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Mathew Sinclair played a lone hand for New Zealand A with a fighting unbeaten 110 to help them to 192 for 5 at close of play on the second day of their four-day match at Kandy. With the Sri Lankans being bowled out for 284 earlier in the day, the match hung in the balance.Sinclair came in to bat after the New Zealanders had lost two early wickets, and the situation became even more dire when Jamie How was dismissed soon after as the team slumped to 22 for 3, with all three wickets being taken by Gayan Wijekoon, the left-arm medium-fast bowler. Sinclair then strung together a couple of useful partnerships, the more significant of which was a 95-run undefeated stand for the sixth wicket with Gareth Hopkins, who was unbeaten on 24, the second-highest score in the innings.Earlier, Sri Lanka A stretched their first innings to 284 after resuming at 225 for 6. Chris Martin, who had taken four middle-order wickets on the first day, added the scalp of Malinga Bandara to finish with excellent figures of 5 for 64.

India have announced their one-day squad for the seven-match series against Australia which starts on 11 December.Monica Sumra and Varsha Raffel, who both play for Railways, are in line to make their international debuts.India are currently training in Mysore which is the venue for the firsttwo games. It will be the first time an international has been played at the ground.The series will act as a warm-up for the forthcoming World Cup in South Africawhich commences in March 2005.India Mamatha Maben (capt), Mithali Raj, Anju Jain, Anjum Chopra, Jaya Sharma, Hemalata Kala, Jhulan Goswami, Amita Sharma, Arundhati Kirkire, Varsha Raffel, Deepa Kulkarni, Neetu David, Nooshin Al-Khadeer, Monica Sumra.

Pakistan have sought the aid of the International Cricket Council to force South Africa to honour their commitment to tour their country. If South Africa won’t, Pakistan have said they have no other option but to enforce their right to take the matter, and a $US7million claim for damages, to the ICC’s disputes-resolution committee.Lt-Gen. Tauqir Zia, the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), made the written request today. South Africa cancelled the tour on Saturday, on the eve of their side leaving for the tour. What Pakistan have called an “isolated” bomb exploded in Karachi on Friday, about five miles (8km) away from the National Stadium where South Africa were due to play their opening tour game, a one-day warm-up match, on Wednesday. The first one-day international was also scheduled to be played there, on Friday.Pakistan have given the South Africans a deadline – this evening – to make their final decision. Zia said the bomb incident, in which there were no casualties, occurred because of a feud between two factions, and was not a terrorist act.Zia has written to the ICC president Ehsan Mani and warned that if the ICC did not intervene, Pakistan would be forced to refuse to honour its own commitments to those countries who decline to visit them.”The ICC must keep in mind the loss Pakistan cricket will suffer due to this act of the United Cricket Board of South Africa. We have already suffered at the hands of the Indian government’s reluctance to allow the Indian team to play with Pakistan. The loss is to the tune of $US30million. If other teams also do not visit Pakistan then the loss to Pakistan cricket will be unbearable.”It is not only the loss because of the South African visit but also the reluctance of the subsequent teams. Pakistan cricket will lose around $US7m from the South African tour and $US3m from New Zealand’s tour. And if India chooses not to send its team to Pakistan in February, the loss will be $US11m.”Zia also made the point that while the cancellation affected revenue, there were also costs to the promotion and development of cricket, the cost in terms of the public being deprived of their chance to watch sport, the loss to Pakistan television which would not be able to generate advertising on the back of the cricket, and also cost involved in maintaining huge stadia that were not being used.”Such losses are unacceptable to Pakistan cricket,” he said. “We have already written to the UCBSA suggesting postponement by a week, and excluding Karachi as a venue. We expect the UCBSA to cooperate with us as we have done with everyone including touring countries where the threat to the security of players was far more serious.”We expect the ICC to intervene and instruct the UCBSA to take the tour as planned. We would hate to end up in a situation whereby we are forced not to honour our commitments to those countries who decline to visitPakistan.”Bangladesh played the fifth ODI of their series in Karachi without any security concerns,” said Zia, who then added: “Furthermore, the ICC match referee Mike Procter, who is from South Africa, also does not support the decision of the UCBSA.”Zia said he had spoken twice with the South African high commissioner in Pakistan and that he also did not support the UCBSA decision. According to him, Pakistan was a safe place, particularly for South African nationals.Zia also reminded the ICC president of the 1998 incident in which the PCB was under pressure from some Pakistan team members to cancel their tour of South Africa after the mugging incident in which two of their players were injured. “The crime rate in Johannesburg is far greater than anywhere else but teams visit South Africa regularly. On the contrary, Pakistan government has assured security to visiting teams of the level given to the VVIPs.”Zia said that the UCBSA had taken a unilateral decision without consulting the PCB, the ICC or their High Commission in Pakistan. “They had initially expressed reservations on playing at two venues, Karachi and Peshawar, but later agreed to go ahead with the tour after their security personnel visited Pakistan. These personnel were fully satisfied with the security aspects and on the basis of their assessment, UCBSA allowed the tour to proceed as scheduled.”In a separate letter, Zia enlisted the support of the Asian Cricket Council through its president Mohammad Asghar Ali, and requested a united front be put forward as resolved at the ACC special general meeting in Sharjah last year.That resolution was: “…It was further decided that in case of failure by any country within or outside Asia for reasons not beyond the control of the cricket boards and force majeure, the four Test-playing countries of Asia would automatically refuse either to visit or host that particular country.”Zia asked Asghar Ali to consult with other members and request both the ICC or the UCBSA to ensure the tour goes ahead, and that the matter be given top priority.

Hampshire Over-50s returned tired, exhausted but boasting an unblemished five-match winning record from their 17-day Malaysian tour.The county veterans found the standard of Malay opposition generally disappointing, but the searing heat and intense energy-sapping humidity was hardly in their favour.

Several players to leave the field suffering from exhaustion in matches which seldom exceeded 35-overs duration due to the heat.Hursley Park’s John Harris and Alan Wright (Liphook & Ripsley) batted consistently, with Calmore’s sprightly all-rounder Billy Sims twice producing match-winning performances with the ball.

Tour results –Royal Selangor Club 88 (Westbrook 3-22, Azor 2-13) Hampshire 89-1 (Harris 45*, Wright 33). Hampshire won by 9 wickets.Hampshire 148-9 (Harris 54, Swain 45) Kelewar District 103 (Sims 4-26, Allum 3-18, Azor 2-19). Hampshire won by 45 runs.Hampshire 141-3 (Azor 41, Swain 31, Wright 25) Silver State 117 (Sims 5-12, Prouton 2-12). Hampshire won by 24 runs.Hampshire 143-4 (Harris 64, Owen 39) Penang Sports Club 98 (Smallbone 2-4, Westbrook 2-5). Hampshire won by 45 runs.Hampshire 132-6 (Wright 45, Owen 22) RAAF Butterworth 75 (Allum 2-4, Wharton 2-4). Hampshire won by 57 runs.

Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsEd Cowan and Steven Smith matched each other shot for shot in an unbeaten stand of 165•Getty Images

South Australia did well to get this far. New South Wales did better to get their hands on the Matador Cup. In what proved to be a lopsided conclusion to the tournament, the Blues brushed the Redbacks aside with nine wickets and more than 20 overs to spare, vindicating the captain Steven Smith’s decision to send the visitors in to bat on a pleasant day at North Sydney Oval.Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon and Sean Abbott all contributed with the ball in an even display by the Blues, which underlined the team’s intimidating depth of talent, while also exposing how a few members of the Redbacks XI still have much to learn about performing under pressure for their state. The loss of South Australia’s last seven wickets for 30 will haunt numerous members of the XI, for at 3 for 191 they had looked well placed to set a target near enough to 300.Left with a far more modest tally to chase, Nic Maddinson provided a supercharged start for the Blues before Ed Cowan and Smith matched each other shot for shot in a rollicking stand of 165 to close out the contest. Smith’s performance rounded out a strong tournament for Australia’s captain, even if it emerged that he has been carrying a sore knee for much of this year.The Redbacks had excelled in defending mid-sized targets during the competition, notably doing so twice against Victoria to knock out the far more seasoned Bushrangers’ collective. But a dropped chance in the second over, when an airy cover drive from Maddinson burst through the hands of Adam Zampa, proved to be an opportunity South Australia could not afford to spurn.As he has done all tournament, Starc made a vital early incision by bowling Travis Head with a ball nearly identical to that with which he did the very same to the young captain in the qualifying match between these teams. Hazlewood followed up with the wicket of Tim Ludeman and it took a hardy stand by Tom Cooper and Callum Ferguson to steady the Redbacks innings.Their union put South Australia in decent shape heading towards the final 10 overs, but the Blues recovered ground with remarkable ease once Cooper had reached his eighth limited-overs hundred. The very next ball had Alex Ross chipping a return catch to Abbott, and from there the innings melted away.Starc and Hazlewood came back to add another two wickets apiece, meaning the former had ripped out 26 wickets in this tournament, with no fewer than 20 of them being lbw or bowled.Maddinson, Cowan and Smith took progressively more liberties against the Redbacks bowlers in the afternoon, meaning Head could never create the sorts of pressured scenarios that allowed his young side to corral Victoria.As Smith hoisted a final six to finish things before he was embraced by Cowan, it was difficult to escape the following conclusion: this had been a tournament of progress for the Redbacks, but for a powerful Blues line-up bolstered by players available due to the postponed Bangladesh tour, the lifting of the trophy was nothing less than they had expected.

It’s said the truest and toughest test of an international player is that he not only be one but look like one.In any lesser company he should stand head and shoulders above the crowd, that his quality should be so clear that it is transparent by the most uneducated observer.Good players stand out.From that perspective, no-one at the Basin Reserve today who saw the innings of Roger Twose and Stephen Fleming or enjoyed their unbroken partnership of 244 for Wellington against Otago which was a record for all wickets by all teams in the Shell Cup, could have doubted their international status.Twose’s innings of 124 not out, Fleming’s of 120 not out, which contributed to Wellington’s 102-run win over Otago were performances of such complete and ruthless command, exercises in such manifest authority that the pedigree of their creators could only be self-evident.Asked to pick out the internationals in these two teams, the most ingenuous novice would easily have lighted on Twose and Fleming for Wellington, who batted in partnership through 43 overs to lift Wellington to 274/2, and Mark Richardson for Otago who carried his bat through their innings of 172 and was 88 not out at its end.The day was shaped entirely by Twose and Fleming who were drawn into partnership in only the seventh over of Wellington’s innings when they were 30/2 after winning the toss and batting. Matthew Bell had been out to the first ball of the second over, bringing Fleming to the wicket with only eight balls of the innings bowled, and Chris Nevin was out to the second ball of the seventh over, bringing Twose to the crease.They remained together for the next 43 overs and four balls, scoring at an even pace and reaching each of their innings’ milestones almost simultaneously. At the end they had created a new partnership record not only for Wellington’s third wicket or for all wickets for Wellington but for all wickets for all teams in the Cup and they had done so with apparent effortlessness.It had to be remembered that Fleming had missed Wellington’s match against Auckland two days ago with a groin strain and hadn’t entirely erased doubts about his fitness when he came to the crease today. That he batted 195 minutes, through almost 49 overs and took many of his runs from hard-run singles and twos, that he seemed free in his movement, poised and decisive, would have seemed to allay those doubts entirely.But Fleming was prepared to delay judgment on that issue.”The injury is okay at the moment but tomorrow will tell the story,” he said. “If there’s a downside to this innings it’s spending the whole day on an injury but it was well strapped and I’ll just have to seem how it comes out tomorrow.”This was only Fleming’s third hundred in Cup matches, his highest score and his first century in any form of cricket for almost two years but he greeted it with only modest satisfaction. It was clear Fleming enjoying batting and batting successfully in the company of his old mate Twose and there were times in the partnership where their understanding, their mutual judgment of a run was almost intuitive.But Fleming was only mildly satisfied with his day’s work – by no means rejoicing.”The most pleasing thing for me is that it’s just a continuation of my form,” he said. “I feel in good form at the moment and I’ve had some good results in the one-day stuff so I’m just working on continuing that and keeping things simple.”There was a simplicity to his innings today, a matter-of-factness and a singularity of purpose but at the same time there was complexity. It was an innings, as Twose’s was, highlighted by the batsmen’s flair for innovation. Both found some shots hard to play on a relatively slow Basin Reserve wicket, so they found means to score through improvisation – through reverse sweeps and other shots which are only found in the appendix to the book of cricket techniques.”We had to try a few new things to score runs out there today because the ball wasn’t always coming on and it was hard to play straight. So we both brought out the reverse sweep and a few other shots and that was quite nice because we’ve had a lot of reverse sweeps played against us lately.”Both players had two sixes in their innings and both crowned those innings with sixes out of the ground – Fleming early in his innings from the spinner Simon Forde and Twose in the last over, when he took 17 runs from Craig Pryor.But the chart of their totals had that picket-fence quality that good, experienced one-day batsmen achieve because, while Twose hit 11 boundaries and Fleming seven, the majority of their runs were collected from singles.The quality that Wellington coach Vaughn Johnson appreciated most was the measured and sensible pacing of their innings. Wellington were only 80/2 after 20 overs and 120/2 after 30 but they were able to accelerate steadily through the last 20 overs to reach 274.Otago, in comparision, were 102/5 after 20 overs and 126/8 after 30 – ahead of Wellington’s run rate but losing wickets too quickly to remain competitive.”I thought Roger and Stephen showed very good pace,” Johnson said. “they had a target in mind and with the calibre of the individuals they knew what we needed and got it.”Otago were never in the hunt for Wellington’s total – which was substantial in the context of the Basin’s slow pitches. Richardson’s innings was the only sturdy thread holding together their reply. He batted for 158 minutes and for all the 37.4 overs of the innings reaching 50 in 19.1 overs and 88 by the end.There were only a few other contributions of note – 25 from Chris Gaffaney who helped him add 40 for the second wicket, 19 from Paul Wiseman who added 39 for the ninth. Otherwise, Otago’s innings was in a rapid decline, a decline made more sobering by the fact Wellington dropped three catches.Gaffaney was dropped before he had scored, Matt Horne on 6 (he went on to double that score) and Richardson on 29.Chris Nevin, who put down Gaffaney off James Franklin only a ball after Andrew Hore was out, finished with three catches and the stumping of Lee Germon.

The Karachi City Cricket Association (KCCA), which is hosting the four-day Nissar Trophy match between Mumbai and Karachi Urban, has played down the absence of star presence in the visiting team.KCCA secretary, Siraj-ul-Islam Bukhari said that he could understand the problems faced by the visiting team. “Obviously we would have liked to see some big names in their team to attract the crowds. But the main thing their team represents Mumbai and they are playing in Karachi which is a big thing.”The Mumbai team got a lukewarm reception on arrival with no player recognisable to Pakistani fans. Mumbai and Karachi play the four-day game from September 8 at the National stadium on basis of being the national champions in their countries.