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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.

East Zone maintained their winning streak defeating North Zone bythree wickets in the Vijay Hazare (Under-16) Trophy Tournament atthe KL Saini Stadium in Jaipur on Friday. East Zone, who hadalready made sure of the trophy, registered their fourth straightwin and ended with eight points. North Zone finished with fourpoints from four matches.East Zone, chasing a target of 228, were struggling at 37 forthree in the tenth over. PJ Das (61 runs of 68 balls) was joinedby A Nandi (59 runs of 81 balls) and they put on 84 runs for thefourth wicket off 17.3 overs. Then N Behera (31 runs of 50 balls)and Nandi added 55 runs off 9.3 overs for the fifth wicket.Towards the end, captain M Talukdar (32 not out of 26 balls)hastened East’s victory, which came in the 47th over.Earlier, electing to bat after winning the toss, North Zone madea good start with M Kholi (39 runs of 69 balls) and R Jaswal (32runs of 34 balls) adding 75 for the first wicket in 14.2 overs.Then Rajan Singh (41 runs of 70 balls) and J Sharma (41 runs of62 balls) put on 87 runs in 20.1 overs for the third wicket. ButNorth Zone, plagued by four run outs, ended with a score of 227for 9 in 50 overs.

Wolverhampton Wanderers winger Pedro Neto is expected to be okay despite being absent for Sunday’s 1-0 win over Everton at Goodison Park.

What’s the story?

In a report from Birmingham Live, the 22-year-old was left out of Bruno Lage’s squad with a foot injury, despite travelling with his teammates to Merseyside.

However, the issue isn’t expected to be anything serious with it being an impact injury to the top of the Portuguese’s foot.

Neto has only recently returned to action after a lengthy spell out recovering from an ACL injury and signed a brand new five-year contract last week to keep him at Molineux until 2027.

Wolves supporters will be relieved

There would’ve certainly been a wave of major concern throughout the Wolves fanbase when it was announced that Neto wasn’t in the squad to face Everton, let alone being dropped to the bench.

Having made his first start since last April against Crystal Palace last weekend, the 22-year-old is slowly returning to action after being out for just shy of a year. However, having him back available for the Golden Boys’ crunch period is a major boost.

Last season, the winger netted five goals and registered six assists in 31 Premier League appearances, although that tally is more impressive when considering the fact that Wolves scored just 36 goals all season in the top-flight last term as they finished 13th.

Valued at £31.5m, the 22-year-old is certainly one of the West Midland’s club’s most valuable assets and will be key in the final weeks of the season.

Moreover, goals from out wide have been at a shortage this term, with Daniel Podence the only winger to have scored in the Premier League so far this term.

Bruno Lage’s men are still within a decent shout of securing European football for next season after their victory at Goodison Park on Sunday.

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Sat in seventh place, Wolves are just two points off the top-six with nine games to go with a relatively favourable fixture list remaining on paper.

Besides having to face Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea before the end of the season, the Black Country club will only play sides currently below them in the table with three of the current bottom five still to play in Leeds United, Burnley and Norwich City.

In other news: Possession lost 16x: Wolves lightweight who won just 20% duels failed Lage’s big test

Retained as captain: S Badrinath © Cricinfo Ltd

S Badrinath has been retained as Tamil Nadu’s captain for the coming Ranji season. Apart from Badrinath and Dinesh Karthik, Tamil Nadu will have a largely inexperienced squad, with only five players who have played more than 10 first-class matches. L Balaji, the former Test medium-fast bowler, has been left out of the squad that was picked for the first two matches. The management plans to ease him back into competitive cricket as the season progresses.Even among the experienced players, Badrinath, Karthik and Yo Mahesh will be the first targets for India A teams, if not the national team in the case of the former two. Offspinner R Ashwin, who has taken 34 wickets in the five matches he has played, might be the one to lead in their absence.In the absence of T Kumaran, who was one of the seven players to have joined the Indian Cricket League (ICL), the pace attack will have to be spearheaded by Mahesh. C Ganapathy, the right-arm medium-pacer and Ramadoss Naresh, the left-arm medium-pacer, are the two other experienced pacers. Murali Vijay, the right-hand opener, who impressed in his debut season last year, will be the main hope in the batting department, along with Badrinath, Karthik and S Anirudha, who played in the Challenger Trophy.Squad: S Badrinath (capt), M Vijay, S Anirudha, Dinesh Karthik, Kuthethurshri Vasudevadas, R Prasanna, R Ashwin, C Ganapathy, V Yo Mahesh, R Naresh, R Srinivasan, P Amarnath, R Ramkumar, Abhinav Mukund and KH Gopinath

Back in business: Adam Gilchrist returned to form in style © Getty Images

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Adam Gilchrist elbowed his way into form for next week’s first Ashes Test by hitting the second-fastest hundred in Australia one-day domestic history. His brutal 131 included 17 fours and four sixes as Western Australia reached 6 for 340 and trounced Queensland by 81 runs at Perth. Celebrations of his thrilling return to form were tempered, however, by an injury to Shane Watson whose chances of starting in Brisbane are now in doubt.Gilchrist and Justin Langer put on a thrilling 87 for the opening stand, in just 9 overs, with Langer registering WA’s fastest one-day fifty, from 28 balls. Indeed, Gilchrist was overshadowed in the partnership until Mitchell Johnson bowled Langer around his legs, poking Gilchrist into life. He made up for lost time with a brutal, uncompromising display of strokeplay which – until his recent form-slump – had been his trademark.After smashing Andrew Symonds for five fours in an over, Gilchrist was on 94 from 59 balls, needing two deliveries to beat Adam Voges’ record against NSW in 2004. With Chris Simpson bowling, he took three sighters before launching the fourth over the bowler’s head for six to bring up a remarkable 63-ball hundred.Queensland were further dispirited when Watson limped off after bowling the first ball of his sixth over, to put doubt into his chances of playing the first Test next week.After a dominant batting display, WA’s bowlers rose to the challenge and never let Queensland get away. Brett Dorey and Steve Magoffin each took two wickets, reducing them to 4 for 80 in the 15th over, but Clinton Perren and Craig Philipson gave Queensland brief hope with a fine 125-run partnership in 20.4 overs. Philipson was particularly severe, reaching fifty from 45 balls and crashed seven fours and a six in his 73 before falling to the impressive Shawn Gillies who finished with 3 for 51. Queensland’s resolve collapsed and, but for Johnson’s brisk 23, WA romped home by 81 runs.

Glenn McGrath explodes at Ramnaresh Sarwan during their famous verbal stoush © Getty Images

Ramnaresh Sarwan and Glenn McGrath were once at each other’s throats, but now they are the best of friends. Sarwan, the West Indies vice-captain, and McGrath went toe-to-toe in an ugly shouting match in Antigua in May 2003.McGrath, Test cricket’s third-highest wicket-taker, was rebuked by Cricket Australia for his actions following an outraged reaction from the Australian cricket community. The incident was sparked after Sarwan, on his way to a match-winning second-innings century, reportedly reacted to lurid taunts from McGrath by telling him he should get the answers from his wife, who was recovering from radiation therapy for secondary cancer.But more than two years on and Sarwan said the incident was in the past and they had patched up their differences after the match. “That’s behind us now,” Sarwan said ahead of the tourists’ opening tour match against Queensland, starting on Thursday. “We spent some time in Antigua and we’re the best of friends. I thought what happened in Antigua was unfortunate and it’s not going to happen again.”The opening Test, beginning at the Gabba on November 3, will be the first time the teams have met over five days since the match at St John’s, which the West Indies won by three wickets. Sarwan is treating an injured shoulder and upper back, but said he would play against a full-strength Queensland.At 25, Sarwan is seen as the man to replace Brian Lara as their top batsman. Sarwan, the No. 3, averages 40.87 with eight centuries in 55 Tests but is intent on lifting his game. “Bennett [King, the coach] wants me to take up that role and I’ve been trying my best to do that,” he said. “Obviously Brian is 36 and we don’t know how long he is going to go on for. We have to try and make the best of use of him [until then]. But it is going to be a challenge and I’m looking forward to that challenge.”