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The baggy green cap worn by Sir Donald Bradman during the 1948 InvinciblesTour, which failed to attract a bid at auction on Monday, has been sold toan undisclosed buyer for between $A400,000 and $A420,000. The auctioneerCharles Leski didn’t reveal the exact sale price but said it went for lessthan what the previous owner Tim Sersier bought it for in 2003.Sersier used his winnings from the TV show Who Wants To Be AMillionaire? to acquire the cap for A$420,000. The piece was initiallyexpected to fetch more than A$600,000.Leski said Serisier was aware that the global financial crisis could’vebeen the reason for the cap selling at a loss. “Yes, he agrees the timingwasn’t the greatest,” Leski told . “He’s accepted theconsequences of his decision.”The cap was given to the son of England’s Walter Robins, a friend ofBradman’s, after the Australian great noticed the boy playing cricket in asubstandard hat. “Sir Don said: ‘We can’t have that, we’d better get you adecent one’, and a short while later in the mail the 1948 baggy greenarrived,” Leski told Nine.

Chris Taylor, the Gloucestershire batsman, has been invited to join the England Performance squad coaching staff, primarily as a fielding specialist.Taylor is known as one of best backward point fielders in county cricket and has been drafted in to sharpen the skills of England’s second string, who will spend a month in India before Christmas at the same as the senior team is touring the country.”I was approached by the England and Wales Cricket Board to do some coaching during the winter,” Taylor told . “I’m working on the England Performance Programme until Christmas, which includes a trip for a month to India.”Fielding is an area I’m really passionate about I really love the coaching.”Taylor will have some time to work with Monty Panesar, who is part of the EPP before joining up with the Test squad, and possibly Michael Vaughan if he is brought into the group to begin his search for a Test recall.

Lee Carseldine is in line for his first first-class appearance in five years after Queensland reacted strongly to last week’s three-day loss to Victoria. The Bulls have added four men to their Sheffield Shield squad to take on Western Australia in Perth starting on Friday.Clinton Perren has been named for his first Sheffield Shield game of the season after making a solid start to the one-day campaign. Ben Laughlin, the fast bowler, and the clean-striking batsman Nathan Reardon have also been rewarded for their strong limited-overs form.The promotion of the batsman Carseldine, 32, would complete a remarkable comeback after his career appeared to be over due to a serious back injury that resulted in him having a titanium disc inserted in his spine. Carseldine made his return to the FR Cup last season and having posted his first one-day century earlier this month, he is a chance to replace Martin Love in the four-day team.Love will miss the match with a groin injury and there are also doubts over the fitness of the allrounder Ashley Noffke, who did not play the Bulls’ FR Cup game on Sunday due to back soreness. Noffke has been named in the 13-man squad and will travel with the team to Perth but a decision on his fitness will not be made until shortly before the game.Grant Sullivan, the fast bowler, was unavailable so he could be at home for the birth of his first child. The legspinner Daniel Doran was omitted as Queensland continued their trend of giving him limited opportunities to bowl.Shane Warne said earlier this year he was frustrated at the way state captains in Australia, particularly in Queensland, handled their slow men. Chris Simpson, an offspinning allrounder, has taken the reins of the Bulls this summer but little has changed after Doran batted at No. 11 and did not bowl at all in the season opener before he was given only ten overs as the sixth bowler in last week’s match.Squad Ryan Broad, James Hopes, Clinton Perren, Andrew Symonds, Greg Moller, Lee Carseldine, Chris Simpson (capt), Nathan Reardon, Ashley Noffke, Chris Hartley (wk), Ryan Harris, Chris Swan, Ben Laughlin.

Derbyshire’s squad for the 2009 season is already taking shape after the club agreed new one-year deals with Steve Stubbings, Dan Birch and Ian Hunter and offered 17-year-old Atif Sheikh his first professional contract.Former Yorkshire legspinner, Mark Lawson, has also been registered for next season and will be given the chance to earn a full-time deal. He made his Derbyshire debut at the end of the summer, but broke his finger before he had an opportunity to bowl.Wayne White, the 23-year-old seamer, has been released after playing three Championship matches in 2008.

ScorecardSteve Tikolo top scored yet again for his team but Kenya were bowled out for 209 on the first day of their second four-day game against the visiting Pakistan Cricket Academy side in Mombasa. Khurram Manzoor, Pakistan’s highest scorer in the earlier game, was snared by Thomas Odoyo for a duck but his team ended the day on 52 for 1.After Kenya chose to bat, Tikolo had to steer his team out of trouble as they slipped for 86 for 7. Junaid Khan struck four times for Pakistan as only two batsmen other than Tikolo made it to double figures. The first was Alex Obanda, who scored 26 before he was caught behind off legspinner Yasir Shah.No. 9 Hiren Varaiya was the other, and his 82-ball 24 was part of a vital 87-run stand with his captain, one run more than what the previous seven partnerships had managed. While Varaiya defied the bowling, Tikolo pushed the scoring with a strike-rate of over 75.Varaiya was bowled by Shah, who took three wickets. Tikolo remained unbeaten, and his 108 followed scores of 170 and 94 in the earlier game in Nairobi. He added 26 for the ninth wicket with Peter Ongondo, but opening bowler Mohammad Talha wrapped up the innings on 209 by removing the final two batsmen.Ahmed Shehzad and Fawad Alam, who guided Pakistan to a four-wicket win in the first game, were unbeaten on 24 and 26 at stumps.

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ScorecardIreland’s second ODI against Kenya was washed out in Belfast when rain had an early, and ultimately final, say with the home side two down after eight overs.The start was already delayed until midday through showers but Kenya eventually won the toss and sent Ireland in, a decision that paid off when Peter Ongondo struck with his first ball in the second over of the match, trapping William Porterfield with a full one. Thomas Odoyo then removed Gary Wilson in the next over, the batsman failing to get forward to a straight one.The home side were in early trouble, then, at 3 for 2 but Andre Botha and Paul Stirling had begun to rebuild, however doggedly, when the rains returned washing out play. The umpires eventually called the match off at 4.10pm.Ireland’s series lead is now an unassailable one, at 1-0, but Kenya have the chance to draw the series when the sides meet again on the same ground on Wednesday.

Leicestershire 354 for 4 dec (Allenby 138*, Taylor 51) and 63 for 0 (New 44*) drew with Bangladesh A 330 (Iqbal 78, Nazimuddin 75, Mushfiqur 60*, Naik 3-70)
ScorecardLike their previous encounters, Bangladesh A’s third match on their England tour ended in a draw. However, unlike the narrow escape against Warwickshire, the match at Leicester saw a much-improved batting display from the visitors. Bangladesh were dismissed for 330 in reply to Leicestershire’s 354 for 4 declared, and the hosts reached 63 for no loss in their second innings before close on the third day.Overnight on 215 for 3, Bangladesh lost four wickets for 50 runs, and it was left to wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim to hold the innings alongside the tail. Mushfiqur scored a brisk 60 not out off 82 deliveries, as Bangladesh played out a further 35.1 overs to the 62.4 they faced on Thursday. Nazmul Hossain hung around for 43 deliveries to score 11 in a 43-run stand for the eighth wicket. Jigar Naik took 3 for 70 for Leicestershire, while medium-pacers Tom Smith, Daniel Rowe and Sam Cliff scalped two wickets apiece.Tom New and Boeta Dippenaar then put on an unbroken 63 in 16 overs, New scoring 44 of those.Bangladesh head to Derby next for a three-day game starting July 21, before they face the South Africans at New Road, Worcester.

The England board has expressed “disappointment” with the proposed itinerary for the tour of India at the end of the year.A statement from the board said that “despite representations, the itinerary doesn’t offer the thousands of supporters who follow the England team abroad, the opportunity to experience more of the great cricket grounds of India.”The main concern surrounds the grounds nominated to host the seven-match one-day series. Instead of a tour that takes in such stadia as Eden Gardens in Kolkata and the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, England will reprise their 2005-06 experience with trips to venues such as Jamshedpur and Guwahati in the far east of the country, where their one-day international had to be abandoned due to rioting in the stands.The highlight of the short Test series is that Mumbai’s Brabourne Stadium will host its first Test for 35 years.England were the last visiting team to play a Test there back in 1972-73. A dispute over tickets between the local board and the Cricket Club of India, which owns the ground, led to the birth of the Wankhede Stadium nearby, which staged its first Test in 1975.The Brabourne hosted three one-day internationals between 1989 and 1995, before playing host to five ICC Champions Trophy games 11 years later. The last international match played there was a one-off Twenty20 international between India and Australia last year.

Proposed itinerary

November 6, 2008 England arrive in Mumbai
November 9 One-day warm-up match, Mumbai
November 11 One-day warm-up match, Mumbai
November 14 1st ODI v India, Rajkot
November 17 2nd ODI v India, Indore
November 20 3rd ODI v India, Kanpur
November 23 4th ODI v India, Jamshedpur
November 26 5th ODI v India, Cuttack
November 29 6th ODI v India, Guwahati
December 2 7th ODI v India, Delhi
December 5-7 Three-day warm-up match, Baroda
December 11-15 1st Test v India, Ahmedabad
December 19-23 2nd Test v India, CCI Mumbai

Ashley Giles, Warwickshire’s director of coaching and one of the national selectors, has slammed counties who increasingly lean on Kolpak signings to boost their squads.”We’ve got a serious problem and it will only get worse,” Giles told the Daily Mail. “I was aware of it before but it’s become more obvious to me since taking this coaching job. We’ve let this situation creep up on us so that it has reached ridiculous proportions.”As an England selector, I sometimes think: ‘Who am I supposed to be looking at here?’ It’s dangerous for our game and I think it has gone too far already. It has to be pulled back, but how we do that, I just don’t know.”This is a responsibility that lies with the counties, who should produce players who can play Test cricket for England. They get handouts from the ECB and that’s what they should be doing.”Signing Kolpak players is like easy shopping, internet shopping. Instead of getting out there and doing the hard yards trying to find what you’re looking for, you can just have it delivered to your door.””I don’t think a lot of these clubs are prepared to do anything about this. They’re interested only in their individual success.”Giles said that while the pressure was on Warwickshire to go down the same route, for now he was keen to resist that temptation. “In our last couple of Warwickshire games, we have played a fully-qualified side of 11 English players. In the short term, having so many Kolpak players around will raise standards, but in the long term it will severely reduce the pool of talent available to England.”But Giles’ comments did not go down well with David Smith, Leicestershire’s chairman. “Yet again I have to question the hypocrisy of Ashley Giles. and his comments,” he told Cricinfo. “Warwickshire have Trott ,Botha, Groenewald, Zondenki, Carter, all born in South Africa, Ambrose born in Australia and a South African coach in Donald.”I would suggest Ashley focuses on the huge job he has to do at Warwickshire rather that tell other counties how to run their businesses and the make of their staffs.”

Consequent to the cessation of the contract between WSG Nimbus Pte Ltd and the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka, bids were called for from interested parties for the following:COMMERCIAL RIGHTS OF THE BCCSL
1.Television rights outside Sri Lanka
2.Radio rights outside Sri Lanka
3.Title sponsorships
4.Forty ground runners
Bid documents were forwarded to nine interested parties from overseas, and the reputed international firm of Chartered Accountants PriceWaterhouse Coopers was requested to receive bids and evaluate same once tenders closed.Tenders closed on the 29th of October 2001 and several bids were received. The bids were opened in the presence of two Partners of PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Members of the Interim Committee of the BCCSL, a representative of the Ministry of Sports, a representative of Julius & Creasy the BCCSL’s lawyers and legal counsel. Also present were representatives from the bidders.Once the tenders were opened, an evaluation was carried out by PriceWaterhouse Coopers, who recommended Taj Television, who are covering the ongoing Champions’ Trophy in Sharjah.A press conference will be held within the next few days to give more details of the terms and conditions of the agreement entered into with Taj Television.bccsl.mu.2001.28