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Roshan Mahanama, Brendon Kuruppu and Graeme Labrooy are among the other former players the board is attempting to align with in its efforts to arrest the decline of the national team

Andrew Fidel Fernando11-Sep-2017Aravinda de Silva, Roshan Mahanama, Brendon Kuruppu, Graeme Labrooy, perhaps even Mahela Jayawardene – these are the names Sri Lanka Cricket is attempting to align itself with as the board looks to arrest the decline of the national team.Even more crucially for SLC, getting former players with good reputations on board may also help turn around its ailing public reputation. The board is now not only widely believed to be detrimental to the development of cricket, it is also seen as one of the most toxic governing bodies in the country.Whether these former players are willing to become associated with SLC given its present state remains to be seen. But as far as some board officials are concerned, they have several vacancies to fill, and would like for these men to be installed in those positions. De Silva, for example, would return to his role as cricket advisor, some board officials hope. They would also like Mahanama, Kuruppu and Labrooy to become selectors, to replace the Sanath Jayasuriya-led committee that resigned earlier in the month. Ideally Jayawardene might also come in as a consultant. And the only reason officials have not set their sights on Kumar Sangakkara is because he is still playing cricket overseas.Of these ex-players, Labrooy and Kuruppu have confirmed that SLC has approached them, while Mahanama has said he has not been approached so far. Labrooy is currently an ICC match referee.There is some irony in the board gunning for the aid of these former players at this juncture, because some of them are the same men it has spent the last 18 months alienating. Kuruppu was part of the selection committee that was sacked by Thilanga Sumathipala and the board just 48 hours from the team’s scheduled departure from the 2016 World T20, for example. Jayawardene’s plan to take cricket into the provinces was scrapped and criticised, and he was ousted from his position in the SLC cricket committee. De Silva had held the cricket advisor post for about 12 months, but then quit earlier this year, due to strong differences with SLC.Two developments have precipitated this drastic change of approach. In the wake of the 0-9 drubbing by India, and indeed the unprecedented losses to Bangladesh and Zimbabwe earlier this year, members of SLC’s executive committee have become convinced that the board’s existing trajectory was untenable. Those defeats have also substantially weakened Thilanga Sumathipala’s political grip within the organisation, with pressure now having been placed on him from higher political offices in the country.Sports minister Dayasiri Jayasekara has repeatedly said that he would not dissolve an elected board to appoint an interim committee, so the Sumathipala presidency is safe for now – at least until the board elections early next year (they could be brought forward to December).However, other board officials have now taken strong issue with the manner in which Sumathipala has conducted business at SLC, particularly his alleged meddling with team selection and direct influence over cricket matters. These agitating officials claim that should any of the former players they are trying to woo take up positions at the board, those new appointments should “have a free hand”, in contrast to what had previously been the case. It is perhaps relevant that Graham Ford resigned in June exactly because he felt his role was repeatedly encroached upon.The sports minister is also hoping to get many of these former players together for a brainstorming session on how SLC might turn cricket around, over the next week or so.Essentially, amid a significant decline in influence for Sumathipala, there is now substantial will within SLC to change tack. Early indications from the former players they are chasing, however, is that they would rather await fundamental change in SLC – either the election or the appointment of a fresh board – before they become involved.

Kuldeep Yadav’s 5 for 55, the bowler’s maiden first-class five-for, spliced through the heart of India Green’s line-up on the third day of the Duleep Trophy match to render an already tough chase of 497 all but impossible

Arun Venugopal25-Aug-2016
ScorecardFile photo – Kuldeep Yadav combated dew to claim his maiden first-class five-for against India Green on Thursday•ICC

After seam bowlers and batsmen aced the pink-ball test on the first two days, it was the spinners’ turn to join the party. Kuldeep Yadav not only turned up, but did a merry jig too, as he spliced through the heart of India Green’s line-up to render an already tough chase of 497 all but impossible. His maiden first-class five-for reduced India Green to 217 for 7, still 280 runs adrift of the target, after India Red had galloped to 486 in the afternoon.India Green were in a reasonable position at 184 for 4 before Kuldeep struck twice in the space of five overs to dismiss Saurabh Tiwary and Sandeep Sharma, leaving captain Suresh Raina as the sole recognised batsman going into day four. Kuldeep did not have everything going his way as he had to combat the dew – he admitted to finding it “very difficult” to grip the wet ball – and two ball changes which, according to Robin Uthappa, helped the batsmen as the ball came on to the bat quicker.Kuldeep also played a useful hand with the bat, as his 49-run partnership for the eighth wicket with Anureet Singh supplemented Gurkeerat Singh’s robust 82 off 96 balls. His performance also overshadowed fellow wristspinner Shreyas Gopal’s skillful show, which had earned the latter five wickets.While the eventual score might bear little trace of it, India Green’s pursuit initially acquired a sturdy set of wheels as they soared to 52 for 0 in six overs. With Nathu Singh and Anureet unable to find swing or lateral movement, Uthappa and Jalaj Saxena made the right noises. While Uthappa scorched drives down the ground, Saxena got away with whips that saw his bat descending in a risky, angular arc.India Red wrested some control through Ishwar Pandey, who operated on a run-drying line, and bowled Saxena as he attempted to guide a straight ball. It wasn’t until the 15th over that Kuldeep was introduced, but all seemed well at that stage for India Green with Uthappa sustaining the initiative. Kuldeep, however, deceived Uthappa with a ball that went with the angle and the batsman edged it to first slip. Two balls later, Rajat Paliwal was lbw after he pre-empted a googly only to get a chinaman.While Uthappa handled Kuldeep relatively easily, what was less noticeable was Parthiv Patel’s struggles against the chinaman bowler – he managed only two runs off the 47 balls he faced from Kuldeep in both innings, and fell to the bowler on both occasions. In the 27th over, Parthiv hung back to a fast-ish googly that skidded on to catch him in front of the stumps; the previous ball, he had thrust out a diffident prod to another googly.Suresh Raina also started off nervously against Kuldeep. At one point he was harried into swishing across the line with no foot movement. But, along with Tiwary, who had scored a fifty on the second day, Raina cobbled up a 54-run stand for the fifth wicket, only for Kuldeep to wreck the innings with his late blows.That the pink ball retained its shine helped Kuldeep get the ball to skid on, although the fact that there were two instances of the ball losing shape – in the 19th and 32nd overs – might be a worrisome aspect.In the afternoon, India Green might have reconciled to copping another round of brisk pummelling had rain not made its now-customary appearance. In a little over an hour, India Red had jogged along to 67 runs in 14.4 overs, although India Green had mitigated things somewhat by removing Abhinav Mukund and KB Arun Karthik.It was after the early, rain-enforced tea break, however, that India Green, aided by Shreyas, looked like they were in control for the first time in the innings. With Sandeep Sharma and Ashok Dinda doing little to curb Gurkeerat’s scoring-rate, Raina turned to Shreyas, who showed his variations while cutting through the India Red middle order.Gurkeerat had a jolly good run up to that point, camping in his crease, and either guiding or slashing the seamers behind square. Four overs into the second session, Shreyas sent down a delivery that would also define Kuldeep’s performance later in the night: the ball veered in, dipped and turned away from Gurkeerat, who had lumbered forward and lost his balance as Parthiv quickly swiped the bails off. Not long after, Shreyas had Akshay Wakhare lbw, but Anureet and Kuldeep frustrated India Green before the side was bowled for 486.

Mumbai Indians completed one of the most remarkable turnarounds in the eight-year history of the Indian Premier league by transforming a terrible start to the tournament – they were at the bottom of the table for the first two weeks – into a title win

The Report by Devashish Fuloria24-May-2015
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Kalra: Crowd short-changed with lack of contest

Mumbai Indians completed one of the most remarkable turnarounds in the eight-year history of the Indian Premier League by transforming a terrible start to the tournament – they were at the bottom of the table for the first two weeks – into a title win.The final, a repeat of their 2013 success at the same ground against the same opposition, turned out to be one of the easier outings after an unbridled early onslaught by Rohit Sharma and Lendl Simmons, both of whom hit half-centuries, stunned Chennai Super Kings – veterans of IPL finals – into submission. Super Kings were not even given a sniff.MS Dhoni’s choice of bowling first on a patchy Eden Gardens pitch was interesting, not because he might have over-compensated for the presence of dew later on but because it was a departure from a strategy that had worked for Super Kings during in their two previous title wins – bat first, score big, then apply the squeeze.The start was perfect; Faf du Plessis ran out Parthiv Patel brilliantly and Ashish Nehra ensured only one came off the first over. But that was it, because once Rohit tore into the second over, picking 16 off Mohit Sharma, Super Kings were always chasing the ball.R Ashwin was introduced in the fourth over, overstepped once and paid the price with a 12-run over. Jadeja was also bowled inside the Powerplay but Simmons smashed him for 14 runs to make it 61 runs off the first six. After seeing Rohit kick-start the innings with a flurry of boundaries in the first three overs, Simmons had played all but one ball in the next three and had overtaken Rohit.The spreading of field was not going to have an effect on the tiny outfield. Simmons continued hogging majority of strike and continued finding boundaries to reach his sixth half-century of the season in the 10th over.The run-rate showed no signs of stemming but Dhoni continued to hold back Dwayne Bravo, the leading wicket-taker of the tournament. As fate had it, it was Bravo who broke the dangerous stand in his first over – the 12th of the innings – by which time Rohit, too, had reached his half-century, of just 24 balls, and the run-rate was hovering around 10.An animated speech by Dhoni in the team huddle at Rohit’s dismissal had a brief effect: Dwayne Smith sent Simmons back with his first ball of the tournament and 30 runs came off four overs. But on 150 after 16 overs with Kieron Pollard and Ambati Rayudu warmed up, Mumbai Indians were waiting to explode.Nehra bore the brunt – he was hit for three sixes and a four in the 17th by Pollard – and Mumbai Indians finished for only the second ever 200-plus total in an IPL final.Super Kings’ chase needed early thrust but it never came. Smith, as had happened throughout the season, struggled to time the ball. He did reach a half-century – his second this season – but Super Kings needed more from him than a strike rate of 118. Harbhajan Singh dismissed Smith an over after he had removed Raina, Malinga struck too and Mitchell McClenaghan collected three. Super Kings’ wait for their third title entered its fifth year.

Usman Khawaja and Nathan Reardon provided the bookends to a successful chase as Queensland prevailed over Tasmania with one ball to spare

ESPNcricinfo staff14-Nov-2012Queensland 5 for 278 (Khawaja 78, Reardon 71*) defeated Tasmania 275 (Bailey 102, Hauritz 3-53, McDermott 3-65) by 5 wickets
ScorecardUsman Khawaja and Nathan Reardon provided the bookends to a successful chase as Queensland prevailed over Tasmania with one ball to spare in the domestic limited overs match in Hobart.Sent in to bat by the Bulls’ acting captain Chris Hartley, the Tigers were sustained by a century from their captain George Bailey, who was supported by Alex Doolan, Jon Wells and some late hitting by James Faulkner to reach a total that had seemed unlikely at 2 for 8.The visitors’ pursuit was given a sprightly start by Khawaja and Hartley, who raised a century stand before Jason Krejza claimed the first wicket.When Khawaja departed Tasmania had a chance, and their hopes were raised further when Peter Forrest was controversially given LBW by the third umpire Paul Wilson after the on-field umpire Geoff Joshua had declined Faulkner’s appeal.Television umpires are permitted to intervene and change the on-field decision under Cricket Australia playing conditions in both televised domestic limited overs games and Big Bash League Twenty20 matches. The Bulls coach Darren Lehmann was notably unhappy with the call by his former South Australia team-mate, and was seen venturing to the umpires’ room.Nonetheless, Queensland kept up with the rate, in no small part due to Reardon’s clean striking, and inched their way home in the final over.

Cricket Australia will not rush in to naming Tim Nielsen’s replacement as head coach, even if it means starting the home summer with the stand-in Troy Cooley still in charge

Brydon Coverdale13-Oct-2011Cricket Australia will not rush in to naming Tim Nielsen’s replacement as head coach, even if it means starting the home summer with the stand-in Troy Cooley still in charge. The appointment of Pat Howard as general manager of team performance means that in theory the search for a new mentor can move forward, but it will be slowed by the fact Howard does not start his new job until mid-November.That leaves only a fortnight before the first Test of the summer, against New Zealand at the Gabba starting on December 1. Cooley, the head coach at the Centre of Excellence in Brisbane, is with Australia’s squad in South Africa as acting coach, and he could find himself filling the position a little longer, after Cricket Australia’s chief executive James Sutherland said the process would roll out over “the next couple of months”.”We know and understand that we don’t have a coach, we’ve got Troy Cooley, who is acting in the role at the moment,” Sutherland said. “We’re very aware of that. What I’ve always said is we will step up this process but we’re not going to get ahead of ourselves. We understand the urgency but we’re not going to compromise the process, because we have to make sure that we go through a rigorous process to identify the best person for the job.”It’s clearly a key focus and virtually the first thing that will come on to Pat’s radar. We’re in a position from today to go forward very quickly with that and roll that out over the next month or so, or whatever it takes – probably over the next couple of months.”Howard will be a key man in finding the new head coach, an expanded position that also involves directing the coaching strategy for elite cricket throughout Australia. He said the captain Michael Clarke would play an important role in determining the new mentor, as the pair would need to work closely together to push Australia back up the Test rankings.”He’s got to be complementary and work with the captain,” Howard said. “You can’t have antagonism working from day one – that’s never going to work. So the ability to have effectively what is the spine of cricket, the coach and captain, has got to work really well together. Those considerations have absolutely got to be part of how you fit that jigsaw puzzle together. Michael’s skills and strengths have got to be utilised and complemented.”Appointing coaches is nothing new for Howard. During his time as high-performance chief with the Australian Rugby Union he signed the New Zealander Robbie Deans as coach of Australia’s national side, a move that has resulted in the Wallabies reaching this Sunday’s World Cup semi-final against the All Blacks. Australia’s cricket team has never had a foreign head coach, and while that tradition is likely to continue, Howard will at least bring a fresh perspective to the search.”I see myself having a very strong role in that,” he said. “I have done a lot of coach recruitment – ACT Brumbies, the Reds in Queensland, who won the Super-15 this year, and Australia. I have a fairly strong history, albeit in another sport, in this.”I recruited Robbie Deans. That was a fairly unique time. It was what was required in the game at the time and we went through a fairly rigorous process in being able to deal with that. You’ve got to recruit the best person for the job. That factors in things like culture, it factors in where the team is at, and you don’t take in an pre-conceived ideas. A big thing for me is that it’s not about the names, it’s about getting the capabilities that the game needs right now to complement the other people who are there.”The other major appointment on the horizon is the national selector, a full-time role that will include heading a five-man selection panel. For the time being, the incumbent chairman of selectors, Andrew Hilditch, remains in position along with the part-time selector Jamie Cox, while Greg Chappell, who will be cut when a new panel is appointed, is in South Africa as the selector on duty.”We’re probably more advanced in the national selector role,” Sutherland said. “We advertised a few weeks ago, so the search consultant recruiter that we’ve been working with has been meeting with various people and has gathered a list of names that has been waiting in abeyance for the general manager to be appointed. Now we’re at a stage where we can start talking about that a bit more freely and start getting down to a shortlist to identify that. It’s going to be a similar sort of time frame but we’re certainly very aware that the summer is approaching and we want to have someone on board as quickly as possible.”

Shahid Afridi has been cautioned by the PCB after expressing his unhappiness with the selection of the squad he will lead against South Africa in Abu Dhabi and Dubai later this month

Osman Samiuddin12-Oct-2010Shahid Afridi has been cautioned by the PCB after expressing his unhappiness with the selection of the squad he will lead against South Africa in Abu Dhabi and Dubai later this month. The board announced a 15-man squad to play two Twenty20s and five ODIs last week, but didn’t initially name a captain. Afridi was named captain a day later, but not before fuelling speculation that he and the board were unhappy with each other.”The team was announced without my input and advice,” Afridi told . “I wanted 2-3 players other than Sohail Tanvir in the side.” Afridi, currently in Lahore leading the Karachi Dolphins in the domestic Twenty20 Cup, said he would speak to the chairman Ijaz Butt about the squad. Butt is, however, currently in Dubai for an ICC meeting.But the statements have earned him an official rebuke from the board. “He has been sent a letter today [Tuesday] telling him to avoid giving such interviews,” a board official told ESPNcricinfo. The official clarified, however, that the communication was not a show-cause notice.Afridi’s comments strengthen suspicions of Butt’s growing influence in selection matters and the shaping of squads. ESPNcricinfo has been told, by reliable sources, that coach Waqar Younis was also not consulted over the selection. Waqar arrived in Lahore early Monday from Sydney and the source said he was “quite upset” about it. Last Friday, when Misbah-ul-Haq was appointed Test captain, chief selector Mohsin Khan had distanced himself from the decision and said that Younis Khan was the preferred choice of his committee.Traditionally, the PCB chief has only signed off on final squads and appointed a captain, not involving himself to any extent in the composition of the squad itself. That has been left to the chief selector, captain and coach. Butt’s two years as chairman, however, have seen six different captains, five chief selectors and three coaches; the constant state of flux, according to one ex-selector, has concentrated power in the chairman’s hands.”This has gotten particularly worse since Mohsin Khan became chief selector,” he told ESPNcricinfo. “Until Iqbal Qasim [predecessor to Mohsin] was there the chairman would never attend selection meetings. Now Mohsin doesn’t consult with his own committee and only gets instructions from the chairman and essentially says yes to whatever the chairman has said.” Earlier this year, in June, the same criticism was levelled at Mohsin and Butt during the announcement of the squad for the series against Australia in England.

The Sri Lankan captain is unfazed by the fact that his seam attack is inexperienced and expects them to make a mark

Nagraj Gollapudi in Ahmedabad15-Nov-2009Sri Lanka are the world’s second-best Test side yet their fast-bowling line-up is unlikely to send shivers down a batsman’s spine. Their five-member pace contingent for the India tour, comprising Nuwan Kulasekara, Thilan Thushara, Dammika Prasad, Angelo Mathews and Chanaka Welegedara, have played 27 Tests among them, sharing 68 wickets with only one five-for (Thushara). Yet, Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lanka’s captain, is not edgy about his inexperienced pace attack.Smart, ambitious and spirited leader that he is, Sangakkara knows the only way he can get the best out of his young bowlers is to encourage and challenge them. Sangakkara is well aware that the young blood understands no defeat. “Reputations are there to be made (on the Indian tour),” Sangakkara said after a long practice session at Motera on a hot Sunday afternoon.”When you bring in a lot of fresh guys who have perspective and fire in them, they have the great opportunity to pick up wickets of big names in Test cricket. And if they do that, they’ll have a reputation going into another series.”The Sri Lankans landed in India exactly a week ago and their stay so far has been a mixed experience. Cyclone Phyan skipped Mumbai but washed out the visitors’ only warm-up game ahead of the series, the three-day affair against Board President’s XI. It did not help matters when the SuperSopper at the venue (MCA Recreation ground) was moved to the DY Patil Cricket Stadium, which was hosting the final ODI of the India-Australia series. When it was brought back on the final day of the tour game, it started leaking oil. The visitors had to make do with nets, the fast bowlers hardly getting any freedom to charge in with a full run-up. Sangakkara admitted that it was a bit disappointing.Despite that, he remains confident of his team’s prospects of making history and winning their maiden Test in India in 27 years. “We have a much-improved pace attack. We have a good balance where we can play two or three specialist spinners and still have two fast bowlers playing in the side. That probably is the difference from the sides that came here in the past.”A major shot in the arm for the tourists is Tillakaratne Dilshan’s return to peak fitness after he suffered an ankle injury during practice in Mumbai. But today, Dilshan enjoyed a warm-up game of football and Sangakkara confirmed that he [Dilshan] would open the batting with Tharanga Paranavitana. Dilshan, who recently scored the fastest fifty (off 31 balls) by a Sri Lankan in Tests, in Galle against New Zealand, is a valuable addition at the top of the order. Sri Lanka would hope he can rein in his aggression to consolidate later on on a flat pitch, which both Sangakkara and his counterpart MS Dhoni, agreed would steadily get slower.One area where the Sri Lankans are spoilt for choice is the spin department, with three quality spinners in Muttiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis and Rangana Herath. The visitors have a difficult task on their hands, considering Sangakkara had earlier pointed out that the chief yardstick to pick a player would be his form.Murali walks into the team by default, but Sangakkara said he would think hard before picking the second (or even third) spinner. “It is an interesting choice. But if Herath misses out, and if I were him, I would be very, very disappointed because he has outbowled both Murali and Mendis in the previous two Test series [New Zealand and Pakistan] so he has got a very, very good chance.”

Rain is forecast for the lead up to the start of play and there could be intermittent showers thereafter too

ESPNcricinfo staff24-Jun-2025Weather could have a say in what has shaped up as a blockbuster finish to the Headingley Test between England and India. The early-morning forecast for Leeds is of showers in the lead up to 11am local time (3.30pm IST) start and intermittent showers through the day thereafter, which, if it does come true, could mean a stop-start flow to the day.The game is tantalisingly poised after the two teams finished on an even keel after the first-innings exchanges, India first scoring 471 and England replying with 465, just six runs between them. India have since scored 364 in their second innings, leaving England a target of 371, of which they have shaved off 21 with a day to go. And 350 runs don’t seem too many in 90 overs for a team known to score quickly, come rain or shine.”[We will] just go for the win. That’s the clear message in the changing room,” Josh Tongue, who cleaned up India’s tail in the second innings for figures of 3 for 72, said after the fourth day. “It’s just [about] being as positive as we can. They’re going to bowl well at times tomorrow. It’s just crucial we soak up that bit of pressure and reapply it. I don’t see why we can’t chase that down.”All of which, in what promises to be overcast conditions at Headingley, will likely bring Jasprit Bumrah & Co into play in a big way.”There’s definitely going to be a result,” KL Rahul, century-maker in India’s second innings, said. “That’s what England have said very openly, and their style of cricket suggests that as well. It gives us a good opportunity to pick up ten wickets. We know how they’re going to come out and bat on day five.”The wicket today was a very tricky wicket: I spent a lot of time batting there and I didn’t feel set at all at any given stage. The wicket’s taken a beating, and tomorrow might break even more… We know their style of cricket, so [we’ll] try to keep that in the back of our heads and try to see what lines and lengths we can bowl and how we can get them out.”

India’s last-over hero in Bengaluru glad to get a chance to bounce back from an expensive start to win the game for his team

Hemant Brar03-Dec-20232:06

Arshdeep: It was a nothing-to-lose situation for me

It’s not always that you score 160 at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium and feel you are 15 to 20 runs above par. But that’s what Arshdeep Singh said after India beat Australia by six runs in the fifth and final T20I to take a 4-1 series win.After being sent in, India hobbled to 160 for 8. In response, Australia were 144 for 7 after 18 overs, needing 17 from 12 balls with Matthew Wade in the middle. Mukesh Kumar gave away only seven in the 19th over, making it ten required from six balls.Arshdeep, who had conceded 37 in his first three, bowled an excellent last over. After bowling two dots, though the first one should have been a wide for height, he had Wade holing out to long-on on the third to ensure India’s win. The last time a team defended 160 or fewer in a T20 at this venue was in 2017.Related

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“I guess for the big part of the game, for almost the first 19 overs, I was thinking that I gave away too many runs and would be the culprit of the game,” Arshdeep said on the official broadcast. “But god gave me another chance and I believed in myself. Thanks to god that I defended it and thanks to the staff as well who believed in me.”When asked what his thought process was for the final over, he said: “To be honest, nothing was going through my mind. Surya [Suryakumar Yadav] told me that whatever happens, happens. The credit goes to our batsmen as well. They gave us a really good total here on a tricky wicket and we had a cushion of an extra 15 to 20 runs.”Before this match, Bengaluru had hosted seven T20s in 2023, all in the IPL. The average first-innings total in those games was 196. But this was not a typical Chinnaswamy pitch, which Ben McDermott later called “sticky”, because of the weather around. “I am not really sure what Chinnaswamy is normally like,” McDermott, who was playing at the venue for the first time, said. “But I heard it was a really high-scoring ground but the rain coming in all day, these little sprinkles here and there kept it pretty moist. The outfield was quite soft as well. But coming in, it [pitch] looked beautiful, looked really nice but yeah, it was a little bit sticky.”In the first innings, legspinner Tanveer Sangha registered figures of 1 for 26. When it was India’s turn, Axar Patel was the pick of the bowlers, conceding just 14 from his four overs while picking up the wicket of Tim David. Ravi Bishnoi, too, chipped in with 2 for 29.Shreyas Iyer, whose 37-ball 53 had steered India to what they eventually got, agreed with Arshdeep’s assessment.”To be honest, my mindset was to go boom-boom from ball one,” Iyer said. “But when I saw three wickets falling down, my mind started calculating what would be the best total on this wicket. Then I had a few batsmen contributing as well. It wasn’t an easy wicket to bat on, but if you have a total in mind, you try to play accordingly and today was the right example of how we did it as a team.”I feel 160 was the right total, which we got eventually. After losing consecutive wickets in the powerplay to get to 160, it was a commendable effort, and to defend it at the same time, brilliant performance by the team.”Still, it was not a perfect outing for India’s seamers. They missed their lengths on multiple occasions and Arshdeep and Mukesh were lucky to get the wickets of McDermott and Matthew Short, respectively, off full tosses.”According to the standards we have set as a bowling unit in the Indian team, it was not even near par,” Arshdeep accepted. “But a lot of lessons learnt and, in the future, I will make sure to rectify those mistakes and come back stronger.”

That’s 6-0 over Ireland in ODIs and T20Is, 3-0 over Scotland in ODIs and T20Is and now 2-0 over Netherlands

ESPNcricinfo staff05-Aug-2022New Zealand wrapped up their tour of Europe with an 11th straight victory as Mitchell Santner smashed an unbeaten 77 off 42 balls in a chase of 148.Netherlands appeared to give themselves hope of staying in the game when they picked up two early wickets, but enjoying the perks of being stand-in captain, Santner promoted himself to No. 3, hit a six off the second ball he faced, and took complete control.He was responsible for six of the eight boundaries that New Zealand hit in the powerplay on Friday, racing to his half-century in 29 balls.Alongside him, Daryl Mitchell, purred away on 32 off 21 balls, managing a strike rate of 157 despite hitting only three fours. Eventually he too opened up his shoulders and cruised to a fifty of his own – the boundary that brought up that landmark also bringing up the win.Netherlands, whose bowlers were able to stifle New Zealand in the first T20I, would have hoped for a similar performance but there really was no recourse after they could put up only 147 on the board. Bas de Leede was the top-scorer with 53 not out but he was part of a top four that barely managed a run a ball. Tom Cooper (26 off 17) and Scott Edwards (26* off 20) gave the innings a bit of impetus at the end but it wasn’t enough.Michael Bracewell, who began this tour of Europe with a jaw-dropping innings of 127 that rescued New Zealand from dire straits, ended it with a two-wicket haul. Overall, during the course of three ODIs and three T20Is against Ireland, two more T20Is and an ODI against Scotland, and one T20I against Netherlands, he has managed 272 runs at an average of 136 and 11 wickets (including a hat-trick) at an average of 19.63.