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Louis Smith, a pace bowler from Tasmania, was plucked out of club cricket in a similar manner to Zanden Jeh

AAP and ESPNcricinfo staff13-Jul-2025Sri Lanka A allrounder Sonal Dinusha posted an unbeaten century as Australia A bowled out the tourists for 272 on day one of their four-day match in Darwin as the visitors plucked another debutant from nowhere.Louis Smith, a 19-year-old seamer from Tasmania where he plays for the same club as Australia A coach Tim Paine, had been playing in Darwin and acting as a net bowler for the home side. He was called up for a hasty debut having never played a full state game after Jack Nisbet suffered an injury.He removed Vishad Randika to claim a maiden first-class wicket with Josh Philippe taking a superb diving catch in front of first slip.”I was pretty pumped,” Smith told . “He dived straight in front of first slip so it was a bit heart in mouth for a moment, but it was super exciting, I was just so happy when it stuck.”After losing the toss, Sri Lanka A were in trouble at 89 for 5 at Marrara Stadium on Sunday before Dinusha steadied the ship. The 24-year-old left-hander hit 10 fours and a six on his way to 105 not out from 148 balls before he ran out of partners.Dinusha had help from Vishad Randika (27) and Isitha Wijesundara (33), while No. 3 Nuwanidu Fernando (34) also made a start.Louis Smith (left) and Zanden Jeh made their first-class debuts for Australia A•Cricket Australia

Jake Weatherald and Campbell Kellaway are set to open for Australia A when they start their reply on day two.Right-arm quicks Liam Scott and Henry Thornton each took two wickets for Australia A, as did Nathan McSweeney with his offspin.Smith, Mitchell Perry, Zanden Jeh and Kellaway also chipped in with one wicket apiece as the hosts spread the load.Jeh, a 21-year-old form Brisbane who has never played top-level state cricket, took 1 for 59 from 11 overs on his first-class debut, as Australia’s search for another left-arm spinners continues having made his one-day debut last week.”I was a bit nervous, to be honest,” Jeh said. “I felt I started all right. I probably lost my way a little through the middle there, and when you do that against quality batsmen they’ll put you away.”If that’s the case, it is what it is, but I felt like I came back towards the end there and finished up the day not too bad.”Jeh had Pavan Rathnayake caught at midwicket off a low full toss.

The South African wicketkeeper, who is currently in action in the ILT20, had relocated to the USA in 2021

ESPNcricinfo staff26-Jan-2024Andries Gous, the South African wicketkeeper who holds the highest individual score of the 2024 ILT20 season, has declared himself available to play for co-hosts USA in the T20 World Cup in June.Gous, 30, represented South Africa’s Under-19s in 2013 and played domestically for Free State and the Knights. In 2021, he relocated to the USA with his family after signing a long-term deal with American Cricket Enterprises (ACE), the company which runs Major League Cricket, and is due to qualify for the national team in April.The USA have not played a men’s T20I since the 2022 World Cup Qualifier in Zimbabwe, but have qualified for June’s World Cup automatically as co-hosts with West Indies. They have been placed in Group A alongside India, Pakistan, Ireland and Canada, against whom they will play the opening match on June 1 in Dallas.”If that opportunity arises, it’s always been a dream of mine to play international cricket, firstly, and secondly, to play at a World Cup,” Gous told MLC Network. “I think that’s every cricketer’s dream, to play at a World Cup: really testing yourself against the best in the world.”Just seeing the pool that USA is in, you’re definitely going to be testing yourself against the best in the world. It will be really awesome to play for USA, if we get the chance. We’ve still got to first make the side, but if the opportunity arises, it’s something that I’ll definitely take with both hands.”Gous represented Washington Freedom in the inaugural season of Major League Cricket and has also earned opportunities with Morrisville Samp Army, who play in the Abu Dhabi T10, and now with Abu Dhabi Knight Riders in the ILT20. He hit a match-winning 95 not out off 50 balls on debut against Desert Vipers on Sunday.Corey Anderson, the former New Zealand international, also relocated to the USA and will be eligible to feature in the T20 World Cup. While playing for Hobart Hurricanes last month, he told the Tasmanian newspaper: “If the opportunity comes up, I’ll assess it. But I’m not focused on that at the moment.”

All five games will be played in Mumbai; Healy could lead Australia if Lanning doesn’t return from her indefinite break

ESPNcricinfo staff18-Nov-2022India are set to host Australia for a five-match T20I series starting December 9. All five games in the 11-day tour will be played in Mumbai, with the DY Patil Stadium hosting the first two games before the action shifts to the Brabourne Stadium for the next three. The series recommences both teams’ lead-ups to the Women’s T20 World Cup next February.

Schedule

Dec 9: 1st T20I, DY Patil Stadium
Dec 11: 2nd T20I, DY Patil Stadium
Dec 14: 3rd T20I, Brabourne Stadium
Dec 17: 4th T20I, Brabourne Stadium
Dec 20: 5th T20I, Brabourne Stadium

For Australia, this could be the first series where they will miss regular captain Meg Lanning – who opted to take an indefinite mental-health break – following their Commonwealth Games title win, which was where these two teams last met. With Rachael Haynes announcing her retirement, Australia don’t currently have a captain. Alyssa Healy was named vice-captain and with Lanning’s return still not confirmed, Healy could take over the reins for this tour.The Australian players will come into the series on the back of the Women’s Big Bash League, which will conclude on November 26. While some of the Indian players including Pooja Vastrakar and Jemimah Rodrigues decided to play in the WBBL, the likes of Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana pulled out to manage their increasing workload.The series will mark India’s return to the international circuit after their win against Sri Lanka to complete a successful Asia Cup campaign in October. They are scheduled to tour South Africa in the second half of January for a tri-series featuring West Indies, in the build-up to the Women’s T20 World Cup 2023.Australia last toured India for a limited-overs series in 2018 where they whitewashed the hosts 3-0 in ODIs before overcoming India twice in the tri-nation women’s T20 series.

Left-arm death specialist last played for England in 2017 but ‘could present a really strong case’

Matt Roller27-Jun-2021Tymal Mills is under consideration for England’s T20I side and could force his way into their World Cup plans as a death-bowling specialist through performances for Southern Brave in the Hundred, Eoin Morgan has said.Preliminary squads for October’s T20 World Cup are due to be named in mid-September and England are only scheduled to play three more T20Is – against Pakistan in July – before that date, meaning plans are at an advanced stage. They will then play bilateral series away in Bangladesh and Pakistan before the tournament.Mills, the Sussex fast bowler, played the most recent of his four T20Is for England in India in 2017. He has struggled with injuries since, but his high pace, left-arm angle and record at the death means he remains on England’s radar.Speaking after England’s 89-run thrashing of Sri Lanka at the Ageas Bowl to seal a 3-0 series win, Morgan, England’s limited-overs captain, said that there were “probably half a dozen” places nailed down within the World Cup squad, but that the door was open to standout performers in domestic cricket and, in particular, the Hundred.”I always say that guys can present their best case if they’re playing good, competitive cricket,” he said. “Looking at the teams or the squads in the Hundred, they’re extremely strong, so you’d expect the standard and the pressure to be quite high throughout the tournament.”If everybody was fit, I don’t think there are many [spots] nailed down – there’s probably half a dozen. There’s a significant period of time [before the World Cup]. We’re dealing with experienced guys within, say, the 17 or 18 that have been involved [and] there are guys playing in the Hundred like Tymal Mills who could easily present a case.”He is an outstanding bowler and we’ve always been in communication with him, wanting him to get fit, play as much cricket as possible, and leave him alone until the World Cup comes. Playing for Sussex – given the journey that he’s been on – on a regular basis, is way better for him than trying to get fit for sporadic T20 series through the year. He’s a good example, along with a few other guys, that could present a really strong case throughout the Hundred.”Related

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Mills was unable to play franchise cricket over the winter after suffering a stress fracture of the back, but has had a solid start to the Blast, taking six wickets in four appearances and conceding exactly eight runs an over, and restricting the in-form Glenn Phillips at the death against Gloucestershire on Friday night. Since the 2016 World T20, he has the best economy rate in the final four overs (7.60) of any seamer to have bowled at least 50 death overs in all T20 cricket around the world.Mills told ESPNcricinfo in March that he had spoken to Morgan over a beer at dinner while they were taking part in the Ultimate Kricket Challenge in Dubai in October and was told he was “still on the radar” for selection. Morgan has maintained for a number of years that Mills is best served by playing regular domestic cricket, saying before a tri-series in Australia and New Zealand in early 2018: “Due to his fitness background, we probably wouldn’t consider him until a World Cup year.”In particular, Mills is seen as an option to help England with their death bowling, which Morgan has repeatedly highlighted as an area of concern this week. “When we go away from home, it’s an area that we can certainly improve on against the best sides in the world,” he told the BBC after Thursday’s second T20I.”The two most challenging parts of bowling are in the powerplay and at the death,” he added on Saturday. “The powerplay, we’re making inroads with; the death, in this series, we haven’t been tested, really. Throughout the season, we might see with the grounds that we shift to in some of the one-day games and maybe some of the T20 games, that certain grounds have certain wickets and therefore bowlers are under more pressure – which is a good thing.”Chris Jordan has been expensive at the death of late•Getty Images

England were expensive at the death during their T20I series over the winter, conceding 12.16 runs per over in the last four overs in South Africa, and 11.55 runs an over in India. Having previously been a regular in the format, Tom Curran has played only one of their last eight T20Is after his performances dipped, while the ever-present Chris Jordan has conceded 12.00 runs an over at the death across their last 11 T20Is.With the new ball, by contrast, England suddenly have a number of options after impressive returns to the T20I side for David Willey and Chris Woakes, who played their first games in the format for two and six years respectively: Willey took 3 for 44 across his eight overs in the series, while Woakes returned 1 for 23 in his seven. “They’ve presented extremely strong cases,” Morgan said. “There is a level of pressure that comes with coming into a very strong side [but] I think both have taken their opportunity.”Morgan also revealed that he does not necessarily expect to have Jos Buttler available for the ODI and T20I series against Pakistan following his calf injury. “Certainly at the moment, it’s not a priority that Jos is 100% fit for the white-ball stuff that we’re coming through,” he said. “Given the cricket he has coming up with Tests, the T20 World Cup and a possible Ashes down the line, I think there are other priorities that he needs to be fit for.”Throughout this period of where we’re at, the more curveballs that we can be thrown the better. You have a real strong backbone if you have replacements for guys who are either injured or being rotated or rested.”

Another top-order collapse proved costly for the Heat despite Matt Renshaw’s impressive innings as late fielding errors also hurt them

Report by Alex Malcolm27-Jan-2020The cool heads of Aaron Finch and Mohammad Nabi ended Brisbane Heat’s season with a calm 87-run stand to guide Melbourne Renegades to a seven-wicket win at Marvel Stadium.The Heat needed to win to play in the finals but suffered another top-order collapse and failed to take their chances in the field to let the season literally slip through their fingers and hand the fifth and final playoff berth to the Sydney Thunder.Finch and Nabi came together needing 87 from 63 balls on a pitch that was slowing as the afternoon progressed. The captain produced a brilliant knock making an unbeaten 63 from 49 balls to win it with four balls to spare, but he received a huge reprieve with 20 runs needed from 14 balls when he was dropped by Jack Prestwidge at deep midwicket. Nabi was equally outstanding making 38 not out from 28 balls with three fours and a six showing a calm hand under pressure.Earlier, Will Sutherland took 3 for 30 as the Heat once again stumbled with the bat making an underwhelming 7 for 154 on a good surface. They slumped to 3 for 46 in the powerplay with some reckless strokeplay. A classy 65 from Matt Renshaw staved off another collapse and gave them something to bowl at but it wasn’t enough.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Heat melt early againIt was a familiar story for the Heat. They were 1 for 35 after just 21 balls with Ben Cutting flying and they suffered another top-order collapse to lose 3 for 30 in five overs. Cutting was 27 off 10 balls having hit Sutherland for two sixes and a four at the start of the fourth over. One of the sixes landed in the third tier over backward square and the ball never returned. But Cutting wasn’t satisfied and fell lbw trying to go again to a full straight ball. Then AB de Villiers made a rare execution error in the following over from Samit Patel. He was bowled off the back leg having missed a rank delivery that should have been deposited into the seats at midwicket. Finch identified that spin was the best option to Chris Lynn who went nine balls without a boundary, including three dots before he was bowled attempting to cut a length ball that hit middle and off stump from Mohammad Nabi.Renshaw rebuildRenshaw and Marnus Labuschagne were forced to rebuild and did an excellent job to avoid any further damage as had happened the last time these sides met. Renshaw was 22 of 26 before he struck his first six off Cameron Boyce over deep midwicket. Labuschagne was busy feeding him the strike, facing just two dots in his first 18 balls. He fell trying to clear the rope in the 18th over but allowed Renshaw to reach 50 in 41 balls and club a six and a four in the final over to tick the total above 150, which looked unlikely when Lynn fell.Match-up migrainesThe Renegades have tried a host of different top-three combinations in the tournament due to form, absence, and injury. Finch and Tom Cooper opened as they did against the Sydney Sixers and Cooper got another rapid start making 23 off 10 before holing out in the second over. The Renegades sent out Dan Christian at No. 3, a role he had only filled seven times in 315 T20 matches, and just once since 2013. Christian also has a much better strike-rate against pace than spin and it allowed Lynn to utilize Mujeeb Ur Rahman twice in the powerplay. He faced five dots in Mujeeb’s first over before getting off the mark with a single and then holed out at cover off the first ball of Mujeeb’s next over. Beau Webster came in at No. 4 and seven of his nine dismissals in the BBL had also come against spin. The Renegades went four overs without scoring a boundary, with Mujeeb and legspinner Mitch Swepson bowling three of them, to be 2 for 60 after nine overs still needing 95 from 66 balls.Experienced headsThe Renegades had a mantra in their title-winning season, the team that panics last wins. Webster panicked in the 10th over and was bowled heaving across the line. But Nabi and Finch didn’t panic again. Nabi played a gem to take the pressure off his skipper. He rotated the strike early against Mujeeb and didn’t panic when facing three dots against Swepson. He waited for the last ball of the over and got one in the slot to launch over long-on. They reduced the equation to 29 off 18 balls without many risks and forced Lynn to gamble. After a long conference with three senior players, Lynn gave the ball to Labuschagne. It could have gone one of two ways. Finch cleared the rope once but was fortunate to survive next ball when a miscue slipped through Prestwidge’s fingers at deep midwicket next ball. Prestwidge compounded the mistake in the following over with another misfield on the rope to turn a single into a boundary and help Finch bring up his 50. The Renegades only need 10 from eight balls and Finch delivered one massive blow at the start of the last over to end the Heat’s season.

Christina Matthews, the WACA chief executive, also spoke about how the banned Cameron Bancroft has embraced his community service

Melinda Farrell16-Dec-2018Australian cricket’s diminished reputation has contributed to mediocre crowd numbers for the Test against India in Perth, according to WACA chief executive, Christina Matthews. Matthews said the comparison between Test and BBL ticket sales suggested Australian international cricket was “on the nose” with fans, a situation made worse by Cricket Australia’s handling of the subsequent inquiries.The opening day for the first Test played at the new Perth Stadium had a crowd of 20,746 and over the first three days the total was 59,545.”I don’t think it’s the team, I think Australian cricket as an entity is on the nose and a little bit of trust has been lost,” Matthews told radio.”What happened in South Africa was kind of an insult to everybody and how they feel about the game. We follow that up a few months later with the cultural review and let’s say the lack of foresight on Cricket Australia’s part to see how the public was going to react to that. You live and learn. Don’t forget we’ve got a World Cup and an Ashes series coming up in the winter and a reset in that sense.

‘It isn’t easy to change an institution’

Christina Matthews believes Cricket Australia is “not quite ready” for a female CEO after she was overlooked as James Sutherland’s successor
“I put myself up because as the only female chief executive I thought it was my responsibility to lead the way and show others it was possible,” she said. “I am the first woman to be interviewed by the board in 150 years, so going great guns there, another 30 years and we’ll probably have a female chief executive, so I’ve broken the back of that.
“I wasn’t overly confident of getting it but in some ways that really frees you up to talk about what you think you could do. After it was all over I got a couple of calls from board members to kind of compliment me and say the impression I made on them so that was always nice. But, you know, it’s an institution. It isn’t easy to change an institution.
“I had an interesting experience in the process of talking to people when they knew I was applying. Females would go, ‘fantastic, you’d be great.’ Men go, ‘really? You think you’re up to that?’ So I think that it kind of told me we’re not quite ready for that yet.”

“No doubt when we were planning for this a few years ago we would have hoped for 30-35,000 first day crowd, but we didn’t expect the upheaval that was going to happen in cricket over the last nine months. That’s obviously had an effect on Australian cricket and we know that because we know how well the BBL is doing in cricket sales and corporate hospitality – it is smashing everything.”It’s not happening in Australian cricket so there’s obviously been an impact but I think as the team progresses, the result in Adelaide got people a little more sentimental about the team, and as the team improves that will come back again.”Matthews has been directly involved with the welfare and rehabilitation of Cameron Bancroft since the Newlands scandal, managing his community service role. Bancroft is contracted to Western Australia and his nine-month CA code of conduct ban expires on December 29.”We didn’t want it to be a ‘ticking the box’ exercise and do a hundred hours at a junior club and there you go. We wanted it to be a learning experience for him, and to be fair to him he wanted it to be a productive experience as well, so it was exciting last week when I could write to Cricket Australia and letting them know that Cameron had completed his community hours. He had to do a hundred and he did at least double that.”So he did things like working with kids with cancer to kids at schools in breakfast clubs in disadvantaged areas, he did some work with our diversity groups at the WACA junior cricket disabled cricket things like that and a whole lot of variety of things.””As each day in December passes he’s smiling broader and broader. And he’s started doing a few more public appearances, so he was a guest at a breakfast this morning and he’s happy to talk openly about it because he’s learnt so much himself.”He’s probably had an easier road than the other two because he’s been very set and we’ve been very set in how to go about it. So he hasn’t chased other tournaments around the world. He’s worked with the squad and to be fair he’s had a contract so he’s had obligations as well.”Matthews believes there has been more public sympathy for Bancroft compared to Steven Smith and David Warner but said that did not abrogate him from taking responsibility for ball-tampering and then attempting to hide the evidence.”He was new into it I think he was widely seen as much a victim as a perpetrator in the whole thing,” Matthews said. “I think he was naïve and desperate to belong and so he was caught in a position of what to do and I think that the real indictment you know that when your captain kind of knows what’s going on and doesn’t stop it and your vice-captain is involved you sort of go where do you go?”Now he says, and we’ve said the whole time, his responsibility was to say no but for whatever reason he felt he couldn’t. But he’s done everything he can since to take responsibility and make the most of it.”So I think he’s learned a lot about himself and what he stand for and he will forever be – I don’t know if embarrassed is the right word – but he’ll forever have to live with it no matter how good his career is or how bad his career is but there’s no doubt he’ll bounce back.”

Shaun Marsh, continuing his fine form from the JLT cup, was Western Australia’s highest scorer of the day

ESPNcricinfo staff26-Oct-2017Hilton Cartwright made 61 off 128 balls•Getty Images

The 111-run second-wicket stand between Shaun Marsh and Hilton Cartwright propped up Western Australia at the WACA, only for them to slide from 2 for 170 to 7 for 258 on day one against Tasmania. Tasmania’s rally was crafted by the pacers, who shared the wickets around; Jackson Bird, Sam Rainbird and Gabe Bell picked up two apiece as the hosts closed the day on 7 for 285.Being put in to bat first, Western Australia lost opener Cameron Bancroft cheaply – for 18. The century stand followed, as Shaun Marsh extended his fine form from the JLT Cup in the company of Cartwright. Captain Mitchell Marsh, Marcus Stoinis and Ashton Turner failed to build partnerships in the middle as Bird and Rainbird struck.Nathan Coulter-Nile, batting on 36, would look to lead the lower-order resistance come day two.