the clash.

The Latest: Scurr reacts

Taking to Twitter, The Shields Gazette journalist Scurr has given his reaction to the update on Neves, claiming that while it is a ‘blow’ for the Molineux faithful to lose him and Jimenez, it is ‘good news’ for Eddie Howe’s side:

“Raul Jimenez and Ruben Neves out for the trip to NUFC next month.

“A blow for Wolves losing two big players, but good news for Eddie Howe’s side.”

The Verdict: Relief

The fact that Neves will not be able to play on top of Jimenez will no doubt come as a huge relief on Tyneside.

The latter grabbed both assists in the reverse fixture earlier this campaign, when the Wanderers won 2-1, while Neves won a team-high two interceptions, and also recorded more touches (86) than anyone else in the game (SofaScore).

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Neves has been one of WWFC’s best players in general this term, and combined with Jimenez’s threat in front of goal, the Magpies will not mind seeing the back of them next month.

In other news, find out what big NUFC injury update Luke Edwards has now revealed here!

	Marlon Samuels: in hot water for his faster ball © Cricinfo

Marlon Samuels has been reported after the umpires during the Durban Test between South Africa and West Indies decided that aspects of his action were suspect.Samuels, a part-time bowler with seven Test wickets at 127.00 to his name, was used more than usual during the match because of an injury to Dwayne Bravo and the absence of Chris Gayle and his offspinners. But on-field umpires Simon Taufel and Aleem Dar, supported third umpire Brian Jerling. Match referee Roshan Mahanama informed both the ICC and the West Indies team management of the report.”Concerns have been raised by the match officials over the legality of Marlon’s bowling action with particular reference to his ‘fast ball’ when viewed with the naked eye,” Mahanama said in a statement. “We are therefore requesting the ICC to commission a biomechanical report into the bowler’s fast-ball action in accordance with the process introduced in 2005.”Samuels will now undergo independent analysis of his action by a member of the ICC’s panel of human movement specialists. That will take place as soon as is practicable. Within 14 days of the independent analysis being carried out, the appointed specialist will supply the ICC with a written report advising the outcome of the biomechanical assessment. This will confirm whether the action used by Samuels in the bowling of his fast ball was legal or illegal.If Samuels is found to have been bowling with an illegal action he will be suspended from bowling that particular delivery in international cricket with immediate effect. He would then have the option of applying to the ICC for a re-assessment of his fast ball at any time in order to return to bowling it. If that was approved he would be allowed to continue but subject to the warning that should he continue to bowl his fast ball he would run the risk of being reported a second time.In the circumstance that a further report resulting in an independent analysis concluded that he bowled with an illegal action, the resultant suspension would be considered to be a second suspension and therefore he would be suspended for a minimum period of one year. Only after the expiry of this one year period would he be entitled to approach the ICC for a re-assessment of his action.In the mean time, at this stage Samuels is free to play and bowl in international cricket, at the discretion of the WICB, until the biomechanical report has been completed.

Friends Provident, the FTSE100 life and pensions company, has been unveiled as the new sponsor of England’s main domestic one-day competition, which is to be known as the Friends Provident Trophy. The deal, worth £2 million over three years, will run from 2007 until the end of the 2009 domestic season.John Perera, the ECB’s commercial director said: “We are delighted that Friends Provident has decided to sponsor the Trophy and extend their influence in cricket. Friends Provident has been a supporter of cricket through their partnership with the Test-match grounds for some time now and I am pleased that they have become a major domestic competition sponsor.”The new sponsors take over from the building society, Cheltenham & Gloucester, who put their name to the trophy for seven seasons from 2000 to 2006. “We are proud to be sponsoring such a prestigious competition,” said Simon Clamp, managing director, Marketing and UK Distribution, at Friends Provident. “This is a great opportunity to build on existing involvement with international cricket and we are looking forward to building a long and mutually beneficial relationship with the ECB.”As a fifty-over competition, it is the only domestic tournament that replicates the international one-day format and its importance is well-recognised by international players.”The Friends Provident Trophy gives us great experience for our one-day international matches,” said Jon Lewis, whose Gloucestershire side have dominated the competition since the start of the decade. “Coming as it does at the beginning of the season is brilliant because it means we get enough 50 overs games in ahead of the home international series.”The competition will be officially launched in April and the Friends Provident Trophy gets underway on Sunday April 22, with both semi-finals due to be held on Wednesday June 20. The final will be held at Lord’s on Saturday August 18.

‘If the crowd starts I get fired up. I expect it’ – Andre Nel © Getty Images

Andre Nel felt hopeless and desperate at lunch after dropping a simple catch from Ricky Ponting, but he was glowing at stumps with 4 for 58 as South Africa grabbed control on the opening day. While Ricky Ponting’s square-leg reprieve on 17 cost exactly 100 runs, the damage was stopped by Nel in a turnaround that dropped seven Australia wickets for 85.”I wanted to end myself at lunchtime but we came back nicely,” Nel said. “It was costly but I found the best way to get back.”Australian crowds have grown an immediate disliking for Nel and have booed him whenever he has thrown the ball at the stumps or stopped to stare or speak at the batsmen. There have been regular opportunities to make noise but instead of distracting Nel the attention as the pantomime villain drives him towards his best performances.”It’s my character that when people abuse me and put me down I like to prove them wrong,” he said. “If the crowd starts I get fired up. I expect it.”Nel was jeered shortly before dismissing Ponting and he was on a hat-trick after delivering a beautiful leg-cutter to Andrew Symonds, who could offer only an edge to Mark Boucher. Herschelle Gibbs then took his second catch as Adam Gilchrist followed Ponting in misjudging the bounce of the slow wicket and Nel wrapped up his haul with the wicket of Shane Warne to complete his part in the massive momentum shift.”We have been bowling as a unit well and the team fought back well,” he said. “Polly [Shaun Pollock] has been telling us that if we put in the work for certain periods things have to go your way,” he said. “Australia like to score quickly so if we put it in good areas and stay patient it will work well.”Despite the swift change in fortune Ponting refused to be concerned and was comfortable with the stumps position of 8 for 239. “It’s not a bad day for us,” he said. “The wicket was difficult and the outfield was not that fast. It was up to our batters to dig in and make sure of a big total but it’s not the end of the world. It’s a pretty good total.”Play was held up for half an hour in the morning because of the state of the pitch, which had been watered last night, and the damp surface worried Ponting, but it did not stop him from selecting Stuart MacGill instead of Nathan Bracken and batting when he won the toss. The bowler-friendly conditions increased the value of his 26th century, which included 13 fours and placed him alongside Garry Sobers on the list of most Test hundreds.”It was a special innings and I’m pretty proud of the way I played today,” he said. “I got a bit of luck but it was difficult. I’d chosen to bat and it was very satisfying staying out there for that long in those conditions and post a hundred in front of a huge crowd.”

Darren Sammy’s 59 helped the Windward Islands squeak home by one wicket© Getty Images

Windward Islands 63 (Kelly 6-31) and 202 for 9 (Sammy 59) beat Trinidad & Tobago 160 and 104 by one wicket
ScorecardThe Windward Islands pulled off an amazing victory over Trinidad & Tobago despite being bowled out for only 63 in their first innings. When the third day started at Arnos Vale the Windwards were 69 for 4, chasing 202 – and they just got there, with the last pair putting on 14 runs to squeak their side home. The Windwards had slipped to 101 for 6 before Darren Sammy, who made a vital 59, put on 56 with his captain Rawl Lewis (32). Sammy eventually fell to Reyad Emrit, caught by Sherwin Ganga who also removed Lewis. But Deighton Butler and Kenroy Peters inched the Windward Islands over the finishing line.Guyana 191 (Deonarine 45) and 77 for 5 (Bernard 3-5) trail Jamaica 410 for 6 dec by 142 runs
ScorecardGuyana are facing a huge defeat at Sabina Park, after slipping to 77 for 5 in their second innings after following on 229 behind Jamaica. Resuming on the third morning at 13 without loss in their first innings, Guyana slipped to 191 all out, with only Narsingh Deonarine (45) staying for long in the top order. Jamaica’s surge was briefly held up by the Nagamootoo brothers, who put on 50 for the eighth wicket – Mahendra made 36 and Vishal 33. But, with Daren Powell and Nikita Miller both taking three wickets, Guyana were soon all out and batting again. This time it was Dave Bernard who did the damage, claiming 3 for 5 in only four overs as Guyana slumped to 77 for 5.
ScorecardLeeward Islands took the upper hand on the second day of their match against Barbados at the Kensington Oval, finishing the day only 19 behind with six wickets in hand. After Adam Sanford took his sixth wicket to polish off Barbados for 292, the Leewards made a solid start. Shane Jeffers (48) and Tonito Willett (43) put on 76 for the first wicket, then Runako Morton, who made 58, shared a century stand with the 35-year-old former Test opener Stuart Williams, who was still there with 87 at the close.

Glenn McGrath is a rated no more than 50/50 to be fit to play in the first Test against Zimbabwe, which starts at Perth on October 9. McGrath underwent surgery on his ankle in August, and only started bowling in the nets on Wednesday.Errol Alcott, Australia’s physiotherapist, said that McGrath would not be rushed back into action. “He now has to increase his workload and not pull up with any soreness,” he explained. “At this stage it’s still touch and go, we still have to go through a few checkpoints first.”McGrath is due to have his ankle re-examined next week, although a final decision on whether he will play at Perth is not likely to be made until the end of the month.

The ability of South Africa’s middle order batsmen to conquer a powerful Australian attack and a wearing pitch will determine the outcome of the First Test between the countries at the Adelaide Oval tomorrow.After opener Matthew Hayden (131) had confirmed the home team’s already strong position with a fifth Test century, this was the predicament facing the Proteas by stumps on the match’s fourth day. At 2/17 in their second innings, they were left still needing another 358 runs for an unlikely victory, or to survive a further 90 overs to avert the prospect of falling to a 1-0 deficit in the series.The tourists faced 12 overs at the end of the day, lost openers Herschelle Gibbs (9) and Gary Kirsten (7) to catches at the wicket in the process, and didn’t look at all comfortable in their attempts to come to grips with a surface offering increasing turn and variability in bounce.Before a crowd of 13721 already on good terms with themselves in the wake of four days of authoritative cricket from the home team, it added to an air of command that has been clinically established by Australia in this Test.All this after Hayden – Test cricket’s most prolific runscorer in 2001 – had dominated in the lead-up to a Australian second innings declaration at 7/309 in late afternoon.The Australians didn’t necessarily make a great start, surrendering the in-form Justin Langer (1) within five minutes of the resumption and going perilously close to losing Ricky Ponting (25) to a vociferous lbw appeal from Shaun Pollock (1/38) from the very next delivery.But Hayden’s rasping strokeplay, in the midst of partnerships of 58 runs with Ponting for the second wicket and 181 with Mark Waugh (74) for the third, swiftly came to define the day.The Queenslander endured a long period in the nineties, devoting more than 20 minutes to the task of advancing from 96 to three figures alone. But the lead-up to a delicate stroke from the line of the hip off Nantie Hayward (0/32) proved about the only phase of his innings in which his naturally aggressive instincts were restrained.Otherwise, the left hander was rarely bothered in defence and was savage in his punishment of anything loose.Even against the backdrop of lower bounce from the pitch, his hand was blessed by lavish timing and a capacity to lift the ball over the leg side field with abandon.Ponting initially enjoyed a tough battle with Hayward. Thereafter, though, he and Waugh were similarly untroubled.It is a holiday back home, and the South African bowlers and fieldsmen seemed attuned to the national mood in an exhibition devoid of the spark of the previous three days.Claude Henderson (3/130) and Lance Klusener (0/27) were each thumped swiftly out of the attack upon producing loose spells after lunch. And Makhaya Ntini only compounded Henderson’s problems when he returned, spilling a catch as Hayden – on 107 – tugged to deep backward square leg.Unhappily for the Proteas, there wasn’t a penetrative look about the remainder of the bowlers either.Pollock bowled well at both ends of the innings, and Jacques Kallis (3/45) was honest in the middle stages. But there wasn’t a sense that sustained pressure was being applied to the Australians.Though they were unluckily deprived of the early lbw of Ponting and – inexplicably – the run out of Damien Martyn (6*) before the first innings century maker had scored, the Proteas even needed umpire Srinivas Venkatraghavan’s assistance to quell the flow of runs.The Indian official’s thigh unluckily felt the full force of a cracking Ponting pull through square leg, and treatment from Australian physiotherapist Errol Alcott was needed amid the stoic continuation of his duties.The Australians’ biggest headache for much of the day, meanwhile, came in choosing exactly the right moment at which to declare. Captain Steve Waugh appeared initially to have erred on the side of conservatism in waiting until 5:13pm, therein delaying the closure until Australia’s overall lead had reached 374 runs and only 102 overs were left in the match.Yet, when Gibbs inside edged to short leg Langer off Glenn McGrath (1/6), and Kirsten uppishly defended the last ball of the day to silly point off Shane Warne (1/8), the wisdom of the decision was emphatically underscored.It remains to be seen if McGrath, Warne and their cohorts can finish the job.