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Dale Steyn could still make an appearance in South Africa’s ongoing Test series against England, which he is currently sitting out of with a shoulder injury. Steyn posted a picture on Twitter of himself in a hyperbaric chamber, which he is using to speed up his recovery.”Boring, but healing,” Steyn posted, along with a collage of photographs including Scar Tissue, the autobiography of vocalist Anthony Kiedis, which he is reading during sessions.Steyn initially posted that he would spend a fortnight in the chamber, which would rule him out of the fourth Test, but then corrected himself and confirmed he would only need a week of treatment. That period ends on the eve of the Centurion game, which begins on January 22. Steyn will not have much time to get overs in the legs before the game, but he should be bowling fit by the time the ODIs start, on February 3.Should Steyn not recover in time for the SuperSport Park Test, he would have missed six of South Africa’s eight Tests this season. In the two he played, Steyn broke down both times, first with a groin injury in Mohali, which kept him out of the remaining three Tests in India, and then with a shoulder injury in Durban which forced him out of the New Year’s Test and the ongoing Wanderers Test.South Africa have had to search their reserves in Steyn’s absence and have given two debuts to two bowlers in their last two games. Chris Morris was capped at Newlands and Hardus Viljoen at the Wanderers.

Canada and Bermuda lived up to their pre-tournament favourites’ tag by scoring convincing victories in their Americas Under-19 qualifiers in Toronto on Tuesday. Canada beat Argentina by nine wickets while Bermuda won their second match in a row by beating Cayman Islands by seven wickets.Canada bowled out Argentina for 64 in 28 overs and then raced to victory in 9.5 overs for the loss of one wicket, ending Argentina’s chances of qualifying for the U-19 World Cup. Asif Manjra, Usman Iqubal and Pratik Patel took three wickets each and opener Ruvindu Gunasekera ensured a healthy run-rate by scoring 35 off 33 balls.Bermuda, who had crushed Bahamas by 195 runs on Monday, restricted Cayman Islands to 165 in 48.2 overs after asking them to bat. Cayman Islands captain Ramon Sealy once again top scored with 67 off 126 balls that included five fours. He had scored an unbeaten 76 against Bahamas. Malachi Jones picked up 4 for 38 for Bermuda while Stefan Kelly took 2 for 13.Bermuda reached the target in only 30.4 overs for the loss of three wickets. Jones backed up his excellent bowling performance with an unbeaten 41 from 27 balls with six fours and one six. Jones added 79 for the fourth wicket with captain Rodney Trott (37 not out) after Bermuda were reduced to 87 for 3.The tournament winners qualify for the Under-19 World Cup in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, next February.

Team	Mat	Won	Lost	Tied	Aban	Pts
Bermuda	2	2	0	0	0	4
Canada	1	1	0	0	0	2
Cayman Islands	2	1	1	0	0	2
Bahamas	1	0	1	0	0	0
Argentina	2	0	2	0	0	0

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Rajin Saleh had a great day: four wickets and 37 runs to help Bangladesh salvage some pride © Getty Images

Some parsimonious bowling by their spinners and a Shahriar Nafees hundred helped Bangladesh defeat Zimbabwe by eight wickets in the fifth ODI at Harare. Though the hosts have won the series 3-2 this win helped Bangladesh salvage some pride.Bangladesh’s decision to play three spinners, led by the miserly Abdur Razzak, and buttressed by the presence of the part-time offspinner in Rajin Saleh, proved correct as the slow men applied a chokehold to reverse a solid start by Zimbabwe and to eventually restrict them to 197. Saleh, who ended with four wickets, reaped the fruits of the regular spinners’s labour.Zimbabwe, with the cushion of a series win behind them, had raced away to a comfortable position when Khaled Mashud, Bangladesh’s stand-in-captain for the injured Habibul Basher, went for his main weapon: spin. Eleven overs of medium pace had bled 59 runs before Razzak came on. The pitch held no great demons: there was no huge turn or magic balls. Varying his pace smartly he attacked the middle and off stump line. And with the ball not coming on and the spinners hitting the right line and the length, the batsmen struggled to force the pace. The run rate dropped, the pressure grew and the batsmen succumbed one after the other. Hamilton Masakadza put up a battle but, with his colleagues deserting him at regular intervals, he perished as well, hastening the end of the innings.Masakadza had nearly succeeded in breaking free when he hit Mohammed Rafique out of the attack with two stunning hits in the 21st over that erased the smiles from the Bangladeshi faces. He waltzed down the track and sent the ball screaming over long-off and immediately went for the cow corner in deep midwicket. But just when he had earned the license to go for the kill, he found himself bereft of support.Brendan Taylor, the third-match hero, crawled to a painful 24 off 71 balls, unable to strike out against the spinners. He struggled, especially, against the accuracy of Rafique, eking out only 8 runs from 30 balls. And it was not just Rafique; there was to be no relief from the other end as well. The third left-arm spinner, the young Saqibul Hasan, who replaced Shahadat Hossain for this match, was also miserly, and helped tighten the screws. Taylor struggled to rotate the strike back to Masakadza and eventually fell, trying to cut Razzak. The noose had begun to tighten.Elton Chigumbra, sent up the order to increase the tempo, combusted immediately on arrival. An under-pressure Mazakadza soon followed, playing across the line to Saleh and a run out saw another batsmen going down. Four wickets in the space of 13 runs and the spinners had Bangladesh on top. Saleh struck to the basics: kept the ball up, struck to an off stump line and watched as the tail fell, the last five wickets eked out only 25 runs.With Nafees leading the charge and Saleh chipping in with a crisp 37, Bangladesh moved along assuredly in their chase. Prosper Utseya gave Nafees a reprieve in the fourth over when he couldn’t quite hold on to a running catch off a mistimed pull. Nafees was off and running after that. He drove pleasantly and cut with panache to steer Bangladesh home.Earlier, Zimbabwe’s openers, especially Terry Duffin, had gone for the jugular, hitting on-the-up over cover, pulling and driving merrily down the ground. Lady luck humoured Zimbabwe as well: an inside-edged four, by Vusi Sibanda, started off the run-count, a couple of leading edges flew over the fielders and, keeping with the theme of the series, there was the usual drop by a butter-fingered Bangladeshi. In the second over, Sibanda threw his bat at a Farhad Reza delivery which was palmed off at first slip by Mushfiqur Rahim. Two cover drives off Raza – one was so fiercely whacked that nobody moved on the field – followed before Sibanda was done in by a clever bit of bowling from Syed Rasel. Rasel had kept bending the ball back into Sibanda before he suddenly slipped one across the body. A surprised Sibanda did not quite get behind the line, lunged forward and tried to leave the delivery at the last minute but failed.Duffin, who was getting increasingly edgy as the run-rate dropped, tried to hit out of trouble. First, he attempted an ugly hoick, failed, and then off the next ball fell trying to sweep as Razzak slipped one full and straight.Mazakadza’s was a serene effort. True, two savage hits off Rafique would lead the highlights package in news channels, but it was not the norm. He didn’t bludgeon his way around but chose to caress: dabbed a few to the off side, drove a few down the ground, swept to alter the length of the spinners, cut when there was the opportunity and, suddenly, his fifty was up. But with his team-mates struggling against nagging spin, the young Zimbabwe team could not conjure up another dreamy day of cricket.However, the series triumph has provided them considerable redemption in a turbulent period. With the ICC working out a timetable to put Zimbabwe back in Test cricket, this win could not have come at a better time.

Vusi Sibanda c Khaled Mashud b Syed Rasel 17 (45 for 1)
Terry Duffin lbw b Abdur Razzak 40 (79 for 2)
Brendan Taylor c Mashud b Razzak 24 (165 for 3)
Elton Chigumbura b Saqibul Hasan 0 (166 for 4)
Hamilton Masakadza b Rajin Saleh 75 (172 for 5)
Mufambisi run out 1 (178 for 6)
Prosper Utseya c sub (Alok Kapali) b Rajin Saleh 7 (189 for 7)
Matsikenyeri b Rajin Saleh 10 (189 for 8)
Anthony Ireland run out Syed Rasel/Khaled Mashud 3 ( 196 for 9)
Bangladesh
Rajin Saleh c & b Prosper Utseya 37 (99 for 1)
Aftab Ahmad st Taylor b Utseya 6 (128 for 2)

Sanath Jayasuriya: played a vital knock at a crucial time © AFP

Rahul Dravid, the Indian captain, has drawn positives from India’s three-wicket loss to Sri Lanka in the first match of the Indian Oil Cup. Dravid has said that he was impressed by the way the bowlers very nearly won the match for India.He said the fact that they had scored 30 runs too little and that they could not contain Sanath Jayasuriya, who made 43, proved decisive. “If we had enough runs on the board we could have won, but the batsmen did not particularly do well. We could have got Sanath and got 30 more runs,” said Dravid quoted by PTI. He said that the bowlers, who made Sri Lanka toil for their 209 runs, and the youngsters, had done well after a three-month break from cricket. “I am proud of the way the bowlers bowled. I could not have asked for more from them. We have to come back strong from here on”.Dravid admitted that the back spasm that VVS Laxman suffered on the morning of the match had caused some selection problems. He defended the decision to drop Anil Kumble and JP Yadav, even though India were a bowler short, saying that they needed the extra batsman because the batting line-up lacked experience. “Frankly I don’t think the combination was an issue. It was our top order who didn’t come good, I do think it was a 250-run wicket,” said Dravid. “We picked three seamers because the wicket did assist swing bowling and there are lights here. The bowlers did well and fought hard.”Marvan Attapattu, the Sri Lankan captain, admitted that there was scope for improvement and admitted that India had fought well. “They fought back well. But we were fortunate to have Sanath,” he said. “There is room for improvement in all the areas. We will try to improve in our next match which is on August 3.”Sanath Jayasuriya suffered a dislocated shoulder during the Indian innings but came back to play a crucial role in steering Sri Lanka to victory. “That’s [opener] my place. I am happy to bat at number five and win the match for the country,” said Jayasuriya. “I told them [batsmen] to stay at the crease and runs will come.” He said that he was in pain at the start of his innings. “Initially I was in pain since I had just taken the injection and it takes 20 minutes for it to work. I couldn’t cut or pull,” said Jayasuriya who rated his knock as one of his most memorable. “We needed to win and my approach was to occupy the crease and bat till the end.”Dravid was all praise for Sanath Jayasuriya and said that his innings was a lesson for all cricketers. “He was terrfic. To do what he did with his dislocated shoulder was outstanding. He is a champion cricketer,” said Dravid. Atapattu said that Jayasuriya would not have batted had Sri Lanka been in a comfortable position instead of 112 for 5. “But we wanted to be in a position where if something goes wrong we could send him in with an injection.” He said it sometimes became tricky to chase a low total. “A low target could be a tricky one. The approach becomes different and you don’t know whether to score fast or get the run rate going.”

No return to colours for Graham Thorpe© Photosport

As England’s one-day form continues to depress, an article in today’s London Daily Mail claims that Graham Thorpe was approached and asked whether he was prepared to rescind his retirement from one-day internationals to help bail England out.The article says that Thorpe was called by David Graveney, the chairman of selectors, and asked about his availability. “Grav asked me to confirm that I had retired from one-day cricket, and I confirmed that I had,” Thorpe told the newspaper. “I’ve had my time and I don’t miss it. One-day cricket is dead and buried for me now, and it would be a huge backward step for England to pick me again anyway.”Graveney admitted that he had spoken to Thorpe. “Nothing is a closed book … but you have to respect an individual’s wishes,” he said. “However, it was worth asking because Thorpe is a quality player who still has a lot to offer.”

Hampshire Under-19 captain Steve Snell could miss the opening month of the new cricket season after fracturing his jaw practising with the MCC Young Cricketers in the Nursery ground nets at Lord’s.Snell, who helped guide the Hampshire YC’s into last season’s ECB Under-19 County Championship final, has broken his jaw in three places.”I’m in a bit of a mess,” he confessed.”I was batting in the nets when a ball reared up and hit me beneath the grill on my helmet.”Snell underwent surgery in a Hampstead hospital and has had a metal plate inserted to hold his jaw together.”I’ve also got all my teeth wired up,” he added.Snell, who will miss Havant’s opening defence of the ECB Southern Electric Premier League championship, had just started his second year on the Lord’s groundstaff.”We’d just come back from pre-season training in Lanzarotte and I was raring to go.”Then this happens,” he groaned.

Glamorgan comfortably ended Hampshire’s sequence of six successive National League victories with a six-wicket win of their own with more than 17 overs to spare.Hampshire supporters will be wondering why Robin Smith chose to bat first on a wicket which was lively, bouncy and difficult to bat on from the start.No batsman got on top of some tight and controlled Glamorgan pace bowling in which Andrew Davies was outstanding. His four for 18 from nine overs was a competition-best and he was well supported by Adrian Dale and Owen Parkin, who each took three cheap wickets, and Steve Watkin whose nine overs cost him only 16 even if he was not rewarded for his accuracy with a wicket.Derek Kenway and Smith himself, normally free-scoring batsmen, hung around without getting on top. Kenway made 22 and Smith’s 26 was equalled as his team’s top scorer by the same number of extras, made up of six leg byes and 20 wides.Conditions were a little easier when Glamorgan batted though Alan Mullally, recalled by England for the next Test, had Keith Newell caught at the wicket in his first over and then got rid of Robert Croft in his fifth.The crucial stand of the day was for the Glamorgan fourth wicket between Jimmy Maher and Matthew Maynard, which yielded a match-winning 61.They came together at 54 for three when Hampshire were still in the hunt and ended when Maher (36) was caught in the slips at 115 with only six runs needed for victory.Maynard, who pulled a six off Chris Tremlett, duly hit the winning runs in the 28th over to end a low-scoring affair which failed to grip the imaginations of the 1,000 crowd.At least Mullally had something to be pleased about. “I reckon I’m bowling as well as at any time in my career,” he said of his call to the England cause at Headingley. “I have taken 52 wickets this season including five in an innings against the Australians and even they wondered why England kept ignoring me.”

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Loads of Newcastle fans have been reacting to an update from Lee Ryder, who reports that Shola Ameobi is in the running for a new role at the club’s academy.

According to Lee Ryder of Chronicle Live, Ameobi is under consideration for one of three new roles on Tyneside.

According to the report, the Magpies are expected to employ “a loan coordinator, Under-23 boss and assistant Academy coach for a range of younger age groups”.

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Under-18 manager Dave Watson will leave the club at the end of the season, while Peter Beardsley left his role as the development manager last month.

Ameobi scored 75 goals and racked up 28 assists in 390 Newcastle appearances, but the formerly popular front man has blotted his copybook with fans due to his views on infamous club owner Mike Ashley.

The 37 year-old defended Ashley’s leadership of the club last year, so it does seem quite the coincidence that he is now in line for a job.

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Yorkshire’s domination of the County Championship continued at the Groundsman of the Year Awards in Derby, as Andy Fogarty’s pitches at Headingley earned him the main prize for four-day cricket.Pitches are under more scrutiny than ever after ECB frustration over some groundsmen producing damp green surfaces to prop up their seam attacks leading to changes to the toss in 2016 to try to combat the practice.Fogarty, a Lancastrian who had worked under Peter Marron at Old Trafford before crossing the Pennines in 1996, won the same award in 2011.He was also commended in the category for one-day pitches, which was won by Somerset’s Simon Lee – who was runner-up in the four-day category.Yorkshire’s instructions to Fogarty are simple. Prepare a good pitch – but just give me pace and carry, is the gist of the information from the director of cricket Jason Gillespie.There was yet more recognition for Yorkshire in the outgrounds category as Scarborough’s John Dodds was runner-up to Bill Clutterbuck of Guildford, the venue for Surrey’s Championship match against Glamorgan. Stuart Kerrison (Colchester) and David Summersell (Uxbridge) were also commended.Every pitch is rated at the end of the match by each of the umpires with these ratings used as the basis for making the awards.Before the awards dinner a minute’s silence was held in memory of Harry Brind and Peter Marron, former winners with Surrey and Lancashire respectively who passed away in 2015.Awards:Four-day: Winner: Andy Fogarty (Headingley). Runner-up: Simon Lee (Taunton). Commended: Neil Godrich (Derby); Simon Williamson (Canterbury).One-day: Winner: Simon Lee (Taunton). Runner-up: Nigel Gray (Ageas Bowl). Commended: Steve Birks (Trent Bridge), Andy Mackay (Hove), Andy Fogarty (Headingley).Outgrounds: Winner: Bill Clutterbuck (Guildford). Runner-up: John Dodds (Scarborough). Commended: Stuart Kerrison (Colchester), David Summersell (Uxbridge).MCC Universities. Winner: Paul Derrick (Durham Racecourse). Runner-up: John Moden (Fenner’s).

Lance Gibbs was one of several current and former players coaching in the clinic © Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Current and former West Indies players were thoroughly impressed with the talent on show after the first day of the Digicel coaching clinic at the 3Ws Oval.More than 30 youngsters, including members of the Barbados Under-13s, were given coaching and guidance from Chris Gayle, Kenny Benjamin, Keith Arthurton and Ronald Straker along with Ramnaresh Sarwan, Denesh Ramdin and Lance Gibbs.”There is a lot of talent here and this is a good sign for the future,” Gayle said. “Hopefully we can nurture these young talented cricketers, groom them as we go along so that we do not lose them in the future, they need the right guidance, proper training and good facilities.”It was a very good and pleasing start, everyone enjoyed the day’s activities, the kids got a run around and to socialize a bit as well.”The young cricketers were taught a number of innovative fielding techniques in the first half the session before being taken to the indoor centre for various batting drills. Gayle was a particular attraction, in a fielding game he called ‘the weakest link’; players were split into two sides, and the team to drop the first ball was penalised with some strenuous physical exercises.Matthew Greaves, a 12-year-old fast bowler who impressed the coaches, and who is a member of the Barbados Under-13 team, was thrilled with the day.”It was a good experience working with the coaches and West Indies players,” he said. “They taught me a lot about how they play and how to get better than them and I learnt a lot of new drills, different techniques and they taught me the basics of cricket.”The next clinic begins in Trinidad on July 26, with further events in Jamaica, Guyana, St Vincent and Antigua.