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Ian Ward has been offered the chance to captain Somerset in 2004, after announcing his intention to part company with Surrey at the end of the season.Ward has scored nearly 7000 first-class runs in his career, as well as representing England in five Tests in 2001. During his time at The Oval, he helped Surrey to win three County Championship titles in four seasons from 1999 to 2002, and was a key member of the team that won this year’s Twenty20 Cup and National League.Somerset, who endured a frustrating season and at once stage threatened a large portion of their playing staff with the sack, are keen to mount a stronger challenge next season, and a player of Ward’s calibre is central to their plans. “We have offered the captaincy [to a new signing] before,” said chief executive Peter Anderson. “Chris Tavare, Peter Bowler and Andy Hayhurst being examples.”Anderson acknowleged that Somerset faced competition for a number of other counties for Ward’s signature. “To get someone of his seniority to move counties there has to be an objective for him, and if his ambition is to captain then it seems he has to leave Surrey.”Anderson also confirmed that Australia’s one-day captain Ricky Ponting is being lined up as a possible signing. “He can’t give us an answer either way,” said Anderson. “He wants to come to England at some stage in his career but he has to have the permission of the Australian cricket board.”

Rangiora has provided a match for milestones with two more players achieving significant personal bests in the State Championship game between Canterbury and Wellington.Yesterday it was Wade Cornelius who took seven wickets in an innings for the best performance of his five-game career and today it was his Canterbury team-mate Aaron Redmond who achieved his maiden first-class century after six times previously having gone past 50.And Wellington debut bowler Ash Turner picked up a five wicket bag when taking five for 66, including the scalp of Redmond, in Canterbury’s second innings.Redmond’s performance was highly creditable as he shared a Canterbury sixth wicket stand against all teams of 209 runs with Chris Harris, and allowed Canterbury to set Wellington a target of 410 to win with a minimum of 127 overs.Redmond, the son of former New Zealand opener Rodney Redmond who now coaches South Perth, is a graduate of the New Zealand Cricket Academy and last year toured England with New Zealand A. It was on that tour that he scored his previous highest score of 92 at Hove against Sussex.Today’s effort was an important statement by Redmond given the amount of pressure on among the Canterbury side for places. A squad of 13 has been named and after some disappointments last summer, Redmond was keen to make the most of his chances.”It was a case of digging in and being solid. We wanted to grind Wellington into the ground,” he said after finally being dismissed for 101 just after the tea break.Batting with Harris had been a boost because he was always talking with Redmond and was the sort of batsman who enjoyed keeping everyone on their toes.Getting his first century this year had always been a goal and to have it out of the way in the first game was a boost.”I had goal I wanted to achieve and once I was over 50 I definitely wanted to be able to go on and make a century.”I’ll have to re-assess things now,” he said of the goals he set for the year.But today was always going to be a chance to reach the century once he got himself in.”Once I got over 20 I was never going to let it go,” he said.And there will be a phone call home to Perth tonight, although he expects his father will already be aware of the news as he follows the cricket on the Internet through CricInfo.”The first question he’ll ask me is why I got out on 101,” he said.But once out he was already thinking about the job ahead for Canterbury of bowling Wellington out for less than the 410 target they face.And with that sort of target there was more than a fair chance that leg-spinner Redmond’s contribution to the game is not yet finished.

Jason Brown – marathon spell ties down Glamorgan Photo © AllSport

Northamptonshire prospered from some unconvincing Glamorgan batting and theaccurate bowling of their own paceman Michael Strong and off-spinner JasonBrown to have the advantage of Glamorgan at Cardiff.Strong took 4-50 and Brown returned 4-56 in the long spell of 31.2 overs.The home batsmen did not benefit from the example of Matthew Elliott andAdrian Shaw, and were dismissed for 198 (still 31 runs behind). The visitorstook that lead to 141 by scoring a further 110-2 by the close.
Matthew Maynard and Adrian Dale did not detain the scorers long, before Keith Newell gave Elliott more substantial support by putting on 54 runs for the fifthwicket. Elliott struggled for 70 minutes to put together six runs but shookof the ties to hit Brown for a straight and shortly afterwards hit GraemeSwann for three boundaries in an over.Newell edged a catch to wicketkeeper David Ripley from Tony Penberthy’s bowling. Ripley also caught Elliott (off Brown) with the Australian left-hander on 76 runs with a six and nine fours from 171 balls. Shaw and Robert Croft picked Glamorgan up from 145-6 only for the latter to be caught by Darren Cousins as the ball looped up gently from a deflection by Adrian Rollins.With Steve Watkin still injured Dale took the new ball for Glamorgan and soon had Rollins caught for his second duck of the match. Then Matthew Hayden took over by scoring his fifty from 70 balls, and when he was caught at the wicket Mal Loye and David Sales played through to the close.

Celtic look set to secure the signing of Daniel Kelly on a professional contract.

What’s the talk?

That’s according to a report by Football Scotland, who claimed that, despite huge interest from Premier League club Arsenal, the 16-year-old now looks as if he will put pen to paper on professional terms with Ange Postecoglou’s side, all but ending the speculation regarding the midfielder’s immediate future.

The report added that the Gunners have watched the Celtic starlet in action several times this season and had even made an approach to the youngster regarding a potential switch to north London at the end of the current campaign.

Supporters will be buzzing

In recent years, Celtic have made something of a habit of losing their promising youth prospects to English clubs for little to no transfer fee. Therefore, the news that the Bhoys look as if they have convinced Kelly to remain in Glasgow rather than making a move down south is sure to have left the Parkhead faithful buzzing.

Indeed, Manchester City signed highly-rated Celtic midfielder Josh Adam on a free transfer in the summer of 2020, Blackburn Rovers snapped up centre-forward Connor McBride for nothing the same year and promising centre-back Liam Morrison joined Bayern Munich on a free in the summer of 2019.

However, it would now appear as if this sequence has been broken. Despite the reported interest from Arsenal, as well as a numerous other big clubs in England, Kelly looks as if he will continue his development into professional football at Lennoxtown – an outcome which is undoubtedly fantastic news for everyone involved with the Premiership table-toppers.

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MCC 343 beat Queensland 201 and 81 by an innings and 61 runs
ScorecardQueensland won the toss and after Levy had been dismissed without a run on the board, Cook and Andrews added 79 for the second wicket. Litster hit well, but could get nobody to stay with him. There was a curious incident during the innings. Oxenham hit a ball into Allen’s hands at short leg off Larwood, but on appeal the umpire gave him not out, as he stated that he was unsighted. The other umpire did not give a decision. Bowes bowled well with little luck, while Verity during a long spell maintained a perfect length and flighted the ball well. At the close of play Jardine and Verity had scored 6 without loss.On the second day nearly all the Englishmen obtained some runs, the best stand being that between Ames and Allen, both of whom hit very freely. Continuing with his score at 44 not out on the third morning, Ames hit so well that he carried his total to 80 before being stumped. Altogether he hit one 6, a straight drive off Gilbert, and eleven fours. Batting again, Queensland lost their first wicket once more without any runs on the hoard, Gough being caught by Allen. Bowling at a splendid pace, Larwood demoralized the Queensland batsmen, although Gamble hit him for 14 in one over. Verity, too, bowled extremely well, keeping a fine length and varying his pace cleverly.

ScorecardFast bowlers Syed Sahabuddin and D Kalyankrishna demolished Saurashtra for 87 as Andhra took control on the second day at Rajkot. Both bowlers shared all ten wickets to fall as Sahabuddin ended with figures of 7 for 37. Opener Kanaiya Vaghela was the only batsman to offer some resistance, scoring 30 off 134 balls, as the innings was wrapped up as early as the 46th over. The Andhra batting too wobbled, as Sandeep Jobanputra and Sandip Maniar took two wickets each to reduce them to 87 for 4 at stumps. However, Andhra were still in a strong position, ahead by 215 runs.
ScorecardRajasthan were in deep trouble in reply to Maharashtra’s imposing total of 527 for 5 declared, losing four quick wickets at the end of the day. Dheeraj Jadhav continued the good work from the first day going on to 171 while Hrishikesh Kanitkar, overnight on 93, was unlucky to fall three short of his century. Sreedharan Sriram, who moved from Tamil Nadu this season, helped himself to a century and his stand of 109 with Yogesh Takwale, helped push the score towards 500. Rajasthan lost the important wicket of Vikram Solanki early as Maharashtra’s opening bowlers, Anupam Sanclecha and Aditya Dole, made early inroads.
ScorecardKarnataka’s batsmen had a decent outing in the second day at Kanpur, edging ahead of Uttar Pradesh’s first-innings score of 264 by 32 runs with three wickets in hand. Karnataka could have ended the day in a stronger position had the batsmen converted their starts. Barrington Rowland was dismissed shortly after reaching his half-century while the middle order, including captain Yere Goud looked set to reach their respective fifties before giving it away. Mohammad Kaif, fresh from his 91, contributed with the ball as well, picking up two wickets. Earlier, R Vinay Kumar wrapped up the UP innings with a five-wicket haul.
ScorecardBoosted by Mayank Tehlan’s unbeaten ton, Delhi made a strong reply to Baroda’s total, leading by 12 with seven wickets in hand. Tehlan, cousin of Virender Sehwag, came in at the fall of Aakash Chopra’s wicket early and added 55 with Shikhar Dhawan for the second wicket. Mithun Manhas, the captain, also had a good outing in the middle, scoring a half century and his stand of 135 with Tehlan helped Delhi seize the initiative. Tehlan’s second first-class century included 15 boundaries, while Manhas’s knock of 70 included 10 fours.
ScorecardAfter posting 287 with much effort, Haryana ended the day in a good position reducing Tamil Nadu to 80 for 3. After a dull first day, in which the Haryana batsmen crawled at less than two an over, Amit Mishra injected some life with a fluent 50 off 78 balls. The Tamil Nadu spinners, C Suresh and R Ashwin took four wickets each and toiled for 46 and 48 overs respectively as the tail – in particular Gaurav Vashisht who made 6 off 75 balls – gritted it out. Openers M Vijay and S Anirudha got Tamil Nadu off to a good start with a stand of 60 but lost three quick wickets to peg them back.
ScorecardAfter bundling out Hyderabad for 205, Gujarat rounded off another good day as their batsmen, led by Niraj Patel’s unbeaten 109 and Azharuddin Bhilakia’s half century, ended at 225 for 2. Patel, the left-handed batsman who’s been a consistent performer in the last few seasons, added 141 with opener Bilakhia , who made an obdurate 72. They came together after the fall of the first wicket at 35 and took the score to 176 as Hyderabad struggled to get a breakthrough. Patel faced 210 balls in his knock which included 11 fours. Arjun Yadav and Kaushik Reddy were the only successful bowlers for Hyderabad.
ScorecardPankaj Dharmani, Punjab’s most experienced campaigner, carved out a solid 144 to take his side to 353 against Mumbai at Mohali. Resuming on 220 for 6, Dharmani batted till the end, as the Mumbai bowlers struggled to mop up the tail. Ishan Malhatra added 45 with Dharmani for the seventh wicket; Gagandeep Singh frustrated the bowlers even more with a 90-ball 24. Swapnil Hazare, the fast bowler, bagged the last three wickets to finish with a five-wicket haul. In reply, Mumbai ended the day at 21 for no loss.

Groundsmen worked overtime, but in vain as the third ODI between India and South Africa was abandoned © Getty Images

The Chennai weather had the final say as the third one-day international between India and South Africa was abandoned without a ball being bowled. There seemed to be some hope of a truncated game when the rains – which had been lashing the city for more than a day – eased up late in the morning, allowing the umpires to call for an inspection at 4.30pm local time (1100 GMT). However, the outfield had taken a heavy pounding through the last 24 hours, and the lack of sunshine meant there was little chance of the huge puddles in the outfield drying up. The umpires finally decided to call off the match at 3.15pm.This is the third time in successive years that an international game at Chennai has been ruined by the weather. In October 2003, less than 27 overs of play was possible in an ODI between India and New Zealand; a year later, the Test between India and Australia was tantalisingly poised, with the home team needing 210 more for victory with all ten wickets in hands, but rain ensured that not a ball was bowled on the final day.The washout here means that India and South are tied at 1-1 with only two more matches left in the series. The fourth game will be played at Kolkata, on November 25.

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Lightning struck again in the second innings as Irfan Pathan destroyed Bangladesh© AFP

Bangladesh were left clinging on to strands of straws after being tormented by a record-breaking tenth-wicket partnership between Sachin Tendulkar and Zaheer Khan and were laid low by another devastating burst of swing bowling from Irfan Pathan. Pathan’s second five-wicket haul in the match and his first ten-for reduced Bangladesh to 170 for 8 in their second innings, still 172 behind, and only the last rites remained in the first Test.On another day when records tumbled and fielders fumbled, Tendulkar and Zaheer notched up their individual best scores, adding 133 runs for the last wicket in about two hours. They eclipsed the Indian record (109) set by Ghulam Ahmed and Hemu Adhikari in 1952 against Pakistan at New Delhi and equalled the second-highest partnership in Tests. A familiar script unfolded when Bangladesh batted and just like the first innings, the top order came apart in the face of Pathan’s inswingers. The Test seemed headed for a third-day finish with Bangladesh tottering at 36 for 5, but fighting half centuries from Nafis Iqbal and Manjural Islam Rana delayed the inevitable.Exactly one year earlier, on a sunny day at Adelaide, Pathan took his first steps on the international stage. Today he celebrated the occasion with a masterly display of swing bowling with a clear plan that was perfectly executed, and was rewarded with his first ten-wicket haul in Tests. He tortured the batsmen with a few menacing short ones before nailing them with fuller deliveries that curved either way.The Bangladesh batsmen revisited the horrors of the first innings with Javed Omar and Rajin Saleh coming down too late on deliveries that swung in, Habibul Bashar pulling a short one straight to the fine-leg fielder and Khaled Mashud hanging his bat out tentatively. Ashraful couldn’t reproduce his first-innings defiance and Saleh capped a woeful Test, including a dropped catch off Tendulkar, with a pair. Pathan’s fiery inswingers helped him win seven lbw verdicts in the match, equalling Abdul Qadir’s record for the most number of such dismissals in a Test. Qadir had managed them against England at Lahore in 1987.Nafis Iqbal was the only batsman who handled Pathan with any sort of assurance and his 54, laced with nine fours, was one of the few silver linings for Bangladesh. Once he fell, trapped lbw to a straighter one from Anil Kumble, Manjural pulled the trigger, swinging wildly while racing to his maiden Test fifty, and ended a gloomy day on a cheerful note.Pathan’s jolts, though, was only the final phase of Bangladesh being ground to dust. Earlier in the morning, Tendulkar nearly ran out of partners in the 190s – with Kumble and Harbhajan Singh not lasting too long – when he found an unlikely ally in Zaheer. The two went on a merry drive as several milestones were passed with Tendulkar reaching his fourth double-century in Tests, and his second this year. Staggeringly his last five hundreds have all been over 175, and unlike his restrained classic at Sydney earlier this year, this one had glorious touches of his attacking range. He also went on to his highest score in first-class cricket and along the way, he passed Ijaz Ahmed’s 211 against Sri Lanka to post the highest score at the Bangabandhu Stadium.

Sachin Tendulkar went past his previous best to post an unbeaten 248© AFP

At the other end Zaheer not only survived, but began a party of his own. Along with Tendulkar he put on 133 for the last wicket – an Indian record for the last wicket – where he outscored Tendulkar by 15 runs and took much more of the strike. He didn’t need any shielding and was more than eager to let fly some bullets of his own. He swished and drove with complete confidence, raced to his first fifty in Test cricket and went past Ghulam Ahmed’s 52-year-old record for the highest score by an Indian No. 11. Soon he cruised past Glenn McGrath’s 61 with an assured pull before overtaking Richard Collinge’s 68 for the highest score by a No. 11 in Tests. A left-arm fast bowler himself, Collinge had made the score against Pakistan at Auckland in 1973.Zaheer fell for 75 but, like many others, was the beneficiary of some sloppy fielding. Bangladesh were ragged with their catching and repeatedly erred with their ground fielding. Kumble and Tendulkar got themselves into a bizarre mix-up when both batsmen should have been run-out by yards. Instead, a bad throw, some clumsy juggling by Khaled Mashud and some poor reactions allowed both batsmen to make their crease. The Indian dressing-room was in fits of laughter while Bangladesh continued to wallow in the daze. It’s been the story of this Test.

Concerned at the manner in which Australia lost the last three one-day internationals in the West Indies, Ricky Ponting has indicated that he won’t take anything for granted in the three-match ODI series against Bangladesh.”That hurt a little bit,” Ponting said of the losses in the West Indies. “I was particularly disappointed with the way we played those last three games and that was one thing we addressed this morning in the team meeting.”We made mistakes in those three games that you haven’t seen this team make for a long time. We didn’t respect the basics of the game and if you don’t do that in one-day cricket it’s going to come back and bite you every time.”We dropped a lot of catches we didn’t have batting partnerships, therewere a lot of misfields, those sort of things. Looking back we felt we’d let ourselves down big time.”Ponting indicated that Bangladesh’s batsmen would find the going difficult in the ODIs. Hannan Sarkar’s half-centuries in both innings of the Cairns Test didn’t go unnoticed, but Ponting reckoned that Sarkar would have to change his style of batting to score runs in the one-dayers.”He played Brett Lee as well as any top-class batsman in the past couple of years. He left anything that was short and if it was fuller he drove it through the covers.”But it won’t be easy to take that into the one-dayers. He played at his own pace in the Test and left a lot of balls – in the shorter version of the game he’ll have to come at us a bit more … if our bowlers can be patient and make them come at us I think we’ll get enough chances through the day."Australia have comprehensively won all three one-day internationals between the two teams, always bowling first and never needing more than 26 overs to overhaul Bangladesh’s total.

*Anirudh Singh grafts centuryHyderabad, building a good second-innings total, set Kerala a steeptarget of 327 in their Ranji Trophy league match at Cochin on Tuesday.Resuming at 124/2, Hyderabad’s batsmen did not allow a slide similarto their first innings. With Anirudh Singh playing the anchor role, anumber of small innings contributed to their final total of 334/9declared. Singh made 124 off 231 balls, with 16 fours, falling only asthe eighth wicket. For Kerala, Suresh Kumar took four for 115.Playing out 6.2 overs before stumps, Kerala reached 10 for no loss,with openers V Girilal and MP Sorab unbeaten on seven and onerespectively.*Vijay Bharadwaj wrests Tamil Nadu initiative awayTamil Nadu, looking to build a large first-innings total and then bowlKarnataka out quickly, were thwarted by Vijay Bharadwaj in their RanjiTrophy league match at Bangalore on Tuesday.The visitors’ innings ended on 468, with Robin Singh (58) and AshishKapoor (44) making quick runs and boosting their side’s overnightscore. For Karnataka, Mansur Ali Khan Ludi picked 5-81, including adeadly spell of 6.5-0-19-4.Karnataka started badly, losing both openers for just 16 runs.Barrington Rowland, the first-innings centurion, and Bharadwaj thencame together for a 202-run stand for the third wicket. Rowland made69 off 150 balls and was dismissed with the score on 218.The day ended with Karnataka on 233/3 and Bharadwaj unbeaten on 125off 160 balls, with 22 fours. He was accompanied by Thilak Naidu oneight.*Goa in dire straitsAndhra Pradesh had Goa against the wall at the end of Day Three oftheir Ranji Trophy league match at Vijayawada on Tuesday.Already in a position of strength when they resumed at 184/1, AndhraPradesh made a consistent string of scores all the way down theirbatting order. Skipper MSK Prasad made 96 off 233 balls before beingdismissed with the score on 221. Thereafter, IG Srinivas (52) and RVCPrasad (62) took the attack to the Goa bowling.Declaring at 373/9, Andhra Pradesh then blasted away Goa’s top order.Six wickets had fallen by the close of play, but the scoreboard readonly 57. RVC Prasad returned particularly fine figures of 7-4-8-3, andGoa were facing the spectre of an innings defeat on Day Four.