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The India Under-19s defeated Bangladesh Under-19s by 129 runs to clinch the Tri-nations Under-19 tournament in Colombo. Saurav Tiwary top scored with 86 as India were bowled out for 199, after which they dismissed Bangladesh for 70, with Abu Nechim taking a career-best 6 for 9.India got off to a positive start after electing to bat first, but a top-order collapse negated the 42-run opening stand between Shreevats Goswami and Abhinav Mukund. Goswami, Mukund, and Tanmay Srivastava fell within the space of seven runs as India were in a spot of bother at 48 for 3.Tiwary arrived at the crease and in the company of Virat Kohli put on a 50-run partnership for the fourth wicket to resurrect India’s position. While Kohli was more circumspect, scoring his 27 of 69 balls, Tiwary was in an attacking mode, hitting five sixes and five fours in his knock of 86. After Kohli’s dismissal, Tiwary found an able partner in Iqbal Abdullah, adding 58 for the sixth wicket.India were finally dismissed for 199 in the last over of their innings, with Rubel Hussain and Golam Kibria, the Bangladeshi opening bowlers, taking three wickets apiece.Bangladesh may have fancied their chances of victory before going in to bat, but Nechim put paid to those hopes, taking 6 for 9 as they were routed for 70. Amanpreet Singh picked up two wickets, including the prize scalp of Mahmudul Aziz, the Bangladesh captain, for 17. Nasir Hossain, who scored 21, and Aziz were the only batsmen to register double-figures as India made use of bowling friendly conditions at the Colts Cricket Club ground.India finished the tournament with wins in all of their five matches while Bangladesh had recorded a solitary win against Sri Lanka, who did not win a single match.

Both Ricky Ponting and Glenn McGrath lavished praise on Sachin Tendulkar,but were confident that Australia would prevail when they meet India onSaturday in the third game of the DLF Cup. McGrath is representingAustralia for the first time since the VB Series last January, andrelished the opportunity to pit himself against both Tendulkar and BrianLara in the same tournament.”My whole career, I have enjoyed bowling to guys who are the best in theworld,” he said. “Sachin and Lara are two of those guys. I didn’t get achance to bowl at Lara the other night, now I’ll see how I go againstSachin. I am looking forward to it. Sachin is a class player, I havealways enjoyed bowling to him in the park. The way I started the othernight was a perfect length to a right-hander. So, we have a right-handerwho has got a 140 under his belt. He is due to fail in this game!”Ponting too was awestruck by the manner in which Tendulkar had announcedhis return to the fray, saying: “I have always said that Sachin is thebest player I have played against and seen. He is absolutely world-class.Having him at the top of the order makes the team look much moreformidable. He gets in there early, he has technique to play the new-ball,and he can be as damaging as anyone in the middle and end overs. He makesfor a pretty good package when he is at his best.”That said, he insisted that the game would not be about individuals.”India has always been the team that we respect, and they have lots ofmatch-winners in their team,” said Ponting. “On their day, they are asgood as anybody going around. We have got one win under our belt and thatshould help. As for India, this is a short series, so they will, I amsure, look at tomorrow as a game that they must win.”Rahul Dravid suggested that a positive mindset would be India’s biggestally. “We need to be at the top of the game to beat the Aussies,” he said.”They have maintained their status as the best side in the world, and wehave played some good one-day cricket in the last year. It should make fora good contest.”Like everyone saw, the West Indies were in control for three-fourths ofthe game, but then the Aussies fought back and won convincingly in theend. You must be in the game right till the end against Australia, youcan’t relax at any stage. We will look to be aggressive and positive.”India’s preparations weren’t helped, however, by rain that resulted intheir practice session at the Turf Club being called off, after onlyVirender Sehwag and Mahendra Singh Dhoni had got an opportunity to knockaround in the nets. “We have had just about enough of this bad weather,”said a visibly irked Dravid. “I think we have got our quota of rain for acouple of years in the last month or so! It is a bit frustrating, but itis something we can’t control. Yesterday was shaping up into a good game,and we were beginning to have good training session here today. Thefacilities were great and we had excellent practice pitches, but only twoplayers got to bat.”Dravid accepted that India’s bowling had been well below par against WestIndies, who were 141 for 2 from just 20 overs when the rain came down. “Wedidn’t bowl as well as we would have liked, and there is a lesson to learnthere,” he said. “We have worked out the areas that, if we bowl in, willbring us success. We have got plans in place, now it’s a question ofexecuting them.”Australia also struggled with the ball when Shivnarine Chanderpaul wassmashing it all over the place, but McGrath was coy when asked if he wouldbecome something of a mentor for the younger bowlers. “I don’t know if Iam good at it,” he said truthfully. “But I get along well with the youngquicks and they sort of keep me on my toes. I haven’t spent a great dealof time with them just chatting to them, so I am working their game outand seeing actually how much they know about their game.”Despite the fact that he’s now one of the game’s senior statesmen, McGrathhinted that the snarl, that has been just as much part of his game as hisaccuracy, wouldn’t go into premature retirement. “Being a fast bowler, oneneeds to be aggressive,” he said. “Even so, there is a line I have madethat I don’t cross too often. But Ricky wouldn’t want me skipping aroundafter bowling half-volleys and smiling when I get hit for four.”Both camps played down the significance of a Greg Chappell-coached Indiataking on Australia for the first time. “We don’t look at it that way,”said Dravid. “It doesn’t make a difference that Greg is an Aussie and weare playing Australia tomorrow. He is our coach, and Australia is justanother team. I don’t know if the fact that Greg has coached people likePonting in the past will make that much of a difference.”Ponting, who was part of the Australia A squad coached by Chappell in1994-95, agreed. “You might be right there,” he said with a laugh, whenasked to recall those long-ago days when he was trying to make his mark.”I have only heard good things about Greg as a coach. He has been with usat the Academy at different times, he knows a lot of our game reasonablywell. So he will have a fair deal of knowledge to pass on to the Indianteam about us.”When he [Chappell] was coach of South Australia, Tim Neilsen was with himthere as the assistant coach. Everything he has said about Greg ispositive, Tim said Greg is the best batting coach he has worked with. Hewould have brought a fair bit to the Indian team, and a fair bit ofknowledge about us too.”How that knowledge helps the Indians on Saturday remains to be seen.

Ian Chappell believes Australia must take five bowlers into the series-deciding fifth Test at The Oval on Thursday. Chappell, who captained the 1972 side which won at the same ground to force a 2-2 draw, said entering the match with only five batsmen and Adam Gilchrist at No. 6 might “concentrate the minds”.”Australia need to gamble to retain the Ashes and, considering the run-scoring feats of Shane Warne and Brett Lee in the series so far, the time is right to dump a batsman,” Chappell wrote in his column. “Anyway, the policy of playing five front-line bowlers is designed to decrease the scoring potential of the opposition, so there are less runs to chase.”While admitting the move was risky, Chappell said Simon Katich should be dropped because Damien Martyn was more likely to make a big score. “If Simon Jones doesn’t play and Glenn McGrath is fully fit, it makes this gamble even more attractive,” he said. In 1972 Australia headed to The Oval in the same situation as the current side, but centuries to Chappell and his brother Greg and ten wickets to Dennis Lillee set up the match, which was secured with a 71-run partnership between Rod Marsh and Paul Sheahan.However, Steve Waugh, who played at The Oval only when the series was sealed, has suggested an even bigger shock by requesting that Katich, an occasional wrist spinner, is bowled more by Ponting. “The dilemma with four is whether two quicks and two spinners is too much of a gamble, particularly if Glenn McGrath plays with a question mark over his fitness,” Waugh wrote in .”I would pick McGrath, Brett Lee, Shane Warne and Stuart MacGill as the main men and spring a surprise by using Simon Katich as a third spinner. Katich is underrated … he is a guy who raises his game under pressure and has that mongrel streak about him that inspires his mates.”

As if the prospect of taking on one of the finest batting line-ups in the world was not incentive enough, a lucky United Arab Emirates bowler is on course for a $US1000 cash bonus, if one of them can dismiss Sachin Tendulkar in Friday’s Asia Cup opener against India at Dambulla.The UAE are one of the leading non-Test nations. In 1996, they took part in their first – and to date, only – World Cup, but have since won the Asian Cricket Council Trophy for three years in a row. Even so, they and their fellow qualifiers, Hong Kong, are hardly expected to put up much of a fight over the next fortnight, when they take on the Test nations of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.”Of course I am overawed at the prospect of playing against the likes of Tendulkar,” UAE’s captain, Khurram Khan, told AFP. “But I don’t think anyone would want to take that wicket for money considerations alone. It would be a prize wicket like no other.”The cash offer was made by a UAE official prior to the team’s departure from Dubai, who added that the team should take heart from Greece’s unexpected success at the Euro 2004 football championships earlier this month.”I don’t know how the match will go,” added Khurram. “I just hope I can enjoy the moment.”

New Zealand fast bowler Shane Bond has the chance to smash a national record by becoming the bowler to assemble the fastest 50 Test wickets.While he has not been able to land a big haul of wickets in the first Test against Sri Lanka, in what was his ninth Test match, he ended the match sitting on 41 wickets.That has him on target still, with one more Test in this series, and two, or possibly three, more in India in October-November and two home Tests against Pakistan, to achieve 50 Test wickets ahead of the 14 Tests and 25 innings in which it took Frank Cameron, Richard Hadlee and Daniel Vettori to do it. Hedley Howarth took the same number of Tests but one more innings to reach the milestone.The first Sri Lankan Test has seen him complete his 15th innings.Cameron, probably the longest serving New Zealand selector spanning the period from 1968/69 until 1985/86, had a late start to his Test career on the tour to South Africa in 1961/62. He had made his first-class debut in 1952/53. A medium-pace swing bowler, he became an integral part of New Zealand’s side during the early 1960s.Hadlee is the current chairman of selectors and took 431 Test wickets in a career which lasted from 1972/73 to the 1990 tour of England where he was knighted mid-series. His tally of wickets stood as a world record until being overtaken by India’s Kapil Dev in 1994.Vettori was the youngest New Zealander to play Test cricket when making his debut in both first-class and Test matches against England in the summer of 1996/97. A left-arm spinner he has now taken 142 wickets.The list of New Zealand bowlers to take 50 Test wickets and the number of matches and innings taken is:

Tests InningsFrank Cameron 14 25Daniel Vettori 14 25Richard Hadlee 14 25Hedley Howarth 14 26Simon Doull 15 21Chris Cairns 16 24Dion Nash 16 26Richard Collinge 16 28Shayne O’Connor 16 29Danny Morrison 17 26Dayle Hadlee 17 27Bruce Taylor 17 28John Bracewell 17 32Dick Motz 18 30Ewen Chatfield 18 31Lance Cairns 19 28Stephen Boock 20 32Bob Cunis 20 37Tony MacGibbon 21 30Martin Snedden 21 34Dipak Patel 27 36John Reid 38 45Bevan Congdon 49 50

Bond is even more closely poised to take his 50th wicket in One-Day Internationals. He has taken 49 wickets at 19.63 in 26 matches.The best New Zealander is former left-arm pace bowler Geoff Allott, who took 50 wickets in 28 matches.Should Bond take a wicket in his next match, he would join Pakistan’s Waqar Younis in seventh-equal fastest position.The world record is held by India’s Ajit Agarkar who took 23 matches. Dennis Lillee (Australia) took 24 matches and countryman Shane Warne 25 matches. Australian Len Pascoe and West Indians Patrick Patterson and Curtly Ambrose each took 26 matches.Ian Bishop (West Indies), Saqlain Mushtaq (Pakistan) and Allott all share 28 matches for the feat.Meanwhile, Daryl Tuffey has extended his already outstanding record for first over dismissals in internationals as the result of having Marvan Atapattu out leg before wicket in the opening over of the Sri Lankan innings.He has now performed the feat seven times in Tests and nine times in One-Day Internationals.His record is:Tests:Marcus Trescothick (England at Auckland, 2001/02 – second ball), Mark Butcher (England at Auckland 2001/02 – fifth ball), Shahid Afridi (Pakistan at Lahore, 2002 – third ball), Virender Sehwag (India at Wellington, 2002/03 – sixth ball), Sanjay Bangar (India at Hamilton, 2002/03 – third ball), Parthiv Patel (India at Hamilton, 2002/03 – sixth ball, second innings), Marvan Atapattu (Sri Lanka at Colombo, 2003 – fourth ball).ODIs:Saeed Anwar (Pakistan at Napier 2000/01 – first ball), Saeed Anwar (Pakistan at Christchurch, 2000/01 – sixth ball), Marvan Atapattu (Sri Lanka at Sharjah, 2000/01 – second ball), Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka at Sharjah 2000/01 – third ball), Marcus Trescothick (England at Auckland, 2001/02 – third ball), Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka at Sharjah, 2001/02 – third ball), Imran Nazir (Pakistan at Rawalpindi, 2002 – first ball), Sourav Ganguly (India at Napier, 2002/03 – third ball), Sourav Ganguly (India at Wellington 2002/03 – first ball).

David Fulton edged towards his ninth first-class century of the summer as Kent attempted to gain ground on relegation-threatened Northamptonshire in Canterbury.Fulton will go into day three of this CricInfo Championship match at St Lawrence unbeaten on 80 and with his side on 158 for three – representing an overall deficit in the match of 91.After skittling the hosts out for 108 in the first session of the match, Northamptonshire looked set for a formidable first innings lead until Kent took the second new ball to polish off their reply by taking six wickets inside 15 overs.A record fourth-wicket stand worth 167 from 63 overs between Russell Warren and Tony Penberthy increased the visitors’ lead to exactly 200 until Penberthy (73) fell to the occasional medium-pace of Matthew Walker.Warren went on to record his century from 200 balls and with 16 fours before his four-hour stay ended with a fresh burst from Ben Trott who finished with excellent figures of five for 89 from the Nackington Road End.That sparked a collapse of six wickets for 40 runs in just 88 balls as Trott and Martin Saggers, with three for 98, raced through the middle and late order to polish off the innings for 357 just before tea.Kent’s England academy opener Rob Key was bowled for the second time in the match when shouldering arms to John Blain in the second over of the reply, but then Fulton and Ed Smith combined to add 86 for the second wicket before Smith (41) nicked to Ripley to give Blain his eighth victim of the match.Andrew Symonds offered a sharp return catch that Penberthy snaffled up, only for Fulton and Matthew Walker to take Kent through to stumps with an unbroken fourth-wicket stand of 61.

Otago Blue player Claire Thompson was the star of the day at the Southern Zone’s secondary schoolgirls’ cricket tournament in Oamaru today.Thompson returned the amazing figures of 6 for none off four overs, bowling against South Canterbury.She took four wickets in one over, and captured all of her scalps single-handed – bowling five and having the other trapped leg before wicket.Otago Blue scored 137 and Thompson’s efforts ensured South Canterbury fell well short being dismissed for 87.In today’s other matches Otago Gold scored 78/5 in reply to Canterbury Country’s 77, and Christchurch Red made no race of its game with Mid Canterbury scoring 126/1 chasing 125.

ScorecardFile photo: Robin Peterson’s nine wickets nearly scripted a win for Cape Cobras•Getty Images

Career-best scores from Test discards JP Duminy (260*) and Dane Vilas (216*) were not enough for Cape Cobras to secure their first win of the Sunfoil Series, after Lions hung on for a draw on what seemed a flat Paarl pitch. Made to follow-on after Cobras’ 570, Lions were in trouble at 134 for 5 on the last day, but a century from Dwaine Pretorius helped them finish the day on 287 for 9.Cobras suffered two early losses when their openers were dismissed by the 11th over but piled on runs over the first day and a half, during which Duminy and Vilas sent stern messages to the national selectors. While Duminy remains part of the Test squad, he lost his place in the XI after a loss of form and showed he has found his touch again. Vilas has not been part of the squad since the India tour but showed good intent with a strike rate of over 85 and Cobras seemed to put the match beyond their opposition, with a declaration on the second day.Lions had a ready response. Stephen Cook, who continues to be overlooked for the Test opening spot, scored his second century – 118 – in as many games and Lions were comfortable on 148 without loss before their first wobble. Two wickets fell on that score before Cook and Dominic Hendricks (46) rebuilt, but then came the collapse. Lions lost eight wickets for 17 runs as Robin Peterson (5 for 62) and pacer Lizaad Williams (3 for 35) ran through them. They had five batsmen dismissed for ducks and three others in single figures, and were forced to follow-on after finishing 318 runs behind.Cook was the first wicket to fall in their second innings but his opening partner Rassie van der Dussen held on with a patient knock of 72. Lions went into the final day with seven wickets in hand and still 235 runs behind, which would have made Cobras eye an innings win. When Lions slipped to 134 for 5, Cobras would have felt they were closing in but Pretorius defied them.He scored a century batting at No. 7 and found support from the middle order and the tail. He was eventually removed by Peterson, who finished the match with nine scalps, and was the eighth wicket to fall. Three balls later, Lions lost their ninth at the same score. But Cobras were left frustrated when Aaron Phangiso and Eddie Leie stonewalled for the next 14 overs, faced 85 and 39 balls respectively and kept an attack with four international bowlers out.Meanwhile, in Pietermaritzburg, the fixture between Dolphins and Warriors was abandoned on the fourth morning after days of persistent rain prevented even the toss from taking place. Warriors remain rooted to the bottom of the points table with Dolphins sitting in fourth place.

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Nepal eased into the final with a nine-wicket victory against China at the Johor Cricket Academy.China’s one chance of victory was to hope to put up a score big enough to force Nepal to go for their strokes for the first time in the tournament and thus create wicket-taking chances. Nepal however, were never remotely in danger and – but for two dropped chances – played a close to faultless game in the field.Only one four was struck by China after they batted, that a heave over midwicket by Sun Meng Yao, who made 18 of their 40. China’s batsmen were not allowed to play any strokes as delivery after delivery pinned them to the crease in defence.China were all out in the 29th over and Nepal’s batsmen, not overly capable of attack themselves, took their own sweet time in chasing down the target. Extras did the work; 21 of them, surpassing by one the runs off the bat.Nepal now play Bangladesh in the final for which Bangladesh – in spite of all the application shown by Nepal – are the overwhelming favourites.

Jason Gillespie believes he has “no chance” of starting the first Ashes Test despite a double-century and Man-of-the-Series return in Bangladesh in April. Today signals the 100-day countdown to the series, but Gillespie said he has “not been getting a great vibe” and ranked himself as the country’s seventh bowler in line.”I know my one-day career is over,” Gillespie said in . “I still feel as if my Test career has something to offer but I am down in the queue. Stuart Clark, Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee are ahead of me. You’ve got Kasper [Michael Kasprowicz] who has been injured, Shaun Tait and Mitchell Johnson. I see myself as below those guys.”Gillespie said the selectors were “dying to introduce” new life into the attack and admitted his international future was not bright. “I’ll be honest with you, I think I am no chance for the first Test,” he said. “I got Man of the Match and the Series with eight wickets at 11 and a double-hundred and won’t play the next Test … it will be a good trivia question.”In 71 matches Gillespie moved into fifth place on Australia’s wicket list with 259 at 26.13, but it seems he will be remembered more for his 201 not out as a nightwatchman against Bangladesh in his previous Test. “My only regret was I never got home for a week after it,” he said. “The amount of text messages and calls I got were amazing. I have my gear I scored my 200 with. The shirt, gloves and shoes are locked away in the cupboard and I am going to take them home and keep them in a nice safe place. The bat will never be used again.”Gillespie, who is playing in the County Championship for Yorkshire, said England would be worried about their injured bowlers, but their batting and wicketkeeping was looking strong. “They have finally made the change and picked the best gloveman in the country [Chris Read] so they are moving in the right direction there,” he said. “They are also playing a spinner who is actually trying to take wickets [Monty Panesar]. He is a spinner who gives it some flight and shape and is trying to take wickets. They are looking OK.”