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Lamichhane and Zampa do the damage before Stoinis and Maxwell see Stars home in the Melbourne derby

Varun Shetty04-Jan-2020Melbourne Stars won the season’s first Melbourne derby in comprehensive fashion after their legspinning duo of Sandeep Lamichhane and Adam Zampa prompted a collapse that read 5 for 8 by the time it finished.Coming at 2 for 117, just when Melbourne Renegades had set up for a strong finish and had the well-set Shaun Marsh at the crease, it helped restrict Renegades to 142. Marcus Stoinis made an unbeaten 68 and Glenn Maxwell an unbeaten 40 to see the Stars through with eight wickets in hand and open up a two-point lead at the top of the table with their fifth win in six matches.In second place, Sydney Sixers have eight points in six matches. The loss – their sixth this season – means that defending champions Renegades continue to be the only team without a point on the board.Finch and Marsh see off early troubleSam Harper was certainly adventurous after Stars put Renegades in, but his innings only lasted eight balls as he ended up mistiming a rising delivery from Nathan Coulter-Nile to mid-on in the second over. This brought Aaron Finch and Shaun Marsh together and the pair went about the Powerplay without taking too many risks.Dale Steyn and Daniel Worrall tied their respective ends up even as Coulter-Nile had a bad outing, but neither Finch nor Marsh looked particularly perturbed by the relatively sedate scoring rate. Going at just about seven an over in the eighth over, Finch lined up Adam Zampa in his first over and slog-swept him for six to get Renegades past 50. But minutes later, he got too far away from a googly pitched outside off, and Zampa was past his slog sweep to get off stump. The 42-run stand had still brought some stability on a slowish surface though.The spinnersMarsh and Beau Webster managed to move things forward without being particularly belligerent. The odd boundaries were on offer even though the spinners were tight through the middle overs. Lamichhane didn’t have the brightest start to his spell, while at the other end Zampa was stringing the dot balls together efficiently.The pair put on 62 in the seven overs they batted together until a stunning bit of work by Ben Dunk at long-on completely turned the game in the 15th over. Running to his left in chase of a Marsh pull shot against Lamichhane, Dunk jumped to hold on with two hands, managed to take two steps to keep himself on his feet, and managed to hurl a backhand to Coulter-Nile who was converging from deep midwicket just before his third step over the boundary line.Two balls later, Lamichhane got a floaty legbreak to dip and spin past Dan Christian outside off and get his foot marginally off the ground. The touch-and-go stumping call went Stars’ way and suddenly Renegades had lost their two of their most experienced batsmen in three balls.Zampa lured Webster into a cut with a tantalisingly slow ball outside off and beat him next over, only to follow up with a slider that also looked good for the cut. Only it snuck through rapidly and took his middle stump instead. Lamichhane helped himself to another one and Steyn closed things out at 142, which appeared at least 20 below par.A burst and then a trickleStars’ openers made it look at least 40 under par with the way they began the chase. Tom Cooper was handed the first over and Stoinis hit him for three boundaries to start things off. Nic Maddinson started his innings with an elegant square drive against Kane Richardson next over, then followed up with not-so-elegant boundaries off the next two balls. Christian dropped Stoinis at midwicket off Richard Gleeson in the third over, and the seamer’s average season looked to stretch even further as he conceded 13 off his opening over. Stars had raced to 41 in their first three overs.Finch persisted with Renegades’ best bowler this season, Richardson, and in his third over he managed to get Maddinson to slice one up for backward point. The legspin of Boyce then helped slow things down, and a promoted Dunk looked largely uncomfortable and hit no boundaries before finding mid-off with a leading edge off Gleeson.But the drought wouldn’t last. In the 12th over, Glenn Maxwell slapped Gleeson in front of square for the first boundary since the fifth over. He repeated it two balls later, and the momentum was back. By the time he reverse-whipped left-arm spinner Tom Andrews for six at the backward point boundary, the required rate was nearly down at run-a-ball. The last 18 runs were scored without any boundaries, but Stars still won with seven balls to spare.

England batsman happy to be dismissed taking the attacking option after producing another crucial fifty

Andrew Miller25-Nov-2018Jos Buttler credited a TV re-run of a Michael Clarke masterclass as the inspiration behind his much-changed batting approach on the third day in Colombo, as he switched from the use of the sweep to relying on nimble footwork to combat Sri Lanka’s spinners during another vital, momentum-seizing half-century.After arriving at the crease with England four-down for 39 in their second innings and struggling in particular to combat Dilruwan Perera’s skiddy use of the new ball, Buttler took to galloping out of his crease to meet it early, a policy that paid off on the one hand as he top-scored in England’s second innings with 64 from 79 balls, but did ultimately result in his downfall midway through the afternoon session, as he was stumped down the leg side off Lakshan Sandakan.”We were trying to wrestle back momentum,” Buttler told Sky Sports. “The new ball seems to be a tricky place to bat against spin – some were skidding on, some were spinning.”We’ve talked about trying to play in a brave way and looking to score. It felt like being busy and getting them off their lengths was the best way to go, and trying to get a partnership going, which we managed with me and Ben [Stokes].”Asked why he had deviated from the sweeping tactic which, in the second Test at Pallekele in particular, had proven so effective for England, Buttler claimed he had simply been inspired to try something different after watching a re-run of Clarke’s treatment of England’s premier spinner, Graeme Swann, during one of their many Ashes encounters.”In Kandy, we were watching one of those cricket classics and Michael Clarke was batting, and Jimmy [Anderson] said, God, he was using his feet nearly every ball and Swanny couldn’t bowl at him. I thought that seems like a good way to go, I’ll try a bit of that.”Sometimes you feel confident with a certain way of playing and actually using my feet today felt like the way to go, especially with the offspin and the angles from around the wicket. Sweeping had a risk of lbw and I tried to take that out of the game by getting as far out as I could.”Buttler did, however, concede that his premeditated movement out of the crease had carried with it inevitable risks – much as his use of the sweep had led to his downfall in both innings of the second Test. However, he insisted that, by staying true to his gameplan, he was able to rationalise the disappointment when it did finally backfire on him.”A lot of the time, it’s about trying to make peace with the way of getting out,” he said. “If I got caught on the crease and lbw, I’d be more disappointed with that than getting stumped. The last game I was happier to get out sweeping than I was to play a forward defence. You can sit in the changing room after and make peace with the fact that I stuck with my gameplan.”I think with it spinning like that, if you can get as close to it as possible to the ball, especially on the full, then it can’t spin. At times I was maybe a bit too premeditated on how I was coming down. I was trying to gauge an area [that the ball would land in], and it would have been ideal to go later and a bit more direct at the ball just after release. But to get as far out as I wanted, I felt I had to go early.”Buttler’s equanimity at the prospect of failure was a further reflection of the relaxed team ethos that has been encouraged by Trevor Bayliss, and which has already seen huge gains for the white-ball squad in their rise to the No.1 world ranking.”It’s a little bit about the mantra that’s being preached [in the dressing room],” said Buttler. “‘Positive’ is a word that’s been used a lot, but It doesn’t just mean fours and sixes and aggressive shots, it can mean positive footwork, positive running, singles and that sort of stuff.”For myself I look to play that way. Making peace with the way that I can get out makes it a lot clearer for me. It makes me commit to a gameplan more, rather than second-guessing ‘shall I run or shall I not?'”I might get out, but you could get out any ball doing anything. If I stick to my gameplan and get out, I’m more at ease with that than if I veered away from it.”

Losses during the Test series contributed to the formation of a “losing dressing room” says allrounder

Mohammad Isam30-Oct-2017The negativity among the Bangladesh players spread like a “virus” as they got thrashed one game at a time on their South Africa tour, according to Shakib Al Hasan, . The four weeks of woeful cricket finished with the 83-run defeat in the second T20 in Potchefstroom.Shakib said that once they were handed the drubbings in the two Tests, the morale within the group started to go down, and it culminated in poorer performances in the ODIs, Bangladesh’s favoured format, and T20s. None of Bangladesh’s batsmen made more than 300 runs across formats on this tour, while their highest wicket-taker, Rubel Hossain, took just seven wickets.Shakib observed that those in the dressing-room started to speak about personal things when things didn’t go their way, which inevitably contributed to low moods and an atmosphere of defeat.”I think a big reason [for the performance] was that we didn’t do well in Tests, and when the ODIs came around that mood lingered into that format,” Shakib said. “Similarly, when we did not do well in the ODIs, it lingered into the T20s. It’s like a virus. If we did well in Tests, then we could have done even better in ODIs, and even better thereafter in the T20s.”That’s how these things work; it is so critical that if you are in the dressing room. You can tell from the atmosphere. The mentality is different in a winning dressing room; everyone talks about winning. In a losing dressing room, people talk about personal things, and unwittingly negative things come in. Atmosphere is important. More than one or two people performing, it is important that the team performs.”Bangladesh’s batsmen, especially Mushfiqur Rahim, had his moments including the century in the first ODI, which was the first by a Bangladeshi against South Africa. Mominul Haque, Mahmudullah and Liton Das had one good innings each, while Soumya Sarkar concluded a poor series with two scores of 40-plus. They never put up substantial, match-changing partnerships which the South Africans did in abundance.The bowlers however had a terrible time. Collectively, the bowlers conceded the fourth-highest average in a Test series. For the first time, they went on to concede 1,000-plus runs in an ODI series. They were also on the receiving end of the fastest T20 international hundred. Shakib said that the most worrying thing was the lack of fight they posed to South Africa.”The records will show that no team has performed well in away series in the last three or four years. But we were not able to compete in this series, which is frustrating. We played well in the last 2-3 years which is why we expected to fight here. But unfortunately we were not able to get out from the losing streak,” he said.Shakib, however, warned against massive changes in the Bangladesh setup for their next assignment, which will be next year against Sri Lanka at home. He said that they have to make a combined effort to put things right.”People will have personal opinions but I won’t say that we have to start thinking about sea changes after just one series. It is a little normal that results like this will happen on overseas tours. Maybe it was expected that we would lose, but we did not expect to play the cricket we did to lose the way we did.”We all know what our ability is, and none of us could perform up to that. So in that regard I am sure that everyone – starting with the BCB, the coaching staff and us players – will work hard to overcome it, which is important if we want to move forward,” he said.

Former Test allrounder Andrew McDonald has been confirmed as Victoria’s new head coach

ESPNcricinfo staff27-Aug-2016Former Test allrounder Andrew McDonald has been confirmed as Victoria’s new head coach, after he announced during the week he was leaving his position in charge of Leicestershire.The vacancy with Victoria opened up after David Saker was named Australia’s new assistant coach in July, and McDonald soon became the leading candidate. He was appointed head coach of the Melbourne Renegades – a position that Saker had also held – earlier this month and Cricket Victoria has now confirmed that McDonald will also take the state reins.The move continues a rapid coaching rise for McDonald, 35, who less than two years ago was still playing in the Sheffield Shield. Although he ended his career with South Australia and also played four Tests during 2009, most of McDonald’s career in Australia was played with Victoria – he appeared in 71 first-class games for them for 3516 runs at 40.88 and 163 wickets at 28.18.Over the past two years, McDonald has been a popular coach of Leicestershire, lifting the performances of the struggling county, and now he will take over a side sitting in a position of strength in Australian cricket. Victoria have won the past two Sheffield Shield titles, first under long-time coach Greg Shipperd in 2014-15, and then under his replacement Saker in 2015-16.”I’m really pleased to be coming home to Victoria to take on the coaching role with the Commonwealth Bank Bushrangers,” McDonald said. “The state team is in a really good place on the back of consecutive Shield victories and I’m looking forward to building on that culture of success and delivering results across all formats.”I’m a proud Victorian and have been lucky enough to share some big wins playing cricket for this state. I’m excited about the challenges that are ahead of us and I look forward to working with the coaching staff and the players led by Matthew Wade on the busy schedule ahead.”Tony Dodemaide, the Cricket Victoria CEO, said: “We’re delighted that Andrew has agreed to return to Victoria after his time in charge with Leicestershire. He brings a great enthusiasm and knowledge to the role and knows Victorian cricket well which stands us in good stead ahead of the upcoming Sheffield Shield season and Matador BBQs One Day Cup.”The Commonwealth Bank Bushrangers have enjoyed terrific success in the last two years with our consecutive Shield victories. Andrew – a former Shield winner himself – understands elite performance environments and is looking to build on that success this season.”

Stuart Broad says that Mark Footitt, the surprise call up for England’s pre-Ashes camp, can at least be grateful that he will not be holding a brick above his head at three in the morning

ESPNcricinfo staff19-Jun-20152:15

‘I will play one-day cricket again for England’ – Broad

Stuart Broad has predicted that Mark Footitt, England’s surprise pick for the pre-Ashes camp, will be a serious contender for the Investec Ashes against Australia and suggested that when he gets to Spain he will at least be spared some of the boot camp rigours of previous vintage.To prepare for previous Ashes series, Andy Flower, the former team director, preferred outward bound style experiences designed to build unity through shared hardship or visits to battle fields and concentration camps intended to bring a sense of perspective to young minds.The trip arranged in 2010-11 was organised by the ECB’s security adviser, Reg Dickason, and came under the auspices of the Australian police force. James Anderson and Chris Tremlett, two England fast bowlers, suffered rib injuries in boxing matches. Minor misdemeanours were punished by hundreds of press-ups.Graeme Swann wrote in his autobiography that he hated every minute of it and joked: “I would gladly be England cricket’s first conscientious objector.”Broad expects England’s introduction to Trevor Bayliss to be more cricket orientated. “I think it’s going to be a planning trip, the guys getting together and talking about how we want to play our cricket, how we want to beat Australia, the coach having his ideas.”I’m sure there’ll be some bowling over there, some fitness, fielding etc. It’s only a three-day camp, so we haven’t got time for everything but I don’t think we’ll be in tents and at 3am holding bricks above our heads.”Footitt, Derbyshire’s left-arm pace bowler, a rare commodity in English cricket unlike their rivals Australia, took the most wickets overall in domestic cricket in 2014.Stuart Broad played against Mark Footitt when the two were coming through age-group cricket•Getty Images

“Footitt’s had a fantastic year and a half: left-armer, slightly different, swings it,” Broad said. “He’s consistently put his name in the hat really. He trained with us at Lord’s before the first Test of the summer and was impressive in the nets.”We’ve got 14-15 guys who could potentially play in the Investec Ashes and it’s important everyone is on fire in knowing the way the team want to play, knowing the plans and knowing the new coach as well.”I think he’s been included because he’s taken a load of wickets in county cricket. I think it’s exciting, it shows that if you perform in county cricket you do get recognition. He’s taken a lot of Division Two wickets at a really good average and he’ll want to test himself at the top level.”I’ve played a lot against Footy, we were the same age group growing up and he’s done incredibly well since he’s gone to Derbyshire. He’ll be excited to hopefully get an opportunity but of course he will be bowling at the guys as a left-arm option. There are not that many left-armers in England so it will be great to see what he can do.”

Somerset have continued to cement their reputation as one of the best run, and financially secure, county set-ups after they announced a record profit

Andrew McGlashan06-Dec-2012Somerset have continued to cement their reputation as one of the best run, and financially secure, counties after they announced a record profit of £409,000 up to September 2012, a marginal increase on the previous year.It is a considerable achievement by Somerset considering last season was one of the wettest on record with the weather impacting all counties.Somerset’s position was strengthened by their second-place finish in the County Championship as well as being able to stage a home quarter-final in the Friends Life t20. There was also the impact of their successful Champions League T20 run in 2011 when they reached the semi-finals.Chief executive Guy Lavender told the club’s website: “This has been a very tough year and whilst we have seen some weather-related reductions in match receipts, we have been able to drive the club’s business forward in a number of different areas. It is of credit to both our playing and non-playing staff who have worked hard to make sure that we have thrived again this year.”Somerset are also producing a regular supply of cricketers for England. Nick Compton, whose career has been transformed since moving from Middlesex, is currently opening the batting in India while both Craig Kieswetter and Jos Buttler are involved in various parts of the limited-overs set-up.Andy Nash, the chairman, added that there remain two major targets for the club. “Our twin ambitions are to win the County Championship and to bring one day international cricket to the County Ground. We are well placed to begin preparatory work on the next phase of ground development and having consolidated and strengthened our cricketing squad for next season, we are in good shape for the 2013 campaign.”The club are in the process of recruiting a new director of cricket after Brian Rose stepped down at the end of last season. Dave Nosworthy, the former Highveld Lions coach, is understood to be the leading candidate for the position.Alviro Petersen, the South Africa opening batsman, has been signed as an overseas player for the first part of the season.

South Africa’s cricketers have lent their support to the Sri Lanka players, who have not been paid their salaries for eight months

ESPNcricinfo staff03-Dec-2011South Africa’s cricketers have lent their support to the Sri Lanka players, who have not been paid their salaries for eight months, saying it was a credit to the Sri Lanka team that they had kept going but the issue needed to be resolved soon. South Africa are set to host Sri Lanka for three Tests and five ODIs, but Graeme Smith and AB de Villiers, the Test and ODI captain respectively, chose to speak out against the Sri Lankan board, who have withheld their players’ salaries due to a severe financial crunch.”We want to show our support for Tillakaratne Dilshan and our fellow professional cricketers from Sri Lanka on this issue,” Smith said in a South African Cricketers’ Association (SACA) release. “It is far from ideal that the Sri Lankan team is about to start a tough Test series and ODI series here in South Africa without having been paid any of their remuneration for the last eight months.”Sri Lanka Cricket is waiting on payments of around US$ 4.3 million from the ICC for co-hosting the World Cup, but that will only arrive after the ICC complete their audit and the ICC have said it is SLC’s responsibility to pay their players. “In this age of professionalism in cricket this kind of thing should not be happening,” de Villiers said. “It’s a credit to the players that they’ve kept playing for their country since March despite all of this. We hope it gets sorted out soon.”The Sri Lankan Cricketers’ Association (SLCA) has contacted the Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations (FICA) to seek assistance on what can be done to ensure the players are paid, and SACA’s chief-executive Tony Irish said he hoped for positive progress before Sri Lanka started their tour game against South Africa A on December 9. “It’s difficult to understand how a board which has just co-hosted the ICC Cricket World Cup can find itself in such a desperate financial situation that it can’t pay its national team of fully contracted professionals for months on end”, Irish said. “We know that the players association in Sri Lanka is doing what it can to sort this out for the players and we hope for some positive progress before the first match of the tour starts against.”SLC has been in a financial crisis following the construction of new stadiums in Hambantota and Pallekele, and the renovation of the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo for the World Cup.Upali Dharmadasa, the chairman of SLC’s interim committee, was critical of the previous administration for spending expansively on those stadiums. He had said he was hopeful the players would be paid soon as he understood that the ICC audit had been completed and SLC would receive the remainder of the World Cup payment due to them.Meanwhile, the three stadiums were handed over to the military earlier this month because the board was struggling to maintain them. The World Cup had left SLC in debt to the tune of $23 million and the board had to ask for a grant from the Sri Lanka government.

Bangladesh have been awarded the rights to host the 2012 Asia Cup after an executive committee meeting of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) in Dhaka over the weekend

Akhila Ranganna13-Dec-2010Bangladesh have been awarded the rights to host the 2012 Asia Cup after an executive committee meeting of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) in Dhaka over the weekend. The tournament will be held at the Shere Bangla National stadium in Mirpur from March 1 to March 12. The last time Bangladesh hosted the Asia Cup was in 2000.”We are thrilled the 11th Asia Cup will be held in Bangladesh,” Syed Ashraful Huq, CEO of the ACC, told ESPNcricinfo. “It goes well with Mustafa Kamal’s presidency of both bodies [ACC and the Bangladesh Cricket Board] and we are confident the tournament will go well.”The tournament will involve Asia’s four Test-playing nations – India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. “We are endeavouring to have more countries take part in future events [of the Asia Cup],” Shahriar Khan, media manager of the ACC, told ESPNcricinfo. “At this stage Afghanistan are the only real world-class challengers. We would like the other countries to come up and once they are ready, we would expand the Asia Cup in the years ahead.”China was one of the contenders for hosting the tournament but lost out due to questions over whether it had the cricketing infrastructure to hold a quadrangular one-day competition. “There are no floodlights, that are required, as all the matches [in the Asia Cup] have to be day and night games,” Huq said. The cricket matches of last month’s Asian Games were held in the city of Guangzhou in southern China. Guangzhou’s stadium has an 80-metre boundary and seven pitches, four of which were used to hold 30 Twenty20 matches during the Asian Games.India are the current holders of the Asia Cup, having beaten Sri Lanka by 81 runs in the final in Dambulla in June this year.

An unbeaten 82 by Rameez Aziz helped Pakistan to a six-wicket win and level the series with one game to play in Blenheim

Cricinfo staff05-Jan-2010
ScorecardAn unbeaten 82 by Rameez Aziz helped Pakistan to a six-wicket win and levelled the series with one game to play in Blenheim. Set a modest target of 208, Pakistan got off to a shaky start, losing three early wickets, before two half-century stands – both involving Aziz – guided them home.New Zealand will be disappointed they didn’t go on to score a lot more after the start they got. Thomas Latham, son of former New Zealand player Rod, was in sight of a half-century but his dismissal sparked a collapse. New Zealand were 91 for 2 in the 18th over at that stage but they suddenly lost six wickets for 40 runs. Usman Qadir took three middle-order wickets to orchestrate that collapse. However, Jonathan Hickey and Dane Cleaver hit 30s in a 70-run stand to push the score past 200.Pakistan were in early trouble at 35 for 3 against the New Zealand seamers, led by Doug Bracewell. Ghumman and Aziz added 97 to pull the match back in Pakistan’s favour. After Ghumman fell for 41, Hammad Azam joined Aziz in a stand of 79 to finish the game.The teams will play the deciding game on Thursday, as part of the warm-up for the Under-19 World Cup.

Kerala entered the Ranji Trophy semi-final only for the second time in their history

Shashank Kishore12-Feb-2025
Salman Nizar was the hero for Kerala as they entered the Ranji Trophy semi-final only for the second time in their history. They got there having batted out the entire final day of an absorbing contest against Jammu & Kashmir that went into the last 30 minutes with all results possible.J&K needed four wickets, while Kerala simply needed to bat time to ensure a draw was enough since they’d taken a one-run lead. Nizar was unbeaten on 44 off 162 balls, Mohammed Azharuddeen 67 off 118 balls. The seventh-wicket pair batted out 42.4 overs to grind J&K’s attack to dust on the final day. Kerala are set to face Gujarat in the semi-final on February 17, while Mumbai will take on Vidarbha in the other semi-final.As important as Nizar’s second-innings rearguard was, it was his first-innings 112 that set the game up for Kerala, taking them from the brink to giving them the lead that eventually proved massive. Nizar marshalled the lower order, putting together 81 with No. 11 Basil Thampi to help steal the lead after J&K had Kerala tottering at 200 for 9 after they’d posted 280.Related

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Nizar’s unbeaten century underpinned Kerala’s fight, but Jalaj Saxena’s 67 was equally impactful. Saxena resurrected a floundering innings from 11 for 3 as J&K seamer Auqib Nabi, also the season’s second-highest wicket-takers, made the ball track on a greenish Pune deck. Saxena counter-attacked his way to a half-century, in which he drove, cut and pulled imperiously.Saxena’s dismissal had the potential to prove game-changing, but Nizar stood up, like he did in the must-win final league game last week against Bihar when he hit a century to swell their first-innings total.File photo: Salman Nizar and Sachin Baby played crucial knocks in the second innings•KCA

Kerala began the final day on 100 for 2, still needing 299 for victory. But it was clear from the beginning that they weren’t after the runs. Sachin Baby and Akshay Chandran put together 58, but batted together for 43 overs in the process to frustrate J&K in their victory march.The tide turned just before lunch as J&K’s spinners made massive inroads. Chandran was out caught at short leg by Shubham Khajuria. Soon after the break, they were fully in the ascendancy when they lost two wickets in two overs. Sahil Lotra, the offspinner, had Baby jab at one that turned and bounced, while Saxena was out looking to drive left-arm spinner Abid Mushtaq.Having hit him through the covers off the previous delivery, he looked to repeat the shot, but was lulled in superbly by Mushtaq as he dragged his length back and had Saxena edging to first slip. When Aditya Sarwate was out looking to hoick Mushtaq over the infield, it seemed the end was nigh.But Nizar and Azharddeen showed resilience and grit in stonewalling J&K’s attack for a better part of the last three hours to secure a draw.J&K would look back on their first innings lapse with the ball, especially when they allowed Kerala’s last pair to get away as a turning point. Despite that, they bounced back to post 399 for 9 in the second innings, thanks largely to captain Paras Dogra’s century. The 40-year-old, in his first season as J&K captain, hit his first century after a prolonged barren run of form – he hadn’t scored a single half-century prior to this game.Those efforts in the end were only a consolation in the end as J&K’s second entry into the knockouts in the last five years ended in a heartbreak. That they’re bowing out without having lost a single game this season will make their exit even tougher to digest.