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Surrey allrounder desperate to get in on the action, starting with England’s first Test of the summer against Ireland next week

ESPNcricinfo staff18-Jul-2019England’s Test cricketers will be feeding off the “buzz” of a historic World Cup win as they prepare to try and regain the Ashes, according to Sam Curran. The Surrey allrounder is set to return to international duty in next week’s maiden Test against Ireland and he said the dramatic scenes at Lord’s on Sunday had set England up perfectly for the second half of the summer.Curran missed out on World Cup selection, but did enjoy a productive first season at the IPL earlier this year. After a hamstring injury interrupted his return with Surrey, he has since played three Championship games as well as making an early impact on the touring Australians with England Lions – Curran claimed 6 for 95 in this week’s game at Canterbury, as well as making half-centuries in each innings.Although Curran was left out of England’s most-recent Test XI in St Lucia, he was Man of the Series against India last summer and looks likely to return to face Ireland. The match at Lord’s, starting on Wednesday, will be England’s first four-day Test since the ICC approved the optional reduction in 2017.”It’s obviously really exciting to be in the squad for the first Test of the summer,” Curran said. “It’s the first four-day Test for England and the first against Ireland which makes it a massive event for them and an awesome thing to be part of. It’s a slightly different England side to be in with a few of the big guns rested after the World Cup, but it’s a really exciting group and we are looking forward to linking up this weekend.”I don’t think I’m alone in saying that it’s probably the greatest cricket match ever, and for that to be the World Cup final was incredible. That will provide a buzz for everyone across English cricket going into the Ashes, which is the biggest series an England player can be involved in in Tests, and this match against Ireland. Days like Sunday get everyone, whether they were involved or not, more excited and desperate to do well so I’m sure it will rub off as we head into the Test part of the summer.”I watched the final with the Lions boys in Canterbury and the excitement was amazing. It was an incredible win and the boys have so worked hard. Having spoken to my brother and a few of the others I think they celebrated pretty hard as well.”As well as his success against India, Curran played an important role with the bat in Sri Lanka last winter, helping to set England up for a 3-0 whitewash. Although his bowling was less successful in the Caribbean, he could play a pivotal role in the Ashes – his haul for the Lions, sparking an Australia collapse of 6 for 17, possibly a sign of things to come.Curran is expected to play in the Vitality Blast for Surrey on Friday night before linking up with the Test squad, and said the “body felt good” after his recent injury.”I feel really good going into the Ireland game,” he said. “It’s been quite a frustrating season really, I came back from the IPL, played my first Champo game and got injured, had a couple of weeks out. I’ve come back and felt good, putting in some decent performances with bat and ball. Confidence is really good, it’s just trying to contribute as much as I can. Hopefully I’m in the XI on Wednesday and I can put in a performance.”Performing against India last summer has given me quite a lot of confidence. It’s a new challenge, a new summer. I can’t rely on that, I need to look ahead and find performances that will beat the Australians in the Ashes. The team is pretty exciting, there will be some great cricket played. I’m really excited to see what this summer holds.”The first aim for the World Cup guys was to win that, and they’ve achieved that. But there’s another big test coming up, and the Ashes are the biggest thing you can play in as an England cricketer, that’s what I’ve always felt. Hopefully we can be lifting the Urn at the Oval in September. We have to take one game at a time and try to contribute as much as you can.”

Ireland have named a 14-man squad for the one-off Test against Pakistan that begins next Friday

Danyal Rasool04-May-2018An experienced squad led by long-time captain William Porterfield will face Pakistan at Malahide Cricket Club when the two sides meet next week in what will be Ireland’s first Test match.Cricket Ireland’s 14-man squad includes many stalwarts of the Irish game, including the O’Brien brothers, Andy Balbirnie and Paul Stirling. Left-arm spinner George Dockrell, who has struggled for form and had a disappointing World Cup qualifying campaign in Zimbabwe, was left out.Ireland’s best chance of troubling Pakistan in home conditions lies in the quality and strength of their seam bowling, and unsurprisingly, players with that skill set feature heavily in the squad. Boyd Rankin, Tim Murtagh, Stuart Thompson, Tyrone Kane, and Kevin O’Brien are all handy options in their own conditions. Less than a week ago, Pakistan were bowled out for 168 against second division Kent, their troubles to handle seam bowling particularly evident.Despite this being their first Test match, Ireland probably won’t go into it with eleven debutants. Veteran fast bowler Boyd Rankin has played one Test – for England – over four years ago. That came against Australia in Sydney, the fifth match of a series England lost 5-0.Ireland will become the 11th side to play Test cricket, after the ICC last year approved them, along with Afghanistan as ICC Full Members. They have been a consistently impressive side around the fringes of the top ten for the past decade or so, and Pakistan, of all nations, need no reminding of their potential to cause an upset. In the 2007 World Cup, Ireland stunned Pakistan in the group stage by three wickets, knocking them out of the competition on St Patrick’s Day. They claimed a Full Member scalp in each of the following World Cups, beating England by chasing down 329 in 2011, and trouncing West Indies in the sides’ opening game in 2015.Squad: William Porterfield (capt), Andy Balbirnie, Ed Joyce, Tyrone Kane, Andy McBrine, Tim Murtagh, Kevin O’Brien, Niall O’Brien (wk), Boyd Rankin, Nathan Smith, Paul Stirling, James Shannon, Stuart Thompson, Gary Wilson

Mohammad Azharuddin’s nomination papers for the post of HCA president were rejected on Saturday, thereby disqualifying him from contesting for the post

ESPNcricinfo staff14-Jan-2017Former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin has been disqualified from contesting for the post of HCA president after his nomination papers were rejected by returning officer K Rajiv Reddy on Saturday.Uncertainty over whether Azharuddin’s life ban imposed by the BCCI had been lifted, and whether he was classified as an HCA voter, resulted in his disqualification.”(He had not given) a satisfactory explanation whether the BCCI ban on him in the wake of the match-fixing scandal was not lifted and that he failed to provide adequate proof that he was enrolled as a voter,” Reddy told the .Azharuddin said he wasn’t given a reason for the decision. “Right from the beginning, I think the process looked to me a little bit fraud. I gave them the court order also,” Azharuddin said. “People are misinformed. I think things should be put to rest. Court has given an order which has cleared me of everything.”The returning officer should answer my questions, but he is not present. I will go for a legal case. I think the Lodha Committee rules and orders are not followed at the HCA.”Azharuddin was banned for life after being found guilty of fixing matches in an investigation conducted by the Central Bureau of Investigation. Azharuddin’s initial attempts of challenging the ban were unsuccessful, but in 2012, a division bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court ruled the BCCI ban illegal.Azharuddin, who filed his nomination papers representing the National Cricket Club on Tuesday morning, had said he didn’t “foresee any issue” with the BCCI ban.

Barisal Bulls booked a shot at the BPL final after they edged out Dhaka Dynamites by 18 runs in the Eliminator

The Report by Mohammad Isam12-Dec-2015

Scorecard and ball-by-ball details Al-Amin Hossain picked up 3 for 15•Dhaka Tribune

Barisal Bulls booked a shot at the BPL final after they edged out Dhaka Dynamites by 18 runs in the Eliminator. Barisal’s efficient bowling made up for their lackluster batting in a contest that was not entirely a nail-biter but had its share of thrills for the packed house in Mirpur.Barisal will now face Rangpur Riders, who were overwhelmed by Comilla Victorians in the first qualifier earlier in the day, in the second qualifier on Sunday.Defending just 135, Barisal’s bowlers did well to cut down the boundaries; from the start of the 13th over till the 17th, they did not allow a single boundary to be hit. In a T20 game being played on a soft wicket, perhaps boundaries are hard to find, but still, Barisal’s discipline was still admirable. Dhaka hardly could force the pace for most of the innings.With 59 required from the last five overs, Kevon Cooper gave away just five runs in the 16th over, but the boundary duck of 20 balls was broken in the following over, when Malcolm Waller carved sixes over cover and point off Mohammad Sami, in between a thick edge past the wicketkeeper. Sami’s over went for 20, leaving Dhaka needing 34 off 18 balls.Mosaddek Hossain’s switch-slog off Taijul went for six, but Waller’s conventional slog sweep was caught at the midwicket boundary. Mosaddek too fell off the last ball of the 18th over, his wild swing caught at point comfortably. It meant Dhaka had lost their last two batting hopes in the same over, with another 26 still required. Cooper then removed Yasir Shah to pick up Dhaka’s eighth wicket and gave away just four runs in the penultimate over.The 22 runs in the final over was a bridge too far for Dhaka, as they bowed out through some jumbled thinking in their batting approach.At the start of their chase, Dhaka sent Abul Hasan to open the batting with Farhad Hossain, becoming the ninth opening batsman for them in the competition. Hasan struck two fours but could not really up the ante, falling for 11 off 14 balls in the fourth over. Mohammad Hafeez’s miserable time with the bat continued, this time falling to a catch at midwicket for 1 in the sixth over.Farhad Reza soldiered on for a run-a-ball 20, until he too was dismissed in the eighth over, caught behind chasing a wide one from Al-Amin Hossain. The required run-rate kept rising and Dhaka got a reprieve when wicketkeeper Rony Talukdar dropped a tough chance off Nasir Hossain’s thin edge in the ninth over. But Al-Amin got one to bounce awkwardly at Kumar Sangakkara, who popped a catch back to the bowler, as Barisal celebrated a big wicket near the 10-over mark. Dhaka had lost their captain and best batsman with 84 runs needed from 60 balls.Nasir was Al-Amin’s third scalp, caught by Mahmudullah in the 14th over as the seamer ended his spell by giving away just 15 runs in his four overs.Earlier, it was the Dhaka bowlers Nasir, Mustafizur Rahman, Yasir and Nabil Samad who combined well to keep Barisal to 135 for 5 in 20 overs. Barisal failed to take advantage of a 70-run second-wicket stand between Chris Gayle and Nasir , as the remaining batsmen to struggled to score with the same intensity.Sabbir joined Gayle at the end of the first over after Talukdar was caught at long-on for four. Gayle blasted Mosaddek for two fours and a six in the second over before Sabbir hammered Abul Hasan for two sixes and a four in the sixth over. Thereafter, Sabbir struck three fours in the next three overs while Gayle slowed down. Gayle was eventually undone by a late inswinger from Mustafizur, falling for a 19-ball 31 that had four fours and two sixes.Sabbir fell soon after, caught at long-off for 41 off 39 balls with three fours and three sixes. His wicket allowed the Dhaka bowlers to take control. Mehedi Maruf fell leg-before for 10 in the 16th over before Mahmudullah opened up with three fours in the 18th and final overs. He fell off the innings’ penultimate ball, caught at short midwicket for 37 off 33 balls with four fours. Mahmudullah’s bigger contribution, though, was his calm leadership on the field, as Barisal held on to keep their tournament alive.

Harry Gurney’s hat-trick and runs for James Taylor and Ed Cowan put Notts in a position to press for victory on day four at Hove

Vithushan Ehantharajah at Hove02-Jun-2013
ScorecardHarry Gurney took his maiden hat-trick in first-class cricket•Getty Images

If there is a formula for the perfect pitch, then there’s a good chance that Hove’s head groundsman, Andy Mackay, has found it. Regardless of how this game ends up – and it could well be a draw, with Nottinghamshire taking a lead of 354 into the final day – the surface on which both sides have battled for the first three days has given them the opportunity and incentive to play some high quality, attacking cricket. Perhaps the best part of it is at the Sea End.Harry Gurney was first to reap rewards bowling into it, as he took a maiden first-class hat-trick to bring the Sussex innings to a close, before Chris Jordan bent his pack to produce a blistering spell of short bowling that snared James Taylor, Samit Patel and Steven Mullaney. Chris Nash then got one to shake, rattle and roll out of the foot marks.But Ed Cowan and Taylor’s 151 partnership for the third wicket, and an unbeaten run-a-ball 56 from Paul Franks – which included two lavish extra-cover drives off Magoffin coming in from the Cromwell Road End – showed that runs can still be scored.Sussex’s early progress towards Nottinghamshire’s total was nipped in the bud, first by the ungainly run out of Jordan, and then by Gurney, who hacked off the tail in three blows. He tempted Ben Brown into a flamboyant waft with a short and wide delivery, before bringing his length forward, tightening his line and getting enough away movement to find the outside edge of James Anyon and then Monty Panesar.It was the first hat-trick for a Nottinghamshire bowler since Charlie Shreck performed the feat against Middlesex in 2006 and gave Gurney four wickets in the match, and saw them take a lead of 50 into their second innings.But when Alex Hales departed for a golden duck to Magoffin, who then tied down Michael Lumb before getting him to push at one that slid across him – the catch taken by a diving Brown – Sussex sensed there was an opening for them to exploit.The way the game had been progressing, it looked like only a major gaffe could separate the two sides. But Ed Cowan and James Taylor made sure this was not it, as they guided their side into lunch without any further damage.In the afternoon session they began extending the lead with the sort of calculated determination you would associate with both these players. Both Taylor and Cowan can be filed under “gritty”, but it’s their intelligence that turns that grittiness into runs and, together, they blunted the Sussex attack. Once their partnership had moved into three figures they manoeuvred the field well and tested the resolve of the fielders, who had to constantly readjust after each single, as the pair exploited their left-right combination.Taylor was quick to pounce on even the smallest shortening of length from Jordan – shifting his weight onto the back foot and whipping his hands through the shot. It would end up bringing about his demise after tea, on 97 – the second time he has fallen on this score this season – as Jordan produced a delivery with a bit of extra zip. But he could be forgiven for going for the stroke given the number he had played successfully in that general direction, one of which included a maximum off the same bowler.Cowan, still searching for his first Championship hundred of the campaign, came as close as he has done so far, reaching 81 before under-edging Nash’s gentle offspin onto his stumps. He cut a forlorn figure as he traipsed off but he has played a vital role in setting up this game for his side. One mistimed hook aside – even that went for six – his shots carried little to no risk and, when it looked like he was perhaps being too respectful, he made James Anyon’s ninth over his own with a trio of cracking fours.Franks’ end of day theatrics has put the game in Nottinghamshire’s hands, but with just one wicket remaining and the forecast set to allow a full day’s play, it would be foolish to rule out a home win. All thanks to you, Mr Mackay.

Four days after Ajmal Shahzad’s shock departure, Yorkshire have something to cheer about. They are celebrating a first win of 2012, completing an innings and 22-run success against Leicestershire in the final session

Graham Hardcastle05-May-2012
ScorecardThere were stages during the final day at Scarborough when Yorkshire looked like suffering a nightmare week as Leicestershire’s opener Matthew Boyce scored a career-best 122 in a valiant bid to snatch unlikely. But, four days after Ajmal Shahzad’s shock departure, Yorkshire have something to cheer about.They are celebrating a first win of 2012, completing an innings and 22-run success in the latter stages of the penultimate session. Steve Patterson returned an innings haul of 5 for 77 and career best match figures of 8 for 94 as Yorkshire won for only the fourth time in 22 four-day matches.Shahzad was accused of failing to conform to the team ethos by chairman Colin Graves at Thursday’s press conference, a fast bowler who did not see his role in the side as the man to build pressure by racking up the maidens and “owning the zone” as his former captain, Andrew Gale, likes to say. In other words, he lacks patience and wants to make things happen.Patience was just the virtue Yorkshire required here after some ferocious weather on day three – rain, bad light and even sleet all halted play on Friday – had put their celebrations on hold.”We saw there was a massive issue earlier in the week, which we dealt with – we move on now,” said Yorkshire’s first-team coach Jason Gillespie, who oversaw his first win in charge of the county. “There’s massive unity here, and the result speaks for itself. There is a real strength of belief in that dressing room tonight.”There was a feeling of inevitability about a Yorkshire win this morning, which Boyce eroded minute by minute, run by run. He shared century stands for the fourth and sixth wickets with Josh Cobb and Wayne White, who scored 69 and 67 respectively. As Cobb and White counter-attacked with some eye-catching stroke play, the latter lofting Joe Root over long-on for six just after lunch, Boyce was in accumulative mood and happy to underpin the innings.Boyce, a left-handed opener with an open stance, was at his strongest driving square of the wicket in posting his fourth first-class century and his first since last May. When he reached three figures off 250 balls – the slowest century in English first-class cricket this summer in terms of balls faced – Leicestershire were 252 for 5 in the 86th over, trailing by 79 runs with 50 overs left in the day. They had a glimmer of hope.Anthony McGrath, however, got rid of White caught and bowled before Ryan Sidebottom struck twice with successive deliveries in the 94th over when he trapped Robbie Joseph lbw and yorked Boyce, leaving the score at 284 for 7. Adil Rashid and Patterson polished off the tail inside another ten overs.”It was a real challenge for us today because a couple of their lads got stuck in,” said Gillespie. “I thought Boyce was excellent. He played a really good innings as well as Cobb and Wayne White chipping in. But the most pleasing thing was that the lads stuck to their game plan. We were patient and kept building the pressure. We knew that if we stayed diligent then the chances would arrive.”Just as Yorkshire were wrapping up the win, their new overseas fast bowler Mitchell Starc was due to land in the UK ahead of his initial five-week spell as their overseas player. The 22 year-old Australia left-arm quick will make his debut against Gloucestershire at Bristol next week, where he could link up with Tim Bresnan, who bowled only 27 overs in the match as he eased himself carefully back into the season.”I’ve spoken to Andy Flower and Geoff Miller, and there’s a chance we might have Tim playing just to get some more bowling,” confirmed Gillespie.

Cape Town will host two Test matches in the South African summer, CSA announced on Friday

Firdose Moonda06-May-2011Cape Town will host two Test matches in the South African summer, CSA announced on Friday. The 2011-12 season sees South Africa play host to Australia and Sri Lanka.
Australia will play only two Tests, one in Cape Town and one in Johannesburg, instead of the usual three, two Twenty20 internationals and three ODIs in a shortened tour in October and November.Sri Lanka, who have not visited South Africa since 2002, will play three Tests and five ODIs over December and January with the Christmas and New Year’s Tests remaining at their traditional homes of Durban and Cape Town.”Unfortunately time constraints prevent us from playing more than two Tests against Australia this time around,” CSA chief executive Gerald Majola said. “The aim is to play a four-match Test series when Australia next tour in February and March of 2014. This will make up for the extra Test not being played on this year’s tour.”Despite the culling of a Test from the series, Majola said that “Test cricket remains in our view the ultimate pinnacle of the game.” South Africa were thought to have reduced the number of Tests because of their domestic teams’ participation in the Champions League T20, but on Wednesday, Tony Irish, chief executive of the South African Cricketers’ Association confirmed to ESPNcricinfo that the CLT20 was “not a point of discussion” when the fixtures were confirmed.The ODIs against Sri Lanka will be spread over the country’s smaller venues with Paarl, East London, Bloemfontein and Kimberley all hosting a match. The series will culminate in Johannesburg on January 22, before South Africa head to New Zealand.South Africa were toying with the idea of hosting West Indies for an ODI series in late January but the fixtures were not compulsory according to the current Future Tours Programme that runs to completion in April 2012. That series looks unlikely given the schedule.

Since their first-round exit in last year’s World Twenty20, Australia have undergone a significant rebuild

Peter English01-May-2010

Overview

Dependable and destructive: Cameron White•Getty Images

Since their first-round exit in last year’s World Twenty20, Australia have undergone a significant rebuild and installed Michael Clarke as their full-time leader. The changes have led to hope of a strong performance but, unlike in the Test and one-day arenas, they don’t really know what to expect in the Caribbean.Cameron White, Dirk Nannes, David Hussey, David Warner and Shaun Tait are some of the limited-overs experts who are now highly rated in the squad while Steven Smith and Daniel Christian provide some youth. Clarke, Michael Hussey, Mitchell Johnson and Brad Haddin bring the experience of productive careers in all three genres.Australia have appeared in 29 T20 internationals, including 15 wins and 12 losses, and should enter the event on a high after being unbeaten at home and in New Zealand during 2009-10. However, they were set back by a tight loss to Zimbabwe in their opening warm-up, which was a familiar result.They were upset by the same team in the inaugural World Twenty20 in 2007 and their problems with slow starts continued at the 2009 tournament when they were beaten by West Indies and Sri Lanka. “It will be critical for us that we hit the ground running,” the coach Tim Nielsen said. Already they need to turn things around for the first match against Pakistan on Sunday.

Twenty20 pedigree

Twenty20 is Australia’s worst format and the greatest concern is they don’t really know how to be the best. Most of the players are still learning how to master the tactics, although the selectors have finally relied on an impressive batch of specialists with considerable IPL and Big Bash experience. The national side has appeared in a lot of Twenty20s – nine more than India and 15 more than Bangladesh – but most of their main men don’t get a go in the domestic tournaments due to international commitments.

Strengths and weaknesses

Depending on the day, the fast-bowling attack can be the most frightening weapon or the place to attack. If Tait, Johnson and Nannes are on song life will be almost impossible for the batsmen. If they are loose they will be expensive on the smaller Caribbean grounds. Things might have been worse for the opposition if Brett Lee hadn’t been ruled out on the eve of the tournament with a forearm injury.

Key men

Shaun Tait helped win Australia a World Cup the last time he was in the Caribbean, taking 23 wickets at 20.30. Over the past two years his body and mind have restricted him to limited-overs affairs, where he can bowl a handful of overs at full pace. He has already clocked 160kph this year and is a severe threat whenever operating near his peak. David Warner has become a brutal Twenty20 specialist and has an essential role at the top of the order. While Shane Watson can show his muscle, Warner is the man capable of racing along at two runs a ball without feeling like he’s out of control. In 13 matches with Australia he has a strike-rate of 155.32 and if he fires Australia’s chances improve significantly.

X-factor

It still feels a bit strange saying it, but in this set-up Cameron White is a senior figure. Over the past year he has turned from a fringe limited-overs figure into a vice-captain who is dependable and destructive. With the bat he can add steel or power and when he hits cleanly no ground is big enough. In his previous T20 international he crunched 64 off 26 balls in a barely believable display.

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The South Group leaders overcame a nervy finish to make it seven wins from 10

ECB Reporters Network07-Jul-2024 Surrey 103 for 5 (Evans 25, Stewart 2-24) beat Kent 81 for 3 (Khushi 35, Topley 2-27) by 5 runs DLSSouth Group leaders Surrey held their nerve in a tense finish to beat Kent Spitfires by five runs in a rain-shortened Vitality Blast contest at the Kia Oval.Surrey, put in and with an unfamiliar batting line-up, did well to reach 103 for 5 from 10 overs after play finally got underway two hours and 25 minutes late.And then more rain, arriving just as Kent were about to start their reply, left them needing 87 from eight overs under the Duckworth/Lewis calculations.Despite late hitting from Feroze Khushi, who made 35, and Sam Billings, who swept Reece Topley for six in a seventh over costing 20 and in which Khushi also bludgeoned a six over long on, Kent could only finish on 81 for 3.It was Surrey’s seventh win from ten games, but Kent have now lost seven of their first ten group games and look to be dropping out of contention for a top-four finish and a quarter-final place.There were several decisive moments in a fast and furious affair, the first a brilliant fourth over from leg-spinner Cameron Steel in which he conceded only four runs and also bowled the dangerous Tawanda Muyeye for 22.Muyeye hit Dan Worrall for a slashed four and a superb lofted six to long on in the second over, but Jordan Clark allowed only six runs from the third over, and then Steel’s fine over left Kent on 29 for two with half their innings gone.Khushi smashed Chris Jordan over long on for six and Billings hit the Surrey captain, returning alongside Topley from England’s T20 World Cup campaign, for four over mid off to keep Kent in the hunt.But Khushi’s dismissal from the final ball of the penultimate over, well held by Steel diving forward at long on, felt like a big momentum swing back to Surrey as it left Kent needing 17 from the last over.Jordan began with a no ball, from which a leg bye was scampered, but new batsman Tom Rogers could only dig out a yorker from the free hit opportunity and, although he cut Jordan away for four from the next ball, he and Billings (14 not out) could not find the boundary again as Jordan’s accuracy under pressure closed out the game.The other decisive moment in the match came right at the end of the Surrey innings when they were 94 for five with just one ball remaining to be bowled.Up to then, and despite two offside wides, Grant Stewart looked to be succeeding in keeping Surrey’s total below 100, but he then sent down a waist-high no ball full toss which Ben Geddes swung away high for six behind square.That brought an extra ball, from which a bye was scampered and, in all, 19 runs came from the over, which had started with Clark crunching an extra cover four before being caught at long off for seven.There were five other sixes in Surrey’s effort, the first two pulled by Laurie Evans off paceman Nathan Gilchrist and off spinner Marcus O’Riordan. Evans, coming in after Ryan Patel had departed in the first over, skying Stewart to keeper Billings after one lovely off-driven four, made a punchy 25 before he hit O’Riordan to long off.Dom Sibley muscled Matt Parkinson’s leg spin for six over long on in his 20, which ended to a catch at deep mid wicket off Joey Evison, while Jordan pulled the medium pacer for six and Rory Burns produced a remarkable swept maximum off Gilchrist.Jordan mishit Gilchrist high to mid off to go for 14 and Burns finished 11 not out as he and Geddes, who was unbeaten on seven, saw Surrey to a total that proved – just – to be defendable.Kent saw Daniel Bell-Drummond fall for a duck to the second ball of their reply, hitting Topley high to deep square leg where 19-year-old debutant Ollie Sykes held the catch.

Akash has played nine T20s so far, picking up seven wickets at an economy rate of 7.87

ESPNcricinfo staff30-Mar-2023Chennai Super Kings left-arm seamer Mukesh Choudhary has been sidelined from the entire IPL 2023 with a stress fracture of the back. Nagaland left-arm seamer Akash Singh, who has played for Rajasthan Royals in the past, has been signed as a like-for-like replacement.Choudhary’s injury is the latest blow to the Super Kings attack that is already without New Zealand fast bowler Kyle Jamieson, who has also been ruled out of the entire season with a back injury. Super Kings will also be without the Sri Lankan pair of Maheesh Theekshana and Matheesha Pathirana, who will link up with the franchise only after the end of Sri Lanka’s six-match white-ball series in New Zealand on April 8.Choudhary was one of the finds of the last IPL season, emerging as the team’s joint-highest wicket-taker, with 16 strikes in 13 games at an economy rate of 9.31. Eleven of those wickets came in the powerplay, the joint-most by any bowler during this phase in the tournament.Related

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Akash, who was unsold at the auction, will join Super Kings at his base price of INR 20 lakh. In all, he has played nine T20s so far, picking up seven wickets at an economy rate of 7.87. He made his T20 debut for Rajasthan in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in 2019 before helping India Under-19s to a runners-up finish in the 2020 World Cup in South Africa. He had moved from Rajasthan to Nagaland ahead of the 2022-23 domestic season.