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Debutant Michael Strong broke the back of Yorkshire’s innings with threewickets in twenty deliveries as Northamptonshire, who have never lost to the Tykes in this competition, beat their visitors by 69 runs in their NatWest Trophy fourth-round match at Wantage Road. The 26 year-old quick bowler sent back Gary Fellows, Richard Blakey and Darren Lehmann as Yorkshire slumped to 183 all out.Northamptonshire’s own 252 runs total had been built around a 118 runsthird-wicket partnership between Matthew Hayden (63) and David Sales (65) which had retrieved the ground lost by the early dismissal of Adrian Rollins and Mal Loye to Gavin Hamilton. The Australian hit a six and seven fours in his stay of 69 deliveries, and Sales’ more circumspect approach – taking 94 balls – showed why he had been made Northamptonshire’s player-of-the-month for a sequence of impressive limited-overs performances.Lehmann’s slow left-arm spin dismissed Sales and Graeme Swann in the courseof four balls when Northamptonshire at 207-3 seemed to be set for a huge score.That was but a prelude to Darren Gough (4-36) finishing off the lower-order but the 252 runs total offered Yorkshire a stiff target.It looked even more formidable when they sagged to 28-3 against Strong’sinitial assault in his first match in the competition. Shortly afterwards Devon Malcolm took the prized wicket of Michael Vaughan to a catch in the covers. At 36-4 Anthony McGrath (64) and David Byas (33) showed some resilience in taking the score to 73 when Tony Penberthy effectively settled the matter by dismissing Byas. McGrath’s departure after 69 deliveries merely underlined the inevitable. Last man Gough was run out with Yorkshire still out of sight of their target.

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The archetypal modern footballer, Jesse Lingard’s off-pitch activities probably get him as much reaction as what he does on the pitch.

The Manchester United star has come under fire by some for his apparent lack of focus on football itself, but has generally been one of the Red Devils’ more consistent performers.

With England’s Nations League campaign coming to an end, Lingard is off on his holidays and took to

/Byp2CKTpEI-/” data-lasso->Instagram to share the news.

The snap led to Bournemouth striker Callum Wilson to respond with a short message, with the duo seemingly striking up a friendship whilst on international duty together with the Three Lions.

After struggling in the early parts of the season under Jose Mourinho, Lingard seemed to come to the fore under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and ended the campaign with five goals and four assists across all competitions.

The midfielder however was unable to inspire the side to a Champions League finish, with United finishing in sixth and facing Europa League football next season.

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Having impressed Solskjaer enough this season, reports in recent weeks have suggested Lingard will be offered a new and improved contract that will see him earn around £130k-a-week, with his existing deal currently only lasting until 2021.

A 33-ball partnership of 64 runs for the eighth wicket between Josh Clarkson and Seth Rance led Central Districts to a two-wicket win over Northern Districts after five rain interruptions at Hamilton’s Seddon Park. Central Districts faced a revised target of 200 runs in 33 overs after Daryl Mitchell’s unbeaten knock of 93 took Northern Districts to 266 for 6 in their 50 overs.Clarkson struck three fours and three sixes in his 24-ball 48 and was ably supported by Rance, who hit a 19-ball stay of 32. This after some tight bowling from Ish Sodhi and Scott Kuggeleijn – both of whom picked up two wickets each – had Central Districts struggling at 123 for 7. Once Rance fell with Central Districts needing another 13 runs to win, Clarkson took over and finished the match with five balls to spare.Earlier in the day, Mitchell struck seven fours and four sixes in his 93. Dean Brownlie struck 47 and Nick Kelly hit 57 runs, but that proved to be not enough for Northern Districts. The win was Central Districts’ first of the season in three games.Inclement weather in Dunedin and Wellington meant the fixtures between Otago and Canterbury, and Wellington and Auckland respectively were washed out without a ball being bowled.

Lance Klusener is unhappy with the ban on ICL recruits © Getty Images

Lance Klusener, the former South Africa allrounder, has come out strongly against Cricket South Africa’s (CSA’s) decision to ban players who have signed up with the Indian Cricket League (ICL).”It’s a crazy decision,” Klusener told the , a Durban-based newspaper. “It would deprive the young players here of my input, whether on the field or through coaching. What would be the point of it? I believe I still have a lot to offer, and I’m at the stage in my career when I want to put something back into the game.”Earlier, Gerard Majola, CSA’s chief executive, had said that the board would ban players joining the ICL. “We view them [the players who have signed on with the ICL] as rebels,” Majola told , an Afrikaans newspaper. “They have joined a breakaway organisation.”Tony Irish, the CEO of the South African Cricketers’ Association, said he was “unhappy” about Majola’s decision. “I have taken it up with Majola and am waiting for his reply.” But the matter has reportedly not yet been discussed by CSA.Klusener plans to “help the Dolphins out” in their four-day match against the Eagles in Kingsmead scheduled for next week; though it is unclear whether CSA will allow him to do so. Klusener and Nicky Boje, the former left-arm spinner, are the only South Africans to have signed on with the ICL.

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It was a day where the Assam bowlers wreaked havoc. Arnald Konwar and Anand Katti snared seven wickets between them as Kerala were routed for 109. Following-on, Kerala lost Sadagoppan Ramesh early and trailed by 199 at the end of the day. Assam attacked with spin straightaway, bringing on Anand Katti, the left-arm spinner, with the new ball. Though Katti didn’t pick up any wicket early, he was miserly as ever and paved way for Konwar to harass the top order with his offspin. The spinners were well supported by Abu Nechim, the 18-year old fast-bowler. Earlier, Kerala rallied through the offspin of Sadanandan Anish, who picked up four wickets to restrict Assam, overnight on 247 for 3, to 313.
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Railways piled up an imposing 535 on the second day against Goa, boosted by half-centuries by Jai Prakash Yadav, Sanjip Sanyal and Sushant Manjrekar. Shreyas Khanolkar, overnight on 103, added 17 to his overnight score before falling leg before to seamer Saurabh Bandekar, who picked up four wickets. After his dismissal, Goa struck back with two wickets in quick succession, including that of Yadav for 69. Manjrekar and Sanyal added 137 for the seventh wicket till the declaration. Goa began positively, as the openers put on 60 before Kulamani Parida got the first breakthrough. Sagun Kamat was undefeated on 54 at stumps as Goa finished at 124 for 2.
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Jammu & Kashmir finished the day at 231 for 5, 23 ahead of Services’ first-innings score. Resuming on 79 for 1, Jammu & Kashmir lost three quick wickets for 17 before Dhruv Mahajan and Hardeep Singh consolidated, adding 61 for the sixth wicket. Mahajan was unbeaten on 49 at stumps and for Services, left-arm spinner Arun Sharma picked up three wickets.
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Half-centuries by Shahbaz Nadeem and Sumit Panda propelled Jharkhand to 279 against Orissa. Panda struck seven boundaries in his 58 while Nadeem hit nine boundaries in his 59 – his first first-class half-century. The pair added 61 after Madhusudhan Tantubhai fell to Debasis Mohanthy, who picked up four wickets. Sanjay Satpathy, the offspinner, also picked up four wickets. Nadeem was among the wickets as well, picking up two before stumps. Opener Bikas Pati scored a half century as Orissa ended at 128 for 3.
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Powered by a 99-run partnership between Madhusudan Acharya and Alind Naidu, Vidarbha snatched the first-innings lead. The duo came together at a wobbly 56 for 3 and struck half-centuries to lift Vidarbha out of a hole. MP fought back through the pace of Taduri Sudhindra, reducing Vidarbha to 191 for 6, but the tail wagged valiantly for the hosts.
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Only 15 overs were possible as foggy conditions hampered play at Dharamsala. Himachal Pradesh added 38 runs to their overnight score for the loss of one wicket.

Damien Martyn believes it will take something special to be part of both the Test and one-day teams again © Getty Images

Damien Martyn says he has nothing to prove despite being told by Merv Hughes, the newest Australia selector, to re-find his form in state cricket. However, Martyn, who was dropped from the Test side on Tuesday, said something “extra special” was needed for him to add to his 61 appearances. reported that Martyn signed a two-year Cricket Australia contract before the Ashes and as a long-term figure in both Tests and ODIs was ranked its No. 5 player. “It hurts in the sense that I’ve been playing Test cricket in the last four or five years where I’ve done it all, particularly the last 18 months,” Martyn told the paper. “I was averaging almost a century every second Test so this has been my first hiccup in that period.”Martyn believed the five-Test series had made his slump stand out more than if it was over three matches. “This just shows that once you’re at a certain age that it’s an unknown,” he said. “I’m 34 next month and the World Cup is in 18 months so I don’t know what’s going to happen. You’ve got to be honest with yourself. It would almost be something extra special to get back [in the Test side].”While Martyn was shocked with his dropping – he felt he was more likely to miss the one-day team – he was disappointed with Hughes’ public comments. “I’m not going back to play for WA feeling I’ve got anything to prove,” he said. “I’m going back to WA hoping to help some young kids there, put back in, and hopefully see some of those young WA guys play for Australia. That’s the next stage for me.”

In today’s round of National League matches, Glamorgan clinched the title for the second time in three years after Robert Croft’s 106 set up a five-wicket win over Lancashire in front of a capacity crowd at the Rhos on Sea ground. Set 219 to win after a half-century from Dinesh Mongia and 48 from Chris Schofield had resurrected Lancashire following an early-innings slump, Glamorgan cantered home with almost five overs to spare.Graham Napier picked up four quick wickets to send Kent crashing to a 35-run defeat to Essex at Colchester. Set 268 to win after 97 from the in-form Will Jefferson and 98 from Ronnie Irani, Kent were restricted to 232 for 7 despite half-centuries from Alex Loudon and Michael Bevan. Alan Mullally, at his miserly best, and Shaun Udal, with four wickets, sent Northants crashing to 171 all out in pursuit of Hampshire’s 238 for 9.In Division Two, Scotland fell agonisingly short of Somerset’s 253 for 8 at Taunton. Scotland were bowled out for 246 with four balls still to be bowled in the last over despite an unbeaten 55 off just 40 balls from Yasir Arafat.National League Division One

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Match report: Croft ensures Glamorgan title – The Telegraph

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Match report: Kent find no response to Jefferson and Irani – The Times

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Match report: Swann is sunk – The Telegraph
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Match report: Wright performance but wrong result for Saltires – The Scotsman

Nepal and Malaysia qualified for the Youth Asia Cup final after both Saturday’s semifinals in Karachi were washed out.

Yashwant Subedi of Nepal hit 40 Photo © ACC

The match at Quaid-e-Azam Cricket Park between Malaysia and Qatar was called off without a ball being bowled, and at the National Stadium, only 33 overs were possible – with Nepal reaching 110 for 5 against Kuwait.Nepal and Malaysia were awarded places in the final after securing more victories in the preliminary round matches. The final is slated for Sunday, with Monday being a reserve day.More monsoon rains are forecast for the coming week. If the final too is washed out, then Nepal will be adjudged winners of the competition, having accumulated 21 points to Malaysia’s 20. The winner qualifies for next year’s Youth World Cup to be played in Bangladesh.Scores in brief:
Nepal 110-5 in 33 overs (Yashwant Subedi 42, Manjeet Shreshta 24*; Waqas Jamal 3-26) vs Kuwait. Match washed-out.Malaysia vs Qatar: match washed out.

New Zealand’s one-day king Chris Harris looked like stealing Wellington’s thunder during his innings of 70 in Canterbury’s State Championship match at Rangiora’s Dudley Park today.Scoring was always going to be slow after all the rain thrown at the country venue last week, but the Canterbury top order, Michael Papps apart, failed to come to grips with the slow pace of the pitch and it was left to Harris to resurrect the innings in his own inimitable fashion.Launching into anything in a reasonable position to be hit after coming to the wicket with Canterbury 59/3, he helped Papps advance the score to 110 before Papps, who had scored 50 off 133 balls, was out second ball after the afternoon drinks break when tickling a ball down the leg-side to wicket-keeper Chris Nevin.Seven runs later Aaron Redmond was out, caught low in the gully by Grant Donaldson for one.But after sharing a 58-run stand with Gareth Hopkins, Harris was beaten by the second new ball when also caught in the gully by Donaldson from Andrew Penn’s bowling.It was a shame for himself and for Canterbury, given his level of run scoring history at the ground. His sheer positiveness was a lesson to all other batsmen. He had four sixes and 44 runs before he hit his first four, and he also worked the singles to advance Canterbury’s score.No sooner was he out than Hopkins departed in the next over, bowled by James Franklin for 14 leaving Canterbury 175/7.Warren Wisneski and Stephen Cunis carried the score through to 187 before the rain came.Papps had earlier shown the benefits to be had from using his feet. He batted sensibly and positively to look to work the Wellington bowlers around the pitch before launching into some lovely straight drives. Once settled he started to play shots square of the wicket and he will still be lamenting his choice of shot to a ball he could well have left alone.Wellington’s bowlers were always in the best position to frustrate the batsmen. Accuracy was always going to frustrate them and at one stage during the first session runs were falling behind the number of overs bowled.Penn’s first 10 overs cost only six runs and even by the day’s end he had two for 20 from 19 overs.But the most effective of the bowlers was Franklin who had a productive spell to start the day when finally gaining Brad Doody’s wicket after a lengthy probing spell, and then immediately after lunch he had Gary Stead out leg before wicket.When the new ball was taken it was Franklin who had Hopkins also leg before wicket. He gained swing and while not bowling at express pace there were few chances for batsmen to lessen their concentration against him.Ash Turner gained his maiden first-class wicket when dismissing Redmond while Matthew Walker, who had a long spell of 18 overs and ended with one for 40.The only wicketless bowler was off-spinner Jeetan Patel. His influence on this match is not completed yet. He looks capable of having more of an impact with more wear on the pitch. There was a noticeable loop to his bowling and when getting conditions to suit, he has all the potential to cause genuine problems for batsmen.Wellington are in the box seat after the first day, and another encouraging aspect of their day had to be the briskness of their over-rate. This hasn’t always been a virtue for Wellington teams but had the game gone the full distance there was every chance they would have fallen within the required guidelines.However, once the Canterbury tail is eliminated tomorrow, the real challenge is ahead for the Wellington batsmen who, after watching the Cantabrians struggle, know they are in for a real battle to gain the first innings ascendancy.

Bangladesh’s national selectors have asked Al-Amin Hossain, Sabbir Rahman, Soumya Sarkar, Liton Das, Kamrul Islam Rabbi and Jubair Hossain to return from the A-team’s tour of Africa, in order to prepare for the senior team’s home series against Zimbabwe next month. Bangladesh A begin officially begin their tour of Zimbabwe on October 30.The five players who will replace the returning six from the Bangladesh A team are batsmen Tasamul Haque and Naeem Islam, wicketkeeper Nurul Hasan, and pace bowlers Dewan Sabbir and Mukhtar Ali.Should Al-Amin be picked in the ODI squad for the Zimbabwe series, it will mark a return for him to the national fold for the first time since the 2015 World Cup. Al-Amin was sent home from the World Cup due to disciplinary reasons, and was subsequently ignored for the three home series against Pakistan, India and South Africa.Al-Amin, Sabbir, Soumya, Liton, Rabbi and Jubair will all return to Bangladesh after the A-team’s second and last warm-up fixture in South Africa, on October 29. While Sabbir, Soumya, Liton and Jubair were in Bangladesh’s last ODI squad in July against South Africa, the selectors are considering Al-Amin and Rabbi to replace the injured Rubel Hossain, who is all but ruled out of the Zimbabwe series after suffering a calf muscle strain last month.It is, however, likely that Taskin Ahmed and limited-overs captain Mashrafe Mortaza will return for the Zimbabwe series after recovering from injuries. Taskin suffered a side strain in June during the India series, and had a relapse during the A-team’s tour of India in September.Mashrafe was also hospitalised earlier this month with dengue. While Mashrafe has taken time to recover from the illness, Bangladesh’s team physio Bayjedul Islam Khan said that both he and Taskin were likely to be fit in time for the Zimbabwe series, with Mashrafe expected to start training from Monday.Shakib Al Hasan too is likely to be part of the ODI squad though he is currently in USA on paternity leave. Shakib was given leave till mid-November on the condition that he return on the wake of fresh international commitments.There are unlikely to be any other changes in the Bangladesh team as the selectors are inclined to continue with more or less the same squad that beat South Africa 2-1 in July.Bangladesh A squad for the tour of Zimbabwe: Shuvagata Hom (captain), Shadman Islam, Rony Talukdar, Dewan Sabbir, Tasamul Haque, Nurul Hasan, Mosaddek Hossain Saikat, Mahmudul Hasan, Mohammad Mithun, Naeem Islam, Mohammed Shahid, Muktar Ali, Abu Jayed, Saqlain Sajib, Taijul Islam