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It’s all over bar the shouting for Burridge, who are all but mathematically relegated from the ECB Southern Electric Premier League top flight after a seven-wicket defeat by Liphook & Ripsley at Ripsley Park.With Calmore beating Bournemouth, Burridge lie firmly anchored to the Premier Division 1 basement with almost no hope of survival.They relied heavily on Dave Jackson’s gallant 77 after slipping to 40-3.Moeen Cheema (20) and Oxford University bound Ed Brogan (23 not out) tried their best later, but a three-wicket spell by Nick Gay (3-24), aided by two-wicket stints by Alan Crawford and Alistair Gray, left Burridge 177 all out.South African Alistair Gray led Liphook to Premier safety with an undefeated 108.The outcome was a major disappointment for teenager Brogan, who had been celebrating an autumn placement at Oxford after achieving top marks in his A-level examinations at King Edward VI.Calmore Sports assured themselves of retaining Premier 1 status by beating Bournemouth by 21 runs at Loperwood Park.Burridge are almost certain to be relegated after a seven-wicket defeat at Liphook & Ripsley.Although Dan Jackson took 5-52, it was Calmore’s top order that dominated proceedings, with Greg Lewis (93) getting useful back-up from Jez Goode (38) and James Hibberd (35) as the Totton club posted 217-8.Any chance Bournemouth had of winning effectively disappeared when none of the top order made an impact.Half the Bournemouth side was back in the pavilion at 92-5, after which Julian Cassell (40), Andy Bell (46 not out) and Kristian Wilson (28) took the final total to 196-7.Andover, meanwhile, stayed ahead in the 50-over pennant with a 25-run victory over Portsmouth at London Road.Ian Gardner (28), Roger Miller (27) and Ian Langdown (20) eased Andover’s early problems, but a total of 151 was always too many for Portsmouth.The visitors remained a threat through Lee Savident (35) and Michael Barnes (26), but once the pair were parted, Richard Taylor, Matt Hopper and Gareth Tate broke through to leave the visitors 126 all out.

A splendid all-round performance by Pakistan Customs’ Nisar Abbas thwarted ADBP’s aspirations of reaching the semifinals of the one-day cricket championship at Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad Saturday.Nisar scored 86 off 101 balls as Customs ran up an impressive total of 294 for seven in 50 overs. Then with his slow left-armers, Nisar captured six for 42 in nine overs to restrict ADBP to 245 all out.ADBP ended with four points as did Wapda and Customs but finished third in the final round standings of Group-II on net run-rate.Customs captain Aamir Bashir hammered 102 off 110 deliveries after losing the toss. His knock was laced with six fours and one. The fourth-wicket partnership between Aamir and Nisar, who hit eight fours and one six, produced 111 runs. Asim Kamal remained on 44 not out off as many balls with three hits to the fence.Openers Inam-ul-Haq (80 off 99 balls, six fours) and Imran Abbas (52 off 60 balls, seven fours) gave ADBP a perfect start by putting on 108 in 20 overs. But the remaining batsmen found the runs hard to come by, especially against Nisar, who was the obvious choice as the Man-of-the-Match.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Thursday announced a predictable 14-member squad for the Super Challenge series in Australia next month.With Abdul Razzaq and Saqlain Mushtaq unavailable because of county commitments with Middlesex and Surrey respectively in England, the selectors wisely decided to stick with an experienced team for the three One-day Internationals against world champions Australia.The squad is: Waqar Younis (captain), Inzamam-ul-Haq (vice-captain), Saeed Anwar, Imran Nazir, Shahid Afridi, Younis Khan, Yousuf Youhana, Rashid Latif, Azhar Mahmood, Wasim Akram, Shoaib Akhtar, Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Sami and Misbah-ul-Haq.Azhar Mahmood was recalled to replace fellow all-rounder Razzaq after a short but successful stint with Surrey.Saeed Anwar retains his place in the squad. He was slated to play against New Zealand in the second Test here earlier this month but the suicide bomb blast vanquished his comeback prospects.The 33-year-old former skipper was sidelined by a stress fracture in his wrist after his last international appearance during the Sharjah Cup in November. He missed the subsequent series against Bangladesh, West Indies and New Zealand as well as last month’s Sharjah Cup.The Pakistan squad will undergo a short training camp at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore from Wednesday before the team leaves for Australia on June 5.Australia have already named a 13-man squad led by Ricky Ponting.The first two matches will be played indoors at Colonial Stadium in Melbourne on June 12 and 15 respectively. The final game is scheduled for June 19 at the Gabba in Brisbane.

Australia `A’ completely overshadowed South African `A’ at Centurion today, winning by the biggest margin so far in the series, seven wickets, and ten overs to spare.Winning the toss and batting in what appeared to be a perfect morning to bowl on, the South Africans were once again let down by a top order that has just not switched on this series.Some lusty blows at the end of the innings restored some face but the locals still got bowled out inside the 50 overs for 193 with Ashwell Prince scoring 44 and Andrew Hall getting 38. Steve Elworthy waded in with a 27 and the next highest was extras with 25.The Australians only lost three wickets in their chase with Ryan Campbell once again going cheaply and Simon Katich getting nine. Justin Langer with 61 was the only other Australian to lose his wicket. Greg Blewett, unbeaten on 84, and Michael Clarke, not out 22, seeing the team home with 10.2 overs to spare.Robin Peterson was the choice of the South African bowlers with Elworthy giving ample support. This however is not the department that the South Africans are lacking in. Somewhere the selectors are going to have to come up with a solution to the failing top order.Mfuneko Ngam bowled with some pace and could feel slightly unlucky giving away three fours from inside edges that could just as easily have gone into the stumps. He did however leave the field after taking a bad fall on his knee running a ball down on the boundary.The South African selectors have left Gary Kirsten out of the squad for the next two matchesThe next match is at the Wanderers on Wednesday morning.

Skipper Mark Alleyne was Gloucestershire’s wounded hero as they maintained a100 per cent Benson & Hedges Cup group record with a five-wicket win overGlamorgan at Bristol.Alleyne hit a match-winning 79 not out, despite a painful hand injurysustained while fielding, to guide his side past the visitors’ total of236-6 with nine balls to spare.He had earlier taken 2-36 from ten overs after winning the toss and theall-round contribution was enough to pip the unlucky Jimmy Maher to the GoldAward.Glamorgan’s new Australian opener hit a magnificent 142 not out to set thehome side a challenging target. There were 12 sumptuous foursand a straight six off Mike Cawdron in his highest ever limited overs score,made off 151 balls.The outcome might have been different had Steve James not been forced toretire hurt on 30 after edging a ball from Jon Lewis into his left knee.Glamorgan were 85-1 in the 20th over and going well.They soon plunged to 127-5 before Robert Croft and Darren Thomas providedsome belated support to Maher.Gloucestershire looked in trouble at 66-4 in reply, despite a dashing 24 off16 balls from new father Ian Harvey, celebrating the birth of daughterCharlotte the previous afternoon.But Matt Windows (40) helped Alleyne add 77 for the fifth wicket beforeJeremy Snape became an even more effective partner.Alleyne and Snape cleverly found gaps in the field and compiled theirunbroken stand of 97 with few risks, although Alleyne was crucially droppedon 28 by substitute fielder Dean Cosker at cover off Adam Davies.Snape’s unbeaten 46 came off just 44 balls, with six fours, while Alleyne’sinnings occupied 89 deliveries and featured eight boundaries.

ScorecardSteven Smith was left unbeaten on 99•Getty Images

Steven Smith and Doug Bollinger helped New South Wales claim the first victory of the Australian domestic season, a 27-run win over Western Australia at the WACA. Smith made an unbeaten 99 to set up a strong total of 5 for 281 before Bollinger collected 4 for 67 from 13 overs to ensure the Warriors did not chase down the target, despite the best efforts of Mitchell Marsh with 78.In what was the earliest start to an Australian domestic season, the Warriors won the toss and sent the Blues in, and the debutant opener Scott Henry provided a steady hand with 66 from 105 balls. Mitchell Johnson, playing his first domestic one-day game for Western Australia, claimed two wickets, including that of the national captain Michael Clarke caught at slip for 1, but Smith and Moises Henriques proved the keys.Smith must have been close to being part of Australia’s squad in Sri Lanka for the World Twenty20, but instead found himself in Perth trying to prove his value to the national selectors once again. He blasted 11 fours and one six in his innings and was left one short of his maiden one-day century, while Henriques was even brisker in his scoring.He made 78 from 45 balls including five sixes, and the Blues took 50 runs off Johnson’s final four overs. Nathan Coulter-Nile also struggled to contain Henriques and Smith in the dying stages, conceding three sixes in his final over to finish with 2 for 69 from 12 overs. In reply, Western Australia needed a strong start but lost Liam Davis and Adam Voges to Bollinger in the early stages.Shaun Marsh (37) and the debutant Sam Whiteman (31) provided something for the Warriors to build on but too much was left for the end, and despite Mitchell Marsh’s 78 from 65 deliveries, the target was too tall for the Warriors. Bollinger collected another two wickets later in the innings and Western Australia were dismissed for 254 in the 50th over.