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Virat Kohli was presented with the Test mace, India v New Zealand, 3rd Test, Indore, 4th day, October 11, 2016

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PAK V WI, 1ST TEST, DUBAI

Bravo fights, but Pakistan pull ahead

• SCORECARD
• Report - Wahab turns final session
• Stats - Darren Bravo's subcontinent love
• Match in pics - Yasir's early strike
• Triple would have felt nicer in Pakistan - Azhar

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  Darren Bravo made 87 in 258 balls, but Pakistan took three wickets in the final session to retain their advantage in the Dubai day-night Test © Getty Images
  
• Marlon Samuels weathers an appeal from the Pakistan fielders, Pakistan v West Indies, 1st Test, Dubai, 3rd day, October 15, 2016 © AFP
  
  
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  Azhar Ali salutes upon reaching his double century, Pakistan v West Indies, 1st Test, Dubai, 2nd day, October 14, 2016 © Getty Images
  
  
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  Shannon Gabriel runs in to bowl, Pakistan v West Indies, 1st Test, Dubai, 1st day, October 13, 2
  
  

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  • SCORECARD
  • Report - Wahab turns final session
  • Stats - Darren Bravo's subcontinent love
  • Match in pics - Yasir's early strike
  • Triple would have felt nicer in Pakistan - Azhar
  
  
  

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IND V NZ, 1ST ODI, DHARAMSALA

NZ's chance to shrug off Test hangover

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Two Triple-hundreds in a Ranji match last day.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ranji-tr...h/1053493.html

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Best bowling figures by a visiting bowler in ASIA - Devendra Bishoo's 8 for 49. The previous best was Lance Klusener's 8 for 64 against India at Eden Gardens in 1996. The previous best by a West Indies bowler in Asia was Andy Roberts' 7 for 64 in Chennai in 1975. Bishoo's figures are the best by any bowler in the UAE, eclipsing Saeed Ajmal's 7 for 55 against England, which also came in Dubai in January 2012. 4 Figures better than Bishoo's eight-for by a legspinner in Tests. Anil Kumble's 10 for 74 against Pakistan at Feroz Shah Kotla in 1999 is the best, followed by Abdul Qadir's 9 for 56, Subhash Gupte's 9 for 102 and Arthur Mailey's 9 for 121. Bishoo's returns are the fifth-best innings figures for a West Indies bowler in Tests.

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New DRS rule for lbws is great news for bowlers

The new DRS protocol for reviewing not-out lbw decisions came into effect on September 22. Life is going to get harder for batsmen, and here's why




WATCH - The rule change explained The upshot
More batsmen are likely to be given lbw when the fielding captain asks for a not-out decision to be referred to the third umpire, under the new DRS protocol.
Why?
Because the amount of protection given to the on-field umpire's decision - 'the umpire's call' - has been reduced. So the fielding team has a greater chance of getting a 'not-out' changed to an 'out'.
What has changed?
The zone in which more than half the ball must hit the pad for not-out decisions to be overturned has been increased. And the zone in which the ball-tracking projection needed to show more than half the ball hitting the stumps has also been increased. So the bowlers have a larger area in their favour, and batsmen - as well as the on-field umpires' decisions - are less protected than before.
By how much has the zone increased?
Previously, for not-out decisions to be overturned, more than half the ball needed to hit the pad in line with a zone between the middle of off stump and the middle of leg stump, and from the bottom of the bails downwards. Now, the zone is between the outside of off stump and the outside of leg stump. The bottom-of-the bails limit has not changed.
And previously, for not-out decisions to be overturned, the ball-tracking projection needed to show more than half the ball hitting the stumps between the middle of off stump and the middle of leg stump, and from the bottom of the bails downwards. Now, the zone is from the outside of off stump and the outside of leg stump. The bottom-of-the-bails limit has not changed.
The increase in the width of the zone is about 3.8 centimetres: half a stump's width (1.9 centimetres) on either side.
How will this impact the game?
Under the previous DRS conditions, for a not-out lbw decision to be overturned, the ball needed to have hit the pad well in line with the stumps and the projection needed to show the ball pretty much crashing into the stumps. Now, for such decisions to be overturned, more than half the ball still needs to hit the pad in line with the stumps, but not as much as before, and more than half the ball still needs to hit the stumps, but not as centrally as before.
Expect to see more reviews of not-out lbw decisions, more on-field decisions being overturned and, in time, perhaps more lbw appeals being upheld on the field.

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Indian teaminte playing eleven porallo...opening bowler hardik??umeshoke nalla adi vangi kootunund,shami & buwanesh endu kond teamil illa?jadavoke chulivil teamil kayariyallo

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Indian teaminte playing eleven porallo...opening bowler hardik??umeshoke nalla adi vangi kootunund,shami & buwanesh endu kond teamil illa?jadavoke chulivil teamil kayariyallo

Shami, Ashwin, Jadeja rested for England tests series.
Jadhav in because Rahul and Dhawan injured.

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http://www.espncricinfo.com/blogs/co...y/1062764.html

Cook belongs in exalted company. But perhaps the most stunning thing about his career is that it has taken him fewer than 11 years to achieve all these records. That's less than half the length ofSachin Tendulkar's Test career. If Cook plays for as long as Tendulkar did, he will play nearly 300 Test matches, score nearly 24,000 Test runs and 66 Test hundreds, provided he maintains his current rate. At the end, he'll be a very tired 45-year-old man.

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Mehedi's 12 seals historic win over England

Bangladesh 220 (Tamim 104, Moeen 5-57) and 296 (Imrul 78, Rashid 4-52) beat England 244 (Root 56, Mehedi 6-82) and 164 (Cook 59, Duckett 56, Mehedi 6-77, Shakib 4-49) by 108 runs







Miller: Mehedi delivers a special moment for cricket Bangladesh claimed ten wickets in an electric final session to secure an historic first Test victory over England and a 1-1 share of the series. That it came after England's openers had put on a century stand was the final twist in a remarkable match and only heightened the sense of their achievement. The crowning moment was delivered by the teenager Mehedi Hasan, who finished with another six-wicket haul, 12 in the match and the best figures by a Bangladeshi to spark scenes of jubilation at Mirpur.

The result provided atonement after Bangladesh had gone so close in Chittagong, finally giving them a win over one of the major Test nations: in 94 matches previously they had only beaten West Indies and Zimbabwe. It also posed fresh questions for England, who went from 100 for 0 to 164 all out in 22.3 mesmeric overs as Mehedi and Shakib Al Hasan claimed all ten between them.

At tea, England had edged the equation back in their favour, knocking the requirement from 273 down to a seemingly more manageable 173 thanks to their best opening partnership of the tour. But from the very first delivery after the interval, Mehedi speared the ball into Ben Duckett's stumps and England's dream start became a waking nightmare against spin, a Halloween horror show in which every wicket was greeted with ghoulish glee by the Mirpur crowd.
Moments later Joe Root, already zombified by illness, stumbled from the field after a two-ball duck and although Alastair Cook followed Duckett in reaching fifty, England were about to enter a death spiral. From 122 for 2, Bangladesh claimed 4 for 15 in 38 balls, England's middle-order guts ripped out as Mehedi completed a ten-wicket haul in only his second Test. After Duckett and Cook, only Ben Stokes managed double-figures.
Gary Ballance's tortured series ended with a misbegotten leading edge to mid-off and Moeen Ali was lbw to Mehedi in the same over but Bangladesh must have truly believed when Cook popped a catch to silly point - a superb take from Mominul Haque standing as close to the cut strip as he dared - to leave England five down. The sense of grievance Bangladesh apparently felt after Cook had overturned an lbw decision off Mehedi a few overs before, Hawk-Eye projecting the ball to be missing leg stump, was immediately forgotten.
From that point, the ending was inevitable - it was merely a question of when. Jonny Bairstow became Mehedi's 11th victim when an inside edge ballooned to leg slip and although Stokes attempted to hold back the tide, smiting Mehedi for a towering, defiant six, he was bowled playing inside the line of a delivery from Shakib, who claimed three in four balls to put Bangladesh on the brink of a victory that had repeatedly threatened to squirm from their grasp.
Few could have foreseen quite such a dramatic finish at the start of the day. Having been well placed on 152 for 3 overnight, Bangladesh's batsmen resolved to play positively and they succeeded in almost doubling their score. Stokes and Adil Rashid claimed six of the seven wickets to fall, keeping the target below 300, but 273 was still significantly more than England had previously achieved in Asia - coincidentally their 2010 pursuit of 209 at Mirpur, which was also the record on the ground.
They were given the perfect start, however. Cook and his latest partner had a previous best of 26 together and, given England's propensity to go from one to three down (or, in this case, all out) in short order, it was a timely improvement. Duckett's penchant for the reverse-sweep was well known in domestic circles but he unwrapped it for the citizens of Dhaka in the fourth over of the innings, striking back-to-back boundaries off Shakib.
There were one or two misjudgements, a top edge from a cut bursting through the hands of slip, while Kamrul Islam Rabbi could not get his hands under a wild slice running in from cover, but living dangerously was at least living. Duckett went to his maiden Test fifty, from just 61 deliveries, with a swept four and he brought up the hundred with a fierce pull of Mehedi's next ball to further quieten a nervous crowd - at least until the resumption after tea.
A chaotic morning session had seen four wickets, as many catches go down, a couple of reviews wasted and 116 runs added to the Bangladesh total. No batsman was able to survive for long but they successfully staved off the outright collapse England had hoped for, as tempers began to fray.
Stokes was at the centre of trying to lift England but his approach seemed to draw comment from the umpires, who approached Cook to try and calm things down. Stokes was unhappy at Sabbir Rahman advancing down the pitch during a brisk seventh-wicket partnership that repelled England once again and frustrations mounted after they lost their second review seeking a caught-behind decision against Bangladesh's No. 7, who was eventually lbw to Rashid from the last ball before lunch.
England created chances from the outset but Bangladesh's batsmen kept pushing the scoreboard on. Imrul Kayes swept and nudged while the more adventurous Shakib rode his luck to add 48 together inside the first hour and although the wickets did eventually come, England's hopes of running through the middle- and lower-order for a second time in the match were stilled.
Imrul had two let-offs before finally falling for 78. In the sixth over of the morning, on 67, a leg-side flick off Zafar Ansari went quickly to the right of Cook at leg slip and the England captain could only palm it away; then on 74, a simpler chance off the bowling of Moeen was put down by Root, going one-handed to his right at slip.
The Bangladesh opener fell shortly after, lbw to Moeen attempting to sweep, and Shakib might have been stumped in the following over, charging at Ansari, only for the ball to explode off the pitch and clear Bairstow's right shoulder. Ansari should certainly have had Shakib's wicket on 23 when a slog-sweep picked out Duckett at deep midwicket but he made a complete hash of the catch and the same bowler then saw Mushfiqur survive a mistimed chip to Steven Finn running back at mid-off.

England's use of technology was also erratic, failing with one DRS attempt against Mushfiqur - Ansari's delivery pitching outside leg - but opting not to review a pair of lbw appeals from Moeen's bowling, once each against Shakib and Mushfiqur, that would likely have been overturned.
Shakib's innings was cut short on 41 as Rashid ripped a legbreak in from round the wicket and Stokes had Mushfiqur taken at slip in the following over but by then the lead was above 200 and England's task on a surface that continued to assist spin bowling was looking a daunting one. This time, Bangladesh would not let them off the hook.