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Bangladesh Under-19s batsman Nazmul Hossain Shanto said his unbeaten 113 against Scotland Under-19s was special and stated that he had planned to rely more on singles than boundaries on a slow track in Cox’s Bazar. Shanto’s hundred took Bangladesh to 256 for 6 and they dismissed Scotland for 142 to make it to the quarter-final stage.”This is a special day,” Shanto said. “We have made it through to the second round. I got a century and the team won. There was a bit of pressure because we lost two early wickets. The pitch wasn’t great, the ball not coming on to the bat. I just wanted to rotate the strike.”Coming in to bat in the eighth over with the score at 17 for 2, Shanto scored a boundary through cover in his first ten deliveries but then held back his shots. His next boundary came after seven overs and he hit three more fours on his way to 50 off 71 ballsHis next fifty, however, came off only as 40 balls as he reached his second Youth ODI century off 111 balls, with a whipped four of Scotland’s best bowler Mohammad Ghaffar, in the 48th over. Shanto was pleased that he could finish the innings, something he said he has struggled with previously. The knock also helped him surpass Pakistan’s Sami Aslam as the batsman with most runs in Youth ODIs. Shanto’s tally in Youth ODIs is at 1747, with two centuries in the format.”It is fun to bat in these situations which don’t come every day,” he said. “I tried to take my team to a better position. I haven’t been able to finish the innings in the past. But today I could, and that was a good sign. It will help me in the future.”Bangladesh will play their last league game against Namibia Under-19s on February 2.

Chris Adams gets one over on the Sussex mascot after landing a third Championship title © Getty Images

Chris Adams, who led Sussex to their third Championship title in five years at the weekend, has told BBC Sport that he is ready to sign a contract extension that will see him finish his playing career at the county.Adams, who almost moved to Yorkshire at the end of 2006, is expected to agree a two-year extension to his existing contract which will keep him at Hove until the end of 2009 by which time he will be 39.Reflecting on the Yorkshire episode – where he left Sussex to become director of cricket at Headingley only to do a complete about turn shortly afterwards – he admitted that it was “two hellish weeks of my life”.”Yorkshire offered me a very tempting position but I knew it would be horrendously difficult for me to play alongside other players in another team. I couldn’t do it … that’s the bottom line, ” Adams said. “I’m delighted Sussex were able to keep the door open and I’ve had a great year with the bat and enjoyed the contest more than any other. It’s been awesome.”As for his future, he said: “I’m just about complete the level four coaching certificate and it seems my future will be in a position of director of cricket at a club. When the right job comes along, I’ll put my name firmly in the hat. If that position is at this club, then that’s perfect.”If there was a wish-list, I’d have this job [the Sussex captaincy] forever, but I know that age means these things come to an end.”

Kevin Pietersen upstaged Chris Gayle with 10 boundaries in his 90 © Getty Images

Hang out the bunting and kiss me under the mistletoe. England have won a game of one-day cricket! It’s debatable whether the achievement – their fifth in 20 matches since the start of 2006 – merited the thunderous fireworks fusillade that greeted Sajid Mahmood’s winning boundary, but a win is a win is a win, especially for a side as desperately unsuccessful as this.When taken in isolation, and given the rash of low scores that this tournament has thrown up, it seemed a pretty impressive performance from England’s cricketers and Kevin Pietersen in particular – doubtless he’ll be first off the plane, strutting his stuff as if the World Cup is already in his hands, when the team skulks back into London later this week.But, as we have been repeating ad nauseam in this tournament, there is no isolation available to England at the moment. Far from being the dawn of a brave new world, this was a hollow victory in a dead rubber against opponents already guaranteed a semi-final berth, and no amount of positive spin can disguise that fact. Pietersen was as magnificently belligerent as only he can be, the flaws in the rest of England’s performance were manifest, but hey, sod it. The Ashes are around the corner and our boys are back in the groove. Got any more of that bunting?If you do, why not drape it over Andrew Flintoff’s shoulders? His cheery performance may not have reaped many runs or any wickets, but for the first time since his ankle operation in June, he looked like a leader with a full armory at his disposal. He shook off several layers of rust with the ball while cranking his pace up towards 90mph, and until the moment he drilled Chris Gayle to cow corner, he was a batsman in control of the situation and, more pertinently, in control of himself.Talking of Gayle, he was desperately unlucky to end up on the losing side. To judge by the solemn musings in his recent tour diary, he’s not a man who’s much enamoured with Ahmedabad – his idea of a good evening’s entertainment is “chilling out in the hallways with Marlon [Samuels], Wavell [Hinds] and Sars [Sarwan],” and playing love songs down the phone to his “queen” back in Jamaica.But he certainly found his release on the cricket field, turning in a coolly brilliant allround performance. His high-profile spat with Michael Clarke last week was a rare glimpse of his fierier side, but today he needed no histrionics to laud it over his opposition. Nothing epitomised his play better than Andrew Strauss’s dismissal. For the second week running, Strauss descended into a blind panic as soon as the pace was taken off the ball. He should have been plumb lbw two balls before he was bowled, and when he did depart the crease it was with the same heavenward glance he had given in the last match against Australia. He knew, and England knew, that a collapse was just a faint nudge away. They are that sort of paranoid shambles at present.And they are not being aided by the lumpen presence of Michael Yardy in the middle order. Despite the facial wound that leant an air of menace, Yardy has to be the least notorious and dangerous Yardy that Gayle and his team-mates can ever have encountered. His performance was meek from start to feeble finish, from the steepler he dropped off Ramnaresh Sarwan to his decision to walk off the pitch despite Dwayne Bravo looking every inch like a bloke who’d just claimed a bump-ball catch.And then there’s Chris Read. He has been on a one-man mission to oust himself from the team and today’s pitiful innings should ensure just that. Back in the Sky Sports studio in Isleworth, Geraint Jones was being smugly diplomatic about his rival’s travails, but given that he was just beginning to escape the stigma of that slower ball in 1999, Read’s hopeless performance against Bravo can only have battered his confidence back out of shape. After popping countless such deliveries into no-man’s land, the inevitability of his demise was tragic to behold.And so, England end a dismal campaign on a pyrrhic high. Pietersen pulled this match off with a performance that, ironically, will have reinforced the sniffiness with which the one-day game is viewed in England. All it takes is one inspired player and a decent support cast and you can achieve the impossible. It is a blessed mercy that we are able at last to shelve the debate, at least until January and the start of the VB Series.

Duncan Fletcher: not pleased with Gavaskar’s comments on the England team © Getty Images

Duncan Fletcher, the England coach, has flayed Sunil Gavaskar for his “derogatory” remarks about England’s performance during their last tour of India, saying he had lost respect for Gavaskar after those comments.In his book ‘, Fletcher said that Gavaskar had not appreciated how well England played in India, “especially as we were missing so many key players.” He quotes Gavaskar as saying: “Why our cricket board is keen on having a five-Test series when England visit India next is beyond comprehension for, without the slightest doubt, they are the most unattractive and boring side to have played cricket in India.””After these comments, I lost respect [for Gavaskar],” Fletcher said. He said the comments might have been made because “he had a problem with the English press rather than the cricket team.”Fletcher made the reference about Gavaskar after recalling remarks of Malcolm Speed, the ICC chief executive, about England’s use of substitutes during the recent Ashes series. Speed reportedly told Radio Five Live: “I think Ricky Ponting has a point there. We need to be careful that we keep it under control, define what is acceptable and that the captains buy into that.””This was not the first time I had been perturbed by remarks made by an ICC official,” Fletcher said. “In 2003, Gavaskar made some particularly derogatory comments about the England team’s performances in the recently finished series in India. He had described our approach as only being ‘good for people suffering from insomnia’.”Fletcher goes on to quote Gavaskar as saying: “Thank God it was a three-Test series and not a five-Test one, for Indian cricket would have lost a great number of spectators seeing the fare dished out.””This was strong stuff from Gavaskar,” Fletcher said. “Completely unjust and out of order, though. I thought that we had done well in that three-Test series in India, which we had lost 1-0 with an under-strength side. So when I was asked for a comment about these remarks, I said just two things: `First, it’s very important to realise that he is on the ICC panel and should have an unbiased opinion; and second, it is very sad when a good wine goes sour. I was very disappointed with Gavaskar.”However, Fletcher was full of praise for Gavaskar the player. “Often I would be asked who was the greatest player I had played against, andwhile I never thought I could answer that, I always said that Gavaskar was the one for whom I had the greatest amount of respect.”As well as in India, he had scored hundreds away from home, and especially in the West Indies, where a lot of players who have been termed ‘great’ have struggled,” Fletcher writes in his book. “He also scored all his runs without a seam attack to back him up, because it is all very well doing it when you have some quick men to bully the opposition.”

ScorecardCraig Philipson was the destructive, decisive influence in a match that seed, sawed and then seed again, before Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS) overpowered the Australian Indigenous team. The 170-run victory was misleading, because for most of the first two days, the game was even.QAS had first put on 310 for 8 before declaring, and the Australian Indiginous team went 57 runs ahead. Three centuries were scored in the two innings, and the only one which had a hint of violence was Lachlan Stevens’s unbeaten 116, loaded with 17 fours and three tonks over the boundary. His innings, by far the highest score, was chiefly responsible for getting QAS past 300. Daniel Payne (109) and Daniel Christian (105) then shared a 192-run partnership after the Australian Indigenous team were 2 for 9. Their stand and a few late-order blows put the team ahead, but nothing could have prepared them for what came next.QAS created a result out of thin air. After losing two wickets for 35, a loss was more than probable. Philipson came in and created such an impact, that by the end of the day, QAS had scored 2 for 222 in 28 overs. He scored 132 in only 73 balls. He was dismissed the next day for 146, after five sixes and 21 fours. In 81 balls, he destroyed Barry Weare (71 in 10 overs), Ian Redpath (49 in four) and Christian (30 in three). Queensland declared at 364 for 5 in less than 60 overs.In another 40 overs, the match was wrapped up. The Indigenous team crumbled for 137, and there were no more fightbacks. Wickets fell regularly, and though this score was the lowest of the match by far, the Australian Indigenous team was ultimately done in by Philipson.

In the best match of the tournament so far, Zimbabwe won a battle of nerves to beat Sri Lanka by four wickets and claim a place in the final of the Sharjah Cup. It was Zimbabwe’s first win over Sri Lanka for three years.Grant Flower, with his 37th one-day half-century, calmly helped finish the good work that Zimbabwe accomplished in the field – after being asked to bowl first, they restricted Sri Lanka to 193. With Heath Streak for company, Flower nursed Zimbabwe to their target after Sri Lanka grabbed three wickets for nine runs to reduce them from a comfortable 158 for 3 to a shaky 167 for 6.Sri Lanka’s slow bowlers kept their team in the battle, grabbing important wickets as fortunes swung to and fro. Under pressure in only his second ODI, the 20-year-old legspinner Kaushal Lokuarachchi grabbed 3 for 37 and was easily Sri Lanka’s biggest gain in a match that will be Sanath Jayasuriya’s last as captain.Lokuarachchi has a quick run-up and arm action, and the ball that get rid of Sean Ervine for a duck was one of the highlights of the match. Well flighted, it slanted across the left-hander, drew him forward, landed in the bowlers’ footmarks, beat the batsman as he prodded tentatively, and turned late and sharply to hit the stumps.Zimbabwe had the edge at the halfway stage of their innings, despite playing around with their batting order. Tatenda Taibu joined Flower at the fall of the third wicket, after Gavin Rennie (26) nicked Lokuarachchi to Prasanna Jayawardene behind the stumps. But Taibu, showing no nervousness, struck a breezy 31 and helped put on a crucial 55 runs for the fourth wicket with Flower.Their partnership helped Zimbabwe consolidate after Craig Wishart and Doug Marillier’s early fireworks. They rattled up 26 runs in the first three overs, with ten coming in the first over from a wayward Charitha Buddhika. They put on 36 before Wishart (14) shouldered arms to an incutter from Prabath Nissanka and watched in dismay as it crashed into his stumps.Jayasuriya introduced Kumar Dharmasena before Muttiah Muralitharan, and he slowed the Zimbabwean charge, bowling faster and flatter through the air, and conceded just seven runs in his first five overs. When Muralitharan did come on, he struck in his first over to dispose of Marillier (32) with a bat-pad catch that Marillier suggested had only involved the pad. But that was Murali’s only wicket, and it made a telling difference in the final outcome.Earlier Streak and Andy Blignaut, with three wickets apiece, led a spirited Zimbabwean effort in the field. Sri Lanka were strangled by a steady medium-pace attack, good catching and attacking captaincy. Five Sri Lankan batsmen passed 20, but the top-score was Hashan Tillekeratne’s 31.Sri Lanka’s problems began with the second ball of the match. Streak angled one across Jayasuriya, induced an inside-edge and saw the bails fly. Jayasuriya walked off with a duck, a sad return for his 300th one-day international. He is the sixth person to play as many.Marvan Atapattu briefly counter-attacked, easing the pressure with six well-struck boundaries. Then Dion Ebrahim prompted a change of script, catching Avishka Gunawardene (24) off Blignaut with a full-length dive at cover, plucking the ball while still airborne.Kumar Sangakkara, with hundreds in his last two innings, marched in with the score at 51 for 2. He was promptly handed another rescue mission when Atapattu (29) chased Ervine’s first ball and nicked it to Taibu (58 for 3).But Sangakkara (25) flopped when it really mattered. Just when Sri Lanka looked set on the road to recovery, he pulled a short ball from Raymond Price to a running Grant Flower on the midwicket boundary (106 for 4).Streak returned and soon removed Dharmasena (19), who popped an easy catch to Rennie. Four quick wickets followed, for just ten runs. Nissanka helped add 25 for the last wicket, but it was all too little and too late. Zimbabwe would sweep past the modest target, into the final.

• Hamilton Masakadza became second Zimbabwean and 68th batsman in Testcricket history to score a century on Test debut when he notched up abrilliant 115* on the third day of second Test against Zimbabwe atHarare. More significant is the fact that Masakadza, at 17 years 354days, became the youngest ever batsman to score a century on Testdebut . Pakistan’s Salim Malik was the previous holder of this record.
• Masakadza also became the third youngest to score a Test century inall matches after Pakistan’s Mushtaq Mohammad and India’s SachinTendulkar. Only Dave Houghton has scored a century on Test debut forZimbabwe before Masadazka and at 35 years 119 days Houghton was almosttwice the age of Masadazka !!
• On the opening day of the match Masakadza had achieved the dictinctionof becoming the youngest player to represent Zimbabwe in Test cricketbeating Tatenda Taibu’s record who was 18 years 66 days old whilemaking his debut in the first Test of this series.

Youngest Centurions on Test Debut

Age	Batsman	Runs	For	Vs	Venue	Season
17-354	H Masakadza	115*#	Zim	WI	Harare	2001
18-327	Salim Malik	100*	Pak	SL	Karachi	1981-82
19-108	Mohammad Wasim	109*	Pak	NZ	Lahore	1996-97
19-119	Javed Miandad	163	Pak	NZ	Lahore	1976-77
19-152	A Jackson	164	Aus	Eng	Adelaide	1928-29
19-356	PF Warner	132*	Eng	SA	Johannesburg	1898-99
20-130	AA Baig	112	Ind	Eng	Manchester	1959
20-203	Ali Naqvi	115	Pak	SA	Rawalpindi CC	1997-98
20-228	GA Headley	176	WI	Eng	Bridgetown	1929-30
20-239	JW Burke	101*	Aus	Eng	Adelaide	1950-51
20-280	GR Viswanath	137	Ind	Aus	Kanpur	1969-70
21-209	PBH May	138	Eng	SA	Leeds	1951
21-237	BR Taylor	105	NZ	Ind	Calcutta	1964-65
21-286	BH Pairaudeau	115	WI	Ind	Port-of-Spain	1952-53
21-327	M Azharuddin	110	Ind	Eng	Calcutta	1984-85
21-328	OG Smith	104	WI	Aus	Kingston	1954-55

Youngest Test Centurions

Yrs-Days	Batsman	Score	For	Vs	Venue	Season
17- 81	Mushtaq Mohammad	101	Pak	Ind	Delhi	1960-61
17-111	SR Tendulkar	119*	Ind	Eng	Manchester	1990
17-354	H Masakadza	115*#	Zim	WI	Harare	2001
18-158	Imran Nazir	131	Pak	WI	Bridgetown	1999-00
18-249	Mushtaq Mohammad	100*	Pak	Eng	Nottingham	1962
18-257	SR Tendulkar	148*	Ind	Aus	Sydney	1991-92
18- 285	SR Tendulkar	114	Ind	Aus	Perth	1991-92
18-327	Salim Malik	100*	Pak	SL	Karachi	1981-82
18-335	Shahid Afridi	141	Pak	Ind	Madras	1998-99
19- 25	Mohammad Ilyas	126	Pak	NZ	Karachi	1964-65
19-108	Mohammad Wasim	109*	Pak	NZ	Lahore	1996-97
19-119	Javed Miandad	163	Pak	NZ	Lahore	1976-77
19-121	HG Vivian	100	NZ	SA	Wellington	1931-32
19-122	RN Harvey	153	Aus	Ind	Melbourne	1947-48
19-140	Javed Miandad	206	Pak	NZ	Karachi	1976-77
19-152	A Jackson	164	Aus	Eng	Adelaide	1928-29
19-191	AP Gurusinha	116*	SL	Pak	Colombo PSS	1985-86
19-218	SR Tendulkar	111	Ind	SA	Johannesburg	1992-93
19-265	Salim Malik	107	Pak	Ind	Faisalabad	1982-83
19-291	RN Harvey	112	Aus	Eng	Leeds	1948
19-293	SR Tendulkar	165	Ind	Eng	Madras	1992-93
19-318	RG Pollock	122	SA	Aus	Sydney	1963-64
19-333	RG Pollock	175	SA	Aus	Adelaide	1963-64
19-356	KD Walters	155	Aus	Eng	Brisbane	1965-66
19-364	PA de Silva	122	SL	Pak	Faisalabad	1985-86

# not the final score

Youngest Players for each country

Country	Player	Age	Vs	Venue	Season
		Yrs-Days
Australia	ID Craig	17-239	SA	Melbourne	1952-53
England	DB Close	18-149	NZ	Manchester	1949
South Africa	PR Adams	18-340	Eng	Port Elizabeth	1995-96
West Indies	JED Sealy	17-122	Eng	Bridgetown	1929-30
New Zealand	DL Vettori	18-10	Eng	Wellington	1996-97
India	SR Tendulkar	16-205	Pak	Karachi	1989-90
Pakistan	Hasan Raza	14-227	Zim	Faisalabad	1996-97
Sri Lanka	CDUS Weerasinghe	17-189	Ind	Colombo PSS	1985-86
Zimbabwe	H Masadazka	17-354	WI	Harare	2001
Bangladesh	Mohammed Sharif	15-128	Zim	Bulawayo	2000-01

Tottenham Hotspur booked their spot in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup courtesy of a 6-1 win over League One side Rochdale at Wembley on Wednesday night.

VAR dominated much of the post-match discussion, but it was a strong performance from a Tottenham side that will be desperate to land the trophy this season.

Erik Lamela looked to have sent Spurs ahead in the sixth minute of the match, but the Argentine’s effort was bizarrely ruled out courtesy of VAR.

The decision did not come back to haunt Mauricio Pochettino’s side, however, as they ensured that they would be present in the final eight of the competition.

Lamela, who is believed to collect £70,000 a week in wages at his English club, failed to get his name on the scoresheet, but the Argentine was very impressive.

He has not long been back from the hip problem that saw him miss a lot of football, but the Tottenham fans have been delighted with what they have seen in recent weeks.

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Jason Roy sat out England’s net practice in Bloemfontein due to a back spasm and will undergo a fitness test ahead of the first ODI with South Africa on Wednesday.Roy suffered the injury during the warm-up but England expect him to be able to bat during Tuesday’s session in order to prove his fitness. His absence would break up the opening partnership he has established with Alex Hales and possibly lead to Moeen Ali returning at the top of the order.The Surrey batsman has previously spoken about using the tour to build confidence ahead of the World T20 in India next month. Roy scored his maiden ODI hundred in the UAE last year and has been part of an England side that has won five limited-overs series out of six.

BBL ‘great experience’ – Rashid

Adil Rashid was one of the stars of the BBL, having been left out of the Test leg of England’s tour, and he has returned to international duty with confidence high.
Rashid, who took 3 for 55 in England’s warm-up win in Kimberley, is likely to be be a key player for England at the World T20 and he backed the ECB’s decision to prioritise his white-ball development above a spell carrying drinks for the Test side.
“It went well personally for me,” he said of his trip Down Under. “It was a chance to play against different players in different conditions in what is probably now one of the biggest competitions in cricket, after the IPL. It was a great experience to play in front of 40-50,000 people.
“It was a good decision to go out there, playing in a big competition as opposed to being here and maybe not getting any match practice.”

South Africa, meanwhile, have added allrounder David Wiese to their squad as injury cover. Albie Morkel had been due to join the squad but also suffered a back spasm playing for Titans in the Momentum One-Day Cup, ruling him out of the first two ODIs.An MRI scan showed some damage to the vertebrae in his lower back but Morkel could still be involved later in the series.”I think I have been playing some of the best cricket of my life in the last year and a half,” Morkel said. “If you cannot accept setbacks like these, remain positive and move on, the sporting world will be a dark place.”South Africa will also be without Kyle Abbott for the first two matches, in Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth, as he continues to recover from a hamstring strain suffered during the fourth Test against England. Marchant de Lange was called into the squad as pace-bowling cover on Sunday, with South Africa looking to manage the workloads of Morne Morkel and Kagiso Rabada.Wiese and de Lange formed part of the South Africa A attack dismantled by England in Kimberley at the weekend – taking 2 for 73 and 2 for 69 respectively – but JP Duminy denied that the hosts were below strength. South Africa go into the one-day series having beaten India 3-2 in India last year, following a 2-1 home win over New Zealand.”I don’t think we’re weakened. I think the replacements are good enough to stand in for those players,” Duminy said. “It’s not an interruption in any way for us. We know what’s needed as a squad and it’s important for us to stay unified as a team, no matter who the personnel are.”The confidence from the one-day cricket point of view has been pretty good… We’ve won our last two series. But we know this is a tough challenge that faces us, and that England have also been playing really well in this format.”

Chandana, 35, has called time on his international career © AFP

Upul Chandana, the former Sri Lankan allrounder, has retired from international cricket. He played 147 one-day internationals and 16 Tests during his 13-year career.Chandana, 35, made known his intentions to retire to Duleep Mendis, the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) chief executive, through a letter today. According to Mendis, Chandana did not state his reasons for quitting.Of late Chandana, who is contracted to SLC, failed to find a regular place in the Sri Lankan one-day side. His name has been linked to the recently-floated Indian Cricket League (ICL) and there is a possibility that he has retired to sign on with it. SLC issued a statement some weeks ago saying that any player joining the ICL would be banned from all levels of cricket connected with the board.Recently Marvan Atapattu asked SLC to release him from his contract. Although Atapattu’s name has often been mentioned with the ICL nothing permanent has materialised. There are even reports stating that he may play for a province in South Africa.Chandana, a right-arm leg-spinner, hard-hitting lower order batsman and brilliant fielder, played his international cricket under the shadow of Muttiah Muralitharan. His chances of becoming a permanent fixture in the national team were few and far between due to Muralitharan’s presence.Whenever he was given an opportunity in Muralitharan’s absence, Chandana was quick to display his talent. One of his finest one-day innings was against West Indies in Bridgetown in 2003 where he played a match-winning role. Chasing 313 for victory, he was promoted up the order to No. 5 and smashed 89 off just 71 deliveries with four sixes.When Muralitharan withdrew from the 2004 tour to Australia, Chandana came into the Test side as the main spin bowler. Despite being expensive, he took a ten-wicket haul in the second Test in Cairns. With the passage of time Chandana’s position in the national one-day team was challenged by two other leg-spinning allrounders, Kaushal Lokuarachchi and Malinga Bandara. Although retained in the national pool Chandana was hardly selected.A product of Galle, Chandana, who began his career playing for Tamil Union and lately for Nondescripts CC, also represented English county Gloucestershire. He is one of the few bowlers to capture five wickets on Test debut, taking 6 for 179 off 47.5 overs in the Asian Test Championship final against Pakistan at Dhaka in 1999.In Tests he scored 616 runs and took 37 wickets and in ODIs. where he got more opportunities, he made 1627 runs, with five fifties, and captured 151 wickets.