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The Mumbai Champs, already out of the reckoning for a semi-final spot, cruised to a consolation 35-run victory over the Chandigarh Lions. The win was set up by a solid batting display, led by their captain Nathan Astle’s breezy 42.Astle chose to bat at the toss, and the Champs lost two wickets before he and Subhojit Paul smashed 60 runs in six overs. Shreyas Khanolkar and Kiran Powar provided useful contributions before Ranjit Khirid provided the impetus towards the end of the innings. He lashed a 21-ball 32 to lift the Champs to 160.Andrew Hall turned in an outstanding bowling performance, finishing with 4 for 8 in his three overs, while Daryl Tuffey, Chris Cairns and Dinesh Mongia went for more than nine an over.After Manish Sharma was run out in the second over, Tejinder Pal Singh and Lou Vincent set up a platform for the Lions’ chase, taking them to 46 before Vincent fell in the eighth over. Shridhar Iyer then struck twice to remove Tejinder Pal and Mongia, and the Lions’ chase looked in disarray at 70 for 4, needing 91 with 47 deliveries remaining.Once Michael Kasprowicz dismissed the dangerous Cairns, the hunt looked all but over for the Lions. They closed at 125 for 8 in their 20 overs, and more importantly lost out on two points in their pursuit of a semi-final spot.

Andrew Symonds, Australia’s pivotal allrounder, looks set to be passedfit for Australia’s crucial Group A encounter against South Africa,although a final decision will be delayed until the eve of Saturday’s match.”He’s pretty much trained unrestricted, or with limited restriction,so they [the selectors] have had a good chance to look at himthemselves,” Alex Kountouris, the team physiotherapist, said. “He’sgoing alright. His batting is unrestricted, his bowling isunrestricted. Most parts of his fielding are unrestricted. He’s comingalong pretty well. We’re just building up his throwing.”The throwing aspect would appear to be the biggest barrier toSymonds’ early recall. Though his recovery from a torn right biceps isahead of schedule, he has been attempting returns of no morethan 25-30 metres which, even on a ground as notoriously small asWarner Park, is short of a full boundary’s length.”From my point of view, I just want to get him right and obviously Iwant it to be 100% but I’m realistic, ” said Kountouris. “He’s hadsurgery not that long ago, so I’m just trying to get him to thehighest possible level that I can, and let the others make thedecision on what he can and can’t do, and whether they want to playhim or not.”We haven’t actually cleared him to play, there’s still a couple morethings that we want him to do until we reach that point and we’vestill got a couple more days to do it. But he’s got a very positiveattitude. He’s not demanding [selection], but he’s confident with whathe can do, which is what you want. You want someone to be positiveafter coming back from a long-term injury.”Symonds is not the only member of the Australian squad who is itchingto get stuck into their first big contest of this World Cup. “The boysare so pumped up for this game, they can’t wait,” Michael Hussey,whose contributions have been limited by the successes of hiscolleagues higher up the order, said. “It’s a huge game and we want to betested. We want a real serious contest and see how it pans out.”Recent Australia-South Africa encounters have been marked by a glut ofcomments flying back and forth between the two camps, but forthis match, the hype has been more measured. “The teams have a healthyrespect for each other,” Hussey said, “but I think they’ve realisedthat that sort of banter doesn’t really work.”You can have all the mind games you want and all the slanging matchesgoing back and forth. But at the end of the day I don’t think itreally works at all. What matters is out on the field. It’s how wellyou play the game. These are two proud countries with two pretty proudhistories. It’s just such an important game.”The short boundaries at Warner Park have raised several eyebrows inthe opening four matches of the tournament, with many punditspredicting record totals in Saturday’s match. “As a batsman you alwayslook at a ground and target certain areas,” Hussey said. “At Auckland,for instance, it’s slightly off-centre for the left-hander, so you lookto adapt. But I don’t change my training too much. I just make surethe basics are in order then practise a few hard-hitting shots at theend.”Even so, Australia will have taken note of the success that Scotland’stail had against South Africa’s death bowlers, Andrew Hall and CharlLangeveldt, clubbing them for 55 runs in five overs on Tuesday. “Idon’t really want to say they’ve got a problem in that area,”Hussey said, “because in one-day cricket and on these grounds you can gothe journey a bit in those last few overs.”We’re going to be targeting a lot of areas, not just one or two. We need a complete game of cricket, because if we don’t comeoff in just one of our areas, we’ll come up short. We’ll be focusingon a full 100 overs, rather than just their death bowling, but for usthere’s going to have to be a little more planning from the bowlingpoint of view. We need to get them to hit the ball in different areas,instead of attacking those straight boundaries.”

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Mitchell Johnson did not get to bat in Queensland’s 6 for 900 declared, but he made sure he left a huge mark on the Pura Cup final with a six wicket-haul and ten for the match as the Bulls won by an innings and 354 runs. Needing a massive 556 to make Queensland bat again, Victoria were dismissed before tea for 202 to give the Bulls their sixth domestic first-class trophy with the biggest margin of victory in a final.The Bushrangers resumed at 2 for 38 in the hope that pride would guide them through the day and achieve an honourable draw. Johnson, who removed both openers late on day four, upset their plans with 6 for 51 and match figures of 10 for 106 to confirm his status as one of the country’s leading bowling prospects.”What a performance on a flat wicket – ten wickets,” Maher, the Man of the Match, told . “How he didn’t get Man of the Match is beyond me. What you saw today was a massive turning point.”Brad Hodge was Johnson’s third victim, caught by Ashley Noffke in the gully for 28, and Johnson returned to rip into the lower order by removing Jon Moss (13), Nathan Pilon (8) and Shane Harwood (3) to make sure of the outright victory. The legspinner Daniel Doran, who picked up 3 for 33, struck with his first ball to hit David Hussey’s off stump on 37 and he also knocked over Cameron White before finishing with the top scorer Nick Jewell for 69.The last wicket was left to Andy Bichel, who forced Dirk Nannes to hit to Lachlan Stevens at short leg for his 50th of the season, and sent the Queenslanders into a celebration they have been planning from the dressing room for days. “They ran into a Queensland side that was hungrier than you’ve ever seen,” Maher said. “The last side that was this hungry was in 1994-95 and we’d never won it then.”The Bulls drove to their mammoth total on a lifeless pitch with centuries to Jimmy Maher (223), Shane Watson (201), Clint Perren (173) and Martin Love (169) in a performance the home players will remember for decades. The loss was Victoria’s worst defeat in their 115-year first-class history. “It definitely hurts,” Cameron White, the Victoria captain, said.

The Pakistan Cricket Board and the Board of Control for Cricket in India have expressed concern over the excessive number of matches between the two countries since cricketing ties resumed in March last year. The two teams have now played 15 one-day internationals and six Tests in the span of one year.Concerned that too many matches might lessen the excitement and charm of an India-Pakistan tie among the fans, Shaharyar Khan, the PCB chairman, said in a Press Trust of India report: “After India complete their tour of Pakistan sometime in January-February next year, the two boards will discuss this issue. We feel perhaps Pakistan and India are playing too much cricket against each other since the revival of cricket ties and we need to reach a bilateral agreement on how much we should play against each other in, say, a five-year cycle.”India toured Pakistan in March last year, which put an end to a four-year freeze in bilateral cricketing ties. This was followed by Pakistan touring India after six years, after which India are scheduled to visit Pakistan for three Tests and five ODIs early next year. In March-April 2006, they will clash again in the Asia Cup in Pakistan.”We don’t want a situation where people will become tired of watching Pakistan-India matches,” Shaharyar said. “We don’t want an excess of these games at any point of time. We have a played a lot against each other in a year’s time.”

The XXXX Queensland Bulls final home ING Cup game might fall on Friday the 13th but the match will spell good fortune for another champion team- the Queensland Institute of Medical Research.The QIMR is selling tickets donated by Queensland Cricket in the lead-up to the game against the Western Warriors on Friday night at the Gabba.Funds raised from the venture and by collectors at the match will raise funds for vital research into cures, vaccines, treatments and screening tests for more than 30 life threatening diseases including cancer, infectious diseases and clinical diseases.The dollars raised will enhance the wonderful work done by QIMR’s 800 scientists.The Bulls will have a tour of the QIMR facilities from 11.30am and then visit patients in the nearby Royal Children’s Hospital tomorrow as part of their build-up to Friday’s must-win match, which will also be Stuart Law’s final one-day game at the Gabba.The Bulls are third in the ING Cup with two matches remaining, one point behind second-placed Victoria, while the Warriors are the competition leaders.Tickets for Friday’s match can be purchased from the QIMR on 3362 0222.

It may be amusing to some, but to me its quite amazing that the fateof the world’s premier cricket tournament may be decided by theweather. I am used to seeing rain and cricket go hand in hand duringEnglish summers, but the World Cup could certainly have done withoutthe stormy weather. One team that will not be complaining too muchabout the weather is host nation South Africa, for whom the rain -which denied the West Indies valuable points against Bangladesh – wasa shot in the arm after some shock losses.

But the cricket itself, in all fairness, has been exciting, and therehave already been some interesting results through the inclusion ofteams like Bangladesh, Holland, Namibia and Kenya. Their inclusion hasnot only made things difficult by stretching the World Cup into a longdrawn-out affair but also by wrecking a few teams’ plans by collectingtwo points from rained-out games and almost pulling off an upset ortwo. One must give these spirited “minnows” a lot of credit. Many maythink that the one-sided games involving lesser teams drag down WorldCup standards to the level of farce, but the new blood, in my opinion,has made the tournament more interesting on a global basis and willcertainly help in the growth of cricket.Apart from the rain and the odd one-sided game, this Cup saw moredrama when England and New Zealand forfeited their games againstZimbabwe and Kenya respectively. Highly charged global politics andsecurity concerns have, I feel, driven some people paranoid. I don’tthink sport and politics should ever mix, for politics of any kind hasonly been detrimental to the game. If the International CricketCouncil classifies a venue as safe, the teams should be willing toplay there – simple as that. If some teams are going to opt out of agame or two, why play in the World Cup at all? The individual boards,moreover, are going against ICC rulings, so if there is talk ofpenalties imposed on the countries, the ICC would only have mysupport.

Pakistan, in its World Cup foray so far, has had a different set ofproblems. Their approach in the first game against Australia was muchtoo casual. Where has the famous fighting spirit gone? Where is thepride of playing for Pakistan? I thought Wasim Akram bowled a superbfirst spell and exposed the Australian weakness – the middle order -but once Wasim was taken off, the weaker aspects of Pakistan cricketallowed Andrew Symonds to take the game away. Given the opportunity,Pakistan should have been able to finish Australia off, for that iswhat wins matches in top-class cricket.Controversy dogged this match too, and I was surprised to see WaqarYounis lose his cool and bowl two beamers at Symonds, consequentlybeing barred from bowling further in that match. Waqar is a verysenior cricketer and an experienced one. Surely he should have knownthat such adverse publicity can only harm team morale.But bygones are bygones, and there is yet a World Cup to be won. Tobring it home to Pakistan, their batting will have to play a moreresponsible role. After all, if Rashid Latif down the order can scoreruns, why cannot Inzamam ul-Haq and Yousuf Youhana? These two batsmenhave the responsibility of holding the middle order together and scorethe majority of their team’s runs. Failing to do so against Namibiawill be something that Pakistan would have discussed after the game.One must also remember that during Pakistan’s sole World Cup win, in1992, Inzamam was the key batsman for the side, and here too in SouthAfrica, a decade later, he must start firing immediately.Pakistan’s fixture against Namibia ended predictably, with theirbatting hardly able to withstand the Pakistani pace attack. I was gladto see Wasim Akram and Shoaib Akhtar have an extended bowling stint inthat game, for their next match – against England – has the potentialto be a deciding one as far as Pakistan’s campaign is concerned. A winat Cape Town will help them breathe a little easier before theircrucial encounter against India.England too will be out of sorts after going through the wringerduring the Zimbabwe controversy, and their win against Namibia wasnone too convincing. There is thus a big chance for Pakistan to beatthem, but it will take a good game-plan and an excellent execution ofit in the middle.Strategy, indeed, seems to be the buzzword in this tournament.Watching this World Cup from the armchair, I can closely follow eventson the field, watch replays over and over again, and this is exactlywhat Pakistan must also do – observe. If they learn from watchingtheir opposition closely, it will help them formulate precisestrategies that will go a long way in helping them win the Cup.

Having overcome England in all three of their encounters and ending the losing streak of half a dozen games against Australia, going into the final at Lord’s on Saturday the morale in the Pakistan camp would be high. And so it should, for they have made quite a phenomenal comeback in this month of June, to be just a win away from a prestigious title.But can they beat the Aussies in two back-to-back encounters? I would say yes to that, because I feel that Pakistan is now getting back the right amount of aggression and positive attitude, winning those close encounters that till recently were being lost. That said, the Aussies are the professionals of professionals, and never like ending up on the losing side. Desirous of repeating their ’99 World Cup triumph at the most hallowed of turfs, they would be a different proposition in the final. But as Pakistan in this tournament, and India before that in the recent Test and one-day series, have established that the Aussies are not quite invincible if the attack is taken to them. Something England, down and out in this NatWest Trophy, long before their final league game, would need to remember in the context of the Ashes.Whether they chase or set up a target, depending on the team strategy, Pakistan would need to produce their best and then some to overcome the Aussies in the final. On flatter one-day wickets, with the reverse swing working for them in the latter part of the innings, the pacers would need to contain more in the initial overs than they did in the game they ended up winning. A few more overs of Adam Gilchrist’s onslaught may have maintained the Aussies unbeaten record in this event. And Saqlain for his part is bowling as splendidly as ever, even outdid his best with the delivery that got rid of Damien Martyn – one of the most remarkable deliveries I have seen an off-spinner bowl.It is good that Wasim Akram is back to full fitness, and I assume, Inzamam too would be back for the final. Pakistan would hope that both these stalwarts are in prime form. Inzamam after three or four glorious knocks got himself out in poor fashion twice in succession. Since he is the man for a big occasion, as he has proved many a time, I expect that he would deliver.The good thing for Pakistan is that most of its players are in reasonably good nick, and have performed well on a couple of occasions or more. They have been through pressure situations and come good. This should give them the confidence to take on the Aussies in a positive frame of mind.So far, they have been provided the lead by skipper Waqar Younis, who is known for his mental toughness. He has bowled with a lot of heart and led well. Any captain who could instil a never-say-die attitude in his charges and spur them to give off their best has done half the job. The rest is likely to fall in place, unless the luck factor deserts them. With Waqar providing the leadership and the wickets, and in bagful to boot, 13 in the two last games to be precise, the Pakistanis’ luck too seems to have changed for the better.In cricket, more so in the shorter version of the game, it is the side, which performs well on the day which normally carries the honours. Unless it is a day off for one of the two teams, with both very balanced outfits firing on all cylinders, this is most likely to be a final to remember.

Ed:Salahuddin Ahmed (Sallu) is a former Test cricketer, and has served as a PCB selector nine times; his last stint (1999-2000) was as chief selector.

Faf du Plessis, who is recovering from a knee injury, will begin training at full intensity only by the end of September, days before he is due to captain South Africa’s T20 side in India. Du Plessis has been named in South Africa’s squads across all formats despite the niggle, which has kept him out of action since August.Du Plessis had hurt himself at practice ahead of the home series against New Zealand in August, and played no part in either the T20s or the ODIs. At the time, he was told he would be out for up to four weeks, during which time he was advised not to even run. Consensus had been that du Plessis would be ready in time for the India tour but now, it seems touch and go.”The injury has responded slower than expected,” South Africa’s team manager Dr Mohammed Moosajee said. “Faf saw a knee specialist in Cape Town last week, where he received a second cortisone injection into the area. This seemed to have worked as he is currently pain-free. However, we need to see how he progresses. The plan is to commence training next week and build up to full intensity by the end of the month.”South Africa also have four other walking wounded, although two of them have recovered. Hashim Amla complained of a chronic neck issue, and was also found to have fractured a bone in his left thumb after the New Zealand series. But Moosajee said “both have settled.” Imran Tahir had to return home early from a stint with English county side Nottinghamshire owing to a thigh injury. It was since diagnosed as a hamstring issue and Moosajee said Tahir has “responded well to treatment.”The news was not as good for Rilee Rossouw, who was ruled out out the T20s against India with a stress fracture in his left foot, but has been named in the squad for the ODIs, which begin three days after the final T20.”Healing for this type of injury takes six to eight weeks,” Moosajee explained. “Rilee is currently non-weight bearing in a moon boot but he is being assessed weekly in Bloemfontein. A decision will be made as to when he can start full-weight bearing and light running, but the aim is to have him ready for the ODIs.”Chris Morris, also in the ODI squad, will hope to recover from a groin strain he picked up while on tour in Bangladesh. He has been receiving treatment from his franchise physiotherapist in Centurion and will have a fitness assessment next week before playing in some T20 warm-up matches for Titans. Moosajee said Morris, “should be fine for the start of the India tour.”

February was a quiet month for Tim Ambrose, which is strange when you consider he was in the throes of his first senior England tour. But now that the calendar has clicked round to March, there’s no hiding from the limelight any longer. After running the drinks as Phil Mustard’s understudy throughout the one-day series, Ambrose is at last ready to take centre stage. On Wednesday, he becomes England’s latest wicketkeeper and No. 7 batsman, as the first Test against New Zealand gets underway in Hamilton.Wicketkeepers are, as a rule of thumb, a highly-strung fraternity, but to judge from his outward appearance, Ambrose bucks that particular trend. During England’s final warm-up in the Antarctic chill of Dunedin, he was quietly confident in all that he did, easing five fours in an attractive 33, and holding onto four fuss-free catches behind the stumps. The only taut strings that Ambrose displays are those of his travelling companion, his trusty guitar, an instrument he’s been playing since the age of 14.”I’m as ready as I’ll ever be,” said Ambrose, as England checked into their Hamilton hotel with three days to go until his Test debut. “I haven’t felt too many nerves so far, but I’m generally excited and looking forward to getting a chance. My game is in good order. Dunedin was a good opportunity to get some rust out and I’m very pleased with the way I’m catching.”There are few roles in international cricket that come with as many caveats as that of the England wicketkeeper. Ever since the retirement of Alec Stewart, that No. 7 position has been a merry-go-round of the tried, tested, and discarded. James Foster, Geraint Jones, Paul Nixon and Chris Read are among the players to have been chewed over and spat out, and then of course there’s the most recent incumbent, Matt Prior, a man to whom Ambrose needs no introduction. The pair sparred over the gauntlets at Sussex for five seasons from 2001, until Ambrose eventually bit the bullet and moved to Warwickshire, the battle for supremacy seemingly won and lost.Not so, it turns out. Prior impressed intermittently with his pugnacious batting, and averaged over 40 for his first year of Test cricket, but it was as a gloveman that he was found wanting. Three ugly fumbles during the must-win Galle Test in December meant that his shortcomings could no longer be overlooked, and he was axed so unceremoniously at the beginning of the year that the England selectors couldn’t even locate him to let him down gently.Ambrose may have been the beneficiary, but there were no hard feelings from his friend and rival. “I’ve spoken to Matt a couple of times since we got here,” said Ambrose. “He sent a text before we left, and he was very supportive because he’s a good friend. But as cricketers me and him are very different. We’ve learned things from each other, but I know how I play and I’ll focus more on what I can do and what I’ll bring to the side.”Part of the reason for the high turnover among English wicketkeepers has been the freakish genius of Adam Gilchrist, whose career has entered its final week with the culmination of Australia’s CB Series campaign. Suddenly every pretender to the role has to average nearly 50 while clinging onto all edges that fly their way, but Ambrose didn’t see his influence as a negative one.”I would never say he’s been detrimental, he’s been inspirational,” said Ambrose. “He’s raised the bar and it’s great to have someone at that level to aim for. There’s no reason why people can’t try to achieve what he’s done in the past. He’s an exceptional performer, and he’s been brilliant for the game and for that skill as well, but there’s nothing wrong with aiming high and trying to achieve those sorts of things.”

Now however, there’s a more immediate distraction as Ambrose embarks on his international career. In Brendon McCullum, New Zealand have unearthed the nearest thing to a Gilchrist clone – as confirmed at the recent IPL auction in Mumbai where Kolkata splashed out a cool US$700,000. In Sunday’s State Shield final in Auckland, McCullum smashed Otago to their first victory in 20 years with an incredible innings of 170 from 108 balls.The innings was being shown in the foyer while Ambrose was waiting to speak to the media, but if he was daunted by the match-up, he didn’t show it. “He’s played very well, and is striking the ball very well, so I’ll be watching him to learn as I have done for the last month,” said Ambrose. “But my game is based on a very simple technique because there is less that can go wrong that way, my keeping in particular, and it seems to suit me.”Wednesday promises to be a special occasion in more ways than one for Ambrose. If an impending debut is not enough emotion to be dealing with, he’s got a long-overdue family reunion in prospect as well. He was just 17 when he first came to England in the summer of 2000 in search of broader horizons, and ever since then his cricketing duties have denied him many opportunities to get back to his native Sydney. This week, however, his parents, Ray and Sally, are due to fly across the Tasman to witness his big moment.”Dad was over for a month last year, but I’ve not seen my mum for a few years so it’ll be good to catch up,” said Ambrose, “though she’ll probably be hiding out the back because she’s not a good watcher. But the whole occasion will mean a great deal. I was talking to Stuart Broad last night, and he was telling me about his debut in Colombo. It sent shivers up my spine, as it was a very proud moment. I’m sure I’ll feel the same.”

“Herschelle, at what stage did you realise it was a million dollars and not a million bottles of Johnnie Walker that was up for grabs?”The question was irreverent and came at the very tail-end of the press conference, but it was worthy of being asked. Herschelle Gibbs hasbeen accused of many things in his career, but an ambassador for responsible drinking is surely not one of them.And yet, the man who once claimed his return to form against West Indies had come on the back of “a pizza and a couple of Jack Daniels”had just won a whisky company’s million-dollar challenge as the first man in the World Cup – and all international cricket for that matter -to slam six sixes in an over. The company in question, Johnnie Walker, apparently encourages the players in this tournament to “know theirboundaries”. In a colourful career that has encompassed match-fixing scandals, racism charges and dope-smoking, Gibbs has certainly crossed many more boundaries than the seven he pulled off today.”The message came out that Jacques Kallis and I could have a dip, and we probably had a bigger dip than was needed,” Gibbs said.”After the fourth one, I thought it could be on. I thought about using my feet and coming down the pitch, but then I changed my mind anddecided to stay in the crease. The idea was for me to have another two goes at it [the record] and luckily I didn’t miscue any of them, so it was quite nice.”They weren’t miscues by any stretch of the imagination, but conventional shots they were not. Smears one and all, over long-off,long-on and midwicket, it was arguably some of the most reckless driving ever seen on a cricket pitch. “If the ball presents itself, I’ll try everything,” he said. “I was lucky the straight boundaries were quite small but the six sixes was a bonus, it was just nice to get a hit in the middle.”Related

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“Nice” was not an adjective the Netherlands captain, Luuk van Troost, was about to use in a hurry. Looking utterly shell-shocked, he gave an honest assessment of a gruelling day. “They totally outplayed us,” he said. “This was world-class batting and the small boundaries were never going to help us. In the end we didn’t do well enough, simple as that.”I was quite happy with the start actually,” he said after South Africa struggled to 4 for 1 after five overs. “But after that they were cruising. After we came off everyone was very negative, obviously, and so we thought, well, let’s try to get them. It’s the only way.”van Troost said his team had been suckered by the torrential morning rain, and erred in omitting both of their frontline spinners,Muhammad Kashif and Adeel Raja. Into the breach, and straight into history, stepped Daan van Bunge and his part-time legbreaks. “Daanbowled very well against Kenya and we thought he could be our spinner,” van Troost said. “Well, it didn’t work out very well that plan!”What followed was an onslaught straight out of the annals of village cricket. “What can you say? There were a few good balls in it and a few shit balls,” van Troost said. “I told Daan after the third ball, ‘try to bowl a quicker one’. He said, ‘I just did!’ He had some flashbacks since then. Seriously, he started laughing as he was sitting in the dressing-room. Before the game we said let’s make history today, well, we made history!”It’s terrible to be a captain in that situation. For the last couple of overs I didn’t know where to put my players any more or where to bowl. I thought I’ll take the last over, someone’s got to do it.” In the event, he too felt the wrath of a well-set international cricketer, as Kallis lashed each of his final three deliveries into the pavilion.The nightmare, however, may only just be beginning for Holland. In two days they take on the Australians and van Troost was wincing atthe prospect. “I don’t want to think about it now,” he said. “We’ve just got to take the positives out of this performance. The first tenovers were pretty good, I thought our fielding was pretty good, and Ryan ten Doeschate got a good 60. But perhaps tomorrowwe’ll have a team meeting and find a new game plan. We have to improve a lot in the next two days.”