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How to watch West Brom vs Sunderland in the Championship on TV and online in the United States.

West Brom take on Sunderland in a Championshipgame at the Hawthorns on Sunday.

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West Brom, who are currently seventh in the Championship, are hopeful of a play-off spot and will aim to make it three wins on the trot on Sunday.

Despite being ninth in the league, Sunderland are only one point behind West Brom and will hope to get all three points and enter the top six.

GOAL brings you everything you need to know about how to watch the Championship fixture between West Brom and Sunderland, plus team news, recent form and more.

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April 23, 2023

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The game is scheduled for April 23, 2023, at The Hawthorns.

It will kick off at 7am ET in the USA.

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West Brom are set to miss the services of Nathaniel Chalobah due to injury and he is likely to be replaced by Taylor Gardner-Hickman in central midfield.

West Brom possible XI: Palmer; Furlong, Ajayi, Pieters, Townsend; Molumby, Gardner-Hickman; Wallace, Swift, Grant; Thomas-Asante

Position Players

Goalkeepers:Button, Palmer, GriffithsDefenders:Kipre, Taylor, Furlong, Townsend, O'Shea, Bartley, Ibidapo Ajayi, Pieters, Kelly, Bryan, AshworthMidfielders:Tulloch, Castro, Rogic, Livermore, Phillips, Diangana, Molumby, Wallace, Swift, Reach, Albrighton, Mowatt, Gardner-Hickman, YokusluForwards:Dike, Ahearne-Grant, Thomas-AsanteSunderland team news

Both Danny Batth and Edouard Michut are doubtful for the clash due to injuries but Dennis Cirkin is back from suspension and is likely to feature in the starting lineup.

All eyes will be on in-form attacker Amad Diallo who is set to start on the right flank.

Sunderland possible XI: Patterson; Hume, O'Nien, Cirkin, Gooch; Roberts, Neil, Pritchard; Diallo, Gelhardt, Clarke

Position Players

Goalkeepers:Patterson, Bass, CarneyDefenders:Huggins, Cirkin, Ballard, Gooch, O'Nien, Hume, Alese, AndersonMidfielders:Evans, Embleton, Roberts, Ba, Taylor, Clarke, Pritchard, Neil, EkwahForwards:

Stewart, Amad, Bennette, Lihadji, Gelhardt

Head-to-head record

Date Result Competition

13 December, 2022Sunderland 1-2 West BromChampionship21 January, 2017West Brom 2-0 SunderlandPremier League1 October, 2016

Sunderland 1-1 West Brom

Premier League2 April, 2016Sunderland 0-0 West BromPremier League17 October, 2015West Brom 1-0 SunderlandPremier League

West Brom have won three out of their last five meetings against Sunderland while two matches ended in draws.

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Tim Cahill leads the way for Australia at international level

Australia might not have the history that a lot of other countries have when it comes to the beautiful game, but they have sure had some high-profile names represent them at the international stage over the years.

Just think Harry Kewell.

Or Mark Viduka.

Yet even though the two former Premier League stars got plenty of goals, they are not among Australia's 10 highest-ever goal scorers.

But who is Australia's most lethal attacker ever then?

Let's take a look!

AFP1Tim Cahill | 50 goals

The greatest goalscorer Australia has produced with 50 international goals, Tim Cahill was part of the national team setup for 14 years between 2004 to 2018.

His first goal for the Socceroos came as part of a brace against Tahiti in May 2004, while Cahill scored two goals each at the World Cup in 2006 and 2014.

Cahill's stunning goal against Netherlands at the 2014 World Cup is remembered to this day as he beat Jasper Cillessen with an incredible left-footed volley.

The Everton legend's most lethal performances for the Socceroos came when he netted hat-tricks against Fiji and Bangladesh respectively.

AdvertisementNigel Marple2Damian Mori | 29 goals

Part of Australia's national team for a decade between 1992 and 2002, Damian Mori made his debut against Solomon Islands in September 1992.

The Adelaide City legend scored his first international goal against Tahiti in just his second game for the Socceroos and he scored a total of 29 goals in 45 caps spanning just under 10 years, making him the second-highest goal scorer for Australia.

Getty3Archie Thompson | 28 goals

Third on the list of Australia's all-time top goal scorers with 28 goals in 51 matches is Archie Thompson.

The New Zealand-born striker featured for the Socceroos at the 2001 and 2005 Confederations Cup, the 2004 OFC Nations Cup, the 2006 World Cup, the 2007 AFC Asian Cup and the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Thompson holds the all-time goal-scoring record in a single international match, netting 13 times in Australia's memorable 31-0 win against American Samoa in 2001.

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Getty Images4John Aloisi | 27 goals

John Aloisi made his debut for Australia on March 12, 1997 in a friendly match against Macedonia, with arguably his best performance coming in a 22-0 win against Tonga, a game in which he scored six goals.

Aloisi featured at the 2006 World Cup and scored in their opening game against Japan, helping them reach the knockout stages from a group that also held Brazil and Coatia.

The former Osasuna man scored 27 goals over 55 games in his 11-year stint with Australia.

The Gunners have done some incredible deals down through the years – GOAL picks out their best ever signings below…

From the dominant days of manager Herbert Chapman’s tenure in the 1930s right through to the modern era, Arsenal have signed some sensational players who have gone on to write their names into the history books.

But which transfers rank as the greatest in the Gunners' long and illustrious history.

GOAL reveals all below…

Eddie Hapgood

Arguably Arsenal’s best ever signing.

Hapgood was plucked from lowly Kettering Town by Gunners manager Herbert Chapman in 1927 for just £950 ($1,170) and went to captain Arsenal’s all-conquering side of the 1930s.

He made 440 appearances in all competitions for Arsenal and won the First Division title five times, as well as the FA Cup twice.

The left-back spent 12 years with Arsenal before the onset of the Second World War, scoring twice. 

He died in 1973, at the age of just 64.

AdvertisementGettyIan Wright

Many questioned Arsenal’s decision to spend a club record £2.5 million ($3m) to sign Ian Wright from Crystal Palace in 1991.

The Gunners had just won the First Division title and had two-time golden boot winner Alan Smith leading the line, with Kevin Campbell also at George Graham’s disposal.

But from the moment Wright opened his account with a goal at Leicester City on his Arsenal debut, he quickly silenced any of his doubters.

He went on the score 185 goals for the club, overtaking Cliff Bastin to become Arsenal’s all-time record goalscorer in 1997.

Wright won a Premier League title during his time in North London as well as two FA Cups, a League Cup, the Cup Winners Cup and the Golden Boot.

Alex James

Known as one of the finest players to have ever played for Arsenal, James arrived from Preston in 1929 for £8,750 ($10,800).

The playmaker quickly established himself in Chapman’s stellar side and scored the opening goal as Arsenal beat Huddersfield 2-0 in the 1930 FA Cup final – a victory which gave the club its first ever major trophy.

James went on to make 261 appearances for Arsenal and formed a formidable partnership with legendary attackers Ted Drake and Cliff Bastin.

The Scotland international won four league titles for the Gunners and a second FA Cup in 1936. He was forced to retire due to injury the following year.

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Sol Campbell

There is plenty of debate over who is the best free transfer of the Premier League era, but not amongst Arsenal fans.

Sol Campbell’s move across North London from Tottenham in the summer of 2001 is the stuff of legend.

Members of the media were all expecting to see goalkeeper Richard Wright unveiled when they arrived at a press conference at Arsenal’s training ground, so there was an audible gasp when Arsene Wenger walked out accompanied by Campbell – who was football's most in-demand free agent at the time.

Arsenal had taken Spurs’ captain without having to pay them a penny and they had to watch their former idol go on to win two league titles and three FA Cups during his time at Highbury.

Can the forces of nature that have been unleashed by England’s white-ball revolution be harnessed in time for them to make an impression at the World T20? Or is it too little, too late

Andrew Miller15-Mar-20164:24

Butcher: How England play spin will be vital

Big PictureDogma has tended to hold sway over reason for England at ICC global events. What planning there has been has usually been at least four years off the pace, its loopholes exposed by the lightest touch of scrutiny – take their squad for the inaugural World T20 in 2007, for instance, filled to the gunwales with job-a-day county pros, such as Darren Maddy and Jeremy Snape, who had turned a few tricks in the early seasons of the Twenty20 Cup, but rarely many heads. Or, if you prefer, take any World Cup squad from 1996 to 2015 inclusive.There has, of course, been one notable exception to this rule. When England won the World T20 in the Caribbean in 2010, they did so with a fresh team and a fresh attitude, albeit one that was forced upon them by the haplessness of their chosen few in the weeks and months leading up to the event.It took an infamous warm-up match against England Lions in Abu Dhabi to instigate wholesale change. Out went Jonathan Trott and Joe Denly, in came Craig Kieswetter and Michael Lumb, and, with Ryan Sidebottom’s left-arm seam leading the line superbly, England suddenly hit their stride to awesome and insuperable effect.With that in mind, England’s 2016 T20 squad is a curious hybrid of long-term planning and short-term expediency. This time the shift in attitude and personnel has had 12 turbo-charged months in which to bed in – even though it took yet another calamitous campaign at the 2015 World Cup to hammer home the need for England to get with the times.So, can the forces of nature that have been unleashed by England’s white-ball revolution be harnessed in time for them to make an impression at the sixth World T20? Or is it too little, too late, in a form of the game that has evolved beyond recognition in the six years since England last emerged victorious?The talent at the team’s disposal, for once, cannot be disputed. England may have dropped the ball politically when it comes to T20 cricket, but their invention of the format back in 2003 does give them one remaining head-start. Thirteen years is long enough to bring through an entire generation of players who have grown up with the game’s new realities, and are not afraid of its possibilities. That is as good a starting point as they can hope for.At the helmEoin Morgan was hospital-passed the England World Cup captaincy after the extraction of Alastair Cook in December 2014, and to nobody’s real surprise, he damn near dropped the ball in that calamitous campaign Down Under. But to the eventual credit of the ECB – and in particular the incoming director of cricket, Andrew Strauss – they didn’t just stick with him in the aftermath, they broadened his remit to cover all limited-overs cricket, and the upsurge in the team’s fortunes is plain to see. Morgan leads with authority, knows his role and, crucially, knows when to defer to his young thrusters, most notably in Dubai when he pushed Jos Buttler up the order and watched him scorch England’s fastest ODI hundred. Like Paul Collingwood in 2010, the more anonymous he remains, the better England are likely to be doing.Key stat10.The number of England’s players who have yet to play a full international fixture in India. Morgan, with eight games spread across three visits – including a late entry to the World Cup campaign in 2011 after he broke a finger before the event – is the most experienced campaigner. He is also the only one to have featured in the IPL. Joe Root (7), Liam Plunkett (6), Jos Buttler (5) and Alex Hales (3) have played 21 games in India between them. The rest? Zilch.Leading MenJos ButtlerThe most awesome of the talents among England’s newly-unleashed T20 generation, and the likeliest candidate to win a contest single-handedly. Buttler possesses power in abundance, and a repertoire of strokes that can blow the mind when he is in full flow. His tale rather epitomises that of this England team as a whole – they are definitely going places in one-day cricket, but are they really there yet? Buttler’s maiden stint in the IPL will follow hot on the heels of this campaign. What England would give for that experience already to be in his memory banks.Adil RashidA veteran of the 2009 World T20, in which he wheeled through his overs with dignity but rarely looked like a world-beating option. But just watch him go now, a weapon transformed thanks to a career-moulding stint with Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League. Rashid has found control to back up the cunning variations that he’s always been able to deliver, and rare is the batsman who trusts himself to hit him out of the attack. This tournament has the potential to cement his breakthrough year.Reece TopleyTall, gangling and improving all the time, Topley’s ability to bend the ball back into the right-handers from a cloud-snagging left-arm action gives England another formidable option. If he lands his length from the outset, it can often take a new batsman several deliveries to line up a suitable response. Another man whose inexperience could prove his undoing, but in Topley’s case, he has only just turned 22. You’ve got to start somewhere, so why not at the top?Burning QuestionCan the opening pair fire?
Where Kieswetter and Lumb blazed a trail in 2010, are Jason Roy and Alex Hales really ready to follow? The pair have bedded into a comfortable and productive alliance at the top of England’s order since coming together at the start of last summer, but neither has quite hit the top notes of destruction on which they’ve built their reputation in county cricket. And, if they fail – or fail to get a move on, which is even more of a sin in T20 cricket – is the middle order primed to hit the ground running, as a certain Kevin Pietersen proved to be in that triumphant campaign …?World T20 historyDecidedly mixed. Their 2010 victory was a triumph of expediency, but they’ve let themselves down in the other four events to date. The best of the rest was unquestionably their 2009 campaign on home soil, when their quick bowlers laid out the strategies that would help to deliver glory in the Caribbean a year later. However, their unfortunate rain-affected exit at the hands of West Indies remains utterly overshadowed by their opening-round capitulation to Netherlands. The fact that England repeated that ignominy in their most recent World T20 fixture, at Chittagong in 2014, is proof of a team who haven’t always had their game-brains switched on.In their Own Words”Sometimes, having experience, particularly in India, can almost scar your perception and [style of] playing within the tournament. Having a little bit of naivety with a huge amount of talent isn’t a bad thing.” Eoin Morgan on England’s innocence abroad.

Tom Curran and Jamie Overton have been included in England’s 30-man performance squad.

ESPNcricinfo staff12-May-2016Tom Curran and Jamie Overton have been included in England’s 30-man performance squad.Both players feature in the England Lions programme earlier in the year although Overton was forced home due to a foot injury.Curran, who was born in Cape Town, enjoyed an impressive 2015 season with Surrey where he claimed 76 Championship wickets and he became eligible for England at the end of last year.Overall, the performance squad includes the 22 players who are centrally and incrementally contracted by the ECB plus eight without current deals. Alongside Curran and Overton, this includes Zafar Ansari, who was named in England’s Test squad for the series against Pakistan before breaking his thumb the same day, Sam Billings, Liam Dawson and Reece Topley who were all part of the World T20 squad, the left-arm quick Mark Footitt who toured South Africa plus Jake Ball who has earned his maiden Test call-up.Andrew Strauss, the director of England cricket, said: “This is the first time in two seasons we have selected an England Performance Squad. I feel that it is important that we do so to enable our staff to monitor effectively those players who are on our radar, but not necessarily part of one of the England teams. It is also important to point out that it does not confine the selectors to pick from this squad.”Performance squad Moeen Ali*, James Anderson*, Zafar Ansari, Jonny Bairstow^, Jake Ball, Gary Ballance^, Ian Bell*, Sam Billings, Stuart Broad*, Jos Buttler*, Nick Compton^, Alastair Cook*, Tom Curran, Liam Dawson, Steven Finn*, Mark Footitt, Alex Hales^, Chris Jordan^, Eoin Morgan*, Jamie Overton, Liam Plunkett^, Adil Rashid^, Joe Root*, Jason Roy^, Ben Stokes*, Reece Topley, James Vince, David Willey, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood*
*central contract
^incremental contract

Namibia fast bowler Jason Davidson has been suspended from bowling in international cricket after an event panel ruled his bowling action to be illegal

ESPNcricinfo staff22-Jul-2015Namibia fast bowler Jason Davidson has been suspended from bowling in international cricket after an event panel ruled his bowling action to be illegal. Davidson was reported after Namibia’s four-wicket defeat against Netherlands on Tuesday; he picked up 1 for 13 from his two overs including the key wicket of Stephan Myburgh.According to Section 4 of the ICC Regulations for the Review of Bowlers Reported with Suspected Illegal Actions, Davidson cannot bowl in any international cricket until he submits himself to an independent assessment of his action conducted by an appointed specialist at an ICC accredited testing center, which concludes that he has remedied his action.As a result of the suspension, Davidson will not be allowed to bowl during Namibia’s crucial clash against Oman on Thursday, with the winner of the match guaranteed a spot in next year’s World Twenty20 in India.

Craig Kieswetter has described the England team he played in as divided by cliques and changed by success

ESPNcricinfo staff22-Jun-20154:52

Cliques within the England dressing room?

Craig Kieswetter has described the England team he played in as divided by cliques and changed by success. In an exclusive interview with ESPNcricinfo, Kieswetter also explained his decision to retire following an eye injury and his frustration with his own England career.But it is his views on the England dressing room that will gain most attention. While Kieswetter stopped short of repeating Kevin Pietersen’s claims of bullying in the England environment, he does not paint a flattering picture.Though he says he came into a united dressing room in early 2010, he believes that winning the World T20 and then the Ashes in Australia “changed people”.”It wasn’t just us competing against the opposition,” Kieswetter said. “There was a sense that some of us were competing against one another. By the time we were No. 1 in the world, it was a very different dressing room. Success changed people. Cliques developed. There were jokes made in the dressing room if you had a South African background. When we warmed up in training, we were split into sides: South Africans v English.”There was lots of talk about it in the media and here we were making it worse. It created an unnecessary divide. A sense of them and us.”It grew worse. The Test players were together so much that, when the limited-overs players turned up, it felt like you were on the outside. The Test guys hung out with each other; the limited-overs guys hung out. The spirit I experienced in those first few weeks was never there again.”Craig Kieswetter’s England career peaked at the World T20•Getty ImagesThose “first few weeks” saw Kieswetter become the second youngest England player, after David Gower, to make an ODI century and win the Man-of-the-Match award in the 2010 World T20 final. But while he started out playing with rare freedom, he feels that prolonged exposure to the England environment left him feeling “caged” as a batsman.”Of all the England teams I played in over five years, that was the one that had the best spirit,” he said. “To be honest, I don’t remember it that clearly: we played golf, we went to the beach and we drank rum. Training tended to be optional. KP was at his best. So were Broad and Swann. But we were a proper team and everyone got on brilliantly.”I started out playing with freedom; I ended up caged. I guess if I was in the current set-up I would thrive, but I had a good record as an opener and they asked me to bat at No. 6. It’s tough, but I’m disappointed with the way I responded to it.”Kieswetter also explained his decision to retire from cricket following a blow to the eye sustained while batting against David Willey. “I know I can’t play at the level I want to,” Kieswetter explains. “I liked being a swashbuckling player. And I felt I had the talent to play for England. I don’t feel that way any more. I’m not the same player. I’m not as good as I want to be and I never can be.”I can still play. I can still be okay. But when I came back at the end of last season, there was a lot of bravado and adrenalin involved. In the end I just thought, there are too many mediocre players in county cricket – and good luck to them – but I don’t want to be another one.”Read the full interview here

A round-up of the Plunket Shield matches that finished on March 27, 2015

ESPNcricinfo staff27-Mar-2015Colin Munro’s 281 off 167 balls, which contained a first-class record of 23 sixes, set up Auckland’s victory by an innings and 64 runs against Central Districts in Napier. Munro’s career-best effort helped Auckland amass 668 at 4.63 per over, after which Central Districts were dismissed for 233 and 371. The match ended on the fourth afternoon.The contest did not start badly for Central Districts. They chose to field and then dismissed the openers early, reducing Auckland to 64 for 2. Then Munro took over, adding 157 with Carl Cachopa to steady the innings. Munro was the fourth wicket to fall though, with Auckland on 435, but after his dismissal Brad Cachopa hurt Central Districts with 135 off 201 balls. After finishing the first day on 471 for 5, Auckland declared on 668 for 7 on the second.Central Districts ended day two in deeper trouble after they were reduced to 148 for 6. That slide continued on the third day – they were dismissed in 72 overs and conceded a first-innings lead of 435. Kruger van Wyk was the top scorer with 67, and Will Young’s 47 was the only other score above 25. Michael Bates claimed 3 for 51 for Auckland, and Tarun Nethula went for only 28 in 16 overs and took two wickets.Auckland enforced the follow-on and though Central Districts batted better it wasn’t enough to make their opponents bat again. They were all out for 371 in 93.4 overs. Lachie Ferguson claimed 5 for 58; his scalps included Central Districts’ top-three batsmen. Young top scored with 86, and Tom Bruce and van Wyk made fifties, but support above and below them was thin. Matthew Quinn and Nethula took two wickets each for Auckland.A match haul of nine wickets from Brent Arnel cancelled out Anton Devcich’s tally of 201 runs as Wellington chased down 168 to beat Northern Districts by six wickets with a day to spare at the Basin Reserve. Wellington bagged 17 points from the game but Northern Districts stayed third with 94 points compared to Wellington’s 89.The bowlers vindicated Wellington’s decision to bowl by reducing Northern Districts to 32 for 5 inside 14 overs. Anton Devcich and Mitchell Santner added 63 for the sixth wicket to resurrect the innings before the latter was pinned lbw by Arnel. Devcich, though, shared a 99-run partnership with Ish Sodhi and counterattacked his way to 132 off 172 balls, his second century in as many games. Arnel accounted for both and ended with figures of 6 for 62 as Northern Districts were skittled for 240.In response, Wellington rode on Deepak Joon’s century to gain a first-innings lead of 37 runs, which proved decisive in the end. Joon, who made a career-best 113, strung together 124 for the fourth wicket with James Franklin to steer the hosts, but a late-order collapse sparked by James Baker and Scott Kuggeleijn meant that they slumped from 237 for 3 to 287 all out.Northern Districts’ top order did not fare any better in the second innings, leaving Devcich to do too much on his own. He hit 69 while Aldridge crunched 37 off 48 balls to take Northern Districts past 200. Arnel sparkled with the ball again, taking three wickets, including that of Aldridge.However, the 168-run target hardly challenged Wellington, courtesy fifties from opener Michael Papps and Stephen Murdoch.

Allrounder Shoaib Malik and fast bowler Mohammad Sami have been recalled to the Pakistan team for the two Twenty20 internationals against Zimbabwe in Lahore

Umar Farooq19-May-2015Allrounder Shoaib Malik and fast bowler Mohammad Sami have been recalled to the Pakistan team for the two Twenty20 internationals against Zimbabwe in Lahore. Uncapped 19-year-old opener Nauman Anwar and former under-19 captain Imad Wasim were given call-ups.Anwar Ali, Bilawal Bhatti and Hammad Azam also returned to the squad, while Saad Nasim, Imran Khan and Haris Sohail were dropped from the Pakistan T20 squad that played against Bangladesh in Mirpur last month. Saeed Ajmal, who was ineffective with his new bowling action, was also dropped along with Sohail Tanvir. Both Sohaib Maqsood and Sohail Khan were sidelined over fitness issues, and Junaid Khan was the other notable exclusion for the Zimbabwe series.Sami’s call-up came as a surprise considering he has not played for Pakistan since June 2012, when they toured Sri Lanka. He took six wickets in three matches in the Super8 T20 competition in Faisalabad last week.Anwar, who entered the domestic circuit last year, has only played a handful of first-class matches but caught the attention of the selectors after an extraordinary show in the recently concluded Super8 tournament in Faisalabad, scoring 270 runs at a strike-rate of 162.65 for Sialkot Stallions. Wasim, who led the Pakistan Under-19 World Cup team in 2007, was selected on the basis of his all-round performance for Pakistan A in the ongoing series against Sri Lanka A.The selectors retained Ahmed Shehzad, who was not part of the ODI series in Bangladesh but played the T20. He scored 0, 58*, 8 and 8 in four innings in the Super8 tournament. Umar Akmal, who was also not part of the Pakistan side against Bangladesh, returned to the squad after putting up scores of 35, 1, 95*and 85*.Pakistan will play two T20Is and three ODIs against Zimbabwe – the first international cricket to be played in the country since March 2009. Only six players – Shahid Afridi, Mohammad Hafeez, Shoaib Malik, Sarfraz Ahmed, Wahab Riaz and Mohammad Sami – in this T20 squad have played an international match in Pakistan.Squad: Shahid Afridi (capt), Sarfraz Ahmed (vc), Ahmed Shehzad, Mohammad Hafeez, Mukhtar Ahmed, Nauman Anwar, Shoaib Malik, Umar Akmal, Mohammad Rizwan, Anwar Ali, Hammad Azam, Imad Wasim, Bilawal Bhatti, Wahab Riaz, Mohammad Sami

A round-up for the Ranji Trophy Group C games on February 6, 2014

ESPNcricinfo staff06-Feb-2015
ScorecardFile photo: Pragyan Ojha struck thrice in an over after on his return to competitive cricket•BCCIPragyan Ojha picked up three wickets in an over on his return to domestic cricket after his bowling action was cleared by the BCCI. But Himachal Pradesh were propped up by Paras Dogra, who brought up his fourth ton of the season at the Uppal stadium.Himachal, after they were put in, were 46 for 2 in the 13th over. Ojha, playing his first competitive game in two months, had Raghav Dhawan lbw for 53, then removed Rashmi Parida and Nikhil Gangta for ducks in successive balls and reduced Himachal to 101 for 5.Dogra, however, stitched a 168-run partnership with Bipul Sharma for the sixth wicket to stabilise Himachal’s innings. Both batsmen remained unbeaten at close.
ScorecardSrikar Bharat and Murumulla Sriram reeled off career-best first-class scores while boosting Andhra to 408 for 1, at a run-rate of 4.53, on the first day of their group C game against Goa in Ongole.Bharat, 21, batted through the day and converted his second century into a maiden double-ton. He is unbeaten on 226 off only 240 balls, with 29 fours and five sixes, welcome returns considering he had entered the game on the back of three ducks in six innings. Sriram, 22, recorded his second century as well and is on 108 off 189 balls, including 15 fours and one six.Only one of the six bowlers used by Goa could manage an economy rate under four – offspiner Amogh Desai, who also picked up the only wicket to fall Prasanth Kumar in the 33rd over.
ScorecardAssam made slow, yet assured, progress against Goa led by their captain Dheeraj Jadhav’s unbeaten half-century. He had retired hurt on 0, but returned to form the backbone of the visitors’ batting in Tellicherry.Electing to bat, Assam’s caution almost backfired on them when they could not manage substantial partnerships. They were 45 for 2 when Jadhav came back out and stabilised the innings.Jadhav had opened the batting in the first half of the season before dropping down to the middle order. But KB Arun Karthik said Jadhav was moved back to the opening slot to give him some time in the middle before the knockouts.Kerala’s bowlers were highly economical but they were assisted by the style of play adopted by the batsmen. Opener Kunal Saikia spent more than three hours at the crease for 38. Arun Karthik explained it was a consequence of wanting to bat for lengthy periods without giving away wickets cheaply.
ScorecardA 102-run stand for the eighth wicket between Hardik Sethi and Deepak Punia helped Services to safety after a wobbly start in Jamshedpur.Only three of the top-six managed double-figures as seamers Varun Aaron and Rituraj Singh reduced the score to 87 for 6. Sethi was at the crease when it slipped further to 116 for 7, but found excellent support from No. 9 Punia, who went on to record his third first-class fifty.Jharkhand’s steady reply was led by Ishan Kishan, who was run out for 47 off 63 balls with a little more than four overs left in the day.