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Cameron White piloted Somerset with an unbeaten 197 as they tried to avoid a heavy loss to Derbyshire at Derby. The visitors have just three more wickets left in their pursuit of a further, and unlikely, 179 runs. Having already gamely fought his way to the verge of his maiden double-century – he blasted 33 fours and three sixes from 178 balls – White will be Somerset’s biggest hope tomorrow. Steffan Jones is Derbyshire’s most successful bowler so far this innings, taking three wickets to bring his match haul to seven.Craig Spearman made his second century of the match – and just missed out on his 150 for the second time – to take Gloucestershire to 272 for 2 by stumps, a deficit of six runs. He and Phil Weston put on 227 for the first wicket as Gloucestershire worked their way towards parity. Matthew Nicholson eventually grabbed both openers, but they were to prove the only wickets for Northants on a frustrating day for their bowlers at Northampton.Surrey strode to an emphatic victory at at New Road, crushing Worcestershire by an innings and 108 runs to keep their title contention firmly on track. Ahzar Mahmood took 4 for 53 to start Worcestershire’s slide and then Ian Salisbury (3 for 36) and Anil Kumble (2 for 28) wrapped up the tail between them. Vikram Solanki offered the only resistance of note, his 56 propping up the home side for a while, but the rest of the wickets slid away, until they were all out for 165. Rikki Clarke had earlier lifted Surrey’s total past 500 with a firecracking 40 not out.

Division One

Anthony McGrath’s defiant century took Yorkshire to a decent lead ahead of the final day at Old Trafford. After the early loss of Joe Sayers (6), the senior pairing of McGrath and Craig White added 183 before McGrath fell just before the close, to take Yorkshire to 192 for 2, with White making 78 not out. Earlier, Luke Sutton had made his way to 151 not out, just about reaching the 150-landmark before the Lancashire innings came to a close on 441, to give Lancashire a first-innings lead of 96.Shane Warne opened up Hampshire’s contest against Middlesex at Lord’s with a positive declaration as soon as his team had reached 400, and taken maximum batting points. Nic Pothas’s third century of the season compensated for the early loss of Michael Carberry in the day’s fifth over after adding just a single to his overnight 103. Sean Ervine contributed a forthright 42 before edging the new ball to first slip, but Pothas pressed forward and reached three figures with a Chinese cut. In the next over Warne carved the ball to the cover fence and promptly jogged off the park, aware that Hampshire need to win this match to maintain pressure on the top-of-the-table teams.An intriguing final day is in prospect at Edgbaston after Nottinghamshire‘s openers made inroads into their mammoth target of 404. Darren Bicknell and Jason Gallian shared an unbeaten stand of 88 to set up a tester tomorrow. Bicknell had reached his fifty by the close, with Gallian making 30. Warwickshire had earlier made their way to 230 for 9 before declaring, Mark Wagh topscoring with 70.

Sanath Jayasuriya may require surgery after dislocating his right shoulder for the second time of his career, according to Sri Lanka Cricket’s Australian surgeon Dr David Young. Jayasuriya will be sent on a four-hour drive to Colombo on Sunday to have an MRI scan to investigate how seriously he has damaged his tendons.Jayasuriya was left writhing in pain after diving to stop a Yuvraj Singh drive and landing awkwardly on his arm, with his shoulder taking the greatest impact. He was helped off the field by CJ Clarke, the team’s physiotherapist, and then attended to by Dr Young, who – by chance – had been watching in the grandstand after travelling to the island for tsunami relief work on the east coast.The shoulder was clicked back into place and initial fears about his future participation in the tournament, let alone the game, were eased by the team management as it was described as a `minor dislocation’. Although batting ran the risk of aggravating the injury Jayasuriya insisted on batting after taking an injection for the pain and guided Sri Lanka home with 43 not out.But the true extent of the tendon damage around the shoulder joint will only become apparent after scans. “We will need to do an MRI scan on Sunday to find out what damage has been done to the rotator cuff,” Dr Young told reporters after the initial treatment. “The worse case scenario is a `full thickness tear’ that would require surgery and stop him playing for significant period of time,” he added.Jayasuriya dislocated the same shoulder in a one-day tournament in Morocco back in 2002 and has been suffering from tendon stiffness and soreness since, according to Dr Young.

Des Wilson has resigned from the management board of the England and Wales Cricket Board after failing in his attempts to persuade them to take a strong moral stand over this November’s proposed tour of Zimbabwe. Wilson was appointed chairman of the ECB’s Corporate Affairs and Marketing Advisory Committee last year. His brief was to come up with a policy regarding the tour.The end was inevitable from the moment that Wilson tried last Tuesday to persuade the board that if it had to tour, then it should do so under protest and adopt a tour-to-rule policy. He also argued that the board should actively try to change the stance of the ICC, so that it did consider moral issues. As Zimbabwe Cricket Union officials waited to address the meeting, Wilson was asked to leave. The final confirmation that the ECB was about to meekly fall into line was evident.”I really thought I could make some difference,” Wilson said. “They liked the idea of someone coming in with fresh ideas but the trouble is that when it comes to putting them into action, they don’t like the reality.”I have no desire to offer succour or support to the ECB’s critics at a difficult time,” he continued. “This is not an ‘I’m right, you’re wrong, I’m off’ resignation. We simply differ, but the differences are profound. It is right, therefore, that I should go and thus enable the board to unite around the course it believes to be right.”The fact is the ECB has been placed in an intolerable position by the ICC’s inflexible and, in my view, malevolent enforcement of its international tours programme with draconian and disproportionate penalties that would devastate the English game, forcing the ECB itself into insolvency and bankrupting upto a third of the first-class counties.”In the short term, I believe the ECB should make such a tour only under protest … In so doing it would be seen to exercise both moral judgement and accountability to UK’s political, public and cricket stakeholder opinion and take a first step to rejecting the unsustainable proposition that moral concerns have no place in sport.”Even if this tour goes ahead, I believe the ECB should commit itself to fight for as many years as it takes to change the protocol so that no other country can be coerced in this way. Alas, there appears no appetite for that course of action either.”When Wilson’s proposals were widely leaked to the press in January, it appeared that the ECB were taking a new moral standpoint. But when the ICC threatened severe financial repercussions were the tour to be called-off on moral grounds, the ECB backed down.Wilson’s resignation was no surprise to the ECB, but the tone of his statement was. “Clearly, there is a difference of opinion between Des and most other members of the board over our strategy towards the Zimbabwe tour,” explained David Morgan, the chairman. “The ECB doesn’t share his views over the role he alleges the ICC have played in this extremely difficult issue. The ICC needs to balance the concerns of all its members and always has to act decisively and fairly in the wider interests of the game, as they have done in respect of England’s scheduled tour of Zimbabwe.”As for the ICC, Ehsan Mani told The Times that Wilson had to go as a result of the “deliberately leaked” paper in January. “It should have come as no surprise to him that the net effect of his leaking was to damage relations between the ECB and other boards. While he sought to force his own view of the world on others, Wilson lacked the ability or willingness to listen and understand the views of people who did not share his perceptions.”The fact remains that all countries, including England, support the position that safety and security are the factors to be taken into account when assessing whether a tour is to proceed.”

The Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) is set to lose another two days of gate receipts.That’s because the island’s champion cricketers are on the verge of completing a fifth comprehensive victory well inside the distance after Sherwin Campbell’s second century of the season and two exceptional catches late in the day.After the second day of their final round preliminary Carib Beer Series match against West Indies "B", very few expect this no-contest to go past lunch today.With that in mind, hardly anyone will come to Kensington Oval today. Even if they do, the BCA might very well decide not to charge admission in light of the limited play expected.Bottom-of-the-table West Indies "B", facing a big first innings deficit of 238 against the newly-crowned Cup champs, closed the second day on 181 for six, a position that was beefed up by an enterprising sixth wicket partnership of 82 between their two leading batsmen this season, Aneil Kanhai and Carlton Baugh.These two responded to a collapse with a series of bold strokes, but the buzz around the ground in the evening session was generated mainly by sensational one-handed catches in the gully by Dwayne Smith and Sulieman Benn, respectively, in the space of five minutes.In both cases, the ball was travelling and both fielders stretched out their left hands to haul in the catches.There was an equally, stupendous catch by wicket-keeper Courtney Browne, but after Barbados claimed four wickets for 36, Kanhai and Baugh played freely, especially against Tino Best.After Best delivered a shoulder-high full toss to Denzil James, he responded by despatching Narsingh Deonarine in the same over with the help of Browne’s catch, but was then roughed up by Kanhai and Baugh to the extent that his eight overs cost him 66.Baugh made a run-a-ball 47, while the left-handed Kanhai fell just before the close for the same score off 68 balls when he edged Ryan Hurley to slip.While Campbell kept Barbados’ innings together in the morning session with his 25th first-class hundred and ninth at the regional level, there was an equally impressive five-wicket performance from hometown fast bowler Jason Bennett.Campbell’s 135 off 238 balls was solid and was also punctuated by some powerful strokes through the off-side that were responsible for most of his 18 fours.His contribution was all the more important after Bennett made inroads into Barbados’ batting.In ten successive overs from the Joel Garner End, the bustling Bennett adhered to a line a trifle outside off stump and bowled a decent three-quarter length that made it difficult to get after him.After removing Philo Wallace and Ryan Hinds in another impressive ten-over spell the previous evening, Bennett added the scalps of Floyd Reifer, Dwayne Smith and Ryan Hurley in the first hour-and-a-half of the day.The left-handed Reifer had not yet added to his overnight 57 when Bennett bowled him off the glove in the second over of the morning.Smith never looked comfortable against Bennett and it was no surprise when he nibbled a ball outside the off stump and edged a catch that was taken low down by little wicket-keeper Carlton Baugh.After his crucial half-century against Leeward Islands last weekend, Ryan Hurley earned a promotion coming in ahead of captain Courtney Browne at No. 6, two notches higher than the position he occupied for the last four matches.He promptly lifted his first ball from fast bowler Andrew Richardson for four and added another boundary when he whipped Bennett through backward square.Another exciting innings seemed to be in the making from the busy Hurley, but it never materialised.Rapped low down with a ball of fullish length from Bennett, he was given out lbw, but many fans behind the bowler’s arm were certain the ball would have missed leg stump.Those first three wickets were taken within the first 40 minutes and would have given encouragement to West Indies "B" after Barbados resumed on 155 for two in response to the youngsters’ 115.Barbados consolidated by way of a fifth-wicket partnership of 59 between Campbell and Browne that ended on the stroke of lunch when Browne, in trying to repeat a hook for six off Rayon Thomas, holed out to deep square-leg for 25.By then, Campbell raced to his century with a neat dab to the backward point boundary and continued after lunch in the same rich form before being caught at slip attempting to cut Kanhai’s off-spin.After his dismissal at 292 for seven, the total was helped by a half-century stand between Sulieman Benn (37 not out) and Corey Collymore (20).SCOREBOARD:WEST INDIES "B" 1st Innings 115BARBADOS 1st Innings(overnight 155-2)P. Wallace b Bennett 26S. Campbell c Jeffers b Kanhai 135R. Hinds lbw b Bennett 4F. Reifer b Bennett 57D. Smith c wk Baugh b Bennett 4R. Hurley lbw b Bennett 9*+C. Browne c Deonarine b Thomas 25I. Bradshaw c James b Kanhai 12S. Benn not out 37C. Collymore lbw b Deonarine 20Extras (b2, lb3, w4, nb15) 24TOTAL (9 wkts dec’d – 96.4 overs) 353Fall of wickets: 1-41 (Wallace), 2-57 (Hinds), 3-159 (Reifer), 4-165 (Smith), 5-185 (Hurley), 6-244 (Browne), 7-292 (Campbell), 8-293 (Bradshaw), 9-353 (Collymore).Did not bat: T. Best.Bowling: Richardson 22-2-73-0 (w1, nb3), Thomas 13-0-79-1 (w3, nb7), Bennett 26-1-83-5 (nb5), Kanhai 18-5-40-2, Jeffers 7-2-33-0, Ingram 9-4-34-0 (nb1), Deonarine 1.4-0-6-1.WEST INDIES "B" 2nd Innings*S. Jeffers c Hurley b Bradshaw 35P. Browne lbw b Collymore 10N. Deonarine c wk Browne b Best 7D. James c Smith b Best 15A Kanhai c Wallace b Hurley 47G. Mahabir c Benn b Collymore 0+C. Baugh not out 47L. Ingram not out 0Extras (b1, lb3, w1, nb15) 20TOTAL (6 wkts – 37 overs) 181Fall of wickets: 1-27 (Browne), 2-59 (Jeffers), 3-68 (Deonarine), 4-95 (James), 5-95 (Mahabir), 6-177 (Kanhai).Bowling: Collymore 8-2-40-2 (nb5), Bradshaw 9-1-34-1 (nb2), Best 8-0-66-2 (w1, nb5), Benn 8-1-29-0, Hurley 4-2-8-1.Position: West Indies "B" trail by 57 runs with four wickets in hand ahead of today’s third day.Umpires: Dalton Holder (Barbados), Camal Basdeo (Trinidad and Tobago). Stand-by: Vincent Bullen (Barbados)

Glamorgan coach Jeff Hammond has spoken out about Robert Croft`s omission from the England side for the Fourth Test against Australia.The Welsh spinner has been included in the Test squad for the last three Tests but has only played in one, and then bowled just three overs at Trent Bridge.Hammond says he is absolutely bewildered by England’s strategy ofoverlooking the Welshman.”To say I’m angry about the issue is an understatement," said Hammond."I’m so bewildered at what’s happening. I really feel for Robert’s situation. He’s virtually had three starts for Glamorgan all season and there’s times when he has gone two weeks without bowling a ball in a game.”I could come to grips with it if the guy was on a contract but he’s not on central contract so what are they trying to do? Are they just meddling with the guy’s future? Not only that but what value is it to Glamorgan?””Robert must be shattered being thrown from pillar to post. It can’t domuch for his confidence and it’s doesn’t do a lot for Glamorgan’s causeeither.””They had taken him up to Headingley because the pitch was very devoid of grass. To me you stick with your guns and be done with it. I find it very hard to fathom that England can’t go into a Test match without a spinner. To me it’s a throwback to the West Indies when they played four magnificent quick bowlers, but they still had Roger Harper to back them up. I’m totally bewildered by it. I have respect for the England coach Duncan Fletcher but I just worry about the strategy.”

Northwest surprised Western Province with a four wicket victory off the penultimate ball of the match in the Standard Bank Cup clash in Potchefstroom on Friday.Northwest scored 261 for six in response to Western Province’s 258 for five in their allotted 45 overs.Home side opener Hendrik de Vos scored 82 not out while West Indian Mark Lavine blasted 44 off 21 balls down the order that swung the match in favour of the hosts.Western Province’s bowling was well below par as they conceded 23 wides to compound their misery.It started well for the visitors, who won the toss and elected to bat. Spearheaded by a maiden one-day century from opener Graeme Smith they looked well placed to record a win that seemed a mere formality.Smith scored 106 and took three for 46 in 8.2 overs to earn the man of the match award. His heroics were not enough as the rest of the team failed to raise their game when it was needed.Western Province openers Smith and suspended national team player Herschelle Gibbs put on 40 for the first wicket. Gibbs blitzed 22 that included five boundaries before being caught by De Vos off the bowling of seamer Garth Roe.Zimbabwean international Neil Johnson played the dominant role in a 103-run second wicket partnership with Smith, scoring 58. It was an aggressive knock that included four boundaries and one six. He holed out to Craig Light off spinnner Corrie Jordaan.Lloyd Ferreira then played the support role as Smith moved to his century. Ferreira was Roe’s second victim caught in the covers by West Indian Mark Lavine.Smith was run out two overs from the end of the innings as he tried to force the pace further. But he had already done enough to put his side into a strong positionThe Northwest response was spirited as they tried manfully to stay with the required run rate of five and a half to the over.They had fallen behind with the loss of opener Glen Hewitt (42), Arno Jacobs (18) and Martin Venter (3) before Lavine made hay and turned the match on its head.When he holed out to Herschelle Gibbs at point, the way was paved for De Vos to steer his side to victory.

No venue shift for Bangalore
The Bangalore Royal Challengers’ match against the Rajasthan Royals on Saturday will go ahead as scheduled after Lalit Modi, the IPL commissioner, refused their request to shift the match in light of yesterday’s serial bomb blasts in Jaipur, which killed about 60 people. “We cannot do that [shift the venue]. The match will go ahead as scheduled in Jaipur on Saturday,” Modi told Cricinfo, adding that additional security will be provided at the team hotels and the Sawai Mansingh stadium, the match venue.Laxman backs under-fire Dravid
VVS Laxman has firmly backed Rahul Dravid, his India team-mate and Indian Premier League rival, whose Bangalore team is in the middle of a torrid run. “For sure, Rahul is a good captain,” Laxman, told Cricinfo. “Even if you see the games Rahul’s team have lost, some of them were very close. If they had won those, no questions would have been raised about his captaincy. I am sure he will bounce back because I know he is a very tough character.”Kolkata’s poor time management skills
The Kolkata Knight Riders have been handed US$1000 fine by Talat Ali for maintaining a slow over-rate during their match against the Delhi Daredevils, the third time in as matches that they have been rapped for the offense. The IPL’s regulations state that a team will be fined $500 for each slow over. Ali had leveled a similar fine on them after their match against the Deccan Chargers, prior to which they incurred a $500 fine after facing the Bangalore Royal Challengers on May 8.

Joel Garner, the former West Indies fast bowler, has been appointed the Barbados Cricket Association’s tenth president, comfortably beating Calvin Hope by 40 votes, and has vowed to implement a five-year plan to put Bajan cricket back on the map.”I’m honoured to be elected to lead Barbados’ cricket forward,” Garner told . “I’m going to try to put cricket back in the main focus of the BCA and at the end of the year, try to have people thinking the way they should in terms of cricket.”I think it [the election] came down to people trusting and believing that I’m the best person to lead Barbados cricket at this time. We have to sit down and have a meeting to look at the way forward. We’ve got a five-year development plan that we’ve started working with. We’ll proceed with it, but look at all aspects of cricket.”Conde Riley, who has been on the association’s board for several years, was chosen as Garner’s vice president following an emphatic victory over Philo Wallace, the former West Indies opening batsman.”I’m humbled by the result,” Riley said. “It is a vote of confidence in my work. I hope that I can continue to work with the cricket development committee to ensure that we have our Centre of Excellence in place in the next three months.”I believe people realise that I work hard and I think they are convinced that I am someone that can serve Barbados’ cricket.”

It’s the coming of the evolution of cricket – the Stanford 20/20 tournament to be played at the Stanford Cricket Ground in Antigua from July 11 to August 13.The Barbados cricketers got a chance this week to try out the new kits and from all reports they are loving it. The gear was handed over by Raj Walia, the Toronto-based manufacturer, who is part owner of Vampire and BAS cricket equipment.The bats are black, with the Stanford 20/20 logo on the front and back. The balls are orange and will offer more swing. The helmets are black and will have a blue and yellow stripe. The pads and batting gloves will have a similar design. Each player in the 19 participating teams will get a kit, and over 500 balls have been manufactured.The stumps and bails will be silver, and organisers are promising a spectacle during the matches which will be played in the afternoon under natural light and at night under floodlights.

Cricket players have been offered today what New Zealand Cricket chief executive Martin Snedden believes is a ground-breaking contract offer in New Zealand sport.It has utilised the ranking system that has been at the core of contracts in Australian cricket for the last five years.The top 20 players at international level will be contracted and assessed by the national selectors each year for their position on the list.Should the four-year offer be accepted by the players, and they have said they will have a response to NZC by Friday of next week, before the next round of discussions are due on October 22, a list already drawn up by the selectors as far back as May this year will be implemented.Snedden and his bargaining group have been able to make their offer while increasing the total cost of payments by only $140,000. However, in taking out the bonus payments that had been part of the previous international contract system more has been able to be made available to players on the lower ranks of the first-class ladder.Players at provincial level, and without the international players being included, will also be ranked in each association.Snedden said the change in systems was appropriate given the changes that have occurred in playing standards in the last five years.”Five years ago there may not have been the confidence in some of the players, but now there is a solid core there who we do have a lot of confidence in.”I feel the ranking creates an incentive for the players and the ranking is a decision made by the selectors,” he said.Snedden also felt, and he thought the New Zealand Cricket Players’ Association would probably agree, that the ranking list should be made public.”I imagine it would be quite prestigious to be known as the No 1 ranked player in New Zealand,” he said.A central plank of the offer is also the compliance with the International Cricket Council’s demands that players must sign the contracts required before next year’s World Cup and future tournaments because they were the basis of the finances being available to pay players.Snedden had not been surprised by the length of time involved in discussing the contract. He said there were 25-26 issues and common ground had been found on all of them except the remuneration issue.”It has been a hell of a difficult and detailed negotiation, but I knew it would be. It is a ground-breaking offer that we have made and it is short term pain for longer term gain,” he said.The reason for the contract being a four-yearly one, with provision for financial top-ups as extra money becomes available, was because of the “front-end loading” of payments every four years based on World Cup payouts.