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ScorecardBismah Maroof played the match-winning hand for Pakistan•AFP

Pakistan Women began their home series against Bangladesh Women with a 29-run run victory in the first T20I in Karachi. Having won the toss, Pakistan lost Marina Iqbal for 1 in the first over but were lifted by a second-wicket stand of 87 between Bismah Maroof and Javeria Khan. Javeria made 44 and was dismissed in the 15th over, but Maroof remained not out on 65 off 57 balls to take the score to 124 without much support from the middle order.Bangladesh’s chase made a slow but steady start and they had progressed to 49 for 1 after ten overs when Maroof dismissed Ayasha Rahman for 23. From 75 for 3, the visitors lost wickets regularly and slipped to 84 for 6, never finding the momentum needed to challenge the target. They were restricted to 95 for 7 in their 20 overs.

Irani Trophy is not a selection match, but pit the best players outside the Indian team against the Ranji champions at the start of a hectic season, throw in a national selector to watch the match, and every player knows no good performance will go unnoticed. Dilip Vengsarkar, the chairman of the current selection committee, not present here, will testify to that: he made his international debut on the back of a century made against Madan Lal, Bishan Bedi and Erapalli Prasanna, in only his second match for Bombay.Even last year, seven out of the Rest of India XV went on to play for India. Cricinfo takes a look at the hot contenders for an India berth from this year’s side:Subramaniam Badrinath
Badrinath has never been closer to playing for India. If you follow up two bumper domestic seasons with an even more prolific start to the third, you leave the selectors little choice. Although he missed out in Rajkot, he has scored 867 runs this season, only getting out twice. He’s already been rewarded, earning a call-up to replace the injured Gautam Gambhir in the squad for the ODI series, overtaking Manoj Tiwary and Suresh Raina, two who have been picked for India ahead of him previously.Manoj Tiwary
Tiwary’s aggressive 130 under pressure was his first big innings after coming back from the shoulder injury he sustained on the eve of what could have been his ODI debut. His stays on the wicket were brief against South Africa A and with three matches being washed out, this innings would do no harm to what he would be thinking is rightfully his: a second chance.Parthiv Patel
Parthiv has been even more prolific than Badrinath this season, and with 179 and an unbeaten 59, he has served notice that even he can play as a specialist batsman. He may still lose out to Dinesh Karthik as a pure wicketkeeper, but he has done enough to be looked at as an opener.Aakash Chopra
Drafted back into the national fray because of the need for specialist opening batsmen in Australia, Chopra will be disappointed he didn’t get a big score here. Although he scored a double-century against South Africa A, it was a painstaking innings scored on a typical Feroz Shah Kotla wicket. He will get a couple of Ranji games before India play their next Test, against Pakistan at his home ground – the Kotla.Munaf Patel
Munaf the good and Munaf the bad both played this match. In the first innings he was clearly holding back, just running in and putting the ball in. In the second, he knocked over Mumbai. Where does he stand now? Nobody knows. What is wrong with him? He only knows. But if he is not completely fit, as the selectors probably believe, he will do well to get fit, play more domestic cricket, bowl more spells like in the second innings, and get rid of Munaf the bad. Because when he is good, he is just too good.

Pakistan cricket, already besieged by multiple controversies, has received another body blow with Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif, their leading new-ball bowlers, testing positive for the banned anabolic steroid Nandrolone during an internal dope test carried out by the Pakistan Cricket Board. They have been recalled to Pakistan and will miss the Champions Trophy.Salim Altaf, Director Operations, PCB, told Cricinfo that the board, as signatories to the ICC’s Anti-Doping Policy (ADP), had carried out a routine test on 19 players at the end of September. The tests were put in place at the behest of Bob Woolmer, the Pakistan coach and are thought to be the first ever held in Pakistan cricket. The results were sent to the nearest World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) laboratory, in Malaysia for analysis. “They told us two samples had come back positive – of Asif and Shoaib – and the chairman was duly informed,” said Altaf.The board had asked for the concerned samples to be tested again though there was some confusion over whether the second results had arrived. The PCB claimed in the morning that the results were due tomorrow, but Dr Nasim Ashraf, newly-installed chairman of the PCB told reporters in Rawalpindi that the second test had also yielded the same results.The decision to call back the players pre-empts the embarrassment of them being found guilty during the tournament, at one of the random drugs tests recently put in place by the ICC for major events. The ICC had, according to the PCB, been informed of the situation and a decision was expected to be taken soon on whether two replacements can be sent. The possible replacements, the PCB says, are Abdul Rehman, the left-arm spinner who toured Sri Lanka with Pakistan earlier this year, and all-rounder Yasir Arafat.The PCB also set up a drugs tribunal to investigate the matter. Altaf said, “We have set up a drugs tribunal, consisting of lawyers, doctors and PCB officials to fully investigate this case. They will look at the lab reports and also hear from the players before deciding on a suitable punishment.” Avoiding any sort of ban appears, for the moment, inconceivable though Ashraf also reiterated that a thorough investigation will be carried out by the committee before any future decision is taken.What the PCB might also want to look at is the collection of rumours and speculation over the last six months regarding this very issue. One doctor, an ex-PCB employee who had worked closely with members of the team, had hinted over the summer about possible steroid use to aid Shoaib’s rehabilitation from injury. At least one other source close to the team has also suggested likewise. None of this was, however, confirmed and at no point was Asif’s name brought up.Ashraf added that the board had acted commendably thus far. “We chose not to cover it up and as soon as we got the results we released it to the public.”There are echoes in this of Shane Warne’s sensational ouster from the 2003 World Cup. Warne, high-profile like Shoaib, was sent home from the tournament on the morning of Australia’s opening game against Pakistan after testing positive for a diuretic. His case was heard under Cricket Australia’s anti-doping policy, which followed a test by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.The agency reported that a sample taken on January 22, 2003, showed diuretics and he was sent home almost three weeks later from the World Cup in South Africa hours before the team’s first game against Pakistan. He was banned from all cricket for a year, reduced from two, after a hearing. Pakistan will now have to do without their opening bowling attack, one day before their first game against Sri Lanka.The news comes on the back of an autumn of turbulence for Pakistan cricket, taking in the Oval fiasco, a farcical captaincy saga and the replacement of the head of the board. As prepaprations for major tournaments go, Pakistan’s has hardly been ideal.

Malcolm Speed, the former Australian Cricket Board chief executive, asked the opinions of two influential legal entities prior to threatening to drop Mark Waugh from the national side. Speed, who is now the ICC chief executive, said yesterday that he requested the ACB to deny Waugh a place in the side after the latter refused to speak to anti-corruption officials in 2001.”I did not want the lead story the following day to be that the player – who was advised by a leading QC [Queen’s Counsel] – had obtained an injunction against us,” Speed said in . “Not surprisingly, we decided to obtain a second and very favourable opinion from Melbourne’s leading Queen’s Counsel.”Leo Karis, Waugh’s manager, said that when the incident occurred Waugh did seek legal advice from his lawyers in regards to the nature of the inquiry and the intent of Speed’s comments. “It was not that he did not want to participate – he wanted more information,” Karis said in . “I must say I thought it was a disgusting tactic by the ACB because he was a player who was taking his legal rights but was being judged – what happened to being innocent before being found guilty?”Waugh was found guilty of supplying weather and pitch information to Mukesh Gupta, an Indian bookmaker, in 1993 and was fined US$10,000 in 1995 by the ACB. The ACB threatened to drop Waugh from the team when he initially refused to speak to anti-corruption officials in 2001, but Waugh agreed to cooperate.Speaking on the challenge of fighting corruption, Speed said cricket was on top of its fight. “We take great heart from our battle against corruption. Five years ago, cricket was on its knees as a result of corruption scandals. If we had a share price, it would have hit rock bottom.” Speed was speaking at the annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association in Sydney.

The BCCI has decided to advise its lawyers to assist the Mumbai High Court in the speedy disposal of the telecast-rights case. The case involves Zee Network and ESPN-Star Sports battling for the telecast rights to all international matches played in India over the next four years. reported the president of the board, Jagmohan Dalmiya as saying: “The committee was updated on all developments pertaining to the TV-rights issue and it was also appraised of the order of the High Court with regard to the “status quo”. The committee decided to advise the Board’s lawyers to assist the HC for expeditious disposal of the matter.”Dalmiya was speaking after the working-committee meeting in Kolkata. However, he wasn’t willing to comment on the possibility of the series being affected due to the delay in the case. “The matter may be sorted out in a day or two,” he said. “We cannot take any decision on this matter till the case is decided upon by the court.”The president said the board would also seek clarification from the court on its order of maintaining status quo.”

Disadvantaged children in Christchurch have benefited from a donation of $17,750 by the Queen Street Cricket Club.The club funds its operation by asking each of its 250 members to donate $5 every time a member of the New Zealand Test team makes a duck in a match. QSCC chairman Roger Brittenden said: “Some jokingly describe it as a guaranteed form of cash flow. But we like to think we are the team’s biggest supporters and if a player should unfortunately fail, well, somewhere a needy child is going to benefit.”The donations made this year were: $12,250 to Allenvale School for children with special needs and $5500 to the Mary Moodie Respite Care Centre. The donations were made by New Zealand fast bowler Shane Bond on behalf of the QSCC.Allenvale School offers a wide range of programs for children with autism, Prada Willi syndrome, Down’s syndrome, Fragile X and attention deficit disorders.”Allenvale School is enrolling an increasing number of students with severe multiple disabilities and have had to establish another class. The Queen Street Cricket Club will be providing essential equipment for this class, including a hoist for lifting children for showering, toileting and other needs, a shower changing bed and two side liers.”Bond said it was crucial organisations like the QSCC continued to make these types of contributions.”The children and the staff who work with them on a day-to-day basis deserve to work in, and have access to, the best conditions and equipment possible. It’s about identifying ways to help, like the QSCC has done, and then providing practical assistance.”Bond also said he has only scored one Test duck so far in his career but “promised to do better”. It was his maiden Test innings, in the third Test against Australia in Perth in 2001-02.This is not the first time the QSCC has aided Allenvale School. Several years ago three specially-built tricycles were stolen. The club came to their aid and provided the money to replace the popular cycles the next day after the story was aired on national television news.The Mary Moodie Respite Care Centre in Christchurch provides care for the most handicapped and difficult children on the weekends, allowing parents of these children an essential rest. The items financed include a small trampoline, two small bikes, puzzles, drawing sets, recorder, mini sound system, DVD player, outside furniture, a barbecue, VCR and a PC along with educational computer games.The club, which was officially formed in December 1989, has raised over $125,000 for disadvantaged children’s groups such as Heart Children of New Zealand, Kidz First Hospital, Project K, The Royal Foundation for the Blind and children with immune deficiency syndromes.

The Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka (BCCSL) moved to dispel growing fears on Friday night that the ongoing television rights dispute with WSG Nimbus threatened international television and radio coverage of the forthcoming West Indies tour of Sri Lanka.Last week, the BCCSL terminated their three-year television, radio and sponsorship rights agreement with WSG Nimbus, a sports management consortium, after pre-tour payment deadlines were missed.The BCCSL obtained an injunction in the Commercial High Court against WSG Nimbus and called for fresh bids from other parties for a new three-year period.WSG Nimbus quickly released a statement arguing that the agreement could not just cancelled and that it was still in effect. They then initiated legal action in Sri Lanka and Singapore.Firstly, they are trying to overturn the injunction obtained in Sri Lanka. Their case was heard on Tuesday, but the judge requested further time to review the case. He had then been expected to give his verdict on today, but bizarrely announced at the last moment that he now had to attend a family function. A verdict is now expected on Monday.WSG Nimbus then issued a statement on Friday evening claiming that the dispute would now be settled by arbitration in Singapore.”WSG Nimbus continues to maintain that its Agreement is in full force and effect and that the BCCSL’s purported termination is unlawful and of no effect,” stated the release.”WSG can confirm that that it has received notice from the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) that the SIAC has assumed over the dispute.”The BCCSL admitted tonight that they had received a letter from the SIAC, but argued that arbitration was not an option in this case and they were going ahead with fresh bids as planned.”As far as we are concerned we can go ahead,” said a board spokesman. “We have a bid process underway, with a number of interested parties, and we shall select the winner on 29 October (Monday night).”According to the spokesman: “It is very clear that this agreement has ceased to exist. Any other issue would require arbitration, but not a payment dispute, which this is.”For the moment, though, both parties are waiting for the Sri Lanka High Courts judgment. The BCCSL are desperate for the judge to rule in their favour, pointing out that: “If we get this verdict this is all finished.”

A fire on one of the grass banks of the Basin Reserve ground in Wellington on Sunday was contained without any damage to the ground’s property or stands.The fire broke out on one of the banks shortly after 1.30pm, according to local media reports. The reported that firefighters put out the flames on the ground’s outer fence by around 1.50pm, while reported that 100 square metres of shrubs and bushes had been scorched in the fire. The fire also caused traffic jams in the central part of the city, as firefighters closed traffic lanes to put out the blaze.The Basin Reserve will host New Zealand’s domestic matches in the T20, List A and first-class formats in the forthcoming season. The next international fixture at the ground is the ODI against Pakistan in January 2016, which will be the first one-day international at the ground since March 2005. It is also expected to host Brendon McCullum’s 100th Test when Australia visit for a tour that includes the first properly contested Chappell-Hadlee one-day cup since 2010. The ground hosted a Test between New Zealand and Sri Lanka in January this year but was not allotted any matches during the 2015 World Cup.

ScorecardFile photo – Shreyas Iyer’s 90 took his tally of fifty-plus scores in Ranji Trophy 2015-16 to nine•K Sivaraman

A brisk 90 from Shreyas Iyer and complementing fifties from captain Aditya Tare (68) and Siddhesh Lad (57*) led Mumbai to a strong 327 for 7 on the first day of the semi-final against Madhya Pradesh in Cuttack.Medium-pacer Chandrakant Sakure took 4 for 102, accounting for Mumbai’s top three but the side recovered through a string of fifty-plus stands to pull Mumbai out of trouble.MP won the toss and Sakure got a breakthrough with Akhil Herwadkar’s wicket in the 11th over, but Mumbai still forged on through an 88-run second-wicket partnership between Iyer and Bhavin Thakkar. The side suffered a wobble when Thakkar and Suryakumar Yadav were dismissed in successive overs with the score at 112 for 3 but recovered as Iyer added 57 runs with Aditya Tare.Iyer fell 10 runs short of his fourth hundred of this Ranji Trophy season, his 103-ball stay at the crease yielding 13 fours and a six. It was his ninth fifty-plus score in this season, a tally second only to Vijay Bharadwaj [1998-99] and Abhishek Nayar’s [2012-13] 11 in a season. A 65-run partnership for the fifth wicket between Tare and Lad, followed by a breezy 75-run partnership between Lad and Abhishek Nayar kept Mumbai in control.After Tare’s dismissal for 68, Nayar and Lad lifted the tempo of the innings, the former scoring a 48-ball 43 that included seven fours. His partnership with Lad progressed at a rate of 5.17 and took the side past the 300-run mark. Lad saw Mumbai through to close of play with an unbeaten 57 off 115 with 11 fours.

Ricky Ponting wants Australian crowds to show Muttiah Muralitharan due respect if he breaks Shane Warne’s Test wicket record in November. Muralitharan needs nine more victims to pass Warne’s mark of 708, which could happen during Sri Lanka’s two Tests in Brisbane and Hobart.”He’s had his fair share of ups and downs in Australia in recent years, but being the champion bowler that he has been, if he happens to break the world record in Australia I hope he is shown the respect he deserves,” Ponting said at the team camp in Coolum.Ponting said his players were determined to prevent Muralitharan from overtaking Warne’s record on Australian soil, which would also help them towards victory. “In the last series in Sri Lanka he took a lot of wickets, but he got a lot of our tail-enders out. He’s actually come out in public and said we play him better than any other team in the world, and I think the stats probably back that up.”Ponting also contributed to the debate comparing Muralitharan with Warne. “When you add everything up, Murali’s certainly been a great bowler,” he said, “but Warney should be remembered as the greatest bowler of all time.”Warne’s expected replacement in the Australian team, Stuart MacGill, said Muralitharan should not expect any favours from local crowds. “One thing that sportsmen need to get over is that the spectators owe them anything,” MacGill said. “Sometimes we can be a little bit fragile. It [crowd taunting] is not personal. We are never going to see him again – it doesn’t really matter.”