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July 22, 2001
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The Ashes Test series
West Indies tour of Zimbabwe
Meanwhile the West Indies Cricket Board are investigating the cause of several worrying injuries to key players on the tour of Zimbabwe. Five players, including Brain Lara and Mervyn Dillon, have been forced to return home. The Board has asked manager Ricky Skerritt to find out as to why so many players have been struck down and come up with measures to avoid this happening again. The manager will consult the medical team, coaches and the players themselves and will submit his findings to the WICB shortly. Zimbabwean batsman Stuart Carlisle has been ruled out of the second Test at Harare against the West Indies with a broken finger. He injured the little finger on his right hand while fielding in the first Test at the Queen's Sports Club on Friday and x-rays revealed it was broken. It will take six weeks for the injury to heal.
Coca-Cola Cup, Sri Lanka India meet Sri Lanka in the third match of the Coca-Cola Triangular series at Colombo today. After losing the first match badly against New Zealand, the Indians will be looking to go all out against the powerful host team. India will be also looking to shuffle the batting order around with the probability of Sourav Ganguly coming lower down the order with Amay Khurasiya opening the batting. In the meanwhile it seems the Indian selectors were apparently unhappy with the skipper Ganguly's decision to open with youngster Yuvraj Singh in the first match against New Zealand. With violence erupting in Colombo, the Sri Lankan Cricket Board has assured the Indian and Kiwi players of security at all times during their stay there. Heavy security is on at all the venues of the matches and at the team hotels. The New Zealand team who have a four day break before their next match will be heading off to the beach resort of Bentota, 65 kilometres south of Colombo.
Miscellaneous :
Scores at a glance:
ENGLAND vs AUSTRALIA - 2nd Test at Lords, London, Day 3
ZIMBABWE vs WEST INDIES - 1st Test at Bulawayo, Day 3 Yesterday's News ......................... News Roll archive |
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Resuming at the overnight score of 255-5 Australia, with the help of a quick-fire 90 off 121 balls from Adam Gilchrist, reached 401 in their first innings. Andy Caddick (5-101)shone with the second new ball and the Australian lower order did not last as long as it normally does. Darren Gough (3-115) also chipped in with vital wickets at the end.
Zimbabwe openers - Dion Ebrahim and Alistair Campell - fought back to end the third day with a score of 112 for no wicket. Earlier West Indies declared their innings at 559-6, thus taking a huge first innings lead of 401 runs. Skipper Carl Hooper made 149.
Former West Indian fast bowler Wes Hall (48 Tests from 1958 to 1969; 192 wickets) is now the new president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), while Valentine Banks is the new vice-president. They were the only nominees for the two top positions in the Board. These positions had become vacant when Pat Rousseau and Clarvis Joseph had to resign due to some disagreement with the other members of the Board last month.