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Seven Pakistanis will feature this season, including first-timers Haider Ali, Usman Qadir, Mohammad Amir and Azam Khan

Deivarayan Muthu28-May-2021South Africa allrounder Chris Morris is set for his CPL debut after being unveiled as a first-round pick by the Barbados Tridents in the draft that was held on Sunday, ahead of the 2021 season, which will run from August 28 to September 19.The other first-round picks of the franchises – Andre Russell (Jamaica Tallawahs), Faf du Plessis (St Lucia Zouks), Kieron Pollard (Trinbago Knight Riders), Dwayne Bravo (St Kitts & Nevis Patriots) and Nicholas Pooran (Guyana Amazon Warriors) – were all made public before Friday’s draft.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Wristspinners among hot picks
Wristspinners were in particular demand with the entire 2021 season set to be played in St Kitts & Nevis. Nepal legspinner Sandeep Lamichhane, who had turned out for the Tallawahs last season, was signed by the Knight Riders, the defending champions, as a like-for-like swap for Fawad Ahmed.However, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Lamichhane’s former Tallawahs team-mate, and Rashid Khan, who has represented the Tridents and the Amazon Warriors in the past, will not be part of CPL 2021, and will instead be on international duty for Afghanistan.With Rashid, Mujeeb, and Mohammad Nabi unavailable, the franchises turned to second rung of Afghanistan players. Left-arm wristspinner Waqar Salamkheil and legspinner Qais Ahmad were picked by the Amazon Warriors and the Tallawahs respectively.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Opening batter Ibrahim Zadran, who is more known for his long-format credentials, also got a gig with the Tallawahs. Legspinner Shafiqullah Ghafari, who was the second-highest wicket-taker in the 2020 Under-19 World Cup, with 16 strikes at an average of 7.00 and an economy rate of 2.45, will help fill the Rashid-sized void at the Tridents.Sri Lanka legspin-bowling allrounder Wanindu Hasaranga, who had set the inaugural LPL alight in December, was picked by the Patriots. He will team up with Jon-Russ Jaggesar, who has the carrom ball among his variations. Seam-bowling allrounder Thisara Perera, who recently retired from international cricket, found a place on the Tridents’ roster. With the original slower-ball specialist Bravo moving to the Patriots, the Knight Riders snapped up the Sri Lanka left-armer Isuru Udana, who also has an assortment of cutters in his repertoire.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Pakistanis attract interest
As many as seven Pakistani players will be action this season, including Haider Ali, Usman Qadir, Mohammad Amir, and Azam Khan, who have never featured in the CPL before. Azam, the son of the former Pakistan keeper Moin, has a strike rate of 157.41 in T20 cricket and was part of the Galle Gladiators side that finished runners-up in the LPL last December.Haider went to the Tallawahs, Qadir and Wahab Riaz to the Zouks, and Amir and Azam to the Tridents.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Shoaib Malik, who was Player of the Match in that LPL final, will reunite with Mohammad Hafeez at the Amazon Warriors. Malik and Hafeez will be potential captaincy options for the Warriors who have jettisoned Chris Green.West Indies internationals watch
Seam-bowling allrounder Keemo Paul, who recently missed a West Indies central contract and retention at the Amazon Warriors, was a second-round pick for the Zouks. Paul will link up with Alzarri Joseph, his former Under-19 World Cup team-mate.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Tearaway Oshane Thomas, who had been released by the Tallawahs, was drafted as a seventh-round pick by the Tridents. Jason Mohammed, who had captained West Indies’ depleted ODI squad on their Bangladesh tour earlier this year, won a deal with the Tallawahs.Ravi Rampaul, who has been playing county cricket for a number of years as a Kolpak player, is set to return to the CPL after four years, having been picked up by the Knight Riders. The 36-year-old fast bowler’s last T20 game was for Derbyshire in the Vitality Blast in 2019.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Tridents sign Smit Patel
Smit Patel, the former India Under-19 wicketkeeper-batter, who has now reportedly moved to the USA, filled up the Tridents’ 17th slot as a Major League Cricket pick. Patel, 28, has played 55 first-class matches and had also participated in the most recent 50-over and 20-over domestic competitions in India for Baroda. According to the draft regulations, a franchise can pick an MLC player, a West Indies local player, or not pick anyone as their 17th pick. The Amazon Warriors were the only franchise that opted against selecting a player in the 17th round.Related

• Defending champions Trinbago Knight Riders to face Guyana Amazon Warriors in CPL 2021 opener

• CPL 2021 schedule tweaked to avoid clash with remainder of IPL season

• Russell retained by Jamaica Tallawahs

• BCCI mulls September-October window for remainder of IPL 2021

• BCCI's hurdles in delivering remainder of IPL 2021 in UAE

With the IPL eyeing a September-October window in the UAE to resume the tournament, it could potentially clash with the CPL. Given West Indies players are in high demand at the IPL, this might have a significant impact on the tournament. The big question for the CPL is how it can tweak its schedule so that the tournament concludes well in time for the IPL contingent to travel directly the UAE on a charter plane and avoid missing any games.

The seamer is available to bowl on the second day but his role with the bat will be determined by the state of the game

Andrew McGlashan in Sydney03-Jan-2020New Zealand’s injury- and illness-ravaged tour of Australia gained another casualty at the SCG with X-rays confirming Matt Henry had suffered a broken left thumb on the opening day of the final Test.Henry was struck by a drive from Joe Burns in the first session of the Test and left the field for treatment before returning to bowl and finishing the day with 21 wicketless overs. The thumb has been splinted and strapped and Henry will continue to be available to bowl on the second day but his role with the bat will be determined by the state of the game.Henry was preferred in the New Zealand side ahead of Tim Southee with coach Gary Stead explaining that his extra pace was one of the factors.”I guess the decision making around that, we just felt that we wanted a little more pace out there, what Matt Henry sort of offers over Tim,” Stead said. “And being the workload that Tim has had not just in the last two Tests but if you put the last four together, it’s somewhere around 200 overs in a short period of time, just felt that what Matt offered would have given us a point of difference.”Henry is the third New Zealand pace bowler to be injured on the tour after Lockie Ferguson suffered a calf strain on the opening day of the series in Perth then Trent Boult broke his hand against Mitchell Starc in Melbourne.New Zealand had to scramble to get an XI together for the final Test as flu went through the camp ruling out Kane Williamson, Henry Nicholls and Mitchell Santner. The uncapped Glenn Phillips was hastily flown across the Tasman and made his debut. He was surfing north of Auckland when summoned into the squad and almost missed the call from selector Gavin Larsen.”I was way up north trying to find a couple of friends and I thought it was them calling. When I saw it was Gav… he said ‘we’ve got a bit of a situation and we need you on a plane in a couple of hours’,” Phillips said. “I pushed it really fine, traffic played ball and my brother-in-law left five minutes after me and only arrived half an hour later. Thank goodness, I got on where I did.”Phillips hasn’t had much time to soak up the occasion but is determined to make the most of it. “You have to take the opportunities when they’re there,” he said. “You may never get a chance again so I’ll grab it with both hands and enjoy the moment for what it is. Gary [Stead] came over and said ‘hey mate you’re going to be batting five’. I was like ‘whoa this is happening’.”

Coach Justin Langer said that Aaron Finch would be better for the experience of learning how to juggle three formats as he goes through a testing series as opener

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Langer backs Finch to come good as an opener

Struggling opener Aaron Finch appears likely to stay at the top of the Australian batting order for the final Test of the series against India at the SCG through a lack of other options in the squad. Coach Justin Langer insisted the white-ball captain would “be better” for learning how to juggle three formats after the fashion of Steven Smith and David Warner.In adding yet another middle-order batsman to the Sydney squad in Marnus Labuschagne, the Australian selectors left themselves short of top-order options. Among the eight batsman now available, Marcus Harris, Usman Khawaja, Shaun Marsh, and Finch have experience as openers. Should Khawaja be moved up to open with Harris in place of Finch, this would create another issue as all of Shaun Marsh, Travis Head, Peter Handscomb, Mitchell Marsh and Labuschagne prefer to bat at Nos. 4, 5 or 6.With this in mind, Langer was left to state that Finch needed to take on the lessons of the series so far, where his technical wherewithal to deal with the likes of Ishant Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah has been tested to its very limits and beyond. An ill-advised attempt to cut at Bumrah second ball he faced in Australia’s second innings summed up the accumulated mental toll of the series on minds that are unseasoned as to the wages of extended Test match jousting.”Something we’re talking about obviously,” Langer said of Finch’s position. “He’s having a bit of a lean run of it although he’s got a couple of 50s. Got a 100 run partnership one Test match ago and that set up the whole Test match for us. Finch is a really good player, we know that, he’s great in the team, he’s working harder probably than he’s ever worked and as I’ve said to him for some time he’s in this uncharted territory where he’s the only guy playing all three forms of the game.”We saw Warner do it for a while and Smith do it for a while and he’s a great example of how to prepare now. He’s got to somehow recharge his batteries over and over and over again. It’s a great challenge for him at the moment. He’ll be better for this period I think. Test cricket is about toughness and character and he’ll be better for this period,” Langer said.

Langer flags ODI rest for bowlers

Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc are set to be rested from the limited overs matches against India that sit between this Test series and the subsequent meetings with Sri Lanka in late January and early February, with the coach Justin Langer stating that careful management of fast bowling resources was critical to plans for 2019.
“It’s the great condurum for us, how we manage our bowlers – for example we might not play them in the next three one-dayers so they’re ready for the next two [Tests], to keep them fresh,” Langer said. “[Cummins] has been brilliant, he’s been outstanding. But then – as soon as we do that they want to play, and also then everyone else would be on our back saying ‘why aren’t they playing every single game. But we’ve also got a World cup and Ashes next year. We want him fresh for those things.
“So getting that management right and staying true to the management, we can have him fit and firing – we’ve got to be strong with that because there’s got to be a lot of people with different opinions as to whether they should play every game. But we know it’s really hard to play all year round because they need to keep their bodies as fresh and strong, and be bowling at the level we want them to be at. it’s a real balancing act.”

Among the defining characteristics of a Test series is the sustained nature of contests between opponents, as the same batsmen and bowlers fight each other in different cities and varying conditions. As the former Test opener Ed Cowan wrote in an ESPNcricinfo column about his first series, also against India in 2011-12, “A lengthy timescale in such psychological battles also allows for the pronouncement of “bunnies”. I now understand how the disintegration of Daryl Cullinan by Shane Warne took place. There was simply nowhere to hide.” Langer said it had been challenging to mentor a team where the majority of the batsmen were experiencing this all at once.”I remember at the end of our careers when we had the most experienced [team], I think we got called Dad’s Army in our last Test series and we’d played a bit of cricket and I remember how tiring it was for us, every Test match,” Langer said. “There’s some physical tiredness but just the mental drain of Test cricket, honestly it’s relentless. And then with these guys one of the hardest things about Test cricket is one of the distractions, so they’re learning on the run actually.”Got a lot of guys learning on the run at the same time actually so not easy for them but that’s OK, we’ll collectively be better for it, like Finchy, we’ll collectively be better for it over time. Just got to make sure we stay in this contest and be great at the end of it – India have come here determined to win this series, we know that, we see that in everything they’ve done since day one. It would be nice for us to send them home drawing the series not winning it.”Asked about the system underpinning Australia’s batting production line, Langer acknowledged there was a wider sense that opportunities were being afforded to players, at club, state and international level, who had not earned them in the time-honoured way of churning out consistent runs over time. But he also pointed out that teams still needed to be chosen for matches regardless of performance, adding complexity to the job of the selectors.”Most of our batters who are knocking on the door are averaging in the 30s and that’s probably not… whether it’s the system I’m not sure,” Langer said. “Whether it’s something we’ve got to change in our psyche, I’m not sure. Specifically about the system you’re asking but it would suggest we’ve got – the art of batting, we’ve got some work to do on it.”We’ve got to be careful not to reward poor performances. But again, trust me, try being a selector at the moment. I’m not – that’s part of our job. It’s not as if the guys are absolutely banging the door down. Whether it’s from second grade cricket to A grade cricket, progression is everything that we want. If you’re talking to some A grade or 2nd grade coaches, [they’d say] we’re playing kids who probably don’t deserve to play A grade or second grade. But it’s where we’re at at the moment. It’s something everyone is looking at. We want to work on getting better.”As for the complaints raised by the captain Tim Paine about some of the surfaces offered up to visiting teams in Australia, not least an MCG surface that was slow and to the advantage of India’s methodical, skillful approach, Langer stopped short of similar criticism but agreed he would prefer more bounce and pace than what had been seen in Melbourne. “I love playing at the WACA and I love playing at the Adelaide oval, a bit of pace and bounce,” he said. “I guess all I’d say is all the years we’ve gone to India we haven’t had too many bouncy wickets, it usually spins square. But its also our way in Australia to just produce the best wickets we can.”We’re interested to see what we’re going to get in Sydney next week, we’re not sure, been a bit inconsistent. India played a practice game there and it was very flat and Shield game there a few weeks ago it’s very flat. We certainly hope it’s not. Saw in the press, most important thing in Test cricket aside from absorbing pressure from our batters is the wickets we play on.”Because you want to see a great contest and in Melbourne the last couple of days were more of a contest but that was because the wicket deteriorated and you want to see a good contest. Want to see a contest from bat and ball. From Australian perspective you’ve got three of the best fast bowlers in the world and a gun spinner you’d like to see a bit more bounce.”Apart from setting an example of Finch to follow in terms of the format juggle, Smith and Warner have been in plenty of headlines over the past week, not least due to the interviews Smith and Cameron Bancroft conducted for the host broadcaster Fox Cricket. Langer, midway through his first summer as head coach, responded wearily to the ongoing saga. “It’s all just part of the soap opera we’re in every day,” he said. “I feel like a director of a soap opera at the moment, I honestly do.”That’s part of coaching – it’s man management, looking after people and caring for people. That was just another distraction last week. There’s different ways you can look at those interviews. so it’s just another part of our day to day job. We’re in touch with the boys all the time, there’s a really good process we’re going to go through to get the boys back into the team. It was great to see Cameron playing last night. It’s part of the soap opera.”

Rachael Haynes will fill in for the injured Meg Lanning as Australia’s captain for the forthcoming Ashes

Daniel Brettig20-Sep-2017Rachael Haynes will step into the breach as Australia’s captain during the forthcoming Ashes series, with a pressing need to find a way to succeed without the runs and leadership of the injured Meg Lanning.Having already deputised for Lanning when shoulder problems interrupted her World Cup campaign earlier this year, Haynes has some idea of what lies ahead. But the task of leading Australia through a multi-format series against England, including the first-ever day-night Ashes Test at North Sydney Oval in November, will be a considerable one. Lanning has since had shoulder surgery that will keep her out of the entire series.”To be named captain of your country, particularly in such a big series like the Ashes is a huge honour,” Haynes said. “It’s going to be a really exciting series. I think the multi-format points system in particular doesn’t favour either team, so to win the Ashes you genuinely have to be the best team across all three formats.”To be the first team, male or female, to play in a day-night Ashes Test match is going to be awesome. To have that opportunity is really exciting; you can only ever be part of history once.”The decision to elevate Haynes to the captaincy leaves Alex Blackwell to remain vice-captain, a move explained earlier this year during the World Cup as based upon the fact that Haynes’ leadership style for Victoria is not dissimilar to that of Lanning for Australia. At the time, the national selector Shawn Flegler said that Haynes, a left-handed batsman, adapted well to the demands of captaincy.”Rachael has a wealth of leadership experience, including successfully guiding Victoria to back-to-back national Twenty20 titles, and alongside Alex, will ensure the team is led to continue their current form,” Flegler said. “We know that Rachael is capable of coming in and doing the job that is asked of her, as she demonstrated in New Zealand earlier this year, when she scored a half-century after a lengthy absence from the national side.”The series, which takes place in 50-over and Twenty20 components, as well as the Test match, starts on October 22, with Haynes hoping for plenty of vocal spectator support to mirror that enjoyed by England during a home World Cup. “Playing against England on their home turf during the World Cup, you could noticeably tell the crowd was on their side,” she said, “so we’re looking forward to turning the tables this time around and getting the crowd support on our side.”

KL Rahul struck his third Test century, a career-best 158, to thrust India into the lead against West Indies on the second day in Kingston

The Report by Alagappan Muthu31-Jul-2016
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