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A burst of five wickets for 17 runs in just 30 balls shortly after lunch ensured the balance of play favoured Leicestershire at the end of the first day’s play of their Division Two against Surrey at Grace Road.

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ScorecardA burst of five wickets for 17 runs in just 30 balls shortly after lunch ensured the balance of play favoured Leicestershire at the end of the first day’s play of their Division Two against Surrey at Grace Road, dramatically raising their hopes that after winning their first Championship match for 992 days last week, they might add another within a week.Zafar Ansari and Rory Burns put together an impressive opening partnership after the visitors had been inserted on a well-grassed pitch, before both fell with the score on 82.Left-arm seamer Rob Taylor, in the Foxes’ side at the expense of Tom Wells, had Burns leg before on the back foot, and in the following over, Ansari padded up to an inswinging delivery from Charlie Shreck that would have knocked out his off-stump.Kumar Sangakkara and Dominic Sibley took the score on to 122 before Sangakkara, who had played and missed several times at Taylor’s outswingers, edged an attempted drive at Clint McKay and was well held by Andrea Agathangelou at second slip for 21.The Sri Lankan’s dismissal was the first of a clatter of wickets. Steve Davies, in outstanding form with the bat this season, was trapped on the crease by a Ben Raine inswinger and went leg before without scoring.Ben Foakes was unlucky to play an authentic leg glance only for Leicestershire wicket-keeper Niall O’Brien to take a fine catch diving away to his left, but Gary Wilson had already been perilously close to going leg before to McKay when he was pinned in front by a ball that seamed back in.James Burke, making his debut for Surrey, edged a Charlie Shreck outswinger to O’Brien without scoring, and at 139 for 7 the visitors were in some disarray.Sibley was batting solidly, however, and he was joined by Tom Curran in building a partnership of 82 for the eighth wicket. Curran, attacking, and at times riding his luck, went to a maiden first class half-century by launching off-spinner Jigar Naik high over long-on, but then edged an attempted reverse sweep to be caught behind for 60.Leicestershire skipper Mark Cosgrove threw the ball to Agathangelou, and with his first delivery for his new county since being signed, the occasional legspinner spun the ball past the edge of Chris Tremelett’s bat to hit the off-stump.The innings, and Sibley’s long vigil – his 74 came off 154 balls – ended when the right-handed batsman edged Raine down the leg side to give O’Brien his fourth catch of the innings.Leicestershire openers Angus Robson and Matt Boyce then saw off eight overs before the close, to leave Leicestershire, who won their first county championship match in 38 attempts when they beat Essex last week, well satisfied with their day’s work.

Australia’s team performance manager Pat Howard has expressed his disappointment at the Sydney Sixers Twenty20 team not passing on information about Pat Cummins’ condition before he was diagnosed with a back stress fracture

Daniel Brettig04-Nov-2012Australia’s team performance manager Pat Howard has expressed his disappointment at the Sydney Sixers Twenty20 team not passing on information about Pat Cummins’ condition before he was diagnosed with a back stress fracture.Cummins is missing a second consecutive home summer due to injury, having developed soreness across the Champions League in South Africa that was revealed to be a stress fracture on his return home to Australia. Having already lost the allrounder Shane Watson to a pre-planned decision to bring him home to prepare for the home Tests, the Sixers did not initially inform Howard of Cummins’ discomfort.Howard, who remained in touch with the Sixers general manager Stuart Clark during the tournament, said he would be meeting with the Sixers at the next available opportunity.”We’re obviously disappointed we didn’t have the information as quickly as we should’ve,” Howard told ESPNcricinfo. “But for the opportunity to sit down with Sixers management on that, there’s a fair few other things going on. We know Pat’s out, and we have to deal with that, that’s life and you keep moving on. But we were disappointed with how that transpired.”Brett Lee meanwhile has volunteered to help Cummins rework his action after he was ruled out for the season with a stress fracture of the back. Cummins, 19, missed most of last summer with a foot injury and suffered a side strain during this year’s tour of England, and his latest injury is not the first back problem he has encountered during his short career.After scans revealed the extent of his injury, Cummins wondered whether he had fallen into bad habits with his action while playing so much short-form cricket, instead of bowling in the same manner he would when trying to swing a red ball. Lee had a number of injury troubles early in his career and he said he would be happy to pass on some advice to Cummins regarding the best way to bowl at express pace without damaging the back.”I’m not saying in any way, shape or form that Pat needs to change his action,” Lee told the . “But there are some things I reckon I could help him with [such as how] to clean his action up to make it a little bit easier on his back.”The one thing you don’t want as a fast bowler is hyper-extension and counter-rotation [like] he has [and] as I did when I was at the same age … I had that same set-up where there was a lot of twisting and turning in my action, which is where you get your pace from, but it does come at a cost.”Lee shrugged off injuries throughout his career to finish with 310 Test wickets and 380 one-day international victims, but unlike Cummins he did not make his Test debut until he was 23. Cummins was 18 when he wore the baggy green for the first – and so far, only – time against South Africa at the Wanderers last November, where he was Man of the Match for his seven wickets in Australia’s win.Cummins was especially impressive in the way he worked over the veteran Jacques Kallis, who struggled with a few short deliveries before edging to slip. The back injury means Australian fans will be denied the chance to see Cummins take on Kallis and the rest of the South Africans again this summer, and Lee said it was disappointing given what Cummins could have achieved on the Australian pitches.”This is a real blow. He’s a great fellow and I just want to see him out on the field and playing,” Lee said. “I’m shattered for Pat because someone like him bowling 155kph to 160kph at the Gabba would be exciting to see. It would be great to see him match what the South Africans have. It’s disappointing and frustrating to think we haven’t got that now, though it’s not the poor bugger’s fault. I’m 100% confident he’ll be back, but I would’ve loved to have seen him bowl to Jacques Kallis who, in my opinion, is the world’s best cricketer.”

ESPNcricinfo previews the one-off Twenty20 international between Bangladesh and West Indies in Mirpur

The Preview by Dustin Silgardo10-Oct-2011

Match Facts

Bangladesh v West Indies, October 11, Mirpur
Start time 1700 (1100GMT)Marlon Samuels smashed a century in the warm-up Twenty20•Associated Press

Big Picture

It’s been a tough year for Bangladesh. After convincing home one-day series wins against New Zealand and Zimbabwe last year, which helped them go above West Indies in the ICC one-day international rankings, many expected 2011 to be the year Bangladesh would permanently shed the “minnow” tag. Instead, they failed to make it past the group stages of the World Cup, were thrashed at home by Australia and then lost both the one-off Test and ODI series in Zimbabwe. Their captain and vice-captain were sacked after that tour and it is under Mushfiqur Rahim that they attempt a climb back up the rankings.In coming up against West Indies, they revisit the moment when it all started going wrong – when they were bowled out for 58 by the same opponents in a crunch World Cup game in Mirpur, a performance that caused their angry fans to aim stones at the team bus, only to hit the visitors’ bus instead.Bangladesh’s strength at home is based on the effectiveness of their spinners on slow, turning tracks. West Indies, though, might not find the conditions as alien as sides like New Zealand and Zimbabwe. The pitches in the Caribbean of late have often resembled subcontinent ones, and four of West Indies’ batsmen will come to Bangladesh straight from having played for Trinidad & Tobago in the Champions League Twenty20 in India.West Indies do not have Sunil Narine or Samuel Badree, who were so successful for T&T in Indian conditions, in their squad, but the presence of Devendra Bishoo and Andre Russell, who bowls a good slower ball, means they have an attack that can adapt to the conditions. They established their status as favourites by winning both their practice matches against a strong BCB XI outfit, one through a strong bowling performance and the other through a century from Marlon Samuels.For Bangladesh, a Twenty20 international is the last way they would want to start a comeback. They have only played 16 in their history and their last T20 win came way back in 2007. For West Indies, Twenty20 represents everything that is right and wrong with their cricket. A shock win in England, and T&T’s eye-catching performance in the CLT20 suggest this might actually be the format in which West Indies see most success in the near future.

Spotlight

Mushfiqur Rahim is stepping into the shoes of a man who led from the front. Mushfiqur is as not as outstanding an individual performer as Shakib. He is safe behind the stumps and handy with the bat, but has not won Bangladesh as many games as Shakib has – he has just one hundred in limited-overs internationals. Having been handed the captaincy he will want to contribute more than just cameos down the order and may promote himself.Marlon Samuels’ comeback to international cricket has not really taken off. But in the warm-up Twenty20, he blazed his way to 102 off 56 balls. In the absence of Chris Gayle, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Dwayne Bravo, Samuels is the most experienced player in the West Indies limited-overs squad. This series is an opportunity for him to show he still has the capability to become the world-class batsman he was expected to be when he first arrived on the international scene, way back in 2000.

Team news

Bangladesh have picked the uncapped Elias Sunny in their squad and may want to give him a chance before the one-day series starts. That may mean resting one of Mahmudullah or Nasir Hossain. Alok Kapali and Mohammad Ashraful are the experienced hands in the squad but there may only be place for one in the batting line-up.Bangldesh (probable): 1 Tamim Iqbal 2 Imrul Kayes 3 Naeem Islam 4 Shakib Al Hasan 5 Mushfiqur Rahim (capt & wk) 6 Alok Kapali 7 Mahmudullah 8 Abdur Razzak 9 Shafiul Islam 10 Elias Sunny/ Nazmul Hossain 11 Rubel HossainWith several senior players returning, the West Indies side will have a completely different look to the one that upset England at The Oval. They used just one specialist spinner in their XIs for both the practice matches but considering the conditions may play both Devendra Bishoo and Anthony Martin, meaning Kemar Roach could be left out. Kieron Pollard is not eligible to play in T20Is since he did not play the Caribbean T20, so Danza Hyatt will probably occupy a slot in the middle order.West Indies (probable): 1 Adrian Barath 2 Lendl Simmons 3 Darren Bravo 4 Marlon Samuels 5 Danza Hyatt 6 Denesh Ramdin (wk) 7 Andre Russell 8 Darren Sammy (capt) 9 Ravi Rampaul 10 Devendra Bishoo 11 Anthony Martin/ Kemar Roach

Pitch and conditions

Scores at the Shere Bangla Stadium have seen some strange fluctuations this year. This is the same ground where Bangladesh were bowled out for 58 against West Indies and 78 against South Africa during the World Cup. But there have also been scores of 370, by India in the World Cup opener, and 361, by Australia. The low scores were more due to poor batting, though, so the pitch can be expected to provide plenty of runs if the batsmen do not make careless errors.

Stats & Trivia

• This will be the first Twenty20 international to be played in Bangladesh since 2006. It is the first T20I at the Shere Bangla Stadium
• Though they have won a Test and one-day series in the West Indies, Bangladesh have never won an international match against West Indies at home

Quotes

“I believe we can win the series. West Indies are a good outfit. We have to play well to beat them.”
“Their attack is full of spinners and we have a good mix of pace and spin. It will be the spin of Bangladesh versus the pace of West Indies.”

A round-up of the seventh day of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Twenty20 tournament

ESPNcricinfo staff21-Oct-2010

North Zone

Delhi made it two in two, beating Jammu and Kashmir by 19 runs at the Model Sports Complex. Opener Chetan Sharma top scored with 47, an innings laced with five fours and a six, and was supported by Rajat Bhatia in a 56-run stand for the third wicket. However, the J&K bowlers, led by medium-pacer Raman Dutta (3-28) and captain Abid Nabi (2-21), struck back to keep Delhi down to a chaseable 142. J&K appeared to begin in encouraging fashion, with the openers adding 25, but things soon began to worsen. Medium-pacer Kapil Yadav made inroads to reduce J&K to 35 for 5 at one stage and had it not been for Javed Ahmed’s 47, his team would have struggled to get past three-figures. They had to eventually settle for 123 for 9, with Yadav taking 4-15 in only his second Twenty20 game.Hemang Badani’s 42 off 30 deliveries took Haryana to a six-wicket victory against Services in Delhi•Hamish Blair/Getty Images

Punjab held their nerve to prevail over Himachal Pradesh in a thrilling finish at the Model Sports Complex in Delhi. Set a target of 129, they were bolstered by a strong opening stand of 41. However, Punjab experienced a scare when Karan Goel and Ravi Inder Singh fell in a space of three deliveries with the score on 77. When Rahul Sharma fell, the fourth wicket with 95 on the board, 34 were needed off four overs. It was Mandeep Singh who stepped up and guided his team to a nerve-wracking win, scoring a boundary off the final delivery of the game off which a single was needed. He remained unbeaten on 33 and was supported by Bipul Sharma, who made a run-a-ball 8. Earlier, VA Indulkar had provided some impetus to the Himachal innings with 41 but it proved inadequate.A half-century by Dhruv Singh who received support in a 68-run stand from Hemang Badani helped Haryana to a six-wicket win over Services at the Model Sports Complex in Delhi. In their chase of 133, Haryana were struggling at 32 for 3 but Badani, whose aggressive approach took the pressure off Dhruv, put his team back on track. He struck four fours and a six in his 42 while Dhruv held firm at the other end and eventually saw Haryana through. A three-wicket haul from left-arm seamer Sanjay Budhwar had restricted Services, though captain Yashpal Singh had set up a competitive score with 54.

Central Zone

Dishant Yagnik’s half-century and some disciplined bowling took Rajasthan to a 16-run win against Uttar Pradesh at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur. Yagnik hammered six fours and two sixes in his 54 off 40 deliveries after his opening partner Aakash Chopra was run out for 22. However, Sudeep Tyagi and Ali Murtuza struck to reduce Rajasthan to 100 for 5 from 97 for 1. Vineet Saxena slammed an unbeaten 39 off 27 to help his team to a competitive 155 for 7. Medium-pacer Afroz Khan then picked up 3 for 28 as none of the Uttar Pradesh batsmen could score quickly enough to pose a threat to Rajasthan. Uttar Pradesh finished on 139 for 6, Ravikant Shukla top scored with 35 off 32.Railways scraped to a one-wicket win off the last ball against Vidarbha at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur. Chasing Vidarbha’s 155, Railways were given a rollicking start by PM Madkaikar, who hammered 27 off 14 deliveries as his side raced to 51 without loss in the fifth over. However, Vidarbha led by offspinner Akshay Wakhare hit back to leave Railways tottering at 89 for 6. Karan Sharma slammed 30 off 15 to bring his side back on track, and captain Murali Kartik held his nerve as Railways scampered home. Himanshu Joshi’s 64 off 43 had earlier set up Vidarbha, but his dismissal off JP Yadav in the 19th over meant they managed only 13 off the last 10 deliveries, which made all the difference in the end. Yadav finished with 3 for 21.

East Zone

Orissa‘s bowlers led by offspinner Rakesh Mohanty defended a modest target of 130 at the Sunshine Ground in Cuttack, dismissing Assam for 107. Mohanty took 3 for 18 after medium-pacer Santosh Jena had struck twice in three balls to reduce Assam to 10 for 2. Gokul Sharma resisted with an unbeaten 31 off 20 deliveries, but ran out of partners as wickets fell regularly. Mohanty and Niranjan Behera had earlier helped Orissa to 129 for 7, after offspinner Gokul and fast bowler Dhiraj Goswami had taken two wickets apiece to reduce them to 69 for 6 in 12 overs.Legspinner Subal Chowdhury’s 3 for 19 set up a comfortable six-wicket victory for Tripura against Jharkhand at the Ravenshaw College Ground in Cuttack. Jharkhand were dismissed for a paltry 96, which Tripura chased down with 13 deliveries to spare. Put into bat, Jharkhand had begun well, reaching 40 without loss in the seventh over. However, Rameez Nemat’s run-out triggered a collapse, and Chowdhury snapped up three wickets to leave Jharkhand struggling at 48 for 5. Keshav Kumar and Shahbaz Nadeem took the score to 81, but Jharkhand again lost wickets in a heap to be dismissed for 96. Tripura’s batsmen knocked off the runs without much fuss.

West Zone

Abhishek Nayar’s half-century led Mumbai to a five-wicket victory against Gujarat at the Moti Bagh Stadium in Vadodara. Opening the innings, Nayar smashed four sixes and as many fours in his 57 off 43 deliveries, as Mumbai reached the target of 146 with an over to spare. Mumbai were in some trouble at one stage as they slid to 115 for 5, but Siddharth Chitnis came in at No. 7 and hammered three sixes in his unbeaten 27 off 11 to settle the matter in Mumbai’s favour. Niraj Patel’s unbeaten 41 had earlier helped Gujarat to post 145 for 5. Several Gujarat batsmen got starts but fell without making substantial contributions.Samad Fallah inspired Maharashtra to a 14-run win over Saurashtra in a low-scoring encounter at the Moti Bagh Stadium in Vadodara.Saurashtra, led by Jaidev Unadkat, skittled the defending champions for 81, but left-arm medium pacer Fallah struck early and often to reduce Saurashtra to 3 for 14 in the fifth over, taking the prize wicket of India Test batsman Cheteshwar Pujara, trapped leg before for one, in the process.Pratik Mehta led Saurashtra’s fightback, making 28 from 32, the highest score of the match, but it was not enough as he got no support from anyone else; only two other Saurashtra batsman got into double figures, while there were six scores of 2 or less. Fallah finished with sparkling figures of 3 for 7 from his four overs, and was ably backed up by the other Maharastra bowlers, all whom took at least one wicket.

Kevin Pietersen has said his forced break from international cricket due to an Achilles injury had refreshed him at a time when he was beginning to fall “out of love with the game”

Cricinfo staff30-Oct-2009Kevin Pietersen, the England batsman, has said that his forced break from international cricket due to an Achilles injury had refreshed him at a time when he was beginning to fall “out of love with the game”.”The big thing is the mental rest,” Pietersen told the . “This year has been one of the toughest of my career, with the captaincy debacle in January plus the injury. My Achilles won’t hamper me any more and I definitely feel fresh mentally. I’ll be starting off really enjoying myself — and this year I haven’t particularly enjoyed playing cricket because I was in pain and because of what happened in January. It’s been a tough thing for me.””I believe everything happens for a reason and these three months have happened to refresh me and knowing that I was sort of falling out of love with the game, it was a symbol or a sign for me to refresh and recharge my batteries.”Pietersen last played for England in the second Ashes Test at Lord’s after which he had surgery on his Achilles. He then missed the following seven-ODI series against Australia, the ICC Champions Trophy in South Africa and the inaugural Champions League Twenty20, where he would have played for the Bangalore Royal Challengers.England’s next assignment is a tour of South Africa, which begins in the first week of November. Pietersen is expected to travel to South Africa on November 9 or 10 and, if fit, his comeback match could be the warm-up fixture against South Africa A in Potchefstroom on November 17.”I can’t wait,” he said. “I haven’t been at my best since India last year. Preparation is what I bank on and preparation has definitely been hampered because of external thoughts. These last three months have cleared my brain and my thoughts.”

There was no murmur on Snicko, but third umpire Sharfuddoula saw a big deflection on normal replays and made up his mind

ESPNcricinfo staff30-Dec-2024India opener Yashasvi Jaiswal was dismissed in unusual circumstances during the final session on day five of the Boxing Day Test at the MCG after an on-field not-out decision for caught-behind was overturned by the third umpire despite Real-time Snicko not confirming the edge.Jaiswal, batting on 84, attempted to hook a bouncer from Pat Cummins, the ball was caught by wicketkeeper Alex Carey, the Australians appealed, on-field umpire Joel Wilson said not-out, and Australia reviewed the decision.While Snicko showed a flat line as the ball passed the bat, regular replays showed a big deflection. Third umpire Sharfuddoula went by what he saw – the deflection – and overturned the decision in Australia’s favour. Jaiswal was seen chatting with the umpires before walking off. His dismissal meant India’s last hope of saving the Test was gone. They were left tottering at 140 for 7 in a chase of 340 and eventually went down by 184 runs.Related

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“I don’t know what to make of that because the technology didn’t show anything, but with the naked eye it seemed like he did touch something,” Rohit Sharma told the press after the game. “I don’t know how the umpires want to use the technology, but in all fairness, I think he did touch the ball…”It’s about the technology, which we know is not 100% – more often than not we are the ones falling on the wrong side of it… that’s where we are unfortunate.”Cummins, meanwhile, was clear that Jaiswal had hit the ball and knew he had hit the ball.”Think it was clear that he hit it, heard a noise, saw a deviation, so was absolutely certain that he hit it,” he said. “As soon as we referred, you saw him drop his head and basically acknowledge that he hit. On screen, you can see he hit it. Ultra Edge, don’t think anyone has complete confidence and didn’t really show much, but fortunately there was enough other evidence to show it was clearly out.”Like Rohit, who saw the deflection too, Simon Taufel was in agreement with the third umpire, saying the deflection was “conclusive evidence” and said Sharfuddoula was well within his rights to do what he felt was correct.”In my view, the decision was out,” Taufel said on . “The third umpire did make the correct decision in the end. With the technology protocols, we do have a hierarchy of redundancy and when the umpire sees a clear deflection off the bat there is no need to go any further and use any other form of technology to prove the case. The clear deflection is conclusive evidence.”In this particular case, what we have seen from the third umpire is they have used a secondary form of technology, which for whatever reason hasn’t shown the same conclusive evidence of audio to back up the clear deflection. In the end, the third umpire did the right thing and went back to the clear deflection and overturned the umpire field. So, in my view correct decision made.”Sunil Gavaskar, speaking on Star Sports, however, wasn’t happy with the evidence, or lack of it, on Snicko being ignored.”We have seen so many times that the ball swings late after going very close to the edge of the bat. We have seen it so many times, haven’t we, that the ball does not take the edge, but goes very close and swings later after hitting the seam,” he said. “From afar it seems that the ball has taken the edge. I am talking about a forward defence, not talking about this hook shot.3:00

The Jaiswal dismissal – Manjrekar’s verdict

“The optical illusion suggests there is an edge. It was this optical illusion here as well. If the technology evidence suggests it is not out, then you cannot give it out.”On the live broadcast on Star Sports, Mark Nicholas and Sanjay Manjrekar called it a “brave” call by the third umpire.”On Jaiswal’s dismissal, I think it’s very brave of the third umpire to over-ride Snicko,” Nicholas said. “I think that’s pretty rare too.”Manjrekar said, “These are not the best angles, there was one angle given which was front-on, and that’s where you see the deflection when you see it visually, then you see the Snicko that reconfirms everything. Any other umpire would have gone, well, if the Snicko was not showing it – and I love Snicko as a technology – I’m not going to give that out. That also would be accepted by us.””I don’t know if any other umpire, I mean my guess is that it runs off both bat and glove, that’s a total guess,” Nicholas added. “I think that’s the problem watching that replay. Or any other replays.”

The allrounder notched up career-bests with both bat and ball as Australia suffered a third straight 100-plus run loss

Firdose Moonda17-Sep-2023Marco Jansen blasted 47 off 23 balls and took his first ODI five-wicket haul to notch up career bests with both bat and ball on a Super Sunday for South Africa. They completed a come-from-behind win in the ODI series against Australia minutes after the Springboks notched up a second Rugby World Cup victory to mark the start of the summer season with success.After starting the series with two losses and down 2-0 in the five-game series, South Africa surged back to win the next three ODIs and take a morale-boosting series win to the World Cup. Their victories were all built on strong performances from the batting line-up, which provided the attack with sufficient runs to defend. The same formula worked at a packed Wanderers, where South Africa accumulated well on a tricky pitch and then Jansen used the short ball to get rid of Australia’s entire top five.Jansen’s perfect day began when he got to the crease after Aiden Markram and David Miller’s 109-run fifth-wicket partnership, which laid the foundation for South Africa to finish strongly. Although Markram and Miller found it difficult to get the fluency going despite what their half-centuries suggest, Jansen showed his intent straightaway when he flicked Tim David off his pads for four. He scored 18 runs off the first 13 balls he faced and looked the most comfortable of the South African batters at the crease before he mis-hit Cameron Green to long-on. David dropped what should have been a simple catch and Jansen made the most of his let off.He went on to hit Sean Abbott over extra cover for four and top-edged him over deep square for six. When Australia opted to bring David back in the 46th over, Jansen’s eyes lit up and he took 15 runs off the first four balls. By then, he had been joined by Andile Phehlukwayo, who drove Green through Inglis’ hands at deep cover, and underlined South Africa’s aggressive approach at the end.Jansen toe-ended Green to Abbott to fall short of a first half-century in the format but Phehlukwayo took over. He slashed Abbott over long-off for six and Michael Neser for back-to-back-to-back big hits on the leg side and finished with four through the covers. South Africa scored 34 runs in the last two overs to take their total over 300.Aiden Markram and David Miller put on 109 off 107 balls•AFP/Getty Images

Australia made a good start to the chase and scored 34 after three overs before Jansen was introduced. His second ball was back of a length on the fifth stump and moved back into David Warner, who was cramped for room as he tried to cut it away. He hit the ball to Markram at point, who took a good, low catch to give Jansen his first. Four balls later, he banged one in short which had Josh Inglis in all sorts of trouble. The batter stayed back for the pull but could get a chop back onto his stumps.Jansen and Lungi Ngidi worked well in tandem to put Australia under pressure and only Marsh was able to get them away. When Jansen overstepped and then overpitched, Marsh punished him but the bowler soon adjusted. He pulled the length back and Marsh tried to launch him over mid-wicket but skied it instead. Gerald Coetzee got under the ball but seemed to lose it in the sun to give Marsh a let off on 35. He went on double that score plus one and eventually fell to Jansen in his second spell. Marsh tried to upper cut a short ball but was caught well by a running Ngidi at deep third.In his next over, Jansen had Marnus Labuschagne caught at long leg off a top edge before Alex Carey gloved down the leg side where Quinton de Kock, in his final ODI at home, put in a full-length dive to give Jansen his first five-for.Just as it seemed no other bowler would get in on the action, Keshav Maharaj bowled David and took a good return catch off his own bowling to dismiss Green. Batting collapses have been a familiar problem for Australia in this series and this time they lost 8 for 69 and only had three partnerships that were worth more than 12 runs.Keshav Maharaj finished with career-best ODI figures of 4 for 33•AFP/Getty Images

By contrast, South Africa had seven stands over 20. Although Temba Bavuma was run out for a duck, there were contributions from most of the line-up, despite the tricky conditions and a much better Australian bowling performance than two days ago.The visiting attack focused on good lengths and tight lines. Neser, Abbott, Nathan Ellis and Green conceded at under six runs an over, but it was Adam Zampa who enjoyed the sweetest of redemptions. After equalling the most expensive bowling figures in ODIs – 0 for 113 – at Centurion, he returned to take 3 for 71 in this match, including the big wicket of Heinrich Klaasen, who contributed just 6.There were other finishers on hand, though, and Phehlukwayo’s 19-ball 38 not out and 1 for 44 could prove particularly important as South Africa finalise their World Cup squad. He isn’t in it at the moment but with Sisanda Magala battling a knee injury, could merit a call-up.

Earlier this month, the former Pakistan batting great had tested positive for Covid-19

ESPNcricinfo staff22-Jun-2022Former Pakistan batting great Zaheer Abbas is in an intensive care unit at a private hospital in London. It is understood that the 74-year-old is on dialysis after being diagnosed with pneumonia following his arrival in London from Dubai.Abbas has been in London since June 16, and was taken to the hospital after feeling unwell the following day. Earlier this month, he had tested positive for Covid-19 in Dubai, which delayed his scheduled departure to London. While his condition improved and he boarded his flight to London, his health took a turn for the worse. He was admitted to the ICU soon after, and ESPNcricinfo understands he was placed on dialysis.