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Nottinghamshire suffered a third consecutive quarter-final defeat after Shaun Tait stole the spotlight from Ryan ten Doeschate with a stunning hat-trick

Jon Culley at Trent Bridge08-Aug-2013
ScorecardRyan ten Doeschate crashed five sixes in his innings of 82•Getty Images

Nottinghamshire suffered a third consecutive quarter-final defeat after Shaun Tait stole the spotlight from Ryan ten Doeschate with a stunning hat-trick to end the home side’s already fading hope of derailing Essex’s charge towards a fourth appearance at Twenty20 finals day.Ten Doeschate’s 82 from 44 balls, with support from Ravi Bopara in a stand of 72 for the fourth wicket, enabled Essex to overcome a slow start and leave Nottinghamshire to chase their biggest target of the season.It was a chase they began at what looked like a winning tempo, racing to 50 without loss in only 21 deliveries as Alex Hales and Michael Lumb, the latter having ridden his luck when an edge off Graham Napier’s first ball flew through the hands of Mark Pettini at slip, looked in the form to dominate.But when David Masters dismissed both openers in his opening over, Hales finding Greg Smith at deep midwicket after smashing 31 in 13 balls before wicketkeeper James Foster, standing up, took a sharp catch to remove Lumb, the balance dramatically tilted in Essex’s direction.In only two of the next 11 overs did Nottinghamshire manage to score in double figures as one Essex bowler after another found the ability seemingly to hit yorker length at will, giving so little opportunity to score that after reaching the halfway point at 87 for 4 – 13 in front of where Essex had been – the next five, crucial overs passed without a single boundary.Samit Patel had looked out of sorts, contributing only 2 from 12 balls and with 70 needed from the final five, skipper David Hussey indicated to his fifth-wicket partner Riki Wessels that the all-or-nothing point had been reached and promptly despatched ten Doeschate for six over deep midwicket. But the plan began to unravel immediately when Wessels was brilliantly caught on the same boundary by Bopara, who managed to release the ball as his momentum carried him over the rope and allow Tim Phillips to complete the catch.

FLt20 semi-finals

Finals Day will take place at Edgbaston on August 17, with the following draw for the two semi-finals.
Hampshire v Surrey
Northamptonshire v Essex

Nottinghamshire questioned whether Bopara had his foot out of bounds before he tossed the ball backwards but replays did not show conclusively that he did and the wicket stood.It was academic in any event as the next over yielded not only Tait’s hat-trick but also the run-out of Chris Read. Hussey – whose 61 was tempered by escapes on 33 and 48 – holed out to ten Doeschate at wide mid-on and Tait then had Ian Butler caught on the boundary off his next delivery before bowling Graeme White.Commanding though their total was in the end, the Essex innings had taken a long time to gather momentum after Nottinghamshire’s bowlers took a tight grip from the outset after Hussey had opted to chase. Limited to 46 in the Powerplay, they lost wickets too, Hamish Rutherford caught behind attempting to cut Jake Ball and Mark Pettini trapped on the crease by Butler in a catastrophic sixth over for Essex that saw Smith run out at the non-striker’s end after Bopara changed his mind about a single to mid-on.At halfway they were 74 for 3 but Essex then enjoyed their best spell of sustained productivity as Bopara and ten Doeschate went after the spinners, Patel and White, reaping 44 in three overs as Nottinghamshire began to suffer the effects of ten Doeschate in full flow, cursing the decision by umpire Nigel Llong to reject an impassioned appeal for leg-before by Butler when he had made only 6.The Netherlands allrounder, twice a centurion in T20, took 27 off White in just 13 balls as Nottinghamshire’s leading wicket-taker suffered one of his less-effective nights, and when consecutive sixes off Ball in the 16th over took him to 53 off 30 deliveries, Essex were sensing a competitive total.Bopara had atoned in part for the mistake that cost Smith his wicket in full flow by scoring 38 off 24 balls before driving Ball to long-on, the fourth-wicket pair adding 72 in 43 balls. Foster fell for only 8 but ten Doeschate was seeing the ball vividly and his fifth six, driven down the ground off Butler, took him to 82 off 43 balls inside the last over before he holed out to long-on.Nottinghamshire had attracted a record crowd of 12,106 – the highest for a home T20 fixture – but fell well short of expectations, beaten essentially in the bowling, where much as Butler and Gurney impressed, Patel (0 for 54) and White (0 for 44) were simply too expensive. By contrast, Essex’s Tait and Masters, not to mention Reece Topley (0 for 12 from three) were collectively superb.

A brilliant spell from left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha helped Surrey wrap up a comprehensive 333-run victory on the final morning against Division Two promotion rivals Northamptonshire

03-Sep-2011
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A brilliant spell from left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha helped Surrey wrap up a comprehensive 333-run victory on the final morning against Division Two promotion rivals Northamptonshire.
India international Ojha provided a masterclass from the Wantage Road End, recording outstanding second-innings figures of six wickets for just eight runs from his 16.3 overs, which included 10 maidens.This result, the heaviest in Division Two this season, throws the race for promotion wide open with Surrey and Middlesex – who went to the top of the table on Friday – both with two games still to play. Northamptonshire, meanwhile, are likely to need a victory from their final game at home against Gloucestershire starting on September 12 which, if results elsewhere go against them, still might not be good enough.Northants resumed this morning on 103 for 4, facing a tall order in order to save the game, with captain Andrew Hall (2) and nightwatchman Lee Daggett (4) at the crease. Hall survived a strong lbw shout in the sixth over of the morning off Ojha, who had already taken the key wickets of Alex Wakely and David Sales just before the close last night.Northants had added 12 to their overnight total when, in the very next over, Hall was out attempting a pull shot which he mistimed off Stuart Meaker’s delivery, and was caught behind by wicketkeeper Steven Davies for 13. Meaker was then almost celebrating another wicket when he found the edge of Daggett’s bat, but the ball flew between second and third slip and away to the boundary for four.Ojha soon had his third – and Surrey’s sixth – wicket of the innings in the eighth over and was handed it on a plate by Niall O’Brien – out for a pair, attempting to sweep, but only diverting it into the hands of Gareth Batty at short leg with the score on 119. The hosts struggled along on to 138 before Ojha claimed his fourth victim, bowling Daggett for 16.With the score on 149 for 7, Ojha then completed his five-for by dismissing James Middlebrook, with substitute fielder Zafar Ansari – on for the injured Tom Maynard – taking the catch at silly point for 12. With Stephen Peters still unable to bat due to a back injury, the ninth and final Northamptonshire wicket fell with the score on 152, Ojha bagging his sixth victim when trapping David Burton lbw for two.Surrey pocketed 21 points, with Northants just three.

Central Zone staged a spirited fightback, after looking down and out, but ended up conceding what could turn out to be a crucial first-innings lead of 37 runs to East Zone on the third day of the Duleep Trophy quarter-final

ESPNcricinfo staff21-Jan-2011
ScorecardCentral Zone staged a spirited fightback, after looking down and out, but ended up conceding what could turn out to be a crucial first-innings lead of 37 runs to East Zone on the third day of the Duleep Trophy quarter-final in Cuttack. It never looked like they would get that close after they slipped to 237 for 6, but a 71-run partnership between Madhya Pradesh batsman Devendra Bundela, who made 80, and former India left-arm spinner Murali Kartik, who got 43, gave them some hope.As long as Bundela was at the wicket, there was a chance Central could go past East’s big total, but after he fell, with the score on 390, Bengal seamer Ashok Dinda wrapped the innings up in the next over and East had the lead. Mohammad Kaif had managed to complete his century, after resuming on 78, but when he was bowled by Dinda, East were well on top. Dinda finished with four wickets, as did Orissa seamer Basanth Mohanty, who took the crucial wickets of overnight half-centurion Naman Ojha and Bundela.East lost a wicket before the close of play, but should be able to see the match out for a draw, which would take them through to the semi-finals.

Sussex’s batsmen capitalised on the excellent job done by their seam attack to take control after two days of their County Championship second division match against Surrey at Hove

16-Apr-2010
ScorecardSussex’s batsmen capitalised on the excellent job done by their seam attack to take control after two days of their County Championship second division match against Surrey at Hove. Murray Goodwin led the way with a stylish 74 while skipper Mike Yardy and Luke Wright both made half-centuries in their final match for the county before linking up with England’s squad for the Twenty20 World Cup.Surrey’s attack kept plugging away on a desperately slow pitch but by the close
Sussex had reached 278 for 7, a lead of 73. It was tough going initially for Sussex and when Joe Gatting mistimed a drive at Rao Iftikhar in the 20th over they had only managed 26 runs.Chris Nash looked dumbfounded to be given out lbw to Andre Nel from a delivery
which hit the top of the pad, but opening partner Yardy and Goodwin began to
impose themselves in a third-wicket stand of 117 in 33 overs.While the left-hander struggled with his timing, Goodwin continued in the form
which had brought him 113 runs in Sussex’s opening win over Glamorgan. He struck 11 boundaries and it was a surprise when off-spinner Gareth Batty got one through his defences in the 54th over.Yardy was much more circumspect and needed 223 balls for his 50, 153 more than
Goodwin. He was badly dropped on 29 at second slip by Surrey skipper Rory Hamilton-Brown but gradually began to find his touch.The Sussex captain fell after tea, trapped in front sweeping, but Wright injected impetus into the innings with an entertaining 63 off 68 balls, including nine fours and a six off Batty, before he spliced a pull to give Iftikhar his second wicket. Sussex’s lead was just 36 at that stage but Michael Thornely and Andrew Hodd survived a testing period against the second new ball until Hodd was bowled by Jade Dernbach, who then uprooted Thornely’s off stump with the penultimate delivery of the day.Earlier, Sussex had wrapped up Surrey’s first innings in the space of 19 balls
as they were bowled out for 205, adding just six runs to their overnight score. Rana Naved made a sensational start with wickets with the first two balls of the day. Andre Nel was bowled off his pads and Iftikhar’s maiden innings for Surrey ended with a golden duck when he was yorked by his Pakistan compatriot.Robin Martin-Jenkins finished Surrey off when Chris Schofield padded up to an inswinger to complete only the eighth five-wicket haul of a first-class career spanning 177 matches. His 5 for 45 were also his best figures at Hove for nearly three years.

Dinesh Karthik’s attacking, unbeaten 161, laced with 23 hits to the fence, put South Zone in front against West Zone in an empty Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad

Cricinfo staff02-Feb-2010
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Dinesh Karthik’s attacking century gave South Zone control on the first day•AFP

Dinesh Karthik’s attacking, unbeaten 161, laced with 23 hits to the fence, put South Zone in front against West Zone in an empty Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. The Hyderabad Cricket Association decided to not allow spectators in the stadium, fearing crowd trouble due to the political situation in Andhra Pradesh.The absence of any support appeared to have had its effect on South Zone in the initial stages of their innings, as the West Zone seamers made their mark, dismissing the openers with just 34 on the board. In conditions favourable to batting, and given the importance of a first-innings lead, South Zone would have been disappointed with the start they got.But the middle order stepped up. Ganesh Satish scored a patient half-century before being dismissed with the score on 120, but Karthik, by then, had found his groove. He was involved in a stand of 121 with wicketkeeper M Gautam (49) and 89 with Rohan Prem (24) to guide his side beyond 300.Irfan Pathan’s three-for was a highlight for West Zone, but Karthik’s presence at the crease, with the score currently on 356 for 6, should provide enough encouragement for South Zone to put up a substantial score on the second day.

Miles Hammond anchors innings with brisk 59 from 42 balls at Northwood

ECB Reporters Network29-May-2023Gloucestershire 181 for 9 (Hammond 59, Cullen 3-38) beat Middlesex 179 for 6 (Eskinazi 54, Price 3-21) by two runsMatt Taylor successfully defended seven from the final over as Gloucestershire claimed their first win of this season’s Vitality Blast with a narrow success against Middlesex at Merchant Taylor’s School.The left-armer conceded just four, with former Gloucestershire all-rounder Ryan Higgins needing three off the final ball and attempting a paddle shot that led to him being run out for 24.Middlesex, who remain winless in the tournament, had looked set to break their duck after skipper Stephen Eskinazi struck a half-century and Higgins and Luke Hollman shared a sixth-wicket partnership of 55 from 30 balls.But they fell just short of the Gloucestershire total of 181 for nine, centred around Miles Hammond’s knock of 59 from 42.Eskinazi, Middlesex’s captain, did not disguise his annoyance. “I think we probably played almost the perfect T20 game, especially an outground T20 game, up until 12 balls to go. When you’re four down, with two of your most senior players at the crease, 12 off 12 – you probably win that game 999 times out of a thousand.”It stings for sure. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before, not with people as senior as that at the crease and I don’t think the guys need me to tell them how much it hurts the team. It’s going to be a tough one to bounce back from. I’m very disappointed.”Asked to bat after losing the toss, Gloucestershire began briskly with Grant Roelofsen taking 18 from Tom Helm’s second over, but the opener’s knock of 34 from 19 came to a tame end when he patted Higgins’ half-volley to mid-off.Higgins, playing against his former county for the first time since his return to Middlesex, was expensive overall – as was his dropped catch at long-on when Hammond, with just nine to his name, took on Hollman.The left-hander capitalised on that let-off, launching successive Blake Cullen deliveries over the fence and driving Hollman over the top for six more as he passed his half-century before chopping Cullen to point.Joe Cracknell pouched the catch, his third of the innings – and a routine one by comparison with the second, when he raced from deep midwicket to long on and dived for a spectacular one-handed grab that removed visiting skipper Jack Taylor.Cullen also claimed the wicket of the big-hitting Marchant de Lange to finish with three for 38, while Martin Andersson took two for 30 as Graeme van Buuren’s unbeaten 28 from 19 nudged Gloucestershire above 180.Middlesex kept up with the required run-rate of nine at the start of their pursuit, with Cracknell sweeping Tom Smith’s first delivery to the boundary and bisecting the leg-side fielders perfectly to collect four more off David Payne.He and Eskinazi scored freely as they accumulated a partnership of 78 from 48 but Cracknell, having reverse-swept Smith for four, was lbw for 42 from 28 attempting to repeat the shot later in the over.Eskinazi began to impose himself on the Gloucestershire spinners, pumping van Buuren over long-on for two sixes, but Ollie Price boosted the visitors’ prospects with a single over of off-breaks that accounted for both Max Holden and Pieter Malan.De Lange backed up Price’s double strike in the next over, firing one through Eskinazi’s defences to take out his middle stump, but Hollman and Higgins stopped the rot with their spirited counter-attack.Hollman took two fours off Matt Taylor in quick succession and thumped Payne back down the ground for another to reach 39 from 19 before he was bowled by Price, who recorded his best T20 figures of three for 21.

Babar Azam claims Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy, Nat Sciver named ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year

ESPNcricinfo staff26-Jan-2023Ben Stokes has been named ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year, after leading England’s stunning revival in the format. Babar Azam collected the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy awarded to the ICC’s Men’s Cricketer of the Year, while Nat Sciver won the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy as Women’s Cricketer of the Year.Stokes, who scored 870 Test runs and took 26 wickets in 2022, was also selected as captain of the Test Team of the Year. He led England to nine wins out of ten after taking charge of the team following defeat in the Caribbean in March.”I’d like to thank the ICC, the panel and the fans for voting for me as the ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year,” Stokes said. “This is down to the England players and management for what has been such a positive year in Test cricket. We have played some incredible cricket with series wins against New Zealand, South Africa, a significant performance against India and a historic victory in Pakistan.Related

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“We are enjoying our cricket and love having fun wherever we play. The way in which we approach Test cricket is to excite the fans and making it a spectacle for everyone to get behind and enjoy regardless of the result for England.

Babar Azam wins the double

Babar was also named Men’s ODI Player of the Year, and is the second consecutive Pakistani winner of the Sobers Trophy after Shaheen Shah Afridi took home the award for 2021. Babar was the only batter to pass 2000 international runs across the three formats, averaging 54.12 with eight hundreds, and also led Pakistan to the finals of the Asia Cup and T20 World Cup.”I feel humbled to have been voted as winner of the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy and join the ranks of some of the most iconic and respected names who have previously won the biggest and most prestigious individual award in our great sport,” he said. “I continue to look up to these players as well as champions of the past for inspiration, motivation and improvement.”As cricket is a team sport, this recognition and achievement would not have been possible without the overwhelming support of my family, team, fans and the institution, to all of whom I am greatly indebted and thankful.”

Nat Sciver also bags two awards

Sciver was also a two-time winner, picking up the Women’s ODI Player of the Year award in addition to the Heyhoe Flint Trophy, having scored 1346 runs and taken 22 wickets for England across formats – including an astonishing innings 148 not out from 121 balls in the ODI World Cup final.”It’s lovely to have been awarded the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy for ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year, especially as Rachael was such a legend of the women’s game in England and Wales,” Sciver said.”It’s always a privilege to be given individual honours but no personal achievements are possible without the hard work and togetherness of the whole team. Picking up a trophy or a medal is all the more special when you do it alongside your teammates so hopefully that’s what 2023 has in store.”Other award winners included Richard Illingworth as Umpire of the Year, and Nepal wicketkeeper Aasif Sheikh, who claimed the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award for his refusal to run out Ireland’s Andy McBrine after a collision with the bowler. India batter Suryakumar Yadav was unveiled on Wednesday as the ICC’s T20I Cricketer of the Year.

ICC awards winners for 2022

Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy: Babar AzamRachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy: Nat SciverMen’s Test Cricketer of the Year: Ben StokesMen’s ODI Cricketer of the Year: Babar AzamWomen’s ODI Cricketer of the Year: Nat SciverMen’s T20I Cricketer of the Year: Suryakumar YadavWomen’s T20I Cricketer of the Year: Tahlia McGrathMen’s Emerging Cricketer of the Year: Marco JansenWomen’s Emerging Cricketer of the Year: Renuka SinghMen’s Associate Cricketer of the Year: Gerhard ErasmusWomen’s Associate Cricketer of the Year: Esha OzaDavid Shepherd Trophy: Richard IllingworthSpirit of Cricket Award: Aasif Sheikh

Nicholas Pooran’s team was 53 for 1 in a chase of 161, but went on to lose seven wickets for 26 runs

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Two-time T20 World Cup champions West Indies were stunned by Scotland in their opening match of Group B in Hobart. With the bat, opener George Munsey scored 66 off 53 to hold Scotland’s innings together to help them post 160. With the ball, Scotland relied on their slower bowlers to rock West Indies to 118 all out and consign them to a 42-run defeat.It is the second time in two days that a Full-Member side has gone down to an Associate nation, with Namibia beating Sri Lanka on opening day.West Indies started their chase strongly and were 53 for 1 in 5.4 overs, but then lost their next seven wickets for 26 runs, with left-arm spinner Mark Watt producing a penetrative and economical spell to finish with 3 for 12 in his four overs. Offspinner Michael Leask also put in a stranglehold with the wickets of Nicholas Pooran and Rovman Powell, while right-arm seamer Brad Wheal got crucial breakthroughs at the top and then in his return spell.The loss puts West Indies under pressure with matches against Ireland and Zimbabwe next on their docket. Scotland, meanwhile, will be looking to build on this comprehensive win and will eye a second consecutive Super 12 spot at the T20 World Cup.Watt, Leask open West Indies’ woundsThe pitch wasn’t particularly difficult to bat on, and many of West Indies’ key batters fell looking to play their shots in a chase of 161. Kyle Mayers was the first to go, caught at deep midwicket going for a big hit even though he had just slammed a four and a six. Evin Lewis and Brandon King stayed positive through the rest of the powerplay, but Lewis perished after his pull found the only fielder on the leg side boundary.By now the skies were turning grey. Watt, who opened the bowling, came back after the powerplay. But a sizeable part of his focus – and the captain Richie Berrington’s – was on the DLS sheet. At that point, Scotland were marginally behind, but the tables turned when King was bowled trying to cut Watt off the back foot. With Scotland now slightly ahead of the DLS, it was West Indies who were trying to force the play, and in the process hurt their own game since rain never arrived in the second innings.Leask, from around the stumps, had Pooran bowled for 5 after he missed a pull shot. Powell soon followed, holing to long-on. And Shamarh Brooks was caught trying to heave a back-of-a-length delivery to the only boundary rider on the leg side to leave West Indies reeling at 77 for 6 after 12 overs.Brad Wheal had Shamarh Brooks caught•ICC via Getty Images

Akeal Hosein was then run out after a mix-up. Watt induced a nick from Alzarri Joseph for a first-ball duck to bring West Indies down to 79 for 8, and from there on, the result appeared to be a formality.Jason Holder at No. 7 did save some face for West Indies with his 33-ball 38 to take the team’s total past 100. He was the last man to depart in the 19th over, caught at long-off by Chris Greaves, prompting a sedate and composed celebration from the victorious Scotland side.Munsey holds Scotland’s fortScotland were asked to bat by Pooran at the toss. The West Indies captain said he wanted first use of the moisture on a fresh surface only to then toss the new ball to medium-pacer Mayers and left-arm spinner Hosein.Munsey and his opening partner Michael Jones took full toll, racing away to a wicketless 52 runs in 5.3 overs before rain stopped play for 45 minutes. Munsey, in particular, took on Mayers and Joseph in the early salvo, using his wrists to pepper the leg side with fours or leaning in to drive through the covers.However, a combination of a revamped bowling strategy, along with a sluggish post-rain outfield, slowed Scotland down. Holder got the first wicket just after the powerplay and made it two in his next over with Matthew Cross’ scalp. From the other end, Hosein and Joseph recovered from their opening spells with the latter removing Riche Berrington for 16.The set batter Munsey was struggling to find the boundaries with the field spread out, and Scotland appeared to be losing their momentum, but Calum MacLeod injected some pizzazz with four fours in his 14-ball cameo of 23. At the other end, Munsey slow-burned his way to fifty in 43 balls in the 17th over.At that time, Scotland looked set for a sub-150 score, a sharp decline from the position they were in after the powerplay.But they got a timely boost, with two big overs right at the end. The 18th over from Obed McCoy went for 12 runs and the 20th from Odean Smith cost 15 allowing them to post what turned out to be a more than match-winning total. Munsey contributed three of the five fours Scotland hit in those 12 balls, making what was comfortably the highest score of the match and even picking up an award for it.

Surrey on back foot at The Kia Oval after Carson and Crocombe breakthroughs

ECB Reporters Network07-Sep-2020Rory Burns reached his first hundred of the Covid-shortened 2020 summer but a late break for bad light triggered a dramatic finale to day two as Surrey lost three wickets in three overs and Sussex wrested back control of their Bob Willis Trophy match at the Kia Oval.Nineteen-year-old off spinner Jack Carson had Burns leg-before for a sparkling 103 with the first ball following a 25-minute interruption, and in the next over 18-year-old paceman Henry Crocombe sent back Jamie Smith and nightwatchman Adam Finch for ducks in successive balls. Smith was bowled, shouldering arms, and Finch pinned leg-before.Ben Foakes just about dug out Crocombe’s hat-trick ball and, with Hashim Amla on 6, Surrey will resume tomorrow on 171 for 4 in reply to Sussex’s 415.But those three wickets for just two runs in fifteen minutes of mayhem has potentially changed the course of the game and Surrey’s twilight problems were only brought to an end at 6.10pm when umpires Neil Bainton and Ben Debenham again took the players off for more bad light with 10 overs still technically remaining in the day’s allocation.Before the late drama, Scott Borthwick had made a circumspect 50, from 121 balls, as he and Burns added 164 for the first wicket until the former Durham left-hander was leg-before to Carson, who with fellow teenager Crocombe were by far the pick of Sussex’s attack.Having reached 37 not out in 21 overs before tea, Burns led an impressive acceleration in the final session to show that rapid scoring could indeed be achieved despite a slow and soporific surface.His hundred, in his first red-ball innings for Surrey this season, took 111 balls and the England Test opener struck 15 fours. He and Borthwick added 108 in 18.3 overs after tea, before Carson parted them.It was Burns’ 19th first-class century, two of which have come for England, and – back captaining Surrey in this match – he was clearly determined to take the match by the scruff of its neck after two months largely spent playing six Tests from inside England’s bio-secure bubble.The left-hander was also no doubt hungry for runs. Burns scored only 20 runs in four innings during the Pakistan Test series, although he did make 57 and 90 in the third Test against West Indies at Old Trafford at the end of July and 234 runs from five innings in that earlier series.Here, his hard-won Test stature was fully evident as he used his feet to the spinners and also effortlessly outscored Borthwick after safely negotiating a testing new ball spell of 5-2-6-0 from Crocombe – who almost yorked Borthwick with one eye-catching delivery – and then an initial, pre-tea spell of six overs from Carson that cost just four runs.Burns’ one false stroke was a top-edged hook at a George Garton bouncer which flew high over keeper Ben Brown for four to take him to 77, but he was prolific off his pads and quick on anything short.Earlier, only late hitting from David Wiese and No 10 Carson had managed to haul Sussex’s run rate above three per over after they began day two on 239 for 3.Wiese’s 47-ball 57 also made sure Sussex banked four batting bonus points and featured three sixes and six fours – the best of those strikes an almost contemptuous checked straight drive off Dan Moriarty’s left-arm spin which brought the former South Africa all-rounder his first six.And Carson contributed two lusty legside sixes off Moriarty in his 21 before being last out, caught at deep mid wicket with just nine balls of the 120-over first innings limit remaining.Moriarty, although expensive, took the last three Sussex wickets – with Wiese, taken in the deep and Stuart Meaker, bowled for 12 having a mow from down the pitch, also falling to him after lunch – to finish with 5 for 154.Off spinner Amar Virdi’s 3 for 80 from 32 overs was a worthy effort, and fast bowler James Taylor impressed in a second new ball spell of 2 for 21 in which he removed 16-year-old James Coles, Sussex’s youngest first-class debutant, for 11 and Sussex captain Brown for a well-made 51.Brown, who hit seven fours after resuming on 9, was caught behind off a Taylor leg-cutter after providing most of Sussex’s forward momentum following the early loss of first day century-maker Tom Haines, leg-before to Virdi for 117.Moriarty skidded one out of the footholds into Garton’s pads to have him lbw for 12 as lunch approached, but at least Wiese and Carson hit out productively in a ninth wicket alliance of 53 in little more than six overs.

Fast bowler realises breaking into Test XI won’t be easy

ESPNcricinfo staff23-Jul-2020Fast bowler Lockie Ferguson’s Test aspirations are still as strong as ever after a calf strain cut short his performance in his only Test, against Australia in Perth last December.Ferguson said he had time to reflect on a lot of things about his “whirlwind” career during the recent lockdown, including what kind of a player he wants to be for New Zealand in all formats, especially Tests.”The lockdown treated everyone differently but certainly for myself, it gave me the time naturally to reflect on what’s happened in the last few years,” Ferguson said on the sidelines of New Zealand’s winter training camp in Mount Maunganui. “It’s been a bit of a whirlwind three years being on tour and playing all year around. And just to reflect on how that went, what kind of player I want to be in the future and how best I can be suited to hopefully playing all three formats because I want to play all three formats for the country.ALSO READ: Kane Williamson looks forward to IPL as he eases back into training“I have certainly been excited to be part of the [Test] squad and getting a bit of taste of Test cricket although it wasn’t to be my Test match but certainly it’s in my goals. Test cricket is one of those formats I really want to play and by no means do I look lightly upon T20s and one-dayers because I’ve thoroughly enjoyed playing those. The goal is still alive within all three formats and how best I can play in all three and be an effective player and most importantly how to get us more wins.”Ferguson picked up a calf strain on the first day of his Test debut after bowling 11 overs and an MRI scan later confirmed he couldn’t bowl in the remainder of the match. He nearly had Steven Smith as his maiden Test wicket on that day but the batsman was dropped at second slip.Ferguson, who is known for clocking upwards of 150kph consistently and has had a much greater impact in ODIs and T20s so far, realises breaking into the Test XI again won’t be easy as senior quicks Tim Southee, Trent Boult and Neil Wagner are often certain starters, and he will have to compete with Kyle Jamieson and Matt Henry for a spot.Jamieson impressed in his two Tests against India in February by dismissing Cheteshwar Pujara and Virat Kohli as his first two victims in Wellington, and then picking the Man-of-the-Match award with a five-for in the next match in Christchurch.”It’s been an awesome time for the Test team,” Ferguson said. “Kyle Jamieson came in on the back of some unfortunate injuries and performed so well which is awesome. He’s a good mate and now we’re competing against each other for a potential spot in the side and that’s fantastic as well.”I think the Test team has been performing so well lately but the communication I have with senior bowlers and the learnings I get off them is only going to make me a better player. The more I can mix at training with them, learn from them and try to become a better Test bowler will only help me.”But as I said it’s exciting just to be back with the chunk of the group this week and having some sort of competition in the nets which I’m sure we’re all a little bit hungry for. I have no direct format I’m working towards, I just want to make sure I’m as best a player across all three [formats] and an effective team player.”