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Scorecard and ball-by-ball details Younis Khan’s 78 was the decisive innings in the end•AFP

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• The win is Pakistan’s 38th in 42 matches against Zimbabwe. They have lost just two matches, in 1995 and 1998.

• The five-run win is the 15th occasion that Pakistan have managed a win by a margin of fewer than ten runs (only completed matches) and the second such win over Zimbabwe.

• For the fourth time in 2011, Pakistan had three fifty-plus stands in their innings. This equals the highest number of fifty-plus stands they have had in an innings in ODIs.

• Younis Khan’s 78 is his second consecutive half-century and his 43rd overall. He has scored 6361 runs at an average of 32.32.

• Misbah-ul-Haq scored his 17th half-century in ODIs. His average of 43.00 is the highest among players with over 2000 runs and no centuries in ODIs.

• Aizaz Cheema’s bowling figures of 3 for 36 is joint-fourth on the list of best bowling performances by Pakistan bowlers on ODI debut.

• Brendan Taylor’s 84 is the sixth-highest score by a Zimbabwe batsman against Pakistan. It is also his 22nd half-century in ODIs to go with four centuries.

Pakistan defended a modest total on a flat and dry pitch in Bulawayo, in a match that simmered softly for 90 overs, before bubbling into life in the last ten. Zimbabwe were kept to well below the required run-rate for a majority of their innings, but had wickets in hand for an onslaught at the end. However, Junaid Khan, Pakistan’s most-expensive bowler, produced a gem of a last over, bowling five low full tosses to win the match for his team.Despite being well set up by Vusi Sibanda’s 73 and anchored by Brendan Taylor’s 84, Zimbabwe made heavy weather of their chase. Pakistan’s spinners, Saeed Ajmal and Mohammad Hafeez, were difficult to get away, while ODI debutant Aizaz Cheema and comeback-man Sohail Tanvir also did their bit to keep the run flow in check.Younis Khan and Misbah-ul-Haq each scored a half-century to contribute the bulk of Pakistan’s below-par score and Zimbabwe’s bowlers appeared to have made their batsmen’s task easier. But, Pakistan’s experience trumped Zimbabwe’s gutsy showing as the hosts left themselves too much to do in the second half of their innings.Zimbabwe faced an interesting challenge up front as Pakistan used two left-arm seamers to open the bowling. They had to contend with the unusual action of Sohail Tanvir at one end and the more conventional Junaid Khan at the other. Chamu Chibhabha was puzzled by the angle and was bowled by Tanvir in the third over.Junaid was easier to deal with and Sibanda played two successive pull shots off him, showing off his signature stroke, but playing it with more discrimination in this innings. Saeed Ajmal was introduced in the eighth over and immediately looked dangerous when he had a confident lbw shout against Sibanda. However, it was his fellow spinner, Mohammad Hafeez, who took the second wicket when Hamilton Masakadza tried to play square of the wicket and was hit in front of middle stump.Sibanda and Taylor built a strong partnership, characterised by patience; they showed reservation when rotating the strike which may have ultimately cost Zimbabwe the game. Sibanda was set to convert his half-century into a bigger score but was out after an inside-edge popped up off his pad and Cheema caught it in his follow-through.Cheema, who made an impression with eight wickets in the Test match, bowled impressive slower balls and was rewarded when Tatenda Taibu top-edged him to mid-on. Taylor also perished to the top edge, after taking Zimbabwe to the brink and left it to big-hitting Elton Chigumbura to finish things off. Chigumbura couldn’t cap off his superb bowling performance by also hitting the winning runs.Chigumbura and Hamilton Masakadza had reined in Pakistan after 20 overs of aggressive batting, in which Chris Mpofu and Greg Lamb took a pasting. After Imran Farhat was dismissed early, Younis took control, hitting Mpofu for five boundaries in his first five overs.Mohammad Hafeez was unable to play his natural game and was tied down by a good opening spell from Ray Price, who constantly angled the ball into the pads. Prosper Utseya, who came on first change, bore the full brunt of Hafeez’s frustration, conceding a smashed six over long-off and a lofted drive for four. Utseya had the last laugh, though. Hafeez was unable to keep the sweep down and Sibanda at square leg took the catch.Misbah and Younis then threatened to take the game away from Zimbabwe but Taylor was ahead of the game and brought on Chigumbura and Masakadza, and spread the field. Younis was run out and the third comeback-man, Shoaib Malik, also failed, when he was caught by a diving Taibu down the leg side. It was an unexpected, but deserved reward for Chigumbura, who had bowled a good length throughout.Pakistan’s scoring-rate hit a plateau, dipping under five an over, and, in the 37th, Misbah attempted to accelerate with a slog-sweep for six and a cut past point for four off Masakadza. As the pressure mounted, Misbah tried something different and went for the reverse-sweep, but was trapped lbw by Price as he jumped across his crease.Lamb was more effective in his second spell and helped Utseya keep the run flow down. When Mpofu returned in the 45th over, Umar had little choice but to take him on and pulled the first ball, a short and inviting one, straight to Utseya at midwicket. Pakistan waited as long as they could to take the Powerplay, at the start of the 46th over, and were only able to get three boundaries during it.

ScorecardSussex missed the chance to qualify for the semi-finals of the Clydesdale Bank 40 at Hove when they were beaten by Kent by 14 runs.A win would have taken Sussex through to the last four but now they will have to avoid defeat to Middlesex at Lord’s on Monday to make sure. They were cruising towards their target of 217 at 76 without loss after 10 overs, before they lost four wickets for seven runs in three overs.Just before the collapse, Darren Stevens had both openers, Ed Joyce and Chris Nash, dropped by Martin van Jaarsveld off successive deliveries. Sussex failed to make the most of their reprieves Joyce, who had dominated the opening stand with a 34-ball innings of 49, was caught behind off Stevens and in the next over Van Jaarsveld, anxious to atone, ran out Lou Vincent.Stevens had Nash lbw with a delivery that nipped back, and Sussex were 83 for four when Murray Goodwin sliced Adam Ball to the finer of the two backward points. Michael Yardy and Joe Gatting again turned the game towards Sussex with a fifth-wicket stand of 50 in nine overs.But Gatting was run out by James Tredwell for 34, Ben Brown was caught behind for just one, and Yardy walked down the wicket and was stumped for 23. Against tight Kent fielding, and some clever off-spin bowling from Adam Riley, the run chase was too much for the late order, even though Wayne Parnell hit an impressive 40.Kent had won the toss and elected to bat on a pitch with some nip and bounce. Chris Liddle broke through in the second over when he pushed one across Joe Denly and had him caught behind for two. Daniel Bell-Drummond, opening in place of the injured Rob Key, produced some eye-catching cover drives in his 28-ball 30, but he was too close to the ball when he cut Liddle to Gatting in the covers.The key Kent innings came from the in-form Azhar Mahmood, whose 58 from 53 balls included eight fours and a six. He was out when he tried to hit Monty Panesar to leg and got a leading edge but Kent were reasonably satisfied at 120 for three at the halfway stage of their innings.Then their remaining key players failed to fire. Stevens was lbw to a quicker delivery from Yardy for just 10 and Van Jaarsveld was caught at long-off for 31 when he tried to push up the scoring rate.That was the first of seven wickets to fall for 65 runs, as Yardy and Parnell each finished with three wickets. Kent, all out for 216 to the last ball of the 40th over, were second favourites at that stage before fighting back with the ball.

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Brendan Taylor and Elton Chigumbura added 94 for the fifth wicket, but in vain•Zimbabwe Cricket

Brendan Taylor ended his poor run of scores in this series with a century full of conviction and responsibility, bailing Zimbabwe out of trouble only to watch his side slide back into it and collapse to a comprehensive defeat. He was deprived of his top and middle-order partners thanks to some excellent fielding and smart wicketkeeping, but overcame the declining scoring-rate wrought by the spinners with a positive approach that freed a stifled Zimbabwe innings. However, Rubel Hossain returned in the batting Powerplay to wrest control as the hosts botched up an attempt to step up the scoring rate, losing their last six wickets for 16. Tamim Iqbal then sparkled in the chase to set up his team’s first win on what had so far been a disappointing tour.The fluent approach of fellow opener Vusi Sibanda rubbed off on Taylor, enabling the pair to set up a solid partnership. Rubel Hossain doled out a couple of freebies in his first over that Sibanda duly dispatched, and Taylor joined in, driving Shafiul Islam imperiously down the ground and clearing the in-field twice off the same bowler, over square leg and point. Sibanda’s threatening innings ended when he was sucked in by a teasing outswinger from Shafiul; it marked the beginning of the Zimbabwean slide and undermined an encouraging start.The Bangladesh spinners are not known to produce vicious turn but are quite effective with their variations in length, and capitalised once the openers were separated. They gave the ball plenty of flight and were helped by a hint of turn. While Taylor handled them expertly, sweeping, cutting and working the ball around, they produced plenty of uncertainty in the others. Hamilton Masakadza played out five deliveries before chasing one down the leg side; Mushfiqur Rahim collected and appealed vociferously and the umpire bought it, though there was plenty of doubt as to whether the batsman nicked it. Tatenda Taibu was run out brilliantly, Nasir Hossain diving full length to his left at extra cover and returning an accurate throw amid a mountain of confusion in the middle of the pitch. Shakib Al Hasan then dislodged Forster Mutizwa while Taylor could only watch.Forty for no loss became 89 for 4, but Taylor and Elton Chigumbura ensured there was no stagnation. Though the spin trio of Abdur Razzak, Mahmudullah and Shakib were accurate for the most part, there were the occasional horrific long hops that the pair seized upon. They ran well between the wickets and batted with measured positivity to retain enough ammunition for an explosion at the death. There was a powerful six from Taylor off Nasir over long-on and a steady accumulation that brought up his fourth ODI century before the decision to take the batting Powerplay was made at the start of the 44th over. What transpired was decisive.Chigumbura had batted with uncharacteristic restraint because the situation demanded it, but that approach was shunned when the Powerplay was taken. Just as Rubel was brought back into the attack, he tried to take advantage of the field restrictions but holed out to deep midwicket. It should have prompted Taylor to tone down slightly but he erred by trying to chip Rubel into the leg side with a long-on in place, and was caught.Those dismissals triggered a fall that was interrupted, only briefly, by a couple of meaty shots by Malcolm Waller. In Rubel’s next over, Waller was out hit-wicket when his bat scraped the stumps as he tried to fend a short ball away and Ray Price was caught superbly by Mushfiqur, who stretched all the way to his right to take a low chance. It wasn’t long before the rest of the tail disappeared.It seemed the visitors were intent on making a statement by approaching a target of 200 with absolute aggression from the outset, following defeat in a series they would have expected to win. Imrul Kayes, dropped off his third ball, smashed a massive six over long-on in the first over. Tamim stroked two imperious fours off Kyle Jarvis, who wasn’t spared by Kayes either; he was taken for five fours and six in his first two overs that yielded 30.Junaid Siddique played a brief attacking cameo and fell, but Tamim looked good to stay for the long haul, scoring at a brisk pace with few risks. He was especially harsh on Prosper Utseya, punching him twice to the cover boundary and through midwicket and past long-on. With the enterprising Mushfiqur at the other end, the running between the wickets improved markedly and the scoring-rate was well under control. But there was a minor hiccup. Shortly after notching up his 3000th ODI-run, Tamim was trapped in front by Price while playing the sweep and Mushfiqur followed, spooning a catch off a slower ball.At 129 for 4, Zimbabwe were still in with a chance but the experienced Shakib and the novice Shuvagoto Hom batted maturely to seal the chase. Shuvagoto took the lead initially, employing the slog-sweep against Price. There was no respite for Utseya despite the dismissal of Tamim, as Shuvagoto lofted him over the in-field. Shakib took on the seamer Chris Mpofu at the other end in a well-paced, unbeaten half-century stand that won some pride back for the struggling visitors.

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Kent booked their place in the quarter-finals of the Friends Life t20 with a 15-run win over Essex in front of a packed house at Chelmsford. Allrounder Darren Stevens was Man of the Match after starring with both bat and ball, striking a brutal 41 and following that up with four cheap wickets to derail Essex’s middle order, but the night was not without controversy.Stevens entered the fray in the 13th over after the departure of Azhar Mahmood with Kent well-placed at 95 for 2, but didn’t get off the mark until the seventh ball he faced and had just 5 to his name when he uppercut Ravi Bopara to third man, where Scott Styris creaked in from the rope impressively quickly and showed he still retained the class from his international days with what appeared to be a diving catch, scooping the ball into his fingers millimetres from the turf.The umpires thought that the catch warranted a second look, however, and Styris reacted angrily when Stevens was eventually given not out. Essex have suffered disciplinary breaches more than once this season, and though captain James Foster managed to keep his cool Styris, who had claimed the catch as clean, trotted in for an extended chat with the umpires at the end of the over before being gently ushered away by team-mate Tim Southee.Kent had initially struggled to force the pace on a sluggish pitch that didn’t aid strokeplay, with Essex taking pace off the ball, but Stevens made full use of the reprieve to dominate the bowlers. He mowed Ryan ten Doeschate out of the ground and into the River Can, requiring a change of ball, but the harder, newer ball came on more easily to the bat and Stevens immediately thrashed another six, over long-off.Joe Denly, who chugged along at more or less a run a ball in the first half of the innings but accelerated as he passed fifty, departed soon after, swiping ten Doeschate to Tim Phillips, running in from deep midwicket. Essex might have had a second wicket in the same over when Stevens toe-ended a hoick at ten Doeschate, the ball looping agonisingly over the bowler, who sprinted back and got a hand to it but couldn’t complete the catch.Essex’s death bowlers did all that was asked of them but the luck was with Kent, as pinpoint yorkers were repeatedly inside-edged and squeezed down to the short boundary at fine leg. There were some good shots too, with van Jaarsveld peppering the leg side and Stevens going past 2,000 runs in domestic Twenty20s with a paddle to fine leg from the last ball of the innings as Kent reached 183 for 3 after 32 runs had come from the last 12 balls.If anyone was going to find swing in the placid conditions, it was going to be Charl Langeveldt, who opened with a slip in place and curved several deliveries past the outside edge of Mark Pettini’s bat in the first over. Mahmood also found some help with the new ball and slipped an inswinger under Pettini’s bat to rattle the stumps with the score at 9.Owais Shah repeated Stevens’ earlier feat with the shot of the match, an elegant checked-drive that sailed out of the ground and required another change of ball to kick-start Essex’s chase and by the third over of the innings, the movement through the air had vanishedEssex reached had reached 48 for 1 at the end of the field restrictions, but the introduction of Stevens in the seventh over turned the match as Adam Wheater ran past his second delivery – a slow cutter – and was easily stumped for 27. The required rate had crept above 10 an over when Shah lifted his second six over midwicket off Stevens, who barely touched 70 miles an hour all evening, in the ninth over but Stevens soon got his own back, disturbing Shah’s stumps after the batsman had stepped to leg to give himself some roomStevens struck for the third time in the 11th over as Bopara drove too early at a slow offcutter and popped back an easy return catch. Essex had slipped to 77 for 4 and the rate was fast climbing towards two runs a ball with James Tredwell also finding considerable grip and turn off the spongy surfaceStevens had made canny use of the slower ball in his first three overs, but it was a quicker one that brought him his fourth wicket as he snaked one in between ten Doeschate’s bat and pad to leave Essex tottering at 87 for 5.As had been the case at The Oval on Thursday night, Wahab Riaz was far more effective at the death than he had been at the top of the innings, whipping the ball in at a slippery pace and targeting the blockhole. He pegged back Foster’s middle stump with a dipping full toss after he had scratched around for boundary-free 12, and Essex’s hopes were rapidly fading at 120 for 6 in the 17th over.Kent, perhaps feeling a little too assured of victory, slipped dangerously in the closing overs, both Langeveldt and Riaz no-balling and repeated lapses in the field keeping Essex in the hunt as Graham Napier raced to 26 with five boundaries before he picked out Alex Blake on the midwicket boundary. Styris enlivened the Essex massive with a towering six off Mahmood in the final over, but there were simply too many needed, and the result was sealed when he lifted a slower ball to long-off.”I’ve got to be careful [what I say], with recent histories,” Foster said after the match. “But [Stevens] went on to play a crucial knock and turned out to be a match-winner. It’s frustrating, but you never know, someone else could have come in and scored runs. I don’t blame Steve-o, the umpires told him to hold fire and stay there until they’d had a look. [Umpiring] is a tricky job, I don’t know how many of us guys will go into it after our careers because it’s very difficult.””I turned for the second run, Ravi was in my line [of sight] so I asked the umpires if it carried or not, and they went to check it,” explained Stevens.Kent will now face Leicestershire at Grace Road in the quarter-finals of the competition.

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Chris Whelan returned his best competition figures to set up an unlikely 15-run victory for Worcestershire against Derbyshire in the Friends Life t20 match under the Derby floodlights. Whelan took 4 for 21 as the Falcons collapsed to 106 all out in the final over, chasing the Royals’ modest 121 for 7 .Derbyshire looked favourites after 17-year-old slow left-arm spinner Tom Knight exploited a slow turning pitch to take 3 for 4 in 10 balls. The Royals hit only eight boundaries in their 20 overs but the home side also struggled and crashed to 79 for 8 before some defiant blows from Steffan Jones at least took them to three figures.Jones had conceded five wides off successive balls in the opening over but the Falcons quickly recovered to squeeze the life out of the innings Moeen Ali fell to a desperate swing after scoring four off 17 balls and, although Alexei Kervezee began briskly, he became Knight’s first victim when he sliced to short third man Jonathan Clare on 14 and the teenager stuck another big blow when Shakib Al Hasan top-edged a sweep to Wes Durston.Knight snared his second victim in the over when he beat Vikram Solanki’s attempted cut and he departed for 28. Worcestershire’s hopes of breaking the stranglehold took another knock when Gareth Andrew drove a return catch back to Durston.When James Cameron straight drove Durston for six, it was the first boundary in 10 overs but he was run out off the next ball for 17 and only some improvised shots by Ben Scott took the total past 120. But if the home crowd thought the Falcons would coast to their modest target, they were in for a shock as Derbyshire also found it hard to get the ball away.Martin Guptill clipped Andrew to Kervezee at deep square-leg in the second over and Shakib found some sharp turn to bowl Durston for 9 in the fifth. When Wayne Madsen played back to Moeen and was trapped in front, the Falcons were 27 for 3 and Garry Park’s attempts to advance from his score of three failed when his sweep off Moeen landed in the hands of Andrew at deep square-leg.Derbyshire were sliding to defeat when Luke Sutton was run out by Daryl Mitchell’s throw and Chesney Hughesedged behind to Scott off Whelan. Jones – run out by Mitchell on 24 – went down swinging, but it was a poor night for the home side in front of decent crowd and the television cameras.

The prospect of floodlit Test cricket may come a step closer this week as the ICC Cricket Committee meets at Lord’s. One of the main items on the agenda is whether sufficient progress has been made in day/night first-class matches to warrant a trial at the top level.MCC, who are represented on the committee by chief executive Keith Bradshaw, have been leading the way in experimenting with floodlit first-class cricket by staging two matches against the Champion County in Abu Dhabi. One of the main issues has been finding a suitable ball for the conditions and this year a new version, developed by Kookaburra, was used for the MCC-Nottinghamshire match.Domestic trials were also carried out by the Pakistan Cricket Board and Cricket Australia with many boards around the world looking at ways to boost dwindling Test match attendance.The committee will also discuss whether any alterations are needed in one-day internationals. Major changes, such as split innings as used in Australian domestic cricket, now appear unlikely after 50-over cricket was shown in a good light at the recent World Cup, but the possible use of two new balls and allowing bowlers more than 10 overs in an innings will be debated.The Decision Review System (DRS) was used at the World Cup and the committee will evaluate its success and decide whether to recommend its use in all one-day internationals. However, currently it still isn’t available in all Test series due to the costs and logistics of getting the required equipment in place.Although not listed as a topic for discussion, the place of Associates at the 2015 World Cup is unlikely to be far away especially with Trent Johnston, the former Ireland captain, as the Associate representative on the committee. ICC will revisit the decision to limit the 2015 event to the ten Full Member nations during their annual conference in Hong Kong from June 26 to 30 after a fierce backlash from the likes of Ireland and Netherlands.

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Claude Henderson rescued Leicestershire for the second game in a row after Derbyshire’s seamers had taken advantage of bowler-friendly conditions at Derby. Tim Groenewald took five wickets and Greg Smith three under overcast skies to reduce the visitors to 134 for 9 before Henderson launched a defiant counter-attack.The veteran spinner followed his unbeaten 80 against Glamorgan last week with 77 off 73 balls as he dominated a last-wicket stand of 96 with skipper Matthew Hoggard. They carried Leicestershire to a respectable 230 and England Lions paceman Nathan Buck then took 3 for 42 to reduce the home side to 101 for 4, with Wayne Madsen unbeaten on 41.Derbyshire were again without injured Australian batsman Usman Khawaja but Luke Sutton won an important toss and his decision to bowl first was quickly rewarded. There was plenty of movement and lift which accounted for Will Jefferson, who could only fend Tony Palladino to first slip in the fourth over.Jacques du Toit was lbw pushing half-forward at Groenewald, who then removed James Taylor with one that cannoned into the stumps off his right glove. At 34 for 3, Leicestershire were wobbling but Greg Smith and Paul Nixon were starting to repair the damage before the opener launched a firm-footed drive at his namesake and was caught behind for 27.Smith then got one to take off at Tom New, who was snared at short midwicket, and the innings disintegrated after lunch with four wickets falling for eight runs in three overs. There were signs of uneven bounce as a lifter removed Nixon four short of a fifty and a shooter dispatched Nadeem Malik for a duck to give Groenewald three wickets in five balls.But Henderson ambushed Derbyshire with a 32-ball fifty that included two big sixes off Smith and Mark Turner and nine fours. Hoggard faced 31 balls before he scored his first run but the pair had equalled Leicestershire’s record last-wicket stand against Derbyshire of 96 whenHenderson chased a wide one from Turner.The momentum had certainly swung the visitors’ way when Buck knocked back Garry Park’s middle stump in the second over and tempted Wes Durston into a rash drive. But the Leicestershire bowlers struggled with their line until Hoggard removed Chesney Hughes’ middle stump with an inswinger and Buck returned to trap Dan Redfern lbw with the last ball of the day.

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They had a good first year, finishing second on points tally but have been on the decline since. They finished mid-level, at No. 5, in the second and slipped to bottom in the last tournament.

Trinidad and Tobago took a slim first innings lead over Leeward Islands at the Queen’s Park Oval, but the big news is that Ronarko Morton and Tonito Willet will take no further part in the game after being arrested on Friday night for drug possession and are currently in Police custody at Morvant Police Station.On the field, the game is turning out to be a surprisingly even contest. T&T lost two quick wickets in the morning to slump to 63 for 5, but Imran Khan and Denesh Ramdin set about rebuilding the innings, adding 90 together, before Ramdin was trapped in front by Anthony Martin for 46. Imran then added a further 50 with Rayad Emrit to take T&T past 200 and within touching distances of Leeward’s total. He eventually fell for 59, while Emrit made 44, but it was enough to give T&T a 19-run lead. Leewards were 30 for 2 in their second innings, having lost Sherwin Peters and Gavin Williams to Shannon Gabriel.Chris Woakes took five wickets, including a hat-trick, on a rain-shortened day as England Lions ran through Guyana for 78 at the Providence Stadium . Having lost the entire first day’s play, only 43.5 overs were possible on the second, but that was enough time for Lions to take control of the game. Guyana were already labouring at 69 for 5 when Woakes removed Vishaul Singh for 2. He followed that up by having Veerasammy Permaul and Zaheer Mohamed both caught to take in three in three. He then earned his five-for by having Brandon Bess caught behind to finish with 5 for 18 from 10 overs. Craig Kieswetter and Adam Lyth then flayed the Guyana attack for 42 runs from 6.1 overs to further stamp their authority on the gameKyle Corbin made an enterprising half-century to take Combined Campuses and Colleges to 253 for 7 against Jamaica at Chedwin Park. Corbin made 76 from 98 deliveries, smashing seven fours and three sixes in the process, and sharing an 87-run stand with Shacaya Thomas (34) for the fourth wicket. Thomas’ dismissal, lbw to Brendan Nash, set off a mini-collapse, as CC&C tumbled from 206 for 3 to 233 for 7. Kevin McClean and Nkruma Bonner survived the remaining overs in another rain-curtailed day on which only 56.2 overs were possible.Liam Sebastien took six wickets to help Winward Islands restrict Barbados to 341 at the Kensington Oval, before Andre Fletcher helped post a strong reply with an unbeaten half-century. Kevin Stoute provided the backbone for Barbados with a patient 72 made over four hours, and received good support from Shane Dowrich, who made 56 not out. Offspinner Sebastien, who had taken three wickets on day one, cleaned up the tale to finish with 6 for 97 from a mammoth 47 overs. Winward were in a little trouble at 36 for 2 but Fletcher and Keddy Lesporis put on 80 in 23.3 overs to give their team a good platform heading into day three.

Australia will tour Bangladesh for the first time since 2006 in April 2011, straight after the on-going World Cup, for a three-match bilateral one-day series. They are scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on April 4, just two days after the World Cup final, and will play ODIs on April 9, April 11 and April 13, all at the Shere Bangla Stadium in Mirpur.In accordance with the ICC Future Tours Programme, Test playing nations must tour each other at least once every six years, and Australia have toured Bangladesh just once since they attained Test status. That tour was in April 2006 and Australia won both Tests and all three one-dayers. The FTP had Australia scheduled to play two Tests this time around as well, but the Bangladesh Cricket Board have announced Australia will leave immediately after the three ODIs.One repercussion of the tour will be that the players from both teams’ squads will miss the first week of the IPL, which begins on April 8. As many as 36 current Australia players were sold to IPL franchises during January’s auction, while Shakib Al Hasan is the only Bangladesh player who is part of the Twenty20 tournament.Australia have had a busy last five months, having played series against India, Sri Lanka and England in the lead-up to the World Cup. Bangladesh have enjoyed a slightly more spread-out schedule, with a couple of one-day home series the only cricket they played in the six months before the World Cup.Bangladesh have beaten Australia just once in 16 one-dayers against them, back in 2007 in Cardiff. Since they last played Australia in September 2008, they have won 25 of their 53 one-day games, and have been on a good run at home, where they recently won series against New Zealand and Zimbabwe.