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Australia’s growing charge was again stalled by rain just as Ricky Ponting enforced the follow-on with a massive lead of 326. Michael Kasprowicz reignited Australia’s hunt for victory as New Zealand were dismissed for 244 at tea, but the players did not return on a day when it wasn’t only the pitch that wanted to stay under the covers.Two sessions were wiped off by rain and mist hugging the Basin Reserve, and more is forecast for tomorrow. Any lost time on day five will probably ensure an Australia victory is sucked down the drain. If clear skies reappear – it’s a big if – New Zealand must show greater application than they did in the first innings against an in-form attack that dealt the wickets around.Australia’s bowlers are fresh after delivering 81.1 overs – only 42.1 were possible today – and finishing off their opponents in a session that lasted almost three hours. Through Lou Vincent and James Franklin New Zealand made a reasonable attempt at crease occupation in their unlikely bid to pass the follow-on target of 421.Once Vincent, who posted his seventh Test half-century, and James Franklin added 58 Kasprowicz struck twice with two edges, Shane Warne followed it up with Brendon McCullum and Craig McMillan, and New Zealand were all out after some clever Daniel Vettori aggression. Australian hands that were warming in pockets were suddenly preparing for a second bowl. Dwarfed by Australia’s mammoth 570 for 8 declared, New Zealand started 448 runs behind and reduced the damage by 122 when the covers went back on for good.Kasprowicz, running in under ghostly fog suiting his `Kasper’ nickname, homed in on both Vincent and Franklin with carefully constructed plans over a couple of overs that produced nicked attempted drives and easy catches for Adam Gilchrist. The naggingly accurate and slippery bowling again showed why he has kept Brett Lee cleaning shoes and wondering when he’ll get his next first-class game.Intent on a long stay, Vincent was happy to front-foot pull the fast bowlers and sweep Warne, and he offered a small acknowledgement for his 115-ball fifty. His partnership with Franklin, the nightwatchman, became irritating for the experimenting Australians. Gilchrist crouched outside leg stump for a couple of deliveries to Warne, who sometimes employed five close-in catchers to Franklin. All were avoided and he played a couple of smart drives on his way to a Test-best 26.The pair’s resistance started talk of time running out for Australia, but then Kasprowicz popped up, giving himself three victims for the innings and 99 in his career. When McCullum arrived in a hurry and pushed his third ball to Michael Clarke at midwicket three wickets had fallen for 18 runs. The boost revived Warne and life was breathed into a dreary session.McMillan has lost some embarrassing battles to Australia over the summer and was fighting to retain his place. He began under control and then snapped, slogging Warne for a large six over mid-on. He can’t help it. From there he was confused and soon left head-down to a horrible swipe on bended knee off Warne.Jason Gillespie upset Iain O’Brien before Vettori and Chris Martin provided two stumbling blocks. Farming the strike, Vettori crashed eight boundaries in making 45 and Martin successfully tried not to get out. The tactic worked until Vettori picked out Damien Martyn, and more thoughtful batting will be necessary to see off Australia on the final day. Unless it rains.How They Were Out
Franklin c Gilchrist b Kasprowicz 26 (166 for 5)
Feet stayed planted as he eyed a drive but edged instead.Vincent c Gilchrist b Kasprowicz 63 (180 for 6)
Ball angled in to Vincent, who tried to push through cover but his weight wasn’t all the way forward.McCullum c Clarke b Warne 3 (184 for 7)
Playing outside leg stump, he pushed a catch to a diving Clarke at midwicket.McMillan b Warne 20 (201 for 8)
Lost his head again, slogging across the line to a ball that hit off stump.O’Brien b Gillespie 5 (212 for 9)
Yorker brushed pad on the way to leg stump.Vettori c Martyn b Warne 45 (244)
Caught in the deep hitting to midwicket.

Scores at the end of the final round of the Commonwealth Bank Under-19 Championship Series:South Australia v Victoria
South Australia 7/356 dec (Littlewood 155, Crook 54*)
defeated
Victoria 245 all out (Evans 85, Crosthwate 38, Bailey 4/51, Smith 3/25)New South Wales v Queensland
Queensland 167 all out (Ross 47, Beadle 4/17)
lost to
New South Wales 6/170 dec (Clarence 35*, Coyte 35*, Fitzpatrick 3/67)Tasmania v Western Australia
Tasmania 214 all out
lost to
Western Australia WA 3/309 (Doropolus 75, May 159*, Pomersbach 49*)Australian Capital Territory v Northern Territory
Northern Territory 280 all out (MacDonald 103, Skewes 82, Poidevin 6/50)
defeated
Australian Capital Territory 194 all out (McCard 3/40, MacDonald 4/13)New South Wales have clinched the title.

Somerset Chief Executive Peter Anderson attended a meeting at Lord’s earlier this week where the future pattern of the first class game was under discussion.When I asked him what progress had been made at the meeting Mr Anderson told me,” Discussions between the counties are intensifying over the proposals to drop one of the one day competitions in favour of a twenty over 4.15pm – 8.15pm affair and all counties have agreed that they must have both a marketing and a business plan in place before any decision is made.”He continued, “As far as Somerset is concerned it’s fan base, be that members and non members indicates that they like the early season knock out cup competition. At that time of the year the financial advantages of the cup are in the hands of the weather. Some counties, not Somerset, have indicated that over the years that they have had poor returns.”Mr Anderson went on, “Advocates of the proposals point to the commercial benefits of floodlit cricket, and the assumption is that for two or three home matches with an after work proposed start and end time similar audiences would be attracted.”The chief continued, “Somerset acknowledge that grounds situated in a centre of high population stand a chance of attracting an audience for a short game. Our view is that in a rural area where many of the supporters have to travel substantial distances for home matches that it is unlikely that they will do so for a four hour match at the end of the working day.”He concluded “Somerset would not be against the proposals if it was in addition to rather than instead of the early season one day competition, but notice must be taken of coaches and players, who think that an additional competition would be too hard and therefore the best players, particularly bowlers would probably not play which will lessen the attraction.”

Steve Waugh today called for the Australian cricket team to visit the Gallipoli battlefields prior to every Ashes tour.The Australian captain, clearly moved by the team’s tour of the battlefields today, suggested that the Ashes squad do the sameevery four years as a stop-over to London.”I’d like to think this could be a traditional start to every tour by an Australian side to the UK,” he said from the Gallipolipeninsula.”It’s so peaceful and beautiful now the hardest part is to realise what it was like in 1915.”In that year more than 8,000 ANZACS were killed and a further 18,000 wounded during the ill-fated eight month campaign.Today the Australian cricketers visited memorial sites such as Lone Pine, The Nek, Johnston’s Jolly and Chunuk Bair, thehighest ground at Gallipoli which was briefly held by New Zealand forces.Waugh, who described the visit as a once in a lifetime experience, praised the courage and determination of the ANZACS.”It puts things into perspective for us because people call us heroes but we just play sport and we’re good at it,” the36-year-old said.”But realistically those who fought are far more deserving of the accolade of heroes than any of us.”As for the other players, everyone is taking it in and is very interested but it’s hard to comprehend the scale of what happenedhere with half a million casualties.”Waugh said he and his teammates were thinking about the young soldiers who went off looking for adventure only to findthemselves facing a determined Turkish enemy and punishing conditions.”For all those who ended up dying, it’s hard to comprehend the numbers dying and fighting and all the commotion andconfusion. It must have been terrifying,” he said.Waugh explained the idea of seeing the battlefields was formulated about 12 months ago when he had dinner with Australian ofthe Year Lieutenant-General Peter Cosgrove.They discussed the common features of the armed forces and cricket – namely that both required careful planning andcamaraderie – before putting the idea to the Australian Cricket Board.ACB executive chairman Malcolm Speed agreed and the Gallipoli visit was made part of the tour itinerary.During the five-hour bus trip from Istanbul to Gelibolu, the team watched the Four Corners documentary “The Fatal Shore” andthe 1981 Peter Weir film “Gallipoli”, starring a young Mel Gibson.The movie records an attack on the narrow ridge called The Nek on August 7, 1915, when more than 300 Australians weregunned down in a futile but courageous attack on an area no bigger than the size of two tennis courts.Four lines of men were sent to almost certain death before the attack was halted.Today, the Australians planned a game of cricket on the beach at Anzac Cove, re-enacting a match played by diggers on afamous section of the battlefield called Shell Green during the final days of the campaign.On December 8, 1915, Britain’s General Kitchener ordered the evacuation of the ANZAC forces.The Turks must have been literally stumped when they watched a group of soldiers from the NSW 4th Battalion stage a cricketmatch at Shell Green on December 17, 1915.By this stage of the campaign the Turks and the ANZACS had developed a mutual respect and often exchanged presents.The Turks held their fire to watch the cricket but after two hours they’d had enough and started shelling the Australians.According to the diary of one ANZAC, Granville Ryrie, the match continued anyway until the Turks doubled their firepowerand the Aussies reluctantly called it a draw.

ScorecardRob Key added another hundred to his large collection at the St Lawrence Ground•Getty Images

Rob Key’s first Championship century inside 16 months helped Kent prosper on the opening day of their LV= County Championship clash with Division Two leaders Lancashire in Canterbury.On an overcast day when 26 overs were lost to rain and bad light, Kent’s top-order flourished against a weakened and lethargic Lancashire attack to post 235 for 3 from only 70 overs’ play.Key hit a season’s best 113 and featured in stands worth 72 with Daniel Bell-Drummond and then 149 inside 35 overs with Joe Denly on a day when Lancashire – who began the round needing five points to clinch promotion – clearly expected ball to dominate bat.Without three key members of their pace attack – including the division’s leading wicket-taker in Kyle Jarvis as well as their overseas pro James Faulkner, both with fractured hands – Lancashire elected to field first when play started on time at 10.30am.However, only 28 balls were bowled during a staccato opening session before the players, with Kent on seven without loss, fled for cover from a heavy shower for an early lunch just after noon.Key might have gone for 3, when Alviro Petersen downed a slip catch off Glen Chapple with the home total on 23 without loss, yet Kent’s only casualty of the opening two sessions came after 28.3 overs.With his score on 37 after 103 minutes at the crease Bell-Drummond, walking across his stumps and aiming to leg, was trapped lbw by a Tom Bailey off-cutter to make it 72 for 1.Key scored only four boundaries in his patient 116-ball 50, two of which came with straight drives in successive overs from left-arm spinner Simon Kerrigan, as Key and Denly set out their stall to bat time.Denly reached his 79-ball 50 with a sweetly-timed leg-side clip off Chapple for his eighth boundary, while Key reached three figures with an all-run four after straight driving the same bowler. The hundred came off 179 balls and included 11 fours, 10 of them boundaries.It was Key’s first Championship century since May 5 last year when he scored 126 in the win over Surrey. It was also his 24th first-class hundred on the ground for Kent, where he is comfortably the county’s leading run-scorer with almost 8,000 runs to his name.Bad light took the players off for a fourth time shortly before 5pm and Key and Denly both perished soon after the resumptions half an hour later. Denly, playing late to the skiddy pace of Jordan Clark, departed lbw for 65 then Key, after 201 balls, fenced at a Clark lifter and spooned a comfortable catch to gully off the shoulder of the bat in the same over.Lancashire might have finished the day on an even bigger high had Karl Brown held onto a sharp slip chance offered by home skipper Sam Northeast when on 4, but the opportunity, off the bowling of Clark, went to ground allowing Northeast and night watchman James Tredwell to bat out the three remaining overs through to stumps.

Michael Kasprowicz, who grew into a respected Test bowler after starting his state career as a smiling 17-year-old, will retire after the one-day match against Western Australia on February 16. One of the game’s most popular players, Kasprowicz will leave as Queensland’s most prolific wicket-taker – he currently has 501, 38 more than his great friend Andy Bichel – and a valued contributor to Australian cricket over the past three decades.In a collection of fine achievements, Kasprowicz’s greatest is probably the recovery from injuries as a result of the 2006 boot camp. He hurt his back during the bonding exercises, then suffered a groin problem and delivered only eight balls for Queensland before hurting his leg. It was his lowest season but he remained in good spirits, jokingly claiming the break as long-service leave.Further problems hampered him this summer and the constant battle to regain fitness has resulted in him walking away. He has appeared in four first-class matches since coming back, taking 11 wickets at 35.09, and collected five victims in five FR Cup matches. Kasprowicz, who has two young children, is 36 on Sunday and his exit opens the way for a new breed of Queensland bowlers.”I’m excited about the opportunities that await me,” he said. “I’m looking forward to doing things like going to the beach on a Saturday in summer for the first time since I was about eight years old and spending time with my family together. Probably the one thing I will miss is the feeling you get in a winning dressing room and being with your mates.”He has played 114 first-class games for Queensland and also had county stints with Essex, Leicestershire and Glamorgan, where he honed his skills and frightened batsmen with his under-estimated pace. Consistent performances for the domestic sides ensured he was never far from being mentioned in selection meetings and he was constantly to-ing and fro-ing into the national side.In 43 Tests he picked up 113 wickets at 32.88, although his figures were better than they read. Five-wicket hauls came at The Oval, where he recorded a career-best 7 for 36 in 1997, Bangalore, Darwin and Perth, showing his versatility. He also appeared in 43 ODIs and the country’s first two Twenty20 internationals.During his last Test Kasprowicz sealed a dramatic two-wicket victory in partnership with Brett Lee against South Africa, easing the pain of the disheartening defeat to England in the 2005 Ashes. Following a 59-run last-wicket stand with Lee, Kasprowicz was ruled to have edged Andrew Flintoff to Geraint Jones at Edgbaston, a moment that was crucial to England winning the series for the first time in 16 years.The pair fell three short of a legendary success and Kasprowicz was devastated. His mood wasn’t helped by a text message from a confident former school mate, who congratulated him on the victory when it seemed certain Australia would secure a miraculous result.

After playing 13 consecutive Tests during a period when his form was so strong he kept Lee out, Kasprowicz was no longer considered an essential during that series. He fought back to tour South Africa, but was forced home with injury and never returned.Ricky Ponting said Kasprowicz “did a terrific job” whenever he played for Australia. “He’s been an amazing servant to Queensland and Australian cricket,” he said. “He’s just a real workhorse sort of bowler. He had to reinvent himself a couple of times through his career, had a few injuries early on and loss of form and that sort of thing.”Ponting said Kasprowicz’s lighter side made him fun to tour with. “He made a newspaper, the Mumbai Mumbler, he called it,” he said. “Chock-a-block full of some hilarious stuff. He’d download pictures from the internet and make up little stories about it. He was terrific to have around the group.””I’ve enjoyed every moment I had in the game,” Kasprowicz said. “I have tried to make it fun whenever I was on the field, whatever the state of the game.”A man for all conditions, he kept answering his country’s SOS calls, particularly for tours to the subcontinent. One of his key qualities in the middle stages of his career was an ability to reverse-swing the ball, a trait which won him high praise in India. In the beginning, when he played for Queensland while his mates studied for their final high school exams, he was a swing bowler, but he showed he could evolve with the game, concentrating on hitting the pitch before re-focussing later in life on shape in the air.Kasprowicz has acted as a mentor for youngsters throughout his time with the state and bowlers with promise will continue to line up for invaluable tips from a professional who has finally given in to his body’s demands. Players like Kasprowicz, who have pushed forcefully from the fringes, have been responsible for keeping the standards of the national team so high. Australian cricket should not forget him easily.

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Robert Quiney and David Hussey put Victoria in a position to set Tasmania a testing final-day target as they built a 286-run lead at Hobart. The Bushrangers, who lost the first-innings points on day two, quickly moved ahead and Quiney and Hussey combined for an important 110-run stand.Quiney, who is on debut, was responsible for guiding Victoria in the early stages and he collected a maiden half-century. However, his push for a hundred was ended when Dan Marsh had him caught at first slip for a well-made 82.Hussey, the captain, collected 11 fours as he eased to 80 off 141 balls before he fell charging Marsh in the push for quick runs. Michael Klinger (41) and Andrew McDonald (59) made useful contributions and Victoria, who lost two late wickets, reached 7 for 311 at the close. An outright result is important for both sides with Victoria sitting in second and Tasmania in fourth on the Pura Cup table.

Racist crowd taunts at Australian grounds this summer have increased to include Sri Lanka, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. The paper also said John Rhodes, the ICC’s regional security chief, was punched by a spectator at Melbourne’s Telstra Dome as the behaviour of supporters comes under even heavier scrutiny following derogatory remarks made to South Africa’s squad throughout their tour.The report said up to five spectators were ejected from the Adelaide Oval on Australia Day for calling the Sri Lankans “black c****”. The same description was yelled by Darren Lehmann, the South Australia captain, in a Brisbane dressing room after he was dismissed in a 2002-03 VB Series match against Sri Lanka, and he received a five-match suspension that ruled him out of the early stages of the World Cup. Indian supporters were also targeted at the Adelaide Oval during the 2003-04 tour.Cricket Australia has a zero-tolerance policy on racist remarks and is reviewing its security policy after problems in each of the three Tests were carried into the VB Series. A spectator was evicted at the Gabba for a verbal attack on Shaun Pollock and South Africa’s chief executive Gerald Majola said at the weekend the United Cricket Board would consider not returning to Australia because of the behaviour.”It is not right when a country has a history like ours,” he said in . “The sad thing is it has continued around Australia. It hasn’t just been limited to one state or city.”The said Rhodes, the ICC’s Anti-Corruption and Security Unit boss in Australia and New Zealand, was punched after an inebriated spectator reportedly accused him of being South African. The man was later ejected from the ground.

Australia has traditionally been a happy hunting ground for fast bowlers, who relish the extra bounce on that the pitches offer. However, the true nature of those tracks places an extra premium on accuracy. Damien Fleming, the former Australian swing bowler, spells out the skills needed for a fast bowler to succeed in Australia.

The best way for an Indian fast bowler to adapt here is by not doing or thinking much about it. Both the Indian left-arm fast bowlers – Zaheer Khan and Ashish Nehra – if they bowl well, will pose problems for the Australians.In India the ball swings more, whereas here the bounce is the most vital weapon. There might be periods when the ball will swing, but it won’t swing consistently throughout the five days. India are lucky that both Zaheer and Nehra swing the ball, but they need to deploy change of pace, and be accurate and patient because the Australian batsmen score quickly. You will have the bounce, but that will only work if you pitch it in the right place. For an Indian fast bowler it is much better than bowling back home. In Sydney and Adelaide bowling cutters – rolling your fingers across the seam for an offcutter or a legcutter – could work as the ball really grip on those tracks.As for the possibility of injuries while bowling in Australia, I should be the last person giving any kind of advice, having hardly played two Tests together. But to me there are three categories of injury prevention. The first is having the correct action: you need to have the shoulder and hip aligned side-on, as opposed to having the hip side-on and the shoulder front-on or vice-versa.Second, the need for physical strength: good core stability, and strength in the legs and shoulders. And third, to watch your workload: once you are into a Test you may be required to bowl upto 50 overs. And if you have bowled that many overs then there is the need to recover by doing some weights training, kick your strength up, and get some bowling done in the nets to get back to peak fitness again before the next game.Bowling on Australian soil will no doubt be harder on the feet for the Indians. However, they will enjoy the weather in Australia: the humidity levels, especially, will be far more bearable than places like Chennai and Kochi. Physically the Indians should be fine. The bigger task will be the mental battle of keeping the pressure up for the entire 90 over in a day, and making sure that they win more sessions than the Australians.