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Australia have announced their Test and one-day squads for the forthcoming tour of Zimbabwe. Glenn McGrath returns to both the squads, having recovered from an ankle injury, while Cameron White, the all-rounder from Victoria, gets the national call-up for the first time. White comes into the squad in place of Stuart MacGill, who has pulled out due to personal reasons. The two to miss out from the squad that toured Sri Lanka last month are Andrew Symonds and Shaun Tait.Shane Watson has been recalled to the one-day squad following a lengthy spell on the sidelines with a back injury. Watson last played in the VB Series in 2002-03.Trevor Hohns, the chairman of the national selection panel, confirmed that McGrath had fully recovered from an ankle injury. “Glenn’s 100% and ready to go,” he said, “so it’s sensible that he returns to the squad given his prior status as the premier fast bowler in the world. With the short nature of the tour it’s a good opportunity for Glenn to ease his way back into competitive cricket.”Hohns said that MacGill’s decision to skip the tour gave the selectors a chance to pick White. “We were keen to take two spinners to Zimbabwe and given Stuart’s unavailability for the tour, we now have an opportunity to look at one of our younger spinners in Cameron with a view to the future. His form in the Pura Cup with both bat and ball was very good, and we’re looking forward to seeing him take the next step on the international stage.”Hohns added that Symonds’s inclusion in to the squad for the Sri Lanka series was “exclusively based on the conditions in that country” and with the squad-strength being reduced from 15 to 13, an extra batsman would not be necessary. “We all know that Andrew’s a quality player and never out of our thoughts because of the flexibility he offers our squads with his all-round talents.”Both the squads will assemble in Brisbane for a three-day pre-tour camp on May 9. The Test squad will depart for Zimbabwe on Thursday May 13.Test squad
1 Matthew Hayden, 2 Justin Langer, 3 Ricky Ponting (capt), 4 Damien Martyn, 5 Darren Lehmann, 6 Simon Katich, 7 Adam Gilchrist (wk), 8 Jason Gillespie, 9 Michael Kasprowicz, 10 Glenn McGrath, 11 Shane Warne, 12 Cameron White, 13 Brad WilliamsOne-day squad
1 Matthew Hayden, 2 Adam Gilchrist (wk), 3 Ricky Ponting (capt), 4 Damien Martyn, 5 Darren Lehmann, 6 Michael Clarke, 7 Andrew Symonds, 8 Ian Harvey, 9 Brad Hogg, 10 Jason Gillespie, 11 Michael Kasprowicz, 12 Glenn McGrath, 13 Shane Watson, 14 Brad WilliamsTour itinerary
17 May Two-day game v Zimbabwe A CFX Academy, Harare
23 May First Test v Zimbabwe Harare Sports Ground, Harare
29 May Second Test v Zimbabwe Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo
6 June First ODI v Zimbabwe Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo
9 June Second ODI v Zimbabwe Harare Sports Ground, Harare
12 June Third ODI v Zimbabwe Harare Sports Ground, Harare

On the second day of the two day friendly match against Sussex at Hove, the Worcestershire bowlers met strong resistance on a bitterly cold day.Sussex scored 341-5 off their 79 overs before play was called off and the match declared a draw. For Sussex Richard Montgomerie scored a fine 104, Chris Adams 64 and Robin Martin-Jenkins 55no.The six strong bowling attack shared the duties throughout the day with Mark Harrity taking 2-60 off 17 overs and Vikram Solanki taking 2-64 off 14 overs. Overseas Player Nantie Hayward took his first wicket with a final return of 1-56 off 12 overs. Kabir Ali, Chris Liptrot and David Leatherdale completed the bowling attack on the day.The Squad will play against Herefordshire on Sunday at Hereford in a David Leatherdale Benefit match before the final inter-squad match on Wednesday 16th April at Ombersley CC.The first game of the season will be at New Road against Hampshire starting on Friday 18th April.

Congratulations to the players, coaches, selectors managers and all volunteers who have given years to junior cricket across Canada. Further success must surely follow such dedication!Preliminary phone confirmation indicates that Canada on Saturday August 11, 2001 defeated Bermuda at Somerset C.C. in Bermuda for their second successive Americas U-19 triumph in the preliminary regional tournament for qualification to the U-19’s World Cup. Full scorecards will follow. Canada defeated the Combined Affiliates Friday by 10 wickets. Aneel Nauth one of our best players and opening batsman Gibran Rahaman (24 not out, including 5 fours in one over) led the way with 52 runs in 4.1 overs.Canada batting first scored 184 in 50 overs. Captain Ashish Bagai, fresh from the ICC Trophy WC 2003 qualifying team top-scored with 50, Gibran Rahaman (20) and Jonathan Roberts (24) were among the top scorers. Johnathan Roberts, our backup wicketkeeperbatsman, also captured 10 wickets in the tournament, including a match winning 7 for 20! This despite Canada not bowling in 2 rain-affected games.Bermuda after a rain delay and Duckworth Lewis adjustment was asked to make 179 runs off 46 overs. Bermuda were all out for 144 in 45 overs. Nathan Richards, another outstanding player, led Canada’s bowling with 5 wickets , supported by Chris Argunen’s 3 wickets and by Johnathan Robert’s continued efficient accomplishments in a utility role as our closer.This triumph is even more remarkable when Canada were forced by an ICC rule change to replace five players from the originalsquad. Those five players of course were extremely disappointed. Even more discouraging for these five players was the forced withdrawal of a second and top quality Canada U-19 team from the West Indies U-19 tournament due only to financial reasons!At least two of these players are viable candidates for senior team selection with advanced coaching and training, for example at FM cricket academies in the next year.Loss of critically required Sahara Cup funding and extra and unexpected costs in staging the ICC Trophy 2001 can be a devastating legacy for the future development of Canadian cricket. The ICC Trophy 2001 was held without a sponsor for Canadian Cricket. Things must change in short order for Canada to realize its true potential and achieve ODI and later full member status. Can Canada properly prepare for and send players to the U-19 and FM World Cups without major sponsorship? You know the answer, don’t you?Canada needs you. Cricket needs you. Join Canada’s WC teams. Together we succeed.

Heavy rain poured more misery on Worcestershire, who were clinging to a faint hope that they might still snatch promotion after a dismal first day against Northamptonshire at New Road.No play was possible today as the Midlanders waited to meet their first requirement of scoring a further 61 runs to avoid the follow-on.David Leatherdale, the only specialist batsman to survive a collapse to 50 for 5, had a target of his own, having made 20 of the 74 runs needed to reach 1,000 in a season for the second time in his career.The 32-year-old Yorkshireman is due to resume with fellow-Bradfordian Steve Rhodes in a partnership which is essential to Worcestershire’s hope of recovering for an unlikely victory.Worcestershire need a win to have any chance of securing promotion.

The Kolkata Knight Riders, currently topping the points table in the Indian Premier League, will play their next home match at the Eden Gardens on a new pitch after the original playing surface was criticised by players as unfit for play.Kolkata’s next match on April 29 against the Mumbai Indians will go ahead as scheduled, confirmed a team spokesperson, who angrily dismissed reports that the team’s second home game may be postponed due to the pitch.”The match will be held on an adjacent pitch, which has been developed for the match,” Snehasish Ganguly, the joint secretary of the Cricket Association of Bengal, which is the host association for the Kolkata franchise, told Cricinfo. “The Eden has 10 pitches and this one is on the right of the surface that was used for the first game. There is no doubt that the game is going ahead as scheduled.”The historic Eden Gardens, which can seat around 90,000 spectators, has hosted only one IPL match, which was a low-scoring affair after the pitch began to crumble from the third over. Kolkata scored 112 for 5 in 19 overs to edge past Deccan Chargers, the visiting team, in that match on April 20. The pitch was later termed by VVS Laxman, the Hyderabad captain, as “shocking”, by Adam Gilchrist, Laxman’s deputy, as a “disgrace”, and by Sourav Ganguly, the home team’s skipper, as “bad”.The BCCI, which runs the IPL, has sent Daljit Singh, its pitches and grounds committee chairman, to Kolkata to help prepare the new surface in time for the match.

Allister de Winter, the former Tasmania player, will return to Hobart as an assistant coach with the Tigers next season. He replaces Michael Bevan, who stayed on in an off-field role after his retirement in January but has now gone home to New South Wales.From 1986-87 to 1992-93, de Winter, a fast bowler, played 21 first-class matches for Tasmania and ten limited-overs games. Tim Coyle, the Tigers’ coach, said de Winter had a lot to offer. “It is great that we have someone dedicated to the bowling program, and Allister is an experienced coach who will definitely add plenty of value to the program,” Coyle said.After his playing days ended, de Winter was a regional game development manager in Tasmania before moving to Western Australia as a zone coaching manager and he relocated to Bangladesh in 2005. There, he served as a high-performance manager, head coach of the National Cricket Academy and was coach of the Bangladesh Under-19 team.However, de Winter said he was keen to return to Tasmania after the Tigers won the Pura Cup for the first time in 2006-07. “There are exciting times ahead after the success of the Pura Cup final last season and I’m looking forward to working with a talented group of young players and developing young bowlers throughout the state,” de Winter said.

Shane Warne says it’s possible he could still be playing Test cricket when Australia return to England for the 2009 Ashes series.It was widely assumed that last year’s epic Ashes contest, in which he took 40 wickets only to finish on the losing side, would be Warne’s final Test campaign in England. But Warne, who is captaining Hampshire in the County Championship in the run-up to the next Ashes series in Australia later this year, said there was no reason to suppose he was on the verge of ending his Test career even though he recently re-iterated that he was retired from one-day internationals.”If I’m bowling well and enjoying it, I’ve got no right to say this is my last Test match in Sydney next year,” said Warne, who will be 37 in September. “Who knows? I might be able to make another Ashes series out here [England] in 2009.”Richie Benaud, former Australian captain and a commentator, has said Warne should keep going until the age of 40 and Warne also told the that he respected Benaud’s opinion. “Whether I can do that or not I don’t know. I know that Richie thinks I can. And if Richie wants me to do that, I’ll try my best.”Warne, who took 7 for 99 in Hampshire’s recent win over Middlesex, has shown no on-field side effects from the break-up of his marriage last year. Indeed, in the last 10 months, Warne has claimed 102 Test wickets while also leading Hampshire to the runners-up spot in last year’s County Championship and guiding them to the 2005 C and G Trophy, English domestic cricket’s premier one-day competition.”Cricket’s my hobby, my passion, my love. It’s what I am, a cricketer and I’m not anything else and I don’t pretend to be,” said Warne, who has taken a world record 685 wickets in 140 Tests. “I love playing the game, talking about the game,” added Warne, who could become the first bowler to take 1,000 Test wickets if he maintains his present strike-rate.”I enjoy being captain. I think it brings out the best in me. I don’t aspire to take over from Ricky Ponting [as Australia captain]. I don’t.” He insisted: “I am very honoured to captain a county and think the guys have enjoyed me doing it. We [Hampshire] have done pretty well.”Meanwhile he admitted that England’s first Ashes series win for 19 years had served as a wake-up call to the previously all-conquering Australian side. “Sometimes you have to lose to reassess where you’re at and become better. I’m not so sure we’d gone along so well over the past few years. We hadn’t lost too many series. We hadn’t gone through the motions exactly, but just gone along until we got challenged. England’s bowling was of the highest standard. The last time I faced that was probably Pakistan and West Indies in the early 1990s. But since we’ve been challenged [by England] we’ve won 11 out of 12 Tests.”

South Africa A 296 for 6 (Dippenaar 113, Kemp 79*, Walmsley 3-46) beatNew Zealand A 292 (Bell 53, Fulton 98, Hall 4-62) by four runs
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Boeta Dippenaar made his intentions quite clear to the National Selectors by scoring a career-best 113 to help South Africa A win a thrilling game against New Zealand A at SuperSport Park in Centurion in the last encounter of the three-match series.Dippenaar, passing 4,000 List A career runs, went to his fourth limited-overs hundred with an array of glorious cover drives before being trapped lbw by Kerry Walmsley. Coming to the crease with South Africa in trouble, he showed hisexperience with a well-paced innings, accelerating when needed, and hitting 13 fours and two sixes along the way.Peter Fulton, surprisingly playing his first one-day game of the tour, took New Zealand to the brink of victory with a superb 98, before he was bowled in the 48th over. His runs had come off 102 balls, but after his dismissal five more wickets fell for nine runs in only nine balls, and South Africa A pulled off a close win.After winning the toss, Chris Martin, back from a deserved rest, got NewZealand off to a good start by picking up the early wickets of both openers, Morne van Wyk caught behind without scoring, and Andrew Hall bowled off his pads for eight.From the position of 15 for 2 after in the eighth over, Dippenaar and Ashwell Prince, the captain, batted South Africa back into the game with a patient 90-run partnership in 18.3 overs. Tama Canning, the star of the Wanderers match,made the breakthrough when he knocked Prince’s leg stump back for 37. But Dippenaar kept the initiative with another good partnership with with Neil McKenzie, who hit 35 at nearly a run a ball.

The platform had been set. At the Wanderers it had been Albie Morkel who launched an assault in the closing overs, and today it was the turn of Justin Kemp. Taking full advantage of anything loose, Kemp powered his way to 50 in 33 balls, and finished undefeated on 79 off ony 45 as South Africa amassed 296 for 6.New Zealand were quickly on the back foot with the loss of Jamie How for four, but Matthew Bell, their captain, and Mathew Sinclair got the innings back on track with some aggressive strokeplay. But Sinclair fell on 19, and Bell’saggression eventually got the better of him, as he was well caught at point for 53 – an innings that included six fours and two sixes.Fulton and Lou Vincent kept New Zealand in the chase with a fifty partnership, and Fulton went to his own half-century from only 58 balls. Two fours and a big straight six took Vincent to 42, but he then lofted a high catch to deep cover, bringing to an end a partnership of 107 that had begun to look very threatening to South Africa.Gareth Hopkins, running very quickly between the wickets, came in and played a little cameo as he nudged the ball around, turning ones into twos and sneaking in the occasional boundary.But then came the deciding blow, as Hall bowled Fulton, trapped Ross Taylor in front, and then castled Canning first ball with 13 runs still needed. An inside edge from Walmsley took it to seven off seven, but then a sensational bit of fielding off the last ball of the over had Walmsley run out for 5, and seven runs were needed off the last over.Jeetan Patel was then run out first ball, and it had gone all pear-shaped for New Zealand. There was more drama, as Alfonso Thomas bowled his second beamer of the innings, and had to be removed from the attack. Morkel was called on to complete the over, and bowled Martin to seal the win. From 284 for 4 New Zealand had been skittled for 292. Hopkins was left stranded on 49 and the 2,500 spectators present had once again received their money’s worth.

Brett Lee, who was forced to return home from Australia’s tour of Sri Lanka, will undergo minor surgery on his ankle on March 23. Lee suffered the injury during the tour match against the Sri Lankan Board President’s XI in Colombo, and underwent further evaluation by specialists, with diagnostic scans, in Sydney this week.He will be operated on for posterior impingement of his left ankle by Kim Slater at Castlecrag Private Hospital in Sydney, and will then undergo a lengthy rehabilitation process, though it is not yet known for how long he will be sidelined.”Obviously I have been bowling with some discomfort for a little while now, and despite receiving plenty of treatment on the ankle, it was still causing me some trouble,” said Lee. “After consulting with my surgeon and the Australian team support staff, the decision to have the ankle operated on and try to resolve the problem once and for all is the sensible option.”Lee hoped that a long-term solution would put an end to his injury woes. “While it’s disappointing not to be playing right now, I need to make sure the ankle is right so that I can look to be playing in the longer term, rather than trying to apply a short term fix,” he said. “After the operation, I will be doing everything I can with rehabilitation to get back to 100% fitness and hopefully playing for Australia as soon as I can.”Trevor Hohns, the chairman of Australia’s selectors, stressed the importance of Lee taking the rehabilitation process seriously. “Brett is a player we regard as a long-term prospect for Australia, and in that sense we need to make sure he is fully rehabilitated so that he can continue his career over a long period,” he said. “The most important thing for Brett is that the injury problem is addressed and he has ample time to heal properly, so that when he returns to competitive cricket, he is fully fit and injury-free.”Lee faces a battle to be fit for the tour of India later this year, as Australia – fresh on the heels of a superb series victory in Sri Lanka – bid once again to conquer what has been called their “final frontier”.

The public are reminded that, in keeping with an assurance made earlier this year, a limited number of tickets will become available in the ticketing system for the nine upcoming Super Six matches which start on Friday.People wishing to attend these matches should keep a check on the CWC ticket sales channels by either visiting their local CWC stadium ticket office, calling the ticket hotline on +27 (0)83 123 2003 or logging onto the website www.cricketworldcup.comTickets now on sale will be limited to four per person.Media contact:Rodney Hartman
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