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Andrew Poynter announces retirement

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Andrew Poynter, the Ireland batsman, has announced his retirement from international and inter-provincial cricket at the age of 29

ESPNcricinfo staff03-Jun-2016Andrew Poynter, the Ireland batsman, has announced his retirement from international and inter-provincial cricket at the age of 29. He had been part of Ireland’s T20 squad at the World T20 in March, but had not played ODIs since September 2014.Poynter played 19 ODIs and 19 T20Is in an international career that began in 2008. He scored a combined 474 runs and three half-centuries, averaging 19.61 in ODIs and 19.90 in T20Is. He featured in two World T20s, with his brother Stuart, a wicketkeeper-batsman, also part of Ireland’s squad in the 2016 edition.”I have always found it tough to manage an international and inter-provincial cricket career whilst having to juggle running my own business, AP Sports,” Poynter said. “I’m head of youth coaching at Clontarf CC and have other coaching roles as well as a young family.”I feel that I can still perform at inter-provincial level and scored runs this season, but I do not want to stand in someone’s way who has a dream of playing for Leinster Lightning and Ireland.”I am looking forward to developing my coaching career – I have nearly finished my level three award and [am] keen to move to level four in the near future. But most of all spending more time with my family with a bit less stress.”I am so proud of my achievements in an Irish jersey, especially captaining my country and playing in two World Cups. I’ll miss the green jersey but this is the right decision for me. I’d like to thank all involved in giving me the opportunity to pursue my dream.”

Coles and Stevens limit Gloucestershire

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Peter Handscomb’s third half-century in his last four LV=County Championship innings for Gloucestershire failed to stop Kent taking the upper hand on the opening day at Bristol.

ECB/PA18-May-2015Gloucestershire 193 (Handscomb 69) v Kent
ScorecardDarren Stevens was again in the wickets as Kent kept Gloucestershire under 200•Getty Images

Peter Handscomb’s third half-century in his last four LV=County Championship innings for Gloucestershire failed to stop Kent taking the upper hand on the opening day at Bristol.The Australian scored 69 to provide some backbone to an otherwise flimsy batting effort after the home side had been put in on a day reduced to 67 overs by heavy rain, which wiped out the morning session.By the close Gloucestershire had been bowled out for a meagre 193. Matt Coles was the pick of the Kent bowlers with 3 for 49, while Darren Stevens collected 3 for 50.The hosts were forced to make a late team change when Will Tavare reported sick. Ian Cockbain was called back from a Second XI Trophy game against Essex at Bishop Stortford to take his place. Kent elected to leave out Mitchell Claydon. Skipper Sam Northeast won the toss and, despite clearing skies, opted to unleash his seamers.It looked a questionable decision when Gloucestershire openers Chris Dent and Gareth Roderick put on 36 by the 16th over with few alarms. But Dent was then caught at second slip for 11 by Coles off Haggett just when it seemed he had helped to see off the new ball.Still the pitch offered no great threat and Gloucestershire had progressed to 61 in the 26th over when Roderick was deceived by an outswinger from the wily Stevens, edging through to Sam Billings and departing for 28.It was 87 for 2 at tea, with both Cockbain and Handscomb unbeaten on 20. Cockbain added only four in the final session before having his off-stump clipped by a ball from Coles that appeared to nip off the seam.Hamish Marshall soon followed for a duck, popping up a caught and bowled chance to Coles, and suddenly Gloucestershire were in trouble at 93 for 4. That became 129 for 5 when Geraint Jones, on 13, was bowled through the gate by Haggett pushing forward.Handscomb reached a solid half-century off 85 balls, with 7 fours, but lost another partner with the score on 164 as Kieran Noema-Barnett fell leg before to Stevens. The following over from Coles saw Handscomb edge a catch to Billings, at which point the bowler had figures of 3 for 30, having delivered seven maidens in his 16.1 overs.The clatter of wickets continued, with Stevens sending back Craig Miles to leave Gloucestershire 176 for 8. David Payne and Liam Norwell added 17 before the latter was caught behind off Thomas, who quickly followed up by removing Matt Taylor to end the day’s play and leave the home side without a batting point.

Clarke considers all-pace attack

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Mitchell Starc and Ben Hilfenhaus may both be included in a four-man pace attack at the Gabba as the pitch maintained its green tinge on Thursday

Brydon Coverdale08-Nov-2012Mitchell Starc and Ben Hilfenhaus may both be included in a four-man pace attack at the Gabba after Australia’s captain Michael Clarke was greeted with a pitch maintaining its green tinge on Thursday. In the lead-up to the match, the Australians had indicated that the offspinner Nathan Lyon was likely to play in the first Test against South Africa, starting on Friday, but he is now no certainty.”I was expecting to have a decision for you today but the wicket has changed a little bit since yesterday,” Clarke said. “I need to wait and see if it changes any more come tomorrow morning. The weather plays a big part as well, if it’s overcast compared to sun shining.”The forecast is okay for the week but I really want to wait until tomorrow morning to give ourselves a really good look at it. At this stage we’re still deciding do we play four fast bowlers or do we play three fast bowlers and Nathan.”Peter Siddle and James Pattinson appeared to be the two certainties in Australia’s pace line-up as both men have enjoyed plenty of Sheffield Shield bowling over the past six weeks. Starc and Hilfenhaus were both at the Champions League Twenty20 in South Africa and have had limited red-ball preparation, and while Clarke said the selectors had discussed which fast man to leave out, he was not willing to reveal the decision while the possibility of including them all remained.”We’ve certainly spoken about it, that’s for sure,” Clarke said. “But until I’ve thought about what the best attack is or if we’re going to go three quicks or four quicks, I don’t think it would be fair to the players if I told you that. I think it’s important that we wait and see what conditions we’re faced with tomorrow morning, give ourselves the best chance to have a look at conditions, and then we’ll work out what the best XI is.”Hilfenhaus is Australia’s highest-ranked bowler in the ICC Test rankings at No.6 in the world and has been one of the team’s most consistent performers since returning to the side against India last summer with a reworked action. Earlier this week, he said he was not viewing Australia’s net sessions as a bowl-off with the other members of the attack, and he was simply enjoying being able to work with the red ball again after a period of short-form cricket.”I don’t see it as fighting for a place,” Hilfenhaus told ESPNcricinfo. “The conditions are what they are and the selectors have to make a decision on what they want for the conditions, what make-up they believe will win a game of cricket. You’re never comfortable being left out. All I can control is my preparation and doing all I can to make sure I’m as ready as I can be.”It’s actually nice to be able to run in and try to bowl the same ball twice, rather than worry about bowling six different deliveries. It was nice to get back in the groove [during the Sheffield Shield match] last week.”If Australia take an all-pace attack in on Friday it will be their first Gabba Test without a specialist spinner since November 2008, when they beat New Zealand with Brett Lee, Stuart Clark, Mitchell Johnson and Shane Watson sharing the workload. On that occasion, Clarke and Andrew Symonds were only required for a few overs of part-time spin.

Parnell and Theron script stunning win

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Wayne Parnell and Rusty Theron rescued South Africa from a seemingly hopeless position to snatch victory in the second Twenty20 and draw the series 1-1

The Report by Brydon Coverdale16-Oct-2011
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsLonwabo Tsotsobe bowled well for his 2 for 11•AFP

Wayne Parnell and Rusty Theron rescued South Africa from a seemingly hopeless position to snatch victory in the second Twenty20 and draw the series 1-1. Australia had the match all but won with five overs remaining, as South Africa needed 61 with three wickets in hand, an unlikely goal that Parnell and Theron reached with five balls to spare.In a breathtaking finish, the victory arrived with a slog-swept six over midwicket from the first ball of the final over, Theron’s eyes having lit up when Cameron White handed the ball to David Hussey. But White had bowled out all his frontline men in the search for those last few wickets, and his choice was down to Hussey or the medium pace of the debutant Mitchell Marsh.It hardly mattered, though, as Parnell and Theron effectively sealed the match by taking 55 from the previous four overs, including 18 off an over from Steve O’Keefe, who was deposited over the midwicket and square-leg boundaries by Parnell. Theron finished unbeaten on 30 from 16 balls, but it was Parnell’s 29 from 11 that really jolted the Australians.The pair put on 64 in 4.3 overs, having come together when Heino Kuhn sent a return catch to James Pattinson (2 for 17), and at 84 for 7, the target of 148 seemed out of reach. But Theron drove and flicked a couple of boundaries off Doug Bollinger, and the teenager Patrick Cummins betrayed a few nerves in his last over, as the equation became more encouraging for the hosts.Earlier, Cummins had delivered a double-wicket maiden that left South Africa in major trouble at 18 for 3. Colin Ingram played on when he tried to drive a wider ball from Cummis and then JP Duminy, who failed to score, edged a pearler to slip, where Hussey flew to his right to take an equally impressive catch.Bollinger had bowled Hashim Amla in the first over, and the chase was well and truly off the rails. But Graeme Smith and Johan Botha, sent in at No.5, steadied and at least gave South Africa platform. Botha’s 34 from 28 balls was important, but when he reverse-swept O’Keefe to point, the hosts looked to have missed their chance.Their brilliant recovery meant that a fine bowling effort, led by Lonwabo Tsotsobe, was not wasted. After White won the toss and chose to bat, the South Africans kept Australia in check, especially Tsotsobe, whose 2 for 11 was the most economical four-over spell ever completed by a South African in a T20 international.A late blitz from Marsh, who at 19 was playing his first game for his country, pushed the Australians to 147 for 8. Marsh took 20 off the final over from Morne Morkel, including three sixes, one a monster over midwicket, and he ended up with 36 from 21 balls.His runs were important after the loss of the White, who top scored with 39, but fell to a great piece of work from Parnell, who kicked the ball on to the stumps in his follow through to have White run out trying for a quick single. Australia were 106 for 6 at the time, having found no momentum as Tsotsobe and his colleagues built the pressure with dot balls and were rewarded with wickets.Australia had crawled to 4 for 1 after two overs as Tsotsobe gave the batsmen nothing. The early pressure ensured David Warner’s tour went from bad to worse; having been run out for a duck in the first game he again failed to score, caught at mid-off when from his ninth delivery he advanced to Morkel and tried to clear the infield.His opening partner Matthew Wade, promoted due to a minor hip injury that ruled Shane Watson out of the game, produced a sizzling cut for six off Morkel but fell for 10 when he edged behind advancing to Tsotsobe. Shaun Marsh led Austalia’s recovery and took ten from Parnell’s first two balls, including a cracking six over cover, but on 29 he top-edged off Theron and was taken by Kuhn running towards point.Theron finished with an impressive 2 for 28, while Parnell’s figures of 0 for 44 from four were unflattering. By the end of the match, South Africa were thrilled with the performances of both men.

'Storm of rumours' in cricket – Ijaz Butt

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Ijaz Butt, the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, has promised to co-operate fully with all investigations arising from the spot-fixing scandal

ESPNcricinfo staff06-Oct-2010Ijaz Butt, the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, has promised to co-operate fully with all investigations arising from the spot-fixing scandal that tainted his country’s recent tour of England, as he arrived back in Lahore on Wednesday following a bridge-building trip to London. During the visit, he apologised to the ECB chairman, Giles Clarke, for claiming that England’s cricketers had accepted a bribe to lose last month’s third ODI at The Oval.In a statement issued on his return to Pakistan, Butt said that the cricket world “is reeling from a storm of allegations and rumours”, but sought to distance himself from the allegations that he himself had perpetuated by claiming that his reference to “loud and clear talk in bookie circles” regarding England’s cricketers had merely been an attempt to point out that Pakistan is not the only country under suspicion.”Many of these recent allegations have concerned the Pakistan cricket team, and these must and will be properly investigated,” said Butt. “But, and this was my point, the problem, and the rumours, are not confined to any single country. Those of us who care about the state of cricket in the world today will not flinch from a thorough, uncompromising investigation of any such allegations and rumours, whether they concern Pakistan or any other cricketing nation, and we at the PCB will give any such investigation our fullest cooperation and support.Butt’s future as PCB chairman is under intense scrutiny as he approaches the second anniversary of his appointment, with several influential figures, including Wajid Shamsul Hasan, Pakistan’s high commissioner to the UK and a vocal presence when the spot-fixing crisis first broke, calling for a shake-up of the PCB hierarchy. In a letter to the Pakistan president, Asif Ali Zardari – dated September 17 and seen by ESPNcricinfo – Wajid stated: “It seems everything was happening under the nose of PCB officials and they did not bother to take note of it… It will have to be investigated since their critics claim they looked the other way.”Furthermore, in casting aspersions on the integrity of England’s cricketers, Butt succeeded in alienating Pakistan’s most significant allies in the world game, given that Clarke is also the head of an ICC task force investigating the feasibility of the return of international cricket to the country. Butt, however, reiterated that he had corrected the “misunderstanding” during his meetings with the ECB, and felt confident that his personal relationship with the chairman had been restored.”We are very pleased with the outcome of this recent visit to London,” said Butt. “While I was there I had a positive and productive meeting with Mr. Giles Clarke, Chairman of the ECB, who has consistently shown himself to be a good friend to Pakistan cricket. This allowed us to address a variety of concerns, and to correct any misunderstandings which may have arisen.”In particular, I was happy to correct the misunderstanding that I, or anyone at the PCB had made any allegations about members of the England cricket team. The point which I have sought to make from the beginning was that the world of cricket is reeling from a storm of allegations and rumors, and these must be addressed.”I say again, we at the PCB have no specific evidence of any wrong doing by cricketers from England. Our priority and our responsibility must be the actions of the Pakistan Team. These are quite properly subject now to an investigation by both Scotland Yard and the ICC. But we will work with our colleagues at the ICC, and with all those involved with cricket administration around the world, to ensure that this game which we all love continues to be played in a spirit of honesty, fairness and sportsmanship.”I am very glad that we have been able to resolve this misunderstanding with our friends in English cricket. We have all agreed to put this behind us now, and to concentrate on working together for the good of the game.”

Brilliant Finch guides Victoria home

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Aaron Finch delivered a remarkable last-over win for Victoria, who made the third-highest successful chase in Australian domestic one-day history

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Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsAaron Finch (right) scored a run-a-ball 87•Getty Images

Aaron Finch delivered a remarkable last-over win for Victoria, who made the third-highest successful chase in Australian domestic one-day history to deny Tasmania at the MCG. The Bushrangers needed 301 to overhaul the Tasmanian total set up by Rhett Lockyear’s maiden century, and the chase was brilliantly put back on track by Finch after the loss of key wickets.Victoria lost the usual suspects – Brad Hodge for 42, David Hussey (8) and Chris Rogers (19) – before the halfway mark and Tasmania appeared set for a healthy victory. But Finch combined with Matthew Wade, who made 30, and John Hastings for two critical partnerships that guided the home side to the point where they needed six from the final over.Finch confirmed the result with four balls to spare with a six over long-on from Brett Geeves to finish unbeaten on 87 from 87 deliveries. In his seven previous one-day matches, Finch’s top score was 33, but on this occasion he showed his power and poise to reinvigorate Victoria when their required run-rate blew out to more than ten an over.The Finch-Hastings partnership was the last chance for Victoria before the tailenders and they combined for an unbeaten 75. Hastings finished with 41 from 28 deliveries and provided a couple of key moments when he launched Jason Krejza for six and then struck consecutive fours off Geeves in the 48th over.It gave Victoria their highest successful chase in domestic 50-over cricket and behind only two South Australian efforts over the past two summers. The result took some of the gloss of what had been a remarkable match for Tasmania’s Lockyear, who, like Finch, came of age in this game.Lockyear was only playing because the allrounder Luke Butterworth strained a glute muscle during the week. He made the most of his opportunity opening the batting, striking 111 from 98 deliveries before he became tired and skied a catch off Bryce McGain.George Bailey (63) and Travis Birt (66) kept Tasmania on track for a huge total, which frustrated Victoria’s captain David Hussey after he put down one of the simplest return catches imaginable when Bailey had 30. It didn’t matter in the end as Victoria proved they can win without big contributions from Hodge and Hussey, and they now sit second on the table.

Mentor Watson on 'showman' Konstas: 'He's built for this stage'

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Watson says the 19-year old’s adaptability to different conditions and India’s plans would be a “good test of his evolution”

Andrew McGlashan02-Jan-20252:11

Clarke: ‘Freakish’ debut for Konstas

Sam Konstas’ mentor Shane Watson has admitted the 19-year-old’s audacious start to Test cricket took even him by surprise, both in terms of the strokeplay and the way he carried himself in the field and with the crowd.Konstas scored 60 off 65 balls on the opening morning at the MCG, regularly scooping Jasprit Bumrah, and had a run-in with Virat Kohli who was fined for a shoulder barge. Later in the game he embraced the crowd when fielding on the boundary and was a vocal presence under the helmet, clearly getting under the skin of Yashasvi Jaiswal during the second innings.”I understood what his game plan was, what plan A was anyway,” Watson said as part of the ICC Champions Trophy tour at the SCG. “So when plan B sort of kicked in quite quickly, within a couple of overs, that was a little surprising. But the one thing that we’ve always talked about is trusting his gut.”Related

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While Watson was aware of the range of strokes Konstas had in his locker, even if showing them so early in Test was unexpected, he admitted the character shown in the field was not something he had seen before.”My experience of dealing and working with Sam has been a very quiet, reserved personality,” he said. “[He’s] a very deep thinker and certainly not an extrovert. But obviously what we saw in the Test match is that he absolutely is a showman. And he certainly rose to the occasion, as in he wasn’t overawed.”I know through my experience of debuting…you just put a lot of pressure on yourself because it’s your dream to be able to represent your country, wear the baggy green. But for Sam, it’s superhuman in a way that he sort of just didn’t have any of that at all. You can see it wasn’t put on. That’s just obviously who he is. And again, I hadn’t seen that side of him. It just shows that he’s built for this stage where most people it takes a bit of time to warm up to sort of get into that. Whereas Sam, he obviously just thrives on that.”Konstas has continued to enjoy the trappings of being a Test cricketer since arriving with the squad in Sydney, having photographs with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his fiancée Jodie Haydon during the annual New Year’s Day gathering at Kirribilli House. He also spent time chatting with Kohli, who his brothers took the opportunity to get a photograph with.Albanese joked about his role in Konstas’ rapid rise to the Test side after the century he scored against the Indians in Canberra. “Of course, he got his break in the Prime Minister’s XI [game],” Albanese said. “I’m claiming some of the credit, which is about my only contribution to national cricket.”Shane Watson on Konstas: ‘He’s certainly got all the gears and all the skills to be able to make adjustments’•Getty Images

On Friday, Konstas will become the youngest Australia men’s player to feature in a Test at his home ground of the SCG followed by the prospect of two Tests in vastly different conditions in Sri Lanka. India had already adjusted their tactics by the second innings in Melbourne where Konstas was kept quiet before being bowled by an inducker from Bumrah.”Look it’s going to be a different challenge for him now,” Watson said. “Because he’s shown what his plan B is. And we already saw in that second innings the field positions certainly changed. It’s going to be a good test of his evolution. To be able to continue to work through how he can take the game on against the best bowlers in the world. But he’s certainly got all the gears and all the skills to be able to make those adjustments quickly.”He is technically very correct and waits for loose balls. But he’s also got the other gears to be able to hit the ball down the ground. But when they do have third man fine and fine leg fine, the ramp shot is probably out. But you know what? I thought the ramp shot wasn’t going to come out in the first couple of overs, and it did. Sam will just trust what he feels and go with it. And that’s something very special that he taps into.”Australia captain Pat Cummins said there had been no instructions given to Konstas about how to go about his innings and believed he would be able to adjust to different scenarios.”Think he showed how adaptable he can be,” Cummins said. “That takes a lot of skill first of all, but we always encourage our players just to read the moment, play it how they see fit. For Sam he sensed the moment was to attack and put pressure back on the bowlers and he did that, it might be different this week; it might be ‘I’m going to play a slow game and kind of score runs that way’. Our message is always just to back yourself, have really clear plans and back your decision making.”

IPL 2024 auction scheduled for December 19 in Dubai

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Teams likely to have a purse of INR 100 crore to build their squads for next season

Nagraj Gollapudi26-Oct-2023The IPL player auction ahead of the 2024 season will be held on December 19 in Dubai; it is the first time the auction will be held overseas.The event will coincide with the second ODI of India’s tour of South Africa, which is scheduled for December 19 in Gqeberha.The ten IPL teams have until November 15 to submit the lists of players they are retaining and releasing, after which the auction pool will be finalised by early December.Each team will have a purse of INR 100 crore (USD 12.02 million approximately) to build their squad for the 2024 season, a INR 5 crore increase from last season’s purse of INR 95 crore. How much each team has to spend on auction day depends on the value of players they release, in addition to their unspent purse from the 2023 auction.Punjab Kings have the largest purse at present – INR 12.20 crore (USD 1.47million) – while Mumbai Indians have the smallest at INR 0.05 crore (USD 0.006 million). Of the remaining teams Sunrisers Hyderabad have INR 6.55 crore (USD 0.79 million); Gujarat Titans and Delhi Capitals both have INR 4.45 crore (USD 0.54 million); Lucknow Super Giants have INR 3.55 crore (USD 0.43 million); Rajasthan Royals have USD 3.35 crore (USD 0.40 million); Royal Challengers Bangalore have INR 1.75 crore (USD 0.21 million); Kolkata Knight Riders have INR 1.65 crore (USD 0.2 million); and defending champions Chennai Super Kings have INR 1.5 crore (USD 0.18 million).Despite being only a day-long event – compared to the two-day mega auction once every four years – mini auctions have produced some of the most expensive buys, especially in the overseas players category. Ahead of the 2023 season, Sam Curran became the most expensive player in IPL history when he was bought by Punjab for INR 18.5 crore in December last year.Several prominent overseas players are likely to enter the upcoming auction, including Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc who recently said he was “definitely” heading back to the IPL after an eight-year hiatus. Pat Cummins is also likely to put his name up for bidding, having skipped the IPL last year. Some of the other key players franchises expect to see at the auction are Travis Head, Chris Woakes, Alex Hales, Sam Billings, and Gerald Coetzee.

Axar, Bishnoi and Kuldeep share all ten wickets as India go 4-1 with commanding win

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Chasing 189, West Indies slumped to 100 all out with Shimron Hetmyer playing a lone hand of 56

Sidharth Monga07-Aug-2022India thrashed a seemingly directionless West Indies by 88 runs in the fifth T20I to end the series with a 4-1 scoreline. Both sides made four changes each for the dead rubber but West Indies looked like just going through the motions. Their bowlers bowled three no balls, and on more than one occasion didn’t seem interested in fielding the ball in their follow-through, and most tellingly their attack lacked quality: there was no express pace, no point of difference, no accuracy.With their regular openers Kyle Mayers and Brandon King rested, West Indies’ batting order was bizarre. Jason Holder opened, the right-hand batters were bunched together, and Axar Patel feasted on them in the powerplay. A forgettable series for captain Nicholas Pooran ended with a 6-ball 3. Playing their first matches of the series, wristspinners Kuldeep Yadav and Ravi Bishnoi had some fun against the hapless middle and lower order as West Indies slumped to 100 all out. This was the first time spinners had taken all 10 wickets in a men’s T20 international.Iyer, Hooda set India up
Having rested both Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav, India opened with Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer. On a pitch that was in use for a second day running, shot-making wasn’t as straightforward as Kishan discovered when he went to pull Dominic Drakes in the fifth over but managed only a top edge to mid-on.Iyer and Deepak Hooda, though, made batting look easy during the course of a 76-run stand in 7.2 overs. It helped that West Indies often failed to bowl to their fields. Iyer often got width with the field up on the off side, and gleefully kept hitting over the 30-yard circle. He also played a gorgeous aerial off-drive off Odean Smith for his second consecutive six in the eighth over.He was only to be outdone by Hooda who drove legspinner Hayden Walsh inside-out, into the wind and over extra-cover for India’s third straight six. From 95 for 1 in 10 overs, the two batters showed even higher intent, taking 17 off the 11th over, bowled by Obed McCoy for whom the series has gone south after his six-for in the second match. India were looking for a massive total here.Shreyas Iyer top-scored for India with 64 off 40 balls•AFP/Getty Images

The pullback
Walsh and Smith made a good comeback in the second half of the innings, which was interrupted for a while with the lightning-threat alarm going off. Under the Florida state laws, no sporting activity can go ahead if there is a threat of lightning in a seven-mile radius of the venue. Even the spectators had to find shelter.On the field, West Indies found some respite with the ball sticking into the surface. Before the break, Walsh went round the wicket with a change of ends, made Hooda hit into the wind on the leg side, and had him caught in the deep. Holder had Iyer caught and bowled for 64 off 40.Smith conceded just 18 off his last three overs – the 16th, 18th and 20th – by bowling into the pitch and varying his pace. He was rewarded with three wickets as India looked for quick runs. Except for the 19th over, in which stand-in captain Hardik Pandya hit Holder for two sixes and four, India struggled to score briskly. The last nine overs produced just 76 runs, but India had an imposing total on the board.Axar owns the powerplay
Possibly because India saw two right-hand batters walk in to open, they threw the new ball to Axar, who consistently troubled the right-hand batters with lack of turn. After being hit on the inside half of the bat twice, Holder looked to paddle Axar only to be beaten on the inside edge and have his leg stump knocked back. After a wicket-maiden at the start, Axar took out Devon Thomas and Shamarh Brroks in the fifth over. Thomas looked to cut but the ball skidded on to beat the inside edge. Brooks was stumped, also beaten on the inside edge.Wristspinners take over
Hetmyer played a lone hand of 56 off 35 at one end, but at the other, Kuldeep and Bishnoi wreaked havoc. Pooran was done in by a Kuldeep flipper, playing back to a full ball. Rovman Powell and Keemo Paul had no clue about the Bishnoi wrong’un. Drakes and Smith failed to respond to Kuldeep wrong’uns. Only Hetmyer stretched the innings before holing out to long-off off Bishnoi.

Western Australia include D'Arcy Short, Ashton Turner and Jason Behrendorff for Marsh Cup showdown

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Both sides will likely need a bonus point victory to qualify for the final against New South Wales

ESPNcricinfo staff07-Apr-2021Western Australia have been able to stack their one-day side with Australia players for their final Marsh Cup group match against Tasmania at the WACA with both sides chasing a bonus-point victory to qualify for the final against New South Wales.D’Arcy Short, Ashton Turner and Jason Behrendorff have been included along with Josh Philippe, Mitchell Marsh and Ashton Agar who were part of the recent Sheffield Shield squad. All six were in the Australia squad that toured New Zealand and had to undergo two weeks quarantine when they returned.If Behrendorff, the left-arm quick, makes the starting XI it will be his first appearance for Western Australia since October 2018.However, the home side will be without Shaun Marsh who is unavailable for personal reasons. Fast bowlers Matt Kelly and Joel Paris both picked up injuries in the Shield match against Tasmania.Tasmania have also been boosted by the availability of Ben McDermott who has recovered from a hamstring injury but are without three first-choice quicks: Riley Meredith (IPL), Nathan Ellis (injury) and Peter Siddle (border restrictions).A bonus-point victory for either side would see them leapfrog Queensland into second place and leave them ruing the fact they missed a double bonus point by one run against South Australia late last month which was followed by a heavy defeat against New South Wales.The final will take place at Bankstown Oval in Sydney on April 11.Western Australia squad Mitch Marsh (capt), Ashton Agar, Jason Behrendorff, Hilton Cartwright, Cameron Green, Liam Guthrie, Josh Inglis, David Moody, Lance Morris, Josh Philippe, D’Arcy Short, Ashton Turner, Sam WhitemanTasmania squad Matthew Wade (capt), Tom Andrews, Jackson Bird, Jake Doran, Jarrod Freeman, Caleb Jewell, Ben McDermott, Mitch Owen, Tim Paine, Alex Pyecroft, Sam Rainbird, Tom Rogers, Jordan Silk, Beau Webster