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David Warner has his sights firmly set on becoming the new Adam Gilchrist at the top of Australia’s one-day batting line-up

ESPNcricinfo staff18-Oct-2010David Warner has his sights firmly set on becoming the new Adam Gilchrist at the top of Australia’s one-day batting line-up. Warner, 23, is in India with the ODI squad and Australia’s selectors are keen to see how he performs in the 50-over format on the subcontinent, with a potential World Cup place up for grabs.Although Australia have largely used Warner as a Twenty20 specialist, he also played seven ODIs last year and once bludgeoned a memorable 165 in a one-day game for New South Wales. His all-or-nothing style might not always suit the pacing of 50-over cricket but he hopes he can play a similar role to Gilchrist, who was viewed by every opponent as a potential matchwinner.”I see myself as similar to Adam Gilchrist, more of an X-factor player, where I go out there and try to mimic his role as he played,” Warner told reporters in India. “He was aggressive, he might’ve come off one in five innings as well, but he changed the course of the game.”Everyone was talking about, ‘We’ve got to get Adam out, if we don’t get him out then he could put 100 on in 10 overs’. I look up to him as that kind of player, an impact player, where if I can get off to a good start, I can put the other team on the back foot and make them worry about how they’re going to get myself out, instead of the other players they should be worrying about as well.”The most recent of Warner’s one-day internationals came against Scotland last August, but that was a one-off encounter used as a warm-up for Twenty20s against England. During his six earlier games Warner made one significant score – 69 against South Africa in Sydney – but he said he had found it hard to adjust from Twenty20 in his initial steps on the ODI scene.”I felt that I had to keep going the same pace and one tempo, and that’s where I reckon I’ve matured now and I’ve learned to adapt,” Warner said. “There were little things there where I wasn’t in the right position, so that’s the thing that was out, but if I go back into the same situation I’m going to do the same thing because it was there to hit.”But in the end I was probably feeling a bit of pressure because I wasn’t scoring runs. I’m still going to play the same way I play, but not trying to go after every ball – I’ve got 50 overs, not 20. Now I reckon I’m mature enough that I can try to last 50 overs.”Warner’s opportunity in India was granted when the selectors decided to rest Shane Watson ahead of the Ashes, but rain washed out the first ODI in Kochi on Sunday. There are also concerns over the weather for the remaining two games, in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday and Margao on Sunday.

Rajasthan’s Ashok Menaria, who led the side to Australia this year, will captain the 15-man squad

Cricinfo staff06-Dec-2009The BCCI’s junior selection committee announced the Under-19 squad to tour New Zealand for the World Cup, from January 15-30, 2010. Rajasthan’s Ashok Menaria, who led the side to Australia this year, will captain the 15-man squad.Notable names in the squad are those of Saurabh Netrawalkar and Sufiyan Shaikh, who were impressive during the BCCI Corporate Trophy.India, defending champions, kick off the tournament with a match against Afghanistan on January 15 in Lincoln. They will then play Hong Kong two days later in Christchurch, followed by their final game of the group stage against England on January 21. The top two teams in each group will progress to the quarter-finals.The squad will head to South Africa for a short series before the World Cup.India Under-19 squad: Ashok Menaria (capt), Mandeep Singh, Mayhank Agarwal, Akshath Reddy, Harpreet Singh, KL Rahul, Sufiyan Shaikh, Zahid Ali, Harshal Patel, Jaydev Unadkad, Sandeep Sharma, Saurabh Netravalkar, Harmeet Singh, Manan Sharma, Gaurav Jathar.

Kohli set up India for a semi-final spot and all but crossed out Pakistan from the 2025 Champions Trophy

Alagappan Muthu23-Feb-2025

Virat Kohli brings up his 51st ODI century•Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images

In the biggest match of the year, with his mortality showing more than it ever did before, Virat Kohli proved he’s still got it, that maybe, just maybe, the little he’s lost isn’t going to define him. He ticked off 14,000 runs in ODI cricket, brought up his 51st ODI century, set up India for a semi-final spot, and all but crossed out Pakistan from Champions Trophy 2025. The holders and hosts need other results to go their way to stay alive in the tournament now.India went into the game as favourites. They were worthy of that seeding, limiting Pakistan to 241 with Hardik Pandya putting in the kind of performance that should make him illegal. An allrounder capable of dismissing the opposition’s best batter and then coming back to take down their top-scorer isn’t just a name on the sheet. He is the secret sauce.Related

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And Kuldeep Yadav was the spice. His left-arm wristspin is so rare and he made it rarer by finding a way to be quick through the air without compromising on turn or accuracy. So that means unless batters pick him out of the hand, they are always going to be guessing. Three Pakistan batters guessed wrong. All three were end-overs wickets. Pakistan were setting up to explode at the death. Kuldeep just wouldn’t let them. The injury hasn’t affected his menace.Pakistan were able to produce moments. Shaheen Shah Afridi sending down a 143kph inswinging yorker to shatter Rohit Sharma’s stumps. Abrar Ahmed conjuring a carrom ball from hell to get rid of a rampaging Shubman Gill. But when it came to capitalising on them, they just couldn’t. The result: a world champion side that was renowned for pulling games out of the fire now seems to do the first part right – they definitely got into trouble in Dubai – but the other part, the important part, is going so very wrong. Pakistan were 151 for 2 in the 34th over before they were bowled out for 241 with the most inexperienced member of the India side dictating terms, Harshit Rana and his slower balls were just impossible to hit.A game in an ICC event and a rivalry with history bursting out of every pore eventually became so one-sided that its last few moments were dominated by an individual pursuit. Axar Patel turned down an easy two so Kohli could get to his hundred. The crowd in Dubai loved that. There were 12 runs to get for India’s victory and 12 runs to get for their hero’s century and they chanted his name over and over. Pakistan were nowhere to be found. Ever since a collapse of 3 for 11 in 19 balls, this game turned pear-shaped for them.1:10

Manjrekar: Hardik always delivers on the big stage

Mohammad Rizwan had banked on the innings going so differently. He came in at 47 for 2 and hit his first ball for four and then decided run-scoring was not for him. He was 24 off 50. He barely hit the ball in anger. He point blank refused to. At the other end, Saud Shakeel was at least making an effort to turn the good balls he was facing into singles. When he got to fifty, he had weathered only 29 dot balls. At the same time, Rizwan at the other end, had racked up 40. India did well by denying him spin to start his innings. But still, this was a better pitch than the opening game in Dubai a few days ago. It wasn’t flat, but it had a little more pace in it, and it got better under lights. Rizwan, though, batted like it was cursed. He was worried bad things would happen if he tried to hit the ball hard.And it kinda did. Rizwan fell trying to hit Axar out of the ground and his wicket triggered a collapse. Shakeel fell in the next over and Tayyab Tahir followed soon after. India, having spent 320 deliveries across two matches searching for a wicket in the middle overs, had found three in the space of four. Pakistan were 165 for 5. Soon they would be 200 for 7, having to negotiate the last 7.1 overs of the innings with their tail exposed.India’s discipline never let Pakistan off the hook and leading the way was Hardik, banging the ball just short of a length on a pitch that was offering a bit of grip and some tennis-ball bounce. He took out Babar Azam at a time when India’s lead fast bowler, Mohammed Shami, was off the field with a shin problem, and he did Shakeel for lack of pace just after the left-hand batter had smacked him for four. He always knew what to do to exploit the conditions and make the batter’s life miserable. On the back of his work, Kuldeep and Rana bowled 6.4 death overs for 28 runs and picked up four wickets.1:54

Urooj: Pakistan have let themselves down again

Gill was the star of India’s chase early on, a conscious effort to keep his front foot from moving too far forward and across leaving him excellently placed to take advantage of Afridi and his full-length deliveries when there was no swing on offer. When he rammed the fast bowler down the ground and then one-upped it by coming down the track and lifting the ball into the sightscreen, it looked like it was going to be his day. Abrar intervened with a ball that drifted in, tempting Gill to close the face of his bat, and turned away to rattle middle and off stump. Gill was stunned.Kohli, too, offered a shrug of his shoulders. He looked vulnerable against Abrar too and was almost bowled playing back to him. But against the quicks, he was vintage. He went past 14,000 runs with a crisp cover drive off Haris Rauf. All of Pakistan’s best bowlers offer pace on the ball. And that is Kohli’s happy place. A batter of his quality needs to be made uncomfortable at the crease when he is new. He had been dismissed five times in his last six ODIs by legspin. Pakistan had one of those and they felt they couldn’t go to him.2:07

Manjrekar: Shreyas now looks comfortable against the short ball

Shreyas Iyer helped himself to a half-century. A little change in his technique where he holds his bat higher and waves it as the bowler approaches, creating momentum into his shots, is helping him deal with an earlier weakness against the short ball. He clubbed Rauf for four in front of square to prove it. But there was no taking the spotlight from his senior partner.Kohli was setting the tempo. Pakistan had allowed him to do so. Though he only hit three of his first 62 balls to the boundary, he already had fifty runs to his name. He knows how to score quickly without looking for big shots. The ball wasn’t stopping on the surface as much under lights. Things were working in his favour again. He almost knew he was going to get a hundred. He demanded an explanation when Axar turned down a second run off a wide in the 42nd over when it was clear to everybody else that all he was doing was make sure Kohli had the best chance to get to three figures with time running out. When he did, off the last ball of the match, Kohli looked to the dressing room and literally said, “I told you. Relax.” That was how easy this was. That was how inevitable he was.

Coach Shelley Nitschke is wary of the unknowns but does not want Australia to look to far ahead of themselves

Andrew McGlashan18-Dec-2023Australia are keeping an open mind about what conditions they could face in their Test against India at Wankhede Stadium but are ready to embrace anything that is thrown at them.Shelley Nitschke, Australia’s coach, noted the “challenging” pitch that was on offer for the England game at DY Patil Stadium last week where the visitors were bundled out for 136 and 131. And she expects spin to again play a major role during Australia’s first Test in the country since 1984.They have trained at the Wankhede Stadium since arriving and had a 50-over practice match on Sunday but are still facing distinct unknowns about what will be provided for the Test.Related

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“It’s a tough one to prepare for,” Nitschke said. “The girls are coming off the back of a WBBL, and looks like we are going to get some really traditional subcontinent conditions but it’s also really exciting. Think everyone is just embracing the challenge. We are just doing whatever we can to prepare.”Think it will just be a matter of how quickly that pitch deteriorates. It’s a matter of adapting on the run and not getting too far ahead of ourselves, thinking that it will do something. We are trying not to read too much into it, but we certainly know what way it could go but it will be interesting how much it does change across the four days.”With all that in mind, there remains a lot to play out in terms of how Australia will structure their side although the number of allrounders in the squad gives them plenty of options. All four spinners – Ashleigh Gardner, Georgia Wareham, Jess Jonassen and Alana King – could feature with top-order batters Ellyse Perry and Tahlia McGrath adding to the seam-bowling depth alongside fellow allrounder Annabel Sutherland.Nitschke confirmed that Alyssa Healy, the new permanent captain, was on track to lead the side and keep wickets following her recovery from the finger injury caused by a dog bite which ruled her out of the majority of the WBBL. She did not take the gloves in the warm-up match as part of a measured return to action but hit a half-century.Lauren Cheatle’s left-arm angle could provide a point of difference•PA Photos/Getty Images

“Everything is looking really positive, so fingers crossed it keeps going that way over the next three or four days,” Nitschke said. “Unless there’s some significant change think Midge [Healy] will be leading at the first day of the Test.”Australia are in effect selecting from 13 players for the Test with allrounder Heather Graham having just arrived after staying at home to play two WNCL matches. Megan Schutt is not yet with the squad having previously conceded her Test days were behind her and Grace Harris is only part of the T20s.If they go very spin-heavy, it could mean room for just one of the frontline quicks between Darcie Brown, Lauren Cheatle and Kim Garth.”We’ve certainly got a lot of options and a number of allrounders,” Nitschke said. “We aren’t really clear on where that will land at the moment, we have some decisions to make.”Left-arm fast bowler Cheatle, who last played for Australia in 2019, impressed during the one-day warm-up match with 4 for 19 and would provide a point of difference with her angle (although could exacerbate rough for the spinners outside the right-handers’ off stump) while Brown has extra pace and Garth can offer swing.The only Test between India and Australia starts on December 21 in Mumbai.

Unbroken stand leads spirited recovery as defending champions are left rock-bottom

ECB Reporters Network03-Jul-2022Glamorgan have thrashed the Kent Spitfires by 35 runs in their final Vitality Blast game of the season at Canterbury.The death overs proved fatal for Kent, as an unbeaten stand of 95 between Dan Douthwaite and Billy Root turned the game on its head, steering Glamorgan to 190 for five. The visitors had been 95 for five in the 14th over, but Douthwaite smashed 51 not out in and Root ended unbeaten on 38.Qais Ahmad took two for 36, but dropped catches and indifferent bowling that gifted the visitors 20 extras meant the total was at least 30 runs higher than it could have been.James McIlroy then took three for 31 as the Spitfires were bowled out for 155, Darren Stevens the top scorer with 34. The defeat means the reigning champions finish bottom of the South Group just a year after winning the competition.A crowd of around 3000 witnessed the dead rubber at the St Lawrence, with Glamorgan unable to finish higher than sixth and Kent looking to avoid matching their worst-ever Blast season, when they won just three matches in 2013.The visitors chose to bat and were 46 without loss at the end of the powerplay, but lost Tom Bevan for 21, lbw to Qais attempting to reverse sweep, before Matt Milnes bowled Sam Northeast for 33.Qais switched to the Nackington Road End and immediately bowled Chris Cooke for one and Colin Ingram was out for 26 when Grant Stewart sent his off stump flying.Jack Leaning then had Eddie Byrom caught by George Linde at backward point for a second ball duck but Qais’s final over, the 16th, was expensive, going for 16, including a reverse swept six by Root.The indifferent fielding that has dogged Kent throughout their Blast defence continued with two drops in Milnes’ 17th over. Root skied one to Tawanda Muyeye, who seemed blinded by the late evening sun, before Douthwaite was spilled by an inrushing Leaning.The 19th over had a whiff of Stuart Broad’s record-breaking calamity at Edgbaston the previous day. Root hit Milnes’ first ball for six and was then caught by Muyeye off a no-ball. A further no-ball and five wides saw the Welsh side cash in with 22 from the over.Fred Klaassen’s final over was nearly as gruesome, going for 19 and Kent’s chase got off to an equally dismal start when Joe Denly was run out by Root in the first over.Muyeye cracked three elegant boundaries but then swiped McIlroy to Byrom and was out for 13, before Jordan Cox fell for one, pulling James Weighell to Ingram at mid-wicket.Alex Blake hit his 100th Blast six when he hammered Douthwaite over cow corner, but when Leaning chipped a return catch to Salter for 10 Kent, were 46 for four.Stevens’ return after a lengthy injury lay-off produced the biggest cheer of the night but this was a rescue act beyond even him, although he did flick Prem Sisodiya for a six that nearly cleared the flats on the Old Dover Road side.Blake went down swinging for 32, skying a Salter delivery to Northeast and Stevens’ cameo ended when he hit a Douthwaite full toss to Bevan on the boundary.Stewart offered some fight with 23 from 10 before he hit Sisodiya to Bevan and Qais had his stumps splayed by McIlroy for four. McIlroy then had Linde caught by Root for 21 and Glamorgan’s victory was sealed when Milnes hit Douthwaite to long off and Bevan held his third catch of the innings.

The trio are part of a 13-man squad to face Bangladesh which will be captained by Tom Latham

ESPNcricinfo staff10-Mar-2021Devon Conway, Will Young and Daryl Mitchell have earned their first ODI call-ups as part of New Zealand’s 13-man squad for the three-match series against Bangladesh this month.With Kane Williamson ruled out due to an elbow injury, there is a vacancy in the top order which will open the door for either Conway – who has enjoyed a superb start to his T20I career – or Young to slot in. Tom Latham will captain the side in Williamson’s absence.New Zealand have not played ODIs for a year – their last match was behind closed doors in Sydney last March before the tour was aborted due to Covid-19 – and they have only had four 50-over matches since the 2019 World Cup final.Related

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“It’s certainly been a while since we’ve played ODI cricket, with just four games since the 2019 Cricket World Cup campaign,” selector Gavin Larsen said. “We’re now in a new World Cup cycle and our attention has turned to building towards the 2023 tournament in India.”This series is a great opportunity to begin laying those foundations and formulating the type of team and game-plan we think can continue our impressive run in this format. Devon, Will and Daryl are quality players and have enjoyed impressive seasons so far, and we’re looking forward to giving them further opportunities to develop their game at this level. Whilst it’s disappointing to lose a player of Kane’s class, Tom has proven experience in taking the reins and I know he’s excited to lead the side.”Young, 28, made his Test debut against West Indies in December having long waited for his opportunity. Ahead of the 2019 World Cup, he scored two centuries against the Australians during warm-up matches in Brisbane but then underwent shoulder surgery.Mitchell, who scored his maiden Test century earlier this season, will compete for one of the allrounder positions.Neither Lockie Ferguson (back) nor Colin de Grandhomme (ankle) was considered for the squad although it is hoped Ferguson will be able to return for the T20Is. Legspinner Ish Sodhi, who was Player of the Series in the T20Is against Australia, did not find a spot in this squad.”The bowling group is a strong and experienced one and will be well complemented by the two seam-bowling allrounders in Jimmy [Neesham] and Daryl,” Larsen said. “We’ve also taken the decision to carry just the one spinner in the squad, which is a reflection of the venues for this series and expected pitch conditions.”It is expected that some of the New Zealand players with IPL deals will sit out the T20I series.Squad: Tom Latham (capt & wk), Trent Boult, Devon Conway, Martin Guptill, Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, Daryl Mitchell, Jimmy Neesham, Henry Nicholls, Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor, Will Young

Left-arm spinner Sadia Iqbal, who made her Pakistan debut in the T20I series last week has also been included

ESPNcricinfo staff31-Oct-2019Pakistan have made three changes to the squad that beat Bangladesh 3-0 in the T20I series earlier this week for the ODIs. Fifteen-year old legspinner Syeda Aroob Shah has earned her maiden Pakistan call-up, figuring in the 15-member squad for the two-match series against the same opponents at home. Left-arm spinner Sadia Iqbal, who made her international debut in the T20I series, has also been included in this squad, which also has left-arm spinner Nashra Sandhu and seamer Fatima Sana.Syeda, Sandhu and Fatima, who were part of the Pakistan Emerging squad that played in the ACC’s women’s Emerging Teams Cup, have come into the side replacing Ayesha Zafar, Anam Amin and Saba Nazir. All three of them finished with three wickets apiece across two games in the series. Fatima, who made her debut in May this year, has played two ODIs and three T20Is while Sandhu has picked up 34 wickets in 27 ODIs and 21 wickets in 23 T20Is. Sadia picked up four wickets in the T20I series, including 3 for 19 in the second match.A PCB statement said the selection committee, led by Urooj Mumtaz, had picked a squad that struck a balance between youth and experience, and served players an opportunity to warm-up for Pakistan’s final-round of Women’s Championship fixtures against England in December.The two ODIs are scheduled to be played on November 2 and 4 at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium.ODI squad: Bismah Maroof (capt), Aliya Riaz, Syeda Aroob Shah, Diana Baig, Fatima Sana, Iram Javed, Javeria Khan, Kainat Imtiaz, Nashra Sandhu, Nahida Khan, Omaima Sohail, Sadia Iqbal, Sana Mir, Sidra Amin, Sidra Nawaz

The offspinner finished with figures of 36-5-87-5, walking the talk from last week when he said he will bowl ugly if need be to put his team on top

ESPNcricinfo staff29-Sep-2018Nathan Lyon in his delivery stride•AFP

Australia’s chances against Pakistan in the upcoming series will rest on their ability to play the turning ball. But as they showed in a riveting series against India last year, their own spin-bowling resources aren’t to be trifled, and Nathan Lyon continued that narrative with a five-for on the first day of the team’s warm-up match in Dubai. The offspinner finished with figures of 36-5-87-5, walking the talk from last week when he said he will bowl ugly if need be to put his team on top.Pakistan A had some solid performers as well, with opener Sami Aslam making a smooth half-century and No. 3 Abid Ali batted for more than 80 overs to finish unbeaten on 83 off 254 deliveries. Despite those two promising performances, the score at the end of the day was a middling 247 for 6.Mitchell Starc also provided good news for Australia, getting through 17 overs of work in his first competitive outing since March 2018. The 28-year old fast bowler sustained a tibial stress fracture on the tour to South Africa and has since been on the bench, recovering, Selected for this tour, Starc will be leading an Australian pace attack that will not have Pat Cummins or Josh Hazlewood and it is in light of that fact that Lyon’s form becomes doubly important. He had three of his five victims caught behind and bowled one other. All of them were top-order batsmen, including Aslam who fell for 51. Left-arm spinner Jon Holland played the supporting act and secured an important wicket as well – that of Asad Shafiq, who struck a gallant century in the 2016 day-night at Brisbane to almost chase down a target of 490.

Sussex are favourites to claim their third win in their last four Specsavers County Championship games after an unbeaten 166 by Stiaan van Zyl left Leicestershire reeling at Arundel

ECB Reporters Network07-Jul-2017
ScorecardStiaan van Zyl ensured Sussex set a big target•Associated Press

Sussex are favourites to claim their third win in their last four Specsavers County Championship games after an unbeaten 166 by Stiaan van Zyl left Leicestershire reeling at Arundel.The South African was well supported by Luke Wright and Ben Brown, who both made half-centuries, before a violent cameo by Jofra Archer, who smashed 42 off 14 balls, took Sussex to 443 for 6 declared, leaving Leicestershire needing 425 to win their first game of the season. Their openers Arun Harinath and Paul Horton got through ten overs before stumps to close on 36-0, needing 389 for victory on the final day.Van Zyl had come to the wicket when Sussex’s advantage was only 64 after Luke Wells (43) was lbw to Matt Pillans. Harry Finch, trapped in his crease by Clint McKay, went for 18 with only four more runs added and Sussex 87 for 4, but Leicestershire’s day went downhill from there.Van Zyl gave one chance on 35 which should have been taken, but Richard Jones dropped an easy catch at cover off Will Fazakerley’s first ball and the 29-year-old, who played 12 Tests before joining Sussex on a three-year Kolpak deal in the winter, made them pay.He did the hard yards in assessing the vagaries of a pitch offering some erratic bounce and then began to drive confidently through the off side, collecting the majority of his 24 boundaries between cover and mid-off.His stand of 135 in 40 overs with Wright, who hit eight fours in his 110-ball 60, put Sussex in the driving seat and there was no loss of momentum when Wright hooked to deep square leg.Skipper Brown was at his busy and effective best, turning ones into twos and employing some effective back-foot shots against a tiring attack. There was some rough for Leicestershire’s three spinners to work with but none made much of an impression as Brown and van Zyl added 146 in 28 overs to build a strong position.Van Zyl passed his previous best for Sussex – 147 against Durham in May – and although Brown was pinned in front by a shooter from Richard Jones after scoring 67 in 80 balls with eight boundaries there was no end to the suffering for Leicestershire’s foot-sore attack, who have failed to bowl a side out twice in the Championship this season.Archer thrashed off-spinner Rob Sayer for three sixes in an over before hoisting Fazakerley over long leg. He also struck three boundaries in a violent cameo before Sussex pulled out with van Zyl on 166 from 252 balls with 24 fours. Batting for over five hours in the energy-sapping heat was as impressive a statistic.

Brett D’Oliveira continued his remarkable transformation from spin bowler to opening batsman when narrowly missing a third consecutive century in the County Championship

ECB Reporters Network15-May-2016
ScorecardBrett D’Oliveira continued his rich run of form this season•Getty Images

Brett D’Oliveira continued his remarkable transformation from spin bowler to opening batsman when narrowly missing a third consecutive century in the County Championship, as Worcestershire piled up 382 for 4 on the opening day of the Division Two match with Sussex at New Road.The 24-year-old was out for 99 after scores of 128 against Essex and 202 not out against Glamorgan. His hot streak even spilled into the Birmingham & District League on Saturday, when he made 150 for local club Ombersley in their defeat by Walsall.England Lions prospect Joe Clarke shared some of D’Oliveira’s frustration in missing a hundred when he was dismissed for 82, after making 135 against Gloucestershire and 133 against Glamorgan.Sussex may have thought D’Oliveira was out first ball but their appeal for a catch behind the wicket off Ollie Robinson was rejected and the innings was into the 50th over before he was caught by Harry Finch when cutting a ball from Luke Wells.Until Kevin Sharp joined the county’s coaching staff in 2014, D’Oliveira was batting at No. 8 in the second team but was moved up to open that season, confirming his potential with a century against Hampshire 2nd XI. By the end of last summer, he was opening for the first team and now he is established in the new role, with 598 first-class runs this season, having made 122 in the opening fixture against Oxford MCCU.Strong on back foot, punching a number of his 15 boundaries from short of a length, he made the most of a good batting surface by completing a century stand with Daryl Mitchell in a gloriously sunny and warm first session.Steve Magoffin was the one bowler to impose restrictions, his 12 overs in two spells yielding only 19 runs, but it was largely trouble-free for the batsmen until Mitchell, who won the toss, miscued a pull off Stuart Whittingham low to Magoffin at mid-on. The first pair put on 113, the fifth time D’Oliveira has been involved in a three-figure partnership in the Championship this summer.Sussex plugged away and finally claimed their first bowling bonus point soon after tea when Alexei Kervezee, in his first Championship appearance for nearly 12 months, was bowled by Whittingham after making 29 in a stand of 54 with Clarke.There was a scare for Clarke when a crashing drive only just cleared Lewis Hatchett at mid-on but a hundred was looking there for the taking before he got himself out, popping up the simplest of return catches to Wells. In a measured innings, he hit nine fours from 117 ballsSussex’s hopes of a significant breakthrough were blunted by an unbroken partnership of 101 in which Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Ross Whiteley both survived chances. Whiteley came into form with seven fours and a six from 63 balls in his first half-century of the season.