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Hamish Marshall saved Gloucestershire from first-day capitulation against Kent by scoring the 28th first-class hundred of his career in steamy Canterbury.

ECB Reporters Network08-May-2016
ScorecardHamish Marshall was facing a scoreline of 14 for 4 shortly after he arrived at the crease•Getty ImagesHamish Marshall saved Gloucestershire from first-day capitulation against Kent by scoring the 28th first-class hundred of his career in steamy Canterbury.Marshall rescued the visitors from the perils of 14 for 4 and led them to relative respectability at stumps on 296 for 9 after they had won the toss and chosen to bat.Extracting decent carry and a little nip off a first-day surface at The Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence, Kent’s veteran new-ball pairing Mitch Claydon and Darren Stevens shared six wickets, including two apiece inside the opening 18 overs of the match.The sixth-placed visitors lost Chris Dent 16 balls into the game. Pushing late and down the wrong line to a full-length ball from Claydon, he went lbw for a single.Four overs later, visiting No.3 Ian Cockbain, in attempting to pull against Claydon, edged through to keeper Adam Rouse to depart for a 12-ball duck.After an hour at the crease opener Cameron Bancroft pushed at a good length lifting leg-cutter from Stevens to be caught behind then, in his next over, Stevens produced a near identical delivery to account for Gareth Roderick and give Rouse a third catch of the session against his former county.Marshall’s back-foot cut through backward off the bowling of Calum Haggett opened his side’s boundary account once Stevens rested following an obdurate 10-over spell of 2 for 10 from the Pavilion End that included five maidens.Yet it was Matt Hunn, on his season’s debut, and Haggett claimed Kent’s only mid-session successes. Haggett bowled George Hankins to end a fifth-wicket stand that added 87 in 20.5 overs, then Hunn nipped one down the Canterbury slope to clip the top of middle stump as left-hander Kieran Noema-Barnett played back and across the line.Marshall might have gone with his score on 35, but Claydon was unable to cling on to a low caught and bowled chance in his follow-through allowing him to reach a 179-ball century with 11 fours.Kent were left a bowler light at 4.25pm when, after bowling the 69th over, offspinner Adam Riley went off the field with a suspected side strain.Marshall took full advantage to add 112 in 27.2 overs in tandem with Jack Taylor who looked assured in scoring a 74-ball 50 with seven fours. But Taylor blotted his copybook in the penultimate over before the second new ball by driving a return catch to Stevens for a gift third wicket of the day.Five deliveries later, Claydon’s first delivery of a new spell from the Nackington Road End, lifted, struck Marshall on the gloves and ballooned to Tom Latham at second slip to end his 202-ball stay. Marshall had batted almost four-and-a-half hours for his 112.Claydon and Stevens shared the second new ball but without success as ninth-wicket partners David Payne and Craig Miles added 39, before Miles edged a loose back-foot force against Haggett to Stevens at slip.Fresh from his three wickets, Stevens admitted that losing Riley with a side strain was a blow – and neither was he pleased about the tactics against Marshall.”We spoke about our lengths this morning and we were right on the money in the morning session, but when Hamish came in we pulled our lengths back that little bit too much,” said the Kent beneficiary.”Hamish is international quality. He left the ball really well today. It was like he’s been playing here for years, the way he played the slope and left well. We know he loves the short ball and he probably scored 50 or more, square, behind the wicket or down to third man. He hardly scored a run down the ground, so we need to learn from that second time around.”Kent had made three team changes to the side that beat Glamorgan by 10 wickets to move third in the Division Two table on Wednesday.Opening bowler Matt Coles, suspended for two games under the ECB’s disciplinary procedures, was replaced by Haggett. Top-order bat Sean Dickson needed eight stitches in his left hand after cutting himself when trying to repair a fan at his home.The South African could be out for a fortnight and was replaced by Alex Blake, while Hunn was preferred to rookie seamer Hugh Bernard, who made his first-class debut in the win over Glamorgan.

Lionel Messi has sat out four successive games for Inter Miami, but the Argentine superstar may figure in MLS again before the 2023 season is over.

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All-time great nursing a knockHas sat out four games in a rowNo risks taken on his fitnessWHAT HAPPENED?

The seven-time Ballon d’Or winner has been ruled out for the Florida-based franchise at the worst possible time, with a dip in results seeing their play-off dreams fade. A 4-1 defeat at the Chicago Fire last time out may have put the final nail in that coffin.

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Messi is nursing an injury picked up while on 2026 World Cup qualifying duty with Argentina in September, with no risks being taken on his fitness, but Tata Martino has said when asked if the all-time great will figure in any of Inter Miami’s final three games of the current campaign in America: “I think he’s getting closer to playing again. As we said, we’ll evaluate him tomorrow and Friday to see if he’s in condition [to play]. The most important thing is he’s leaving his injury behind and slowly discovering his best form… we’ll see what’s most convenient ahead of the next game. I suppose just like Barcelona in their moment, PSG [Paris Saint-Germain] in their moment, the Argentine national team in their moment, why wouldn’t we miss having the best player in the world? Even when we win, we miss him.”

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Messi inspired Inter Miami to a historic Leagues Cup triumph within weeks of his arrival in the United States, while also helping them to the U.S. Open Cup final, but Martino says acquiring the South American superstar was always part of a long-term plan. He added: “I always thought that these six months were to shape the club, and have an excellent 2024.”

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Inter Miami may have to turn their attention towards next season, when Messi will be fully rested and recovered, as they have just three more games to take in this term and a five-point gap to try and bridge to the Eastern Conference play-off places.

Phil Parkinson has claimed that the international call-ups for James McClean and Jacob Mendy demonstrate Wrexham's "profile" is "different level".

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McClean called up IrelandMendy made it to the Gambia bench against BurundiParkinson thrilled with international call-upsWHAT HAPPENED?

Wrexham will miss the services of Mendy and McClean against Accrington Stanley in League Two as the players have been called up by Gambia and the Republic of Ireland, respectively. While McClean was set to retire from international football against New Zealand on November 21, injuries to Will Smallbone and Festy Ebosele forced manager Stephen Kenny to call him up for the weekend's Euro 2024 qualifier against the Netherlands as well.

The international call-ups have been well welcomed by Parkinson as, despite losing key players, he believes they reinstate the quality his side have despite plying their trade in League Two.

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Speaking to he said: "It just shows that playing for Wrexham you're getting recognition, irrespective of being in League Two. The profile of the club, it's kind of a different level for a normal League Two club because of the reasons that everybody knows."

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Mendy was an unused substitute during Gambia's 3-2 loss to Burundi, but Parkinson hopes that he will get some minutes in the next match against Ivory Coast on Sunday to prove his mettle on the international stage.

"The Gambian manager has been monitoring him, closely," Parkinson said. "There's other players in his position and he's got competition as you'd expect. But he's done well to get in there. Obviously, he wants to have some minutes to show what he can do. I'd like to see him get some game time and not have a trip where he goes there and is just a squad player. Obviously we've got a lot of belief in Jacob and we think he's a really good player."

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Parkinson will have to trust his squad depth against Accrington on Saturday as McClean and Mendy are away with their respective national teams. On the other hand, McClean will be itching to get a run against the Dutch on Saturday. It could end up being his final competitive match for Ireland before calling curtains on his international career against the Kiwis next Tuesday.

Michael Atherton has condemned proposals to put power to run international cricket in the hands of India, England and Australia as the end of an idealistic notion that the game can be run for the benefit of all.

ESPNcricinfo staff27-Jan-2014Michael Atherton, the former England captain, has condemned proposals to put power to run international cricket in the hands of India, England and Australia as the end of an idealistic notion that the game can be run for the benefit of all nations.Atherton writes in the that the plan represents “the end of the notion that a fair and principled and just body can govern cricket in the interests of all.”It is an ideal, of course, that has never been grounded in any kind of reality under the guise of the ICC, but if you cannot be idealistic about sport, what can you be idealistic about?”Atherton gives some credence, if reluctantly, to the view that England and Australia feel they have no choice but to grant India power in a way that will encourage them to run the world game responsibly – and even suggests India has now been affected with the arrogance of old colonialism.”The tone of the proposal is so arrogant and high-handed as to recall an earlier age when the organisation began as the Imperial Cricket Conference,” he writes.Atherton is scathing about governance in world cricket. “No one doubts that the status quo, as far as the ICC is concerned, is unacceptable: two full-member countries are thought to be corrupt; four are essentially broke; most rely on India’s largesse to keep going, while the BCCI is disgruntled that the distribution of revenues does not reflect its provenance.”Politics, race and personalities interfere with decision-making at every turn. Incompetence is a given; at a recent ICC meeting, I was told of one director who took to snoring through an anti-corruption presentation.”Atherton said that the recommendations of the Woolf report to place power in the hands of an independent executive – a solution championed by the former ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat, who was soon removed from office – would have been the most idealistic solution.”The best that can be said for this deal, indeed the only thing that can be said for this deal, is that India become a fully engaged and interested party to world cricket. Inside the tent and happy for the moment, rather than prowling outside and angry.”

Ray Jennings, the coach who took South Africa Under-19s to victory in the World Cup, will be out of a job from next week

Firdose Moonda23-Apr-2014Ray Jennings, the coach who took South Africa’s Under-19 squad to victory in the World Cup in the UAE last month, will be out of a job from next week. Jennings applied for a position within CSA’s development structures but was overlooked in favour of Lawrence Mahatlane, the former assistant coach of the Lions franchise. Shukri Conrad, who was in charge of both the Cobras and Lions, has been appointed national academy head coach.”I am bitterly disappointed,” Jennings told ESPNcricinfo. “But if the system doesn’t want you, then it doesn’t want you. It’s upsetting that it was left so late to let me know.” Interviews were conducted over the last three weeks but Jennings was only informed of the decision today.With just a week left until he will be out of contract Jennings admitted he is concerned about his future. “I’ll have to sit down and think properly about it,” he said while also mooting the possibility that he need to look beyond South Africa’s borders for employment. “But all these things take time.”Jennings had a hint that his services would no longer be required when he returned triuphant from the U-19 World Cup in March. Then, it was announced the role of U-19 coach would cease to exist its current form when Jennings’ contract expired at the end of April and would be split into two positions.CSA have since announced the position of U-19 head coach still exists, which was the job Jennings applied for. Mahatlane has been assigned to the role. Mahatlane obtained a Level Four coaching certificate in 2008 and was at the helm when the Gauteng Strikers, the provincial side who play at the tier below franchise level, won the three-day competition in the 2006-07 season and the one-day competition in 2007-08. He stopped coaching in 2011 but has worked as a cricket and rugby radio commentator for the public broadcaster, the SABC.The second post focuses on the national academy which will also involve running the academy from May to September standardising all the provincial academies. Conrad has been given this job. Conrad won the one-day competition with the Gauteng team in the 2003-04 season before the franchise system was introduced. He was then in charge of the Cobras for five years in which time he won the all three trophies on offer in separate seasons: the one-day cup (2006-07), the 20-over tournament (2008-09) and the first-class competition (2009-10). In 2011 he worked with the Ugandan national side and has since appeared on television commentary.The pair will look to fill the continuity gap left by Jennings, who has been in charge of South Africa’s U-19 side since 2006. Jennings has taken the side to five World Cups and he remembered that in that time, the various teams he has led have only lost four matches. He has also coached at provincial level, having been in charge of domestic teams Easterns and Gauteng and at international level with the South African A side and South Africa’s national side between 2004 and 2006.This is the second job Jennings has lost this year. In January, he was axed from the Royal Challengers Bangalore when they unveiled Daniel Vettori was their new head coach.

Kemar Roach has sustained no major damage to his right ankle and is hopeful of bowling again in the first Test against South Africa

Firdose Moonda in Centurion17-Dec-2014Kemar Roach has sustained no major damage to his right ankle and is hopeful of bowling again in the first Test against South Africa.* He will not take the field before lunch on the second day though, which would mean he is unlikely to bowl at all during the day because of the amount of time spent off the field.Roach had been off the field for 75 minutes on the first day after leaving midway through the third session. He heard his ankle pop with a ball to go in his 16th over and immediately asked for medical attention. He left the field with assistance and was taken for an MRI scan which revealed no ligament damage.Although West Indies would like to see him play a further part in the first Test, with two more matches to come and minimal time in-between, media manager Philip Spooner confirmed there was “no rush” to get Roach back on SuperSport Park.One person who is hopeful Roach will be able to take the field again is Sheldon Cottrell, who is playing in just his second Test after debuting more than a year ago in India. “I am very anxious to have him back. I wouldn’t mind it he is there in the morning,” Cottrell said. “He has so much experience and because I am inexperienced, he gives me pointers.”Roach did not open the bowling, because West Indies preferred to go with the left-arm option of Cottrell, but made an impact soon after he was brought on. In his third over, Roach made the first breakthrough to give West Indies their only period of control on the day. Three wickets fell without conceding a run in 15 balls, one to Cottrell, who admitted things did not go according to plan as closely as West Indies would have liked.”My game plan was bowl a good-enough length to disturb the batsmen with the inswinger, because it has been said that South Africa is a bit iffy when coming out against a left arm pace bowler,” he said. “It was moving quite a bit. I didn’t have the control that I really wanted. There was a lot of moisture in the wicket. We were struggling to find lengths and lines.”Although Cottrell found movement and troubled the batsmen with it, he was inconsistent in his lengths. So was Jerome Taylor, who Cottrell said was a “wonderful bowler, who could come right at any minute,” which left West Indies with only Roach to do damage. He should have had a third wicket when a delivery in the first over after lunch shaved Hashim Amla’s off stump and shook the bail but did not dislodge it. “We saw the funny side of it. We were like ‘Oh damn.’ But that disappeared very quickly,” Cottrell said.That half-chance was the last hope West Indies had of justifying their captain’s decision to bowl in helpful conditions. Their lack of discipline meant that even when they threatened, it was not for long enough periods to concern everyone in South Africa’s line-up. The top three were rattled but AB de Villiers and Amla were not. They drained the West Indian attack with a dominant showing, which overpowered a tiring opposition pack.Cottrell rated their performance a five out of 10, but remained hopeful they could increase that on the second day. “The guys came up with a number of plans, it just didn’t work. Our boys really worked hard today,” he said. “We are a bit down but we are not out, we are still in it.”*08.50GMT, December 18: This article was updated after the latest news on Kemar Roach came in on the second morning

England will ponder a shuffle of their Test match batting order before the return Ashes encounter begins in Brisbane

Daniel Brettig in Hobart05-Nov-20130:00

England’s order in state of flux

England will ponder a shuffle of their Test match batting order before the return Ashes encounter begins in Brisbane, after their captain Alastair Cook admitted his team could not afford a repeat of the early stumbles that pockmarked a 3-0 series victory at home earlier this year.Australia’s pacemen were consistently able to perforate the England top order, pushing the Man of the Series Ian Bell to great heights as he continually bailed out the earlier batsmen in a manner reminiscent of a prime Michael Clarke.Following on from this amid his flurry of invective at Ricky Ponting and Cook, Shane Warne had reckoned earlier this week that keeping the young batsman Joe Root at the top of the order may “crucify” a promising young player, suggesting instead that the taller, older left-hander Michael Carberry might be a better partner for England’s captain in Australia.Before training at Bellerive Oval, Cook not only batted away Warne’s criticisms of his captaincy but also left open the possibility that such changes might just be made. In a typically careful discussion of his team, Cook lauded Root’s adaptability while also saying the doubt surrounding two batting places had created a healthy sense of tension and competition in an otherwise settled squad. He then closed by stating gravely that the early innings misadventures of July and August could not be repeated.”Joe is a fantastic player. I think anyone who saw his 180 at Lord’s and his hundred against New Zealand can see the class he has got,” Cook said. “He has been outstanding in all forms of the game and being able to bat in any situation is one of his greatest strengths. Whether he’s batting at six against New Zealand or heads up the rate in the one-day game, I don’t think I have seen a younger player adapt to a situation as well as he does as quickly as he does. He’s a pretty unflappable guy.Michael Carberry would be the major beneficiary if England changed their batting order for the Gabba•Getty Images”We haven’t decided on our batting line-up. It’s very different to 2010-11 where we came here very clear what our full strength side was and on that tour we played the first two warm-up games as that Test match XI. In this situation circumstances are different. We are unsure of pretty much two places and it’s exciting because everyone in the squad knows that and watching that competition grow, if someone grabs that opportunity he is going to find himself in a good place.”Should Carberry slip into the top six, and so leave Root free to move down the order, it would represent a change to England’s apparent plans on their departure for Australia. The assembly of a squad with a trio of potential middle-order players in Jonny Bairstow, Gary Ballance and Ben Stokes illustrated where the team director Andy Flower’s major doubts had existed. Nonetheless, Root’s adaptability and temperament are highly valued, while at 33 Carberry has been chosen less as a future investment than a readymade top-order option after the fashion of Chris Rogers for Australia.Either way, Cook is adamant that England’s batsmen cannot be anywhere near as courteous to Australia’s new-ball bowlers this time around. The window for wickets provided by the new ball is narrower down under, as the Kookaburra loses its shine and ability to bend rather quicker than the Dukes in England, making early incisions even more critical than they had been in the northern summer.”Especially with the Kookaburra ball it’s a situation we can’t allow to happen again,” Cook said. “Sometimes in England with overhead conditions that does happen. In Australia the bigger scores do happen and we know that is an area of major improvement we needed to do coming into the series.”

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Reliable West Ham United club insider @ExWHUemployee revealed via his official Twitter account on Tuesday that former Hammers striker Ricardo Vaz Te is back at the club training with the U23s, and Irons fans were quick to react to the update on Twitter.

It is as yet unclear whether the 32-year-old striker has left Chinese Super League club Henan Jianye having scored 16 goals in 26 appearances for them, as per Transfermarkt, while he was sent off for them in the final game of the 2018 season back in November.

Now @ExWHUemployee has revealed on Twitter that he is training with the U23s back in east London, having previously netted 19 times in 61 matches for West Ham during a spell between 2012 and 2015, according to Transfermarkt, before departing for Turkey.

His most famous goal for the club came in the 2012 Championship play-off final against Blackpool, which saw the Hammers win 1-0 to win promotion back to the Premier League.

West Ham supporters have taken to social media to give their thoughts on the news that Vaz Te is back, and while one said “we aren’t signing him again are we”, another said “that’s really underwhelming”.

Here is just a selection of the Twitter reaction…

Who is your club’s worst ever January signing? The Pl>ymaker FC squad have picked theirs in the video below and they didn’t disappoint…

Australia will tour India to play seven ODIs and a Twenty20 International in October and November

ESPNcricinfo staff03-Jul-2013Australia will tour India to play seven ODIs and a Twenty20 International in October and November. The limited-overs series will begin with the T20 in Rajkot on October 10 followed by the ODIs, which will all be day-night matches, the last of them to be played in Bangalore on November 2.The other matches will be at Pune, where the new stadium will make its ODI “debut”, Jaipur, Mohali, Ranchi, Cuttack and Nagpur.Australia had toured India for a four-Test series in March this year, which they lost 4-0. They last visited India for a seven-match ODI series in October-November 2009, when they won 4-2 with the last match washed out in Mumbai.Schedule for limited-overs series

T20I – October 10, Rajkot

1st ODI – October 13, Pune

2nd ODI – October 16, Jaipur

3rd ODI – October 19, Mohali

4th ODI – October 23, Ranchi

5th ODI – October 26, Cuttack

6th ODI – October 30, Nagpur

7th ODI – November 2, Bangalore

Australia’s last bilateral ODI series in India was a three-match series in October 2010, of which two were washed out and India won the only game in Visakhapatnam.Both the teams will be coming on the back of busy schedules during the summer. After the Ashes in England, Australia play a five-match ODI series till September 13. India, on the other hand, will have slightly more time as their ODI series against Zimbabwe ends on August 3.However, the Champions League T20 is scheduled for September 17 to October 6, leaving only a three-day gap between the final and the T20 scheduled on October 10.Australia will then host the other leg of the Ashes starting November 21 in Brisbane.

A round-up of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy matches that ended on December 16, 2013

ESPNcricinfo staff16-Dec-2013Group IPeshawar jumped to second place with an innings win over Lahore Ravi in Peshawar. Israrullah’s double hundred was the highlight of the match which gave Peshawar a 279-run lead in the first innings.Lahore opted to bat but managed only 239 despite good starts from Abdul Wahab Dar (40), Jahangir (51) and Tanzeel Altaf (52). However, Azizullah’s four wickets restricted them before Israrullah registered a career-best 222, and along with Adil Amin (51) and Mohammad Idrees (86), charged them to 514.Lahore were batting to save the game but could not succeed as Jibran Khan took 4 for 32 and the Lahore captain Jahangir Mirza’s 72 went in vain.Group IIFaisalabad were left one wicket away from victory and had to settle for a draw with Hyderabad who remained at the bottom of the table.Chasing 305, Hyderabad ended the last day on 244 for 9 with a fighting fifty from Lal Kumar (59*). Asked to bat, Faisalabad scored 323 with a hundred from Ammar Mahmood and a fifty from Imran Ahmed (60) as Nasir Awais (6 for 80) ran through their tail. The Hyderabad batsmen managed starts but not any big scores as Imran Ahmed took 4 for 42 and Faisal Athar (53) took them to 287. Faisalabad built further on their lead with a hundred from Shahid Siddiq (107) but the absence of any substantial scores from their lower order kept their lead to 304.Hyderabad lost wickets regularly because of Salman Ali (4 for 86) and Naseer Akram (3 for 49) but Haris Khan, Mir Ali (35) and Kumar prevented a defeat.