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Sri Lankan players celebrate the dismissal of Sridharan Sriram © AFP

Sri Lanka A 198 for 3 (Mubarak 61, Jayawardene 54) beat India A 197 (Sriram 65, Maharoof 4 for 30) by 7 wickets
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Mohamed Maharoof lead the way with some accurate medium pace bowling as Sri Lanka A romped home in the final of the Kenstar tri-series tournament in Kolkata. Having restricted India A to a modest 197, Jehan Mubarak and Prasanna Jayawardene stroked their way to half-centuries and steered their team home.After losing the toss, the Sri Lanka A bowlers stuck to a nagging line that kept the batsmen, most of them in fine fettle, in a tight leash. Gautam Gambhir creamed five fours before Nuwan Zoysa, the left-arm medium-pacer, rattled his stumps. The run-rate was always kept under check and India A found partnerships of sizeable proportions hard to come by. Sridharan Sriram and Hemang Badani added 46 for the third wicket but both were tied down by some disciplined bowling.Badani spooned a catch back to Rangana Herath, the left-arm spinner, and things went downhill from then. Yuvraj Singh and Dinesh Mongia perished trying to up the rate and only Sriram’s half-century prevented a collapse. Maharoof then got stuck into the lower order, fired in some incisive yorkers, and grabbed three wickets in the space of five balls.The Sri Lankans began as if they were chasing 280 and whipped everything that was a shade off line. Shantha Kalavitigoda, after hammering four boundaries, was out lbw when he was rapped on the pads by Amit Bhandari with one that jagged back at the last moment. That caused a huge uproar in Eden Gardens, which was packed for today’s game, but Mubarak and Jayawardene literally reduced the volume with some flourishing strokes. They added 104 in only 16.3 overs and Mubarak’s 61 came off 65 balls. Both fell in quick succession to the spinners, but Russel Arnold and Naveed Nawaz maintained the tempo and applied the varnish without panicking. Maharoof was adjudged the Man of the Match while Arnold was declared the Man of the Series.

With a wry grin on his face, Otago captain Craig Cumming commented late today that cricket is not a game that one should try to understand.Cumming’s men had just completed an unlikely victory over Central Districts, winning by nine runs after looking all over a well-thrashed team just an hour and a half earlier.Otago scored 243, and Central could only reach 234 after reaching 154 before losing a wicket. Cumming suggested it’s difficult to try to understand just what happens in cricket. Two games ago Otago blew what appeared a certain winning chance against Wellington.Now they savoured cricket from, the other side of the coin.”It’s the opposite feeling to what we had when we played Wellington. It was unbelievable how we could lose that – now it’s unbelievable how we could win this.”I suppose it was pressure. We managed to get a couple of wickets and put some pressure on, and our bowlers did a whole better at the end than they did at the start,” Cumming said, “and the ball started to reverse.”It’s a funny game. I don’t think you should ever try to work it out because I don’t think you can.”Cumming believed the loss of momentum by Central after Jesse Ryder (61) and Craig Spearman (97) were dismissed was vital in achieving Otago’s ultimate win.”We talk about keeping momentum going with our batting. When we put a stop to their momentum, it allowed us to claw our way back into it. Funny things happen.”

Calmore Sports are off the mark in the Southern Electric ECB Premier League, but they had to overcome a top-order batting collapse before clinching a last-ball victory over Bournemouth at Loperwood Park.Chasing Bournemouth’s 201-4, Calmore appeared set for an easy win after a century opening partnership between Tom Pegler and Paul Draper.But, having reached 143-1, they collapsed – and ended up scrambling in by three wickets off the very last ball.Earlier, Bournemouth teenager Chris Park carried his bat for an undefeated 90 and Geoff Warrington smashed 57 runs off 33 balls.Park, 17, batted sedately, but lacked any significant support until Warrington’s arrived at the crease to tuck greedily into the left-arm spin of Paul Draper, whose ten overs cost 84 runs.Draper (50) soon got his revenge, sharing a century opening partnership with Tom Pegler (65), who had Jez Goode (22) in support as Calmore reached 143-1.But Pegler’s dismissal prompted chaotic scenes in the Calmore camp – five wickets falling for only five runs, three of them in quick succession to Australian medium-pacer Peter Waite (3-20) – as the reply lurched to 148-6.James Hibberd (20) departed at 182-7, leaving teenager Paul Cass (26 not out) to guide Calmore to victory – Wilson’s penultimate over, which cost 12 runs, effectively ending Bournemouth’s prospects.Russell Rowe cracked his second consecutive century as South Wilts piled up a massive 298-4 before beating strugglers Hungerford by 135 runs.Rowe (103) and Rob Wade (74) shared a 178-run start for South Wilts, who profited further when Tim Lamb (50) and Tom Caines (40) came together.Hampshire’s Jason Laney (45) top scored as Hungerford sank to 163 all out.South Australian batsman Andy Loader was to the fore again as Bashley (Rydal) comfortably defeated Burridge by 112 runs at Bashley Common Road.The Adelaide right-hander hit 83 and shared a significant second-wicket partnership with Hampshire’s Andy Sexton (61) as Bashley took charge.Richard Knowles thumped 57 as Bashley moved to an unassailable 240-6 (Paul Jenkins 3-32).Dave Jackson (41) and Neil Cunningham (25) responded but got little support as, initially, Neil Taylor (3-14) and latterly John Whiting (3-16) created inroads as Burridge slipped to 128 all out.Title holders Havant stretched their lead at the top with a comfortable seven-wicket success at Andover, who plunged to a second consecutive defeat.The Miller brothers, Roger (33) and Mark (26) propelled Andover to 52-1 off ten overs, but the later batting gave away against Shawn Gillies (4-34) and Mark Copping (3-27).Andover’s 134 all out was never likely to test Havant, whose victory was based around second-wicket pair Andy Perry (64) and Richard Hindley (38).Second-placed BAT Sports slumped to a five-wicket defeat against Liphook & Ripsley after New Zealander Ben Jansen and Duncan Berry turned things around.BAT posted a handy 230-7 through Damien Shirazi (86) and Dave Banks (48) and looked set for victory as Liphook slipped to 135-5.But Kiwi Jansen hit 83 not out and skipper Berry an unbeaten 53 to guide Liphook home.

Andrew Dickson has been left reacting to what he has now heard from Glasgow on injured Rangers star Alfredo Morelos.

The Lowdown: On crutches

As per Sky Sports, Morelos is now a doubt for the Old Firm clash against Celtic in the Scottish Premiership on Sunday lunchtime, after he was spotted on crutches at Glasgow Airport.

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The plane he was boarding was set for London, where he will receive a scan on a thigh injury that he picked up while on international duty with Colombia.

The Latest: Dickson reacts

Taking to Twitter, Scottish football journalist Dickson has reacted after hearing the news, saying the club now face a ‘sweat’ ahead of the derby:

“Looks like Morelos is off for a scan in London. Sweaty three days ahead.”

The Verdict: Worrying

The fact that Morelos has gone off for a scan so soon before the derby is certainly worrying for the Ibrox faithful.

Of course, the striker remains their biggest threat in front of goal, finding the back of the net 19 times in total so far this season, more than any of his teammates.

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Nonetheless, this is a game that the Teddy Bears really need to win in order to close the gap to their rivals at the top, and anything other than three points would spark serious doubt into their title hopes.

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	Thrilled after dismissing Sourav Ganguly twice in his 100th Test, Brad Hogg is looking forward to maintaining his good form in Sydney © Getty Images

Brad Hogg relishes the challenge of bowling to Sourav Ganguly, India’sbest batsman over the last 12 months. Ganguly was Hogg’s first Test victim, back in1996 in Delhi, and he was thrilled to have dismissed him in both innings inMelbourne.”Ganguly was my first Test and international wicket and it was good to get him outin his 100th Test match,” Hogg said. “And to get him out twice was pleasing but atthe end of the day we have another Test match, so I have to be on my game to do thesame thing.”Hogg nailed Ganguly with a flipper in the first innings, skidding on to the stumps,and induced a close-in catch in the second. Not only did Hogg ably support thefast bowlers, with four wickets in the big win, but also silenced doubters about hisability to bowl to India’s much-vaunted batting line-up.Hogg’s googly has troubled batsmen in the one-day format but he pulled out theflipper to surprise India in Melbourne. “I really have not bowled it for the pastcouple of years,” Hogg said of his flipper. “A couple of the boys have told me toput it in my locker. It is just one of those things I thought if there is a momentthat I might just try it in a game and it just happened that it worked, so yeah ifyou have got it you might as well use it as the saying goes.”Hogg said he viewed the MCG opportunity as a chance to fill Stuart MacGill’s shoesbut went on to suggest that he was ready to take his spot. “But you never know whatis going to happen down the track,” he said. “I could not play tomorrow and play ayear later. I have just come in here and want to lap up every moment as much aspossible and you never know what is around the corner.”Was there any area of his game that he was keen to work on for Sydney? “Patience, Ithink. I’m an impatient bloke myself. It’s important I bowl with the same patiencethat the faster bowlers did. The pitch at Sydney has changed quite a bit. I guessspinners may have to work a lot harder. It was a bit nerve-wracking in the earlystages in Melbourne. But my batting in the second innings calmed it down a bit.Nerves are about wanting to do well.”

Nick Knight is the most recent player to be named in the panel © Getty Images

The ECB have confirmed the seven-man review committee which will undertake an assessment of English cricket following the Ashes whitewash. As announced earlier this week Ken Schofield, the former executive director of the PGA Tour, will head a group containing six former Test cricketers.Nasser Hussain, Nick Knight, Angus Fraser, Hugh Morris and Micky Stewart are joined by Brian Rose, the director of cricket at Somerset, who played nine Tests but will also bring an administrative and business point of view. However, there is no place on the panel for Mike Atherton, who’d been widely expected to take a role.Between them the panel has a total of 179 Tests and 232 ODIs over first-class careers stretched from 1954 to 2006, with Knight having only retired from Warwickshire last summer. Stewart, meanwhile, has also been coach and manager of the England team.The inclusion of Morris, who is the ECB’s deputy chief executive, seems to go against the statement that the review will be “fully independent”, but David Collier, the chief executive, defended the move. “He’s not a board director and he’s not in charge of that area [international cricket], whereas I am a board director, so that’s the logic there.”The review panel will take a comprehensive look at the game, not just the Ashes defeat, and recommend what needs to be done to give England its best chance of regaining the Ashes in 2009 and winning a global one-day event by 2011.David Morgan, the ECB chairman, said: “The board has determined that this review forms a critical element of ECB’s planning for the four-year cycle, which commences immediately after the 2007 World Cup.”The board is delighted that such a high-profile team has been assembled with great experience of both playing and coaching at international and domestic level and looks forward to receiving the report at our March meeting.”

Dave Mohammed celebrates on his way to 5 for 41 © T&T Express

It took Trinidad and Tobago less than an hour after lunch to beat Jamaica.The afternoon sun was still out, though a shower was on the way to St Augustine. But in a real sense, Daren Ganga’s side hardly had to break a sweat to complete their comprehensive and thoroughly deserved 282-run win in this Carib Beer Cricket Series fixture at the Sir Frank Worrell Ground at UWI, St Augustine. Routed for an embarrassing 89 in their second innings, due in the main to Dave Mohammed’s five-wicket haul and Rayad Emrit’s telling opening spell yesterday morning (10-3-13-3), the defending four-day champions will not look back with either pleasure or pride on their work in this match, particularly yesterday.On a pitch where the greatest difficulty for the batsmen was its slowness, the Jamaicans – with West Indies players Wavell Hinds, Marlon Samuels and even Carlton Baugh, the wicketkeeper-batsman, in their line-up – let themselves down badly with their approach.With T&T declaring overnight on 178 for 7, the Jamaicans knew that survival was their only recourse, not chasing 372 for victory on the fourth and final day. It is not a prospect they relish, this playing for time. But, sadly, they never seemed to try. For that, credit focused T&T and Emrit in particular. He went wicket-less in the first innings, but yesterday morning he put up his hand, bowling three of the first four in the order.With the score on just seven, out-of-touch Hinds’s defence was breached. At 22, Samuels showed his careless side again, bowled middle stump as he drove loosely, and then at 24, Tamar Lambert also lost his middle stump to another full and deadly accurate Emrit delivery. Ganga’s somewhat controversial decision not to enforce the follow-on was being justified very early. And before lunch, Mohammed made his skipper’s decision look even better with the wickets of Brenton Parchment – who drove tamely to Jason Mohammed at mid-off-and upset Dave Bernard Jnr, who lost an lbw decision to a ball which skidded onto him as he played back.Lunch was taken at 58 for 5 and perhaps only Bernard could be excused for his failure. Baugh, the near hero of this corresponding fixture last year in Tobago with a century that threatened to get Jamaica to an improbable victory target, had the usually steady Gareth Breese for his partner. But neither of them would give much trouble this time. With one run added after the interval, Breese, strangely reckless, skied a lofted drive to Jason Mohammed off Dave. The Jamaican UWI students, watching upstairs in Canada Hall at the southern end, must not have felt like waving their large national flag. There was no pride in performance to applaud out on the field.Baugh, who didn’t attempt to curb his natural aggression in the circumstances, followed 17 runs later at 76, for a top-score of 39 made in 43 balls. Predictably, he fell on his blade, miscuing an attempted swing at Mohammed to substitute fielder Serwin Ganga, deputising for Gregory Mahabir, who Baugh had earlier struck a blow on the right arm.The end came even more swiftly thereafter, the last three wickets falling for the addition of 13. Mohammed put Jamaica out of their misery with his fifth wicket-Andrew Richardson, who pushed him into Tishan Maraj’s hands at silly point. But before that, debutant leg-spinner Sanjiv Gooljar had got himself on a hat-trick with the successive dismissals of Jerome Taylor and Jermaine Lawson.Full points to T&T. Fully deserved.

Matthew Hayden clutches his shoulder after taking a stunning diving catch© Getty Images

Matthew Hayden is in danger of missing the third one-day match against New Zealand with a shoulder injury after re-sealing his spot with a satisfying hundred at Christchurch last night. Hayden, who was unable to collect the Man-of-the-Match award, ended the game with his right arm in a sling having left the field following a diving catch to remove Chris Cairns.The injury, a grade-one strain to the AC joint, is an untimely blow for Hayden in his successful comeback from being dropped for the two VB Series finals against Pakistan. Hayden collected 71 in the first match against New Zealand and 114 in the second to set up Australia’s 106-run win, which gave them a 2-0 lead in the five-match series.”It’s pretty sore, as you expect ten hours out from the injury,” Hayden told . “But as a gut feeling it’s probably a little bit better than I first anticipated.”Alex Kountouri, the team physiotherapist, will monitor Hayden’s improvement over the next two days before a decision is made on his fitness for Saturday’s game at Auckland. “There is a fair amount of swelling around the joint, so we will have a clearer picture as to how Matthew is progressing once that swelling subsides,” Kountouri said. “While there is some doubt over his chances to play in the third game, he certainly hasn’t been ruled out.”Cairns hit Andrew Symonds towards deep square leg and Hayden rubbed his shoulder as he stood up from the spectacular rolling catch. Hayden went quickly from the team huddle to the dressing room and his arm was put in a sling to ease pressure on the joint.

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Abdul Razzaq turned the game Pakistan’s way with a blistering innings © AFP

A collective effort from Pakistan’s batsmen lifted them to anexciting win over New Zealand at Lahore. An inspired spell ofbatting, in which Abdul Razzaq clouted 47 from just 22 balls, helpedPakistan chase down a mammoth 292 with two overs to spare. Thisgave Pakistan the surge of confidence they have lacked in recenttimes. The three-wicket win gave Pakistan a 1-0 lead inthe five-match one-day series.When New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat, they needed toput a big total on the board. Having done that, they couldhardly believe their eyes as Pakistan ran away with the game.New Zealand handed debuts to six players: Craig Cumming, RichardJones, Hamish Marshall, Michael Mason, Matthew Walker and KerryWalmsley. With massive inexperience in the ranks, New Zealandneeded one of the seniors to step up and take charge. Cairns,leading the side in the absence of Stephen Fleming, played therole to perfection.After a shaky start, Mathew Sinclair and Marshall batted withcaution, and strung together a 99-run stand that kept thePakistan bowlers at bay. They kept the scoring rate ticking over,making their 99 runs from 21.2 overs.Against the run of play, Sinclair and Marshall were bothdismissed. Each had made 55, and their dismissals, with more thanten overs to go, brought Cairns and Jacob Oram together. Curiouslyenough, the fall of these two wickets close to the 40th overproved to be a blessing in disguise for New Zealand. Cairns andOram boosted the scoring rate with lusty blows and as many as 112runs were scored in the final ten overs, taking New Zealand to amassive 291.Cairns’s intent was obvious, even as he walked out to the middlewith the score on 178 and with more than 10 overs to go. Hecould make the difference between a merely healthy total and animposing one – and he did so in emphatic fashion. Cairns cut and drovethe medium-pacers with power, but reserved his most brutal effortfor the hapless Danish Kaneria.Kaneria’s last over, the 48th of the innings, went for 22 runs.The second, third and fourth balls of the over were alldespatched into the stands in style. After pulling the ball overmidwicket, Cairns showed he was no one-trick pony. He came downthe track and dumped one ball into the stands over long off, andfinished with a big heave over midwicket.Jacob Oram (35) provided Cairns with good support, and was onlydismissed off the first ball of the final over. By then, though,it hardly made a difference. Cairns’s 51-ball 84, inlcuding five fours and sixsixes took New Zealand to a strong position.Pakistan have chased down big totals in the past, and stillremain a dangerous, if incosistent, force in internationalcricket. They got off to the worst possible start, when they lostImran Farhat off only the third ball of the innings. Then, YousufYouhana (42) and Yasir Hameed (52) laid the foundation blocks toa famous win, adding 90 runs for the second wicket in 17 overs.

Chris Cairns smashed 84 in 51 balls, but it wasn’t enough © AFP

The fact that Pakistan scored 292 in 40 overs with no-one makingmore than 52 is testimony to the manner in which they builtpartnerships and always remained within striking distance of theasking rate. Inzamam-ul-Haq (49) played with characteristicfluency, mixing big hitting with careful defence. When he wastrapped lbw by Cairns in the 37th over (194 for 4), Pakistan werein deep trouble.Moin Khan (43), promoted to No. 5, used his experience togood effect, stealing runs from under the noses of the NewZealanders. He set himself up for a final charge, but could notresist cutting at a wide one from Daniel Vettori, and edged acatch to Brendon McCullum behind the stumps (196 for 5).Misbah-ul-Haq and Shoaib Malik fell without causing a flutter andPakistan looked dead and buried at 227 for 7 in 43.2 overs. Theystill needed 65 runs from 40 balls with only Razzaq and the tailto follow. In an innings that will long be remembered by thosefortunate enough to witness it, Razzaq hit the cover off the ballin a 22-ball display of power hitting. At 47 not out (three fours, twosixes), he found himself an unlikely hero. Pakistan were over theline, and New Zealand could scarcely believe it. The last 65 runshad come off only 28 balls. Things happened so fast, that NewZealand will need a day or two to recover.

New Zealand’s longest-serving international umpire Steve Dunne will become the first umpire in the world to stand in 100 One-Day Internationals when walking out for the National Bank Series decider between New Zealand and England in Dunedin tomorrow.Dunne was unavailable to discuss his career yesterday, as he wanted to prepare for the game without any distraction. But before he ended the call he did acknowledge that he was unaware of the fact that he will be the first to achieve the milestone.The top 10 list of most appearances in ODIs by umpires reads: Steve Dunne (NZ) 99, David Shepherd (England) 97, Steve Randell (Australia) 88, Tony Crafter (Australia) 84, Steve Bucknor (West Indies) 83, Ian Robinson (Zimbabwe) 82, Rudi Koertzen (South Africa) 77, David Orchard (South Africa) 77, Darrell Hair (Australia) 74, Dickie Bird (England) 70.The top five New Zealand ODI umpiring list is: Dunne 99, Doug Cowie 63, Brian Aldridge 45, Steve Woodward 30, Dave Quested 30.It started for Dunne back in the summer of 1988/89 when he stood in his first One-Day International, on the same Carisbrook ground he had graced during his playing career for Otago. New Zealand were playing Pakistan and the most notable feature of the game was that it was a replacement match for the first Test of the series that had been abandoned without a ball being bowled.New Zealand won a low scoring game.His list of appointments was slowed by the fact that he was not on New Zealand’s list of World Cup umpires in 1992, as Aldridge and Woodward were the preferred umpires. However, he was on the panel for the 1996 and 1999 World Cups.His first overseas appointments under the independent umpires scheme was at Sharjah in 1995/96 for a series involving Sri Lanka, Pakistan and the West Indies.Forty-six of his games have been in New Zealand, 24 in Sharjah, eight each in India and Canada, five in England, three each in Pakistan and Bangladesh and two in Sri Lanka.