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Bermuda have named a 15-man squad for their short tour of England and Guernsey.Absent from the team were Kwame Tucker and Azeem Pitcher. The selectors said that Tucker had not recovered from a torn groin while Pitcher, who endured a disastrous run of form in the Trinidad tri-series, had work commitments. Seamer Jim West was drafted in after recovering from a shoulder problem.Bermuda play two matches in England against Sussex 2nd XI and Lloyds Bank before flying to Guernsey for three games against a side they beat by six wickets in the lead-up to last year’s ICC Trophy.Bermuda squad Janeiro Tucker (capt), Irving Romaine, Saleem Mukuddem, Dean Minors, OJ Pitcher, Dwayne Leverock, Hasan Durham, Kevin Hurdle, Treadwell Gibbons Jnr, Delyone Borden, James West, George O’Brien Jnr, Daniel Morgan, Ryan Steede, Jekon Edness.Itinerary
May 31 v Sussex 2nd XI (East Grinstead CC)June 2 v Lloyds Bank (Beckenham CC)June 3 v Guernsey June 4 v Guernsey June 5 v Guernsey

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Sri Lanka completed a facile nine-wicket win over Bangladesh, following up a tidy display in the field with a professional chase of a paltry 121 with with 145 balls remaining.Sri Lanka chose to field first, and had Bangladesh in early trouble. Janakanthy Mala removed Shukhtara for a nine-ball duck and added Shathira Jakir in her next over, and left-arm spinner Suwini de Alwis struck to make it 29 for 3. Ayesha Akhter stuck around long enough to top-score with 30 from 75 deliveries but nobody else crossed 20 and Bangladesh were all out for 120 in 49.3 overs. Janakanthy Mala finished with the most excellent figures of 10-6-9-3 and was backed up by Shashikala Siriwardene’s 3 for 28.Rumana Ahmed struck early to dismiss Chamari Polgampola for 14 in the 15th over of Sri Lanka’s chase but that would be Bangladesh’s only moment of success. Dedunu Silva remained unbeaten on 66 from 82 balls, with the help of 12 boundaries, and added 81 in 11.4 overs, at 6.94 runs an over, with Siriwardene (23 not out) to wrap up victory.
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India trounced Pakistan by 207 runs in the final league match after rattling up the highest total of the tournament so far. Three Indian batsmen got half-centuries after which Neetu David and Snehal Pradhan took three wickets each to bowl out Pakistan for a miserable 76.India, who have got four of the five 200+ totals in the tournament, were given an impressive start by the openers, Karuna Jain and Jaya Sharma, who added 114 in 20.4 overs. Anagha Deshpande and Mithali Raj put on 53 more before Raj and Rumeli Dhar added an unbeaten 90 to take India to 283.An out-of-depth Pakistan lost their first four wickets for 44 runs. Snehal Pradhan, a medium-pace bowler making her debut, removed Bismah Maroof off the second ball she bowled. Pakistan had crawled to 62 when left-arm spinner David took two wickets in one over to reduce them to 66 got 8. The misery lasted six more overs before India ended it ruthlessly. India will now play Sri Lanka in the final.

The ECB has announced the six host teams for the inaugural Women’s Cricket Super League which will take place during the English season.There will be three teams in the south – one based with Surrey at The Oval, another with Hampshire and a third in the South West – two in the north with Lancashire and Yorkshire and one in the Midlands run by Loughborough University. The South West features a joint bid between Somerset and Gloucestershire, while a joint Middlesex/MCC bid missed out for the one London-based team.The six teams have been awarded hosting rights for the period 2016-19. To begin with it the WCSL will feature just T20 but 50-over cricket will be included in the future.John Stephenson, MCC’s head of cricket, said: “Having submitted a joint bid with Middlesex, naturally MCC is disappointed with today’s outcome. Hopefully the club can play an active part in the tournament in the years ahead.”Tom Harrison, the ECB chief executive, said: “This is a key day in the creation of the Women’s Cricket Super League – we have now secured the six hosts for the start of the competition this summer.”It is pleasing to see so much diverse and innovative partnership working across the cricket and educational landscapes and that the six chosen hosts provide such a strong geographical spread. To have seven First Class counties, five Non-First Class counties and three universities involved, demonstrates how collaborative, imaginative and wide-ranging this project is.”

Women’s Cricket Super League hosts

Hampshire Cricket with partners: Berkshire Cricket Ltd, Dorset Cricket Board, Isle of Wight Cricket Board, Oxfordshire Cricket, Southampton Solent University, Sussex Cricket Ltd, Wiltshire Cricket Ltd
Lancashire County Cricket Board with partners: Lancashire County Cricket Club, Lancashire County Cricket Club Foundation
Loughborough University
South West: Somerset County Cricket Club, Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, University of Exeter
Surrey County Cricket Club
Yorkshire County Cricket Club

Clare Conner, the director of women’s cricket, added: “Our vision for the Women’s Cricket Super League is to create an exciting, dynamic and high quality domestic women’s game in England, where the world’s best players come together to drive performance standards and to inspire women and girls to love cricket.”All six of the confirmed hosts have passionately demonstrated that they share this aspiration and we are now really excited to work with them to deliver this next stage in the evolution of women’s cricket in this country.”The WSL follows the introduction of the Women’s Big Bash in Australia. That tournament is run in conjunction with the men’s BBL, but the WCSL is not directly linked to the men’s domestic structure.”Whilst there are similarities in the drivers behind the Women’s Cricket Super League and Women’s Big Bash League – wanting to further raise standards of performance and encourage participation – they are very different in their identity and formation,” Connor said.”The WBBL is an extension of the men’s Big Bash League, and it has benefited in terms of infrastructure, operations, personnel and brand recognition, amongst other things. The WCSL is an entirely new proposition for cricket in this country. It’s a fresh chapter for the sport and we are all hugely excited that the women’s game is pioneering it.”Sussex claim to have given more opportunities to female cricketers in their Academy than any other first-class county. They said their decision to support Hampshire rather than put in their own bid was for “strategic reasons”.The tournament will be run from July 30 to August 14 with each team playing each other home and away with the top four sides reaching Finals Day.

Shaun Tait has been rated a “day-by-day prospect” by Troy Cooley, the bowling coach, as he attempts to prove his fitness for next month’s Twenty20 World Championship. Tait had surgery on his bowling arm in June and an infection in the elbow prevented him from joining his pace team-mates for a camp in Brisbane last week.Australia’s first game is against Zimbabwe on September 12 and Tait will need to start bowling over the next week or two to remain in the squad. “It’s more or less a day-by-day prospect to try to get him up for this tournament,” Cooley told AAP. “He needs to have a workload under him and I’m just waiting for the medical people to hand him over to me.”Cooley was confident Tait could get in shape quickly for the trip to South Africa. “He only needs to bowl four overs a match in Twenty20,” he said. “But common sense says every week that he’s not bowling makes it a bit harder to get that workload under his belt.”While Tait is struggling to recover, Brett Lee has been operating at 75% in his return from the ankle surgery that ruled him out of the World Cup. “Everything is going to plan,” Cooley said. “He’s fit and healthy.”He’s been bowling three-quarter pace. That’s what he needs to be at this stage. You don’t want to be pushing him too hard too early. He needs to go through the full recovery cycle.”

Ryan Watson has been confirmed as Scotland’s new captain, in a widely anticipated move. He replaces Craig Wright who resigned last month when the team were knocked out of the World Cup in the early stages.Watson, the top-order batsman, has played for Scotland since 1996 and admits Wright had left him with a hard act to follow. “It’s a little bit daunting given the success the side has had over the past few years,” he said, “but there will be some new cricketers coming through over time and it’s about overseeing that change. I will try to pick up where Craig left off, bring in some of my own ideas and hopefully achieve the same level of success.”He’s already had a taste of captaincy in the ultimate one-day tournament, leading the team against South Africa in the Caribbean last month when Wright had to return home for personal reasons. At the time Roddy Smith, Scotland Cricket’s chief executive, said he was clearly the man for the job.His next challenge will be to captain Scotland against the county sides in the Friends Provident Trophy, which will give him valuable experience ahead of the first Twenty20 World Cup later this year, where they will face India and Pakistan in the first round.

ScorecardSri Lanka A are well on course for a convincing win against MCC at Arundel after their middle order feasted on a friendly attack. Wicketkeeper Kaushal Silva struck an unbeaten 118 while Test batsman Jehan Mubarak and allrounder Gayan Wijekoon contributed useful innings.Ishara Amerasinghe, the seam bowler, then took out three of MCC’s top order as they again struggled with the bat. Craig McMillan completed his second failure of the match when he was caught for a four-ball duck and it was left to former India opener Aakash Chopra to provide the main resistance.MCC were boosted early in the day when they trapped Thilan Samaraweera lbw for 21, but they didn’t have much more to celebrate. Silva and Mubarak added 96, then Silva added another 102 with Wijekoon, as the Sri Lankans built a handsome lead of 248 before declaring.

Matthew Hayden, who broke his finger last week, suffered further, if bizarre, misfortune when he was attacked by a dog while out jogging.As a result he now has a gashed ankle though tests have revealed no tendon or ligament damage. Hayden said the wound, about five centimetres long, would remain open for several days to minimise the risk of infection before being stitched.”It was a vicious attack,” Hayden told Brisbane’s . “I was was out for a leisurely run. You are always a bit shocked by that sort of thing but I was more disappointed than anything. It just hasn’t been my week.”Hayden was already out of cricket for a couple of weeks after breaking a finger taking a catch in last weekend’s Sheffield Shield match against Tasmania in Brisbane.”The hand injury would have kept me out for longer than this one (gashed ankle) anyway,” said Hayden, who added there was no doubt surrounding his fitness for the first Test against England at the Gabba on November 23.

The Dolphins were made to pay for their decision to bowl first at Durban, after 48 from Blake Snijman at the top of the order and half-centuries from Justin Ontong (59 not out) and Neil McKenzie (65 not out). The only success for the Dolphins was two wickets from Jon Kent as the Lions went to 207 for 2 when bad light stopped play with nearly 30 overs remaining.South Africa’s selectors will be thanked for releasing AB de Villiers from national squad duties to play for the Titans in their season opener against the Eagles at Benoni. Coming to the crease at 54 for 3, de Villiers recovered the innings with Andre Seymore (52) and then was run out on 98 with the Titans having consolidated at 257 for 6. Pierre de Bruyn then took over the reins, steering them to 315 for 6 with a solid 59 not out at the close.The Warriors made slow but steady progress against a disciplined Cobras attack at Port Elizabeth. Having been sent in under cloudy skies, the Warriors lost two quick wickets but recovered well with Carl Bradfield and Arno Jacobs putting together a 165-run partnership. Jacobs eventually went for 87, bowled by Ian Harvey to give him his first wicket. At the close the Warriors had moved to 245 for 5 with Bradfield unbeaten on 118. A feature of the play was that 107 overs were bowled, that is 11 more than the limit for the day.

Pakistan have included youngsters Shoaib Khan and Mansoor Amjad in the 15-member squad for the one-off Twenty20 international against Bangladesh in Karachi, the first Twenty20 international in the country.Shoaib is an opening batsman, while Amjad is a legspinner. However, it’s unlikely they will feature in the match, as the squad has all of Pakistan’s ODI regulars, except Mohammad Yousuf, who had been dropped for last year’s World Twenty20 as well. Nasir Jamshed comes in his place.Younis Khan, who had opted out of the ODI series before making himself available for the fifth one in Karachi, has been included as well.Mohammad Asif and Umar Gul, both of whom who made comebacks during the ODIs following injury layoffs, have been included in the squad, along with Sohail Tanvir, Wahab Riaz and Rao Iftikhar Anjum.Pakistan Twenty20 squad: Shoaib Malik (capt), Salman Butt, Younis Khan, Nasir Jamshed, Misbah-ul-Haq, Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal (wk), Fawad Alam, Sohail Tanvir, Mohammad Asif, Umar Gul, Rao Iftikhar Anjum, Wahab Riaz, Shoaib Khan, Mansoor Amjad.

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A Standard Bank National Academy side completed a 2-0 limited-overs series win over Australia’s Commonwealth Bank Centre of Excellence at the University of Pretoria’s High Performance Centre. In the first match, the South Africans chased down 275 with two wickets to spare while in the second they trumped the tourists by 111 runs.On Sunday, the Australians won the toss and thanks to impressive fifties from Adam Voges (66) and Cullen Bailey (63), finished on 274 for 8 in 50 overs. Voges and Bailey put on 121 for the fourth wicket but following their dismissals the lower order failed to build on the momentum. For the home side, Pepler Sandri was the most successful bowler with 3 for 61. Robert Frylinck and Keegan Africa, both KwaZulu Natal bowlers, finished with two wickets each.In response, the South Africans lost Riel de Kock (7) and Heino Kuhn (4) before Gauteng’s Blake Sniman smashed 60 from 65 balls to wrest the initiative. Farhann Behardien (62) and Corne Linde (54) chipped in to help the hosts over the finish line. For Australia, George Bailey and Ben Edmondson took three wickets a piece.2nd one-dayer
The South Africans chose to bat this time but lost the openers cheaply again to Brett Dorey and Edmondson. Dean Elgar, the East State left-handed batsman, came to the rescue with 77 from 100 balls while Behardien continued his good form with a powerful 112, comprising ten fours and three sixes. South Africa finished on 268 for 8 with Edmondson returning a fine 6 for 32 from his ten overs.In response, Australia could only limp to 157 after Hillroy Paulse’s superb 5 for 28 kept the batsmen in check. Voges (57) was Australia’s top scorer but not even his batting could prevent South Africa from winning the match.The Australians’ next fixture is a four-day match starting on Thursday.